Just got home from LLTC, really tired..
It was an awesome camp, a memorable one at that.
The highlight of the whole camp for me must be my attachment to Robless, cause their group admin was missing most of the time. Even though I spent very little time with them, I was still filled with tears during the commissioning on the fifth night, I probably could have broken down right then.
If there was a best group award, I'd give it to them. The first night (3rd day) that I got to know them, I was gonna ask them to gather for a group discussion, but they gathered by themselves instead. All of them spoke a fair share too, even though it was about the same thing. I was really amazed by that.
I was even more surprised during the morning run on the last day. All of them ran together and even came in first though they started out second! Their journals also projected them as mature teenagers.
During the commissioning, some of them apologised to one particular person for making fun of him. It takes guts to do that! One of them even said, "I'd like to thank --- (their missing-in-action group admin), cause without him, Wei Ket is here with us."
One of the Robless group members really strike me. His thoughts are mature and well-gathered. The only problem is that he himself thinks that he goes a little too far sometimes, calling himself arrogant. However, I wrote in his journal that he should not think so. Something like "people tend to lose track of themselves when they are really interested in doing something, that includes you, there is no need to put down yourself". His handwriting is cursive and I also heard that he is the top scorer. Amazing kid.
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Second night.. my knees hurt like hell. Probably cause I cycled a little after using my legs to support myself while rocking the dragon boat. It was unbearable, thank God we had deep-heating cream, else I would have had a real tough time. I hate muscle aches.
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Donald was also treating me coldly. He said something like "ride your bike here for what? Think the school very big ar?" when I cycled towards him. The previous night, he told me he wanted to cycle but I said no cause I was going to sleep, so I thought I'd let him cycle but he gave me the cold treatment instead.
It was only in his affirmation note that I knew what was wrong. He thought that I was "going too far again". I sent him an sms after I read it, telling him that I didn't know what I did wrong, but what I did know was that it wasn't intentional and hadn't been since the Ipoh convention, also asked him to reconsider before thinking that I was "back to my old self". We talked a little during the walk to the bus stop when the camp was over, so I guess everything is fine now.
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Speaking of that "previous night", Benjamin Lim's (one of the faciliators) leg injury was acting up again so he had to go home. He could barely move his left leg and he said it was numb. I was relieved to see him the next day. He is one of those who went with me to the Ipoh convention last year. What he said when he got back really made my day though, he told me that someone will appreciate my efforts, I was really glad to know that someone noticed me.
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One last thing, I had a conflict with Jorge cause he thought that I wanted the main role badly during the auditions held during the faciliators' retreat. We argued for a good bit there. I was really surprised when he asked me to join him for "Into The Fire", cause I was told to take over his role in the first place. Guess we're peaced now.