Deliciously Me

For 3 nights, we had been staying up late until 1am for our committee meeting. On the last night, we started the meeting after midnight due to the party we had earlier, lol.

I can’t remember what time it ended, but I know most of us already dozed off when the meeting was conducted halfway through.

Everyone was asked to speak up on the camp, but I think such things should be done during post morten meeting. However, how to do post morten meet when not all of us were based in KL or Selangor?

So I see the necessity of such question la. They need feedback also what, right?

By the time the meeting ended, everyone scrambled to bed and left only HungJen, YongWei, Leang, Song, boss Kengyan and me there talking. But soon boss disappeared too, lol.

We talked for probably half an hour, trying to guess something out of someone, ngek ngek. I was mentally prepared to lose sleep d, since it was the last night of the camp. I mean in the past, we stayed up until 4am talking and gossiping. It was so much fun.

But this time (probably age is catching up already) all decided to go to bed… and reluctantly HungJen and I went up to our dorm to sleep, lol.

You see, why I use the word RELUCTANTLY is because we can and want to talk, but we were shooed to bed. Haha!

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Everyone was stunned with what I said and looked at me. A minute later, WeiLoong spoke and allowed me to exchange duty with HooiChia. He did a run-down on the field trip which will be started at 5.30 in the morning before dismiss us.

I was still upset by the time the meeting over. I had to call Sat for ‘mental support’ before sleeping.

At 5 o’clock, when the bell ran, I woke up too and I could tell that the participants were a little shock and clueless on what was going on when they were told to only brush their teeth and went down to the activity hall immediately with only jacket (if they’re cold) and water bottle. The air-conds in the activity hall were blasted to the maximum speed to ensure that the participants felt cold and went up to grab their jackets/sweaters.

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Just when I thought I could retreat to bed early as I was extremely sleepy, Jack pulled me aside and said, “You’re the faci for my program. We’re going to setup the ground for the game now, so stay back.”

And my world sort of crumbled down for a minute, lol.

Bidding the rest goodnight, Jack instructed us to make many hexagon shapes on the floor, which I couldn’t comprehend why. One by one came out with better suggestion on how to make the shapes faster and nicer… until the boss himself felt frustrated for awhile. Too many cooks spoil the food, you know?

Realising that, everyone backed off a little and let him led us to victory!

I meant to come out with perfect looking hexagons on the floor. Teehee!

Then the game started. Jack wanted us to play the game once for better understanding of the game (so that we could assist our groups later in the day).

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It’s not easy going back to a place that you’ve left for many years. I always have the feeling of going ‘home’, but the skeptical part of me held me back. I’m afraid of what people would think of me for coming back after all these years. I’m afraid that my friends would alienate me for leaving. I’m afraid I would be left alone should I decide to return.

Little did I know that I would overcome these fears and make a comeback to the 33^rd Incovar Dhamma Camp.

Seriously, it’s not an easy feat to return. Just when I thought I could attend this camp with a peace of mind, works started pilling in and even gave up the thought of attending the camp as the work is too much for me to handle.

Call it destiny, fate or what; but two days before going to camp the work began to clear up (tho still much, but it got lesser) and I decided to bring work to camp and promised myself not to let go self-satisfaction over work.

So there I was- attending the camp with a laptop, squeezed time here and there in between programs for my work. Thankfully (or unfortunately), I wasn’t the only one with laptop and with the eager look to finish up work, lol.

Remember earlier I spoke about my fear of people’s backlash of my comeback? They seem almost nonexistent. Almost, I say is because there are some asking why I return, but I quickly brush them aside with jokes.

Anyway, I was very much welcomeeeeee back to IDC ( ) with hugs here and there and I realised that I was not the only one who hasn’t been to IDC for ages. Boy am I glad that there are friends who’re like me, decided to return this camp (so that I’m not alone mah, lol) and glad that someone I don’t want to see wasn’t there too. Yippieeee!

After all those welcome hugs, I went up to my dormitory just to find that I was instantly put on gruesome faci briefing. I call it gruesome since my brain wasn’t really worked yet that morning and was asked few questions that required thinking.

But boldly, I told them I’ve almost forgotten everything I’ve learnt and jokingly told it’s best for them to refresh them to my mind, rather than wasting time waiting for me to generate them answers. They laughed and started inputting info after info into my brain.

I was like a sponge that morning, absorbing as much info as possible, lol.

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As I am writing this, it is already the 3rd day of 33rd IDC camp and Jack is conducting the Light and Easy session for half of the group in the activity hall. The rest is in dormitory hall – undergoes group sharing conducted by ChoonSin.

It’s been 2 years since I left IDC. The last camp I joined was the 28th camp (if I’m not mistaken) and I joined it as a participant. Today, I’m a facilitator for this camp. A rookie, lol. One thing great about being part of the committee members is to be able to see the behind-the-scene scenario, the petty arguments (lol) and the ‘selok-belok’ about running the camp. Mind you, it wasn’t easy running the camp. There’s so many things to do and taken care off – running up and down, helping out with the necessities in order to make the program run smoothly, ensure the participants are well-fed, taking note of their emotion/feeling/behaviour and… late nights meetings.

Regarding the late night meetings – NO, I’m not complaining. I was perceived and misunderstood as complainer when I casually told people that I was lacking sleep and hopes not to backlog them more. -.-”"”

Anyway, seeing from the side of the show-runners really interests me. I like being part of crew, preparing things/props for the next programs and so on. I do admit that I did miss my moments of being a participants, but being a faci gives me more freedom. Or I think so, Lol.

Oh well, as least I can type this post now. LOL.

A little history on IDC: Incovar Dhamma Camp is held twice a year for 4 days. The camp consists of dhamma talks, workshops and games, puja, and modern Buddhism music. There are 4 major themes for the IDC and if one attends the camps 4 times continuously, one will basically grab the fundamental understanding on Buddhism.

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