Hi. I am at mcdonald, haha, received a phone call from wang miao. He ask me to go to MC to study overnight and I accept. LOL. So now at mc studying. Then thought of blogging. So post a short one lor. First time stay up so late at night outside. Ha. Need to study le. Prepare for EOYs. Haha. Bye. Still quite a lot of pple outhere late at night. Kk bye need to study le. It is now midnight 4am actually.
Hi everyone, i have decided to post a post after watching my blog rot for months. Yes i noe that this topic might be abit lag, but this subject is just stuck deeply in my mind and i can't forget it no matter how hard i try, but i guess it is good to remember this event so well. The event is Outward Bound Singapore(OBS) lah, of course.
Day one
Alvin Chua from BB and I reported to punggol point jetty early in the morning. We took a taxi there lah. When we reached, only a few pple were there. After some time then many pple come. As usual mark attendance lor then board the speed boat towards Pulau Ubin. Anywae, Alvin and I are the only pple from BB lar, so both of us only knew each other at that time. We sticked together and took the same boat to Ubin as GB. The boat was so fast and the water splashed like mad. Splash until i wet. then we arrived at the campsite in a short while. Reach there then wait long long long time for other pple to reach Ubin. Alvin and I was assigned into the same group. I did not know anyone from my group at that time except for Sihui cause we classmates mah. My group(watch) was DA GAMA and the group members were Alvin, Me, Sihui, Kah hui, Wai leong, Jasper, John, Rachel, Sabrina, Lu Huan, Wong Liting, Yung Cheng, Leonard and Wei Hua. The 14 of us make up DA GAMA 12/6/06-16/6/06, together wif our instructor Shu Yun.
After knowing our groups, we played ice breaker stuff like that get to noe our group members. Draw stalls, two big box of food biscuits and stuff lar. First thing we did was pitch tent lar, then because BB and GB got pitch oftenly so we taught the others how to pitch lor. Everyone started toking while pitching tents, bond are building up slowly. After the tents are done, its time for kayaking course. As usual BB got kayak b4 oso mah, so Alvin and I kinda own the sea? LOL haha. No lah, its like everyone was quite nervous when they hit the water but for me, it was normal bah, maybe kayak quite few times liao leh? Then kayak, learn few strokes and do rescue. After that go back to camp bath, and cook our dinner. Makan liao got night circle tok tok, then go sleep ler.
Day 2
Woke up in the morning, strike tent, eat breakfast then gather play some games, and write our diary for day one. Again go draw stall, this time drew helmet and harness, and so we went to the climbing area to do high element stuff. Shu Yun taught belaying and some knots to tie the rope to our harness…… Muahahahaha! We did some trust games too and was real fun. Again cause BB got do climbing b4 so we know the belaying stuff. Then I went up the log(3D) wif Alvin climb climb climb, reach the 2nd last log then stuck cannot go up anymore, so came down lor. Haiz… arm pain like mad damn tired, so I didn’t continue to climb but came down instead. Climb from morning till afternoon. In the afternoon, we pack our back packs for a change of campsite. The bag was around maybe more than 12kg??!? Dunno leh but is just damn heavy lar. I cant even carry it up wif one hand..
Off we go out of campsite to our 2nd campsite, Shu Yun lead the way as a form of reward for the log climbing. So arrived shortly as it was near. Pitch tent cook dinner. That campsite rocks cause got no toilet no light and stuff. Need use torch and dig a hole to shit. Fun lor. But luckily I never shit lar. That dinner was shiok. After dinner is quiet time, and Shu Yun told us a “ghost story” haha. Nothing much lar that night as it was super dark so did nothing much. Everyone went to sleep lor. And Kah Hui borrowed my watch as a alarm clock, maybe she is too pig to wake on her own? So need an alarm? Lol haha… Rain that midnight while we sleeping. Super cool, and our tents got water seep through. LOL. But dun care, just continue sleeping lar. Haha everyone is sleeping piggily, dun care the rain. HAHA…….
