I give my all to You, send me and i'll go for You

Saturday, September 1

the long wait is over. lolz.
OBS 2007.

DAY 1, 13/8/07
first day of the camp,
waited for a very long time ftare reaching pulau ubin.
the instructor kid tt we will have to swim to the shore frm the sea where 'he'll' release us.
then reach the outward bound singapore, waited for more than an hour for another sch.(shall not name)

after that, we were introduced to our grp FA, nadiah. she took us to the storeroom and look around, and then to the elements. we were taught how to belay and climb(which i noe alr), for the high elements.

OH. ANW, my watch's name is TENZING. lolz. tenzing norgay is the full name. dun ask me who is he..
tenzing includes me, bryan f(fiona 'lover'), math, kelvin, yong(jessica fan), warren, kai siang(shampoo boy), yinghong, faiz(hafiz), hanwen, joreen, weiting, waiying(model), aisyah(aisyah!), zunairah, liyana(bryan's 'darling').

okok, lets not sidetrack anymore..
after all the activities, and before wash up, we were taught to tie knots.
and i mastered one. the 'four' thingy.
which is the most helpful one, help support the tent in a stable manner.

pitched tents after that and lights out.

DAY 2, 14/8/07
second day of the camp,
woke up at 5am. got ready everything, including packing backpack. it was INSANELY HEAVYYYYY. got ready for our mini trekking, which is to trek to our new campsite, but were supposed to kayak first.

after that, we were taught how to kayak, plus all the different techniques of kayaking - brakes, sharp turn, stationery turn, and all other sorts of funny techniques, including capsizing.

kayaked for a total of 8km frm camp2 to the perimeter of pulau ketam. and i was the navigator - the leading kayak leading the whole troop of kayaks. it wasnt easy man, having to ensure everyone's not too far apart or grifting away, keeping the whole of shackleton and tenzing intact. a very good experience, first time kayaked long distance.

after returning to camp 2's shore, we washed up before setting off for our mini trekking. trekked to our new campsite. reached there at around evening. the campsite was 'awesome'. let me tell u why.

guess where was the toilet?
beach/sea(you pee on the shore)
u dig a hole on the sandy beach to shit

how abt wash-up area?
also the beach(its just arnd 5m away the toilet, or even less)
no detergent, how? wash with sand lor.
no clean water, how? wash with sea water(with weeds)
but sand is really one effective cleaning agent. its genuinely very clean, it cleans away grease.lolz.

sat on a plateau in our 'wild' campsite(no facility one ok, its just a piece of land in the wild), after pitching our tents, for our night evaluation, one-liner and reflection time. while writing our journal, we all chat and really laughed. talking all sorts of weird stuffs, like the guys or girls we each like(they are all bullshit). lolz. this was where yong earned his nicname. lolz. and after calling faiz 'hafiz' for dunno how many millions of time even after we corrected him, we decided to call faiz 'hafiz' throughout the camp. lolz.

lights out after that.

DAY 3, 15/8/07
third day of the camp,
woke up in the morning, given the 8 digit grid no., we set off looking for our new campsite. and our land expedition, trekking the whole day(really. frm the morning to near night).they made it like a 'amazing race' style, giving us 'stations' and 'clues' for our campsite.

the bag was real heavy, no joke at all. we have to lean forward, or else we will fall backwards once we stand straight. some even need campsticks to support ourselves. the weight was killing all of us man. no joke.

after all the hard work and stuffs, we ended up near a reservoir. and met up with shackleton there. had tt 'slackergays'(frm the names of shackleton and tenzing norgay) transporting game. by tt time many of us knew where was our campsite alr. camp1, the staionery camp.

we all rushed there. really we did ran. lolz. with my heavy bags. fatre hearing there will be cool drinks served and warm food cooked for us, nice toilets to bath in, we felt the adrenaline push and we all ran to camp1. we just felt the motivation. lolz. but the pityful part is tt we still have to sleep in tents.hai..but camp1 is SO SO SO MUCH more luxurious than camp2 or our outdoor campsite.

had a very good bath and excellent dinner. while waiting for nadiah and andy(shack's FA), chng yong and bryan came up with very funny performances, before yong's re-enactment of the funny things happened in the guys' toilet. let me say in brief, bryan and math compared who's is bigger, after bryan went around the toilet totally naked. and other really funny incidents in the guys toilet.

