2. This is the 1st Camporama where we see both the Mayor and Deputy Mayor coming from the same gender. And they seem to work well together. Their philosophy, talk little, work more.
3. Initially the cabinet was planning to build Sydney Harbour Bridge with Opera House view as the archway. The idea was shot down by the Deputy Mayor who in turn comes out with his pride & glory archway – The Boomerang Arch, or shall we say – The Best Archway in Camporama 09. It seems he woke up one night, with boomerang flying all over in his head.
4. Cmdr. David Suppramaniam did his best for the Cardboard Regatta race. In fact, he and his team built a much superior boat weeks before the camp and test it on Prima Bayu man made pond and it was successful. However, due to the effort put in on the sample boat, the REAL boat was left with fewer resources to pull through.
5. “The FAMOUS kangaroo fainting!” Who can forget? That was one of the highlight of the camp. It was said that just moments before the Kangaroo faints, a certain Cmdr. from Australia actually prophesied of the incident. And it happened! (Please note – the name of this certain Cmdr. has been kept a secret to prevent the public from harassing him for lucky 4D numbers)
6. The best moment of Camporama happened way past midnight, cutting, drawing, painting, thinking, re-drawing, re-cutting, and re-painting all the Camporama stuffs at Grace Fellowship Hall. No one complained. All see work to be done and just do it. It was tiring but fun.
7. Our Tourism Minister, Cmdr. Sherene Cheong was so so so excited about Australia, she drew the whole layout all by herself. We still have the picture to proof it.
8. Massive Fireworks were supposed to light up the sky of Australia on the 1st night, but that didn’t happen. Instead, we were entertained by some thunder clap. Enough said.
9. Our Ex Mayor Cmdr. Desmond Lim (Mayor of Taman Negara) made a cameo appearance in this Camporama 09. Only a few managed to catch a glimpse of him. He left as soon as he arrives.
10. If you didn’t know, the Australia City was divided into 4 main departments namely; the Australia Zoo led by Cmdr. Ivan Kok & Penny & team, the Surfers Paradise led by Cmdr. David Suppramaniam & team, the Aborigines & Outback led by Cmdr. Andrew Lee & team and the Museum & Info Centre led by Cmdr. Molly & team. They all did wonderfully for Selangor ONE.
11. Some may argue this statement, but it was said we won the Best City Archway because of the Christmas light lighting up the Kangaroo on the Boomerang. Ok, not some, maybe only Cmdr. Larry Chew. But seriously, you have to see it at night. It was beautiful.
12. If you didn’t know, Cmdr. Leong Su Ling was the Australian Secretary of State. She was so good with her secretarial work that she managed to compile & compress all our cabinet meetings into a few minutes.
13. It is not easy becoming Semangat team leader. You have to be slapped on your chest until it leaves a pair of red hand print and then, carry a tong wherever you go so that you can stand on it. Well, that’s the price you have to pay for the fame that comes with it.
14. Cmdr. Ivan Tan was in Australia but not in Australia. Confused? He missed all the fun, games, highlights, rallies, fellowship… He missed the whole Camporama while staying in Australia. How could that possibly happen? Ask him.
15. On record, we actually have 200 registered citizens in Australia, however on camp day, less than 200 turned up, due to reasons only they will know. I think it was 190 something…
16. Do you know that there’s so much work to be done for Australia that until the very last night before loading onto the lorry for Camporama, the guys were still in Fellowship Hall completing every assignment. Even then, once arrived at campsite, the task continued… and if we were allowed to stay at the campsite, the work will never end.
17. Ahhh… the funny yet entertaining Australia rugby game which all of us enjoyed. Do you know, they thought of the game and rules few minutes before the actual game? And all the wonderful rugby players came back from camp slightly darker…ok..ok.. very dark… and painful.
18. Cmdr. David Suppramaniam at first wanted to build a banana boat for the cardboard regatta game, whereby the boat gets peeled off layer by layer so that we will still be safe. Should have use this idea, right?
19. Oh, if I have given you the impression that most work done in Fellowship hall. Think again. At the end, we had about 3 pick-up points, Cmdr. Molly’s house, Cmdr. Penny’s house and Cmdr. Andrew Lee’s house before actually starting loading in fellowship hall.
20. We didn’t plan it, but it happened. We actually wanted to put up our Archway after every department has been set up. There are so many things to do that we ended up only putting up the archway way past midnight, much to the disappointment of some Indian dudes in their bicycle doing their rounds.
