Saturday, 19 Jan 08
9.37pm
Came back from OBS yesterday. I was too tired to post. yeah. so posting today right now (: Five words to describe OBS:
Tiring
Torturing
Fun
Exciting
Memorable
Monday
"Check in" into OBS school. did some games, ice breakers, height activities (belaying), 'thrust-fall', pitching up of tents and sleeping inside. Quite slack. this was when i havent really experience the main part of OBS. My class was slpit into two groups. my watch is called Gandhi, and the other half of my class is called Rajaratnam. named after famous people. (:
Tuesday
Had rock climbing, then got ready for a 3 days 2 night expedition. My watch is mainly on sea expedition. so my kayaked. actually is tri-yak. 3 people in one boat. but anyway i will just call it kayak. We kayaked through then suddenly thunderstorm came. so we were practically kayaking in the middle of the sea, thorugh rain, strom and lightning. sounds cool huh. but if you were there, it wasnt very cool at all. i was quite scared. like huge big waves and currents. we were kayaking against the strong currents. so needed alot of strengths. and my boat ALMOST capsized. gawd. it almost killed me. scary. =/
When we reached our campsite, its already pitch dark. so we pitch our tents, "bathe" (actually, we didnt even get to bathe. just changed our wet clothes and dry ourself. if you brought powder, you are lucky.) and ate "dinner" (which is actually some can food and bread) in the dark. everybody was so exhausted. our campsite was so digusting and wet and dark. it totally suck like crap. our spirits were very down. so did mine. at night i started to miss home. homesick. missed my family. missed my mum's cooking. i realised that that was the very first time when i actually missed home, my mum. normally during camps, i looked forward to it, can get to stay away from home, like so adventurous. but, i think partly due to my low spirits, at that time i hated OBS. to me it felt like a torture. and i felt like going home straight away. No doubt, OBS was really pushing us towards our limits. When it was time to sleep, it wasnt exactly the time you get to really sleep. every tents had to take turns to wake up, to guard our campsite and boats. my tent's shift was 1am. for 20 minutes. hack.
Wednesday
i felt much better after having a few hours of sleep. who cares whether the ground is hard or the tents stink. i definitely felt much better. it was another day of sea expedition. we had to wake up pretty early to kayak through the mangrove swamps. if we are not early enough, we will experience low tides. and indeed. we didnt make it throught the mangrove swamps in time. and halfway through, we experinced low tide. DAMN. it sucks. so everyone had to get down our kayaks, CRAWLED thorugh the mud on our knees (more surface area, wont sink into the mud so much) and pull our kayaks through. the mud reached our hips. yucks. alot of people got stuck while standing. shoes got stuck too. haha. quite hilarious. and some even the soles of their shoes came off! :D every one was grossed out at the mud at first. but we got used to it after that. covered with mud. we did that for like 2 to 3 hours. beat that.
We kayaked to our second campsite. thank god. the weather very sunny and fine. we managed to reached bery early, at 3.59pm. We quickly pitched our tents before it turns dark. again, theres no toilets to let us pee, poo or bathe. imagined, everybody filled with mud and we dont get to bathe. then whats next? just sleep? yeah. but luckily our instructor, Birin, was very nice. he led us to a quary and we "bathed" inside. zomg. it was so good manns. the water was like SO clear. Birin is a very very nice instructor, who jokes with us and plays tricks on us, and lame stuffs. haha. after that in the late evening we cooked maggie mee. oh my finally some COOKED FOOD. and then had to wake up in the middle of the night to guard our campsite again.
Thursday
Woke up and was quite high and energetic. everyone was too lazy to go to the toilet and change out. so we just took turns to change in the tents. i took quite long to change somehow, donno why. then ain wass like shouting to me inside,"chloe! are you done? why are you taking so long?! what you doing inside huh?! how many peoply inside?!" i was like OMG WTH. ain super sick and gross! then when i came out, hamizah gang up with ain and said," aiyo chloe, what you doing inside?" haha ok couldnt stand them. after breakfast, we went for land expedition. we hiked! like what, carrying our 15 kg bagpack, 30 cans of bottles filled with water, plus 4 big jerrycans. and i was the naivigator. horrible and memorable experience. wells, at least i finally know how to navigate with a map and compass. during the journey me and ain need to pee. haha so we pee er yeah, you know where lah.... quite funny. xD
we hiked back to OBS school. the first day where we were in. THANK GOD. finally. and then Birin said if we hike back on time, we get to eat CANTEEN COOKED FOOD. oh yayness. and whoo! when we steppe into the canteen (aka food HEAVEN), everybody was, "WAHHH, TABLES. WAHHH, CHAIRS." lol! after that we still supper! oh manns. thats SO GREAT. yumms (:
Friday
HAIYA. i guess OBS wants us to get a good experience and want us leave a good impression on them, so last day also provide us with breakfast and lunch in the CANTEEN. haha. that means no need to eat our leftover rations. budden we had a problem. we had SO MUCH LEFTOVER RATIONS. like what, 5 loaves of bread?! many many can foods and many many biscuits. so everybody went to kop. :D i kop one loaf of bread and one whole jar of peanut butter. :D haha i so smart hor. xD then on our way back in the ferry i opened the bread and peanut butter and everybody see me eat. xD and then finally, HOME. (at last)
WELL. the post-effect of OBS:
