Wang went mad today and made the sec1 juniors walk the beam with loads of obstacles hahaha errr!!!
and then he made them play really spastic games as PT haha!
My hou kong is really weird and random now o.o It feels totally different everytime =/
and sianglin said my houkong is very emotional lol! like huh?!?!?!? haha!
March 14, 2007
WHEE LALA!!! today was a HAPPY day!!!!!!!! finally! =DD
Training was at SJI today! i love the sji tramp!! haha okay not exactly but at least it makes me feel safer than the nanyang one ^^ And im proud of myself today!!! I didnt shibai although wang asked us to bi3 sai4 (mock competition) straight even before we jumped at all. I waas totally freaked out but i did it yay!!!!!
And harry potter! That harry potter SJI guy who i think is called Ernest changed so much! He used to looks like harry potter always smiling but now he looks so ragged =/
Peixi and Cenjun came to visit us today yay!! =D and we went to coro to have lunch and chit chat after training =]]]
Tonight i went out for my birthday dinner!
It was this dinner buffet at this nice jap restaurant at Marina Square which offered a barbeque and steamboat. It was just free flow of everything and so we grab whatever we want and cook it ourselves.
This is the steamboat thing with alot of stuff inside =D
The teppanyaki is yummy!!! The beef is reallyyyy yummy!!!
Its a really great place for gatherings! Almost everybody there are teens.
Comon who wants to go for some good food some day =D
And finally THANK YOU HUIQING!! for remember my birthday! HAHA you can seriously forgive yourself now -.-
mwahaha thank you huiqing!!! =D
March 13, 2007
March 12, 2007
WOR my bro just bought a tube of mister potato for me plus some waterchestnut and sugarcane drink -.- My first ever birthday gift from him! And the first thing he did was to open the drink and drink it. -.- so self service.
Okay nvrmind! i shall be happy that he finally remembered, the last hour of 12th march.
Okay nvrmind! i shall be happy that he finally remembered, the last hour of 12th march.
12 March =] Any other ordinary day in your life, but its my very own special day! although i really do spend it like any other day.
There was gym in the morning and after that went to orchad with yiyan to just hang out. i realised since i couldnt peacefully stay at home the whole day, i might as well be out the whole day =] so we ate lunch and met up with patty and just walked all around orchad trying to find presents for the other march babies. i still didnt manage to buy any in the end xD but i had a super happy day eating today hahaha. had long johns, then venezia, then takopachi, then bought marshmallows, then cappuccino haha. i wanted to buy a bigO from NYDC but didnt in the end =[
So then i came home! =]
It was a nice day today! Thank you Yiyan and Patty for spending the day with me walking around aimlessly at orchad! =DDD
And THANK YOU to everybody who remembered! really really appreciated that sms, call, ecard or friendster testimonal! Thank you!!!
Thank you Yiyan, Patty, Jiale, Kerri![all the way from shanghai! loveee!], Zee, Guen, Zhee, Huiying, Jeanne, Yining, Amanda, Rina, Jiayi, Sammie, Sarah, Sam, Miko, Tiffany, Rachel! [hhaaha thank you for specially calling me at 12.03 pm :D], Ashleen, Eva, and all my old friends, wai wai, zifeng, kheng tang, kai rui, guo zhu, zhongting + everybody else whom i forgot to mention sorry!
Thank you all again!!! =]]] It meant alot to me! esp since nobody at home bothered to hope that i have a happy birthday -.- [LIU WENQIANG READ THIS, and my mum too].
Daddy in beijing remembered! yay :D
There was gym in the morning and after that went to orchad with yiyan to just hang out. i realised since i couldnt peacefully stay at home the whole day, i might as well be out the whole day =] so we ate lunch and met up with patty and just walked all around orchad trying to find presents for the other march babies. i still didnt manage to buy any in the end xD but i had a super happy day eating today hahaha. had long johns, then venezia, then takopachi, then bought marshmallows, then cappuccino haha. i wanted to buy a bigO from NYDC but didnt in the end =[
So then i came home! =]
It was a nice day today! Thank you Yiyan and Patty for spending the day with me walking around aimlessly at orchad! =DDD
And THANK YOU to everybody who remembered! really really appreciated that sms, call, ecard or friendster testimonal! Thank you!!!
