& they will always be there for you.

The 3-days motivation camp has ended. But I wished the camp was longer, it taught me things that I'll never get to learn during lessons. If you don't cherish, you'll cry if you lose it.

Thursday

Can't remember what we did. But the fun part was that we did speed reading! Yeah, & now probably we could read much faster with comprehension. The most unforgettable session was that the trainer, Leroy, told us something regarding our parents. He told us how much mothers went through in order to give birth to us. Just as he was talking halfway, I was tearing already, and I realised the whole row of us started shedding tears. Then he asked us to close our eyes, use our hands to cover our eyes, & he switched off ALL the lights in the LT. With the sad background music, he told us this, "Imagine yourself in a very dark room .. & you see a door in front .. you went to open it & the first you saw was your mother .. blah blah. And you realised that her hair was white .. ... ." It was a really long one, & he asked us to imagine our fathers too. This part, I was sobbing really loud. It wasn't a matter of face anymore, it was the guilt in me. And moments later, you could hear students crying & weeping, really a lot of them. Sounds ridiculous, but if you were in that room, you would have cried. Leroy told us, the greatest hurt to parents is when their child is rude to them. I've talked back to them so many times, I've been rude to them before. But I didn't know this could hurt them. We were asked to write a letter to our parents, I didn't write those kind of 6pages long, but it's enough to let them know what I wanted to say. Camp ended at 9plus & tired was all I could say.


Friday
Reached school at 8.10am, felt sleepy lah. Camp started & it was more of questions and answering sessions. Many asked about the courses & stuffs. After lunch, Amin took over and he's really got a great sense of humour. He shared with us alot of things, life principles & all that. Did some speed reading & mind mapping. If there's too much information in a textbook, you can do it as clustered map. We were divided into groups, & I did a mind map on electricity. After dinner, was the closing session. Parents came & all of the graduating students were gathered in the hall. I guess the highlight of the whole camp was the very last part. Microphones were given for students to read out the letter that they've wrote to their parents, amazingly quite alot went up. Dang, most cried while reading & it made us cried too. You can see a certain change in them, & some were the unexpected ones. After that, those students went over to hug their parents. Ah, touching scene. Had sort of a finale, lights were off in the hall & we sang the last song for this entire camp. (: Ended at 9.45pm. Got a hug from yj, & we exchanged "jiayou" to one another. :D She hugged the VP and Principal! Wah, I don't dare lah. Okay, then all of us decided to go home.

Amin, Gary & Leroy ; thankyou so much.

Maybe most of us didn't really learn a lot of things. But somehow you'll see some changes in yourself. We don't know how far we can go, but having goals is one thing. I'm glad, it's the second turning point in my life. Having regrets is the most stupid thing to do, 'cause you can't turn back anymore. I finally realised that the three words that all parents wanted so much to hear from their children, "Mum & Dad, I love you."

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

This life, I want it to be meaningful.