Friday, March 09, 2007 Y 3/09/2007 06:57:00 PM

yay obs is over!
boo obs is over!

haha obs was fun yet tiring yet goosifying yet happy ETC D: i was in MARSHALL! hahahaha together with some 311, 312 and 304 people :D nice nice people :D :D and our instructor was iskandar! hahahaha goose he is damn gay and very nice too :D

okay this shall be a long post. i shall blog in days! :D since we have the journal card thingy to record hahaha x)

DAY ONE 5th MARCH
assembled outside the audi and took bus off to punggol jetty! then we took the boat to ubin. haha the boat ride was quite short and soon we see the Outward Bound Singapore sign o: arrived in camp one!

we learnt how to kayak after some ice-breakers kind of stuff :D it was quite fun without ahem friend. i grow stronger every time i paddle o: and we learnt how to capsize and recover from it. D: capsizing was quite scary but we survived :D then the rescuing mission thingy. we were damn screwed lah. trish and i were doing it with limqing and valerie. then we almost died trying to save them can. same when they were trying to save us :/ goose. and we saw this big jellyfish. ugly like shit. D:

we didnt do alot in day one cos when we reached and settle down, half of the day was gone lah. hahaha so trish and i volunteered to be day one i/c :D okay then at night we went to slp in this dark area near the camp! freezing cold lah goose. sandy, qiuhan, liuchang and trish were my sleeping mates! hahahaha :D

DAY TWO 6th MARCH
having learnt kayaking, we learnt climbing and belaying in day 2! belaying was tiring but quite fun too. :D then we went to the indiana thingy to climb with EC, buddy watch! o: it was high lor :/ i didnt get to climb cos it rained after awhile. o: then i forgot what we did. :/ we were supposed to trek to camp 2 that day. but somehow we dragged and dragged and could only leave at around 8pm, when the sky was alrdy dark :/ so it was scary walking in the forest in the dark, plus it rained in the afternoon, the ground was slippery and all. we also had our super duper heavy backpacks to carry, so, it was like hell D: when we reached camp 2 people were almost done eating lah goose. then we cooked and ate and pitched tents and slept :D

time time time is important!

DAY THREE 7th MARCH
day of land expedition! o: we walked like at least 6km if im not wrong. carrying those super heavy bag, we were dying on the way lor :/ we went to many different places to find our checkpoints. on the way we saw lots of interesting stuff heh heh. like big spiders o: and quary! the quary at bukit ______ was damn nice and blue! and its fresh water lah so nice. but we could only see it from the top. the summit was the higest point of pulau ubin haha so cool lah. we could see singapore quite clearly. iskandar pointed out a random LRT station and an IKEA in singapore. we could also see the changi airport tower hahaha cooool man. then he made us pick up a stone and throw it down the quary while thinking about what we wished to "let go of" in our lives o: so fun man. then EC came along! hahahaha but we left shortly after that and continued on the journey D: and then omg we finally finally arrived at our campsite o: o: it was like ohgoose ohgoose 200 more metres kind of thing. then we started to see other watches and we got damn excited! then, we see this patch of ground which looked okay for us to pitch tents on and so suddenly they said we arrived! YAY YAY YAY damn happy lah. it was surprising i didnt die o: so im quite fit afterall x)

then we had this raft-building activity. built this rather crap thing which was called bubble car! :D the cheer they came up with was dan gay lah hahahaaha goose. the raft obviously couldnt pass the tests so we couldnt get it into the quary )): EC's one too ): but tracy and isk decided to let us have a quary dip o: friend was here and "it" told me not to go D: mien. trish's friend also! sadcase la. the quary water looked damn clean and nice lor. and plus we were all so sweaty and smelly! :/ grrr we wanted to jump lah! D: after that we went to prepare dinner and change! cooking at the beach was quite fun although i didnt really cook o: 3 or 4 people were sharing one mess tin lor so sadcase. then we found out we have alot of can food left, so we were desperately trying to finish up all the mushrooms, curry chicken etc. i think in the end they were thrown into the sea/buried. D: i think lah. we couldnt finish what.

ohh ohh ohmyhell. the ANTS. omg omg. after the raft activity we came back and saw people's bags full of ants crawling around lah goooose. mine was not so serious. then guenyik's one was like =X. super scary. spent a very long time clearing them. then i think they brought her bag into the tent. and wth, ants went in too. there were alot alot of ants in their tent i heard :/ then melanie and chuinyin were so freaked out that they cried lah :/ :/ :/ and limqing and i were like ohman how how how :/ cos we were supposed to go for dinner alrdy and everyone else was gone lor o: and they were still stuck in the tent D: but i think after that it was okay lah. people all brought their food into the tent cos they were afraid of ants. then i smartly left my food outside cos i was abit too lazy. and guess what man.

