LONG POST AHEAD! Read it if you have time(:Church Camp
Can’t really remember what happened. Too many things just happened during the June holidays. But I got quite a few pics though! Will post them up soon? Some are still with becky.
GB ATC ‘08Same group as seokyin!
Kindness. We gta finish up all our food for every single meal. Mel and I thought that we could lose some weight during this camp. But I think is more of put on weight. Haha. But we did run around quite a lot. 1st day of camp and most of our legs muscle started to ache already. @_@ had high achievers talk again. The sec 3s went through that workshop before luh. Zz.. anw coach Sabrina was quite fun.
YO INDIA! Ahahha. And the 3 smiles. :D anw, mich and I missed the fun wet games on sat cos we had ndp. Ohwells. Had enight. Loved it. Ms foo shared with us about Cambodia and the children suffering there. We then sang
Making a Difference. It made me teared. I dunno why. Was just so touched by ms foo’s sharing.
I want to go to Cambodia at the end of this year and make a difference in their lives. (:
OBS!Woke up at 615 on Monday. Felt quite tired and sian-ed of going for so many camps. But I was still looking forward to OBS. :D anw gathered in school. Mr lai told us about the quary jump that he did. He said it was about 10 stories high? He was practically trying to scare us. Haha. The bus was late =\ when we finally reached, saw quite a lot of schools there. Slowly, we made our way to pulau ubin. Waited quite long for the instructors. So we played the monkey leader game. Once I was the monkey leader but amirul didn’t catch me! So he had to do a forfeit : tell a girl that she’s pretty. Or something like that. Hahaha super funny. :D
After a while, we were divided into our groups): separation of kcp. I was in Battuta! Weird name uh. But nice. I like! Our instructor was alex tan. BEST INSTRUCTOR EVER K! my groupmates were
cass, jeevanesh, hanesh, alex soh, kazziah, zakiah, Jacob, roheed, jaz, jianzhong, serena, joel, si wei, wan yee and cailing. Love them lots!
We surrendered all our phones and wallets. Then took group pic! It wasn’t really very nice cos we din even know each other yet! But we all still ordered both the photos.
We were brought to the outside of the instructors’ lodge where alex went somewhere to go something while we were supposed to get to know each other. We only said our names and cca. And started throwing leaves and each other? That’s how we bond. :B
Then, when uncle alex came out, he tested us. Like.. how many siblings does zakiah have. Or sth. And if you cant answer his question, he’d draw something on your face. XD I kena-ed on my right cheek. Lucky one line only and can rub off somemore. :D
We then got some appointments. Like, the IC for the day. Food rations ICs, store IC…etc.
Cass and I were the food rations IC. Thought it would be quite an easy job? But noooo it wasn’t! quite stress and tiring. Haha. Like, gta think of what to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We were trying to follow the table they gave. But, was quite hard? Because our groupmates don really eat a lot. So towards the end of the course we just ate what they want and what we have. lolls. We went to collect and count the food. Put them into the 3 food bins provided. Then, we took out all the tents and ground sheets and ponchos. Folded them and it started to drizzle a lil. So went indoors to the mph and alex started teaching us how to pitch the tents and how to wear the harnesses. We got the older version going-to-extinct kind of tents. They look bigger than the newer ones. But they were harder to pitch too.
Aye, I cant remember what happened next. I shall just write what i can remember:D
Getting ready for hiking and staying in that public campsite was really confusing. Like, I was really confused on what to pack in. anyways, with the help of Cassandra, we finally packed our stuff into one bag! So she carried our stuff and I carried the food bag. It was reallyyyy heavy. All the canned foods and stuff.
Could barely even lift them from the floor. The hike was really tiring. About 3 hours? We got kinda lost. But we finally found the first check point. Actually we didn’t. uncle alex said it dropped off or sth. So we just did the task. Which was to stand in one circle and use ur right hand to throw to the person on your right and catch the pebble/stone from the person on your left. We were supposed to do it for 5 consecutive times. But we could barely do it once! Finally, after about 30+ times we all managed to catch it. We tried again until we all caught it for another 2 more times den we were cleared.
We walked on and found another check point! :D was supposed to sing a song from the radio. So we sang the chorus of
Jenny by The Click Five.
