Saturday, May 31, 2008

hi? lol. jun kai frm OB-I here. *im the 1 wearing black and with a black cap on* =)

just wanna voice comments on the overall organisation of this event.
i think the event, to me, was quite bad. i think insufficient information was given to the participating church(es).

1. wasn't told to bring bible or anything, and there was no thorough and clear briefing given. clue was given when the whole grp still didnt noe What in the World is going on, and how the game is Exactly carried out.

2. at KCP hall, in-charge did not command attention, which is smth tat is quite annoying, since every1's mumbling and in-charge is not speaking clearly also. e.g all of a sudden some guy comes up and says "I declare the race open." like HUH?? what??? i dun see any structure, and it just feels very disorganised to me.

3. Ending destination is Jubilee Church, and we were told to solve the clues for *i dunno what end destination or smth* and ended up nobody did anything. no1 knew wad was going on. what clues? what code word thing? and all of a sudden, "Now we will present the prizes to the winning team." LIKE HUH??? and NOT ALL grps are back yet. even after the photo taking (yes, i was the 1 who shouted back "byebye") and every1 was leaving, there was still a grp which cabbed in to jubilee church. like how *!?!?!?!* is that???

anyways i noe this is a OneBody blog, but yea, i just had to voice all these out, cos im totally not happy with the event, sometimes event when things dun go well, ppl leave with a sense of satisfaction.. but this event was a failure to me, it made me feel UPSET, and worst of all, i feel like de event was completed half-heartedly, didnt gimme a sense of satisfaction AT ALL.

however, kudos to the in-charge for making such bloody difficult clues, much effort has been put in, but i think due to this mebe u've neglected the main part of the events? oh. and i rmb the in-charge, siow hwee was it?he said smth abt this event being "bonding for presbytarian churches" etc etc? i TOTALLY DID NOT see anything that helped us to bond. there was no activities to bond the team members.
this event's called Amazing Race rite, or so i heard. and i thought there'd be activities (probably team bonding) at every station to be completed b4 getting a clue to the next destination, but what happened just now was only "take clue, 1/3 of the team solve the clue as the others are not interested, solve clue, move to next station, cycle repeats".. seriously.. if u ask me, i'd have said the same thing even if OneBody won.. and personally, this leaves a pretty bad impression on me, and i wld really think Thrice on joining another event held by the Synod (i've heard bad stuffs abt the youth camp as well)..

just my $0.02.. cheers on those who gave their efforts.. THE CLUES WERE FREAKING HARD. zzz

6 comments:

Latria said...

Hi. Thank you for your feedback. I accept the responsibility for the bad organisation. And I sincerely wish that you will participate in future events of the Synod.

A lot of things could have been done better as this is a first time effort. Your comments will contribute greatly to improving future events.

Cheers
Siow Hwee

mudskipper` said...

wilson:
umm i dunno much abt wad happened in the youth camp, but i just hear hear tat ppl didnt enjoy it cos of some disagreements and stuffs.

siow hwee:
i'll see ba.. srry if my comment seems overly aggresive.. was kinda ranting at the same time.. so pardon me.. btw, how in the world u do ur clues? its dam hard can? lol.

W ilson T ay said...

oh... thanks for the feedback yeah! :D

Latria said...

To Wilson, what happened at the camp is secondary. What is primary is the effect that is evident from since the camp til the Games today. It is the friendship forged from all who have participated in one way or another.

W ilson T ay said...

yeah i agree. it's good to see everyone again at the games today.

Latria said...

To Junkai,
Click on the link. All the clues today were based on the best clues of all the "The Games" organised in the world so far, and about a third thought up by yours truly. It took months of research. If only we have 3 days 3 nights to solve the entire thing, it would have been extraordinary.