it's already the second week my church has moved into the angmokio/yiochukang area. and for the first time today, i realised that it was a longer than usual walk from the mrt station to the building! oh well, at least it was nice and windy today (: and since i knew the route and all, the walk took me about 10 minutes only. (okay, this was random)
anyway, i was really sleepy in church today! was sort of a result of our moorhouse comm camp finishing this morning only. which left me with effectively only 2 hours at home before rushing out for church. but i'm really glad that God spoke even through the tiredness and blurness (: alter call was good today because i just received so much. and i hope it would stay this way now. give me the burden of my generation!
i'm back from moorhouse comm camp (: i guess that in general, this short camp did allow us to bond and to get to know each other better. especially since some of them didn't know almost all the other EXCO members before this. hopefully after this, there shall be no more name mix-ups! haha i especially like it when "james" becomes "jason" sometimes :D thinking back on the past days since thursday, i can say that the objective of team bonding has been fulfilled to almost a 100%. through all the playing of games, random talks and squeezing too many people into one room (shhhhhhhh! >< ) and even the longlong bbq when we tried three million ways but really couldn't start a nice fire ): well, these all have been useful.
not discounting the deep importance of team bonding, i have to reflect on how much the other "planning" side of the camp has been fulfilled too. even though we had the discussions we wanted, i felt we could still yet have got more out of the time spent. the focus wasn't there as much as i wanted it to be and therefore, we couldn't go as planned! honestly, i'm slightly disappointed, not only with the way some parts of discussions went but also with some people for their attitude and contribution. as a whole, all of us could have done better and i hope all of us know it.
our house comm has really got to be focused in 2008. each member must understand the seriousness in the midst of the fun in each house activity. yes, it requires committment and passion, but it's gonna be worth it. guys, we gotta give it our best. we gotta pick ourselves up each time the house falls, and come back stronger again. we gotta never give up, press on till it is all over. we gotta give of our best to ensure that the house it at it's best too. but we gotta remember not to become over-competitive, not to be too secretive to the point where we treat things too seriously and also to make sure we have fun as moorhouse (: this is the red storm rising.