When we reached the campsite, we started pitching our tents. Since the ground was hard, we had to use heavy rocks to hold the tents down. It was dark when we could finally eat our dinner. Magi mee as usual. Haha. After the whole of Camp 2 Bravo [consisting of battuta, cook, costeau and junko] finished washing up, cook’s instructor briefed us bout our sea expedition the next day. They plan to start off early at I think 730? So we had to wake up at 5+, to unpitch our tents, packed our stuff, cleared the campsite, brought down all the kayaks and filled our waterbottles. Slept at 11+? Woke up at 12am to do sentry [sp?] duty. Louis, Benjamin and Amirul were awake. They had a mini campfire and burning whatever they could find to keep them awake? Haha. Gave them my milo packet. Don’t think I’ll be needing it anways. Heard that louis din sleep for the whole night! Mad. Haha. We did until ard 1215/1220? Den went back to sleep. The next shift people were already awake so we didn’t have to wake them up. :D
Next morning, damn tired. Anw we set off and started our sea expedition! It was quite challenging and tiring.
Kayaked for 7 hours. 7km. and we broke the record!
10 capsizes when the sea was calm. Some capsized for fun cos they felt hot, or cause their kayak had lotsssss of water, while some were cause people banged into them. Heh. I didn’t pee for that whole 7 hours cos I din wna get off the kayak into the sea and pee while ur friends are waiting for you to finish doing your business so that they can help you to get back on. Ok wait. I just realized I didn’t pee for more than those 7 hours! [omg how unhealthy can I get! But i’m sure im not the only one yeah!] I also din pee when after we started off to hike! Cos it was a public toilet.. just one grass patch with bushes for you to hide yourself.
Anyways, I know jeevanesh was also holding on to his pee. LOL! Waited until we reached campsite 1 den let it all go..
*ahhhh~Battuta and Cook shared the same field to pitch our tents. Camp 2 Bravo had some games in the hall. Quite fun, just that battuta din win anything. But it’s okay. At least we had fun! Ohyes, when we were waiting for the games to start, a lot of us were itching and scratching! Haha. So we kinda became the scratching club. Had dinner! Whoa we were all so amazed at the food! For the first time we had someone to help us cook our meals! Yummaye! The drink was awesomness too! We also have proper
plates, bowl, fork, spoon, jugs and a tray! :O
Uncle alex did some activity with us.. where we would go round asking our group members to write something good and bad about us. So that we would know our weaknesses and strengths. There was also a dog who kept coming to our group! Haha. We also played a game where we had to remember each other’s fav movie, colour, food, sports..etc. if you lose, they can spray water at you using a water gun! Each of us went up 2 times and both of the times I lost! rawr. Anw quite fun luh. Did our journals and went to our tents. Since it was still kinda early, we played dare or dare! The bottle pointed at Ah Soh [alex soh] ! we asked him to be a gay and propse to a guy in cook. And guess what, the guy accepted! Haha!
Ah soh is a gay! He said it himself too even before we played the game. LOL. Another one that was the victim of the game was Cassandra! She had to propose [why all propose de.] to Joel! Since it was a game, Joel could have just went with the game and said yes right, but he took that question seriously and took so long to reply her. We got bored of waiting for his answer so we went to sleep first. The next morning, both battuta and cook were about 15 min late for reporting/flag raising! We all rushed out of our tents and quickly went to the flagstaff there. Had flag raising and did 5BX and ran rounds.
Cant remember what happened after that? But I rmb we had did rafting. Had fun building up the raft. Quite a diff raft compared to nz’s. nz used tyres and ropes while obs used pipes, barrels and ropes. When we went into the water, we were all in painnnn. Cos our skin were all raw and the salt water didn’t really help much. Anw we lost to junko cos we were very disorganized. Didn’t have time to plan properly before setting off. And the rafting was so short! Took like.. 1 hour to build up the raft and less than half an hour to use it. Lol. Anw, after rafting was jetty jump! Fun fun fun! I wanna do it again!
We then went to bathe. And guess what, since we didn’t bathe at the public campsite, cass and I just realized that we didn’t bring our shorts and towels! ARGHHHH! So we wore back our dry trackpants [for the 3rd time] and were totally
drenched. Haha!
Did high elements. Fun! Did it with cassymak! All the girls + Jacob did the inside one, which I think is easier? When we finished tying the figure of 8 knot, we were quite confident and were ready to go! Uncle alex asked us if we were ready and we said yes.. then, I think ah soh told us that we didn’t have our helmets on! Haha! Super funny! We didn’t even thought of wearing any helmets. Dunno which joker go hide them. XD Yeah, anw the view was quite nice from the top. Sadly the both of us didn’t see the island. We just looked down? Heh. Lk and his friend was also climbing the same thing opposite us but they finished first. -,- lol. Good la good la. When we were done, our belayers [mine was Jacob! :D] lowered us down and our thighs there were really pain! Cass even had to stop halfway to sing herself a birthday song! I kinda forgot to say thankew to Jacob. So they reminded me. So I went like.. “oh! Thanks Jacob!” and Jacob’s reply was? “
gracias!” LOL! Doesn’t gracias mean thankew? Ahahhaha. So cute!
