TOTALLY SCREWED UP!

I'm not sure if the children's camp in JB was a sucess or a flop,whether the kids and the JB facils benefited anything.One thing i'm sure of...i never wanna work with the facils & the service team again.
Why,you'll ask...

>They don't take instructions,they don't understand.
>They aren't receptive towards new ideas.
>They try to make a joke outta everything,even outta a bible passage.
>All they care bout is fun.
>All they care is playing music to show how passionate they r bout it & how talented they are in music.
>All they care is fame & self-glorification.
>They are lazy.
>They jus wanna boss around.
>They push their responsibilties to someone else.
>They care bout themselves more than the kids.
>Everything is bout "Me,Myself and I".

We were invited to run the camp for the catholic kids in JB who had been attending camps run by the protestants. the parents decided that they should invite catholics to run the camp.it was a 5-day camp.first 2 days were to train and guide the JB facils.the next 3 days were to facilitate kids between 10-12years old. Our LDM (Little Dippers' Ministry) rangers joined us for the camp as well. by the way,we got a culture shock.more than half the population who came for the camp are indians.

I was shocked to hear that the JB facils were gathered together to have fun,it's a once a year kinda gathering & that they do not do physical work like we do.

First of all,the malaysian driver who came to pick us up from singapore was screwed up.he did not know the way to Majodi Retreat Centre.he took us in circles.
Majodi Centre screwed up by renting the main function hall to NUS SDU,for dating purposes!we named them the Single,Desperate & Ugly...we caught them making out and stuff like that,oh boy...what a disgrace to singaporeans.We had to use a small,pathetic hall to hold 72 kids & 39 facils....oh great...

We had ice-breakers and stuff...Donna,Jen & Maria were the coordinators for the camp. They divded us into groups.Vanessa,Jeremy Chua,Joanna and i were the 4 main facils to the facils trainees.

My group consisted of Andrew (the JB joker),Joshua (one JB mama tryng very hard to slang but cannot make it),Jeremy Wong (one JB fella who tinks he very talented in music),Michael Bernard (SK II from SG), Marcus(JB), Stephanie(JB), Jessica (from SG) and of cos not forgetting Sherylee,the JB one who bosses people around.

We had to go thro' an activity which required a member to play mute & another to play crippled in each group.Jeremy Wong played the crippled while Andrew played the mute.poor andrew....he likes to talk a lot but is now deprived from doing so.he has th write on a piece of paper to communicate...missed his jokes man.Jeremy Wong,sighz...all he cared bout was playin the guitar,he was fiddling with the guitars 24/7,he attended 'People are gifts' and became very sure of his talent in music...well...he ain't as fantastic as he thought he was.He was so upset that he kept whinnin bout not being able to play the guitar for the camp now that he was made the crippled.we had to carry him around with 2 blankets.he is so heavy & is not even helping us at all.he simply put his whole weight on us.the blankets tore and he kept on making sggestions which did not work.he complained that we were hurting his arms.HELLO!we were not even complainin,what has he got to complain...

Day 2
decided to leave him at the Grotto and head on for breakfast without him. i told the guys to follow me after prayer.they were puzzled by my decision. I explained to them during breakfast & they agreed that Jeremy Wong is putting all his weight on us.i told the group to bring him back after breakfast. when we were walking off from the Grotto,Jeremy Wong went,"it's ok,i'm not hungry."so i told the other group members to leave him alone.

Sherylee took breakfast to him & the group brought him back after breakfast.

Lunch Time
we were dismissed in the hall for lunch.my group members were waiting to go for lunch while he was fiddling with the guitar again.i told my group to go ahead without him.while elizabeth(one of the JB service team members) was talkin to Jen & Donna, he came up to me and told me he could not take the pain anymore,and if i could make an exception to allow him to walk.i said no because the other groups were not even complaining though they experienced more problems.he grabbed my arm & said,"do you know how painful it is?"i rejected his request again.told him to go back to where the guitar was & sit down. He went back to sit on the floor & voiced out to Elizabeth.He asked if he could play the guitar for the camp.he kept asking till she answered that he has got to ask Donna.she asked Donna & Donna replied that she will make arrangements later.Jeremy Wong then said out loud that he could not walk,he was being forgotten.what the hell...what is he trying to prove man?
He walked out anyway on his own during lunch.Donna spoke to him after lunch.Thought he would change,but we were dead wrong...
asked so much questions after facilitation...even asked if we could threaten them or bring in the discipline master they had...what the...they are only kids....oh gosh...corporal punishment does not work on kids,you will lose the kids' respect for you.
Sarah(JB) was assigned to play the guitar for the camp,but Jermey Wong,the smart alec,kept pressurizing her into giving Julian(JB) a chance to play the guitar & even try to tune her guitar for her.guess what..he made it worse...the tuning was done badly.