Thank you Yiyan, Patty, Jiale, Kerri![all the way from shanghai! loveee!], Zee, Guen, Zhee, Huiying, Jeanne, Yining, Amanda, Rina, Jiayi, Sammie, Sarah, Sam, Miko, Tiffany, Rachel! [hhaaha thank you for specially calling me at 12.03 pm :D], Ashleen, Eva, and all my old friends, wai wai, zifeng, kheng tang, kai rui, guo zhu, zhongting + everybody else whom i forgot to mention sorry!
Thank you all again!!! =]]] It meant alot to me! esp since nobody at home bothered to hope that i have a happy birthday -.- [LIU WENQIANG READ THIS, and my mum too].
Daddy in beijing remembered! yay :D
Day Four - The wild dogs' barks woke us up, though we were still late haha. After packing up we went to meet Sam and he brought us up to the top of the hill to see the sunrise. We couldnt really see much but the morning view of singapore over the ocean was nice =] drowsy sleepy singapore.
We then picked up our super heavy haversacks and started on a 7 or 8 hour trek all over the island and back to camp 2. It was super duper tiring and our shoulders were achingg TT but Columbus survived! yay! Along the way Ashleen started telling the yellow ribbon story in chinese. I thought the story was so touching!!! Hahaah and it was also super funny the way Ashleen said it =DD Great job Ashy! The story was something like this,
We then picked up our super heavy haversacks and started on a 7 or 8 hour trek all over the island and back to camp 2. It was super duper tiring and our shoulders were achingg TT but Columbus survived! yay! Along the way Ashleen started telling the yellow ribbon story in chinese. I thought the story was so touching!!! Hahaah and it was also super funny the way Ashleen said it =DD Great job Ashy! The story was something like this,
There was once a prisoner who got into prison for i forgot what crime. He felt really guilty toward his wife and child. One day he decided to write a letter to them, "Im sorry for what i've done and i hope you will forgive me. If you are willing to forgive me, tie a yellow ribbon to the old oak tree outside our house." He then sent it to them, but while in jail, day by day he worried whether his wife and son would forgive him. The day came and he was released from jail. He got onto a taxi and as it turned into his neighbourhood, he got off and slowly walked toward his home, still worrying ‘他们会原谅我吗？他们会原谅我吗？' And as he took the last turn to his house, he started crying and crying and crying and crying......
因为满树都是黄色的蝴蝶结。
因为满树都是黄色的蝴蝶结。
Its such a nice story..... =]
After travelling on, we came to the top of some hill, the highest point in pulau ubin. and WOAH the scene below was so pretty!!! it was a freshwater lake and the water was a beautiful blue. We could also see the rest of pulau ubin though it was really all covered with trees =]]] We had our lunch there and Sam made us stand at the edge of the cliff to shout aloud our aspirations and throw a stone down into the lake. It was a nice little activity =]]
We then carried on to our other checkpoints after that. Somewhere along the way, we came to a little shrine, the German Girl Shrine. i found the story behind the shrine very interesting =]
After an amazing 7 hours of walking and resting and walking again, we finally reached camp 2! home sweet home! I never realised on day 1 that someday camp 2 would be such a pleasant place to return to =] We finally pitched our tent for the last time, cooked dinner for the last time, and had our evening circle for the last time. We did a little skit for Sam before evening circle to show our appreciation for him being such a great instructor. although he didnt really react, he didnt react at all actually, hope he felt our sincerity =] After that, we had our last activity. We were brought into the forest and told to switch off all torchlights. It was very dark and pretty scary standing there waiting. Four by four, we were brought to this well-like thing which turned out to be a tunnel built in WW11. I was rather freaked out coz i was afraid of the dark but once i got in, i just held jiale's hand tightly and we crawled inch by inch along. It was pretty fun, and especially comforting to know that theres someone to trust and guide you along and that you are not alone in the pitch dark. And so does this apply to life, its so comforting to know that there are always friends to lean on =]
It was lights out after that and our tent really really really really stank bleargh. we kept trying to fan the smell out but there was still a little x[ So me, jiale, ashleen, shiing and aoyuan had our last hearty chat before falling asleep.
