What happens when you have 300+ extremely excited kids? You get an amazing and spectacular event, not to mention, with the assistance of over 80+ teachers and volunteers. Indeed, Kidzone Fun Camp (KFC) 2009 was splendid with it ran with the title Nova One X: The Enemy Within.
Well.. let's start with before the event. 3 days before the event, on a Sunday afternoon, a team of teachers started to bring stacks of chairs from one floor to the other. Some went shopping for stuff, some were cleaning up masking tapes on the floor. I was involved in transporting the chairs, and indeed, it was really really really exhausting carrying few hundred chairs up one floor, despite having a lift to our aid, nevertheless, those involved always kept the enthusiasm running. Not long after having all the chairs sent upstairs, I started helping out in the rewiring of the sound system from the wires, to the mics and musical instruments, at least this part, I know how to do, so it wasn't that much of a problem.
It soon was nearing night time, when Uncle Eric, who did most of the lighting, ask for my help. Since I was free and had nothing to do at that moment, I offered my help with wiring. Now, this is the part I never expected. That is, I had to help him do wiring for the lights, something which I have never really done before in my life, so obviously, I was totally blur and had to start from scrap. Fortunately, Wei Shuan was there, so he aided me in my distress and taught me what I needed to know. While I was intensely fixing up wires, worship practice was running concurrently with a full dress rehearsal. A couple of us sang along while we were doing the electrical stuff. Well, the wiring and all took up almost the whole night for me, and the remaining one or two hours, I observed Uncle Eric use what I've done and connect more wires and etc, and formed a circuit running along the whole corridor. Then after he was done, Sunday more or less, ended.
Early Monday morning, I already had the intentions of going to church, so I used the LRT and bus to get there. As I entered, despair came upon me. Why? Because along the corridor were a lot of boxes hanging on the wall and also some specially designed Styrofoam to make the whole corridor look like a spaceship. Well, sadly, a lot of those styrofoam and boxes fell from the wall, causing some wires to disconnect. At that time, I didn't know what to do and I was the only one there. Luckily, some of my peers, girls, came not long after but they also didn't know what to do about it, so we proceeded with doing the name tags. Soon, Nicholas came with materials for his point system and I helped him in the early stages. During a short break, I took time to stare at the fallen wires, suddenly it was as if God threw back my memory of KH and I started to remember how to handle wiring and how to form circuits and how to connect this and that. Then, I looked at the wires again, I saw it no more from a blur perspective, I knew what was needed to be done to fix it up. Immediately asked permission from Veng Lye to do the necessary adjustments and I got to the job right away. But, it wasn't that easy too. From late afternoon till about 9 pm, I did nothing but that, just wires, wires and wires, partly not to mention that those boxes continued to fall (some of them). With wires, wires and nothing but wires, I ended Monday.
Knowing the amount of work that still needed to be done, not to mention some alterations here and there, I knew I had to go in the morning again. So likewise, went there, took my necessary tools and got down to work without wasting time. Everything seemed to be going really really well, and by late afternoon, I was almost done. But then, during that time, I started to stress again. Why? because I have not finalized my games yet. Not that I totally left it aside, but the fact that the camp is the next day, all the more I was stressed terribly.
By evening, I got the wiring already done, but there were some tubes (hard to explain what it is) that weren't done yet, so I had to do it, not knowing that it is actually hard. So that in itself took awhile. Thankfully, people like Alvin, Aunty Nancy and Jimmy came in to assists when I needed most and I must say this, they really helped me out greatly and not just that, they did an excellent job doing it. By around 8 pm, I had to help out for the drama lights, so I couldn't handle the corridor deco anymore. After the drama, I still couldn't really handle the corridor deco, because of games! So I discussed with Shin Neng and Ps Andy. After done discussing just the next day's games, we immediately went to prepare it. After that, helped out Nicholas to finish the last bits of the point system. The spaceship deco was also not finished yet, so we helped wherever possible and cleaned up the place. After doing this and that, guess what? It was already about 4 in the morning, and we got to be in church by 7, 3 hours later for the briefing! So some of us went back first and took bath and a very short nap and woke up, prepared,
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