Joween
25 & dreaming.

//carpe diem//

better known as joweeeeen. your typical singapore girl. searching for happiness. quite a sentimental person who appreciates cards and letters a lot. crazy at times and pretty emotional. has a contagious laughter and a twin too. older every 21 march. insecure, annoying and always overthinking. shy and quiet, or outgoing and loud. afraid to trust, but dare to dream. loves long hugs, heart to heart talks, sincere text messages and reading handwritten cards. imagining things that will never happen. always setting high hopes and getting disappointed in the end. figuring life out every single day.

9 June 2013, the best day of my life. Live like Jesus, live with Jesus and live for Jesus.
"For nothing is impossible with God."-Luke1:37♥

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had lunch before heading to church because if not i would probably have had a growling stomach for the rest of the day and died. hah. but well i looked like i was going on a week-long camp because i had such a big bag with me but no it's only 2d1n ok hahaha. so the retreat started a little late because we had to wait for some people who were late to come. oh oh, and it was super funny seeing eunice and joseph teo and julie's reactions when they saw us and when we told them that we were actually going for retreat because yea for the oast two weeks we lied to them and told them that we would be going overseas HAHAHA and so we started at around 2-ish for opening worship led by nathan, good job there friend!!!!!! :) then they took away our phones so we bid farewell to our phones and then we knew our groups. i was in group 2 with donovan ray jonathan sean philip joel carul alicia jogi youxuan and ashley so there's 12 of us. before this retreat i never really talked to anyone in my group but i guess God wants me to get out of my clique so its ok all is good. so the first thing we did in our groups was designing a band as a group. sadly for joel, our group band wasn't yellow hahaha. and after an awkward session, we played "i have ever" within our groups, and then among the groups, and yay we won!!! we are a group of people who have done many weird and interesting things la okay basically. then afterwards we played eagle termite rhino (i think) of which we all had to walk around and lie down, not stand on chairs and stick on the walls whenever one of those animals are called basically ahahah it was intense and i was like "uhhhhh" most of the time because i was probably still not in the camp mood. then we moved on the the third game which was more of a quiz of the world and the bible. i think our team did not bad HAHA but i do not know how many oceans are there in the world ok time to go read up on the world and stuffs. and it was super funny calling out joseph's and nick's chinese names when they went up for the quiz game and they just went like "OI" HAHAHA. sorry friends love all. and before we knew it, it was dinner time. i thought that tricia came at 4+, but she actually came at 5+ to 6 so i was like woah, because i didn't have my phone with me and so most of the time i didn't know the time. dinner was in our groups and it was still awkward for me (yes, i am a socially awkward person i can cry) but okay. afterwards i went to talk to julie and dayna and tricia and woah, julie gives the best massages hahaha. and then it was time for lesson one by uncle vincent. before that we had worship and this time led by nick who was super nervous and as expected, sung still, but good job there my felllow asian-eyed friend. after the lesson we got into our dgroup and before we got into an actual discussion about the lesson we talked about something else really really awkward and i don't even know what to do now. but then sometimes it was just so funny i burst out laughing i think i disturbed other dgroups but then it really was funnily awkward or awkwardly funny so!!!!! okay then after that really awkward-funny thing we got into our actual discussions and sharings and the jc groups are the last to end hahahaha. afterwards we went to shower and yay i feel so clean now and we went outside and watched people play mafia because we were bored and we didn't have our phones with us and they ate cup noodles and crackers and nick's m&ms until it was lights out at 11.30. soooooooo we actually made our own forts and stuff so that we could sleep more comfortably then rebecca came in and told us to all sleep on the floor. okay, nore of encouraged us to sleep on the floor so in the end we formed two rows and most of the sisters were in the two rows. then they formed a circle and they played mafia and i just sat one side and watched them play and ate my biscuits and went out a couple of times to throw rubbish and refill my water. like after i refilled my water i saw joseph and he was like "eh you all sleep already ah" then i'm like "nooo??? who sleeps so early HAHAH but we're all sleeping in a row cos we're cool" hahahah and after that game of mafia, we had a little talk about how we felt about the teens ministry and the sisters and we also voiced our opinions and suggestions on what we want the sisters and teens to be like and stuff. i guess, this was what me joey dayna and vanessa were talking about one week before. we literally felt that the hype 3 years ago was gone, and we wanted to bring the hype back so so much. so yeah we talked all the way till 1.30 ish i think and i ko-ed because i was so tired. 

