kids these days

wad is happening to kids these days? wad have they become man......

i'm now in camp, using the comm in the camp mess......anyway time to blog about the past week of off + leave which i spent helping out at children's camp full time as a sheperd.......

going onto the state of children these days......i guess the most memorable thing i can talk about is the 5 or so little girls (about p1 - p2) dat for some reason or another come and grab me and pull my hands, pull my shirt and all trying to drag me around to play catching with them.....dat meaning i run or wad then they chase me, cos they think they can run very fast lol, of course they are left expending energies from their little bodies like way behind heh, even the boys run faster than them.......yes i noe, they are girls summore la, i think i must be the most popular guy with the little girls haha, mayb its cos i handsome la (urp haha joking)......mmmm i guess the good thing dat came out of dat is dat jamie ding and jasmine chua, their sheperds dun have to take care of them cos they are so busy running around the church or wad chasing me.........tires them out too so they cant really cause trouble and talk nonsense lol..........well talking about crazy children, those girls are not only hyper (not as hyper as me but yeah) but besides grabbing my hands, shirt, they would oso hit me with their hands and kick and all.......lol i mean they are girls lol......one kind of fierce lol......and one kind of tomboyish behavior.........anyway but mayb can forgive them la they are still so young......wa these girls are very very noisy as well lol.........they will come and shout at the top of their little voices, asking me to play catching with them as well as constantly ask me who is my girlfriend, like they will make guesses and ask me everytime i talk to some random girl helper in camp.........abit cock la.......ok i guess i really cannot complain cos the p1, p2 girls some of them are cute and quite harmless, except myself being temporarily hurt at dat particular moment from their 'beatings'........plus i noe 2 of the little girls from aunty mabel's class dat i help out on sundays........the 2 of them are very cute, xiao zhing and melanie......both of them very guai as well, the low profile very nice little children kind heh.....xiao zhing is very cute and adorable......ok i stop myself from saying too much, im not a paedophile like some surname lou i noe hahaha........


well talk about complaining i guess lizzy really got it quite jialat or challenging lol........her kids were the p5-p6 girls and they bring the words "hard to handle" to a whole new level altogether.......i was told her kids had a crush on charles and all and then they totally make up scandals out of nothing, from like when any girl talking to charles like flicks her hair behind her ear or does some other normal actions.......totally ridiculous man........add dat with the normal girl squabbling and a little bit of violence (if there was, im jus guessing) and u probably have a bigger problem on your hands than wad you alone can handle i guess, but thankfully God has brought lizzy, abigail, and hui lin (the 2 sheperds and hui lin is the helper attached to help out dat group cause of lizzy) and their group thru the children's camp safely i guess........its nice to see them collaborating together with the p5-p6 boys [who were such gents according to liz and also whom the girls apparently have some grudges against from the year before (its dat bad)] to put up quite a good skit i must say.........not bad considering hearing firsthand from lizzy all about the tension at the girls side.......ok i guess the p5-p6 girls, some of them have some family problems and stuff like dat dats y they are like dat and mayb a thousand other reasons dat led to their attitude problems........i dun really noe them and i dun really noe for sure so this is all im going to say, wad i heard from lizzy.....


