Saturday, January 22, 2005 ♠
♥ 2:55:00 PM
It's been a long long time since i last updated. When was it?? yup
Last day of 2004. haha....
Juz came back from obs. Well come to think about it not realli juz came back lah, came back for 2 days liao. I miss OBS!!!!!!!!!! It's hell when you are there but once its all over you'll start to miss it. haha.... i dunno how to describ it.
Yah i miss Obs now but if u ask me to go back there again i would rather say no. Get the idea.....
Everything ended so fast. I can still remember one week ago, i was fussing round the house trying to get all my things stuffed into the camping bag ready to go to OBS. One week later, i'm at home typing tis entry.
okee, some
basic intro.
I'm from NILA UTAMA ( i think its one of the best watch) hehe....
It is headed by Joansa aka Ju/ ah ju
It consists of me (duh) and 14 others. U guys should noe who i'm talking about ya. I'm too lazy to type out everybodies name.
Was at CAmp 2 which is mobile
DAY ONE
Took the boat to ubin. Nearly laughed horsed in the boat. Found out tat ubin was actually cali's homeetown. haha... Went up the jetty and nearly got lost. haha... i tell u we are so lame loh. After all the buzzing around and tryting to locate where are we supposed to go, we were shorted up into our watches. Once again i'm in NILA UTAMA. Got to meet Ju and started the usual intros and stuff. ANd the day goes by and its finally night time. I had no freeking idea on how to pitch a tent but lucky for me or maybe i should say lucky for the whole watch we had elaine. haha... she's a true guider and noes so many things about camping. SHe helped us pitch our tents. Our campsite was actually quite good on the first day juz tat the ground was a little too hard for the pegs to go down. Then it was dinner time!!! Haha... our first dinner was horrible. We didn't noe how to cook in the wild. We juz emptied all our rice into tis big pot and place it over soild fuel. Trust me, do not ever use soild fuel to cook, it stinks. Not onli tat the smell will also get into the food itself and our rice tasted of solid fuel and some was not even cooked.It was hard. Horrible.
Then we tried cooking other can foods like curry chick, chick soup and sardin. All of us were like actually playin wif food on the first day lah. We added tis to tat and tat to tis. haha.... get it? We were pouring all the source all the soup into our rice to try to make it taste better. But still it tasted bad real bad. And in the end we fed the rice to the dustbin. and the night went on.
Oh we had belay sch tat day too. How could i forget.. THE BELAY CALLS haha...
DAY TWO
Can't realli remembered wat time i woke up but i knew it was kindda early. Had to unpitch our tents and packed em' up. Walked down the excetly 100 steps for breakfast and started our kayakin course. Kayakin was fun but i nearly died there man. haha... we had to capsize but i didn't now how to go back to my kayak so me and elaine was like floating on the sea for like more then 20 minutes. haha... i think ju wanted to kill us at tat point of time cause no matter how hard or loud she shouted to us we juz could not get back onto the kayak. Tat was juz the start. We still had to kayak to the other part of ubin. and tat took us like 6 hours. I totally had no more control over my two arms. They were like juz tis 2 things hanging out from my body. It was so so damn tiring.
One thing i dun understand is WHy do we hac to do cross island while the rest did not need to. Doing cross island is so so tiring. We had to kayak till tis small meander look alike wif man grooves at its side. After tat we reached tis i dunno wat do u call tat... em lets juz call it check point lah. yup we reached tis check point and had to get out from our kayak and carry it for a short distance. The kayak was HEAVY. After tat we kayaked for a while more and reached a mud wall. We had to carry our heavy kayak again. I got out from the kayak too early and sank straight into the mud. It was disgusting. The mud juz sort of went *poof* and up it into my shirt and onto my body. Lucky for me i was wearing my swimming costume. After trying so hard to climb up the mud wall we had to slide down. It was dirty again. I sat on the mud wall and pushed myself down. My whole butt and back was so muddy and it stinks. After much attepts me and juelei finally got into our kayak onli to get stuck into the mangrooves. We could not move at all. The mangroove had tis chopsticks look alike brunches tat cliped the front of our kayak and our back was already the mud wall. There was no where we could move. haha... but then isabell's kayak came and helped pulled us away. It was so stupid then. After kayaking for like another hour or more we finally reached our campsite. By the time we reached the sky was like aready turning dark and we had to pitch out tents in the darkness. We could not see wat we were doing and actually pitched our tents on ants hill. and i think tat made them very angry caused we were being bitten non stop by them. haha... tat night real bad. All of us stink as we could not bath and ants were bitting us non stop. i couldn't wait to leave tat sick place.
DAY THREE
Tat morning when we woke up, we found some of our bags and food bein infested wif ants. The sight was gross. Never in my whole life hav i seen so many many ants all at a place and the ants are not like the ones we see at home, its those very very big both black and red ants. Scary... WE unpitched our tents and hiked back to our original campsite. It took us close to 2.5 hours. but i was way way better then the kayaking. After tat we had flyin fox. I had no idea why but i was scared but still i did it. haha accomplishment. WE cooked our last dinner at the beach and it was so much better then the first one. During tat dinner we also formed a new group called the hungry ghost group. haha... there was the 5 of us who kept on eating and eating non stop throughout the night. But still there were left overs. I emptied the left overs into the sea and some got washed up onto the beach and guess wat i saw. I saw little worms crawlin out from the sand and tried to pull down the food into the holes they had dug. It was realli a sight. And to conclude the last night together, we all washed our pots together wif sand and sang lots of campfire songs. haha.. it was funni.
DAY FOUR
Out last day!!! Our last activity for the whole camp was rock climbing and i dropped my shoe as i climbed. It was so stupid of me. Wif tat it sort of concluded our camp. All of us had mixed feelins. We sat down wif ju and went through wat we did in the four days three nights camp. Some of us dropped tears as memories came flooding through us. Through tis camp I can defintly say i hav made more friends and we bonded alot alot. WE helped each other without any grumbles and sorted out all our differences and stayed together as one throughout the whole camp. THe feeling is great. I dun think any other camp can let u exprience tis way except OBS. Their job is to push us out of our comfort zone into the learning zone but keep us away from the danger zone. haha... i like tat.
Oh and one more quote i picked up during the camp.
"Good judgement comes from exprience- exprience usually the result of poor judgement."
Interesting.
signing off