"I'LL BE BACK!!"
This quote is directed to my fellow coursemates that I'll be joining them back in the Jan 2011 trimester.
I'm supposed to be in Daryl's group but as my juniors are having their industrial training in January, I have no idea where I stand. But after checking with the FGO, there are only two subjects offered, namely Professional Writing and Online Journalism. The rest of subjects aren't offered. I have no choice but to register for the 2 subjects first. Then, Cik Zuhairah informed me that I can do directed study for the 2 repeat subjects, but I need to register at the beginning of the trimester.
After the registration, I know that I'll be joining Eugene & Co for the coming trimester and happy to be in their midst again. I Just know that I'll stick with them until the end although I won't be graduating together with them. I plan to spring a surprise to them when the Jan 2011 trimester comes.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
CF Spiritual Compass camp 2010 - Day Four
15 October 2010
Due to insufficient rest, I only woke up at around 9am. I had a quick wash-up before going for the final worship session. And I missed breakfast on that day.
When I got to the hall, I noticed that our camp speaker Dr Leong was no longer there as he has left after having breakfast with other campers. The worship took place and later there was a sharing session where the campers shared about what they have learnt from the camp.
Later, Jensen the camp commander gave us a short briefing about packing our stuff and getting ready to go home. The campers then returned to their respective rooms and dorms to pack their luggage bags and gathered at the place Jensen directed them.
Then, when everyone were ready to go, they had a photo-taking session for memories that they've been together for the past three days before departing from Golden Sands.
All the campers adjourned at a nearby restaurant in PD after leaving the camp site. They even continued the craze for photo-snapping after having lunch. After that, it's time to say goodbye to one another. All the campers headed back to their respective campus.
After a few hours' journey, I'm back in Kampar again with a few others. My parents were already waiting for me there and I went back to Ipoh happily.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
CF Spiritual Compass camp 2010 - Day Three
14 Oct 2011
The Day began with a devotion at 7am in the morning. My group has gathered at the hut facing the seashore for the devotion. Later after devotion, we adjourned to join the rest of the campers for breakfast.
Then it's time for praise and worship session after breakfast. Later our speaker Dr Leong shared his sermon which was the last one for the camp. After that, lunch followed.
Free time was allocated for the campers. They could use this period of time to do whatever they wanted. Some returned to their dorms to rest, some went to the beach while some were involved in baking muffins and tarts for supper later. And I was in the third group. I could just go back to my dorm and take a nap, but I chose not to and join in the baking session instead.
Well, the baking session consumed a lot of time though in the making and baking of muffins and tarts. Not to worry, there were lots of helping hands. And some CF members from other campuses joined in as well and of course, we from Kampar campus taught them how to do this and do that (since we've done this for a few semesters already for our fund-raising). I even suggested that other campus CFs should also follow our footsteps too.
Time passed very quickly. And it's time for dinner. The make n bake session almost came to an end. All that was left was just to wait for the tarts and muffins to be baked. Some of us joined others in the cafeteria for dinner while some stayed to keep an eye on the ovens.
Another praise and worship session took place and later it's time for some sharings. Jensen as the camp commander asked his fellow campers about their own opinions and what they've learnt from this camp. Several campers stepped forward and shared their own personal points of view and experiences. Then, all the groups were summoned to have their own group discussions. The 5 groups gathered at their respective spots and did reflection on the whole camp. While waiting for other groups, my group played a game called the Watermelon Game after we're done.
Afterwards, it's time for.... supper!! All the campers and Dr Leong had a feast on the muffins and tarts that were readily made. Those who participated in the baking session saw their efforts paid off as all the campers were enjoying those pastries very much. And since it was the last night of the camp, all the campers spent time playing some games until the midnight.
The Day began with a devotion at 7am in the morning. My group has gathered at the hut facing the seashore for the devotion. Later after devotion, we adjourned to join the rest of the campers for breakfast.