well...there were lots more to complain bout Jeremy Wong (JB)...i shall move on to Sherylee (JB).

she is one hella bitch who bosses around.pls bear with my language...can be worse...i'm holding it back.

She threatens people,likes to suck up to people,PR here PR there,bosses people around,pushes her responsibilities.i asked her to mop the floor cos i could not stand watching her doing nothing while the rest are slogging away.she claimed that she could not find the mop.i found one for her & asked he to go & mop the hall.she in turn asked Clare(SG) to fetch her a pail of water for her.thank God Maria saw what happened & told that bitch to do it herself.

Donna made it clear to everyone during the debrief that if anyone needs to clarify things regarding their duties,it would be with the i/c of that duty.that bitch is in logistics & she asked me bout clearing up and stuff like that.i told her i did not know & she gave me a screwed up look as if it was my fault.what the @#$^&$$!how the hell would i know when i was not even in the logistic team.

the kids there were so pampered.their parents kept coming in to see how they are...hello....tis is a camp...u might as well bring your child home to dote....oh boy...a few of them even stayed overnight to accompany their children.whats the point of coming to a camp...

the service team members are all somehow related to the facils and kids attending tis camp. they kept putting them as the top priority in everything.even lectors,thanksgiving,offertory,powerpoint,musicians for the mass were actually selected by the service team.guess what?they selected their own children of cos!nieces or nephews....whatever...
they never gave other kids a chance to do so.

The parents wanted to swop one of my kids with another group's.they felt that my group was very strong becos the kids were very outspoken & active,it was unfair to the other kids.but guess what?the kid they wanted to put in my group is another outspoken fella.they wanna take a quiet boy,Salvin,who is new to tis camp out of my group.whats the point of swopping then?we then found out that they always have a sports telematch.The team who wins walks away with the trophy.sighz...what are these parents thinkin man??what are they teaching their children....

Poor Salvin is allergic to chicken & seafood,but none of the parents or service team members bothered to remember.he ate the pizza which had chicken.thank God he did not have any reaction after that.they never bothered to prepare special meal for him,poor by had to eat bread most of the time.Just becos he is new to the camp,he is not being seen as important.

that buncha malayasians...
don't understand instructions. they know we are ignoring them yet they wanna join us in our SINGPORE group sharings,esp. when they see how much fun we were having.how we were laughing over heads off...(of cos they did not know that we were kaughing at them)
they are xtreme hypocrities.they wanna ignore us after we start ignoring them but before we left JB,they start coming over to hug us...bet they could not wait for us to get outta of there man.They kept gossiping bout us as well...

well...we SINGAPOREANS had bitching sessions every night.we whined, complained, bitched, poured out our unhappiness.
we abused the t-shirts that they gave us,we were supposed to wear them for mass but we did not,& all eyes were on us becos of that.but who cares...we're leaving after mass anyway.we threw the t-shirts up in the air,laid them on the concrete floor to sit on them,whacked the queen ants with the t-shirts,cos those freaking huge black ants were attacking us.i was stamping my feet like mad on those ants, Donna said i was out for vengence & Jen said i must be seeing Sherylee in the ants.Brian James started burning the programme sheet & put out the fire with Clare's t-shirt,whahaha...

hey guys...really enjoyed those bitchng sessions man..that was the only part of the camp which i enjoyed.it was the most unforgettable camp.Bye JBians....never wanna see you again.

Tho' we met more than jus a buncha losers,i'll like to affirm those who were nice,sincere and potential people like Sarah Jane,Julian,Andrew Roshan,Elisha.
Great workers (those who are always doing behind the scene jobs without complaints) like Rachel,Michelle,Caleen,Vanessa.