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June 26, 2008

Durian in Malaysia is Much Cheaper than Singapore!!!

Filed under: Grr... — hahahehesobsobgrr @ 1:51 am

My friend sent me this article, and although I do not agree with everything he says and the way he expresses it, he has a point. So read, lets discuss and let me know what you think, remember bite the meat throw the bones into a pot to make soup…LOL anyway I also added my lot at the bottom. Enjoy!


From: umaro_sasquatch@hotmail.com
 

Dear All,

Let us hear some facts…….

Subject: Durian in Malaysia is Much Cheaper than Singapore

In economy, dollar to dollar must be compared as apple to apple. Not
comparing like durian in M’sia is much cheaper than durian in Japan!! Of
course-lah, Japan is not durian producer!!! Comparing Malaysian durian with
Thailand durian make more sense!!

WHAT IS NEVER MENTIONED IN Mainstream Media like NST/TheStar/Utusan/BH are
these facts….

Malaysian PerCapita Income USD 5000
                        VS
Singaporean PerCapita Income USD 25000

Further The Star made a comparison of prices in Thailand , Singapore and
Indonesia .

For Thailand it is quoted at RM3.90/liter, however are they aware that in
Thailand new cars are cheaper than Malaysia by RM10,000. They pay only one
life time for their driving license. No renewal fee after that. Also that
goes for road tax as well. And do TheStar also aware that you can drive all
the way from Hadtyai to Bangkok on a six lane highway without paying any
Tolls!!!

Whereas here in Malaysia you have to pay yearly renewal for road tax ,
driving license and TOLLS, TOLLS, TOLLS!!!

For Singapore how can you quote RM 5.20. Please quote in Singapore Dollars
because they are earning in Sing Dollars. You might as well say Europeans
are paying RM10/liter. RM5.20/liter =3D Sing $ 2.20/liter, still cheaper than
Malaysia in view of fact that Singapore is not a crude oil exporter. Are you
saying that you fill up petrol in Singapore by paying Ringgit.

In economy, dollar to dollar must be compared as apple to apple. Not
comparing like durian in M’sia is much cheaper than durian in Japan!! Of
course-lah, Japan is not durian producer!!! Comparing Malaysian durian with
Thailand durian make more sense!!

For Indonesia we might say is cheaper there at RM2.07/liter but compare that
to their level of income!

Now, let us compare the price with OIL PRODUCING countries:

UAE – RM1.19/litre
Eygpt – RM1.03/litre
Bahrain – RM0.87/litre
Qatar – RM0.68/litre
Kuwait – RM0.67/litre
Saudi Arabia – RM0.38/litre
Iran – RM0.35/litre
Nigeria – RM0.32/litre
Turkmenistan – RM0.25/litre
Venezuela – RM0.16/litre
MALAYSIA – RM2.70/litre

RM 2.70!!! Individual perspective:

As of last month a Toyota Vios would ’cause a damage’ of about RM 89,000.
In the international market, a Toyota Vios is about USD 19,000
USD 19,000 =3D RM 62,700 (using the indicative rates of USD 1 =3D RM 3.30)
That makes Malaysian Vios owners pay an extra RM 26,300.

This RM 26,300 should be cost of operations, profit and tax because the
transportation costs have been factored in to the USD 19,000.

RM 26,300/ RM625 petrol rebate per year translates to a Vios being used for
42.08 years.

I do understand that the RM 625 is a rebate given by the government, but it
also means that one has to use the Vios for 42.08 years just to make back
the amount paid in taxes for the usage of a foreign car. Would anyone use
any kind of car for that long.

Now with these numbers in front of us, does the subsidy sound like a subsidy
or does it sound like a penalty. This just seems to be a heavy increment in
our daily cost of living as we are not only charged with high car taxes but
also with a drastic increase in fuel price.

With all the numbers listed out, I urge all Malaysians to join me in
analyzing the situation further.

Car taxation is government profit, fuel sales is Petronas’ (GLC) profit
which also translates into government profit. The government may ridicule us
Malaysians by saying look at the world market and fuel price world wide.
Please, we are Malaysians, we fought of the British, had a international
port in the early centuries (Malacca), home to a racially mixed nation and
WE ARE NOT STUPID!!!

We know the international rates are above the USD 130/barrel. We understand
the fact that the fuel prices are increasing worldwide and we also know that
major scientist are still contradicting on why this phenomenon is happening.
Some blame Bush and his plunders around the world and some blame climate
change and there are others which say petroleum ‘wells’ are getting scarce.

