see lar..
june holidays are no holidays for me..
even i till have to post tis time..
been very busy and only comlete my add maths homework..
but i dun think i'm miserable being so packed up,
cos if i'm not packed up, my parents will sure nag till i die...haha
so getting busy is the easy way out of the nags and everything that parents will cause..
and like there are 1 more week of june holidays and the shitty thing is i hv'nt prepare my english oral( cos i went for OBS and din turn up), done all my school homework exp add maths, iron my uniform ( u noe i take very long time to iron), etc..cos u see my holidays are mostly packed with camps and NDP'09 rehersal at marina bay and other misc things ..and it burned alot (17 out of the 30days of holiday). but that does not include packing camp bag, ironing uniform(esp scout uni as need it every sat), going shopping blah blah blah..
anw, who cares abt that...haha..
jux hoping that school will close down cos of swine flu(like what they did to SARS)..so there will be e-learning at home so can play restaurant city XD
written on 4:29 AM by me :D
today dun feel like doing any work. like the whole june have been occupied till i cant concentrate on my homework..but i prefer the activity than homework..hate doing homeworks during holidays..will get impatient damn easily.
written on 7:37 PM by me :D
cousins birthday! celebrste the whole evening.
thats all i gotto say!
written on 3:36 PM by me :D
today was my first raining for the NDP. really, the training should be startin in febuary..but like more than 50ppl in the 88ppl contigent scouts could not attent anymore trainings due to many reasons (mostly is scouts events) and so they tried to get more ppl form other schools..so i and dheenan go lar..
we jux have to attend trainings till national day den we get 3scout badges and a set of cooling material scouts uniform that is made specialy for us..
it was really worth for me lar..cos i only go like 2months of effort and get so much. not like the rest who went for 6months of trainings..
and it was rather interesting in the nee soon camp..like the trainings facilities outside was rather fun looking..i felt like wanting to play the equipments there..
but cant lah..so sad..
the rehersal was nightmare and i got cramps all over my body after the first rehersal. but if tarhan for 2months and get so many things...
nxt year i confirm dun want go again unless if like june ask me go cos lack of manpower..
but overall it was really tiring there...REALLY!!!
and somemore went home at 730pm..
with all the neck,back,arm.leg,etc cramps...
stupid!!
and ooh..my skins getting whiter after looking soooo black after my OBS.(my skins peeling off)
written on 8:16 PM by me :D
8-10 june was the UG first aid course in CCSS. and becos of that i can skip 3days of my other camp.
haha
but the first aid course was damn boring but we all passed ._.ll
haiz..10 days of the holidays have passed and left like 18 more days of holidays..plus every saturday got the NDP rehersal. this sat will be at nee soon camp.
from nxt sat onwards will be at marina bay.
and with all the after camp mode i dun feel like doing any homework..first in mind will be sleep..next will be food..
think june isnt a holiday for me..after rest for few days den got events..like that all my homework will never finish lor.. espiecially the chinese and humanity..
but anw i passed my BASIC first aid..like wasting 3 fuckin days juz to get the BASIC first aid cert..dotz
written on 2:59 AM by me :D
finally got the time to write something(alot) haha..
been resting for like centurary already..
so here it goes..
DAY1 OBS
first day was really excited. i really cant wait to reach ubin when i report to school.
almost everyone wear the 2009 sec1 UG camp shirt..but some prefer to wear it during the camp.
it wasnt our plannings to wear what..juz coincident.
so at 7.45am report and think around 8.30am the bus came.
reached Punggol jetty( not Changi) which is jjuz beside the OBS reception center.
there are 16schools and we need to be in our own groupings that are choosen for us. Im in watch 1(they call groups as watch but they still the same meaning).
got a mass briefing by a instructor for our groupings and introduction of schools and instructor and a little history of OBS..my watch name is Battuta and for some reason all the watch names are sailors.
so after my watch meet up with my instructor, Khee Meng, he told us to walk aroung and get to know one another..although i really cant remember all of the names, but difinately by the end of the camp i will.