We started packing and went to clean the swimming pool toilet, but it was already cleaned, so went back and hiked to campsite 2! Uncle said it was a 20 min walk. I carried 2 tents this time. Real heavy! Esp when it’s only 2 thin straps on your shoulders. The end of the walk was madness! 1 super steep slope! I kinda slid back down luh. Haha! But we felt so so happy when we finally made it to the top! :D lots of mosquitoes again! X_x uncle brought us to some place where we just chatted(: we then went to pitch our tents this time at a different field. It’s not climb up stairs but go down stairs. Haha!
PITCHING TENTS THIS TIME WAS SO SO FUN! Ziggady, zakiah, cass and I were quite high! Esp when our 1st tent we pitched was a
SUCCESSFUL one! Ziggady, cass and I created 2 dances in about 5 minute! One was the
DISCO DANCE! Forgot what was the 2nd one. The one we didn’t create but followed was the emo dance! Super funny! We just went high high highhhh!~ ate dinner then battucook’s instructors brought us to the top field behind all the tall elements. It was a lil dark but could still see. We were supposed to go into a tunnel to do our reflections on 3 questions. 1) 3 thank yous 2) 1 sorry 3) commitments you want to do after this camp.
Cook’s guys went first. Then battutu’s guys then all the girls. While waiting, yasmine, cass and I were chatting all the way! Haha! Liyana wasn’t really talking cos I guess she was quite tired? Anyway, it was fun talking like that! Wished we could do it more often.
Anw the tunnel thing was quite okay? Hot and stuffy. Quite funny also! Suddenly someone ask what the time was. And
someone’s stomach growled! HAHA! It was really funny esp since it was so dark and quiet inside. We could even hear the mosquito inside! Went out of the forest and wrote down our reflections. After that went to bathe and sleep! Sang birthday song to cass one last time(:
Last day of OBS!): played some chicken game with cook. From egg become chicken become eagle become dunno wad den become immortal. I managed to get through all the stages! Whoo! After that game we played something like a scissors paper stone game. But it was wizard, giant and…elf? I think. So it was like giant win wizard. Wizard win elf and elf win giant. The both groups won 2-2. so it was our final round. We discussed which action to do. Then, the instructor said.. 1-2-3! And both groups went
“zinngggg!” which was wizard! Damn funny! So we discussed again.. and guess what! Both groups went zing again! Ahahahhah! V v v funny! So since both our groups drawed twice, we had to do the dodo bird dance. Retarded but funny(: we then went back to our 2 groups and went to clean the store, clear the bags and stuff.. all the ponchos and ground sheets had to be washed too. After we were done, we started exchanging contacts!:D uncle brought us to a quieter place where we would gather for the last time as a group. We thanked the 3 people we had to thank and said sorry to the 1 person. I almost cried. Was just moved. After the whole thing, we went to get our shirts and stuff. I bought 2 shirts and a pencil box. :D memories shall last forever!
We gave out our certs to each other. Like how we did in newzealand. Took photos too! Waiting for Cassandra to send them to me. All the groups gathered again like the 1st day. Had a so-called debrief? Den waited for the boats to come bring us back to Singapore! First 2 schools to go were Queensway and Westwood! Nutz! Both the schools got my group mates in it. I was so damn sad lah! Leaving and separating from each other after 5 days of bonding. I almost cried again. Hugged the girls and said goodbye to the guys. And battuta was left with only 5 kcp people.
Cass and jeevanesh pulled out my shoe soul [soul?] which was coming out.. so it left like.. 1 more last strip of red. Went to join yasmine where most of the kcp people were. And cass being the smart one purposely went to pull out the last remaining red strip! She pulled halfway den cannot already so char took over. -,- but… good in a way. Cos I’ll get to buy new sport shoes!! :D:D
Okay I’m done with my camps post. It’s quite long and messy. So sorry bout it but I want the memories to be kept somewhere.
SCHOOL TMR OMGOSH! good and bad luh. k gtg do hw alr): phy and chi. ><"
ciaos~
Signed off @8:01 PM.