who knew that very soon it was like 6.30 already. i don't even know what time i fell asleep because i kept hearing kyla and crish talking. but then ya we eventually got up and washed up and prepared for a long walk to punggol waterway. and at waterway, we had our breakfast first thing, and then we had worship and devo led by davis and bev from DJC YAYYYY djc ok yay hahaha. afterwards we split into our game groups for prayer and it was okay i guess we shared about how we felt about the sharings and some of us prayed because there wasn't much time left. we then gathered for a brifing for the telematch. so from the bridge, 2 people had to be blindfolded and another 2 pairs of people had to have their legs and hands tied together, and they had to walk to a far far place. me walking normally already had a little but of problems walking on the slope but luckily our group made it and i was cheering for tricia all the way at the back hahahah. then for the next game, there were tamil newspaper cut outs and we had to piece them together in the shortest time possible. it was so intense i think i was sweating just kneeling down there trying to fix the pieces and taping here and there because everybody was just shouting "TAPE! TAPE! TAPE HERE HERE TAPE HERE!" hahah but i think my group did not bad????  then for the next game each group was given 6 toilet paper rolls and we had to wrap one sister and one brother into a mummy. and for us, we had caryl and we just tell her to turn as we wrapped toilet paper around her and taped to secure the toilet paper HAHAH. then they had to do some fashion walk or something and try to tear off the opponent's toilet paper i.... just stood aside because too intense hahahah. then it was a waterbomb game where two pairs of each team are sent to throw waterbombs at each other increasing the distance after each throw and they must not burst the waterbomb and obviously i did not go....... because ya you know i cant catch a ball and what more a waterbomb???? and the last game was basically a list of tasks to doby a time. so yeah it was like take a group selfie and then climb a tree and form the theme using natural elements and take pictures with a stranger and go to punggol mrt? we walked all the way to the mrt and i was so so tired. there was this running group and walking group and obviously i'm in the walking group because i was so tired. and then the running group was all the way in front i had to shout to them to tell them to wait up and after i shouted, joel was like "wow that was loud" hahahah thanks jo!  and when we went back to church i was literally dying already. but yeah it was lunch and we sat in a circle and talked and just laughed at dayna who randomly sang songs omg so grateful for these kind of friends in my life who can just make me laugh LIKE THAT. after lunch, the sisters had one class, brothers had one class, and JC had another class YAS!!! ok not really a class but. so we were in one of the kids kingdom rooms and we had our own worship and it was quite good cos we were in a circle and we just sang a couple of songs. so for DJC it was sharings by matthew philix and renee in an interview style like we ask them questions about JC life and everything, and they answer. personally, i felt that it was a very useful sharing session i actually feel motivated to study and take my relationship with God higher despite this hectic JC life. and now i just gotta be disciplined and stay disciplined!!!! ugh stress still. but okay. the jc lesson ended a little late and the next game was supposed to start soon but we sneaked a selfie before heading to play the games hahah. the last games of all was scrutineyes and it was a really really long game and well it tests your english vocabulary which is absent in me basically. and then it was dinner time, it was bbq and buffet and our group gathered to dicuss the play. i only ate a little bit, but our group was not prepared at all and the time given to prepare was just too short. or maybe my group did not make good use of the time given but oh well. and traditionally, we ended off the retreat with plays by different groups and i definitely did have a good laugh just looking at dayna rowing the boat, joseph making roti prata and speaking with the indian accent, and crish trying to speak in chinese. HAHAH. yes i laughed like crazy. and after all the skits while the scores were being tallied, it was time for sharings by different people. and surprisingly, the first person who volunteered to share was joseph and i was like "WAH LIN FOONG" hahahaha sorry joseph!!!!! and then i did not know what went through my head but i went up to share, too, ya know just trying ti be encouraging. hahahaha. and well overall, our group got second place, not bad at all, team 2!!!!! and afterwards it was cleaning up and the typical photo taking sessions and we all got our phones back. and everyone was just looking at their phones zzzzz sian hahahah. but yeah it was all good after all. :) 

i guess these past two days were pretty okay and now that i'm back home it's time to catch up with my studies and books which i have not touched at all since 1998. math and lit p1 midyears next week and i have to do my readings and everything else. ((well good thing the sea games are ending soon HAHA)). it's june it's time to buck up. no more slacking. retreat pictures are on facebook and did you see joseph's instagram HAHAHAH yay okay time to hit the books. 

till next time x