The Confirmation Camp, A camp that touched many and changed us

The Confirmation Camp...

Its not any normal camp I have ever known in my life...

We were the first badge of confirmation students to have our camp at Starfresh Agro Park...

A beautiful place away from the real world, calm, relaxing, comforting....

It may not be the best place in the world, but its a place I will forever remember...

It is where I found the new me.... A place where everybody found their newself...

We have learnt many new things from this camp...

We started out by hanging envelopes around the room, each with our own name written on it...

We were later explained about what it was for, we were all to write affirmation notes to each other..

For this camp, a motivator like no other was sent to us, Martin Jalleh, a man who I think is truely blest to run a camp...He helped us find ourselves in this camp...

He is a very funny man yet at the same time spiritual...

He can make us laugh at almost any time... Very funny man..

He uses videos and songs for teaching us also...

Beautiful videos and songs like the Taize's Bless the Lord Chant, Mary Did you Know,You Raise Me Up,Hero, a voice that amazed all- Susan Boyle, a man that shows us how fortunate and blest we are- Tony Melandez, how much an Earthly father can love his child- Team Hoyt, and how people can work miracles together- The Vocapeople....

He taught us through three different perspective- I,You(others) and God

We have learnt to be happy for who we are and to have faith in ourselves will lead us to greatness. We must never fear what others think of us.

We have to always know ourselves first to know others. We asked ourselves, "Who am I?" . We have to be ordinary to be extraordinary, like an empty cup which can be filled by God's blessings.

We always have a choice in life....

Then, we leant about God's love...

His love is first love, which means he always searches for us first, it is never us who searches for God.

His love is sacrificial.

His love is steadfast. Emeth which means Truth. The reliability, dependability and faithfullness of God to us.

His love is an affirming love.

And finally his love is humorous.

He answers our prayers in his own mysterious way.

The image of God in our head was always painful, but Martin has taught us that God does not necessary have to always be sorrowful but he can also be joyful.

The Laughing Christ

He has taught us the meaning of the sign of the cross which means by the power and authority of God.

But apart from all he taught us.. Nothing was as wonderful as the inner healing session....

It was the first time I have ever been through inner healing...

It is the best experience I have ever had in my whole life...

We were all sitting apart in the room with the lights off...

Martin then played a very beautiful song and an image of Jesus was projected on the screen.

Everyone was sitting in the silence.

While that was happening, we all closed our eyes and he speaks.

He asks us to recall the times of our hurts,to forgive, to thank, to reflect...

As we recall the hurts in our lives, tears of sadness roll down our eyes.

A great and strong presence was felt, like as though God was holding me around his arms and crying with me, feeling all my hurt.

While we were crying, the cathechist, the sisters(nuns), and Martin moved around and said a prayer for each of us one by one.

It was a very touching prayer and it was a weird but wonderful feeling...

I cried a lot and I feel so much more for others who have more hurt than I do...

I feel so sad when I realise how little of love I show to God when he loves me so much, I realise how much my parents love me, I feel sad that I have not said " I love you" to them for so long, I realise how fortunate I am to have such a happy family...

After the inner healing session, I felt so light,like as though all the weight I have for years have just been lifted away as we surrender ourselves to God.

This has changed us, the way we think, the way we see things, the way we feel....

After the inner healing session, everyone went around hugging and comforting one another...

I have never seen all my friends,my companion feeling so much of hurt before...

As I hug them, I felt their pain,their hurt...

I could feel it like as though it was mine...

A friend of mine, Julian, told me this, "I feel very stupid because it took us 16 years to realise all this". And I agree with him a 100%

If we had not pause like the traffic light, like Martin said, Stop, Look and Go, to be in silence, we would not have realise this...

It takes a man like Martin to keep us in this warm silence with the presence of God...

On the final day of this 3 day camp, he gave us a talk on sex education, I find it very useful to us teenagers for it gives us an awareness of what is happening...

It was necessary for us, especially if we are involved in anything like that...

Watching pornography, masturbation, pre-marital sex,etc...