Again we go back to numbers to be more straight fwd

1 barrel =3D 159 liters x RM2..70/liter =3D RM 429 or USD 134

On 1 hand, we are paying the full cost of 1 barrel of crude oil with RM2.70
per liter but on the other hand the crude oil only produces 46% of fuel.

Msia sells crude oil per barrel at USD130 buys back Fuel per barrel at
USD134. And not forgetting, every barrel of fuel is produced with 2 barrels
of crude oil.

1 barrel crude oil =3D produce 46% fuel (or half of crude oil), therefore
2 barrel crude oil =3D approximately 1 barrel fuel
In other words, each time we sell 2 barrels of crude oil, equivalently we
will buy back 1 barrel of fuel.

Financially,
Malaysia sell 2 barrel crude oil @ USD 130/barrel =3D USD 260 =3D RM 858
then, Malaysia will buy back fuel @ USD 134/barrel =3D RM 442/barrel
Thus, Malaysia earn net extra USD 126 =3D RM 416 for each 2 barrel of crude
sold/exported vs imported 1 barrel of fuel !!!
(USD 260-134 =3D USD 126 =3D RM416)

So where this extra USD 126/barrel income is channeled to by Malaysian
Govt!!!

Another analysis:

1 barrel crude oil =3D 159 liters.
46-47% of a barrel of crude oil =3D fuel that we use in our vehicles.
46% of 159 =3D 73.14 liters.
@ RM 2..70/liter x 73.14 liter =3D RM197.48 of fuel per barrel of crude oil.
This is only 46% of the barrel, mind you. Using RM 3.30 =3D USD 1, we get that
a barrel of crude oil produces USD 59.84 worth of petrol fuel (46% of
1barrel).
USD 59.84 of USD 130/barrel turns out to be 46% of a barrel as well..

Another 54% =3D bitumen, kerosene, and natural gases and so many more.
And this makes a balance of USD 70.16 that has not been accounted for.

So this is where I got curious. Where is the subsidy if we are paying 46% of
the price of a barrel of crude oil when the production of petrol/barrel of
crude oil is still only 46%!

In actual fact, we still pay for this as they are charged in the forms of
fuel surcharge by airlines and road taxes for the building of road (because
they use the tar/bitumen) and many more excuse charging us but let us just
leave all that out of our calculations.

As far as I know, only the politicians who live in Putrajaya and come for
their Parliament meetings in Kuala Lumpur (approximately 60+ km) are the
ones to gain as they claim their fuel and toll charges from the money of the
RAKYAT’s TAX.

It is so disappointing to see this happen time and time again to the
Malaysian public, where they are deceived by the propaganda held by the
politicians and the controls they have over the press.

Which stupid idiot economist equates rebates for rich or poor with the cc of
the vehicles! An average office clerk may own a second hand 1300cc proton
Iswara costing $7,000 (rebate =3D $625) while the Datuk’s children can own a
fleet of 10 new cars of BMW, Audi and Volvo all less than 2000cc costing $2
millions and get a total rebate of $625 x 10 =3D $6,250! Wow what kind of
economists we are keeping in Malaysia…wonder which phD certificate that
they bought from…

Misleading concept of Subsidy:

The word ’subsidy’ has been brandished by the BN government as if it has so
generously helped the rakyat and in doing so incurred losses. This simple
example will help to explain the fallacy:

Example:
Ahmad is a fisherman. He sells a fish to you at $10 which is below the
market value of $15. Let’s assume that he caught the fish from the abundance
of the sea at little or no cost. Ahmad claims that since the market value of
the fish is $15 and he sold you the fish for $10, he had subsidised you $5
and therefore made a loss of $5.

Question : Did Ahmad actually make a profit of $10 or loss of $5 which he
claimed is the subsidy!

Answer:
Ahmad makes a profit of $10 which is the difference of the selling price
($10) minus the cost price ($0 since the fish was caught from the abundance
of the sea). There is no subsidy as claimed by Ahmad.

The BN government claims that it is a subsidy because the oil is kept and
treated as somebody else’s property (you know who).. By right, the oil
belongs to all citizens of the country and the government is a trustee for
the citizens. So as in the above simple example, the BN government cannot
claim that it has subsidised the citizen!

____________________________________________________________
And here is my two cents ( Wah! I  feel like my opinion is small and cheap) worth of thoughts:-

Good points but then there are other variable factors too… I do not claim to be an expert and knowledgeable in this field but I can see that the government is making mistake after mistake.
 
