“You are selected because I believe in you.” -Camper Booklet
Sorry for the looooooooooooooong hiatus! Been caught up with so many things. So yeah let’s get ze throwback rolling 😉 So yes, day 2. I woke up to the beautiful scenery at our back door of our chalet/dorm early in the morning. It was so peaceful and relaxing. After we had our breakfast, we took a quick morning walk and took some pictures before the awesome talk that morning. Guess who came for the building confidence talk? SHARIFAH AMANI. Yes, you read that right, SHARIFAH AMANI. Lol, we’ve met before. We’re cool man, psh. *cough* YES, SHARIFAH AMANI! She gave us a very inspiring talk, in fact I felt it was more like a sharing moment 🙂 I love the way they positioned the seats into a circle-like so it gave us more intimate and closeness sense with the speaker. The talk was focus on how to build our confidence. The speaker (read: SHARIFAH AMANI omg i can’t help it) was saying that everyone will go through phases in their lives (I’m rephrasing fyi) She shared her experience in acting when she was young and how did she figured out what she want to do in her life. She did mention how wonderful the late Yasmin Ahmad and their experience working together. I personally like it when she told us that whatever other people think about you is not important but what matter in your life is the relationship between you and God. Have faith in Him and He will have faith in you.
‘Kalau Dia kata jadi, jadilah. Kalau Dia kata tak jadi, tak jadilah beb.’ – Sharifah Amani.
Your intentions. After ze inspiring talk, we had lunch! annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd another awesome talk after that by the beautiful mdm Jasmine Hassan! Communicate! I love how she started her talk with this video! Check it out! worth it.
The beautiful lady told us how to communicate especially during presentations in the class. Express yourself! utilize your body language! I remembered she told us that one of her students (yes, she’s teaching at UTP. Lucky those students.) screamed just to chill down her nervousness before her presentation. Learn how to understand yourself, slowly you will get a hang of it and relax while communicating with everyone else. Seriously, it was awesome. You should follow her on twitter for more tips and tricks 😀 (@jsmnhssn) “capture your audience’s attention.” – Jasmine Hassan
SO WE DECIDED TO FLY THAT EVENING!
Funny story was, me, Aika and Hanies thought we should wait at the flying fox hut. So we walked and climbed the hill for a bit and waited ._. nearly half an hour. To turn out everyone else had briefing by the lake ._. we’re like, since we’ve waited (and dying to dip ourselves in that cold sexy river) YOU KNOW WHAT WE WILL FLY FIRST! Yassss, We flew beautifully and jumped into the river!!
Another funny story. Well, the others said they will join us at the river later and……to turn out they didn’t managed to find us and chillaxed at another part of the river……….so… yeah ._. BUT ME, AIKA, HANIES AND NASY WERE HAVING FUN! On such a hot day, dipping our bodies in icy cold river. That was the best decision ever. Alhamdulillah.
We finally retreated to our tents and chalets to clean ourselves up and dinner. Bumped into Anwar Hadi at the dinner table. He’s cool. We’re not done yet, people. Yup, Expression Night with Jamal Raslan that night! Jamal Raslan, the man of the spoken words. I knew him from the Poetry Workshop by the Lip Movement Poetry at Kaki Seni Space.
“Do you know that the word ‘rap’ comes from the word ‘rhythm and poetry’?” – Jamal Raslan.
I remembered how everyone else was mindblown by his spoken words piece and Nasy came out with “As educational as my last breakup”. Dayum girl, that hit me deep. Deep. We played games. It was beautiful. We ended nearly 11-ish. WE’RE NOT OVER YET. NA’AH. CAAAAMPFIRE TIMEEEE BEBEH! We grilled jumbo sausages, (and I gave the idea of Smoreos to Keren. YES THAT WAS ME MUAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH) we toasted marshmallows and I saw Wan Arief Imran was munching a bag of marshmallows to himself. lol. We sang along on mp3 list (Which Aika and Keren kindda had a debate on who got to control the playlist. lol) While Anwar Hadi danced and sang at the back (Surprisingly he knew like every song….it’s like there’s a lyric archive inside his mind idk) We laughed and had fun. Me and Aika gave up around 4 am because we kindda need sleep to prepare ourselves for the activity later at 8 am. To be continued 😉