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Monday, December 15, 2008

7 days like this

ok. i'm gonna tell myself: i have to get down to blogging, or else God knows when i'm gonna blogging and what am i gonna blog. so yea. and for a BANGING start, i'd say... i've spent 9 CONSECUTIVE DAYS doing sound. whee

06th December 2008... Saturday
there was DARE and ARROW Students service. i'm doing monitor, while Jolyn's on the board for DARE, but for ARROW, it was a one-man show for me. Grace got to meet KarYong to talk about joining sound ministry. don't know what's the conclusion yet though. and after service, Jerald and I went to meet Esther, Grace and Faith aka the Khong sisters for dinner. went to Pepper Lunch @ Takashimaya. after which, we cabbed home.

warm spotlights on Cliff the Drummer. love it.
and no, this is not an ass-shot -.-

07th December 2008... Sunday
and there was Sunday service. for a change, i did Monitor instead of FOH. Jason finally got his chance to mix FOH. hehe. and for the first time, i tried the youth setting for sunday service. apparently there was positive feedback from the musicians. except Winston. but i'd guess it's personal preference, and i'll have to tweak the settings to his liking, some day. i have to do some house-keeping if the settings were to be incorporated to Sunday service anyway. IF

had lunch with Grace during 2nd service. i was too full to eat. and no, there is no secret going on, just that Jerald Thio is late, once again. but basically, from after lunch onwards, it wasnt exactly a happy time for me. i'll keep my comments to myself.

08th December 2008... Monday
and there was IDU camp, a camp for P6s moving up to DARE Level 1 next year. met Jason at around 1115 at Pasir Ris, took shuttle bus. blah blah, and started setting up. had some camp opening. God bless those P6s, and their bloody high-pitched screams. after which, sound check. Jason left by then. as for service, went fine and fun and all. however, it was quite funny that when Pastor wanted to ask P6s to come up and get prayed for, none of them went up. so Pastor had to pray as a whole. sad. and after that night, went back to Downtown East. Jason gave me his room, which is with the musicians. that night, it was just James and Junming.

09th December 2008... Tuesday
this was when the horror started coming. the first day of EJ4 camp. which means the pastor and the musicians will have to start running from place to place. morning, it was service at IDU side, and it was scheduled to finish at 1130. funny that soundcheck over at EJ side was scheduled at 1100, how can the musicians be at two places at one time? so anwayz, back to the timeline. however, service at IDU ended at around 1230, i think. so we had to pack up, transport our things there, reach around 1300. pure hectic. Jason was halfway through the checks when i reached. and while we were trying to rush through soundcheck in time for the afternoon service, the first service at EJ4 side, Pastor called off the service. haha. phew. bad planning, though.

so instead of service, they had ice breaker games for the campers, hosted by Coach Heejhun, for i think an hour or so. it felt kinda draggy, but maybe they just needed to buy time before the youths could check in. the youths were kinda scary too, the way they played the game. so much so, eugene actually stepped into the sound console area to avoid playing the game. tsktsk. after that was dinner, and another round of soundcheck. this time a proper, no rush one. haha. service was anointed. there was ministering. didnt go up to get prayed for though, not yet. after that, went back to my bunk to sleep. Alwin came in and joined our bunk as well. and one little fellow by the name of Jerald Thio had to come sleep with me. he's going back by the next day.

10th December 2008... Wednesday
first was men's and women's meeting at EJ side. so i was around, making sure things go fine, and also had to pack some things from the EJ ballroom to bring to IDU side. had to rush down lor, i was late for soundcheck. Jason had to come around 10+ to relieve me to go to school. came back to the campsite around 3+, just before the camp closure ended, to help with pack up. lots of coiling of cables to do, quite fun but tedious, with the tangles and all. then went over to EJ side. at least now we're only down to one camp alone, instead of two running concurrently. as usual, dinner, soundcheck, service. i think Joseph joined us to sleep in our room on this day while Junming left.

mealtime!! view from the top.

and Angie got the youths engaged during Praise and Worship

11th December 2008... Thursday
service in the morning. again, Jason had to come down at around 11+. same thing lor, had to go school. lagi worse, got oral presentation. haha. it didnt turn out as bad as i thought, i guess. returned back to the campsite around 1545. thought i was late cause rehearsal for the finale night was supposed to be 1530. but i guess i was early, the rest of the performers were still held up somewhere somehow. so when the performers gathered, oh god, somebody help them. they were so chaotic, doing their own things. took some time before Celeste, Camp Committee in charge of finale night, took the mic and settled them down. rehearsal didnt go as smooth. lots of impromptu, wrong chain of command and other nonsense. and it boils down to bad planning, not just on camp committee side, but also the performers. and one of the groups took ultra long.

at one point, this was the conversation between Celeste and i...

me: so what time is this rehearsal going to end?"
she: 6.
me: ok. so what time is soundcheck?
she: 6-7.
me: (getting agitated) and there is no dinner time for me, for my servers?... blah blah

she apologized, i couldnt care much since i already didnt eat lunch, i'm pushing sound check back. so sound check was "late", doors open late. but nonetheless, service was once again anointed, and there was ministering. this time, i got prayed for. goodie. and the freeflow was so long and good, they actually ran out of songs to sing. how could it be. towards the end, Pastor was having fun. Pastor played on an electric guitar, unplugged. Pastor body-surfed. haha. his youth is renewed.

the last night

12th December 2008... Friday
service ended by midnight. Eugene, Jerald, Yuhua and I went to McCafé to have some snacks and beverages. oh boy, i was so cranky, i spouted whatever nonsense came into my head, it was overflowing manz. and all of us had a good laugh. Yuhua commented that in sound, i'm like so mature and ops-y kind, outside of sound only, i'm like so 14-year-old. haha. not totally true. it only applies sometimes k?

after that we went to Block C the BBQ pit there to sit down and continue spouting nonsense. this time lesser lah. it was a more proper fellowship, probably cause i was running low on the flow. and after some time, i said i wanted to bathe, we departed, and we never met again until morning. i went to bathe, eugene was in my room. oh the funny thing was this. alwin asked, "eh where's your minijack?". i say, "oh. there (points to Eugene). he grow up overnight. now become quarter-inch jack". after i bathed, Eugene and I watched Russell Peters' latest video: Red, Brown and White (i think). vulgar, but funny. Raphael and Joseph came in. ah yes, James left while Raphael is staying in tonight, don't know for the good or for the bad. and halfway through the video i got tired, and everyone else was going to sleep. so we slept.

woke up about 2 hours later. haha. the feeling of packing up and leaving, so unbearable. but before that, we were just slacking in the room. and since Raphael was in the room, we were doing what boys will do at stayovers. Alwin even had a photo of me on top of Raphael. scandalous. hehe. and at one point, Raphael's hand was on my chest and stomach.

Alwin: Raphael, what is your hand doing on jackjack?
Raphael started moving his hand around.
Me: eh. don't move around. very ticklish.
Alwin: err. is that your only concern?
Me: at least i'm clothed.
Alwin: ok. i'm glad you think that way.

after that, we checked out, the musicians left, and i had to go ballroom and pack up some of the stuffs to be brought back to camp. sianz. hanged around, went to eat lunch, and reached home around 1700. and i was supposed to go visit Bok's grandfather funeral, but i was soo tired, i slept all the way until saturday 0800.

goodness. my blog is already so long. so here's 7 consecutive days of doing sound. shall continue the other 2 more days later.

spoken adhesives at 13:14

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