freakazoids

< Sunday, January 09, 2005
12:15 PM

.day 1.

arrived in school at 635. sat in the canteen and started talking to khairul and zenzel. basically just checking the stuff we packed. what we brought and what we didnt. we didn't exactly know whats in store for us.

went for assembly then headed for the stadium steps. some last min briefing before breaking into our watches. i was in HILLARY. my group was a not so bad considering there were half of them with whom i know. wei xun, alex, lin sen, alfred, wee hao, chun man, rahul, ming shu, yuan long, privin, benedict, joshua, kelvin/calvin, hong jie and myself.

we boarded the bus and off we were to punggol jetty.

everyone was eagerly waiting to board the ferry. waited damn long. close to half an hour before our speed boat arrived. whoohoo! the reason why it to so long was that each ferry could bring 20 people and a speed boat only 8 and we had like 200 of us there.

reached OBS camp 2. it was a freaking old place. sat there and waited for another half an hour before everyone arrived. there was a short introduction about how obs was formed and blahblah. and also our instructors were introduced to us. we got "the guy who likes to climb mountains" tan kim chuan. if i'm not wrong he was the one who was in the everest expedition. so we were in safe hands.

we had some ice breakers before he asked us to check the logistics and gather our food rations for the next five days. he showed us the campsite for the day and told us to meet him at 2 for the wet activity. and he went away. there we were not knowing exactly what to do and where to start. so some of us took the initiative to start the ball rolling and we managed everything from food to store in 2 half hrs. the food rationing was a bit tricky. they gave us hell lot of can food, snacks and packet 3in1 mix. so we had to split it among our watch. after everything was finished it was 130. we sat to eat lunch. a muesli bar and a piece of bread. pathetic. we set off to pitch our first tent. we had no and i'd like to emphasize NO scouts in our group. (for starts. scouts suddenly seems so useful) so we managed to pitched the tent in 45 mins. yay and only 1 tent :(

it was 215. and guess what we were late! we ran and exected to receive a shelling but nothing happened.

the instructor was ok i guess. first day he threw everything at us.

we headed for the beach and joined up with our buddy watch, ARMSTRONGS. they gave us a briefing abt capsizing drills and paddling before we sat for sea. i partnered wei xun. went into the sea and had so much fun paddling. then my instructor went to weixun and hasked him to grab for his paddle. wei xun was like trying his best. i knew we were going to capsize but i was laughing to hard to stop him. lolx. our first capsizze.

so we kayaked one round into the swamp. it was damn tiring okay. my arms are aching. ahhh.. haha. so inside we kayaked lik only 1.5km and i was like. haiya boh tahan ah. then did our real capsize drill there. got saved and all of a sudden i was pairing with chun man. lolx

so went back to camp and reached there like at 645. quite late. it was getting dark
we were all wet and stuff went to cook while some of them went to pitch tents. a lot of miscommunication, and our instructor not telling us anything, we ate "half cooked rice soup" with watery sardines and watery curry from tin cans. bleargh

so met our instructors at 9 and we sat tired exhausted and feeling hungry. so we ate bread. only bread. plain bread. yeah gardenia bread. our instructor sat there and talked to us and debriefed. didnt tell us much and left us with some code. then he left

we felt fcked up. we felt pissed. we thought we had a sucky and slacking instructor. we thought that this was shit.

(to be continued)

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