Day 3
Today, woke up early in the morning play some teamwork game wif Junko and Hillary. We got in to second place woot woot lol haha. After that is the entire Anglican high school gather in circle and share bout our experience. We were supposed to read our group diary, but we didn’t write anything. So Wong Liting read a wordless diary, and it sounded damn real, she just read out wad she have in mind LOL.
After the circle, again we pack our bags and get ready to set out for our third campsite. I was the navigator for DA GAMA, so I took the MGRs and plotted the points out on the map. After everyone is ready, we set out into the forest to search for our first checkpoint. The first checkpoint was quite okay lar, but we have to find it wif our sharp eyes as the checkpoint is nailed on a tree. It was me hu found the metal plate lar of course so pro, hehe. When we set out for our second checkpoint that time, Shu Yun told us to proceed to the last checkpoint, which is the highest point of Ubin. Woot woot, that walk was super duper far, but we held on to our never give up spirit. On our way, Da Gama kept singing, like a jukebox non-stop. That was cool man, their singing not bad especially Lu Huan, Jasper and Wong lar. Ha. So walk walk walk reach the bottom of the hill. We walked up without a map at all cause last time I went up there b4. That trail up was cool climbing over and under fallen logs, steep slopes too, fun fun fun. When we reached the top everyone was so hyper cause we made it safe and alive to our checkpoint and of course with the help of our great DA GAMA navigator, we reached there first too.
Halfway admiring the nice view of the quarry, Shu Yun revealed the last checkpoint to me and I was shocked. It was a place all the way back to camp 1 and even further, at the far west side of ubin. Still remember when I told the group bout the last checkpoint, everyone’s morale drop to the minimum. But we did not give up and continued our journey. Same thing we walk, talk, sing and make noise lar. Keep walking. While walking Wong came to me and we chatted lar, thx for that nice chat anywae, it was a morale booster for me. LOL hehe. So keep walking, and I was looking for all the possible shortcut and found one. Some group members did not trust me as they tot the short cut was wrong, but it came out correct. Lol. We reach the gate of the camp liao, then found out that it was locked, at that point of time, I was like OH SHIT, then keep thinking is it walk wrong way or wad, then damn scared the group members kao bei. But in the end is Shu Yun hu scammed us, so she unlocked the gate and everyone rushed to our destination. Reach campsite liao dumb all our bags down, drink water, rest, form a circle, help each other massage shoulder. Wheeee, so comfortable. After that is pitch tent lar, the place was small but because of our great navigator hu is me, we reached there first, so we got to choose our sleeping spot. After the tents, is water activity again, rafting. We tied a raft using pipes and drums. We were happy tying it lar, everyone singing song and chatting. We named it 大海妈妈(mother of big sea) LOL. Lu Huan came out wif that name. hehe. The sad thing is tat when mother of big sea entered the water and pple sat on it, the drums came off, and our raft rotted in the sea. Lol! I didn’t even get to sit on itL But nvm lar ha. After that is wash up and everyone was real happy about the dinner as it was prepared by the cooks there. That night’s dinner rawks. Wheee.
After the dinner was the sea expedition briefing for 2morow. Everyone gathered at some place and the instructors took out a map to show us the route of the expedition. Everyone listen carefully and understood the route of the expedition, and the various stuff on the way such as the mud bun and a bridge where we have to get out of the kayak to carry the kayak over. I was exceptionally excited when I heard about the mud bun as I find it real cool. The mud is actually to thigh depth, and best is that we have to wear our shoes. Whooo. Lol spastic. After the explanation, was choosing of sea expedition leaders, the navigator in the front, sweeper at the back, and the two side kayaks which forms a diamond formation, total of six pple 2 from each watch. Me & Alvin was selected from DA GAMA. Yong Peng & James from Hillary as right markers. Sandy & Leon from Junko as left markers. Oh yes, the combination of the 3 watches in now named as “Mobile Anglican”. After things are settled, the mobile Anglican went for supper except the six sea ex leaders. Six of us stayed back to discuss our positions, and agreed to the above positions. I was the sea ex navigator. Woot woot.