And finally, the parent's session, when we were to sing a beautiful song to our parents, "You Raise Me Up"....

As we sang this song, the parents shed tears, it was sung so beautifully, I felt like it but I did not cry...

Then all of us went to our parents and gave such a warm hug...

In all my life I have never felt such a warm hug as I hug my mother and told her "I love you, ma"...

It has been so long since I last told her that, and it is all thanks to Martin that I was able to do it...

And as we prepare ourselves to head home, everyone again hugged one another saying "I'm gonna miss you,Love you bro/sis, Take care"...

We felt so sad that it was time for us to have been connected to one another by God's love to part our ways...

But it was happy too because we are about to return back to our own family, a new and more holy, more aware Catholic person...

I decided to take the bus home, to be with my family in Christ, just a last few moments of the camp on the journey home to the Church..

We all asked Martin for his signature and promised to keep in touch...

This camp has made us realise that we are one with God in all we do...

Meeting new friends and a growing bond with old ones...

Overcome what we have sealed in our hearts for years...

To forgive ourselves and others, to release all our angers,fears and guilt...

To be prepared for the world...

To be a new person through confirmation...

To say "Yes" to God's call.....

Samantha's Awesome Sweet 16th Birthday Bash

21st of November 2010,

An awesome day I will never ever forget...

It was my friend's, Samantha, sweet 16th birthday 'dance' bash(its not her actual birthday thought.. lol)

I started off by heading to Raymond's house to follow him to get to the Sungai Ujong Club where the party was being held..

We got there later than the stated time, but what the heck, nobody ever comes early...

Not everybody was there yet, we arrived at the front door of the hall and Joseph signed the attendance/wish book for Raymond, himself, Abel and me....

We were of course greeted by all our friends...

We took our place on a table at the back, which I later change to another table with my other friends...

I was glad that all my friends were around especially Julian, my classmate from school....

At first I was like, "I'm not gonna dance... No way... I'm gonna stick to the shadows" nonsense like that....

But the performance started to get to me....

The man who danced like Michael Jackson, the chinese boys who did the dance cover for se7en's song Digital Bounce, the kids who did a wonderful group dance, the hot German girls who did what they do best,DANCING!!! , and course the most important person of the day, the DJ!!!

They got the crowd pumping....

Of course there were food for dinner...

After dinner we had this fun game....Its a dancing game.... The rules were simple... Dance with a partner and remain standing on the newspaper after the song stops...

It went on to folding the newspaper....But now there was a change in rules.... Dance off the newspaper and get on it when song stops....

I lasted a while but my big feet got the better of me when the paper got too small....HAHA!!

Then the finals for the games was hot like crazy... It got all the guys crazy.... Those German girls were doing a freakin hot dance on stage while the final 4 competitors were dancing on the dance floor...

Later the 4 German girls came down and dance with each one of the competitors.... It was like a freakin nightclub.... they were awesome and hot at the same time....

The crowd went wild.... And when the song stopped, the competitors quickly got on the paper....

At a count of 5 one of the group lost balance and the winner was decided....

And then the best part of the day came.... The DJ announced, "The dance floor is now open to everyone"

Damn, I went crazy all of a sudden, my point at the start of the day to not dance just faded off...

I told Julian to join me at the dance floor.... Everyone was dancing....

But then Jonathan, Luke and me thought of the best thing ever..... A DANCE OFF!!! WOOT!!

We really busted some moves.... I showed off some of my moves of course... I never even knew I had it in me to do it....

The crowd went wild.... The cheering of the crowd makes you go crazy when you hear them...

It was an awesome feeling ..... Three of my life desire was fulfilled that day...

1)To dance in a nightclub

2)To have a dance off

3) To show off my dance skills

I am freakin happy now *cheese* .... hahahaha!!!

Sadly not everyone had it in them to show off their dance moves on the dance floor...

For the boys only a few of us bust a move the most... It was me, Luke, and Jonathan... The chinese boys that performed earlier danced too..

