Camps

I just attended a camp recently.. and looking at the participants in the camp made me feel back the good days when things are so carefree that you can attend camps whenever you want. It really has been quiet awhile (like 1 year) since i last joined a proper camp. X)

During the camp one of my group members and one of the committees asked me, "Klex, are you are regular camper?". Yes, i am an extremely active regular camper. Well, i used to be. But yeah.. I've been joining camp since i was young.. so young to the extend that even now i dont even remember what age i started camping! XD

I went back home to try and know how many camps that i've attended.. Was flipping thru my soft copy photo album on facebook and I found pictures of the camp that i've attended. Some of them are so long ago that I dont even remember which year did i attended those camp. XD

Some year which god knows when..

My very First Sayonara Junior Camp

One of My Very Best Experience of Youth Camp

Some Year's Children Fellowship Camp which I dont Remember

2009

Children Fellowship Camp 2009

My First and Only Sayonara Youth Camp

2010

Children Fellowship Camp 2010

My only Camp with my HELP-ians

My Last Youth Camp

2011

Children Fellowship Camp 2011

The First Kalyana Junior Camp

And we came to year 2012.. Year 2011 was extremely busy and year 2012 without a doubt was a million times more busier than 2011. I was lucky enough to get myself involve in two camps in year 2011! Anyways.. this year, year 2012, i participated in a camp organized by my University called the "INTI Sfondomento Camp" (dont ask..) 

2012 

INTI Sfondamento Camp 2012

My fellow group members/ my boy band/ my Super Juniors-2. XD

Meet a couple of other new friends besides my group memebers. X)

The Entire Fellow Camp-ians!

Yeap, there are a total of 630++ participants.. All from different high schools! Some of them are in Ipoh, Perak, Subang, Kuantan, etc..  Not to mention there are 72 Commitees (Icrew Members) and 20++ lecturers are involved in this camp. I would have to say, this is probably the BIGGEST crowd of campers i have so far. XD

What can i say about this camp? Definitely memorable.. I was only involved in Youth Camp once. It was my only time getting to facilitate teenagers.. so I thought.. This camp was my second chance to facilitate teenagers. Facilitating Teenagers is different from facilitating Children.. Cause the level of understand between both u and your group members are pretty close.. Plus facilitating them is MUCH more easier than facilitating kids. Their independent level are much higher and reliable. XD

As you can see from the picture, im in charge of facilitating an all male team. It was really actually my very first time facilitating an all male team and faclitating them is AWESOME. Cause facilitating them is like facilitating 10 younger versions of me! Theirs actions, their ideas, their suggestions, their conversation, the things that think of and not to mention the way that they react when a pretty girl is around.. hilarious.. (cause some of them are in an all boys school) XD

The funny part of my team is that 80% knew each other.. like literally.. close friends/classmates. Therefore, Ice breaking was not an issue at all. Plus, they are pretty sporting, friendly and hyperactive. So there are no awkward silent moments among us. Besides that, since they knew each other pretty while, splitting jobs among each other during activity was not a problem as they know each other's skills very well.

Down side about my team? Its actually not really a downside.. but the downside of my team is that most of them are in an all boys school.. Sometimes they spend more time spectating girls more than focusing on their work. XD To me, that is not something that will bother me OR an issue that disrupts the team.. but it actually entertains me more. Sometimes, i will catch them looking at girls. Instead of asking them to continue with their activities, i will teman them spectate the girls.You should see the way that they approach girls.. seriously, hilarious. (I really shouldnt make fun of them.) And since they are from boys school, some of them really wanna try and know some girls. So they will come and ask me permission to talk to other girls.. I will be like "OF COURSE YOU CAN!! Go talk to them! Know their names! Get their Numbers! Your here to make friends! I will NEVER stop from knowing girls one! XD" (Im probably the most coolest leader they have meet. XD)

Besides knowing new people from my team, i also know new people from other teams. As in other participants. Some of them i know through approaches by them when they come and ask me about college stuffs.. Some of them i know through random moments like during activities or when i was talking to their Icrew members I will awkwardly say hi to their other group members. And some of them are know through my group members while they asked me to help me ask for their names (FYI the some of them are girls.. XP) Lastly is of course i met some new people also from the other Icrew team. X)