Hitting at the government is not the issue, retaliating against the government is also not a solution. The question is what can be done? How much power do we have as the people? We blatantly put people that are corrupt and we know in the back of our minds that no one politician is truly pure. Yet we put idiots like Gwo Burn Loh in Parliament. A political pawn with hardly any stands other than cursing at the BN government: ”Bloody this, Bloody that.” It seems that when we critique the government of their wrong we are not giving a better solution.
 
Honestly I do not know what the solution is, but if someone has a better one than this, I would like to hear it. I am tired of the government too, and yet I know that God has put the government in its place, nothing is beyond His divine plan. So I will respect them still no matter what, but I will keep looking for a solution and will live life to my means. Sometimes we try to live a lifestyle that is way beyond our means; we satisfy our wants not our needs. If we do that, we may recover, from whatever is thrown at us.
 
Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that we should be passive, but wise, meek and gentle. I may not always be like that but I am trying.
 
I get what he is saying and I agree. But there has got to be a way, a better way for all of this


 

June 25, 2008

My New Hair Cut

Filed under: HAHA HEHE, Randomness — hahahehesobsobgrr @ 12:40 am

What you think of this hair cut?

So should I keep it? I actually shaved it off already, but I was wondering if I should keep this in the future! mwahahahaha…. BCM will KILL ME!!!

June 17, 2008

It’s HERE! and I Hope It’s To Stay!

Filed under: HAHA HEHE, Randomness — hahahehesobsobgrr @ 1:48 am

I found an awesome invention or translation to idea! We all have talked about good ideas for the word ‘anything’ and ‘whatever’ right? And we have great applications and uses for it, and it always seem to come out when we do not know how to make up our mind. These great ideas come when we do not know what to eat in a restaurant, or where to go to eat and fill our stomach or we’re just plain lazy to decide and want people to decide it for us. Well someone beat all of us to it. Meet:-

 

Anything – the contents of this can could be any of 6 fizzy drink flavours. And the flavours are of the popular type. i.e. cola, lemon-cola, sprite like flavour, zappel like flavour etc.

 Whatever – its contents are whatever that is non-carbonated. i.e., grape juice, chrysanthemum, green tea.

 When I first discovered this drink in Singapore I thought it was a brilliant idea. It was the first translation of the idea of ‘anything’ or ‘whatever’ I have seen. It’s like all just talk but this guy walked the talk and came out with this idea. Man at first I thought it was brilliant! I was so shocked and jumpy the poor aunty selling the drinks thought I was crazy and needed to call the security to throw me out. And that has started my fascination with ‘anything’ and ‘whatever’. Such a common word! But now it has such laden meaning. It will never be said again without me thinking of that drink… But the brilliance of its concept was under a lot of questioning in me. I thought the branding and marketing people of this company was shooting themselves in the leg against these long standing giants like – Coke, as recall of flavour will bring names like Coke, Pepsi, Zappel, etc., and not the name ‘anything’ or ‘whatever’. So the challenge is just to make sure that the brand is not one dimensional but has its own identity. But that remains a long way more to see it.

Its Here and Available in 7-11!!!!!

‘Anything’ and ‘Whatever’ now available at a 7-11 near you!

But the good news is that ‘Anything?’ and ‘Whatever?’ are already here in Malaysia! I was shocked and overjoyed to see it. It will be my official drink selection when I can’t decide what to drink.

So now it is available at your local 7-11 outlets and also from Jusco(or so I have heard)! So you can imagine how happy I was when I found that out and I just had to check it out for my own eyes! And there it sat on the shelves of the fridge welcoming me to pick it up and drink it once again.

So whenever you need a helping hand to decide what to drink just ask for – ‘Anything?’ or ‘Whatever’ let it surprise you! Mwahahah like it does to me everytime!!! Can’t wait to have another anything and for them to expand their offering and shelve space that is available in Malaysia.

 

I love the surprises that come with ‘Anything?’ or ‘Whatever?’ Woo-hoo!!!!

Actually you can get more info at www.anything.com.sg

 

June 16, 2008

Gosh!!!

Filed under: Randomness — hahahehesobsobgrr @ 4:44 pm

Gosh this blogging thing is getting to me!