The girls had an advantage because that had 4 pros which were the German girls...

We danced off for quite a long time.... Till the girls took over the dance floor as the boys got tired..

Everyone sat at the back to have a chat... Eventually the girls got tired...

Some of us had the dancing spirit till the very end.... I was one of them and so was Brendan, Zeke, John, Julian and some others.... We danced like there was no tomorrow...

Until the last 15 minutes, I managed to get the crowd at the back to dance till the last song...

It was and awesome night... I night I will never forget....

I really thank Sam for it and the DJ for being with us till the end...

I hope we can do something like this again..... Till then readers

A day at Jusco for 4 Basilian, the best class ever

OMG!!! Readers I haven't blog like almost the last I can even remember....
I'm so sry.... Busy wit exams and some other things....
Well I have a shit load to blog about but don't worry....
Wat I left out when in came into my head before I will post...
But for today, I'm gonna post about my fun day trip along with my class which consist of 45 people to Jusco shopping mall....YAY!!!
Well, first of all, 45 people in a shopping mall is totally ridiculous...
But fortunately for me the one who organised this, only around 28 people came....(thank God)
So I have to manage it... But the first thing that happened this morning was my phone line got barred for overusing just to organise this....LOL!!!
Well I was there by 9.15 and so was Govinash....
We waited there for like half an hour for the rest to arrive.... P.S. It was before opening hours..... HAHA!!
By 10.30 most of them were gathered, but I was in a crisis as my phone battery went dead.....
So I went to use some phone charging machine by the toilet.... LOL!!!
At around 10.45 we all headed for the bowling alley/arcade to have some fun....
13 of us went ahead with bowling including me and the rest went to play at the arcade or pool....
We spent like about an hour or so there....
After that, some of us went to play at the cyber cafe while the rest continue playing at the arcade....
6 people including me played a 3v3 counter-strike game and my team won hands down 20-3.... haha!!! XD
By 12+ we headed for KFC to have our lunch..... This was the best part of the day...
We all gathered outside KFC like a pack of wolves.... We went on which having a standard meal for everyone since we were using our class fund....
We had the snack plate costing like about RM10 per person....
When we were in, I told 2 of my friends, Jeyain and Bryan, "Get a place for us first... I don't care if its full, kill, steal or watever get us all a place".
So they did, it was like magic.... A place full of people suddenly went empty...
Well the ordering was even better.... I was ordering of course, I told the cashier, "26 snack plates please...." she was smiling at me, "Drinks all Pepsi no mix" she was like thinking 'OMG!! stock habis la' in her head, "No ice for all pls".... That was when she totally blurred out.... You will laugh when you see her face so blur..
Then, of course we took photos throughout the day....
Later after lunch we started to part ways.... Some headed home, some to movies and as for my group....BOWLING again!!!
And you know wat was cooler??? Today me and my friend met this Nigerian guy with an afro named Bryan...
The HELL!!! he was freaking cool.... He was like the Michael Jackson of the 21st century...
Well in short we have a lot of fun..... I will remember this day forever....
3 cheers for 4 Basilian!!!!

A weird but wonderful day

Hi readers, ^^
Sry I haven't been bloggin lately ( I haven't even wrote about my media camp and my ninjutsu camp yet...haiz)
Well its bcoz I'm quite busy lately thanks to the final year examination and also being a little lazy...
Well anyways today was somewhat something I really wanted to blog about...
To start off, have you ever got felt so confident at something you are about to do and then have it all crushed the moment its being done??
Well I experienced that today. During my history exam, I have studied so much more than I usually do. What more is the teacher gave us tips on what is coming out. I did my objective easily but the structure was what crushed my confidence. Nothing I learnt came out. NOTHING!!! I felt so screwed that I finished my exams in 45 minutes out of the 2 hours allocated.
And another new experience for me today.
Have you ever pushed a vehicle in the middle of the road??
Today my bus(a school van to be precise) engine died half way up a slope. The engine couldn't start, so the bus driver reversed down the slope.
At the bottom, he could not reverse anymore. To make things worse it was raining heavily, but someone had to push the bus to the side of the road.
So then me and my other two friends came down the bus to push it.
Well pushing a vehicle under the heavy rain was kinda fun.
I never knew that the day I expected to be another ordinary day with the examinations as the difference could be so awesome.
Its been a while since I last played under the rain.
Well I love what life can bring to you.
To joy and fun, the tears and sadness, the anger and pain, anything at anytime,anywhere.
And I'll try to keep my bloggin a little active since the end year holidays are just around the corner.
Till next time, ciao >.<