enough said about the girls, the boys arent much betta either la, except apparently for the p5-p6 boys who won the best group award or sumtin like dat.......i keep hearing about how gentlemanly and accommodating the boys were with the p5-p6 girls despite them bitching and scolding them etc.......well lets talk about my group first......p1-p2 boys....i was a co-sheperd together with david chua (the ultra tall man) as well aunty bee wan (thank God we had her at times oso if not we would be too stretched to take care of all the problematic children causing trouble, injuring ppl, talking nonsense, or jus running around being a nuisance {gabriel goh heh} etc)......btw i had one k2 kid whose name is reuben lim, he is really very cute heh, liz took a photo of him for me using her phone.....will upload it next time mayb? see how la, mayb not here but on facebook or wad heh......the way he says "kor kor daniel" really makes me feel like his older brother there to protect him, really thank God he did not get kicked on punched or anything man by any of the other kids dat i took lol if not it would be a very traumatic experience for him (because he is really small sized la) and for us sheperds as well lol.......anyway yes i did mention my boys kicking each other or sumtin like dat.......well my kids being little children like to play around Alot........the first day or so we jus couldnt get them to REST in the bunk lol, they would be playing and running around like nobody's business, then end up stepping on the other children lying down, either dat or they end up getting more violent than when the imaginary play fighting first started, like one kid i had, daniel murti wa he is damn violent wann lol.......he would kick the other kids if they like offended him even over the smallest of things like some kid accidently step on his blanket or sumtin........like one boy, reuben quek, aunty bee wan's son was kicked in the stomach by daniel murti lol......so jialat reuben came to me crying and telling me about the story at the same time, so sad......well thank God we expended the energies of the children quite abit by the 2nd day so when it was time for the children to have siesta or wad, most of them were resting peacefully in the bunk.......with the exception of a few who still wanted to play and all, but of course we made sure they didnt injure their frens anymore......the rest of the nites the children slept so well lol, cause we really expended all the energies in their little bodies through all the games, workshops and wad not conducted for them (GOOD JOB CAMP COMM AS WELL AS ALL THE HELPERS DAT MADE THIS CAMP HAPPEN BY THE WAY, im sure im not the onli one who appreciate their help at this camp)........the boys jus dun seem to listen to our instructions or rather follow them.......they hear us but they still run up and down the stairs at the fastest speeds they can manage heh..........i remember a few times i let them run all the way down by themselves for a few workshops when they were supposed to stay on the 3rd floor to look for sumtin or someone heh.......quite funny, let them be la let them expend their energies running up and down for nothing heh......there was this once linus asked them to find 'bob the builder' aka ibob heh.......i think they didnt listen to the briefing on who was 'bob the builder' so when linus asked them to find 'bob the builder', i jus shouted "GO FIND BOB THE BUILDER !!", and i made huge gestures with my hands heh, its funny even typing it.......then we were in sanctuary 2 and ibob was there as well but immediately after i said it, the kids rushed out the doors and went all the way down heheh.......sooooo funnny.......anyway i had to go down to find them and get them back to sanctuary again haha......quite amusing heh........this happened a few times ready......some kids jus dun follow instructions to follow their sheperds so i jus let them run around until they are tired then i go look for them and bring them back, kinda like sheep isnt it? (haha i jus thought of dat as i was typing)....other than the violence and all dat hyper activeness, i guess my kids were generally ok la, at least the vast majority of them dun talk nonsense......only one or 2 spouting nonsense and scolding their frens, mainly daniel murti, yu tong and mayb a few others more..........as usual i had to take care of the all too famous gabriel goh la, he was running around and making unusual comments loudly as usual all the time........luckily i could meet his energy level to run around catching him and grabbing him to sit down all dat.......oh ya another significant thing dat i remember from this camp was punishing gabriel goh and daniel murti because they simply did not listen to instructions to sit down and they kept running around when during their lessons..........well i took gabriel to the room with doors on both side then one at both sides of sanctuary 2 and i made him to jumping jacks, push ups, sit ups, running on the spot, and i oso asked him to run up and down a flight of stairs and stuff like dat lol jus to expend his energy lol......i asked daniel murti to run up and down a longer flight of stairs cause i was quite pissed with him for not listening to instructions not to run around......after dat he sit down really quietly and listened to wad we had to say to the children........i tell u if the camp was any longer, i think more of the children dat didnt listen to our instructions to stop running around would have had a taste of the physical training lol.......i must say i kinda had a little bit of satisfaction from punishing them, sounds saddist yeah........i think its the influence of the army, and being a sgt, kinda getting used to getting ppl to do things......but its not mainly dat, its the expending of the energy of dat hyper active kid so dat dat kid wont be able to run around so much and cause trouble, like playing with the mic, climbing on the high stacks of chairs, doing nonsense.......i think its mainly dat la........


well more about the boys......this time the p3-p4 batch......i think lin ping and marvin had quite a hard time controlling them.......its like they are in the middle or being childish and being matured......so they like have both sides......imagine a p3-p4 not so little boy still playing on the playground and being hyper, running around, its quite hard to handle them if ur not on good terms with them or if u dunno them well prior to camp starting......not to mention the different ways needed to deal with every single one of them.....well i took a few of them last year when i was their sheperd so im on quite good terms with them all as a whole but i wasnt their sheperd heh......anyway they can be quite nice when they noe u and when u noe them la......i hid in their bunk when the little girls were chasing me around the church for the fun of it......haha its definitely worth it spending my leave and off at children's camp, watching as the little children grow up and mature mentally as well.....kinda of a fulfillment in some sorta way.........


the p5-p6 boys i didnt hear anything but good comments for them......their sheperds, kenneth ho and peter wang gave the boys quite abit of freedom to do whatever they wanted jus as long as they met the timing specified....it was quite a good way to lead them especially because the boys were quite mature......and might i mention the boys were on time for every activity as i saw it heh......not bad im impressed, considering i had quite a hard time rushing my little kids to meet the timing due to certain things we wanted to get done etc........


well having said so much about all the different types of kids dat we had to face at this "camp afloat".....kinda makes one wonder how do parents actually raise and govern their kids nowadays lol.......must be quite interesting to delve into the methods.....and of course u look at some kids and wonder wad could be the cause of this kid's misbehavior? could it be the way the parents raised them? i can only wonder cause i imagine dat if i myself were a 30 odd year old parent at this current age, with all the work-related stress going on on weekdays and so many other factors and worries they (I) have to take care of, dare i say dat i definitely will not let my child turn out dat way? well i dare not, and i can only speculate how i would want to treat and raise my kid when i do have one, if i do have one.......oh well dats all in the quite far away future i guess........

dats all from the long poster (me)......heh