Day Five - as usual we woke up late again! but we managed to finish all our packing and returning stuff back into the stall yay! Columbus was so effective for the first time! ^^we were rather early for once and while hammering pegs the artists in our group designed a card for Sam =] After finally accounting for everything in the stall, we had one nestin, one swiss knife, and 2 tent pegs missing. Everybody only paid 1buck =]
Finally, we had our last morning circle, and Ashleen just started crying, which affected some other of us. We had our final sharing as we passed a ball of twine around, representing the bonds we had forged these five days. By the end everybody shared most of us were tearing already... Then sam took out a knife to cut our 'bonds' till now i still dont know why. I just felt really sad that columbus was gonna separate, after these 5 days of bonding and doing everything together and i couldnt help but cry too. It was just a deep sadness inside that we were leaving each other, and also partly because we were returning to harsh reality.
As we were finally walking to the jetty, we said bye to Sam for the last time and walked. Then waaaaaa started crying all over again, especially seeing the boat leave further and further away from the island we devoted 5 days of our lives to. Within this very short 5 days, it was amazing how we could forge such a strong bond with 14 other people whom we werent close to, and realise so much about ourselves and the others.
And these 5 days, we also got to know a really great man! Sam! He taught us alot and was a really great instructor, never once scolding us but constantly, patiently reminding us.
Shall end of with some of the quotes,
"Staying together is a beginning, Sticking together is a process and Dying together is a commitment"
" You will not discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore"
" The same sun that melts the wax, hardens the clay"
"Perseverance prevails when all else fails."
and finally, his classic lines,
"Thats a very good question"
"If I told you, i would have to kill you."
"Wheres the fun in that?"
"FWAH!"
After travelling on, we came to the top of some hill, the highest point in pulau ubin. and WOAH the scene below was so pretty!!! it was a freshwater lake and the water was a beautiful blue. We could also see the rest of pulau ubin though it was really all covered with trees =]]] We had our lunch there and Sam made us stand at the edge of the cliff to shout aloud our aspirations and throw a stone down into the lake. It was a nice little activity =]]
We then carried on to our other checkpoints after that. Somewhere along the way, we came to a little shrine, the German Girl Shrine. i found the story behind the shrine very interesting =]
After an amazing 7 hours of walking and resting and walking again, we finally reached camp 2! home sweet home! I never realised on day 1 that someday camp 2 would be such a pleasant place to return to =] We finally pitched our tent for the last time, cooked dinner for the last time, and had our evening circle for the last time. We did a little skit for Sam before evening circle to show our appreciation for him being such a great instructor. although he didnt really react, he didnt react at all actually, hope he felt our sincerity =] After that, we had our last activity. We were brought into the forest and told to switch off all torchlights. It was very dark and pretty scary standing there waiting. Four by four, we were brought to this well-like thing which turned out to be a tunnel built in WW11. I was rather freaked out coz i was afraid of the dark but once i got in, i just held jiale's hand tightly and we crawled inch by inch along. It was pretty fun, and especially comforting to know that theres someone to trust and guide you along and that you are not alone in the pitch dark. And so does this apply to life, its so comforting to know that there are always friends to lean on =]
It was lights out after that and our tent really really really really stank bleargh. we kept trying to fan the smell out but there was still a little x[ So me, jiale, ashleen, shiing and aoyuan had our last hearty chat before falling asleep.
Day Five - as usual we woke up late again! but we managed to finish all our packing and returning stuff back into the stall yay! Columbus was so effective for the first time! ^^we were rather early for once and while hammering pegs the artists in our group designed a card for Sam =] After finally accounting for everything in the stall, we had one nestin, one swiss knife, and 2 tent pegs missing. Everybody only paid 1buck =]
Finally, we had our last morning circle, and Ashleen just started crying, which affected some other of us. We had our final sharing as we passed a ball of twine around, representing the bonds we had forged these five days. By the end everybody shared most of us were tearing already... Then sam took out a knife to cut our 'bonds' till now i still dont know why. I just felt really sad that columbus was gonna separate, after these 5 days of bonding and doing everything together and i couldnt help but cry too. It was just a deep sadness inside that we were leaving each other, and also partly because we were returning to harsh reality.
As we were finally walking to the jetty, we said bye to Sam for the last time and walked. Then waaaaaa started crying all over again, especially seeing the boat leave further and further away from the island we devoted 5 days of our lives to. Within this very short 5 days, it was amazing how we could forge such a strong bond with 14 other people whom we werent close to, and realise so much about ourselves and the others.
