Friday, November 24, 2006 @11:56 AM
the past 4 days of my life has definitely been the most exciting/challenging/disgusting/fun/dirty/ days of my holiday. cos i spent it in the company of all the sports leaders in school and on the sunny island of bintan. ohwait one of those was spent in singapore. yup okay let me recollect my messed up thoughts and write chronologically and coherently.
warning: this is going t be a long post. so if u dont wanna listen t me relating happily about slc and wishing you were there, stop now yup
day one
omg i still cant do the underlining thing:(
ok the first day was spent happily in school with the usual teambonding activities with my happy-go-lucky group. okay we rock. and we're crap to the max:D started off with the move the chairs game whr like everybody stands on the chairs, yeah tht game. but xcpt ours was move the chairs for one hundred metres instead of the 10/20 metres. tough shit. and backbreaking and armaching work indeed. but it was only the first of the many tough stuff t be done.
we came in second! whee:D
then played station games which included climbing the super high tennis wall and dipping our hands into grassjelly+mud+grass+egg+hell lot of disgisting stuff solution and finding tiny ginko nuts.LOL . and the usual treasure hunt, obstacle course, communication games, and human knot games. yeah and we were hot and sweaty after. typical.
played water bomb captain's ball aft to cool dwn.
objective of the game: score a goal w the water bomb
end result: us squeezing the water bombs at every opportunity:D
in the end: everyone drenched.
and the rain was pretty on time and it poured but the game still continued:D rain captain;s ball. how fun is that pls you tell me. totally:)
field cooking next. okay call me suaku but its a first in my life. seriously. i've never done field cooking. how sad is tht pls. anyw. i didnt evn hv a messtin t begin with. thx t my darling grpmates who had extra heh!:) from coating the undersides of the tins with colgate to lighting the fire using solid fuel. i knew nothing. great. but the experience was fab and the food, albeit it being tremendously salty and er, tasty. it was yumyumyummm. cos we were all soooo hungry alr. yeah meegoreng and campbell soup with cocktail sausages and canned sardines became heaven.
clean up and debrief before hitting the sack, er sleeping bag. hahaa. and it was soon going t be our most comfortable slp in the 3 nights we were gg t have. yes little did we knw that:)
and we got t brush teeth in the toilet and see our faces in the mirror.
its a luxury. really.
oh and slept in the dance studio. and its the first camp i've attended whr girls dont slp separately frm guys. as in everyone slps in the same place. cool shit. ahhaa LOL
day two
headed off bright and early for bintan island. morning call frm the guys at six. urgh. left for tanahmerah ferry terminal. 2 hours ride there and another hour by a rickety old bus on a road with no traffic lights or road dividers. hah tht's bintan for you.
anyw. went on the boat, one of those fishermen trawlers tht were not too big, neither too small types ya and travelled right out to the middle of the sea. did boomnet jumping. whr everyone jumped into the sea into the nets la ofcourse. jumped from the second deck. the feeling was like uh, committing suicide? aahaha but the cuts and scratches frm the nets werent that fun afterwards.OH and i got seasick. i tell you, its the mostmostmost horriblest feeling ever. much much worse than carsickness okay. i thought i was okay until after i finished jumping the nets. all cold and wet and shirt sticking t skin feeling and the feeling of the world toppling in your head is notnotnot good. and i just puked out my lunch and breakfast into the sea. thankGod we were in the sea and thr was nt much mess and puke t clean up. disgusting shit. and needless t say i felt horrible aft. but considerably better after puking my guts out. yeah. i hate boats.
landed on some ulu deserted island and treked like maybe 2+ km t get t the mountain t climb. surprise surprise its not bukit timah hill
its some gradient 60-70 degree mountain.
the starting ascent wasnt all that bad until we came t the middle. omg. its like almost vertical and you jst have t cling onto any teeny weeny root that is surprisingly strong and find a foothold.omgomgomg. climbed for like 1 hour? thn didnt evn reach the top cos it was getting dark fast [the sun sets at like 730 thr] quite disappointing tht didnt reach the top really. getting down was a challenge too man its jst like sit and slide. and our butts were pretty much rubbed in soil for most of the descent. but the guys were v helpful:D got on the boat AGAIN:( and landed on an even more deserted island.
no lights no toilets no mirrors alot of sandflies
i guess that explains alot huh. yeah didnt have toilets so we jst did it all in the bushes. haha quite hilarious. and guess whr all the disposable underwears went? yes into the bushes too! ahaha we had a competition see who can throw furthest. lol. imagine girls doing their business in the bushes. ahhaa i guess tht's also another first for me. oh and wearing contacts was an art in itself too. using mr loh's sunglasses as mirrors. heh. okay now we're all experts in wearing lenses. oh and the brushing and spitting into the sea thing. yeah tht's pretty fun too. then after, tried t keep the bonfire alive for awhile t dry our clothes and stuff. headed off t sleep. without bathing. heh we're dirty pigs. and the tent we used was so insect infested and all. urrrgh. but the fatigue wins and we jst shifted the bags out of the tent and plonked into the slping bags and the next thing we knw--morning's here. with stiff backs and aching shoulders.
day three
headed off in that hateful boat again. argh! i hatehatehate boats. really i do.
and guess what, i puked out my breakfast too on the boat. sigh, not my fault! i alr ate v v v little on the insistence of my grp members cos the day's activities were quite rough. and in the end still puked it out. sighsighsigh. nothing seem t stay in my stomach whn im on the boat. why!?then had kayaking and swimming. was quite shocked for awhile. cos there weren't 'nuff 3 man and 1 man kayaks for all. and the rest had t swim. so jst threw on a lifejacket and off we went. the swimmers didnt evn hv t use lifejackets. pro-ness. open sea swimming's quite scary with the unpredictable waves and all. yeah and the undercurrent and stuff. hmpf but its quite an experience. better than sitting on the kayak and getting seasick or worse, on the boat. haha. soon got the hang of it and swimming was fun! heh. swam abt 1km plus and rafted after.
our raft was err. bad. real bad. cos aiyah we didnt want t offend anyone. namely this guy and he insisted on making our raft and cos we 'didnt' knw how t do it. yeah so it was jst all one person's work and stuff. boo!:( and within seconds of us boarding the raft, it collasped. yup. barrel, sticks and strings. everything. and we had t walk like 500m? to the next island. best. but the journey was funny and trying t catch drifting barrels was even funnier. but the cuts and scrapes on the rocks. werent all that funny. everyone came out of the water with bloody legs cos of the sharp rocks. boo:( yeah lunched after and played island station games
climbing coconut trees, rockclimbing![yeah i reached the top!:D], half the tennis wall thing, spiderweb, obstacle course, orienteering aka[mosquito buffet] , the barrel game yup. until dinner. super fun and ultimate bonding. better than first day. did the skit. and campfire at night. tgd w zhonghua school npcc who koped out huts at night. and we had t slp in tents:(
and that's day three for you.
oh and i got to bathe. hahaah after not bathing for 48 hours. after wearing the same tee and shorts and not untying my hair for the same amt of time. bathing was heaven. despite the super cold water yeah. so it was pretty great tht we slept in the tents washed and showered:D
day four
ultimate anticlimax
elaborate more later. tuition now
ohman and i think i still need more sleep
bahhhhokayokay i shall end the thing now
climb up the mountain successfully and quickly as well
with a whole lot of dirt in my fingernails which were pretty fugly after and my butt was quite bruised yep. so :( to that. and :) to the rest.
really challenged us physically and mentally.
but i guess we/us being sports people had the mental grit to go all the way
yeah
no guts no gloryokay im done:D:D