I feel so much like a fish out of water!!! Blogging is really an art, and it is a serious commitment! I used to be one that believed that bloggers were just people who had nothing better to do and just wanted attention. I must say I am proven completely wrong… on some occasions, but then again the perception is true to some people. Just some not all… there ! qualified my statement so I hope I don’t get into trouble with people. come to think of it, blogging has evolved too and it has changed like many things that have become part of popular culture!

Some times i feel like this!!!!!

But anyway i have comed to love blogging, but feel the pressure of entertaining my readers… whatever little readers that I have. and I take it as a serious responsibility. So help me with topics here and some of the things I can write. I am digging for ideas… i’ve got some… its coming soon!!! look out for them but i appreciate some ideas of what to write….

Since I started something, i better do it right! and that is what i intend to do… must WRITE!!!! so starting this blog to fulfill a promise was not that bad, i hope i get the hang of it and get better with time like stinky chese or really good wine. Which ever makes your day!

June 14, 2008

Nice…..

Filed under: HAHA HEHE — hahahehesobsobgrr @ 3:48 pm

Ah as it stood there motionless and oh so sleek. It’s curves oh so sexy and sleek. Oh how I have longed to drive you:-

sadly it does not belong to me… it belongs to my cousin!:P so i begged and begged for him to allow me to drive it to just feel the exhilaration of the surge of power it provides. To feel the comfort and power, and ah the exhiliration of driving a Mini.

So when he gave me the keys, ah I felt so so exhilirated!!! gr… just thinking back it is hard to write. As I sat in the seat oh the comfort I felt as the leather just wrap around my body the comfort and stability is astounding.

Then it was time to put it to its test. As 175 horses shoot us from 0 – 120 in a matter of 8 to 9 seconds we run out of runway before we begin! sigh. but the power translation is so smooth and seamless it was amazing. although the limit was not pushed, but I could definately feel the depth of its power still laying dormant in its hood!

One day, One day I hope to feel it all layed bare! One day my dear Mini, one day!

LOL

June 6, 2008

Cockroach!!!

Filed under: HAHA HEHE — hahahehesobsobgrr @ 10:35 am

Its Tuesday morning, I had breakfast as usual!!! Wah these days I really wake up for breakfast man!!! Amazing man, I usually cannot wake up for breakfast at 6.45 am man… LOL! So anyways after Charity came I decided to clean the chapel (which is my Christian duty) since it was said to be dirty and boy was it!!! so ok clean up time it will be then! And as I was cleaning I noticed a good friend of many of us! The dreaded cockroach!!!

 

But it was dead on the ground, limp and lifeless. So I had nothing to fear… still its freaky right? So I was sweeping the floor first since that is the best I can do for that day. I was feeling so lazy I felt last the whole week! So when I finally reached the dead cockroach I swept it up into the dustpan. But to my complete shock and horror it came alive! It flipped to its legs and ran off in such a haste it was surprising for a dead roach…. hahahaha good thing I didn’t startle too much or it’ll freak Charity out too… hahahah so when you guys see a dead cockroach… are you sure its dead?

 

Hhhhhmmmmm….. something to think about everytime!!! kakakakak

June 3, 2008

Hungry???

Filed under: HAHA HEHE, Randomness — hahahehesobsobgrr @ 12:57 pm

Ah another youth camp has came and went, not like we have had that many… only two so far, but it was as eventful as the previous year. And again I didn’t attend the other youth camp because I could not take leave to attend it. However, stories has been told and many accounts given by the youth made the camp memorable for me, like I was there with them.

But this year was not without episodes and events. And at each episode things just had to happen at that particular time. And in saying so, it was definitely more tragic, than good. Lets just run through the events:-

Day 1 – Thursday

Just before leaving the camp I checked with my ‘Master Chef’ if everything is in order, and I discovered to my horror that the water had not been arranged! GRR!!! So I had to run around getting things ready. And I also found out as the bus arrives that the bus that was originally suppose to be air-conditioned was not as expected! Oh NO! But what can we do when the air-conditioning was broken. It was not that the bus driver broke his promise, but it was broken… sigh so never mind we were still on our way, so YAY! I was so happy to get to see mountains, lush greens and to revisit a very interesting and quaint little town.

So we arrive at this little obscure town called Broga. The would be home of Malaysia’s first nuclear incinerator… but that is not happening yet… that’s till the government sorts through the protests and legislations and also get enough money to do that. So Foo Mei Shawn if you are reading this, tell our mom in 2005 the work stopped on the nuclear powered incinerator! HAHAHAHA none of us got massive doses of radiation to turn us into super cool mutants! Sometimes I wish that could happen. And I wish nothing would every happen to that quaint little town, its so simple and serene. Please leave Broga to be Broga, I can’t imagine it as anything else.