Then it's time for praise and worship session after breakfast. Later our speaker Dr Leong shared his sermon which was the last one for the camp. After that, lunch followed.
Free time was allocated for the campers. They could use this period of time to do whatever they wanted. Some returned to their dorms to rest, some went to the beach while some were involved in baking muffins and tarts for supper later. And I was in the third group. I could just go back to my dorm and take a nap, but I chose not to and join in the baking session instead.
Well, the baking session consumed a lot of time though in the making and baking of muffins and tarts. Not to worry, there were lots of helping hands. And some CF members from other campuses joined in as well and of course, we from Kampar campus taught them how to do this and do that (since we've done this for a few semesters already for our fund-raising). I even suggested that other campus CFs should also follow our footsteps too.
Time passed very quickly. And it's time for dinner. The make n bake session almost came to an end. All that was left was just to wait for the tarts and muffins to be baked. Some of us joined others in the cafeteria for dinner while some stayed to keep an eye on the ovens.
Another praise and worship session took place and later it's time for some sharings. Jensen as the camp commander asked his fellow campers about their own opinions and what they've learnt from this camp. Several campers stepped forward and shared their own personal points of view and experiences. Then, all the groups were summoned to have their own group discussions. The 5 groups gathered at their respective spots and did reflection on the whole camp. While waiting for other groups, my group played a game called the Watermelon Game after we're done.
Afterwards, it's time for.... supper!! All the campers and Dr Leong had a feast on the muffins and tarts that were readily made. Those who participated in the baking session saw their efforts paid off as all the campers were enjoying those pastries very much. And since it was the last night of the camp, all the campers spent time playing some games until the midnight.
Monday, October 18, 2010
CF Spiritual Compass camp 2010 - Day One
12 Oct 2010
Jensen and I woke up early in the morning, getting ready to go for the camp. We only managed to sleep for about 4-5 hours. Both of us loaded our bags and went to pick up Chipmunk (Mel Hor) and Goldfish (Renjie) again before meeting up with other campers at the bus stop opposite the basketball court.
The UTAR bus soon arrived and the campers boarded the bus. Then, the journey began with the bus leading the way followed by cars driven by Jensen, Mr K and Kelvin Wong (alone). In the middlie of the journey, Mr K went another way to pick up someone else. All the remaining vehicles headed towards Setapak to pick up campers from there.
Soon, the campers made a stop at the Setapak campus and had lunch there. Then later, those campers from Setapak boarded the bus and the journey began again. It was a long journey and everyone was enjoying the view during the trip.
When all the vehicles were at PD, all the drivers were trying their best to locate the camp site. After searching for a while, we finally arrived at Golden Sands. And when I got down from Jensen's car, Derk gave me a warm hug since he hasn't seen me for quite some time. And we chatted while waiting for the rest to get off the bus.
Then, all the campers gathered at the hall in Golden Sands after long hours of travel. First they unloaded their bags and placed them in the compound near the office and gathered at the hall. There, all the campers got to know one another through a simple ice-breaking session. Later, a camp booklet and name tag were distributed to each camper. And the campers gathered their respective groups according to the list available in the booklet.
Afterwards, all the campers were given a briefing about the whole camp and later assigned to rooms and dorms. Of course, the guys and girls were separated and they stayed in different rooms and dorms but all the campers were under one roof (i.e they're staying in the same block). All the campers went to get their bags and moved into their respective places of stay and took a short rest before preparing themselves for the rest of the day.
Then, it's time for dinner. As all the campers were enjoying their meal, Dr Leong Tien Fock announced his arrival. The campers greeted him and he joined us for dinner. The next agenda of the day was the 1st praise and worship session, followed by message by Dr Leong. That was the 1st of 4 messages he's gonna share throughout the camp. All his messages were about how to find direction in our daily lives, which was the purpose of this camp.
When Dr Leong was done sharing his sermon, it's time for supper. All the campers had a brief supper before returning to their respective dorms. Then lights off!