Cute, Soft and Cuddly....The Sudden Fetish

As you all know readers I am a guy..
But I have no idea why I suddenly have this fetish over cute, soft and cuddly things (FYI not things like Barbie Doll >.<)
I juz wanna hold something soft and cuddly and hug it so hard that even juz thinking of it makes me smile =D
So you know what I have in mind???
This end year holiday I'm gonna get a part time job(as how I planned earlier not for this occasion lol)
Then, after I get my pay I'm gonna buy a teddy bear and name it Kawaii.....haha ^^
I'll also buy a tag with the word Kawaii on it >.<
I'll upload a photo of it when I get it....

Couple fighting

Do you think everything you watch in dramas or movies are fake?
Well not all of it are.
You know how you usually see couples fighting in drama or movies where they start shouting and the guy slaps the girl or somehting like that?
Well I actually saw one today.
As usual I followed my aunty who lives next door to school.
She drops me off at the bottom of the hill as usual.
But what was rather unusual today was at the exact spot where my aunty always drops me off, there was a couple arguing there.
They were shouting rather loud that you can actually hear them from the inside of the car.
Ok as a guy I admit that the girl was hot, with tattoos on her body and blonde hair(most likely dyed) and there is the guy who at that moment was fierce looking pointing his finger at the girl.
The girl pushed the boy's hand away and continued shouting out loudly.
The guy almost wanted to slap her(as how I actually remembered it)
By the way they were speaking in Chinese(Its a good thing I still understand Chinese a bit but not sure whether is Mandarin or Cantonese)
Then the guy walked off and the girl followed his back.
The guy then turned around a shouted (again in Chinese) stop following me and he walked off.
But the girl continued to follow his back from a longer distance this time.
To me it just doesn't seem right when two loved one can shout and fight like that in public.
This is basically our epic drama fight.
Well is their problem I should not mess with it.

A day full of activities and fun

Today I woke up earlier than usual.
I usually wake up around 7+ but today exceptionally I woke up at 6+.
Why you ask? Its bcoz I wanted to go school early to see my bro and sis in school as they have a scout and pandu puteri joint competition.
I arrived at around 7+. At soon as I entered the school, I saw Elysia, Azell and Julian at the canteen.
We then headed for the scout's room and picked up their stuffs.
In the end I was sitting alone waiting for my ninjas to come while watching them setting their things up.
And guess what, today I wanted to have a special training session as preparation for the night camp next week, but only 7 members turned up and one of them hardly even trained with us.
We trained different things than usual and ended up playin more ninja games than training...haha XD
After ninjutsu, Azriel and me headed to the scout's competition site to watch them cook and do the piorneering.
We wanted to try out some of the food but ended up being chased by the teacher.
So we headed to the band preparing to perform for the St.John's, my group of friends ^^
We helped them set their instruments up and ended up getting free food from the St.John(yay!!!)
After eating, we brought some food over for the performers and then we enjoy the performance.
I went home taking some nasi lemaks for my family.
Later the very same day in the evening, I went for the christmas campaign for the poor car wash.
I went there for two reasons:

1. To meet with my friends
2. To wash cars(obviously)

I had lots of fun washing cars together with my friends and getting wet.
In fact it rained while we were at it, for a short while though.
But this was a worthwhile activity, it was fun to get to play along with my friends while washing cars.
I hope that I can continue having fun like this a lot in the future.
Thats all for today, its getting late and I'm getting sleepy.
Good night readers -.-