And these 5 days, we also got to know a really great man! Sam! He taught us alot and was a really great instructor, never once scolding us but constantly, patiently reminding us.
Shall end of with some of the quotes,
"Staying together is a beginning, Sticking together is a process and Dying together is a commitment"
" You will not discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore"
" The same sun that melts the wax, hardens the clay"
"Perseverance prevails when all else fails."
and finally, his classic lines,
"Thats a very good question"
"If I told you, i would have to kill you."
"Wheres the fun in that?"
"FWAH!"
I'll really miss OBS and Columbus and baby Columbus and Sam. =[
March 10, 2007
OBS OBS OBS!!!!
I just got back from obs on Friday! with a totally different mood as i would have expected myself to be in though =[ i was feeling rather sad as i walked up to my doorstep which seemed so strange and braced myself to return to reality. I wasn't all that keen to return to civilisation, air-con or my comfy bed after all.
OBS was a totally new experience (and fun too! now that i look back) and everybody should go for obs!
First day - went to school early in the morning, and i mean really early. i think i was the second student in school la hahaha coz i took a ride from my dad's taxi since hes going to the airport. And so i sat in the canteen alone doing physics -.- rarrrrrr! before camp still gotta rush homework and soon enough people started coming and i went back to classroom where everybody were copying answers haha! gosh the beginning of the five days wasn't very encouraging.
after rushing and rushing and handing up physics we all just went to the LT stayed there, then got shuffled up a bus and before we knew it we were at punggol jetty. we then waited for quite awhile before 12 of us got onto a boat. I still remember the boat ride there was filled with uncertainty and excitement =D when we reached the other jetty the instructor accompanying our boat went "Its not too late to regret, its only a 2km swim back". like wa.... so encouraging... hahaha. i couldnt walk straight when walking to the campsite haha! im so lousy xD
The first thing we did when we got on shore was that we got lost! HAHA the scene was so funny.
[Sidetrack abit first, later in the following days when we had our circle with our instructor,
Ashleen: We have a suggestion for obs! Put signboards! the first thing we came to obs we got lost! Then some uncle had to direct us from the jetty.
Sam: By any chance was he doing this *starts waving his hands in some way*
Ashleen: I dont know, ya i think so...
Sam: That was me.
The rest of us: *laughs like mad!* HAHAHA]
After getting the correct direction we walked abit and came to a hall where we were sorted out and seated in our groups. Then a instructor went up to the front and started briefing us with his incredibly DJ-ish voice. He really sounded like a DJ! =]] After everybody arrived we had another briefing and were given our group names plus introduced to our instructors. Our group was called Columbus! [ =D unusually nice name among the others, eg battuta?? cheng ho??] and our instructor was Samuel whom we all call Sam in the end , and yes he is the DJ! And coincidentally the same instructor whom waiian had and happily told me all about! haha!
The next one hour was spent getting to know our teammates. 302: Jessica, Stefanie, Suesin, Shi Ing, Ao Yuan, Xiao Yang, Jiale and me! 310: Ashleen, Francis, Edwyna, Samantha, SuHuan, Katherine and Xiao Xiao! Columbus is love!!! And that we when we got to really get a taste of Sam's lameness. Sam is super lame!!!! But along the course i realised that most of teh instructors were too -.-
We did a check of our equipments, got our food supplies for the next five days: alot alot alot alot alot of biscuits, maggi mee, weird can food, funny prunes and raisins whom nobody ate, and lotsa bread.
After doing all these stuff we started on our outdoor adventures. Firstly we followed Sam and climbed up a long staircase which Sam calls the 'stairway to heaven' and we discovered a grass plain with all the height activities. But we continued walking and came to somewhere inside the forest where he then taught us how to pitch a tent and we were sleeping there that night! We took the tent which he pitched for demo and it was the best, non-saggy tent we had the whole five days HAHA! And jiale, me, aoyuan, shiing and ashleen decided to be tentmates =D After pitching our tents we went to do a trust fall activity, where each of us had to stand on a higher platform and fall backwards while our teammates we pulling on a blue sheet ready to catch us. i thought it was fun! =DDD And after that we learnt how to wear our harness properly and learnt the basics of rockclimbing, belaying etc.
