Session 6: Horrid Tide

geez. as if a reminder that things never stay perpetually rosy. knn this week so far hasn't been as good as it could possibly have been. xianz...

the presence of the pm riders(brodie james and nicholas) is really a pain because it means the cabin doesn't have much of a chance to bond. so in the end james and nicholas(who're best friends in the real world) always seem to be in a world of their own and hardly mixing with the rest of the kids. brodies is just moronic. i can't conprehend how a 12yr-old can be so dumb sometimes, regardless i still treat him nice, often at the expense of my own patience. sean is plain weird. i've never seen anyone so young, so lame before. wah lao eh, its so lame even myself don't find it funny. argh. and i always happen to catch his lame shite. so that leaves the saving grace to tom cooper and conner. the good things is that conner still thinks i'm a god. he's even thought of flying over to singapore to look for me when i'm back. haha.

the really down side started on monday lah knn. our cabin got paired with jake howard's cabin, cheyenne and i totally dislike that guy. i don't like he's showiness and his attention seeking ways. i find it really hypocrytical that he only shouts from across the field that 'he loves me(everyone says that to everybody in camp - haiz)' when i'm having alot of fun with kids while he hardly even bats an eyelid my direction when i'm alone. so anyway pairing us up while our co-counsellors were away was a sore-ass for me just because i had nothing good to say to him and i think he can tell too. the fact that the game sucked made it doubly worse. nao hiah.

the worst was to come on tuesday. i had swimming during am activity period. and one of our kids nearly drowned. wah xianz. she had to be pulled out of the pool and given chest compressions before she threw all the water out. it was really really scary. scary beyond any description now just because i don't wanna think about it anymore. but we(deseray and myself) who were in the pool, unlike certain other irresponsible counsellors(there should have been 4 counsellors each time) had to go through alot of paperwork and give our accounts to mike, marty and blah lah. my whole tuesday morning stank like bloody 3 day-old cow shite. it sucked real bad. the only consolation was that our efforts to help the poor girl(her name was precious) were overly commended. but the true heroines were these two litle girls in her cabin who alerted the lifeguard(who was nuahing somewhere instead of doing her job)  who subsequently pumped the water out of her. i do feel really responsible for that scary incident and it really could've ended more tragic. so thank god thangs ended up okie. and life still has to go on.

so i soldiered on for the rest of the day trying not to look too down. i got alot of hugs from alot of staff the rest of the day and i really thank deseray for being so strong and being there to share the hurt(we happened to be talking and entertaining some other kids in the pool when the incident happened). and then we had campout. which sucked once more because cherokee was paired with cheyenne yet again(at parthenon pines like last week). i really loathe him and he's only 18 and speaks like he knows alot(enhanced by his sexcapades) so i really didn't like being where i was all night even though i kept a pretty jovial face the whole campout. it turned out to be the best campout ever for alot of campers and even some of the staff(travis - poor guy always kenna lousy cabins till i came along), though i'd beg to differ if only due to the presence
of jake the muthafucker. well whatever lah even the worse shit pile will one day decompose and flowers will bloom upon it(now that's one helluva rotten analogy). still i expected today to be better.

it really couldn't get any worse lah today. things went by pretty smoothly, i don't have any activities with jake no more but he still came over at breakfast to tell me he loved me(wtf?!) and gave me a hug(at these times i just wrap my arms around him and his bag with no sincere emotion for htat pimp). argh. the next fella is dan the man. i mean i kinda like that guy but he's openly bi-sexual(meaning he's not afraid to admit it, as he did to me) so sometimes abit scared lah. i had both am(swimming) and pm(arts n crafts) with him and we chatted quite alot. tom we also have am(archery) together. he's really into soccer so there's much to talk about. and like today the swimming pool ended up being closed so we went to the kiva to play sports and games. i ended up playing basketball with him, and then subsequently whooped his bootie in table tennis. haha.

the final bright spark the last few days was the presence of miami cabin. its a girl cabin who's campers are around 11 and 12, like my boys, and they totally adore our cabin, especially me. haha. its all because two of their girls(katie and beca) were stayovers who ended up playing soccer with me and the boys who ended up being stayovers in my cabin(tom conner and cooper). and since meredith remained counsellor of that cabin both of us also got along real well and extended that to this week. this week they adopted us as their older brother cabin haha. so he hang out alot together and i'm trying to hook up their girls with my boys for the dance tomorrow too!. haha.

okie, see, (self-consolatory) bright spark, so life isn't so bad. other highlights include travis being a pretty good co(he agrees to everything i say and i've got SO MUCH control over the cabin this week i'm sure he's jealous of that sometimes). also i received another birthday package!!! so happy. receiving packages in camp is like that episode in survivor when the survivors get to meet their family members lidat. but not that drama thats all. the whole world stops and you don't give a flying squirrel about anything anymore and just wanna get to your package as fast as you possibly can. haha.

guess thats so much for the week thus far lah. will probably blog later again. meanwhile going to the grill to chill awhile first...