DOLCE VITA : THE SWEET LIFE

(06/11/2011) The first thing Choo told me when she briefed me for this camp a few days back was; "OK, first, bring alot alot alot alot alot of dry food." *jawdropstotheground* thehell? Started our journey at around 9.30am with all 10 of us, except for Chiang who couldnt make it last-minute. holding the 'au naturel' mosquito repelling plant. Drove all the way there and meet up with Pastor Jack before entering the settlement. Gees, we were wishing we had a Pajero like him. I mean cmon, pity Shassi's white Viva Elite. (Was in josh's car, a Sunny!) It went through much ups and downs (pun intended) after the tar road ended outside the settlement. As if dirt road was not bad enough, there were massive potholes and what, stone covered roads in the middle of the journey. Phewwww. Took us an half an hour till we reach the spot to cross the bridge (If you Googled, you'll know how scary it looks.) and half an hour more to reach the midd

(24/11/2011) Mr Palan said something that goes roughly like this; "I dont hope for all of you to change after what i said, but i only hope for 10% of all of you guys here to really get and practice what we've learned today. And 10% is only 7 out of 74 of you all here." It was actually, heart breaking. To know how some actually thought that LTC was, in fact, a pure waste of time. And all this and all that. Sigh. But then i remembered what Mr. Palan said. And i thought to myself, Why focus on that 1% or 10% of them who didnt appreciate LTC, instead of the huge 99% or 90% prefects who had a great time, and actually comprehended the message behind LTC? Whatever it was, at least i knew those who really cared for this big, big family and actually is part of the family, and even some coming from the ones i least expected. In fact, i began to realise, the board is actually a tiny replica of how the corporations of the outside world is. How there will always b