went to the jetty and wait for the ferry. then the ferry came and we hop onto it and reached Ubin after 10mins. there are 3 OBS campsite in ubin.i am in camp2.
i tell u the place is like some military place.
there is a long building that is the store room for all the 16 watch.
inside there is small and cramp but we need the item there as it is very important.
inside there are tents, poncho, camping bags, PFD(the thing that is worn during kayaking), mass tin, jerrican, watter bottle, and many others. we need to take out all the store items and put it in the camping bags from the store. then we put our bags inside the store.
but that is the later part.
first we assemble in the multi-purpose hall. Khee meng started off with some ice breaker games. starting from self-intro, it continue until the most fun ice breaker.
like the lets celebrate game. afterwards, the instructor is collecting all our electronic devices except for watch. it is for us to concentrate on our camp fully. he also collect our wallets,keys, medicine and stufffs that u dont want to lose during the camp.then we went to collect a big basket of food. that will be our meal for the 5 days. then he wants each and everyone to be a leader, so he have 16post for everyone. there is a watch IC for each day and 2food IC, 2 logistics IC, 1 water IC, 1environment IC, 1 medic, 1 time IC, and 3 more i forgot. afterwards went to a nearby place where there is a custom made table with steps and a bell.(will explain the bell part in day5). the first activity is 2person facing each other and another person standing in the middle and rock himself forward and back. and the 2 person who is facing each other must pust the middle guy.
then er played trust fall with the costomised table. dunno why but its only our watch that get to use that table.
after trust fall we need to go back our stall and pack up the tents into the camp bag and bring 1 jerrican half filled. then we need go uphill and gather there. once there we need to faster learn how to wear helmet and harness and belay(prounced like that) before we cook.
after cooking we pitch our tents nearby after the instructor teach us how to do it.
then after that we meet up at the multi-purpose hall and Khee meng teach us how to pack our bags and prepare for the expedition. after packing like 11pm he made us sleep. as we hvnt finish yet we had to wake up at 4am ealiest to pack.
DAY2
wake up at 4.30am and started packing our camp bags. we had to be ready by 8am.
so we chiong to pack all our things into the bags and wait for the next activity.
first we went for a kayak practise. we had to carry our kayaks to sea and practise the same type of things( capsize and hold the paddle). afterwards a short break before going to camp1 for rock climbing. camp 1 is sooo much better than camp 2 and 3 cos it is the OBS HQ and it has TV and canteen(the camp 2 and 3 are like military training ground). rock climbing was sort of fun. cos we get money if we climb it.
for the easy type, each coloum we get 100bucks and the difficult ones are 200 bucks. the money will be spent on the activity tomorrow.
rock climbing only Ahmad can climb till the top of the difficult one. but its because of our group that encourage him. cos he wanted to give up halfway.
afterwards went for a good dinner in camp1 and at 8.30pm meet up our instructor. we played some games and he tried the Johari Window thoery. it is something that camp rarely does. at least we get to know what people feels about us.
then we went out to the bushes and pitch tents and end the day.
DAY 3
we wake up as usual and we are told to bring everything with us. we are going to start our expedition soon. we will first hike for 6 hours. before hiking, the instructors taught us how to do pacing. like with the bags and everything and walk for 100m and count the steps u made. that is the estimation of 100m when hiking out.
then we set off.
we had 3 check points and we found the first 2 easily but the last one is the hard one. cos the first 2 checkpoint was pinned in fornt of the tree and we can see easily. the last one is behinf the tree and we took like 1.5 hour. we then learn a lesson that things are not always there for us. we need to find it ourself.
next weare suppose to go to the quary which is the gathering point. we were all dying from aches and Khee meng told us to stand in a circle and turn right and massage the person in front. it was shiock! haha..after like 6hours of walk. then we were told to make raft and go into the quary. we can buy parts like the ropes and poles with the money we earn yesterday during the rock climbing.