The activites arranged for the camp are pretty good I would have to say. I can tell that the students are really having fun with the activities. Even as a Icrew member, i feel that the activities are fun. Sadly, most of the activities are spoiled due to the raining and some time delay issue.. but HEY, its a camp so things like these are bound to happen. XD

Some of my friends are actually surprise to the way I act in the camp. (the ones who dont usually hang out around me in Uni) To them, the way that i acted in the camp and the way that i act in University is like two very different people.. To them, the university me is stone cold silent, anti-social, quiet, basically all the good quality of a nerd BUT in the camp, im like possessed or something. Hearing that really does make me laugh but its good to know i still have a little "old me" inside of me. X)

Like any camps, the final day of the camp is usually the sad one.. cause after knowing sooo many people from that few days.. We have to be seperated again.. All of the camps will get into their own buses and waved good bye at us.. BUT all hope is not lost, we manage to attract some of the students to come into INTI college to pursue their studies. And some of them are friends that I've made thru tha camp. Plus, there is a new building which will be done around next year which will be the building for the INTI student from other cities.. So I can see some of the students and even the Icrew members that i've meet again next year. XD

My group members gave me our team flag with their signature as a token of appreciation. X)

The things/memories that I've obtain from the camp. (except the dog feet)

All and all a good camp and another very memorable experience. And since the camp was held RIGHT AFTER our exams.. the fun and excitement of the camp was really what me and uni-mates needed. XD

CHEERS!! XD

The Praise

When was the last time that you ever hear anyone came to you and said "Good Job" or "Well Done"? Mine vanished a long long time ago.. That is probably why small little praise from anyone would make me very happy. X)

Just like raising in any normal chinese family.. my family tends to be alittle bit more greedy when it comes to achievement. You get good grade, they want better. You get better grades, they want you to be get the best grade.Those kind of things. You understand what im saying?

Just this semester, I got back my exams results and i was so satisfy with it. Not only the subject that i worked so hard scored extremely well, my other subjects scored better than i expected and not to mention i manage to keep my scholarship because i manage to meet the requirements.. I told everyone including my friends and family.. None of them responded to anything i said.. My mom and dad just went "Mmm mmm" and "Okay la..", my brother went "Like that only ah?" and my friends went "You can do better than that one la..". Not a single "Good Job" or "Well Done" or "Congrats" or even a sarcastic "Good for You.." i've heard all day..

Its not the first time that this ever happen to me.. it happen to me quite a number of time already.. for SPM, for my foundation results, for my uni first semester grade (which i did extremely well) and for my second semester results..

Sometimes i tend to escape myself into the virtually reality world where people and even complete strangers would actually praise me for what i did. You know, when you play online games, u manage to support ur team very well and they will say "Good Job". OR when you blog about something nice people will comment and say "Awesome blog post man!". AND even took a good picture or did something amazing on facebook, facebook friends will "like" that page/video/picture. Yeah, im that desperate and sad..

Its these little praise that kept one person going.. its these little compliments that make one person feel alittle bit more happier.. its these little small words that make one person feel wanted.. its these little things that can make one person feel hoped & loved again..

Its just one of these things that kept me wondering.. When will I ever feel loved again?? Alot of people (and practically everyone) says "Keep waiting.. im sure some day someone who will love you will come into your life.". I've been waiting.. waiting.. and waiting for alittle bit too long.. 10 years to long.. Im starting to think that this world is hopelessly cruel..  I took waaay to many bullets to the extent that im starting to think this pity life that im living is unfair.. and seriously, there is no justice..

Am I emo right now? Damn right I am.. but really.. who would give a damn..

cheers? well not today..

我的世界看起来像什么都有.. 其实, 是什么都没有..

Its Dad

When i hang out with my bros playing board games, going 'yumcha' & chatting or going someone's else and jam stuffs and i usually will come home late.. especially when its weekends. I tend to come  like 2am or 3am in the morning.. When i reach home, i sometimes have trouble getting into the house cause someone would have locked me outside the house..

Now, to come into my house u first have to enter the main front gate (obviously), then you have to open the metal barred door and lastly the wooden door. In the family, im the only one doesnt have the keys to the wooden door. (come to think, i dun really know why i dont have it. XD) According to what i hear from my brother and sister, even with the keys the wooden door is extremely hard to be unlocked. Its like you need to know the style to open it. XD

Since opening the wooden will be a pain in the ass.. when im home earlier than anyone in my family, i will be considerate. I will not lock the wooden door first, walk up stairs check if everyone is home or not. If everyone is at home already, then i'll lock the door, if not i will not lock it just for the convenient of anyone who will be coming back afterwards.

