Friday, November 14, 2008
Ok, back from OBS!
Elizabeth watch rocks my socks ok!
10 novGather in sch and headed to punggol jetty, after tht split into group and took a ferry to pulau ubin. Was in the same group as [kenny, kaiming, haoming, jiale, kamila, atiqah, carol, dijing, nizam, pearl.] [ zhixiong, cheexin, carl, afiqah and faiqah from zhenghua sec] Shiok ah this group. So fun. We reach OBS campsite 1 and put our things and as usual, ice breaker games. Played the game where our hands are all entangled and we must make it into a circle. And learn those basic belaying, the belaying is abit different from pltc one. So its ok. Play a game whereby everyone hold onto a piece of plastic sheet and a person will stand on the platform, everyone must pull the sheet and the person on platform must fall backwards. Shiok sia. Forget to mention tht our instructor name is ahmad (: Once its his turn, everyone bounce him up and down as though we win something. Ok, the rest of the days was all games. We slept in the tent and 1st day i felt difficult to slp.
11 novWake up in morning, PT and stuff and i forget the activites alrdy but the main activities i rmb was high element, learning the basic kayak. Ok, for kayaking, we learn the capsize drill and i saw one big jellyfish! Hahah, kayak with dijing, pearl. 3 person per kayak. After tht, we kayak all the way to OBS campsite 2, which is 500m away from campsite 1 in the sea. Settle down in campsite 2 and briefing for the next day sea expedition. Something damn funny happen during the briefing but i shall nt mention it (: This time dinner, we cook ourself using those mess tin and pot all those. Again in tent and much easier to slp. Again, something happen when we are sleeping, quite funny though (:
12 novKayaking! We ate our breakfast and headed to kayak, we must kayak around the whole palua ubin which is around 20km and within a limited time, we set off at 8plus if i am nt wrong and must complete everything by 430 or 5? Ok, super super tiring but still fun.This time i partner with royston to be the sweeper where no one must be behind us and only 2 person ): There was BIG BIG SUN where i get all my sunburn and become darker and storm. Where we must stop our kayak and go into some private resort and seek for shelter till the rain stop and we continue to kayak. We ate our lunch in the sea also and after tht instructor bernard capsize some of them, lucky nt mine cos my kayak has a number of things on it. Wooo! But i wan capsize, like fun ah. Headed to an open area where there is no toilets at all, actually is a small forest or dunno call wat, jus a piece of land only. SO tooooo bad, we cant bath and we all stinks like hell. Worst till, when we are cooking halfway, it started to rain so we must use the marshall to cover and quickly head back to our tent where its flooded inside the tent and muddy, I dunno how to slp. Briefing for the nxt day land expedition and off to slp, in the flooded tent. Ok, this night i feel so long, i wake up for upteem time and its so tiring. Finally morning and able to get out of the tent.
13 novWake up and get ready for land expedition which is hiking. Sounds quite easy right. But its tough! We didnt eat breakfast as there is nt enough time for my group, so start our journey, at first we headed a way where there is tree to block our way and we need to u-turn and go from another way, we lost our way in the middle of the forest and its so hard to go to the destination. Ohya, we gt 4 checkpoints where we need to head to cos actually we need to kayak to a place call kekek and hike from there to campsite 2, but its still raining. So we need to cancel an hike our way to all 4 checkpoint spread around pulua ubin. We hike for 3 plus hours before we get to our 1st checkpoint and our bag is super heavy, i dunno how heavy but instructor sae max weight is aounr 15kg, i dunno is how heavy but when you carry it for such long hours, its super heavy and you felt like smth is pushing you down, i nearly give up but i didnt. When we reach the 1st checkpoint at 12 and ate our lunch. We headed to a hut and repacked our stuff cos we didnt divide the thing properly and some ppl carry heavy thing, some ppl light thing. So we pack and its 2 plus, we dont have enough time for the rest of checkpoint and instructor gave us another checkpoint, where we need to go to bukit tinggi summit. We hike back to campsite 2 and put our things and carry our waterbottle and tent and must reach the summit in 15 min time and find a metal plate where there is a OBS word on it, if we didnt find it, we need to do smth. We found it late by 10 secs and we need to carry our tent down using those dunno wat sheet where they carry casualty, 4 tents and it is all super heavy. Quite hard to find our way down and when we finally find our way down, we have 2 hours to prepare everything, cook, bath. etc. 730 there is a ferry fetching us but i think its fake. We were late by half an hour and we need to hike back. We have night walk where we need to walk alone, everyone is separated from 30-45 sec, i was so scared so we cant use torchlight and its so dark, no lampost, no light. So i quickly walk, meet up with the in front ppl and kenny come and look for me cos i told him i and scared. We finally reach a reservoir where everyone will gather and move together, this time we are all used to our weight of backpack and its quite easy to walk alrdy. Reached campsite 1 and settled our things, finally we get to bath!!! And sleep.
14 novThe last night was shiok, i slp without waking up and everyone of us was late cos we need to meey 555 am but everyone woke up at 545am. Unpitch tent and quicky head to our store and put down things wash up and late by 30min. So PT and wash all our poncho, backpack, tents and everything we used. Ok, actually the backpack we used for the 2-4 day for hiking and kayak is OBS backpack, we need to put all our personal stuff needed inside and group stuff like pot, mess tin,canned food, poncho, life vest and etc. Once everything washed, we doesnt have enough time for jetty jump, too bad. I wan to jump! Cos we cant jump anywhere else ): I think ahmad was disappointed with our group the last day cos we all keep delaying. He talked some sense into us and im sorry ): Went to buy our stuff like OBS shirt and others help fren buy also. Headed bck to hall for debrief and survey and everything we have done this past few days. I MISS OBS ELIZABETH WATCH! Headed back to punggol jetty and headed back to sch. I survived OBS!
Ahmad told us tht, our OBS course will nv end in our life as long as we think tht we are going through it, and i believe tht our future OBS course will bring us to greater height. I miss everyone.
Head back sch, go kfc eat and headed back sch again for meeting at 5 and i went off to somewhere else with family before i can offically reached home at 9plus. I unpacked, bath and lie flat on my bed. Seriously i admit tht this camp is tough and tiring, but its really fun and exciting if you think positive and bond with everyone, we pull through together and i believe tht everyone will think its a great camp, one of the best camp i ever had. I wont regret coming to this camp even though during the hiking, i seriously felt like going home. But overall, if there is OBS, i may choose to go. Cos seriously its GREAT! and you get to noe frens and FUN! Once again, i will definitely encourage ppl t go for OBS!
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