Friday, October 17, 2008 5:02 AM
OBS COURSE,
COMPLETED !
 the 4-day camp is over.
IT WAS SO SO SUPER AWESOME.
i didnt want to go home so soon actually.
even though i do miss some people.
but frankly, 4 days is rather short.
its actually 5,
but i heard mr tan compressed it into 4.
dont know why.
maybe time constrain for post-exams activities?
so here's a summarise of my camp.
i was grouped into PEGASUS.
cool name, huh?
like a unicorn, ey ?
and i so love my trainer,
jacky!
alright,day 1:
-reach EAST COAST CAMPUS. (excited)
-briefing
-interaction
-short ice-breaker games
-lunch
i tell you the food was, eek.
it was served lah,
but i wasnt used to the food.
it was like somewhat simple chinese dishes,
like the veggies,
those kinda stuffs.
i dont like that auntie.
haha neither did my group.
moving on.
-learnt belaying
belaying is like the process of where you hold the rope below
when your friend is climbing a rock wall.
to support him if he falls.
somewhat lah.
-than the real rockwall.
i couldnt do it.
i was nearly there, just a few more metres to the top.
but i gave up.
i went up for a second try,
i tried the other side,
the more challenging one, they said.
i was stuck somewhere near the top too,
my arms were aching.
but i would really like to thank
TERRY LEE BOON SIONG
for standing by me (okay lah, under me)
and guiding me!
he told me where to put my feet and hands and encouraged so much!
hah you were awesome!
-bathe
-diner
-stupid hygiene talk.
no serious, its stupid.
some lady came to visit and talked about like,
brush teeth when we go ubin later lah..
those stupid stuffs.
she talked to fast
and her handwriting on a prepared paper was super small.
i guess i have to change my new specs to a new binoculars??
-pitch tent
-halfway through, sudden fire alarm went off.
surprisingly,evryone was strolling to the assembly area.
but the instructors said we didnt do that bad.
7 minutes.
they said it was acceptable.
ouh...kay...?
-resumed tent pitching
-PEGASUS gathered in a small air-con room.
haha we were so fortunate to get to sit in an aircon room.
well, the others didnt get to hahah.
we did reflection.
yea, it was good.
-bathe
-supper
-lights out.
day 2:
-bathe
-morning PT
-breakfast
-tunnel
the tunnel is basically like 4-5 huge containers
which are totally dark inside.
we were only given a small light.
we went in threes.
i was with terry and imran.
imran was in front.
surprisingly,
terry was abit afraid of the dark too. haha
i got a new mate there haha
the tunnel was super dark.
and squeezy.
we had to crawl
and finding the small holes to pass through to another container was diff too.
and there were clues inside that we had to find.
and the answers to the quizzes would help us in the code.
the code was needed to open the door when we reached the end.
we succeeded!
there were loads of obstacles inside,
FUN FUN.
I OVERCAME MY PHOBIA OF DARKNESS!
well, most of it hehe
-CRC (confidence rope challenge, if im not wrong)
its like high elements lah.
obstacles like hanging in the air.
and YES!
I COMPLETED THIS TOO!
gosh,
-lunch
-bathe
-pack bagpack lent to us by instructors to prepare for ubin trip later on.
my group was leaving in the aft.
some groups left in the morning.
-set foot on ubin at around 5pm.
-dinner
we cooked ourselves!
we used solid fuel,
and as a team, we cooked together outdoors!
well, actually i did most of the cooking haha.
well, what to do, i like cooking? haha
and they said i cooked nice!
very nice!
even though the dish was simple
HAHAH BLUSH
we were only given like, maggie,
canned food like
mushrooms and baked beans and sardines and chicked luncheon meat.
eek all i dont like.
but i had the maggie,
and forced to eat some mushrooms since it's mixes in the maggie haha
-bathe
-pitch tent
-night walk
as usual, terry imran and i teamed up.
the instructors brought us to a forest in the night,
at around 8pm?
i guess so
we walked in straight file,
no talking was allowed,
no flashlights were to be on.
we could only trugde on,
holding on to the shoulder of the one in front of us.
after bringing us a few metres inside,
we had to go back in the smaller groups(terry imran and i)
we were second to move.
at first, i wasnt so scared.
but soon after,
i thot i saw something.
well, it was like a boy,
and black figures by my side.
i was at the extreme far left.
but i just told myself it was my imagination and moved on.
it was okay at first.
but it got worse.
i saw more and more of the same things, repeating.
i started to panic.
i asked imran if we could switch places,
me in the middle.
but he wouldnt let me.
he said i had to be more confident.
terry was silent throughout.
i could feel him scared too.
we just moved on, w me begging imran to switch places.
i couldnt take it.
in the end, we saw light.
i walked on even faster,
arms still clinged on to imran and him onto terry.
eh, we had to ?
and i pulled them even harder as i moved to the gate.
and there it was,
light.
it was over.
relief.
-gathered and climbed up the 101 steps up to our campsite.
our sleeping area.
climbing that flight of steps reminded me and terry of the show
"wishing steps"
the ghost show.
where the girl would climb up the flight of stairs while counting them.
and everytime she counted , and there would be one more step than it usually was,
she could make a wish.
but in the end, she died.
-lights out!
well not really, hahah.
there were no instructors,
they should be lazy to come all the way up to the small grass patch?
so we took the priviledge and walked ard w torches!
haha it was like a party.
i shouted out to deon and elena and walked w them.
talking over stuffs.
gwen and zeke were sleeping somewhere else.
all of us were seperated.
about an hour later,
we got some sleep.
day 3:
-morning PT
-breakfast
-hike to another campsite in ubin.
-there, we had jetty jump.
we jumped into the deep wates from the plank that was build on the jetty.
it was about 2 metres above water, i guess.
i was scared at first,
well,
the instructors said there were jellyfish and stingrays.
but in the end, i did it.
it was so so fun!
but of course, we had our life jackets on. HAHAHAH
-then, we kayak-ed.
-rinse
-hike back to former campsite.
-bathe
-dinner
-prepare raft in the night for next day,
cause schedule was tight.
we stayed up late,
last group to sleep.
-lights out !
day 4:
-unpitch tent
-morning PT
-breakfast
-rafting in the sea!
our raft was a total success!
we rafted as a group.
we went HA-HA silently as we saw a group's raft fail.
it fell apart once let onto the waters,
hehe mean old us.
-rinse
-cleanup campsite.
-pack bagpack
-ferry-ed back to east coast campus.
-lunch
-pack personal bag
-homed
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