Sometimes, someone in the family will lock the door immediately when they reached home. And when someone is locked outside the house, they will call anyone who is inside the house to come down and open the door for them. And usually the people who are called are me or my brother or my sister cause calling our parents just seems to be a bad idea..

Now sometimes, I just dont understand, issit so hard to even walk up the stairs, check if everyone is home, walk back down, and only lock the door? Apparently for my brother, its like a freaking hard thing to do. I told him a millions time to check if everyone is home first before locking the door but nooooo, he doesnt give a damn about it. And when someone gets locked out side the house, and called him to help, he will get freaking furious.

And that happened to me today.. like a couple of minutes ago. I was locked outside the house.. I tried calling my brother and my sister but none of them pick up the phone. I called both of them continuously for 30 minutes outside the house and still no one picks up. In the end, i have no choice.. i called my dad and asked him to open the door for me. By just a single call, my dad picked up the phone, came down and let me into the house.

Now, normally when i called my brother or my sister in the middle of the night to open the wooden door for me, they will get very very angry when they pick up a phone in the middle of the night while they already asleep. If my brother is the one opening the door, he will scold the crap out of me before going back to sleep.. But my dad was different.. it was my first time ever calling my dad down to open the door for me.. When my dad picked up the phone and heard that i need help to open the wooden door, he was extremely calm.. When he opened the door and i apologize to him.. He was not mad at all, and instead he even care to asked "Have you been waiting outside for long? Tired ah?" and lastly he gave a pat on the back.

After getting the kind of responds that my dad gave to me, i feel extremely guilty but at the same time, i felt extremely touched..

My dad is different.. different in a very good way.. I've always looked up to my dad as the man who i wanna be in the future. I wanna be like him. Patient, caring and loving.. With that, i always try and be like him. But my dad.. is just undefeatable.. His like the ultimate nice of the nicest guy that i've ever meet in my life. (im just rambling some weird stuffs. XD)

If you guys wanna know who i think is the nicest guy in the world, its dad. X)

CHEERS!!

Observing Face Expression

Have you guys watch the american investigation series called "Lie to Me"? Its like CSI, doing investigation, finding criminals and solving mysteries. But whats so different of "Lie to Me" is that, the investigators in the show can read face expressions and body language when a person is telling lie-ing. Its a pretty good american series.

So ever since I've entered uni life, as some of u might know, i've been alittle bit more anti-social than i was last time. I spend more time doing my assignments, playing video games, playing magic and only socialize with all my classmates and my really close friends (most of them are guys). Hell, sometimes i dont even have the time to play games and hang out with my close friends! Sometimes, when im sick of working or I want to take a break, i will observe people around me. In other words, stalking but lets call it observe for this case.. XP

I've been observing people's face expression and body language just for the fun of it. So, one day some of my friends are hanging out with a couple of their own friends at uni during our break time and they invited me to join along. While they are busy having their own conversation i was half time listening and half time observing their face expression (i really dunno why i do that, its really creepy come to think of it.) Yeah, thats  how anti-social i've been. If it was the old me i would butt into any conversation they having (i actually still do that, but not to strangers) and talk all day.

So, one of them is showing her fake tatoo to her friends and to be honest, that tatoo looks real but her face expression kinda gave it away. (dont ask me how i can tell, i just can) all her friends believed her but i was the only one who said that its not. This girl that was showing for her tatoo was not really close to me, we are just 'hi' & 'bye' friends but i do see her around the corner with her friend sometimes. And yes, i observe her facial expression and body language. With that, i can tell when she was telling a lie when she was showing her friends her tatoo.

There was another time when one of my friends just got into a relationship and she was trying to hide it from people cause she didnt want the whole world to know about it. But one day, while I was having lunch alone (i came to school early) she sat and talked to me and i asked her about how her about her new boy friend. She was kinda shocked that i knew that they are in a relationship cause she NEVER told me anything about this new guy. After that she asked me to guess how long have they been together. Based on the changes in her body language, her facial expression and the things that she posted on facebook, i answered about two weeks and it was the correct answer..