Went to have my supper, then ask Da Gama to meet me at the rockwall after they had their supper. I briefed them about the sea ex like wad to bring and wad time to wake up 2morow. We had to wake up 5am 2morow sia damn shiok! Then it was QT, and shu yun issue our diary to write on. Write finish liao already around 11++pm, so everyone went back to sleep ler. ZzzzZZZZz. The instructors told us that sea ex leader have to have their own kayaks, which means only can one sea ex leader in one kayak but on the first day my partner was Alvin. So both of us had to change partner. After some reshuffling, my partner was Wong LitingJ, and Alvin’s was Wei HuaJ. So nothing much liao went back to sleep lor. The third day ended.
Day 4
Today woke up super early, packed our bags, strike the tents, load the speed boat wif our bags to be sent back to camp 2. Had breakfast, then everyone was ready for the expedition, I got my map wif the mud bun and bridge marked our for me only, and I have to look for the route myself. After breakfast we loaded our kayaks wif our stuff, and had a Mobile Anglican circle, it was drizzling at that time, great weather. Had our last words before leaving camp 1. Finish the talking then I told Wong on how to kayak wif me, basically is she sit in front and I sit at back. She only need to paddle forward and nothing else, while I control the direction and stuff like these lar. Things were great. My kayak was the first to hit water at around 8am, followed by the other sea ex leaders. We formed the diamond shape and the Anglican pple fitted into the diamond. After the diamond shape was done, we set out for camp one. So we were kayaking and some pple were fast some were really slow like mad, and I mean real slow lar. The diamond shape was rotten in just few minutes and it turned into a line. LOL. After the turn around the extreme west of Ubin, we took a rest and waited for the back pple to catch up. So we were kayaking straight for around 1 hour until we came to the opening of the fence for us to enter a river. Wong was singing in front and I am looking at the map, while we kayak. We chatted lots and lots of stuff too. Pple at the back were quite pissed as the front and back distance was too far, so my double kayak was powered by one man only, we took turns to paddle lar of course. We did that so that we would slow down and let the back pple catch up. I found that the pple at the back was actually paddling in zig-zagly that’s y they wasted lots of energy and unnecessary distance. Wong and me were real scared of the pple getting pissed by us, so we called for a raft up and let the mobile Anglican have their lunch, drink water and explain the situation to them so that they would understand wad we r doing, to prevent conflicts. We had to keep to the time so as to keep to the tide pattern for the ease of moving across the mud bun. After 15mins of rest, we set off for the river. We saw many kelongs, and huge gigantic massive structures along the sea. We can like see Malaysia so clearly as we were super close to it, there were fence all along the beach to prevent illegal immigrant who would swim from Malaysia to ubin. Coastal guards filled the water ways too.
Finally we got into the river mouth, it was tricky to topo in the river as the only things u can see is trees and nothing else. So I can only look at the shape of the river and the direction on the compass to move around. Our first target was the mud bun. The river was narrow and the roots of trees were growing all over making the river even narrower. The forests by the river side look real scary lar. Things were fine until when we got near to the bun. There were many cross roads there and were not shown on the map, so I did trial and error here and there. Finally we got to the mud bun. It was a huge chunk of mud in the middle of the river, wif a height of around 3 or
Whoah, the nightmare of the sea ex came after the mud bun, looking for the bridge. There was totally nothing shown on the map after the mud bun, it was just a chunk of white space on the map????? LOL so nothing I can do. I moved around by the compass hanging on my neck, going towards south as we wanted to cut through ubin from north to south. We looked at the direction of water flow too. We got lost several times too, the scariest lost is the one where we come to place where it was extremely shallow and narrow only a kayak at a time, so a line of 28 kayaks were in that narrow water, the water level is the length of your forearm only. So we got stuck several time and we shake our butt to get over the ground, didn’t even have to get out of our kayaks. We were moving on and the worst thing is that the water became stagnant suddenly and was a dead end. The place was filled wif mosquitoes too. At that point of time, Me and Wong were extremely scared as it was dark in there and was filled wif many trees growing all over the place. When we shouted “wrong way, U- turn”, I heard pple shouting vulgarities getting pissed off and stuff like dat. And I want to say sumthing lar, it was really difficult to get along the river, so pro come topo urself lar, dun think u even noe how to read the map lor, anyway the map had nothing on it too. LOL so mean. So everyone U turned, and got out of the scammer water. The water is flowing in at the mouth but just become stagnant suddenly. We went passed mobile Anglican and the faces of everyone is like AP look. Wong tried to calm me down. So we continued and move on, got lost several times too. Haiz, lazy to elaborate so detailed. So finally reached the bridge, same thing I got off first and carried our kayak to the other side of bridge put it on the shore. After finishing mine, went to carry other kayaks, some of the kayaks were real heavy sia, filled wif water. After moving all kayaks to opposite, its time to launch them out. Again, I was like a theme park worker again, helping pple to get into their kayaks on land, and pushing them into the water, heavy heavy sia. After everyone crossed, the sea ex leaders launched and my kayak was the last to launch. After the bridge, there is no more crossroads and only got one way so no need see map or compass can move our of river liao.
