Outward Bound Singapore.
Many returned with muscle aches, sore throats, or runny noses; I returned with none of these, but instead, bites. If anyone were to win a prize, I could very well win a prize for having the most number of bites returning fr OBS. I couldn't be bothered to count at first, but whilst applying the trusty Zambuk onto each and every one of my bites just now, I decided I might as well count them. (I couldn't be bothered to name them though, as Charmaine had suggested) A shocking number took me aback as I knew I had lots of bites judging by looking at my leg but I didn't expect that many: I had a total of 64 just on my right leg, another 58 on my left and on my arms 20 and my back 2, adding up to a grand total of 144 bites on my entire body. I know you can't believe it.. neither can I. It's the first time in my life I've gotten this many bites.. It itches like crazy and I'm constantly trying to stop scratching and I've been pretty disciplined so far I must say..Hehe. :)
(WTH I WROTE A WHOLE BIG CHUNK OF STUFF AND DELETED IT BY ACCIDENT! ):)
I don't feel like going to school on Monday and neither does anyone else I know of.
We have tons of stupid hw like si han, newspaper article review, bio hw, math and chem ws.
There are far too many things throughout the past 5 days of OBS to be written here, and many people would be lazy to bother recalling but I'mma try because I might be able to remember more and more as I write and then I can take some events I've typed down here and translate them into Chinese for my si han, saving me the hassle of having to rack my brains later! Haha so smart right hahahah :D
OOBSSSSSSSS.
Okay, I will do it by listing the stuff we did each day ok.
Monday
Went to school, reported in the hall, talked, boarded the bus, reached punggol, got into our watches, found out I'm in a watch called "Cook", took our group photo, took the ferry to Pulau Ubin, settled down, did some random admin things, played icebreaker sort of games which were to me more fun and which enabled more bonding than the usual icebreaker games. We were given our food rations which were mainly biscuits, bread and apples+oranges. Learnt how to pitch the traditional kind of tents, got into tent groups, I love my tent-mates, cooked dinner in the wild, ate rice and heated-up-but-still-not-hot canned food, bathed in a nice, clean, ulu toilet, felt great after the shower, had some pointless fire drill, went to the tent exhausted and fell asleep. Had a horrid sleep.
Tuesday
In the morning we went for PT and ran a lot.. I didn't do the push-up s properly hahah I can't do them. The dodo dance is damn spastic la. Played some lame but quite fun 'good morning' games.. After tt climbed the rock wall. Before that we went to this place where we practised belaying. The rock wall was boring and the sun was far too hot.. I managed to climb to the very top just as many ppl did as well.. But I was happy! Okay not really I wasn't in a very good mood then, but glad I managed to climb. Whilst climbing I was feeling nervous and shaky. Maybe because I was a bit tired as well la I just felt sian. But I told myself I was going to climb to the top. That rock wall was still managable but when I climbed to the top it was so high I was scared even though I'm not scared of heights normally.
After the rock wall we trekked to Camp 1 in the afternoon. I shared a backpack with Charmaine. The backpacks are freaking heavy! I think they could be 20 kg. So dumb. I hate trekking. Anyway we reached Camp 1. I don't like the place even though they have nice facilities. I much prefer camp 2 where we first went to. We went for this treasure hunt which was pretty lame and pointless, I think they were trying to waste time, then we took our second group photo at the rock wall because the first one was lost.. Ate a better dinner but I was still feeling sian that day. Lalala. Queued a long time before we bathed and the water was really cold (like the first day) and strong! Like it would just burst out and "pia" at you.. Me and Charmaine were late because of the shower. Met at some place and cooked popcorn which was burned and too oily. But it didn't matter la. I think the stories they told us were quite meaningful.. LOL. Can't really remember them now though.. Oh yea then went to sleep. We slept at this ulu grassy place in some forest which was 344534590 meters away from the civilised area and at night is was so dark if we didn't have torches we couldn't see a thing. I had a suprisingly good sleep on those slopy grounds. Haha throughout the night I kept thinking it was raining but it was actually just the wind. Oh and that night we had a fun talking/ chatting session in the tent and did some silly spotlight thing with our feet and the torchlights.
Wednesday
Seemed more promising than the day before (probably the worst day). Had breakfast at the proper canteen which was pretty good I loved the milo even though it tasted mostly of condensed milk and nothing else. I asked the uncle to give me "hen shao hen shao" bee hoon because I felt like eating a western breakfast that day and had no appetite for fried bee hoon. So he gave me a few strands. I told him I could have more than that. Packed our things back into our backpacks and went kayaking! In the morning we learned how to paddle, and then went for a short journey out to sea where we HAD to capsize.. Haha it was pretty tough okay! But we were rescued successfully in the end yay! :)
Mag was my kayaking partner. It was fun the first time and I though it was over but then it turned out we had to go AGAIN, this time to our next campsite. It was really tiring man, we kayaked a long way, my arms were super tired and achy and going to collapse but we still had to continue kayaking with might in order to catch up with the rest who were far in front. The wind was especially strong and the waves choppy, so much such that our kayak kept going up and down and tilting toward the sides. We were even sucked into this "whirlpool" thing two times lor.. so stupid. We also kept bumping into other kayaks/ they bumped into us. After an arduous journey, we finally reached the shore. I thought it was the end of this tiresome journey but no, to my utter shock we had just travelled half the journey. I was like, "kill me now, somebody".