Observing people's face reaction is kinda fun.. especially when you manage to guess correctly whether they are lie-ing or u guess correct something.. Me and my brother love to watch to those american competition show like Master Chefs, American Next Top Model, Hell's Kitchen, etc.. Basically, any show that they will comment about whatever that they did on the episode like saying what did they, how they feel, or who they hate. You guys understand what im saying so far?

Okay, so me and my brother knows that the producers will interview the participants at the end of the show and usually in these kind of show, there would be eliminations cause its a competition. So, what me and my brother like to do is observe their face expression when they are commenting about what they are during the show and me and my brother will guess who will get eliminated in that episode. Cause logically, if you get eliminated in a competition and you are getting interviewed after the competition, you will show little bit of sad emotion face expression when you are being interviewed. (unless, the fella is an extremely good poker face) And thats where and how my brother will determine who got eliminated. Its a pretty fun thing to do and its also a good way to train our people's face expression identification.

According to my friends, they say that im pretty accurate on telling a person's face expression but im better when it comes to doing poker face. In other words, im good in telling lies without revealing my lie-ing face. Which me a very suitable psychologist. (and i quote, that is something similiar to what they said)

Reading facial expressions and body language is FUN, im pretty sure that my skills are not up to the standard that i can read people's mind or be a psychologist but i really hope i can develop this skills just for the fun of it. It might be like a super power! 8D

CHEERS! XD

MSN

Some of you guys might recognize this logo and some of you might not. The the early 90s people should recongnize this.. Back then, this logo represented a software that was like the skype for us, the whatsapp for us and the facebook chat system for us before any of these are developed. This software is called MSN Messenger. (correct me if im wrong, i dun remember what issit called already.)

Msn still going on right now its just that i hardly hear people talk about it anymore. Nowadays when people wanted to chat online, its always "I'll whatsapp you alright?" or "We'll talk on skype." or "Facebook message me la.". Sounds familiar right? XP

To be honest, i really really really really really miss Msn Messenger. I would say one of the reason why im much more anti-social now is probably because i lost msn messenger. Most of my friends are there! Primary School, High School, Temple and HELP friends, all their msn contacts are there in my msn messenger account. And i really miss talking to them.. I have lessers contacts on skype (altho most of my close high school friends are there), i dont really go online on facbook chat system, i find their chat system really laggy and annoying.. and for twitter, its just not the right kind of apps to talk to people. To stalk them and hear their problems, yes but definitely not for chatting.

So what happened to my msn account? I really dunno myself.. i think my account got bug or virused or something.. i dont remember what happened but everytime i log into my account they always ask for my handphone number and they send a message to my phone asking my phone to send back something to re-activate my account.. please bear in mind that i have to do this EVERYTIME when i log into my msn mesenger account. And sending the messenger to the msn company using my handphone is kinda expensive. DX

So why not get whatsapp? The awesome application that allows you to talk to anyone like facebook, skype or msn for FREE as long as they have whatsapp as well. Well, sadly, my phone is not high tech enough to have whatsapp. Its touch screen alright, but its not as awesome as the other high tech touch screen devices there are available today.. DX If, i were given the chance to have whatsapp, hell i would download that app and put into my phone RIGHT AWAY. XD

I remember having video chatting with my friends using Msn when i was taking care of young Oreo in the toilet. Yeah, Oreo was alittle scare to being alone (he still is now) when he was young, and i will always stay beside im in the toilet (cause he sleeps there last time) until he fell asleep. And to not bored the crap out of me, i will usually chat with my friends on msn and showing off Oreo to them using Msn Chat system. Ahhh good old days..

If my msn messenger account still exist, i would be less lifeless and i would still keep in contact with alot and alot of my friends.. unless all of them have turn over to the whatsapp side.. that would be very very bad. DX So, for those of you who know me and have a skype account.. please do add me. Im desperate trying to keep in contact with you guys.. yes, you heard me.. desperate.. DX

Skype Name: klex.mingz

Alright thats all for now, im starting back uni life again tomorrow. I've been trying to update my blog more often lately because i had a one week assessment break which im suppose to be doing my work instead of bloggin. But i feel really bad for not bloggin much lately. Last month i only blog about one post.. ONE POST for one whole month! Thats really really not my style. DX So yeah, here you go. 3 blog post for 3 days in a row. Hope you guys still read it. DX

CHEERS!! XD