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Sunday, June 18, 2006
/ 6/18/2006 10:18:00 pm  YAY i'm back from famine camp!haha didn't regret attending the camp, cos firstly, we had learnt a lot a lot.. Secondly, made new friends! =D .. Thirdly, ZHIYANG! LOL. Clarify a bit, didn't go for the camp specially to see him hor.. it's coincidence ah, COINCIDENCE. had to reach sajc at 10am to register lah.. sadded lah cos most of the tpjcians were separated into different 'families'.. (aiyo then got a tpjcian so lucky lah same grp as zhiyang~) .. but yah anw, when the camp offcially starts at 2pm, we had this roleplay thingy lah.. Like Singapore kena disaster then we are supposed to reunite with our family by the end of day 1.. oh yah their 1 day is like 2.5 hours only lah.. okay so my leg supposed to be injured so i haf to report to the hospital and wait for my parents and my other siblings to find me.. so i waited and waited, folded cranes while waiting (cos for every crane folded, songhe will donate a bowl of rice for the people in poverty-stricken countries..) waited and waited.. wait from waiting area crowded till waiting area almost empty.. thot they're gg to abandon me and brother.. :( .. then finally they came.. brother kena HIV already hahahahaha omg. lotsa activities lah.. it's a 30 Hour Famine Under No Roof Camp, they really meant NO ROOF, (and no food also of cos..).. so we have to sleep outdoors, and we have to build our own shelters. BUT we have to earn money (aka ice cream sticks) to buy materials for our shelters.. got different jobs lah but we chose Prostitution (-_-") cos it allows us to earn $12 in 5 mins.. whereas other jobs like beans sorting takes up to 15minutes and if our family couldn't finish in time, we wun get any money.. aiya den quite jialat lah cos we kena raided by the police twice at the prostitution centre and at the black market hahahaha.. then papa had to forfeit some of our money to the police hahaha omg. aiya then still got do a lot of other things lah.. lazy to elaborate le.. at the end of day 1, 10 best groups were given chocolate milk (omg luxury!) .. they were groups that didn't send their children to the prostitution centre to earn money.. so yup learning pt: bcos we think that this was just a game so no harm going for prostitution for more money in a shorter time.. but in real world situations, there are actually many many poverty-striken families, and the parents actually had to force their children into prostitution just to earn money to feed the family.. it's so sad lah.. =/ this camp actually allows me to deeper understand poverty issues.. and to actually made me realise how VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY fortunate we are, really. in these countries, people live on less than US$1.50 a day, and because of an average of 360 natural disasters, their agricultural activities would usually fail.. they had no food to eat and as a result, they die of hunger at a rate of 24,000 a year, which means, every 5 seconds, 1 person will die.. their living conditions is super very jialat that children can actually swim in rivers where people pass their motions.. yah and a lot a lot a lot la.. oh yah and made new friends! my family basically consisted of people from different schools la.. papa wilfred, mama michelle, and my siblings.. elvan, shona, jeremy, paul, shimin (so qiao arh same name =D), shimona, shunli, and our facilitator anshul.. supposed to have another 2 more siblings but they most probably had died during the disaster lah so sad.. (aiya they ponned the camp lah..) .. haha jerald's gay friend jeremy was in my grp lah omg haha crappy. today we went to collect newspapers at tampines estate.. yeapz tired lah. T.T .. dunno why didn't really felt hungry for the last 29hours lah, only felt super hungry at the last hour haha omg omg.. then FINALLY at the 30th hour, dinner! BK burgers ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh but dunno why see food dun feel like eating hahaha.. yeapz actually still got a lot a lot of things to blog about lah.. but very tired ah.. din regret going for the camp lah, in fact we want to join next year and next next year also.. really learnt a lot ah, aiya must really go experience it then understand one lah, i say so much also no use.. =x so the camp ended.... went to look for zhiyang and took a pic with him.......... =x |
