Introducing my Kar-po, which is the toy I've gotten for myself for this year's church camp. Now he can play "BAng!" with Gingy (my Camp Covenant 2004 toy)!
Monday, June 19, 2006
My Camp Covenant 2006 Mascot
Introducing my Kar-po, which is the toy I've gotten for myself for this year's church camp. Now he can play "BAng!" with Gingy (my Camp Covenant 2004 toy)!
on the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Got introduced to this addictive card game "Bang!" during the church camp. It's set during the period of western cowboys in the 19th century. For those who played "Murderer" or "Polar Bear" before, they should have no problem picking up this game.
The Good:
1) Up to 7 players can play this game. There are lotsa character cards, with interesting names (like "Willy the Kid", "Suzie Lafette", "Rose Doulan" and "Slab the Killer") with unique powers.
2) It's a good party game as people get to interact and talk to one another. Also brings out the inner psyche and personality of people as they get into character. I've been deemed as a permanent psychotic player who only watches out for his own interests by my friends only playing a few games... :D
The Bad:
3) Conversely, when people don't know the rules that well, it can become quite a long game. Also, you can have funny things happening inside when you don;t know your rules. For examples, I managed to send the Sheriff into his own jail TWICE, before we discovered that was not allowed by the rules. Sure is funny (for me) when I sent my friend (who's playing the character) into jail... TWICE.
4) Also, this is a game which strains friendships and familial bonds. I kid you not, as we played the game, we saw good friends turn on each other, husband and wife scheming against each other*. man, you won't believe the amount of politicking that went on as the game progresses...
The Ugly:
Things you can do to irk your friends during the playing of this game -
5) Hum or whistle the main theme from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" every 2-3 round in the game.
6) Gloat when you successfully shot someone, like making the sound from the Casio handheld game "Western Bar", when the villian loses a life in the shoot-out.
See http://www.handheld.remakes.org/online/westernbar.htm
7) Play out of character ie the Vice-deputy starts taking pot shots at the Sheriff, or the Renegade pretends to be a Vice-Deputy.
8) Spout quotes from "The Good, the Bd and the Ugly" every turn.
For quotes, see http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Good%2C_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly
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For more about the game, see
http://www.rainydaygames.ca/Product.asp?Product=MFG4701
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/3955
3rd pic taken from http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/43708
*of course, we also have husband and wife team playing as a single character together.
on the church-camp extension
After church camp, some of us in our CG went for a short time of extension. On the whole, it was a great time of Rest and Relaxation (R&R). Initially wanted to make it a CG retreat, but a bit weird la, to make it a CG retreat when not all of us went up for the church camp. Moreover, I didn't have a retreat programme in mind when I called for this thing. But the Lord is good, in the end He gives us the rest and good times of fellowship that we wanted.
Give thanks for His provision and grace. A lot of things about the extension weren't settled even as we went up for church camp. I didn't pass down clear instructions to my people in time, so the hotel reservations and the bus tickets were not confirmed as yet when the church camp started. Yet God makes smooth the pathway for us and let us have a great time in KL city.
Made a boo-boo, as I didn't check out the hotel that I wanted for the hotel reservation. Later found out I had actually asked my friend to book for a hotel in the red-light district of KL city. It's something akin to the Geylang area of Singapore. Apart from the fact that's it's near the brothels, that area is actually quite good for tourists, as it has plenty of good local food and close by to the shopping malls along Jalan Bintang. I found and ate my Ramli burger along the food street there at 2.30am in the morning, and testify that the Kuala Lumpur-ians really have a fantastic supper culture. Hey, Jag told me all the food tasted so nice cause it's mostly fried. 
Oh, talking about Jag, I must also say a very big "THANK YOU!" to our friends Jooli and Jag for being such wonderful hosts, taking us to that great "zhi-char" place at Jalan Alor*, and chauffering our luggages around. They took time out from their schedule and show us the sights around town. It's a great joy to catch up with overseas friends,just siting down in the coffee shop, and talk about anything under the sun over a cup of "kat zai seng bway" , "Eng yong"** and bread toasts.
well, looking for the next church camp. in the meanwhile, I should go and pray about that CG retreat...
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*just thinking about the black Hokkien mee, the BBQ wings and the "la-la" makes my mouth salivates already...
** "kat zai seng bway" = lime drink with preserved plums; "Eng yong" = coffee mixed with tea and milk
Sunday, June 18, 2006
on post-church camps thoughts and giving thanks
Had a fantastic time at the church camp last week in Selangor. Fantastic not only because the food were great (especially the durian-mouuse 
Rather, it was more of the wonderful presence of God that was present there, ministering to each and everyone of the campers. Somehow the Lord just made use of men and women to bring forth great spiritual lessons in morsel-bites that is easily digested (spiritual baby-food, if your will). And my eyes were opened to certain aspects of the Word, a glorious revelation of the infinite mercy and grace of His Glory.
Just want to give thanks and glory to God for all that He has done for me personally at the camp, bringing people to me, saying kind words and praying for me. For the wonderful insights and teachings that were shared, I hoped these will be lodged deep within my heart, and overflow from me from within. I also pray a prayer of blessing for the next church camp that's coming up in 2008. I believed a lot of people, in some way or another, worked towards the running of Camp Covenant 2006. I pray the saints will gather again 2 years later, let God work in the camp, as He did this time round.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
on Theme Song for church camp 2006
Arise lyrics |
Artist - Don MoenAlbum - Thank You LordLyrics - Arise
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Thursday, June 1, 2006
on the 1st day of the 2nd half of the year...
After that went to town. Since I've already travelled so far, might as well go town "gai gai" a bit. The weather was unsuitable, however. People talked about the unbearable lightness of being. Well, today was the unbearable sweatiness of heat. After having my favourite roti-prata along
My friend called to complain about his iBook, said it dieded on him again. Just for no reason, itrefused to power itself up. Laughed my head off that one, and i told him to rename his iBook as "i-Stay-at-home", since it can only operate at his home only. Stayed out a while before heading off home for a sumptuous dinner.
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