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Sunday, May 13, 2007/ 12:47 PM OBS camp OVER!! OBS camp is offically over... CRAP this is far more worse than SJABY camps.. T.T been resting for quite a long time. Cilvilisation jus ROX! Day 1 - Went to school with those bulgy bags. Everyone was seen in high spirits, except that need to hand in siew's hw early in the morning. Back to main point, the trip to punggol jetty was quite far, considering dat it was situaited at the far end of SG. To start off the day, my group initally known as grp 17, was LAST to board the bloody boat. and, it was only until around 1hr ++ dat we manage to board the boat!! Zzz, comparable to stjohn HQ's efficiency. We reached the camp 2 soon after dat. Yep, and now we have a offical grp name, "Marco Polo" A bit of history, Marco Polo is the famous Westerner traveled on the Silk Road. He excelled all the other travelers in his determination, his writing, and his influence. His journey through Asia lasted 24 years. So, all the grps are named after someone who have made great accomplishments. O.o and we have a instructor named Cindy. After having some self-introduction, we went on to have the photo-taking. Our handphones, wallets were CONFISCATED. And the most confusing part came, the distribution of food... We were str8 away given 5 days of food, 2 large containers. biscuits, bread. YUCKS. I dun wan to see them for the next week. The first activity is the introduction of belaying. Nth much, just climb up a "not so high" ladder, and the belayer will belay you down. And dinner! Our dinner was some spongy porriage, baked beans, peanuts, which tasted a bit ummm... Boys just dun know how to cook. And the WORST came, we were given a "BAGUS" campsite. Deep in the forest, where spiders, wild boars, mosquitoes resides. Uneven ground, and it was darkness throughout. OH MY, AND there was this BIG spider just outside my tent. it was not big, it was REALLY BIG. Alan, wenwei, hongrun and me cramped in one tent. It was so hot, dat i woke up so many times in the night, and legs all sweaty. Yes, and the idiot qihao got sick with a fever, and went home after dat. @$#%$@#%$@#$@^$#^!!! Day 2 - Unpitch tent early in the morning. Height Element. Flying Fox. Ohmygawd. Height phobia lei, dun expect me to do dat. We combine with junko. It was a tedious process, and we wasted the whole morning be4 everyone have a try. Lol, i went up last. Taking off my specs, off i went climbing the INDEED VERY HIGH ladder. At least got 5 storey de high ar!! Halfway through, my hands and legs went shaking. Shivered, GGedfied~! Heng i nvr wear my specs, if not i will scare even more. After some process when my hands were tied up to the rope, "BOOM" off i went down. GOD! SCARY! esp the impact when i crashed onto the tyre. Afternoon, went on our land expedition. 3 days 2 night, off our camp 2. Our backpacks are so damn bloody heavy, dat i could not even steady myself when i stand up. And there was the tent which was around 4kg to carry also. It was not our things dat are heavy, or rather their backpack given to us was heavy! Grr.. when we walked we always tuo2 bei4. The hike was like 7-8km far. Though it seems easy to us first too, oh my we took round 4 -5 hrs to reach there. ALL cos of our bloody backpacks! Destination - Jelutong Campsite. It was like a beach campsite, but the water provided there was not for consumable. We cooked maggi mee this night, sardines. We got a lack of mess tins, as we did not bring enough. In the end, i shared wif hongrun. Worse still, our food was cooked halfway, and poof NO MORE FIRE! GOD! GGED! Our noodle was lyk crispy-like. Imagine the noodles half cooked. Hais... The campsite was no better than the first. All i can say is dat, through the environment is better, the weather is much more hotter! though no spiders, there is lots of sandflies... ARRRR! We end our night early, as there is nth we can do much there. Day 3 - Unpitch tent again. Early in the morning HIKE! 4 checkpoints- 1. Find the founder of Sensory trail (Located at Ubin Village) 2. Go to the highest point of Ubin 3. Go to a coordinate on the map and find a metal plate hanging on a tree. 4. CAMP 1!!! Ubin Village was like a throwback to Singapore in the 1960s. Villages Kampongs, traditional farming, hahas. Highest point of ubin.. umm, it was so high up the trail. But the scenery was nice! We even took a photo up there wif Cindy's HP. Mass eat orange to clear the weights of our load. And the metal plate was really dumb. Wasted so much time finding, only to find it located behind one of the tree. WALIU, y put at the back??? how to locate. And finally motivated by Camp 1, we MENG the last part of 2km. Timing Wise - 8am-2pm (round 10+km) Quite good. Accomplishment! When we step into Camp 1, it was like HEAVENLY! Civilisation! After long hrs of suffering for the past 2 days. Afternoon we did height element again, Climbing up 7 logs without any supports. Can only touch the log, 2 ppls climb at one time. Lol, my leg was trembling at the last log. Hahas. Quite hard too. XiaoHeng and XiaoXiao the best. Took 30mins to finish the whole process. And xiaoxiao kept saying "GGed" which was so funny! And there was the snake and ladder, i din get to do dat due to time constrain. Dinner was like HEAVENLY! Camp 1 even have their own cafe. They provide us food, and GOD guess the amount of rice we took. Unimaginable! We filled as much rice as possible onto the plate. We were like gobbling down all the food given to us like beggars. T.T And the campsite was best of all! Windy with only mosquitoes stayig wif us. I din even sweat throughout the night which was "WOWed" And the slacky JonJ, went to the medical center and sleep complaining of a stomache. We started our countdown this day! 1 and 1/2 day more! Day 4 - Unpitch tent. Sea Expedition!! It was torturing alright.. kayaking for round 10 hrs in the big sea. Godly. It was really stressing, and somemore only 2 ppls in one. Once there is no teamwork, is GGed. Hais, it was HOLY la! And Dingjie went on a solo, cos we only have 13 members dat day. I wonder how he survive.. And it was becos of this, most of us tio sunburn! the sun was really strong, and our skins all turn reddish-black. Evening, hike back to camp 2. Hate to say goodbye to camp 1, :( At the very least we got a much better campsite than day 1. Not deep in the forest anymore. And the dinner we have was the most fabulous we have except for day 3. curry chicken, sardines, campbell soup, baked beans, ikan bilies, we saved all the best cans for last. HAHAS. And we got much more improvements in our cooking. This time no more porriage or rather, is claypot rice!! A bit de chao da. hahas, but the smell was really like claypot rice. 1/2 day more! Day 5 - Early in the morning 6am, the best we encounted. We were half-awake, when suddenly it rained heavily. There was even lightning. godly! We panicked, and we just held on to the four corners of the tents tightly. Our flysheet went flying off due to the strong wind. woot. our tent even threaten to went flying.. at 6.30, we told to abandon our tent, and run off to the nearest shelter. 7am, when the rain stopped, we went back, and to our suprise, our tent still stood upright! We packed everything, managed our stores. We gone trading, stealing to make sure dat our items are back in the store, so as not to pay for the losses of items. Opps, did i say sth wrong =X. The highlight is we trade a whistle for a compass... 70 cents for $11, hais dat grp was really dumb. Lastly, we get together as a grp after dat. conclusion of the camp! returning of our valuables, and we went on to buy souvenirs. 1.30pm! Off we went back to punggol jetty! This is what i called the REAL cilvilsation!!! T.T. We treated ourselves to Mac, after dat :) And YES OBS is OVER!!!! Though there is no pumping in this camp, this is 100% far more worse than i expect in sjab camp. Home is the BEST!! |
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