Jensen and I woke up early in the morning, getting ready to go for the camp. We only managed to sleep for about 4-5 hours. Both of us loaded our bags and went to pick up Chipmunk (Mel Hor) and Goldfish (Renjie) again before meeting up with other campers at the bus stop opposite the basketball court.
The UTAR bus soon arrived and the campers boarded the bus. Then, the journey began with the bus leading the way followed by cars driven by Jensen, Mr K and Kelvin Wong (alone). In the middlie of the journey, Mr K went another way to pick up someone else. All the remaining vehicles headed towards Setapak to pick up campers from there.
Soon, the campers made a stop at the Setapak campus and had lunch there. Then later, those campers from Setapak boarded the bus and the journey began again. It was a long journey and everyone was enjoying the view during the trip.
When all the vehicles were at PD, all the drivers were trying their best to locate the camp site. After searching for a while, we finally arrived at Golden Sands. And when I got down from Jensen's car, Derk gave me a warm hug since he hasn't seen me for quite some time. And we chatted while waiting for the rest to get off the bus.
Then, all the campers gathered at the hall in Golden Sands after long hours of travel. First they unloaded their bags and placed them in the compound near the office and gathered at the hall. There, all the campers got to know one another through a simple ice-breaking session. Later, a camp booklet and name tag were distributed to each camper. And the campers gathered their respective groups according to the list available in the booklet.
Afterwards, all the campers were given a briefing about the whole camp and later assigned to rooms and dorms. Of course, the guys and girls were separated and they stayed in different rooms and dorms but all the campers were under one roof (i.e they're staying in the same block). All the campers went to get their bags and moved into their respective places of stay and took a short rest before preparing themselves for the rest of the day.
Then, it's time for dinner. As all the campers were enjoying their meal, Dr Leong Tien Fock announced his arrival. The campers greeted him and he joined us for dinner. The next agenda of the day was the 1st praise and worship session, followed by message by Dr Leong. That was the 1st of 4 messages he's gonna share throughout the camp. All his messages were about how to find direction in our daily lives, which was the purpose of this camp.
When Dr Leong was done sharing his sermon, it's time for supper. All the campers had a brief supper before returning to their respective dorms. Then lights off!
Sunday, October 17, 2010
CF Spiritual Compass camp 2010 - Pre-Preparation Day
11 Oct 2010
Early in the morning, my father drove me down from Ipoh to Kampar as I was going to join the UtarCF camp. I have packed the things rquired for the camp a few days earlier and loaded my luggage into the car boot before we departed.
Actually, I had an appointment with Mr Angus Ng (Utar counsellor) in the morning. So I chatted with him for about an hour. Later, I met up with my father after the counselling session. It was nearly noon and my dad said he has contacted Jensen and invited him to join us for lunch. Jensen was the camp commander whom I've been keeping in touch with, mainly asking for any updates for the CF camp.
We met Jensen at Tesco Kampar and had a wonderful meal at KFC. Later, my father dropped me at Jensen's house and left for home, leaving me together with Jensen. Well, I'm staying overnight at his place before participating in the camp the next day. Jensen told me that there were some unfinished tasks of the combined camp. So we went to fulfill the tasks together.
First we picked up Melody Hor (a.k.a. Chipmunk) in Westlake, accompanied her for lunch and later made a return to Westlake again, this time Renjie, my coursemate, joined us. Then, off we go to settle the things which were not yet done. Jensen dropped Melody and I at Cherry House to laminate the name tags of the participants of the camp, while he and Renjie adjourned to do other things and will be picking both Chipmunk and myself later.
Melody and I spent about an hour at the printing shop. While we're there, both she and yours truly helped each other in completing the task assigned to us. Then, Jensen fetched both of us back to his house at Eastlake. I went to have my shower in Jensen's room (with his permission of course) and later took a short nap before moving on with the rest of the day. Jensen took his nap as well after sending Chipmunk home.
