_____joanne*

Friday, July 04, 2008

6:52 PM

OBS WAS.. I DUNNO WHAT SHOULD I SAY.

i really really really learnt alot through this camp, new skills, new people (plus their CHARACTER), new stuff luh. okay i'm super tired now, but i decided i should just get this over and done with, shall just roughly blog what happened the past 5days :D

MONDAY!
okay. i was quite excited for obs since everyone kept telling me it's damn fun, but once i saw my group a.k.a watch, i was, kinda shocked. there's only FOUR locals in a watch of FOURTEEN people!! like there's only me, chandel, viona and joshua. oh well, met our instructor NAFEEZA! she's quite nice even though she's strict and we're in JUNKO! some explorer luh (: kays, then we did kayaking on first day! like more of the basic stuff. partnered yingzheng cause naf was the one who paired us up, and it was quite okay (: learned to paddle and make the kayak AT LEAST move and we did capsize and rescue thingy! haha the seawater damn salty. like SUPER ULTRA salty :D

after getting soaked wet, went to pitch tents and cook dinner!! but i didnt pitch tents the first night luh, was more in-charge of cooking (: it was kinda fun! we cooked rice and ate with canned food XD ehhh it was hard okay! the cans are hard to open, the fire is hard to keep lit, and the solid fuels ran out! so like, by the time everyone finished cooking and pitching tents, it's very late into the night already. then went to bathe. gosh, it was my ONE AND ONLY bathe that i used shampoo and soap O: YES and then had some fire drill thingy at 10plus and went to sleep at 11pm (: but abit i couldnt sleep can, chandel also. we were practically turning around and around cause it was freaking HOT! and the mosquitoes came in cause the mosquito net wasnt closed properly, so i got bitten like LOADS. guess i only slept 2-3 hours that night :(

TUESDAY!
woke up at 5am!! okay that's actually the time we woke up EVERYDAY DURING OBS :( i cant really remember what happened after that, but i know we had morning circle! like it's when you sit together and just share and reflect what happened the day before (: after morning circle, packed our backpacks, then we set off for camp1! oh i forgot to mention, our base camp was camp2 yep (: it was kinda short only, just that the backpack was FREAKING HEAVY!! i'm gonna grow short man! hahaha yeah and along the way, played this rescue game. we all sucked luh! didnt even manage to finish it :( oh well, anw camp1 was NICE!! THEY HAVE BEDS! like WOAH. next year we're gonna have that too!

haha yep then we did belaying and rock-climbing there! i reached the top okay!! kay luh, it wasnt that hard to climb i thought XD and we bathed! without soap XD hehe oh gosh, i seriously cant remember what else happened. okay shall just go to dinner part! THEY HAVE A COOKHOUSE! so you dont need to cook! so cool!! haha and then we had to pitch tents againnnn -.- hm.. okay sleeping was better than first night except i had to go to the toilet in the middle of the night like URGENTLY so yeah, disrupted my sleep. and i had mosquito bites again!! :( *sobsob*

WEDNESDAY!
had land expedition (: TIRING MAN! the backpack was OMG. and we walked from camp1 all the way to this quarry place with checkpoints along the way (: reached that place at about 1plus and had lunch. then after lunch, went to quarry! we learned how to build rafts!! BUT hahaha all 4watches didnt manage to build a raft that could actually float. but because of our hard efforts put in, we still had out 'BATH'!! which was a jump into the quarry! damn shuang :D cause there dont have toilets or anything, so like, even if we need to pee and stuff, it'll be at the bushes. haha. okay we cooked maggi for dinner!! NICEE :D

then pitched tents with rocks! haha YES and then had breifing about the next day's kayaking sea expedition. and after that! we went to sleep!! haha and i slept EVEN better than the day before XD we were supposed to wake up and patrol around the area at 3.30am but apparently, the guys woke up in the end and did not want to wake us up cause they kept saying girls should sleep more since we had to kayak so much the next day. so sweet right!! (:

THURSDAY!
yep the fourth day!! like woahh okay so we woke up, unpitched tents, packed bags, packed lifevests etc. then we set off to kayak at about 8am! gosh it was hard okay! i felt like dying mann. like i felt my partner wasnt even helping me to pedal! but gahh it's a good way to train arm muscles (: i thought the chek jawa place was the hardest since the wind's really strong and the waves are really choppy and the current is strong and the distance is long :( but after passing that and a few more kilos, we had lunch! ON THE SEA! haha damn cool. we rafted together and tried to hold on to each other kayaks to eat lunch O: COOL! and everyone started pee-ing in the sea. hehe cause that's the only time we get to pee :D blah blah blah we paddled and paddled and paddled and we reached camp2 again!! BUT WE REACHED AT 5PM! so imagine all the rays from the sun our skin has absorbed. but surprisingly, i didnt really get any OBVIOUS tan lines which is kinda sad :(

okay then we had dinner! but in the form of a cooking competition (: but there wasnt any results luh cause it was meant to make us use our creativity in cooking :D after dinner was like 9plus already and we still had to bathe and pitch tents. so i bathed, WITHOUT SOAP AGAIN cause it was really rushing. then our camp site was at a higher ground so we quickly climbed up and pitch. but it was really scary, cause we lost alot of our tents and our equipments and we had to pay if it's really lost!! LIKE GAHHHHHH but after pitching, went into the tent, and SLEPT. like WOW i think i'm really beat from all the kayaking and all the mere hours of sleep the past few nights. it was like the BEST sleep okay! damn shiok XD

FRIDAY!
gosh, damn happy cause can finally go home!

but we almost couldnt wake up in the morning, cause it was going to rain then it was very cold so yeah felt like sleeping in :( my muscles are aching from thursday's kayaking can! oh man so weak O: yeah anw then we unpitched tents, packed the stall up abit then went for morning games!! haha like YAY we finally had time to play games :D kays after games, had to RUSH TO PACK STALL AND FIND ALL THE LOST SHEEP/EQUIPMENT haha yeah. we spent like 2plus hours to pack the stall cause we couldnt find alot of our equipment! so end up junko was the one of the last watch to finish packing cause only towards the end, the other watches started coming over and giving us back our stuff!! haha but we still lost a camping stick, 3 jacknifes and some other stuff luh. so total up, we had to pay about 20 bucks as a group. oh well, at least it's better than audrina's group!! gosh, they lost 150bucks! THAT'S SO SAD CAN!

okay after packing was about 11plus and we quickly went to buy souvenirs! haha i bought this grey LIMITED EDITION shirt (according to akshay) cause it only has XS so alot of people cant buy hehe i wanted the red shirt but dont have my size already :( oh and i bought a green notebook! haha it's nice! yep then junko had morning circle again and sorta did a rounding up for the whole OBS thingy (: kays, left pulau ubin at about 2plus and reached back school at 3plus almost 4pm :D that's OBS!

actually i felt, OBS was quite fun? well, at least i learnt alot alot of new stuff that really is great and come to think of it, i kinda miss OBS. like KINDA. haha yeah okay i'm weird but oh well (: now what i'm waiting for, is my FLOORBALL JERSEY AND CLASS PULLOVER!! HAHAHA YAYYYYY :D