Laughter in the rain* - Neil Sedaka

I was so looking forward to the camp at Fraser's earlier this month. First, the last camp i went to - way back in 2005 - was simply brilliant (see here)! Secondly, the weather in May, especially the tail end - was so unbearably hot and i was just longing for the cool air in the hills. On top of that, it was total madness at work - everyone wanted everything done by end of May (which explains why i spent most of the day today surfing and i checked out at 2 pm) - much so that i fell sick and really needed the break.

So came the 1st of June - the beginning of the camp! And also the beginning of the wettest weekend for a long long time!!!!

Yup it rained. Every single day that we were up there - on the way up, while we there and on the way down.

But wait - some of you who know me might be saying "But you love the rain"!!!

And yes, i do (see here)!!! It was brilliant weekend!!! :-)

OK - it wasn't the perfect camp. For one, it was way way too short!!! And another, wif the responsibilities, i had to forgo some fun stuffs. Missed the reunion card session. (Guys, we simply must have one game b4 JT leaves us again). Oh well... atleast they did use my UoE playing cards!!!!

And the speaker...

Sori - but this is my own view. I know many people think highly of him. I dun. For a variety of reasons. There were so little spiritual content - in fact, most of the spiritual content was used as an illustration for his points - kinda lost the plot, dun u think? And he kept on talking about himself and how he brilliantly outwitted people wif his clever answers.

Then there was the time when he actually criticised one of the best hymns that i know - he said it was incomplete and he proceded to add 2 or 3 stanzas to it. As he did that, i was cringing and thankful he was not a hymn-writer. Oh - he complained that a lot of the "modern" worship songs are written in the first person when it shud be in the 3rd person ("We worship you..." instead of "I worship you..."). But wait a minute - the additional stanzas he added to the alllegedly incomplete hymn was composed by him in the first person too!!!!

No doubt he's a wonderful person and very knowledgeable. But my main complaint was that his sharing was so unsuitable for the crowd - maybe for a seminar on apologetics but not a a church camp.

Oh well...

But i had so much fun in the rain - altho it nearly spoilt it all!!! We were on a jungle trek - i was so looking forward to being back in a Malaysian jungle again - when the rain started and we had to cut the trek short. We turned back reluctantly and headed to the cars. Being so unsatisfied, some of us decided to walk all the way back to the camp site! It was crazy - especially when i was still recovering from me flu - but it was great!!!! And cold too! ;-) We turned down the many offers to give us a lift or lend us an umbrella.

It really poured - but it was brilliant!!!! And so fun.

It stopped when we reached back to campsite - and i went out immediately wif some other mates to play tennis. No surprise that the rain came back when we arrived at the courts, it started to pour again. And we played in the rain for hours!!!! Mistakes abounded and it was so difficult to judge the bounce of a totally soaked ball which lands on a water puddle!!! But laughter filled the air.

Members of the playing-in-the-rain-tennis club! All dried up.

Yes, it rained in Frasers - and we had so much fun in it! :-)

*Never heard of this song nor of the singer? Ask yer parents!!! It hit #1 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart way back in 1975!!!