After all of that we had to cook! YAY food! FOOD! although our rice was half-cooked,crunchy and very tiring to chew on, dinner was nice! with canned baked beans and cocktails. anything is nice when you're hungry ^^ After dinner we went to bathe and the water is sooooo cold!! x[ I kind of forgot what we did next o.o i think we gathered and Sam briefed us on packing for the next days activities and then we went to pack! We were also introduced to baby Columbus! Our super cute yellow first aid bag ^^ baby columbus is really very cute!! hahaha !After that there was a firedrill! The fire alarm was just a big bell which one of the instructors had to keep ringing. the bell is so cute! hahaha! Everybody had to go down to the jetty area and samantha saves the day since shes so tall (and even taller when she raised her hand) which makes her so easy to spot among the ren shan ren hai even from so far away HAHA!
After firedrill was lights out and i slept nearest to the opening of the tent. But i guess its the best spot since theres the most fresh air =D I flipped around for quite a while before falling asleep but i kept waking up in the middle of the night before falling back to sleep. First night was rather sad x( although i wasn't sleeping on a root like poor Aoyuan hahaha!
Second Day - We woke up early in the morning around 530, being greeted by malay prayers coming from dunno where. And on the way down from mozzie ground we bumped into a spider web! right smack in front of our faces oh gosh i cant imagine if Ashleen didn't shine the light onto it. wa so sad! haha its so freaky! we washed up and continued packing but we were late xD haha late on the first day! but Sam didnt scold us though we were really quite late. After PT and journal writing, we picked up our super duper duper duper duper duper heavy backpack and head out to our next campsite. We were totally dying as we walked to a lake and finally got to put down our bags at a alpine rescue site. The site had log structures and we were supposed to transport our stretcher with our supposedly injured casualty, which was 2 bagpacks, across to the other side. It was there also that we met our buddy watch, raleigh! (rachel's watch) and their instructor called lam (or maybe its lum). He is super lame tooo!!!!!! rarrr hahahah! And apparently Raleigh was rather close to instructor lam and they called him "lam of shit" (lump of shit) hahaha!
Anyway back to the activity, Columbus was super successful at this activity!!! we got on to the third station and only didnt manage to complete our last phase. Here, we started to bond as a watch and Columbus was really highspirited ^^ Raleigh was quite down and havent managed to complete their first stop after an hour. Maybe its because their first stop is the most challenging.
After that we put on our horrible backpacks again and trekked over to camp 1, the chalet like camp. We were really dying off as we trekked but luckily we didnt trek for very long. After putting down our haversacks we were given a tour of the pretty campsite and we were totally hyped up when we got to eat lunch there!! (at least i was!) FOOD!!! FOOOD!!!! I piled alot of rice onto my plate and we got veggie and some really nice meat and ice cold rootbeer!!!!! gosh thats the best treat after having drunk super chlorinated water straight from the tap for the previous day. I've never appreciated food so much more in my life. it was totally heavenly!! Oh yes and Ashleen teared upon seeing the nice soft rice when she thought of the rice we had cooked ourselves last night. hahahah! Sams plate was really a mountain! he really does eat alot of rice!
After the really satisfying lunch, we went rockclimbing! It wasnt all that scary afterall since i've got a fear of heights. I just climbed and worried about how to take the next step, while somewhere deep inside me i knew i wouldn't die coz jiale was belaying me down there and she wouldnt let me die either ^^ And after climbing and climbing i found i was stuck and since it was raining i came down. Thats when i realised i was so high above, maybe its nothing for you but i was really happy with my height! =DD
We had another happy dinner and then went back to pitch our tents when it stopped raining. but i found my bag plus my belongings wet!!!! so disgusting! x( After bathing and stuff we had supper, nice hot green bean soup which didnt seem very popular but i liked it =] After that we had our evening circle, sharing our thoughts on that day and then lights out. I slept right inside this time and it was so stuffy x(
I slept right through this night though =D
Third Day - We arose with the chanting of the muslim prayers again. After packing up, we geared up for a new day of kayaking to a new campsite! Pt was some fun "left left left, right right right, forward, backward, forward forward forward" game! hahah =D we had some really nice un-milo-ish milo for breakfast and beehoon. Then we loaded our stuff onto a boat before we went off to learn kayaking, how to kayak, capsize, etc. And while Sam was teaching a big jellyfish just floated onto shore with the waves. so freaky!!!! Capsizing was so not fun, especially in the open ocean. Its like forcing yourself to kill yourself and frantically attempting to save yourself after that. Plus its especially scary when you're about to capsize and you see a jellyfish somewhere around you!!! waaa lol.
