The 24 Hour MARATON day of activities!

The 24 Hour MARATON day of activities!

Started Friday (3-6pm)
with the TP CAMPUS RELAY RUN! represented my course with some of my course mates and lecturers in this 7 X 1.5 KM relay run! And when i thought 1.5km is a piece of cake after been running distances as far as 5-10.5km! But i was actually much tougher...as this time it was a SPRINT. So i was sooo coinfident, as soon as Dee dee pass the baton to me i sprint pretty fast! And i realise that its quite tough to sprint ALL THE WAY! My timing was 5 mins 28 Seconds. Pretty decently good actually. As we were competing against TRACK and FIELD runners we thought as long we not last can oready! But in the end we manage to finish at least somewhere in the middle out of 36 others teams. MY HAMSTRING was really ACHING right after that sprint!

(gifford preparing for the run...pic on right Parry one of our IAD lecturers)

(The DESIGN team!..Gifford,Harith,imma,dee dee, me and brandon...)

After this event...rush of for YM GAP!(8-10pm)
It was another good time of praying..and FINALLY "the changemaker buddies" of keith and vyan are back in GAP together ever since earlier in the year! With wenhao and samuel joining us too!

My insight experience as a Christian going to a club(something i never knew abt actually)
Before i start this section... i just wanna share that i know many Christians are against clubbing, even I was ONE WHO USED TO BE STRONGLY AGAINST IT! But after going specially with this wonderful bunch of Christian friends with the right intentions of having a good time of fellowship. I actually saw it in a different light now, and i can't judge clubbing until i really been in one! And i can say GOD GRACE was really with us that night... will tell you ALL that happen!

After GAP..Met up with the other ymers like vyan,keith,wen hao,elliot,kenneth,soe-na,denise and annabel! And most of us were actually first timers just wanting to experience wads all those hype abt clubbing, and we were REALLY FORTUNATE...when we met denise friend who was a VIP to MOS. Who not only help us cut the looooooong queue, but got realize we dun have to pay a cent! As he got ALL 9 of us FREE entry into the club. And not just that... as soon as i entered inside..this random guy suddenly just came to me and pass me 3 free drink coupons. I was SHOCKED at first as i didn't see what he suddenly drop into my hand until I realize wad it was. And when i thought our good fortune ends there... IT DIDNT...denise friend showed us around the club and when we finally agreed to chill out at the PURE room.. he TREATED us to one absolute vodka bottle with 2 jugs of sprite and cranberry drink! and rmb still have the 3 drink free coupons!... We realize that at least more than $400 was spend on us including entrances fees if we paid! And the entire night playing all kind of drinking games really just brighten up the fellowship we had. I gotta admit this is the first time i drank more than normal..bcoz i used to take very low levels in the VERY rare times i drank before this. AND i somehow always got saboed in the games.....I NEVER came close to feeling that the alcohol had hit me. I didnt know my limit is much higher than i expected. NOT BAD! ...but we all made sure of when to stop. WE ALL REALLY CONTROLLED ourselves very well....

Maybeee i did get a little HIGH on one occasion and was a little tipsy for a moment. But overall my head was perfectly fine. And It was really a BLAST OF A TIME!
We really had soo much fun! Some of us, Especially me was NOT INTENDING to dance at all! but somehow..after feeling a little high...we just felt... why not just try it out at the dance floor! And the Retro room one was FUN!... we all came out with WACKY dance moves! RETRO STYLE!!! i really cant describe the feeling..but it really FELT GOOD! EVEN wen hao enjoyed it! And before that he was also quite against it. Looks like we really have to be in it..before we can judge. And sometime which i felt GOD intervened was..later i realise that suddenly 2 out of the 3 free drink coupon i got STRANGELY DISAPPEAR from my pocket! It seem quite hard to drop out because i was wearing jeans, which has tight pockets. But i felt that...maybe God actually wanted us to stop at the last free coupon. So we accept the lost. And only got one more cup after that. At the end of this REAL clubbing experience... i will say that...as LONG you go with the right intentions,able to control your alcohol level ,AND i believed its better if you go with the right people,better if close Christian friend so one can watch out for one another. I wld say why not...
"we can be part of the world but NOT of the WORLD"

We were having soo much fun until we didnt realise that it was 4.30 am! TIME REALLY FLIES when your having fun! And i originally plan to leave like abt 1 plus and not to stay at keith hse... but somehow.. my plans was change after spending time with them.. and so rush back to take my stuff and stayed over with the rest at keith place.

at Keith's place (5.30-9am)
I didnt one to sleep as i KNEW that if i slept at this time like 5 plus..i will surely feel like crap the after that and cant wake up... so since i was WIDE awake still, we all tried to stay up. We showered, ordered macs breakfast at 5 plus, played some bridge, talk abit...and one after another.vyan knocked out! followed by wenhao!...breakfast came abt 6 plus...and sooon..elliot and keith knocked out.... and the ones left talking over breakfast were denise,annabel and me. And somehow... the conversations we had started to become deeper and had even talk abt spiritual issues. AND i can say..i would never had such a deep purposeful conversation with them if i never stayed over in the first place. Bel knocked out soon after... and it was around 7 plus oready...and somehow...denise and me were still wide awake! Our bodies were getting tired..but our MINDS were really WORKING! With such serious deep conversations on YM, our small groups and even our christian lifes processing through our minds.THAT DEFINITELY kept us awake. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME EVER i stayed up till this late feeling THIS AWAKE...normally i wld be quite tired by this time... but it was a really purposeful time....

(the guys!........................................the gals!)

(more of us!..........................the FREE DRINKS!)

(some of the games we played!!!)

(The YMERS!!!! outside MOS at 4.30am)

(vyan really cant takehis alcohol..he vomited in the Cab)

(everyone KNOCKED OUT!)

(breakfast! for those who stayed up still)

Benny Ho talk (9.30am-12.45pm)
And by 9am... rush of to Toa payoh methodist church for the benny ho talked on "walking in the FAVOUR OF GOD" it was a pretty good talk..and now as i blog abt this and reflect back... GOD really was in favour of us through out the night! We had blessings after blessings coming to us even without us asking for...

Rush of for soccer(3-6pm) right after that..between wesley ym and pentecost methodist...by now..i KNEW i cldnt take it physically oready.. i may have survived the seminar.. but RUNNING! that i know i cant last...and so only played awhile..and had to sub myself out after awhile..as i KNEW my legs

(the FIELD was horrible! ALOT OF HOLES! anyway we lost pretty badly..dun wanna say the score...)

came home and CRASH after dinner at 8pm! slept all the way till sunday morning!