- Wednesday, June 9, 2010
the past two weeks have been really hectic, but awesome
obs week first(:-24th to 28th may 2010
day1:
first, i met jerian to go to school together, met brandon at jp and then went to get 1.5l bottles(:
and we then headed off to sch, were pretty late.
bus trip down to obs, bag felt like it was killing me.(but after the trekking activity, my personal bag felt like heaven)
first day was basically just mingling, socializing, learning how to pitch a tent, food rationing and to cook dinner:D
roland kind of hit over shackleton pot of rice by accident, poor him, he felt so guilty.
but its okay, we don't mind:D After all, nice tenzing shared with us there rice.
dinner was chilli anchovies, rice, instant noodles, peanuts and sardines.
(lunch and breakfast is seriously corrupt: biscuits and layer cakes, etc!-the week where i ate the most biscuits in my life)
first night camp site was good, but stupid mozzies kept buzzing by my ear.
ohh and we played catching after dinner, super fun(: when we were supposed to be bathing, but we didnt know:S
day2:
woke up bright and early.
learned how to belay people, did rock climbing.
i failed at the vertical and supposedly harder wall.
climbed the one everybody was supposed to.
i felt stressed being the last one to go:(scared that i could not do it.
halfway, my hand started to bleed, but i must say thankyou to eugene and bihao who helped me alot(:( oh and the other two guys, i think paul and someone....)
haha made my life easier when i got stuck.;D
moved off to camp1; camp1 is heavenly...haha but i feel that i have more memories in camp2.
but camp2 night site is better though its more ulu.
day3:
went for kayaking expedition to collect holy mud
the instructors said we were fast.
i guess i had allergy to mud/seawater/heat?
had alot of rash after coming out of the water,
jerian and i couldn't kayak straight, then other people kept laughing at us since we were supposed to be the portsmarker. pengsiang and leng khoon helped us next, turned out that jerian and i had little coordination.ended up banging into lots of tree branches in the mangrove swamp:(
jerian and eugene got seasick halfway...eat orange eat orange!!!!!
and then we exchanged life rocks when back on shore, i was desperate to pee i remember, cause i was reluctant to pee in the sea like everybody did.moved off to stay in camp3
camp3 campsite sucked, had lots of red ants and it was super rocky.they said that the campsite wasnt used in months .:( and it was super difficult to get to the campsite, grassy overgrown sloping narrow track.:X first time we went up, quite a number of ppl tripped.
dinner time, all of us were cooking.
lighting and thunder came, the guys set about to set up shelters with ponchos and when our bag were all piled together, i lost my bag O.o the guys were awesomely fast and smart.haha but we all felt super scammed cause it didnt rain after all. and there were dark clouds all around but not directly above us.
there was a shooting star too.:D but i didnt see it.
sharlene started to click on and click off her torchlight in ppl faces to pretend it was a shooting star.epic.
and the guys came up with this cheer:
-paul howls-
guys:ooh ooh ah ah
ooh ooh ah ah
girls: rv sexaye!
girls:ooh ooh ah ah
ooh ooh ah ah
guys:rv happy
mad cheering(;
campsite was hard, but i was too tired fell asleep soon.
heard chants at night, lots of ppl got scared.
but it was only malay prayers.
LOL ><
Day 4:
Trekking in the jungle to collect the holy water
we took a wrong turn, ended up walking much more.
the backpack half killed me and it started to pour heavily even before we embarked.had to wear ponchos, look like fat little ducklings what with our huge bags.
half died during trekking, but accomplished it:D
and then had quarry jumping, super fun to play in the clear water:D you can see your legs and stuff(:
trekked back.
had the zero displacement thing, my shoe kept getting stuck in the mud.we were supposed to go through a short cut but after40 to 45 min of meandering through the forest and skidding down minature slopes, we were back where we were. thought they were playing a sick joke on us but then turned out it was because no one had taken this path for very long and that there was some flooding in the pathway:(eventually reached camp2
got back to camp, was ever so happy to bathe, yay we bathed everyday
cooked and jerian was epic.
he stacked the cooked food tgther and the toothpaste from one mass tin dripped into the eggs in the bottom mass tin.epic funny(:
dinner was self cooked with fresh ingredients
brandon wee and i cooked eggs too, they wanted friend eggs, but we ended up with scrambled eggs cause i thought scrambled eggs were fried eggs:(
haha paul was the taster, his face got this very shocked look when he ate, the food was prolly not very nice.but later, he actually came and told me brandon and mine was one of the best there.hehe at least someone appreciates our effort(:
the campsite on day4 was good, dont know why they didnt let us used it on day1
day 5:
packing up time. started to feel sad, kind of.
though i was lamenting during trekking hehe:D
did the planting of our trees,
and shackleton and tenzing gave roland and kerrie two real leaves, with thankyou messages on them.both of them rocked.poor kerrie, with jellyfish sting on her eye.ohh we saw lots of jellyfish when kayaking!!!
got back to sg, was thankful, was flooded with messages(Mostly work:( )
bought to collared tees, wanted to get this super new design tee, but out of stock alr:X
sheesh.
okay, i shall save posting about caps for tmr(:
Posted @Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Huiwen:D