But kayaking was really fun!! =D sorry jiale for always asking you to turn!!! coz we keep overturning when we turn HAHA =DD While we were struggling and rowing for our life, our instructors were in their "Sam and Lam Loveboat", zoom forward and wait for us to slowly catch up. After about 3 hours(?) we arrived at our next campsite! I love this campsite! coz its so serene although there are wild dogs and they are rather noisy -.- The doggies are cute! Hee! =D The toilet however was horrible. the water coming from the tap is BROWN and it stinks! and there are a million mozzies in the toilet hahaha! and on the way back from the tour to the toilet we witnessed how rachel and lam bickers and its totally hilarious!!! could die laughing ahahah!!
We spent the rest of the time unpacking, pitching our tents, cooking and eating dinner. Suhuans backpack went missing and we went around hunting for it but still couldnt find it =[[[ so sad. After that sam brought us up to the top of a tiny hill and had our evening circle. It was a totally wonderful evening and our laughter ringing out into the silent night was a really cool feeling. I could really really feel the bond in our group at that moment and i knew i would totally miss columbus. Sam also shared his story that night and it was really hard to believe and touching..... after journal writing, we just lay on the pavement and looked up in the dark dark night with all the pretty stars decorating the sky with its glowing light. It was the most beautiful night sky i've seen and its probably the first time i totally felt stress free.
Lights out after that!
[ okay i shall stop and continue on with OBS blogging tmr.
I shall just start whining about today now. AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! theres gym tmr!!!!! GRR spoil my wonderfully planned special day! and i was planning to bake my day away at home tmr TT roar! Nvrmind i shall go walk orchad after cca ^^ ]
I just got back from obs on Friday! with a totally different mood as i would have expected myself to be in though =[ i was feeling rather sad as i walked up to my doorstep which seemed so strange and braced myself to return to reality. I wasn't all that keen to return to civilisation, air-con or my comfy bed after all.
OBS was a totally new experience (and fun too! now that i look back) and everybody should go for obs!
First day - went to school early in the morning, and i mean really early. i think i was the second student in school la hahaha coz i took a ride from my dad's taxi since hes going to the airport. And so i sat in the canteen alone doing physics -.- rarrrrrr! before camp still gotta rush homework and soon enough people started coming and i went back to classroom where everybody were copying answers haha! gosh the beginning of the five days wasn't very encouraging.
after rushing and rushing and handing up physics we all just went to the LT stayed there, then got shuffled up a bus and before we knew it we were at punggol jetty. we then waited for quite awhile before 12 of us got onto a boat. I still remember the boat ride there was filled with uncertainty and excitement =D when we reached the other jetty the instructor accompanying our boat went "Its not too late to regret, its only a 2km swim back". like wa.... so encouraging... hahaha. i couldnt walk straight when walking to the campsite haha! im so lousy xD
The first thing we did when we got on shore was that we got lost! HAHA the scene was so funny.
[Sidetrack abit first, later in the following days when we had our circle with our instructor,
Ashleen: We have a suggestion for obs! Put signboards! the first thing we came to obs we got lost! Then some uncle had to direct us from the jetty.
Sam: By any chance was he doing this *starts waving his hands in some way*
Ashleen: I dont know, ya i think so...
Sam: That was me.
The rest of us: *laughs like mad!* HAHAHA]
After getting the correct direction we walked abit and came to a hall where we were sorted out and seated in our groups. Then a instructor went up to the front and started briefing us with his incredibly DJ-ish voice. He really sounded like a DJ! =]] After everybody arrived we had another briefing and were given our group names plus introduced to our instructors. Our group was called Columbus! [ =D unusually nice name among the others, eg battuta?? cheng ho??] and our instructor was Samuel whom we all call Sam in the end , and yes he is the DJ! And coincidentally the same instructor whom waiian had and happily told me all about! haha!
The next one hour was spent getting to know our teammates. 302: Jessica, Stefanie, Suesin, Shi Ing, Ao Yuan, Xiao Yang, Jiale and me! 310: Ashleen, Francis, Edwyna, Samantha, SuHuan, Katherine and Xiao Xiao! Columbus is love!!! And that we when we got to really get a taste of Sam's lameness. Sam is super lame!!!! But along the course i realised that most of teh instructors were too -.-
We did a check of our equipments, got our food supplies for the next five days: alot alot alot alot alot of biscuits, maggi mee, weird can food, funny prunes and raisins whom nobody ate, and lotsa bread.
