Here in Jakarta...

the title brought back memories.
fond memories, of the 4th night of VIP Challenge 2011, which happened to be one of the most impactful camps of my life.

it was the Solemn Campfire.

the camp started off well, with everyone chit chatting bout our lives up a mountain that seemed like 2-4km high (i seriously dk how high the mt was haha) i still remember me and jack discover the wonders of an energy ball :D
then day by day, this epidermic spread through the 5 classes, killing each of our comrades one by one, by causing fever, vomitting, and sent to isolation, where they have to sleep to get better.

the cohort became silent and sad like on the 3rd day, when one-third of the cohort fell ill, with some even suspected dengue. oliver's fever was super scary. when trying to take his temperature, the reading shot up very fast from 36-39.7 very quickly, like as though we are measuring how fast a bicycle cycle past me or sth lidat.

day 4 afternoon. vincent and i were joking around, high fiving whenever we shouted that we havent gone to the loo. eventually, after the CIP activity, vincent caught the disease too. shit. i told him he really have to shit. but he was like "NO I must achieve my personal goal of NOT shitting for 5 days!"
sigh.
i told him once we get back to the hotel i would shit. so that the bad stuff will be shitted away. but still, he din want to : /

in the end. he was sent to isolation D:

at night that day, we had a very silent campfire. it wasnt as lively as i expected, because nearly half the cohort was down. the teachers were absent from the campfire, and some of our star performers were down. every class had to redo their act and make some changes.

my class was supposed to act the noose, starring Oliver as Jacques Ooi and Vincent as Jojo Joget, but yea. sigh. in the end we found replacements: Tristen as B B See and me as jojo Joget. epic fail luh. haha.
impromptu song sang during our act: We Are The World and Lucky. the dance was okay i guess. but what really pissed me off after the cmpfire was Kristel. according to other classmates, she was already not feeling well, and immediately left for the villa (isolation) after our class act. i mean, she was pushing herself on when she's not feeling well already. but i bet she felt very guilty, as she was supposed to act in the Noose too, and was the choreographer for the dance. sigh. nvm.

i still remember what happened at the end of the campfire.

the mc (trainer luhh) told us to look up to the sky.

omg. so many stars. its like mind blowing. i cant describe it here : / one can never see a view like this in singapore.

then, count from 10 to 0.

10

9

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

...

a bright spark appeared from the ground, shot to the sky,

and exploded into bright fireworks.

we sang the song "firework"

and ended the campfire by doing Whiney Whiney.