Around 5.30pm, we made our move again. Jensen and I went to pick up Goldfish and Chipmunk again and we adjourned for dinner. Weng Kin joined us as well and we had a wonderful time together. Actually Weng Kin was supposed to do some shopping for items needed during the camp. So at around 10.30pm, we went into Tesco to look for the things on his shopping list. It was very last minute when we did our shopping. But we managed to get the shopping done though we didn't manage to get some of the required items.
Then we proceeded to Mr K's house. Mr K welcomed us and summoned us to help do some final preparation works. We helped out to sort out the camp T-shirts according to the sizes ordered by the group members. Then later we helped to fold the camp booklets while Mr K was getting them printed. And when we're done with everything, it was already 1am the next morning. We then said goodbye to Mr K before heading home.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Decided
I made up my mind to join the CF Spiritual Compass camp instead of CGBC Lifegame camp this time.
This time I decided to join the CF gang as I've missed out the combined camp last year. I've chosen to go for the CGBC Amazing Race camp in 2009 instead of the CF camp. I felt dejected for having to miss the CF camp last year cos it clashes with the CC camp.
Again this year, the same thing happened. But I've decided to go PD instead of Camerons as the CF camp is going to be held there while CC campers are going to CheFoo Centre for their camp. I've been to CheFoo once, that was during the 1st CF camp I joined.
I confirmed my participation by handing in the camp form to camp commander Jensen Chen. And I'm looking forward to the camp.
This time I decided to join the CF gang as I've missed out the combined camp last year. I've chosen to go for the CGBC Amazing Race camp in 2009 instead of the CF camp. I felt dejected for having to miss the CF camp last year cos it clashes with the CC camp.
Again this year, the same thing happened. But I've decided to go PD instead of Camerons as the CF camp is going to be held there while CC campers are going to CheFoo Centre for their camp. I've been to CheFoo once, that was during the 1st CF camp I joined.
I confirmed my participation by handing in the camp form to camp commander Jensen Chen. And I'm looking forward to the camp.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Sunday, June 27, 2010
9-Year-Old Penang Girl Gives Birth???
Oh my goodness!! Did I hear it wrongly or did it really happen?Apparently, it is a reality that this 9-year-old Penangite girl has become Malaysia's youngest mother by giving birth to a baby boy recently. The father of the child was her 14-year-old neighbour. But the girl's parents did not lodge a police report. I couldn't believe such thing could happen in our lovely country.
Teenage pregnancies are happening all around the world and this is quite alarming. Even in the country itself, teenage pregnancies happen among the teens. But I was totally surprised that child pregnancy like above would set its foot into Malaysia. This is nothing to be proud of, it's just another case of teenage pregnancy. Girls in today's society tend to reach their puberty earlier than they're supposed to be, around the age of 8 or 9.
Whle this girl becomes Malaysia's youngest mother, the world's youngest mother was Peruvian Lina Medina who gave birth when she was 5 years and 7 months. She entered puberty at 5 and experienced extraordinary development of her body which later she has a bulging stomach. Assuming that she has a tumour, Lina's parents brought her to a hospital for a medical check-up and discovered that Lina was already having a 7-month pregnancy. The 5-year-old delivered a baby boy named Gerardo on May 14, 1939 by Caesaran section. Lina's father was acquitted of child sexual abuse due to lack of evidence and the identity of the one who impregnated Lina was still remain a mystery.
I seriously hope that such case would not happen to my daughters when I have my own family and children in the future.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
What a scare
I almost had a scare just now. I accidentally locked the toilet door from the outside... and scared that I cannot enter the toilet anymore. And when I want to go to Danish House office to complain, I used my key to open the grill door but the door won't budge. Oh man! How to go out like this? Thank goodness, one of my housemates returned just in time. He tried to open the grill door as well. At first, he also couldn't open it but with a little force, he managed to open the door. Then I told him about the toilet door. He tried opening it but to no avail. So we both went to the office to request for service. We told the officer-in-charge what happened and filled in the service request form. Shortly after we went back to our house, two officers came to our rescue. It turned out to be some minor problems as I didn't realise that the lock to the toilet door knob was pressed in. Things go back to normal after they fixed the doors.
