Friday, December 02, 2005

Just came back from 5 days of OBS Camp. So sian, I arrived at the gathering point at Punggol Jetty and I see no one from our school, and it was already time for departure. Then my sis and I called the people who were going for the OBS Camp to make sure the gathering point, but no one picked up cause non of them brought their handphone! So we waited, until we saw a shuttel bus with TKSS students in it. Then we found out that we should gather at school first. then we sit and wait for our ship to come, but an instructor called upon my sis and I. SIAN AR! They see our medical history and see that we didn't take, what some Tetanus Vaccine shit and they won't let us pass until we have the jap! So we went a lot of trouble queuing and waiting for our jap at some Polyclinic with Mr Chang supervising us. Then we wasted 4 hours of the camp. And in the end I missed the ice breaker game. Our school students were seperated into different groups and so I amnot with my sis, but I was with Ahmad, Lisa, Madura and Julyanna. And because I missed the ice breaker game, I also missed the chance to get to know more about my other 10 group members. so we have some phototaking session with my group, then we get our 5 days of food supplies and then we went for some activities called belaying. Then we pitched our tent and cook our own food. To tell the truth, the food that night was terrible man! Some mashed hotdogs and rice with beans in it. Then we take a shower and went to bed. The tent was small and we have to squish 4 people in a tent. So I slept with my other 3 new found friends. I could get some sleep but the sleep is not so enjoyable, because about every 30 minutes I got awoken by something. So I got really irritated and I decided to went for a walk. The sky was so damn clear sia! Can see stars very clearly, unlike Singapore Island, only about 4 to 10 stars. then I go back to sleep and I overslept until 6:30.

The second day, all of us quickly take a bath and prepare our food supplies for next day's "Whole Day Expidition". We were going to walk around the island and camped outside with no bathroom or toilet, like "Survival". After preparing, we went out to the beach to kayak(Something like Canoeing). Our instructor spent about 1 long hours at the beach under the hot sun to teach us how to kayak. After that, we kayak all the way to the other campsite. It was my first time swimming in the sea and I never realise how salty the sea water was, *Bleh*! Reaching the campsite, we kept our kayak in the store room and we took a bath. Our clothes and shoes were wet and and it tasted salty, so we helped our clothes to take a bath, lol, and of course we dry them under the sun. after that, we went for lunch and our instructor talk about, what some "Think about the others before self". Then he want us to feed the person in front of us, lol, really looked silly. With our stomach full, we went for climbing activities. The first time I saw it, I thought it was an easy case, but when i went up, i was shivering all the way, but I still managed to reach the top though. Poor Lisa, there was lizard accompanying her when she was climbing and she didn't realise, got freaked out when we told her about it. We pitched our tent after that and I have to get my hand dirty to get the job done. We chit chated after that. A guy we nicknamed TCK(Talk Cock King) because of his Talk Cockness were bullshiting and rubbishing all the way until dinner, he was SO DAMN FUNNY that we laughed all the way. During dinner time, I stared at TCK Bullshiting again. Then he noticed me and he do some flirting eye action to me, I nearly vomited. I stared at him again and this time he got uncomfortable and asked me, "Ni Ne~! Why you stare at me like that, like gay like that~". Then we started to talk and get to know each other more. He really is an interesting guy, I like his way of telling a joke, or perhaps WE like his way of telling a joke. After that, we went for a shower and it rained. We can't get to our tent cause we pitched it in the forest. So the instructors decided to let us sleep in the hall. The night was cold and my feet were shivering, nevertheless, i got my sleep. But the next day, i realised that somebody sprayed my face with insects reppelent, and my face become oily.

I woke up early the next morning and took a shower. Then we eat our breakfirst, then we realised that one cup was broken, so we need to mend it by paying it back to the company on friday. We prepared our things and get ready for the "Whole Day Expedition". Our instructor explained to us what we should do along the way. It seems that we must follow our map to find a checkpoints along the way to reach our goal. So we walked into the forest, gtting lost a lot of times, lol. But of course we also rest and eat our lunch, aftet that, we continued our walk. It was 4pm, and our instructor want us to abort our mission and went straight for our campsite. along the way, it rained and we have to put on our ponchos. At about 5:30pm, we reached our campsite, which is near the beach, and the rain MAGICALLY STOPPED. Like as if the god deliberately want us to suffer during the walk. So we pitched our tent and instead of tent pack, we used bricks, because the sand is too soft to sustained the pulling force. Again, we talk craps with our TCK while cooking our dinner(Instant Noddles). We laughed while we were eating and one of the member nearly got chocked. After we ate, there were still a lot of noddles left, but we are full, so we buried it in the beach. With our stomach full, wewent to our tent, and holy shit! Inside the tent was wet! So we use countless tissue papers to dry them, and we turn in for the night.

The next morning, TCK got a terrible stomachache, and I accompanied him, guarding him while he is shiting inside the bushes. Hmm... the experience was extraordinary. Then I went back to unpitched our tent. Then I realised that my other shoe was wet because of the rain. But the instructor said that in order to do the next activities, each individuals must wear a proper shoe, but that was my last shoe! My other shoe was still wet after the kayaking. So i have no choice but to wear the one i used for the expidition. The next activity was fun indeed, we were acting as a group of mountain rescuers and we must save the injured man down the mountain before the avalanche hit us in 1:05 hour. But of course there never were an injured man, we replaced it with our water bottle that were provided by OBS. We failed a lot of times but we never give up, even though the other group had finished and we were still in the 2nd checkpoint and there is only 30 minutes left, we still continued. So we continue and continue until it is only 3 minutes left, we were reaching the end! Really really close! But somebody fell from the log and we had to redo from our last checkpoint, aww man. So in the end, we failed our mission and got washed away by the avalanche. After the activities, we went back to our first campsite and we had our lunch (which is yet another noddles -_-"). We gathered together after lunch and was told to draw a picture for the activities that we have done for the whole camp. And so we did. After that, the instructor told us to cut a small square on the part that we like the most for each of us to keep. Then he said something which is really wisdomatic and really touched each and everyone of our hearts, and it was raining, so the atmosphere was really there. After the drawing, we do some rock climbing and TCK wasn't doing really well. He was told to do the descending wall, which is easier. He made it to the top, but when he was brought down, his waist fat is showing, and instead of give him face, the intructor shout out, "Wah~, your fat is showing." and everybody laughed. After that, we pitched out tent in the forest again, this time it's much much much more deeper, so deep, our instructor had to hang some light on the trees to lead the way. After pitching out tent, we went for our dinner, and that's when everybody was confused and said, "Which one is my untensils?" because the plates were mixed up, and so was the utensils. I really lost my mood that night went down because me too had lost my utensils. After the dinner, we take a bath again and retire for the night.

The next day is a very tiring day, we have to wash our tent and put back all the used items after we washed them. We got our photo that we took in the first day. everybody was bidding everybody farewell before they left with the ship. Then When i left, I don't know why but i have this feeling that I wanted to stay there longer. I sure will miss the people there...

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