it was really funny. it was warren's bdae too, and the guys formed a human 'cake'(not the one u're thinking, we just squatted and joined hands, forming an outline of a cake) with 'candles' for him. hahaha..yong was engrossed with his performance tt he did not realise andy and nadiah were behind us watching together with us. haha..

then went back to tent after our night evaluation, reflection and one-liner. where we played the 'hello sally/harry' game.

lights out after tt.
faiz really snores very loud. XP

DAY 4, 16/8/07
fourth day of the camp,
every single one of us woke up at 5.30am when we were supposed to meet nadiah at 6am with all ready and de-pitched tent. everyone overslept. dunno y. but guess wat? nadiah woke up late too. HAHA! tts y we were spared.

during the PT was when we learnt the caterpillar game..lolz..hanwen manged to beat everyone with his tt 'qian' method, but eventually lost to andy..

next up was the most exciting one. high elements. it rained but we were lucky because ther is a replica of the element structure in the indoor hall. partnered bryan for climbing and earned maximum points. we were supposed to belay each other, math did it for me and i did it for him..lolz. the element was real high. around 2 or 3 or 4 storeys if im not wrong.lolz.it was a combination of all sorts, and it is hanging in mid air, instead of leaning against the wall.

and then belayed for math and warren. and got my left leg rope burnt. it was painful man. bryan tried another time for the elements with math. when he reached the top, he stood up and sang the 'L.O.V.E' song for fiona, frm bukit panjang sec, whom sch was at the bottom doing other activities. tt fella really dunwan his face..lolz.

after tt we got ourselves ready for our rafting back to camp2. shack's raft was superb man. solid and made there successfully. unlike our's, which one of our barrels poped up. and the left side sank. we were unable to contine after it was sinking deeper. andy quickly came to our aid by throwing a rope to us and yong tied it to the raft and dragged us back using his speed boat.

by this time joreen was alr tearing..

nadiah was extremetly pissed with us by tt time, we all can see..

after that andy gathered us together for a evaluation of our rafting. he asked the shacks and tenzings who think it was succesful or failure. i answered, "i think that each person's definition of success is differentm but believe that every single thing we do is successful, bcos all our successes are different, lets take the shackletons as example, maybe their success is being able to make it back here in one piece, while our's maybe getting this once in a lifetime experience. so i think our's, like the shackleton's, was a sucessful one."

we cleaned up and pitched tents at our new tentside on camp2, after unpacking our bagpacks and all those stuffs.

lights out after no reflection,
bcos nadiah was too pissed.

last night in OBS.

DAY 5, 17/8/07
last day of the camp,
didnt want to wake up. cos the surface was so spongy(tall grasses) and so comfortable.the best night out of the 5 days. last morning in OBS. de-pitched tents and send to washing(well, we wash them oursleves).

played the 'virus' game during our morning PT, and zunairah was accidentally knocked down by jiajun and her head banged against the concrete ground. ouch! a 'da!' sound could be heard. she was sent to a clinic in the mainland while we continued washing and cleaning.

nadiah found a burnt in our turp and we had to pay for it. hai..
after we packed our own bags, we procceeded to the mph for our last reflection time at around.
we all spoke our mind and this time, joreen cried again. lolz.

nadiah explained her stand and after we paid our fines, we went to buy our soveneirs.
and she found our lost watch. thanks a lot!

LEAVIN' ON A FERRY(not jetplane) ~ tune of leaving on a jetplane
all my bags are packed, we're ready to go
we're standing here, outside the hall,
we hate to wake up, to say goodbye.
when the dawn is breaking, its certainly more.
the boat is waiting, its blowing its horn?
and we're so ready, so not lonely, we could not cry.
cause we're leeeeeaviiiiing..on a ferry
don't know when i'll be back again..
oh baby, i hate(love for some ppl) to go..

ok, not to sidetrack anymore..
then we left pulau ubin on ferry..
);? or ):? or (:? or :D. i don't know. lolz.

END OF OBS> (:)

reached dunman, went for choir.
go home.
end of post.