Another scare that I experienced was yesterday. I went to school for class around 4pm. After parking my motorcycle, I headed straight to class. Class ended slightly earlier and I decided to go home, preparing to go for CF. But then I realised that my motor key was missing. Oh no! Where and when did I lose it? I panicked and tried tracing back my steps. I even sat down to think when is the moment I lost my key and prayed for God asking Him for help. Then a security guard asked me what happened and I told him what happened. He directed me to Department of Safety and Security. So I went there to report my loss to an officer that I saw there. Then he told me that another security guard has found my key somewhere and brought it to the dept. Thank goodness! I thanked him and left the place after taking my key. I happily returned home and thanking God for answering my prayers by sending a good Samaritan to help me.
Another scare that I experienced was yesterday. I went to school for class around 4pm. After parking my motorcycle, I headed straight to class. Class ended slightly earlier and I decided to go home, preparing to go for CF. But then I realised that my motor key was missing. Oh no! Where and when did I lose it? I panicked and tried tracing back my steps. I even sat down to think when is the moment I lost my key and prayed for God asking Him for help. Then a security guard asked me what happened and I told him what happened. He directed me to Department of Safety and Security. So I went there to report my loss to an officer that I saw there. Then he told me that another security guard has found my key somewhere and brought it to the dept. Thank goodness! I thanked him and left the place after taking my key. I happily returned home and thanking God for answering my prayers by sending a good Samaritan to help me.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Back-to-back Welcoming Nights
I had an awesome time attending two consecutive welcoming nights for the past two days, organised by CGBC Campus Connect (7 June) and UTAR CF (8 June) resepctively. Both welcoming nights were to give warm welcomes to the freshies who have just came to UTAR and Kampar. Let me highlight about both events.
CGBC Welcoming Night
To kickstart the new semester, Campus Connect has organised a welcoming night using the theme of FIFA Fiesta, since the World Cup 2010 is just around the corner (in fact, it will start 2 days from now till 11 July). Sis Mun Yee and a few other brothers and sisters were involved in the organisation of the event. Everything has been planned well and there were lots of exciting activities awaiting those who attended the night. There were flags pasted on the walls of the church and all those flags were the 32 countries who have qualified for the tournament including defending champions Italy.
A few days before the event took place, preparation works have been done including decoration of the church which involved painting the flags on round-shaped cut-out cardboards. Apart from that, there was a skit practice by the team who have went to Sarawak for mission trip last month during the semester break.
On the day itself, several brothers and sisters were there early to make final preparation before the event. By 7pm, guests started coming in and there were quite a lot of new faces turning up for the event. Some members even had flags painted on their faces and the painting work was done by PC and KLynn before the start of the event. Approaching the night, more and more people were there for the exciting event.
Adeline and Kelvin Tan were the emcees for the night. They welcomed everyone and thanked them for coming. Then, PC gave her welcoming speech before the time was handed over to Kai Jun for ice-breaking sessions. Everyone participated in the games introduced by Kai Jun. The games were quite simple nevertheless everyone had a great time, though KJ has been cracking his head for games which has relation to football.
Then, it's time for worship after everyone has warmed up through the ice-breaking session. Jialing was in charge of praise and worship session and she led the crowd to a few songs. After that, the Sarawak mission trip team was on stage where they performed a skit with the title Set Me Free. The cast was none other than those who spent one week in Sarawak, spreading the gospel to the Iban people there. However, there were some replacement as the four sisters from CGBC Ipoh who joined in the trip were being replaced by other CGBC members. Anyway great performance from them as they have spent time practising the skit the previous night.
