I miss Brunei
Yes, I kinda miss the times in Brunei. To most people, they loathe it. A country that is 70% jungle and greenery with just a small urbanised town with 1 Macdonalds and a shopping centre in the entire country- how pathetic! But the 21 days’ experience in Brunei was a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
Everyday having an average of 4 hours of sleep then go chiong sua, yes it’s tough, but God’s grace has never ever been so real and relevant to me before. There were times I would be so drained out by everything till I would sit at one corner and just stone and stare into blank space. I could hardly take time to really have a breather. But really, without His grace, that’s it man. I still find it hard to believe that I managed to get through the 21 days altogether. The worst experiences like how all of us got stuck in mud waist-level for 45 minutes at night, how we scaled Mount Biang when it was raining heavily, how we emo-ed when it rained every night during survival phase, how we destroyed the live quail and devoured it like beasts, how we would always think about food constantly and freedom back in Singapore; all these were invaluable! I love the mornings in Brunei especially- it gets bright as early as 6.15am. And I tell you, wah, I can just stare at the sky and admire God’s creation. It’s super beautiful because the camp is on a hill and you can see everything from above. The bluish-orange morning sky and how the clouds drift- a sight to behold. Now I know what it means when the song ‘Amazed’ speaks about how God paints the morning sky. A picteresque sight:)
Yes, we got the coveted JCC badge in the end, and everything kinda ended on a high. I always look back on this recent experience and marvel at how I got through it solely by His grace and favour. Not that it’s sooooo hard, but because I wasn’t confident at all at the start of Brunei and there was a certain degree of fear and ambiguity of how things would turn out in the end. I reckon this would be one experience I would hold dearly to my heart man. Now, I just miss the mornings in which I could see the bluish-orange sky back in Brunei.
