No, either it will never be, or it is on its way to be.
Not long ago, during the march holidays, the annual prefect camp was once again held, in Nur Lembah Pangsun, on the 16th till 18th of March. And as i promised earlier that i will write about the camp, here it is people!
Besides the constant bombarding on my "stupidity" for going for the camp by Mr T*m*t*y, I still felt that it indeed a camp worth going for after all. Yes, it rained badly, everything was went and muddy, so and so, etc, but to me, brought back old times when i used to go camping with my family when i was just 3 or 4 years old. This to me is a great remembering of the past, and what my family did at that time, though i didn't exactly remember everything as i was too little at that time.
Anyway, back to the camp, first day started off with rain, heavy rain. Made frantic seniors, go even more crazy, and yes, it was rather fun to watch them stressed just by rain. Despite the rain, somehow everything still somehow fell into place, and we continued the program with some obstacle courses, canopy walking and not to mention, the flying fox. But it was more than that, rather the relationship built within the team and getting to know one another, especially juniors, was indeed something worthwhile. Then came the night where we had to protect eggs and plan our sketch. This ended the first day.
So, the second day started off rather well, with the wonderfully prepared amazing race. I thought they could have named it something better, but oh well, it was an event that they really prepared extremely well. Clues made were spectacular and overall they really put in superb amount of effort, good job seniors. Then the typical talk by HELP UC, not that it was bad, but in fact, i rather liked it, and the way they conducted it was great, not to mention the project they gave us. Yet seniors had to spoil the day with their deep analyzing and such, not that i complain because my team was last, but the comments they gave was just very irrational. That day ended with a night jungle walk which i didn't go, due to so badly irritated emotionally, just didn't have the mood to go anymore. So i stayed behind and talked to friends, which i felt was really nice, it was really enjoyable, knowing that its not all the time that i get to talk to them for such long times. Relationships were indeed strengthen and built upon that night.
Finally, the third day, started off normally, without marching. *phew* Then came the abseiling part which was quite interesting though some people thought it was boring. And lastly, the closing ceremony that was held before we packed and left the site.
Overall, i would say that this camp was great. It has indeed surpassed my expectations, yet at one point, they had to do the norm and either bring or pull us down. For green team, the wasabi warriors, congragulations, you guys did well, and sometimes it is hard to see the fair side of things once you win, but its good that you all put effort and stayed together no matter what. Someone's got to win, knowing that someone's also got to lose. So brown team, let it go, for as i said before we started, nothing counts, as long as we had fun. Which i believe we all did, at least i had, and if you didn't, than i'm sorry, you missed it.
Why did i entitle this post "Perfect Prefect Camp"? To be honest, this year i have seen effort and hard work for this camp to go by, and if my batch can, not just keep it up, instead bring it to another level, then i believe that we indeed in for a change. Surely it isn't the perfect prefect camp, but i do believe it is getting somewhere other than the total norm of the past. Times has changed, time for us to change.
Lastly, like what Lily said and shared, if you want the camp to be good, if you want the camp to be bad, it just depends on your thinking. If all you can think of is bad reports, the only thing you can see is bad stuff, if you want to think of good reports, then you will be able to see the good things in camp. Indeed, just like how this guy puts it, into something called the "lost generation", which was also shared in camp.
I wonder how camp will be like next year.
Love,
Wai Leem
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