There greeting us was the beautiful campsite with wide open spaces and the simplicity of life that only the country side can offer. Ah so still and serene I take a deep breath of fresh air as I walk into the camp site, and just as I take in the beauty and hype myself for all the fun and all the goodness this place offers, the warden tells me that there is no water and electricity! What a way to shatter everything! Well its not that bad I told myself, it should be up in a couple of hours, besides its lunch time we can go out to town enjoy the scenes and have a hearty meal and when we come back we’ll have power, no worries… and just as we make it out to the main gate, it starts to rain! That was the good part, I decided to just go on since its not like every day that we get to play in the rain and enjoy nature as it is. And the rain was Oh So Cooling like mountain drops of dew dripping on your head. So we reach the nearest restaurant and eat heartily have a mixed rice ensemble of deep fried pork and potatoes that would usually cost about 4 – 5 ringgit in KL, I ordered two drinks and later added a plate of Fried Koey Teow that was an extra order. And guess what it came to – only RM6.50!!! shocking!!! So happy with that heart meal we went to town to see the shops and see if the youth would like to get snacks. I stumbled on the purest source of sugar cane…all for the affordable price of RM1.50 for a big cup of pure, freshly cut cane! Ah the joys of a small town. Even the bungalow houses which are bigger than Kota Kemuning is only like RM179,000 plus…

Back to the campsite after all that niceness, and the power was still not back and that is when I found out that it would come back only after 6…. oh did I mention the restaurant had electric!? So anyway I guessed we would still be able to make it for the service. Choosing not to sweat it, we decided that is it rained we will play in the rain to cool off and just take things with a pinch of salt in the situation we found ourselves in. So we played and played in the rain till it stopped and we were tired. And guess what it had only been a mere hour and a half since we began… man did we enter the twilight zone? Time seemed to move ever so slowly! So by 4.30pm we were lying on the patio just waiting for time to fly, or chatting up a storm or just catching up on some homework so we would not feel so guilty with all the fun we are having! And guess what, by 5pm the current came back and we were over joyed by that, sometimes the simplest things can just make you happy isn’t? So we got ready and had a really good session in the night getting to know one another. And another thing happened we did not have blankets and it was air-cond rooms…and it was really cold too from the rain, so we called home for our parent to bring us blankets and we had to rough it out for one night… sob sob… see so many incidents on the first day already.

Day 2 – Friday

So day two started with the greeting of very fresh mountain air rushing down from the surrounding mountain to greet us. It was colder that the air-conds man. Woo hoo and so was the water when you decide to have a morning shower… hahahaha! Wakes you right up!

So the morning session begins and here comes the next episode! An invasion happened, the 1st company of the Boys Brigade of Kajang infested the serenity of the campsite like a swarm of locusts. But you see a swarm of locusts feasts and goes as quickly as they come. The 1st company of the Boy’s Brigade was here to stay! At least 50 of them came marching in the campsite blocking our girls dorm threatening to camp right beside our beautiful patio and quickly hogged the lovely kitchen we would love to prepare breakfast and supper in! But never mind we can still go on… or so we thought… they were so inconsiderate and noisy and just annoying in everything they did, they took the serenity of what is Broga and turned it into their noisy camp outs!!! GRRR!!!

I was so annoyed at them and they were just so selfish!not only did they disrupt out morning session they later disrupted the night session as well with senseless yelling and shouting like hooligans they did not respect us worshiping God or even seeking Him all they cared was for themselves and their enjoyment. I decided to confront their supposedly mature and capable camp commandant and the only thing they could say is “I hope you can cooperate with us on this…” oh yeah I can cooperate, I did nothing but cooperate with you guys when you came. You come make noisy, I kept quiet only hinting when it got too loud, you came and hogged the kitchen taking away every bit of space, and say that you wanna cooperate and share the space. What a stinking lie its so smelly that people in Iceland can smell it from here. You make noise disrupt our session, have no respect for people who are having a time of worship and you call yourself a Christian? Cooperate? Haven’t I done just that? What have to show that you want to cooperate!? You hogging hooligan, who just take and take and take and now you are asking for more? GRRRRRRR!!!!!! I wanted to just give it to him, but I kindly replied “You don’t know what you are saying and asking for. You don’t mean a word you just said to me.” And I walked of too angry to bother to talk to him because he just was interested in himself and have no civic sense although the Boys Brigade was supposed to teach just that. GRRRRR….. But on a happy note the day ended with blankets arriving. Thank God! And we have a great time the whole afternoon playing a made up version of ultimate. I haven’t played Frisbee for so long… ah I miss it and it was really fun just playing with the youths. I was also getting worried by now that the youth could not concentrate! How are we gonna reach them, how can God touch them or speak to them when there is so much noise? Oh God I cried, Help!