1. Tan line on both of my legs
2. LOADS of sandflies and mosquitoes bites, all over my face, neck, hands, and legs.
but lucky i didnt get tan, cos i seriously did applied tons of sunblock. HEES. :D and gawd. i totally missed Birin. He and his lame jokes, lies, and scares. i think whole Gandhi does. :(
9.37pm
Came back from OBS yesterday. I was too tired to post. yeah. so posting today right now (: Five words to describe OBS:
Tiring
Torturing
Fun
Exciting
Memorable
Monday
"Check in" into OBS school. did some games, ice breakers, height activities (belaying), 'thrust-fall', pitching up of tents and sleeping inside. Quite slack. this was when i havent really experience the main part of OBS. My class was slpit into two groups. my watch is called Gandhi, and the other half of my class is called Rajaratnam. named after famous people. (:
Tuesday
Had rock climbing, then got ready for a 3 days 2 night expedition. My watch is mainly on sea expedition. so my kayaked. actually is tri-yak. 3 people in one boat. but anyway i will just call it kayak. We kayaked through then suddenly thunderstorm came. so we were practically kayaking in the middle of the sea, thorugh rain, strom and lightning. sounds cool huh. but if you were there, it wasnt very cool at all. i was quite scared. like huge big waves and currents. we were kayaking against the strong currents. so needed alot of strengths. and my boat ALMOST capsized. gawd. it almost killed me. scary. =/
When we reached our campsite, its already pitch dark. so we pitch our tents, "bathe" (actually, we didnt even get to bathe. just changed our wet clothes and dry ourself. if you brought powder, you are lucky.) and ate "dinner" (which is actually some can food and bread) in the dark. everybody was so exhausted. our campsite was so digusting and wet and dark. it totally suck like crap. our spirits were very down. so did mine. at night i started to miss home. homesick. missed my family. missed my mum's cooking. i realised that that was the very first time when i actually missed home, my mum. normally during camps, i looked forward to it, can get to stay away from home, like so adventurous. but, i think partly due to my low spirits, at that time i hated OBS. to me it felt like a torture. and i felt like going home straight away. No doubt, OBS was really pushing us towards our limits. When it was time to sleep, it wasnt exactly the time you get to really sleep. every tents had to take turns to wake up, to guard our campsite and boats. my tent's shift was 1am. for 20 minutes. hack.
Wednesday
i felt much better after having a few hours of sleep. who cares whether the ground is hard or the tents stink. i definitely felt much better. it was another day of sea expedition. we had to wake up pretty early to kayak through the mangrove swamps. if we are not early enough, we will experience low tides. and indeed. we didnt make it throught the mangrove swamps in time. and halfway through, we experinced low tide. DAMN. it sucks. so everyone had to get down our kayaks, CRAWLED thorugh the mud on our knees (more surface area, wont sink into the mud so much) and pull our kayaks through. the mud reached our hips. yucks. alot of people got stuck while standing. shoes got stuck too. haha. quite hilarious. and some even the soles of their shoes came off! :D every one was grossed out at the mud at first. but we got used to it after that. covered with mud. we did that for like 2 to 3 hours. beat that.
We kayaked to our second campsite. thank god. the weather very sunny and fine. we managed to reached bery early, at 3.59pm. We quickly pitched our tents before it turns dark. again, theres no toilets to let us pee, poo or bathe. imagined, everybody filled with mud and we dont get to bathe. then whats next? just sleep? yeah. but luckily our instructor, Birin, was very nice. he led us to a quary and we "bathed" inside. zomg. it was so good manns. the water was like SO clear. Birin is a very very nice instructor, who jokes with us and plays tricks on us, and lame stuffs. haha. after that in the late evening we cooked maggie mee. oh my finally some COOKED FOOD. and then had to wake up in the middle of the night to guard our campsite again.
Thursday
Woke up and was quite high and energetic. everyone was too lazy to go to the toilet and change out. so we just took turns to change in the tents. i took quite long to change somehow, donno why. then ain wass like shouting to me inside,"chloe! are you done? why are you taking so long?! what you doing inside huh?! how many peoply inside?!" i was like OMG WTH. ain super sick and gross! then when i came out, hamizah gang up with ain and said," aiyo chloe, what you doing inside?" haha ok couldnt stand them. after breakfast, we went for land expedition. we hiked! like what, carrying our 15 kg bagpack, 30 cans of bottles filled with water, plus 4 big jerrycans. and i was the naivigator. horrible and memorable experience. wells, at least i finally know how to navigate with a map and compass. during the journey me and ain need to pee. haha so we pee er yeah, you know where lah.... quite funny. xD
we hiked back to OBS school. the first day where we were in. THANK GOD. finally. and then Birin said if we hike back on time, we get to eat CANTEEN COOKED FOOD. oh yayness. and whoo! when we steppe into the canteen (aka food HEAVEN), everybody was, "WAHHH, TABLES. WAHHH, CHAIRS." lol! after that we still supper! oh manns. thats SO GREAT. yumms (:
Friday
HAIYA. i guess OBS wants us to get a good experience and want us leave a good impression on them, so last day also provide us with breakfast and lunch in the CANTEEN. haha. that means no need to eat our leftover rations. budden we had a problem. we had SO MUCH LEFTOVER RATIONS. like what, 5 loaves of bread?! many many can foods and many many biscuits. so everybody went to kop. :D i kop one loaf of bread and one whole jar of peanut butter. :D haha i so smart hor. xD then on our way back in the ferry i opened the bread and peanut butter and everybody see me eat. xD and then finally, HOME. (at last)
WELL. the post-effect of OBS:
1. Tan line on both of my legs
2. LOADS of sandflies and mosquitoes bites, all over my face, neck, hands, and legs.
but lucky i didnt get tan, cos i seriously did applied tons of sunblock. HEES. :D and gawd. i totally missed Birin. He and his lame jokes, lies, and scares. i think whole Gandhi does. :(