CampTeen Oei!

Hey CampTeeners!

It’s been a while since we’ve updated this blog but guess what? There’s something really BIG and HAPPENING coming up this April! You wanna know what it is?

Well, it’s Induction 2007!

Induction for the CTA members begun in 2006 where the CTE conducted a day of fun, laughter, peace and joy for all the selected CampTeeners of the batch 2005 to be part of our EXCO. This year, however, we’re not going to recruit anyone into the EXCO. But, we are going to officially recruit participants of CampTeen 2006 into the CampTeen Alumni.

Induction 2007 is really special because we are carrying it out in four phases.

Phase 1: Induction Training Camp (ITC) – Camp Resilience

Camp Resilience is held on 6-7 April, 2007 and is open to all chosen CampTeeners (hand picked by the EXCO members of your respective groups) with leadership qualities and a vast potential to become an outstanding individual. You will soon receive a letter from the EXCO indicating the details of camp. Of course, we will gladly welcome any campers from CampTeen 2006 who are interested to join us in Camp Resilience.

Phase 2: Planning & Execution of Project Sm:)e

Project Sm:)e is a community project that will be held during the June holidays, organised by the CTA/E involving a children’s home in Singapore. It aims to forge better racial relationships between these children and the participants of this project. Project Sm:)e will be conducted in three weeks, of which the participants of Camp Resilience will play a significant role in (by planning for the various activities to be carried out for all sessions). This will give an insight as to what planning an event is like as well as to provide hands-on exposure to the CTA members-to-be. The EXCO will liaise with the home and iron out the administrative issues while the CTA inductees will be slotted to plan for the day on-goings (i.e. morning activities, etc). Thus, a lot of commitment is needed for this project.

Phase 3: Induction 2007 Closing Ceremony

Upon the end of Project Sm:)e, all CTA Inductees who have successfully gone through Camp Resilience as well as the planning and execution stages Project Sm:)e will take pride in their own prize giving ceremony for all the time and hard work invested. Certificates will be handed out to each newly inducted CTA member.

Phases 4: CTA’s First Community Project

After all the hard work and enough of fun, it’s time to get serious and begin with your very first community project. Project Sm:)e was just a training session and on your own, the CTA members will have to incorporate a preferred project to schools or the public, with help from the EXCO, of course.

So now that I’ve summed up what’s going to be in store for you, are feeling excited already?

I bet you are!

So don’t hesitate and join us on this wonderful journey, a new beginning and a whole new experience for all of us.

With lotsa love from the EXCO, cheerios!

Yo! It’s Ada in the house and I’m here to write another great entry tonight! We’ve got a new layout and more updates for all of you so keep on visiting us and leave as many (constructive) comments as you wish, okay! (:

Before I move on, our CampTeen EXCO has a brand new email address: exco.campteen@gmail.com

This will serve as a platform for feedback from you to the EXCO. You can let us know how else we can better the Alumni or any aspect of CampTeen you wish for improvements. However, there is only ONE condition. DO NOT FLOOD US WITH CHAIN MAILS OF ANY SORT. If we do receive any, your email address shall be the first to be blocked and make sure you look out for harsh treatment from all of us at the EXCO. I hope I have made myself clear but in any case, we still hope to have sincere comments from all you people out there! Alternatively, you may also make a comment on our blog if emails are a hassle for you (:

Alright, on Thursday (7/12/2006), CampTeen 2006 had an informal gathering at Sentosa’s Palawan Beach! For all those who didn’t join us in all the fun, why didn’t you?! I’m sure everyone else who turned up would give their two thumbs up for such an awesome day out, yeah!

Let’s see who were there: Most of the EXCO members, people from Insane, Attitude, Juicy Jaguars, Daredevils, Fuhyo, Bandits… Okay. So at least one person from each group was present. Some even brought their friends along!

Go on, ask us what we did for an entire day out at the southern side of Singapore.

Well, we had loads of fun splashing water in the shallow waters of the sea (some even swam across to the other side of the bank!). The girls played beach soccer against the guys and they lost three games even though there were 13 aggressive girls playing against 6 macho guys! Then, everyone merged to form separate teams and soaked in the sun during a game of handball. Oh, did I mention we even celebrated the birthday of one member from Insane? Gee. The black-forest cake was Y-U-M-M-Y! So while some people left midway for their own plans for the rest of they day, the others got wet in the salty waters again! There were three siblings nearby who joined us in a game of Monkey and boy, were they wild! The youngest of the three was a very mischievous boy; he kept splashing water at all of us and even labelled Nesaar from Insane as the Indian Man! Wait, before I continue, I must mention that the toilets at Sentosa are first class. The showers are superbly clean unlike the many other toilets scattered around Singapore! Haha.

After a whole afternoon at Sentosa, we packed our barang-barangs and headed towards Habourfront for dinner before settling down at a quiet spot in Vivo City for some wonderful chit-chats. I kind of thought we should call ourselves the sugarcane gang because the sugarcane drinks at the hawker centre are lovely and almost all of us made it a part of our sumptuous meal.

But well, well. Who’d knew that the ever multi-racial CampTeen gang would crack numerous racist jokes at Vivo City? My dear friends, DO NOT try this anywhere, okay. My, oh my. I’m not a big fan of racist jokes so to me, that segment was a big no-no. Otherwise, it was fun playing whacky games, sharing our music preferences and telling ghost stories to freak one another out.

All in all, I can’t tell you how much fun and laughter all of us shared then but if you really want to know, do join us the next time, okay!

With lotsa love from the EXCO, cheerios!