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Sunday, November 05, 2006

10:57 am

maa.. beware.
this'll be a monotonous one.
cause i'm not in any mood.

now let's just jump to what we wanna hear, shan't we?

Day 1
reached school at around 6:45.
pumping position at 7 cause it seemed we were too slow to act.
after head counts and all, we took a bus to Marina Country Club in punggol.
then we took a ferry to pulau ubin.
had to run here and there. =.=
then we were told to put our bags aside and assemble in the conference room.
again, pumping position by the teachers cause there was no sense of urgency.
then we were given a camp booklet and had to look for our names in the different groups.
poor me i was alone again in another group (no one from 3/1, i mean).
i was in group 3 (Jomeans - Joanna [sp?] & Amin) , buddy group's group 4 (RLs - Rojak Leaders), together we're A².

those in group 3 (whom i can remember =/):
- me
- benjamin chiew
- natasha
- gary
- shu huey
- vivian
- clara
- leonard (sp?)
- asrul
- dulcie
- this malay guy
- this chinese girl

then we were sent to pitch our tents.
managed to be in the same tent as xin mei, arlha and steffi.
and our tents were already pitched by the instructors when they demonstrated it.
but it looked as if it'd fall anytime soon.

then we went for our activities:

HIGH ROPES.
due to the lack of time, only 2 or 3 people managed to clear the first part of the activity.
we managed to do leap of faith though.
and unlike other groups, we were supposed to shout out our names and objectives of the camp at the top of the pole.
i couldn't catch the trapeze. =/
dang.

.lunch.

UBIN EXPLORER.
we're supposed to go to 4 checkpoints and answer the questions asked on a worksheet.
i think my group only managed to get to 3. =/
don't really know.
we're supposed to sing songs on the way there and since we didn't we got stopped a lot of times.

.dinner.

CONFIDENCE WALK.
usual blindfolds.
this is probably the only activity which i found no fun at all.
cause we have this every year. =.=
and it's just blindfolds.
bleah.

JETTY JUMP.
this was straight away after confidence walk.
the 2ND MOST FUN.
we're to go up to a platform of about maybe 3/4 a storey high and then jump into the sea water.
with life vests on, of course.
since i was the first girl to jump down, i stayed in the water for quite some time. XD
nice~ then we had to say a cheer first before we could get out of the water.
we actually asked for a second time, and the instructors actually let us.
but the teachers didn't. =.=

SOLO WALK.
yes, i'm a coward. =/
yes, i was afraid. =_=
i went with vivian. =X
the instructors made the whole thing sound super scary. =.=
in the end? ~_~

SOLO WALK - Part 2: Search Party.
they formed a scenario once again.
this time instead of a dead person,
natasha was thought to be kidnapped.
had to form a "search party" in the end to "look" for her.
but in the end the teacher let her out by herself.

.supper.

.slept @ around 2.45AM.

Day 2
woke up at 6.30.
had morning exercise and breakfast from 7 onwards.
and since the instructors thought we were too slow in everything we did, they forced us to run back and forth [touch-the-tree for exercise, touch-the-vending-machine for the punishment].
then i couldn't take it.
the side of my stomach ached.
blood clots appeared.
dunno what happened.

TEAM CHALLENGE PYRAMID.
i didn't follow my group and go up the TCP [Team Challenge Pyramid] -- which is the best!
stayed in an air-conned container and laid down on a stretcher while they went up.
was given an ice-pack by joanna to stick on my blood clots.
then half-way through i went out to sit by the 'mountain challenge' and chit-chat with amin while watching my groupmates go up the TCP.

.lunch.

i climbed the TCP with 4 teachers -- mr heng, ms noor, mr hisham, ms dawn -- when my group went for rafting.
i thought since i was better [cause i was given an ice pack] i should try something i've never done before, rather than an every-year-thing rafting.
so i went up with them.
i was afraid i'd lose my balance.
honestly i am a bit afraid of height too but that was not much of a problem.
it was my legs that couldn't stop shaking that scared me.
anyway the flying fox down was the best!
the balancing log was the worst.
and i was shagged up at the end that i laid on the floor when i was done for a while before joining my group again.

.(stupid) RAIN.
went to conference room while it rained.
bloody 5 minutes.
ONLY 5!
and know what?
3/4 of our tentage was full of water!
and it was dismantled later on.
huh.

CAMPFIRE PREPARATION.
we did the preparation while waiting for our buddy group to finish showering.
we did cheers and a dance~

.dinner.

.shower.

CAMPFIRE PREPARATION - Part 2.
cont'd on with the preps.

CAMPFIRE.
a guy in each group had to dress up like a girl!
to entertain us, of course. XD
i think that's because the sand is wet cause of the rain and so we had to use the conference room for the campfire night without an actual campfire.
i was suuuuuuuuper sleepy in the later parts!
it was after the performance of group 1 and 2's, actually. =/
i was like, trying super hard to keep my eyes open?
then there were this and that, usual campfire stuff.
lazy to blog about it cause i didn't actually pay attention to what actually happened during the campfire.
too sleepy, remember?

.debrief.

.supper.

unfortunately i couldn't sleep early after released because THE TENT WAS DOWN.
stupid rain.
had to visit every tent, asking for space to sleep in.
at first i got into li qing's tent.
but in the end all of us [from that tent + some guys and other girls] slept outside in the open.
could hear the wild boars' sounds super clearly.

Day 3
had to wake up at 5.30 [without showering] because the teachers want us to do our last activity:

MOUNTAIN CHALLENGE.
i actually forgot the real name of the challenge, so, yeah.
it's like butterhill, but 3-storeys high, without ~~butter~~detergent and water, and is a flat wall.
we had to carry the teachers up too.
the teachers expected us to complete it in 2 hours, but we did so in 1 hour 12 minutes, though the time limit was 1 hour. =/)
got punished - pumping position- again after the activity because we couldn't answer fast enough.

.breakfast.

OPERATION RESTORATION.
folded up our tents and cleaned the tentage area.
super difficult to zip up the tent bag, can?
had prashant, eddiek, and this guy [sorry, i dunno ur name] to help us zip it up.
then xin mei and i brought the tent bags [ours and prashant's group's] back to the container.
amin asked if i'm okay [blood clot thingy].
so nice of him. haha.
he was so cold in the first day cause it seemed our group was hard to get along with. =/
then all of us gathered in the conference room and had recollection of memories of the past 3 days there after we were given our t-shirts.
took many photos and did our last few cheers. =)
then we took the ferry and bus back to school.

a few people cried. =/
i was a bit sad too la, but i was super glad that i'm back home. XP

NEXT DAY & UP TILL NOW
we're back to SCHOOL for bridging programme again. sigh.
i think the programme so far has been useful only for a few subjects. =/
and e maths is not helping me any better.
chinese too.
speaking about it, i'm afraid of tomorrow's presentation.
TYVM HAO-sq FOR HELPING ME!!!
a certain someone is going to be enjoying her birthday at home.
haha. i know you're reading this.
happy early b'day~
don't feel too bad about chinese yea?
LOL. XP
nvm, think of it as a payback for when i was absent for LTC.
hehe.

---
done!
finally.
and i'm too tired to comment some more.
sore ja~!

~off to bridging prog. homework~