Oh and this deserves and mention our ‘Master Chef’ had a slight mishap in the kitchen and burned his hand in boiling water. But he got a lot of TLC from our camp nurse… he even got a smiling face on his hand for being a good boy and not crying . You should ask Joseph for his own experience. Another funny episode there.

Day 3 – Saturday

Our third day came and we were so thankful for the blankets, it kept us warm and toasty all through the night. Getting use to the noise that is the invaders we went on as normal cooking our own breakfast and shifting out eating venue just to accommodate those hooligans. And just before the session started! The electricity got cut AGAIN!!! WHY!!?? It was Hot! And with no electric we could not have the keyboard used for worship. But the service still went on, and I was worried with the heat and noise and everything that was going on that the youth will not be able to focus on God. But I was wrong, God still met them. And it was an amazing time! And just when most of the ministering began the current came back! Hallelujah! Maybe God just wanted to help us focus. That night was an awesome night of ministering too although we were so tired. And why were we tired? Here is why.

In the planning of the camp we made the camp 4 days and 3 nights so that we could have one day of pure outdoor activities, not like we haven’t been having that the past 2 days already! But we engaged a qualified professional to coach us through a flying fox, an obstacle course, and to help us pond raft. Yes, we did all that in one day! And boy was it seriously tiring. The obstacle course was so challenging to some that it took them one hour to finish it. the flying fox was the highlight, as we catapulted ourselves down two secure cable with pulleys. But the biggest challenge was the pond rafting. Rafting is easy, and on a pond 5 feet deep nothing scary there lah… except mud, dark mucky, gooiest mud! Why I know this? I will tell you soon. See we had to build our own rafts from the raw materials provided, and well lets just say our floated and held together but could not balance our weight! LOL!!! So we ended up swimming with our rafts to the other side and back and we got to feel the mud that’s down in the depths of that shallow pond and boy was it…. interesting.

Day 4 – Final Day – Sunday

So the last day dawned on brogan for us… so sad… I want to just stay in this morning serenity forever. And the episodes were not over yet. Like déjà vu, we had no water on the site on the last day! What a repeat of last year. Its like every year it has to happen… let see if that is true for next year! But we still had breakfast and I dunno what it was about plain French toast with this young people but they ate three whooping loaves of bread, the jumbo sized loafs… and just as everyone finished and was full the last of our gas canisters burnt out and poof the fire was GONE! A miracle of timing nothing we could have every planned but it happened! And in the last session as we were about to begin, there was a time of testimonies and I would say I was really blessed by them. It seemed that they really met God in this camp I honestly feel like there was too much distractions but God still met them. But God met them! Praise God! And the final challenge was just apt, but there had to just be one more distraction… Mr. Ice cream man came riding along dinging on his bell. Hahaha and I thought it was over.

But all in all I guess it was hard to see how God can work, but he did. In many ways. Firstly in fellowship, the youth really came together in this camp. No cliques, no major division, fights or conflicts. The shy ones started talking, people I never expect to hold lengthy conversation held them with me and many others! They had fun as a youth group and I really enjoy seeing them just being their age and having fun in the sun.

Secondly God met them where they were. Maybe all that distractions was a test or a way to force us to focus. It was a way to encourage us to dig deeper into what God wanted to say. To dig deeper to concentrate to really focus ourselves on him. We had nothing fancy or anything that can help stir the emotions to feel good times in worship. But, God worked in all this mess.

Thirdly in all my inadequacies as a leader and as a person God still made sure everything worked for the best and we had more than enough of everything and everything was perfect till the end. I am so glad for the many things that has happened leading to the camp and in the camp. And I am most thankfull that God met us there despite everything. It seems James 1: 2-3 fits in where the testing and trials are to bring out our true character and really develop us as people and this did just that for me and I believe for many others there too.

So – AH! Another camp is gone! Kudos to the committee, and the people there. Thanks Ps. Nirhal! And man I can;t wait for Next year!!! Maybe our theme should be ‘Thirsty’….. LOL

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