Up next, it's time for testimony sharing. Yu Shia and Richard were called forward to give their own testimonies about how God came into their life and changed their lives. After that, it's the moment that everyone has been waiting for---time to MAKAN!! There were a lot of food served. Pizza, sandwiches, tidbits and a football cake with lots of small flags on top. Everyone had time interacting and fellowshipping with one another. After some time, those who were there started leaving for their respective homes, preparing for the next day.
UTAR CF Welcoming Night
It was held at the Grand Kampar Hotel again this time, just like the previous semester. This time, several churches were involved in serving in different section of the event, for example Chinese Methodist Church in ushering, FGA in ice-breaker, Hope Church in registration.
The purpose of CF organising this event was to welcome the new freshies and also to introduce the churches available in Kampar to them. Many people turned up for the event.... freshies, representatives from churches and exisiting CF members. After getting themselves registered, all these people proceeded into the gathering hall where the event was held.
When everyone has settled themselves, the night began with MCs Gin Mah and Felicia Grace addressed everyone with a warm welcome. After that, both of them acknowledged the presence of representatives of different churches around Kampar by calling the names one by one. Besides this, representatives of the newly formed Catholic Students Society were in out midst as well. Glad that they were able to join us.
Then, it's time for some ice-breaking session with Mindy from FGA was in charge of the session. She played a footwear game which everyone has to take off their footwear and placed them on a certain spot. This sounds familiar to me as in the previous welcoming night held during last semester, a similar game was played. Then everyone has to get two different types of footwear and started to look for not the owner but another person who has another side of the footwear. Everyone should be connected in a circle in the end but somehow everyone managed to match the shoes together, though the circle was not properly formed.
Alright, everyone's back to their seats and what's next? The MCs asked if anyone knew what's the next agenda. One brother answered "Makan time!" That's right, we had our first round of food first before the night continued. GKH has prepared fried rice and fried noodles for everyone and everyone had their turns to take the food. Later, fellowship took place as everyone went around to get to know one another. At this time, freshies approached to the booths available there to find out more about the churches and their weekly activities.
After that, it's time for singing praises to the Lord. Ray Leong, Shirley Kwong, Jensen Chen and Wendy Lee led the congregation into a string of worship songs, starting with Hari Ini and ending with Spirit Touch Your Church. It was indeed good to see Christians worshipping the Almighty God together. Later, the current CF president Kelvin Wong gave his welcoming speech. He used a quotation by Eric Ong, the previous president, in delivering his speech. Eric Ong has said that "Thou shall rock Kampar" and later it is added that we CFers should rock UTAR as well. Kelvin quoted this in his speech and added something else to it. This is what he said, "In order to rock Kampar and Utar, you must first rock yourself." I agree with what he said, in order to make a dfference and win Utar for Christ, we as CFers must first take the initiative to change ourselves first and commit ourselves to Chirst before we can change others and win more souls for Christ. Well said, Kelvin!
Later, our beloved CF advisor Mr K delivered his speech as well. In his speech, he highlighted a few things including the CF camp and the joint Christmas celebration. The camp is held from 12-15 Oct and the venue is in Port Dickson.and The theme for this camp is Spiritual Compass, "a compass with an arrow that points to our Abba Father" (Jensen, 2010). In a dilemma again cos CC camp is from 15-17 Oct with the theme of Purpose Driven Life Game. The similar situation has occured again where I have to make another wise choice of which camp to attend, just like last year where I was forced to choose between CGBC Amazing Race camp and CF We Are One camp. Last year, I made a right choice by going to join my fellow Connectors in the Amazing Race camp. I hope I can do the same for this time as well. Tough choice but I'm going to make decision of what camp to go at the end of this semester.