Nothing much after that. We got out of river shortly and into the sea. So chiong all the way back to camp 2, on the way everyone is tired so moved at a slower speed. Wong and me discussed about wad happened in the river, lol, she was acty very pissed wif the pple too, so now my turn to calm her down.. haha. The water was extremely choppy and the wave is so high that when it is in front of us, we cant see wads infront. Everyone going up and down due to the waves. We saw many gigantic tankers and one huge ship wif a super duper tall crane on it. That was like the biggest ship I ever seen lar, it was very far away but still look very big. So reached camp 2 wash and scrub the kayak. Mud was still sticking onto the kayak lar, and that shows how sticky the mud was. Sea ex officially ended at around 5pm-6pm and we were not lost, all thanks to our great sea expediton leaders especially the navigator hu is me. LOL bhb. Actually everyone did a great job lar. Good job Mobile Anglican hip hip hurray WOOT WOOT. Everyone put back the kayaks and gather at the jetty for jetty jump. Everyone jumped except 2 pple(dun wan mention names lar). Jump finish go bath, then pitch tent, cook dinner. Eat finish liao gather again for night walk. Walk to the reservoir of OBS school. Was extremely dark. Cant even see ur own hands. No torches too. Sat down and had a Da Gama circle at the reservoir. After that we walked back solo. Everyone made it. I was the second last person to walk and I walk super slowly, holding a calm mind, strolling in the forest. Then the sound of dropping leaves very scary, like got things following u like dat. LOL. Gathered at jetty again for QT and tok about the nighwalk. They say they saw a wai leong bush in there, a bush which bears the shape of wai leong wearing a cap, and wai leong was also wearing a cap during the nightwalk.LOL. Some pple were freaked out by that wai leong bush. Damn funny lar. So nothing much lar. Go sleep ler and day four ended.
Day 5
Woke up strike tent wash all the equipments, hang them back and do stock check found out that we lost many stuff. Total of $98.00. So we paid for them. Finish all the left over food I took many biscuits home, Si hui took many many many many food home, so greedy. So finally go buy souveneir, bought two shirts and got a free OBS keychain. Got fone back, and found out that my 3K BBQ cancelled. Haiz…. So nothing much liao board the boat and went back to Singapore. My boat went to camp one to pick up some pple so got to see camp one again. LOL. After that took bus to main road. Got off the bus and flagged a taxi. I got a Mercedes taxi leh, cool huh. The taxi went pass Leonard, and he saw me sitting in the taxi. He got stunned and pointed a finger to me. LOL then I went home lor. Home sweet home. That night I went to Jason’s house to play pool wif Wang Miao, Joel and Jason. They play guitar and sing song till super loud and we play pool for super long. That was a great night man.
The above was the happenings during 12/6/06 – 16/6/06. A total of 3859 words. I am writing this 3 months later from OBS and still can remember them so clearly, so this shows that how unforgettable was OBS to me.