DAY FOUR 8th MARCH
ants the next morning. damn it lah. and that morning i was like wtf so many ants. trails and trails of ants on my bag okay. and those evil stuff they bit through my bag of clothes and my BREAD! ahhhhhh. scattered so many crumbs in the food pocket can. so even after i got rid of the food they were still attracted to the crumbs :/ i had to empty my whole bag and flush them out with water :/ i dont even have space to put my ant-free stuff cos there were ants everywhere lah omg. luckily there was limqing my ant-mate o: she also kena quite badly like me :/ if i was the only one i would have just died. D: ants are so bloody hard to get rid off lah omgoose. they bite you every second lah! and there were soooo many it was impossible to deal with them :/ many thanks to guenyik, limqing, iskandar etc the brave antfighters who helped me and my backpack o: ohman then finally most of the ants were gone but my bag was super wet D: still have to set off anyway bopian :/ (haha not the thing they use to play ruan/liuqin o:) then on the way ants were biting my neck cos there were still some surviving there :/ damn it lah. hate ants. and they are like super strong one lah! need to be squished 3 or 4 times before they die o: strong man. unlike those in singapore ._. lousy poks. the bigger ones have fangs/teeth lah :/ scary. some people kena red marks by the ant bites lah. and after the ant incident i officially hate ants like crap. i started to squish any ant i see that is within my reach :/ squish and smear. muahahahahaha. -sadistic laughter-. we were talking abt attracting ants somewhere then ambush them and kill them all together WAHAHAHA that will be damn cool man. (ohgoose so sadistic). one more line to add in to "advice to jnrs going for obs next year" : bring bygon :/ insect repellent works like nuts on ants :/ they only get temporarily paralysed D: but they are damn strong they can get up the next minute o: DAMN YOU ANTS. okay this paragraph getting abit too long and i actually can continue but dont want o: too long already :/ goose my longest para is about ants lah ._.

ok so we set off at around 8am and went back to camp 1! it was like 3.5 km but it seemed very short to me o: maybe cos we already covered like 6km, 3.5 is nothing o: HAHA cool man. when we reached camp 1 we were like AHHHHH OMG CAMP ONEEEE!!!!!! CAMP ONE ROCKSSS! <3 color="#ff0000">DAY FIVE 9th MARCH
today! woke up at 4am cos we all felt bad about always disappointing iskandar D: then so we woke up early to pack and look for our lost stuff (: the lost tent came back lah! it was with nana's group! ohman damn cool hahhaha x) then blahblah (getting lazy to blog) we went for climbing o: iskandar is damn nice! he helped us send our long pants for washing cos most of us dont have long pants left and many want to climb. so we went to the tripod to climb. o: damn high eh. but i still went in the end o: and up there it was like so high until you wont feel that its high anymore o: so its not too bad lah. but the cable and my legs kept shaking like crazy D: so unstable lah. hahaha coming down was the best x) sit and enjoy the view. lol.

after that was lunch, which was quite nice i think! i liked the syrup drink hahahaha xD then it was time to end our camp! D: had some last discussion session and got the photos and certs etc. (: quite sad lah. people were crying booo. then there was like chain reaction D: more people started to cry )): all things have to come to an end! then soon we were at the jetty (where we jumped!), waiting for the boat to come. haha then took the boat with trish, qiuhan, other people, and tracy! and on the boat it was like, you see yourself getting further away from the Outward Bound Singapore sign and the jetty o: and i remembered on first day i saw the sign and we were actually appraoching it. then now like moving away from it o: five days passed damn fast lah goose. on monday i was still wondering how to survive five long days D: hahahahaha. and soon we saw teachers waiting at the punggol jetty .__. hahaha.

MARSHALL ROCKS! :D :D :D

haha posting random stuff now :/ we wanted to take a grp photo before we leave! but some people alrdy went off so quickly o: then there were only a few of us plus iskandar left! :/ nvm we have the nice real group photo x) ohh and during bkfast/lunch today we were like gossiping la omg. about dear q______ HAHA. damn funny everyone hates her D: and limqing was super agitated lah goose. hahaha. i'll miss having meals with marshall! opening the locker to get stuff and laying them on the table, eat and talk(gossip) at the same time etc! so fun mannn.

oh and those nice mozzie bites i got from obs o: i have like 31 or 32 altogether :/ plus some random mozziebites-lookalike stuff that are damn itchy D: dont know what they are though :/ my hands look damn gross now lah D:

okay shall end the post now :D super long post o: hahaahaha byebye! (: