oh well, guess its time to update bout obs xD. but i think alot of ppl would get sian of reading obs posts le, like me =X hehe but glad alot of rvians enjoyed obs sia, cos the camp was quite tiring ah just glad everybody loved it =X
lets get going ^^ day 1
met in school for racial harmony day thingy, stone for awhile then on the bus liao, then slept on the bus ._. then soon reach jetty where we went into our group lols. my group consists of me bingle kelvin nicholas jonathan tianqi qizhang yongwee gaston yanshan melissa xin hui yayun charmaine (not sure if i got spell correctly) tan jiayi (to avoid misunderstandings =X). thats 15 ppl right? lols then we saw our group name - nila utama( you know sang nila utama?), then the weird song on youtube immediately came to our heads lol, but guess in the end was quite a cool name la, loved it xD. then took a boat there was raining while we were waiting though, didn't really dampen my spirits, i quite like the rain ^^. then strangely reach pulau ubin liao stop raining le, then you know tianqi and gaston needed to relieve themselves and found a spot where nobody can be looking and relieved themselves. after that the instructor came and said 'ok, let me show you to the toliets' xDxD hahas. first day didn't really do anything much, just packed bags, settled food stuff, did some activities like orienteering and trustfall and pitched tent. lols, dunno whether to say its a benefit or a con from being in a ug la, i relearnt orienteering for the dunno how many time, and i did trustfall before too xD. the tent was a new one, never pitched that kind of tent before, but was relatively easy to pitch la. but i prefer 4 man tent alot more, ask 4 cc com ppl come pitch can pitch in 6 minutes xD. and is alot more spacious and have alot better ventilation and easier to unpitched also. of course the equipment needed also alot more hahas ok, not to bore those non-ug ppl =X. oh ya, i learnt how to cook rice as well xD
day 2
last night didn't decide to bath while everybody bathed lol, cos like i wasn't dirty and i barely sweated throughout the entire day. then that day all those who never bath slept in one tent haha. and tianqi is damn clean freak la, and he refused to sleep in the tent cos it was stuffy -_- ( he did that for all 4 nights you know) and didn't wanted to change into a new shirt, cos i only brought 4 shirts including long sleeve and i know i will totally screw those shirts soon xD. and sleeping in a tent wasn't a problem for me, kinda used to it le =X so day 2 packed bags and prepared to set off for campsite 3. the tent i was carrying damn heavy, its actually my first time carrying such a huge bag =X and my bag was spoilt, had to tie the dunno what thing together using twine la, luckily it held =X then tianqi wanted to be navigator so let him be, and i believe we went the wrong way twice, and since carrying the huge bags were such a burden everybody was groaning =X but first time we walk wrong way walk until a dead end where it was the sea liao. then most of us sat down (it was sort of like a mini cliff la) and enjoyed the cool breeze and throwed small pebbles into sea, wanted to take a picture but think we didn't get a chance to do so bah, thats too bad? that was damn enjoyable sia, just imagine sitting near the sea with your group and enjoying the wind breeze ^^. then finally managed to walk to the ulu ulu campsite 3 haha, no idea what is it called a campsite in the first place =X. but i think that place quite cool as well, cos you know in the night tianqi refused to sleep in tent again, he laid a poncho on the beach and slept there -_-. then you know like around 1am, it was high tide (the water was near the level of the gate) then just sit there can enjoy the cool wind breeze again. if got starry night and the moon would be perfect place for relaxing liao =X too bad for all 4 nights can't really see any stars, too many clouds le. if no clouds will have damn lot of stars in the sky, cos pulau ubin not contaminated with pollution (no factories or anything of the like there mah) then the night sky is super clear. haha ok enough of that.
and you know i was the sea ex leader? ._. but since i know how to kayak already guess it was for the best bah -_- then yinshuain and eve were the hillary sea ex leader, and 2 prcs for da gama. me jonathan were for nila utama. yeah have 6 because only 3 watches form one camp 2e lols. then that night held briefing for about tml, then after that we split the job roles. the 2 prcs wanted to be the navigator and the rest of us were just too kind to reject them =X, oh well, just let them be la, then jonathan and yinshuain wanted to be sweeper, then i just took starboard since shore is more dangerous o.O then eve took port. kinda worried that night, cos next day i practically felt responsible for everything ._____________________. luckily kayaking was great xD. oh ya before i forget, you all know i mentioned bout the briefing right, then next day morning tracy told me that i talked alot leh. she said she thought i was those quiet type and i talked more than i ever did in class xD. lols then i was like thinking did i seriously talk that much? imagine a briefing split between 6 people and thats more than i ever talked in class lols. oh well, guess i didn't think i was that silent =X
day 3
was behind schedule in the morning, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lols xD. then quickly did whatever we had to and had our lessons on kayaking. i think all we learnt was theory on front paddling, back paddling, stern right / left then started to rain liao, then just took out poncho and sat there for 1 hour +++. was damn sian la that time, fell asleep, then was quite cold as well. lol then you know after the rain cleared up, we set off after having capsize drill and we were like 1 hr +++ behind schedule. lol is like we set off on an 10km long journey without any sort of practice before at kayaking xD. i seriously think we damn pro la, anyhow zham also can so successful xD. you know day 2 we had some activites then one of them was skipping rope, like whole group skipping one rope. then we just anyhow zham and tried and set a record of 12 xD while other groups like 1 or 0? and it was damn fun la, i seriously think we deprived of childhood man =X. then just kayaked for 10km, being more than 1 hr behind time. i think those ppl kayaking with me damn sian, cos well, kayaking i dunno do how many times before liao, then they got kayak no kayak not much diff =X i think i can solo kayak whole 10 km ._. ok la, shouldn't be complacent ._. you know at the mangrove swamp the insects there damn scary. i was wearing long sleeve shirt but they bite through my shirt anyway and into my flesh ._. wah piangs, and the same insect bit me twice somemore, and it wasn't a mosquito leh, was way too fat to be one. then had 2 points where we had to pull the kayaks onto ground and walk awhile, then set them back into the water. quite tiring bah o.O since sea ex leaders had to do most of the jobs.
but damn proud of the whole fleet, cos in the end everybody managed to endure and gain alot of motivation to kayak faster haha. then we reached at 5.15 sia, ahead of schedule when the time we set off was like 1 hr +++ after schedule xD. and everybody arms were aching, maybe should have told them how to kayak properly, oh well xD i starboard mah, must stay at right side. and you know the instructor came over and told me she didn't hear my voice, then i was like wth. cos shore was near and i have to keep all of them to the left. then whoever came close i will tell them keep left, then the instructor said she didn't hear my voice at all -_- piangs leh.. after that i just kept shouting at ppl to keep left.
then we reached campsite 1, a highly civilised place lol. the facilities quite good la, and had proper dinner and bath (finally xD) and you know nicholas refused to bath sia, after all that mud sweat and seawater he refused to bath. then we just told him we will throw him out of tent if he don't want to bath -_- wah lau its like for his own personal hygiene la, then after the whole group *ahem* persuaded *ahem* him for like 1 hr, he finally went to bath. then you know that night, tianqi slept in toliet instead of the tent -_-
day 4
trekked from campsite 1 to campsite 2. tianqi wanted to be navigator again, and at first backtracked alot of times, but don't really blame him la, walking through a forest won't guarantee a walkable path de. then we actually went around to pick durians lol, didn't even go to all of the checkpoints, and yeah melissa injured her feet somehow. then after alot of walking finally reached, haha somehow the whole group got a surge of motivation to walk faster and chionged to the campsite ^^. hillary got attacked by bees, scary sia..hope all of them are well. then cooked a celebratory (is there even such a word? o.O) dinner lols, cooked damn lot, but i wanted to try alot of new cuisine xD (like rice cooked with milo ^^, or maybe maggi mee cooked with milo xD) but in the end all were normal food haha. nothing much happened on this day, oh ya. you know during the night we were all sleeping then suddenly the instructor came to our tents and said 'utama wake up in 5 seconds or i am going to unpitch your tents' lols damn scary sia you know, the voice like damn fierce, but i think i can guess what happened le. then you know while i was wearing my shoe she was taking off the fly sheet ._. yeah then quickly gathered and went to search for tianqi and gang who didn't sleep again in the tent. must find them in 5 mins and bring them there, saw there around hall or canteen area. then tio scolded, but i don't bear a grudge or blame them or anything la.
day 5
area cleaning blah blah blah took a whole box of rations and dumped them at singapore cos apparently nobody wanted them. abit regret cos waste all that food, hopefully somebody will take them sia.. (its all edible la, the loaves of bread and stuff). sorry getting impatient at this long post, you know its already 1am+ feel like sleeping le._.
i dunno whether its a benefit or con from being in a ug, cos its like my 3rd time camping in pulau ubin liao xP. so the stuff there don't really affect me or surprise me well, pretty much at all xD. did high elements quite a few times before (oh shit, i forgot to blog bout high elements, oh well xD) npcc camp one was alot more physically draining and scary lols. kayaking do alot of times le. and its not even my first time being forced to wake up in the middle of the night facing angry ncos/ instructors =X. lol yeah you get the idea, haha, i think almost everybody else enjoyed the experience, and i think i also learnt something from it bah.
you know kayaking i was worried we would have to pitch tent in the dark, and that kayaking wouldn't be fun for them xD. so when it was over, all the sea ex leaders were made to say something. i thought about all the stuff i could say but i just said 'hope you all enjoyed your kayaking' xD i think i also wanna apologise for shouting at them to keep left so much ._. 5th day made to give reflections as well. and i said my lowest point was during area cleaning cos i got bored xP. cos well, i said it half joking and half serious. the trekking and other stuff never really affected me lehs. just that during area cleaning felt like sleeping already, and area cleaning wasn't very interesting and i knew the purpose of area cleaning (though it was just cleaning the storeroom) i wonder if that is a good thing leh, seriously dunno. to not get affected by all these stuff. actually i wonder if i got affected or i really didn't get affected. bleh maybe i'm thinking too much again bah, sorry for the sian post, i'm not really in the best of moods now -_-
good night people, hope everybody enjoyed their obs and have a memorable journey ^^