Another thing Mr K mentioned was the Christmas celebration 2010 which will be held at the Heritage Hall in November. This is an interesting event which "brings people to one of the fundamentals of Christianity, the worship to the Lord, for the angels sing with and praise God on high with harps and lyres" (Shu, 2010). Mr K asked if everyone is willingly volunteering themselves for the organisation of the wonderful event and several brave souls including a few freshies, stood up in response. Later they were handed a survey form where they have to choose in which areas they would like to offer their service. Really looking forward for this event, even though I'll be enjoying my 3-months long semester break and doing my FYP during the break. But hopefully I can make it for the event.
After Mr K has ended his speech, he called upon Pastor Nicky of Praise Community Centre for the closing prayer before everyone was dismissed. A slideshow of information of the churches around Kampar was displayed Besides that, refreshed was served as well. Some people started leaving while some stayed back for more fellowship. The CF committee members had a meeting before they went home.
Alright, that's all I wanna say about the 2 exciting activities. I really enjoyed myself during these two nights, although I was tired and exhausted. I didn't really snap much photos for both the events. Sorry no photos to show this time. If u wanna see photos of these 2 events, check out Facebook for those photos which I was tagged in some of the photos. Thanks and have a nice day.
CGBC Welcoming Night
To kickstart the new semester, Campus Connect has organised a welcoming night using the theme of FIFA Fiesta, since the World Cup 2010 is just around the corner (in fact, it will start 2 days from now till 11 July). Sis Mun Yee and a few other brothers and sisters were involved in the organisation of the event. Everything has been planned well and there were lots of exciting activities awaiting those who attended the night. There were flags pasted on the walls of the church and all those flags were the 32 countries who have qualified for the tournament including defending champions Italy.
A few days before the event took place, preparation works have been done including decoration of the church which involved painting the flags on round-shaped cut-out cardboards. Apart from that, there was a skit practice by the team who have went to Sarawak for mission trip last month during the semester break.
On the day itself, several brothers and sisters were there early to make final preparation before the event. By 7pm, guests started coming in and there were quite a lot of new faces turning up for the event. Some members even had flags painted on their faces and the painting work was done by PC and KLynn before the start of the event. Approaching the night, more and more people were there for the exciting event.
Adeline and Kelvin Tan were the emcees for the night. They welcomed everyone and thanked them for coming. Then, PC gave her welcoming speech before the time was handed over to Kai Jun for ice-breaking sessions. Everyone participated in the games introduced by Kai Jun. The games were quite simple nevertheless everyone had a great time, though KJ has been cracking his head for games which has relation to football.
Then, it's time for worship after everyone has warmed up through the ice-breaking session. Jialing was in charge of praise and worship session and she led the crowd to a few songs. After that, the Sarawak mission trip team was on stage where they performed a skit with the title Set Me Free. The cast was none other than those who spent one week in Sarawak, spreading the gospel to the Iban people there. However, there were some replacement as the four sisters from CGBC Ipoh who joined in the trip were being replaced by other CGBC members. Anyway great performance from them as they have spent time practising the skit the previous night.
Up next, it's time for testimony sharing. Yu Shia and Richard were called forward to give their own testimonies about how God came into their life and changed their lives. After that, it's the moment that everyone has been waiting for---time to MAKAN!! There were a lot of food served. Pizza, sandwiches, tidbits and a football cake with lots of small flags on top. Everyone had time interacting and fellowshipping with one another. After some time, those who were there started leaving for their respective homes, preparing for the next day.
UTAR CF Welcoming Night
It was held at the Grand Kampar Hotel again this time, just like the previous semester. This time, several churches were involved in serving in different section of the event, for example Chinese Methodist Church in ushering, FGA in ice-breaker, Hope Church in registration.
The purpose of CF organising this event was to welcome the new freshies and also to introduce the churches available in Kampar to them. Many people turned up for the event.... freshies, representatives from churches and exisiting CF members. After getting themselves registered, all these people proceeded into the gathering hall where the event was held.