After doing all these stuff we started on our outdoor adventures. Firstly we followed Sam and climbed up a long staircase which Sam calls the 'stairway to heaven' and we discovered a grass plain with all the height activities. But we continued walking and came to somewhere inside the forest where he then taught us how to pitch a tent and we were sleeping there that night! We took the tent which he pitched for demo and it was the best, non-saggy tent we had the whole five days HAHA! And jiale, me, aoyuan, shiing and ashleen decided to be tentmates =D After pitching our tents we went to do a trust fall activity, where each of us had to stand on a higher platform and fall backwards while our teammates we pulling on a blue sheet ready to catch us. i thought it was fun! =DDD And after that we learnt how to wear our harness properly and learnt the basics of rockclimbing, belaying etc.
After all of that we had to cook! YAY food! FOOD! although our rice was half-cooked,crunchy and very tiring to chew on, dinner was nice! with canned baked beans and cocktails. anything is nice when you're hungry ^^ After dinner we went to bathe and the water is sooooo cold!! x[ I kind of forgot what we did next o.o i think we gathered and Sam briefed us on packing for the next days activities and then we went to pack! We were also introduced to baby Columbus! Our super cute yellow first aid bag ^^ baby columbus is really very cute!! hahaha !After that there was a firedrill! The fire alarm was just a big bell which one of the instructors had to keep ringing. the bell is so cute! hahaha! Everybody had to go down to the jetty area and samantha saves the day since shes so tall (and even taller when she raised her hand) which makes her so easy to spot among the ren shan ren hai even from so far away HAHA!
After firedrill was lights out and i slept nearest to the opening of the tent. But i guess its the best spot since theres the most fresh air =D I flipped around for quite a while before falling asleep but i kept waking up in the middle of the night before falling back to sleep. First night was rather sad x( although i wasn't sleeping on a root like poor Aoyuan hahaha!
Second Day - We woke up early in the morning around 530, being greeted by malay prayers coming from dunno where. And on the way down from mozzie ground we bumped into a spider web! right smack in front of our faces oh gosh i cant imagine if Ashleen didn't shine the light onto it. wa so sad! haha its so freaky! we washed up and continued packing but we were late xD haha late on the first day! but Sam didnt scold us though we were really quite late. After PT and journal writing, we picked up our super duper duper duper duper duper heavy backpack and head out to our next campsite. We were totally dying as we walked to a lake and finally got to put down our bags at a alpine rescue site. The site had log structures and we were supposed to transport our stretcher with our supposedly injured casualty, which was 2 bagpacks, across to the other side. It was there also that we met our buddy watch, raleigh! (rachel's watch) and their instructor called lam (or maybe its lum). He is super lame tooo!!!!!! rarrr hahahah! And apparently Raleigh was rather close to instructor lam and they called him "lam of shit" (lump of shit) hahaha!
Anyway back to the activity, Columbus was super successful at this activity!!! we got on to the third station and only didnt manage to complete our last phase. Here, we started to bond as a watch and Columbus was really highspirited ^^ Raleigh was quite down and havent managed to complete their first stop after an hour. Maybe its because their first stop is the most challenging.
After that we put on our horrible backpacks again and trekked over to camp 1, the chalet like camp. We were really dying off as we trekked but luckily we didnt trek for very long. After putting down our haversacks we were given a tour of the pretty campsite and we were totally hyped up when we got to eat lunch there!! (at least i was!) FOOD!!! FOOOD!!!! I piled alot of rice onto my plate and we got veggie and some really nice meat and ice cold rootbeer!!!!! gosh thats the best treat after having drunk super chlorinated water straight from the tap for the previous day. I've never appreciated food so much more in my life. it was totally heavenly!! Oh yes and Ashleen teared upon seeing the nice soft rice when she thought of the rice we had cooked ourselves last night. hahahah! Sams plate was really a mountain! he really does eat alot of rice!
