let me share with you all an interesting fact! "When you have sex with someone, you are having sex with everyone that they have had sex with for the last 10 years, and everyone they and their partners have had sex with for the last 10 years!" in other words, the risk of contracting HIV is higher especially if you don't know whether your partner has had sex with multiple partners before. bet you didn't know that. spread the msg around! SO, to ppl who like to ji-hong a lot, BE CAREFUL! =D condoms may break.. haha..







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Whoa... 30 hours without food is real steam.. haha.. the first mouth of food that we took at the end of it tasted damn good even though the food was rather ordinary. =D you all can try it one day to experience how children are suffering in many parts of the world.. ok basically there was no food from 2pm on 16/06/07 all the way to the next day 8pm.. luckily we are allowed to drink water.. occasionally a Yeo's drink would be served to give us an energy boost. =) there was really a lot of ppl that attending the camp. We were split into 'countries' (basically groups) that represented Lesotho, Cambodia, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Myanmar, Ethiopia, Zambia and Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world. For 30 hours, I was a MONGOLIAN!







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At the camp, there was this 15-year-old boy named Ly Long who came all the way from Cambodia to tell us about his life story. It's real sad actually. Ly Long and his 2 siblings used to live a normal life until one day, when his father had gone out with a group of friends to drink. Since then, everything changed. His father often returned from his drinking sessions in a foul mood. If he was not happy with what Ly Long's mother had prepared for dinner, he would throw the food on the floor and kick it. Though he brought home the bacon, he did not use all of the money that he got for the family. Instead, he kept half for himself, so that he could often go out to drink with his friends. Their family became very poor. His father died one day(sorry i forgot the cause). Ly Long was forced to drop out of school to work. Everyday, he would go out in the morning, picking up rubbish or recyclables along the street that he would probably sell for money. He would go home for lunch, then go out again in the hot sun to continue his work. He told us that he was embarrassed to be picking up rubbish along the street. He was afraid that he would be laughed at. But he did not have a choice. He had to support his family. Just imagine, a 15-year-old dropping out of school to do such manual labour everyday under the hot sun. With the help of WorldVision, Ly Long's situation has improved. He has been enrolled back into school and he promises to do his best in school so that he and his family will have a better life in the future.

Ly Long is so lucky to have been spotted by WorldVision. But what about those people who are in similar situations as Ly Long but yet help cannot reach them? It is a rather sad thought. At the camp, the organiser asked us 3 very simple questions. Firstly, "how many of you here go to school?". Second question was, "how many of you here have a bed to sleep on every night? And the third question was, "how many of you here have at least 3 meals a day?" When I heard him ask such questions, my first reaction was, 'duh this guy is asking the obvious'... but now that I think about it, i realise that many of these poor children all over the world can't even answer a 'yes' to any of these questions. We are so fortunate to be born here. Can you imagine what would happen if you were born in a remote village in Zambia or Mongolia? Our lives might just be totally different. So the moral of the story is, treasure what you have! =)