When everyone has settled themselves, the night began with MCs Gin Mah and Felicia Grace addressed everyone with a warm welcome. After that, both of them acknowledged the presence of representatives of different churches around Kampar by calling the names one by one. Besides this, representatives of the newly formed Catholic Students Society were in out midst as well. Glad that they were able to join us.
Then, it's time for some ice-breaking session with Mindy from FGA was in charge of the session. She played a footwear game which everyone has to take off their footwear and placed them on a certain spot. This sounds familiar to me as in the previous welcoming night held during last semester, a similar game was played. Then everyone has to get two different types of footwear and started to look for not the owner but another person who has another side of the footwear. Everyone should be connected in a circle in the end but somehow everyone managed to match the shoes together, though the circle was not properly formed.
Alright, everyone's back to their seats and what's next? The MCs asked if anyone knew what's the next agenda. One brother answered "Makan time!" That's right, we had our first round of food first before the night continued. GKH has prepared fried rice and fried noodles for everyone and everyone had their turns to take the food. Later, fellowship took place as everyone went around to get to know one another. At this time, freshies approached to the booths available there to find out more about the churches and their weekly activities.
After that, it's time for singing praises to the Lord. Ray Leong, Shirley Kwong, Jensen Chen and Wendy Lee led the congregation into a string of worship songs, starting with Hari Ini and ending with Spirit Touch Your Church. It was indeed good to see Christians worshipping the Almighty God together. Later, the current CF president Kelvin Wong gave his welcoming speech. He used a quotation by Eric Ong, the previous president, in delivering his speech. Eric Ong has said that "Thou shall rock Kampar" and later it is added that we CFers should rock UTAR as well. Kelvin quoted this in his speech and added something else to it. This is what he said, "In order to rock Kampar and Utar, you must first rock yourself." I agree with what he said, in order to make a dfference and win Utar for Christ, we as CFers must first take the initiative to change ourselves first and commit ourselves to Chirst before we can change others and win more souls for Christ. Well said, Kelvin!
Later, our beloved CF advisor Mr K delivered his speech as well. In his speech, he highlighted a few things including the CF camp and the joint Christmas celebration. The camp is held from 12-15 Oct and the venue is in Port Dickson.and The theme for this camp is Spiritual Compass, "a compass with an arrow that points to our Abba Father" (Jensen, 2010). In a dilemma again cos CC camp is from 15-17 Oct with the theme of Purpose Driven Life Game. The similar situation has occured again where I have to make another wise choice of which camp to attend, just like last year where I was forced to choose between CGBC Amazing Race camp and CF We Are One camp. Last year, I made a right choice by going to join my fellow Connectors in the Amazing Race camp. I hope I can do the same for this time as well. Tough choice but I'm going to make decision of what camp to go at the end of this semester.
Another thing Mr K mentioned was the Christmas celebration 2010 which will be held at the Heritage Hall in November. This is an interesting event which "brings people to one of the fundamentals of Christianity, the worship to the Lord, for the angels sing with and praise God on high with harps and lyres" (Shu, 2010). Mr K asked if everyone is willingly volunteering themselves for the organisation of the wonderful event and several brave souls including a few freshies, stood up in response. Later they were handed a survey form where they have to choose in which areas they would like to offer their service. Really looking forward for this event, even though I'll be enjoying my 3-months long semester break and doing my FYP during the break. But hopefully I can make it for the event.
After Mr K has ended his speech, he called upon Pastor Nicky of Praise Community Centre for the closing prayer before everyone was dismissed. A slideshow of information of the churches around Kampar was displayed Besides that, refreshed was served as well. Some people started leaving while some stayed back for more fellowship. The CF committee members had a meeting before they went home.
Alright, that's all I wanna say about the 2 exciting activities. I really enjoyed myself during these two nights, although I was tired and exhausted. I didn't really snap much photos for both the events. Sorry no photos to show this time. If u wanna see photos of these 2 events, check out Facebook for those photos which I was tagged in some of the photos. Thanks and have a nice day.
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