Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Camp Banyan 2004: 30 Nov - 3 Dec
Holy Family youth become One Body!

I had the privilege, joy, honour, blessing and grace of God to be present at one of the best camps I've ever attended.... Maybe thats cuz I was one of the organisers haha... but really... it was the initial rough journey and culmination in camp that made this a truly amazing life event!

Ironically, for me and GII it began with no one coming forth to help plan the annual GII retreat (one which would always evoke beautiful memories and bond us closer) - and an invitation by Colin to do a combined camp (the last one was in '99 - NCS, YC, GII & friends)

With an initial small crew of different reps from the youth grps, our first few meetings in June were literally drawing board-anything-goes-brainstorming-conceptualising meetings... Dawn, Alex, Andrew (camp head!), Gordina, Michael, Andrea, Adrian, Grace and myself - I think it was one late night that we dreamt up the One Body Many Parts theme and the story of the Banyan Tree was first supplied by Dawn

We had meetings weekly (!!!) in church, in town (Centrepoint Macs!), at the camp site, at Hougang Mall (Macs!) - and our motely bunch grew and subcomms were formed, and these in turn recruited more willing hands.... as secretary my job was simple... take minutes, arrange meetings, call people... but even that proved difficult and i had the help of trusty Michael to cover for me... The different comms were led by amazing and competent individuals and we launched a massive campaign in september to increase awareness abt the camp and abt the youth scene...

Pamphlets
Brownie baking and selling
Photo-taking of hundreds of youth
Youth@HolyFamily Exhibition
2nd Brownie baking and selling (++ other stuff)
Registration weekends
Outdoor Dry Run
Day of Recollection for the 30 or so organisers (a great one day of recollection that brought us together to prepare for the camp)
Camp Briefing Day

Day 1 (Outdoor Race!) of camp finally arrive and we the Leongs arrived late!!! It was heartening to see so so many participants; and esp impressed with g2 peeps taking the role of grp leaders for 6 of the 10 groups. I stayed on at Church for awhile before heading down to AH for my Orthopaedics posting.... I rushed home at abt 3pm and brought my barang barang to the camp site at Lorong Lowkoon. The journey there was wrought with anticipation and some urgency too, cuz I was late for the cleaning crew's duty! - Exactly how many people? would they be responsive? would the g2 pple survive? hoped some of the older g2 could come down and visit... so many thoughts, worries, and hopes... would darryl be ok? would there be any medical emergencies?

to be continued....


wildcardChucky's brain blurted out on 9:12 PM



the brain.....
Chucky Leong
lowkun with a hx/o
- NVD 230979
- Good Shepherd Kindergarten
- Maris Stella Pri Kindergarten
- Maris Stella Pri '86-91 1B-6B
- Raffles Institution '92-95 1D,2D,3C,4C
- RI Tennis '92-95 - Silver,Silver,Silver,Bronze
- Raffles Voices '92-93
- Raffles Junior College '96-97 1S03C,2S03C - Ms Ho Poh Fun's class
- RJC Tennis '96-97 - Gold,Gold
- SAF 3SIR/ SAFSA Tennis '98-00
- NUS Medicine '00-05
- NUS Tennis '00-05
- Genesis II Choir '94-present
who now presents with multiple addictions to:
- blog
- Genesis IIChoir / Holy Fam!
- mugging
- slacking
- tennis


past thoughts.....
July 04 blurts
August 04 blurts
September 04 blurts
October 04 blurts
November 04 blurts
December 04 blurts
January 05 blurts
February 05 blurts
March 05 blurts
April 05 blurts
September 05 blurts
October 05 blurts
December 05 blurts
January 06 blurts
February 06 blurts

other brain .....

Alex / YC / Camper
Alex Tan / Camp Banyan
Andrew / YC / St David's
Andrew Fang / Medicine
Ann-Nee / YC
Anthony / GII / Nurse!
Are we there yet?
Brenda / GII / Landmine
Boon / Oxford Uni
Candice / YC
Cherie / GII / Netball
Chris Raj / GII / Soccer
Claire
Clara / GII / Softballer
Daniel / St David's
Daniel John / GII / Tenor
Darren Spruyt / GII / Sprutyson
Darryl / GII / daleong
Duane / GII / Elmo
Edwina / GII
Felicity
Fr Aloy
Geri
Glenn / GII / Swimmer
Greg / GII / Holy Drummer
Isabelle / GII / Violinist
Jason / YC / YF
Jazryl / GII / Punk
Jeremy Chai / GII / Rafflesian!
Joanna Cabodoc / GII / Tennis kaki
John Goh / SFX / SFXYC Lyanna / YC / Post-Con
Marcus / GII / Godson
Marissa / GII / Maestro
Michael / Servers / Kristokos / P&W
Natasha / GII / Dancer
Nicholas Tan / Servers / P&W
Nicolai / Leipzig Uni
Nicole / GII / mamabear
Noel Tan / YC / GII / the wet one
Peter / YC / Lector
Rhonda / GII / Netball
Samantha / GII / NPCC
Sarah Tan / YC
Sarah Yang / GII / Artist
Sharon / YC
Shannon / GII / Puss in boots
Stacy / GII / Rocker
Suelyn
Zachary / GII / Saxophonist
Holy Fam YC
Sub Rosa / Boon's Band


knock my brain.....


brain thanks.....
Jazryl Sim - chief architect


fellow thinktanks
Pooh Bear Medical School Notes
Orthoteers UK