We continued kayaking after barely resting and eating some of our happy food.. Another tiring journey and we finally reached the place really exhausted but did we get to rest, no, we had to carry the heavy kayaks up the stony shore. So stupid. Aiyah, nvm it's over already ((:
Ate maggi mee at night! I was looking forward to it but the maggi mee was soggy and tasteless but even the suckiest food tastes alright in OBS. We cooked too much maggi mee lol. Anyway there was this toilet we set up in the wild, pitched our tents. I was super exhausted by then and I could fall asleep anytime, but we had a looooong chat in the tent which was super fun it was okay to sacrifice some sleep for also but anyway we decided to sleep after some time.
Thursday
Omg, it was trekking day! LALALALALALA. I'm very sian of writing. Haha. Anyway, we had to carry our backpacks again and it was so horrible I swore I would never carry a bag and walk again. (But I did.) Anyway, the first section was totally horrible. I was day I/C and the navigator but I had a terrible stomach ache which made the trekking even worse than it already was. I'm so sorry I couldn't do a good job because of that. ):
But everybody was very encouraging (:
We had to go to different checkpoints to find these messages so we could gain resources to build a raft later on.. I tell you all these were damn crap. Because firstly, we had to trek so much more just to get to these checkpoints and also the resources were useless cuz we spent a super long time building the rafts and hardly used them in the end. Like, we sat on it for only 5 minutes. We didn't even paddle. We jumped off the raft. I guess all these was part of the plan to learn and also to waste time la. When we were finding the different checkpoints I felt like wailing, "I want to go home now!" Anyway, we got to take a break after reaching the third checkpoint and I felt better after tt
Lala, we ate our happy food, applied sunblock bla blah bla then jumped into the granite quarry, it was quite fun but I started to get stomach ache again so that spoilt it. Lalalalala lazy to elaborate went to put back the stuff, put on my jacket, trekked back to Camp 2, felt energetic trekking back even with the backpack, everyone jumped for joy upon seeing the Camp 2 gate.
Got to cook a proper meal for ourselves for dinner. We had maggi mee, rice, fried luncheon meat, fried veg and uhm, other stuff and the noodles Custo (sp?) cooked.
Went to bathe..
At night 303 sat in a circle with our two instructors and they cooked apple crumble for us. It was like, raisins and apples at the bottom, then they added butter, chrysenthamum tea (!!?), crushed oreos and digestive biscuits. It tasted very nice. We stayed to finish up the crumble after the rest of the class left.. We had to wash the pots too! It was super hard to wash. Oh andddddd and, Geena wanted to finish up her moisturiser so me, Mag, Li Yong, Emily, Iliana and Geena sat there to put moisturiser. There was some funny stuff we talked about too. Very random lah.. Hehe.
To our tents! I think the tent time at night was one of the highlights of the day for our tent at least! Firstly, we get to rest after a long, tiring day; Secondly, we talk a lot and laugh even more! It is suuuuuper funny! This time we talked again.. gossiped about stuff. OMG I kept laughing la. The past 2 nights also. Oh all of us were laughing ever so uncontrollably.
Friday!!!
Heehee, YAYZORS :DD
Many ppl were so darn happy to go home, me included whoooo hooo :))))
YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY.
We sat in a circle to write our OBS 'journals' and collected our money/ cellphones and got our souvenir pens and photos and certificates. We also drew something for our class. And we made a thank you card for our instructor as well.
Took the ferry back to Punggol and bought our souvenirs. Waited in the room for a long time where we laughed at Geena's handphone's themes and listened to lame stories (veh qian bian) and I chatted to Charm and Clara about some phone stuff as well.
When the bus came we went back to school, collected moi Waddle shirt and went home.
OKAY! THAT'S THE END! I TOOK AGES TO WRITE IT!
After OBS
went home and plonked myself on my bed. Was SO happy to be home, I think I'll sleep early every night from now on. I lay down meaning to just rest, but ended up falling asleep for 3 hours. Woke up close to 6.30 and had to change to go out to wild rocket for a nice spaghetti dinner and dark chocolate lava gateau with vanilla ice-cream and cookies for dessert..
Slept quite early for my normal standards and slept till nine this morning when I had to wake up to go for angklung. Angklung was okay but I was completely lost throughout the new song. It is damn freakin' hard! Hahhah ok anyway I went for lunch with Edith and Charmaine Loh to Macs and had a fillet-o-fish, milo and apple pie.. then we walked around wisma and they went home. I went to Tangs to meet my family who was nearby and then we bought tutu kueh and tea leaf egg and then went home coz I was tired. Bye!
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