Sunday, August 20, 2006

Back from Pualau Ubin adventure camp!!! or rather Pulau Ubin torturing campsite... Training there was super tough.Anyway gonna talk about the chain of events that happened. I was the first batch to arrive at the island but the last to reach the campsite.The rest of the squad took vans from the jetty WTH. We were walking like so dead and we see them just drive past us -_-.

Ok arrival at campsite! The camp was seperated into 2 different sections Pulau noordian and pulau something ... i dono how to spell but it starts with the letter 'B' . We had to enter through Noordian and walk all the way into Bahru...Oh ya the camp's called Bahru if im not wrong! =D First impression of Noordian was that it was a zoo. There were like 10 cats that we walked past and like 6 dogs? Funny thing is that the dogs dont chase the cats.

So after such a long treacherous journey from the jetty, we arrive at Bahru! The whole squad were already there and were pitching tents already. LOL we were given a time limit to pitch our tents and to save time, my group replace the pegs that were supposed to be hammered into the ground with heavy rocks.Then practice for the next night's camp fire! Practiced alot of songs including the NDP songs !!!!!And i will sing a song of hope, a land of peace, where dreams are........ hahas

Ok next morning had sentry duty at 3 am..lol everyone was so dead and i was the only person in the whole group to arrive at the meeting point at exactly 3 am. The rest all late. Did i metion that my group had 3 Bryans? Bryan Teo, Bryan Ho which was me and one Bryan something from ACS, Clementi town and of course nanhua.
Ok at 6am had PT!! its physical training in case u guys dono. Its a super slack PT. Do many different exercise with 20 counts. After PT had breakfast!! My food rations were like awesome crap and i was awed that i could even have satay cubes XD. So anyway, went to join kelvin group coz my group dam sian.

Then after that had topograhy! woots! WALKED the WHOLE ISLAND to reach and clear stations. Walked like 10-15km plus not very tiring lah, cos got my handy 1.5 litre water bottle to help me...did i mention that the water we could have at ubin isle can only be desalinated through the campsite's special plant? if not yr water will taste like crap. Anyway whether with or without it, the water still tastes funny cos the water will surely taste funny without being boiled. Ok lunchtime! Sat and a corner with kelvin and shared a packet of instant noodles....no appetite to eat..too tired liao. Next activity was the ATF! a.k.a as the Adventure Training Facilities at the ADVENTURE FORTRESS!@!@!@! sounds cool eh? actually its just a worn down war building and they modified the interiors. Had this maze thing and i mananged to group with kelvin. The maze was small but super tough cos its LITERALLY walking with yr eyes closed!! The maze was super dark and tall people like me ( hahas) BUMPED MY HEAD LIKE SO MANY TIMES? lucky got safety helmet to protect my precious little head.

Next adventure was the low elements course... realised i have no sense of balance cos i fell off all the facilities. I only managed to complete only like 2. Had this Tarzan swing and swing across so fun! But i didnt get to try it out -_-. Dinner time! had another packet of instant noodles, shared with my mate kel again.

Now comes to the CAMPFIRE. omg i was super high like that time NDP. sang many songs like what i mentioned the my island home one and many others. the theme was national day.Anyway there was this lucky draw and Weiliat won what the hell. I was like super shuay.... the winning ticket was just next to me lor. The lucky draw actually went like this. The music will start. You keep passing around yr card and stop when the music stops. Each person can only have 1 card at once. The prize was one bottle of pepsi twist or coke. those drinks were like birds's nest soup in a camp. Heavenly drinks i called it. Anyway Mr see was very cool. He very sporting and waved his light-stick very sportingly. He reminds me of a very happy kid actually cos Mr see really very funny one and he actually seems to be the same age like us.Thats not an insult by the way.

So 2nd night i didnt have to do sentry duty cos i did it the night before.yays cos that night was more tiring then the first night. Waked up again with kel the next morning. Had to poke him HARD cos he couldnt wake up -_-/. I dono what u think mate but i think u r a heavy sleeper who cant wake up in the middle of the night XD =P. Anyway we were the first 2 and had the whole smelly toilet to ourselves. Only got to bathe once in the whole camp and i stink.

Again at 6am had another slacking PT. 2 sets of 15 pushups situps and jumping jacks. i know im weak but even i can do the PT. So during the last day which was actually this morning, we spent the remaing few hours cleaning up the whole campsite. The whole thing ended, we walked all the way back to the jetty again and i was half-dead.I took the first boat again and Sir sunny or rather Jiahao drank half the bottle of my water.And i realised that going to Ubin was actually very cheap, just $2 and the bicycle rent over there u can nvr find it in singapore. In the boat i very shuay lah. I turned to see the sea then got this splash of water hit nicholas junwee and me and the sir jiahao cos we were sitting in one row but i got hit in the face cos i turned around. Had a long ride back to school where we were dismissed.
I just realised that i didnt even eat half of my food rationings. So i just brought them home an here i am posting for u guys. Oh ya this is also my longest post so far i think. oh well there Chinese test tom im sleepy and i need to fix new specs cos mine is getting old. i feel like getting a white colour one hmmmmm.

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