5 Days of the Past 2 Weeks

It was an event that I decided to be a part of as a favour to a friend, also as an attempt to try something out of CF but I never expected to have walked away from it with so much. With.So.Much...
When E***** asked me if I could help out by taking pictures in his event for Badminton Club, I was like "You sure mou.??". Sure, I liked taking pictures and all, but this is one big major event for the club and I don't wanna be responsible if they don't have any good pictures for their event this year. Bad lighting in the hall, players quick movements, that stuffy hall that makes everyone a sayur masin at the end of a day, being surrounded by people whose preferred language of communication isn't English ~ so many reasons to consider and be hesitant about. But I took the chance knowing that chances like these don't come often and also the chance to play with a Canon 600D XD


It started last Saturday (7th April). It went on for 2 weekends which resulted in 5 days. That is 5 days of being in a badminton hall from morning to night. Wouldn't say that I made friends for life (but who knows bout that for sure right.?), but I did get to know a few people who I will say hello to and maybe put in a lil' effort in asking how they're doing when I bump into them in campus and really mean what I say. My own "self fact" is proven to be true once again when it comes to conversations in a car. The president of the club sent me home after the event for 2 nights and in those times, I can say that I had one of the most fruitful conversations I ever had with any presidents. It was just those general questions like "how do you juggle studies and club stuffs" and to that president, it might just be a normal conversation, but there was a certain unexplained impact bout it. 


At the end of the 5th day, which was the end of the event, all of us went out for supper. A supper that involved 9 tables (1 short of the 10 I predicted). You know how they say "there is a difference between feeling lonely and being alone".? It is true. I was "alone", I knew no one close enough to talk with all night apart from E, but I didn't feel lonely. I was really happy to be on the sidelines, observing how a club that I have no single relation to conduct themselves. Truth is, if this was a CF supper and that was how I was feeling, I would without hesitation come home and call my friend and complain all I want at the balcony. It was really nice to see how things are done and how each of them are with each other in this club. Total eye opener, didn't know I was so cooped up before this. That 9 table supper reminded me of my "glory days" in Alpha and how seeing this happen with another club makes me wanna experience this with CF all over again. This was how things were and how things can be.! And I am surprised how God showed this to me, thru a bunch of people who is in a club I'm not even affiliated with, people I've only been around with for 5 days and who I don't even talk to because of some language barriers, people who I might not even meet again. Long story short, they are the last people I would expect to see such bond, tightness and crazy from, and I am not even part of their bond, tightness and crazy. Made me really see the damage of the things I have on my plate.

The 9 table supper...

My heart will continue to be with CF as much as I complain and defy some of the things they do and it is this heart that God has placed in me that makes me wanna see great things happening to His children. See, the changes I am trying to bring and make, it comes from a good place. And I wanna try to do this before I graduate, and that is I wanna play the cajon for at least one session...because learning and playing the keyboard and guitar is just so mainstream >.< hehehe...