After the really satisfying lunch, we went rockclimbing! It wasnt all that scary afterall since i've got a fear of heights. I just climbed and worried about how to take the next step, while somewhere deep inside me i knew i wouldn't die coz jiale was belaying me down there and she wouldnt let me die either ^^ And after climbing and climbing i found i was stuck and since it was raining i came down. Thats when i realised i was so high above, maybe its nothing for you but i was really happy with my height! =DD
We had another happy dinner and then went back to pitch our tents when it stopped raining. but i found my bag plus my belongings wet!!!! so disgusting! x( After bathing and stuff we had supper, nice hot green bean soup which didnt seem very popular but i liked it =] After that we had our evening circle, sharing our thoughts on that day and then lights out. I slept right inside this time and it was so stuffy x(
I slept right through this night though =D
Third Day - We arose with the chanting of the muslim prayers again. After packing up, we geared up for a new day of kayaking to a new campsite! Pt was some fun "left left left, right right right, forward, backward, forward forward forward" game! hahah =D we had some really nice un-milo-ish milo for breakfast and beehoon. Then we loaded our stuff onto a boat before we went off to learn kayaking, how to kayak, capsize, etc. And while Sam was teaching a big jellyfish just floated onto shore with the waves. so freaky!!!! Capsizing was so not fun, especially in the open ocean. Its like forcing yourself to kill yourself and frantically attempting to save yourself after that. Plus its especially scary when you're about to capsize and you see a jellyfish somewhere around you!!! waaa lol.
But kayaking was really fun!! =D sorry jiale for always asking you to turn!!! coz we keep overturning when we turn HAHA =DD While we were struggling and rowing for our life, our instructors were in their "Sam and Lam Loveboat", zoom forward and wait for us to slowly catch up. After about 3 hours(?) we arrived at our next campsite! I love this campsite! coz its so serene although there are wild dogs and they are rather noisy -.- The doggies are cute! Hee! =D The toilet however was horrible. the water coming from the tap is BROWN and it stinks! and there are a million mozzies in the toilet hahaha! and on the way back from the tour to the toilet we witnessed how rachel and lam bickers and its totally hilarious!!! could die laughing ahahah!!
We spent the rest of the time unpacking, pitching our tents, cooking and eating dinner. Suhuans backpack went missing and we went around hunting for it but still couldnt find it =[[[ so sad. After that sam brought us up to the top of a tiny hill and had our evening circle. It was a totally wonderful evening and our laughter ringing out into the silent night was a really cool feeling. I could really really feel the bond in our group at that moment and i knew i would totally miss columbus. Sam also shared his story that night and it was really hard to believe and touching..... after journal writing, we just lay on the pavement and looked up in the dark dark night with all the pretty stars decorating the sky with its glowing light. It was the most beautiful night sky i've seen and its probably the first time i totally felt stress free.
Lights out after that!
[ okay i shall stop and continue on with OBS blogging tmr.
I shall just start whining about today now. AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! theres gym tmr!!!!! GRR spoil my wonderfully planned special day! and i was planning to bake my day away at home tmr TT roar! Nvrmind i shall go walk orchad after cca ^^ ]
March 04, 2007
OBS! =]]]] yay i'll be away for 5 days getting lots of vitamin D and getting flooded by rain at pulau ubin! wheee!
its a happy thing!
However, as usual, my sunday night is stil spent doing homework -.-
stupid physics!!!!!!!!! I know we are the whatever cream of the crop but we still dont know how to read minds! how are we supposed to do when we havent been taught it -.-
wheeeee! obs obs obs obs obs!!!
its a happy thing!
However, as usual, my sunday night is stil spent doing homework -.-
stupid physics!!!!!!!!! I know we are the whatever cream of the crop but we still dont know how to read minds! how are we supposed to do when we havent been taught it -.-
wheeeee! obs obs obs obs obs!!!
March 02, 2007
Finally!!! All the suffering is over!!!
1 week of joy is waiting for us at pulau ubin! =]
it would be the only week since forever to forget all about the world and especially school. I just hope it would be a fruitful 5 days and everybody can seriously detach and have a good rest.
oh no im gonna miss hana kimi for 5 days next week. so sad!
1 week of joy is waiting for us at pulau ubin! =]
it would be the only week since forever to forget all about the world and especially school. I just hope it would be a fruitful 5 days and everybody can seriously detach and have a good rest.
oh no im gonna miss hana kimi for 5 days next week. so sad!
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