Legion Chalet
Guess what! I woke up at like 11am, meaning I was too late to join Legion at GOL home… I also needed to finish packing for the chalet, and meet them at Novena for mass or something… Crap man, I was so late, at least I caught them at Novena, and went on from there… We had lunch at Toa Payoh MacDonald’s (the one with the GV cinema) and from there, we took a straight bus to the chalet, though it took us like an hour to get there… We finally reached, and began the laborious journey to the chalet with all our heavy bags and all…
When we finally got there, Mr Ang had his usual Chalet prep-talk and we had the ’sorting ceremony’ to group them for the chalet, and I learnt most of the Sec Ones names through that… Affirmations were also set up before Icebreakers (mass Whacko) and I must say, we did a good job with them, although they were pretty neglected with all the organising we had to do =P…
We wrote down questions of our faith that night, anything we wanted to know, so that there could be an open forum to discuss it, and that was quite successful, cuz we got quite a lot of questions… We also had a nice closing prayer, during which I hope nobody dozed off (apart from myself being tempted to =P )
The first day was pretty much settling in, nothing intensive, but we had to implement the bedroom quota system (although it didn’t work out at all =( but we tried) and some other administration for the next day… I had fun mixing with the sec ones, who happened to like my toy dog (as usual), and started abusing it the moment they saw it… Hell man, my poor dog felt so violated… Tried staying up the whole night, but without mocha, I didn’t want to risk facing the next day like a zombie, so I didn’t really stay up the WHOLE night, managed to squeeze in a few hours, when I wasn’t writing affirmations for everyone =P …
Melvin had a talk with the sec twos that night, I attended it, and it wasn’t as bad as I expected, although he could have made a little more eye contact with them… IMHO, I HATE it when seniors talk to the floor when "scolding" you… Makes me so annoyed, you want to say something, say it to my face… Don’t look down on me either =) (or maybe I’m just rebellious)…
There was a screening of Scary Movie 4 that night, and I watched that stupid but hilarious movie, cramped with all the others sqeezing in around me, Ben Teo lying on my back, since I was already in a very good spot from the beginning, but there were people coming in to see where everyone had gone, so all of us were staring at one small laptop screen… That was quite fun, at least it was cozy throughout the movie, and we could all laugh together =P
The second day was a problem. That was all to describe it. We started with morning office (a big mistake), and then proceeded to games before lunch… Some conflict there between Joseph and Julian (and me somewhere in the sideline) erupted, and we finished the last game to make 
everyone happy, just something to kill the tension, and to let them have pure fun (with very sticky number stickers that they utilised to the maximum)… After making them find stickers around the house, they could then wage war against others (eventually a free-for-all), and Ben Teo was our
sacrificial numbered cow, with black and white all over him, from neck to knees and even shoes (though we left his legs and head out) and the stickers all came out in one piece, like tight fitting clothes… That was fun, and many people took pictures of him (instantaneous celebrity)… Should post them somewhere…
We had a session in the afternoon, but I’m not sure what it was, can’t really remember… *SIGH* Either that, or there was nothing going on at all, but I’m pretty sure there was something… Then we went for mass at Holy Trinity in Tampines at 6pm, in the small chapel that they use for daily mass, with some weird guy who drags the end of his sentence, like "alleluiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…"
Oh yeah, we also had a deep sharing that night, where we were supposed to get really deep into our lives, and instead of just superficial things we share, we try to really know each others’ background, but it didn’t really work out for my group, so I was kinda disappointed… But I don’t think I let anyone down, other than the Sec Fours by ending it early, so… Sorry to Marcus, who doesn’t know about this, but his group rocked, they shared for hours…
The next day, we had the answering of Faith Questions, and that was very successful too, we managed to answer quite a lot of questions, and that was quite interesting, though some poor sleep-deprived people were too tired to stay awake… But there were certain provocative questions that Mr Ang had to step in to resolve and conclude before we moved on…
Do not read this part; {Jeremy didn’t wear underwear at first, happily proclaiming it to the whole world, and was planning to go to the beach shirtless, but I don’t know what happened in Room 1 when his friends found out, and I didn’t look, but after that, he was wearing underwear and a shirt… Thank God for that =P}
We also went to the beach in the afternoon, and that was fun, cuz I love deep water, but not those that I can’t stand in… Anyway, the waves generated by boats racing past parallel to the shore were quite fun to ride, and whenever boats passed, everyone would flock to 
where I was to cling on to me (since they could’t stand) and enjoy the wave, while I like going through it, they went over… I like water =P Anyway, that was fun, cuz I was the first one in (as usual) and Glen took a picture of my head, like the lochness monster… Not sure who they buried this year, but there were quite a lot of people who came (or were dragged) into the water again, for the second time…
After everyone had washed up, we had a session conducted by Mr Ang, although we were supposed to go bowling at Tampines Mall… However, with this delay, we arrived there late, when it was almost closing already… So we had gobbled dinner down quickly, and then we went back to the chalet, cuz there was nothing else to do (after like an hour of discussion and debate over what to do, some just got so fed up), but everything was calmed and resolved in the end, although it was anticlimatic and disappointing =( …
In the night, with my mocha, while all others were knocked out, or gone
out to watch soccer, I was busy writing affirmations, as usual with all
other nights, when Jeremy Ng comes up to me and says he can’t fry an
egg with butter, but I thought it was definitely possible, since butter
is just solid oil, but he burnt the pan (TWICE) and had to throw the
two eggs away… Oh well, that was for me not supervising him (and not
knowing how to cook, dammit)…
So the next morning was basically a final reflection, and mass clean-up before we left for a surprise bowling trip, since we missed it the previous night, and I had fun playing pool, and they had fun bowling, and others had fun playing LAN, and we all had fun together… So it wasn’t that bad after all… And I had to go home to prepare for my next camp, which was next Monday (LLTC)…
I was so tired after lunch, that I took a cab home with Joshua, and slept to the next morning… Although this chalet was a tiny bit of a disappointment, I wouldn’t say it was a failure, cuz I got to know the Sec 1’s and they got to know me, and it was all fun =P
I luv Legion,
<GABZ>
P.S. MY MOCHA ROX =P !!!