then Battuta( us) won the best design cos everyone was taught to use square lashing but we use diagonal lashing.our design is triangular so we must use diagonal lashing.
but when the instructors inspct everyones raft, it was unsafe and so we must swim to the quary to get a message in the middle of the quary.
afterthat we went to camp3 area nearer to the sea and cook our dinner and pitch tents. we are facing Johor Bahru area and at 11pm there are musics comming from there. and the only way to shit and pee is to find a spot in the bust and do it. since today, we are not returning to camp site and we are just in Ubin forested area. so we need to have people doing nite duty. everyone must do nite duty for 30mins.until morning. sadly at 3am it rained and our tents are full of water.everyone woke up and re-pitch the tents.
DAY4
woke up at 3am in the morning..it rained damn heavy and worst is all ourtents are not pinned to the ground as the ground are too hard. we use rocks and it wasnt very good when its raining. i look out of the tent door and see many ppl going out and ajust the tents while i sit up and stare blankly at them. everyone tent leak water and most of us are affected and cant sleep well. at 4am, we woke up for the day. although it was drizzling, we need to pack our foods into our life jackets(PFD) cos we are going to kayak for 6hours and we are bound to get hungry. we also need to pack our tents back and worst is that the instructors made us wear the poncho which is so uncomfortable. the poncho is those kind of thick square PVC and a hood in the middle. until 7 am when we must fold back our poncho as it was drizzling lightly. we actually should start kayaking at 7am but due to the rain, we start at 730am. worst is that my shoes for wet activity are being attacked by fire ants. when i wear it in the morning, it kept on biting me...until when i reached the water. all of us din bathe last night and we went for a dip in the sea. how the hell can we bathe in outdoor?? after we are in the kayaks, we set off striaght away. we are suppose to kayak almost the whole of ubin, from the camp3(facing north)back to where our actual campsite is(camp2,facing south).although we can kayak the short way, the instructor want us to experience something chellenging.we also passby chek jawa(it was high tide and we cant see any wildlife). the worst thing abt me is that i dun have long sleeve shirt and no sunblock. becos of that, i became very black. during kayaking, i ate like almost every min. luckly i was sitting at the back of the 3person kayak..if not i sure kena complaint. but i got the power to boost the kayak and im the most experienced among the 3 of us..haha..the funny thing is that if u want to go toilet, jux jump into the sea and do the business. and the food wrapper cannot be thrown in the sea unless it is biodegradble. like orange skin i threw it everywhere..we are also suppose to bring orange in case we sea sick.. Shafiq vomit like 28times during the trip and it dosnt sounds good. the most funny thing is that while kayak in the middle of the sea halfway, i was stuck in the middle of a rock..it was not my intention but i kena stuck cos of that 1 stupid kayak who was shouting for help and did not say that they were stuck on the rock and when i approach, i got stucked. ha..it was rather funny than angry..and after that wash up and start to pack our stuff to go home as the next day is go home day. we had a entire camp dinner together and the instructor told us a story. then after that we were to go back to sleep somewhere in the tent in the bush.
DAY5
it was the only morning that i wake up the latest.at 7am. we had to quickly wash up all the tents and ponchos and keep them in the store.
and we all thought that after packing we will be leaving. but hell no. we did not expect somemore activity on the last day. Khee meng said that the camp wasnt over until we reached the mainland. so the activity was jetty jump and another activity that is on the custom made table( the same one as day1). these are the last 2 games and after that is round up of the camp.everyone have to share what have they learn and 3person they want to thanks and 2person they want to say sorry. this part is rather emotional but went on smoothly. then is the issue of cert. then is the return of personal belogings..
then we took ferry back to mainland.
bought 2 OBS shirts in the shop and went towhite sands and ate KFC with my OBS friends. went home and sleep after that..
and the next day got another 5day camp.crap!
written on 12:19 AM by me :D
jux came back from obs..
damn shack from all the fun and adventerous activities....
need a long rest.
written on 5:54 PM by me :D
