After a long time, I played basketball PROPERLY in a team. I have been playing basketball at every lunch period since school starts, but that wasn't much an exercise.
Then, yesterday(Saturday, 28th of August, 2010) I played several proper matches with others at OSC. My Korean friends who come for the Sunday Church Basketball, people from American Embassy, and our school students have been playing basketball every Saturday, they started playing again since two weeks ago.
So this time, I joined. There were many new faces this time, from the local school( can't remember the names).
So we splited ourselves in three teams, and played several matches. I was with the Sri Lankans, (and they were good. one of them apparently plays for the SL national basketball team.)
It was a lot of exercise after a while, and fun :D It ends pretty earlier than I thought; around 4-5 ish, or I just felt it was too short :P
Then, since my brother plays football every Saturday at OSC with the primary students and the parents, I had to wait for my brother.
In fact, I played for a bit as well ! since I brought my football shoes just in case the basketball session ends early, which my little prediction was right. It was fun :D with the little children, it wasn't much of exercise. It was rather doing a service for them. It was still FUN :D:D
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Saturday Basketball
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Music composing and writing the lyrics
Adrian Raguin, one of my friends in my grade at OSC, has composed a song and asked me if I can rap to his song. He and his sister, Camie Raguin, currently in 11th grade doing IB at school, have been working together on several songs and for this one, she sings for the chorus.
So I have written the lyrics for my rap part, 3 verses, and we have recorded the song as a rough trial. It didn't sound so bad, but it's not complete version so we will have to record it again properly.
At the moment, we have intro, two choruses and three verses; it goes from intro, verse 1, chorus, verse 2, and to verse 3 with the chorus. We need a bridge after verse three, but we haven't thought about how it'd go yet; haven't written the lyrics for the bridge yet either.
We showed it to Ms.Lilani and Ms.Fernando in Eng B class. Ms.Fernando liked it, and now she wants us to perform this for the charity concert organised by the Cancer Hospital, school's one of the community service projects, and for the students at the assembly. and she even wants us to do our Eng. B orals on this; discussing how we made this, why we made this and so on.
Adrian and I haven't thought about it that far yet since we haven't even finished the song yet. We will first get everything sorted out, and then decide what to do next.
This is what we've got so far:
Do we learn math to add the dead's sum?
Subtract the weak ones, count cash for great ones
Do we multiply, divide the nations
Break down like fractions, send our sons away to die
Do we learn science in defiance of faith?
To make alliance with fakes, for an appliance's sake
We ask for the real, but make artificial intelligence
To make smarter kills of others' presidents ah
Do we learn to read to receive the lies?
To deceive the eyes from seeing between the lines
We use words to bring forth sticks and stones
To sing psamls of hate that fill the street with bones
It's for the children of the world
The one that lives in the rubble
The third war kid in the battle alone at war
But love always remains
Peace is the dream of all
Freedom isn't a wall
This is for the children of the world
Who run for lives and die for five cents
This vibes, do you also feel then?
Hi-fives, with your both hands, in
Total ten, flowers still bloomin'
In this desecent world, we're livin' in
Never let their hopes down, send them ropes down
Bring them all up high to the top on us
Their rough hands from working like ants
Will never be the shame, but the great fame
Real winners in this game, like my rhymes
They do shine, so remember the names
This will never be the same
Put the smiles on their scar-faces
We're entering on a new phase with the new face
Another car crash shouldn't be the case
Little pause, take a while to think about
This cause and consequnces
Hear them shout in the haunted house
Listen to what cry for and scream about
No one knows how it'd go
Though we do know where to go
We shall be their Santa Claus and say ho ho ho
* need to do
We also tried to record it, just as a trial. It doesn't sound so bad, but we will have to record it again.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
2010 Dangsandong Church Mission Trip
It was harder than the year before when I first participated in this mission trip. Language was the first one; we have learnt basic Singhala to communicate with the children in the vilage. It's been absolutely no problem till last year because we only went to the Singhalese vilage and one Tamil area, Hatton. HOWEVER, since we visited more Tamil areas this time, language was the hardest part.
Also, since we had to travel further up to north in Sri Lanka, literally we LIVED in the bus in most time. Besides, we had to prepare for the session early in the morning around 7:30 and then the session starts at 9:00. We do many activities we have prepared, which we called the Education Center, where we teach the love of God and what He did for us by four different fun activities; two were games and another two were basically making cards and the cross. We have lunch at 1:00 PM through 2:00 PM. Then next session starts. From this session, we basically socialize with the children by many different games, which is a HUGE exercise since we have to play with the children but at the same time we have to make the game get going. So the fatigue was another problem. Everyone who came never complained or frowned, but we smiled and laughed all the time because this was indeed a fun trip with many good people.
The performances also went really well as well: two dances organised by us (Teenagers For Christ(TFC)) and several songs prepared by the Dansandong Church team. Children really liked them, I supose; children were clapping while we were dancing and I believe this was in response to our performances and also they were trying to learn the song and finally singing along with us.
This was indeed an excellent and a successful trip, I'd say. This was somewhat sad as well since this would be my last mission trip with the Dansandong Church since I will be graduated by the time next year and I won't be in Sri Lanka by then. I'm thinking I could do better or I could work harder, but I feel like I didn't and so this remains a little regretful to me. I will never be able to forget the smiles on children's faces. I wish I can contact with the team personally later and come on to this trip again one day.
we had fun ;) 
First day @ Mirihana church
girls having some rest
SooJung Park from Korea Dangsandong church(been on this trip for last 11 years !)
Mr.Taka from Japan Otz church. 
From TFC. So Hee(British School) and Seung Jae(Wychelly School)