swt

okay whatever, pictures or not, im going to post. (might edit the post once i get pics though. but this is going to be a long entry, and the lack of pictures will prolly make it boring or something)

day one

met samuel, edwin, baoxin, shuzhen, allen, bosheng and eugene at northpoint mac at 7.45am. so the atmosphere is pretty good. their bags and mine pales in comparison, seeing as their bags are twice the size of mine.

goes to orchid park secondary, met the instructors and people in the hall. i folded my white piece of immigration paper into an aeroplane, then drew butterflies on it. i guess that was why the lead instructor blared into the microphone about us never to draw on the paper. xD

somehow, when i first saw instructor kamal, i had le feeling i was going to have him. and i sure did. (not THAT have, but whatever)

we then board the bus. sat alone. regretted not bringing hp, but whatever. accidentally sliced allen's thumb with a razor blade found in bus. DAMN that was scary. the oozing blood was repulsive. but whatever.

(isnt this getting long and boring? but whatever.)

okay okay. so when we reach the campsite after 2 hours, i was pretty gayed out. i mean, damn there was mud. and the marquee where we were supposed to have our meals had a patch of mud there. no offense or anything, but mud reminds me of diarrhea. and its soooo coincidental that im a visual learner, so you can piece the thing together.

anyway, there were 5 tribes. teratur, hormat, sihad, inovasi and tekun. they stand for orderly, respectful, healthy, innovative and dilligent. they omitted caring cos they didnt want a tribe name like "sayang", according to the mushroom head ms soo. but whatever.

i was into tekun, and into the subtribe tekun 15. (tekun 13, 14 and 15)

so our instructors were jonathan, kamal and charmaine.

jonathan is the gangster-looking type of muscular man who sorta has a tube which connects to his backpack, which he sucks on occasionally to drink water. (but he always spits some water out, dunnoe why also) he also claims to be 27 years old and having four children already. and he's very fierce. i emphasize very. oh yeah, jonathan is the instructor for tekun 13.

kamal is the instructor in charge of tekun 15, and is a taufik-looking kind of guy. he's the nicest of the bunch too, always helps us in our activities. *hugs* he tells pretty good stories too x) (he also sings pretty well, xD)

charmaine is the instructor in charge of tekun 14, and is a girl. (obviously) short and dyed hair which shows that she is a tomboyish person. ahahaa. but whatever.

on to the day. we pitched our tent, i shared a tent with xuhan, youyong, junsian, eugene, yq, rex and bernard.

then, we learnt how to navigate our way using a compass and also to tie different kinds of knots.

after that, we had our dinner and proceeded to a nightwalk around 9+ IN the friggin jungle which was very dark. you can barely see anything.

so there is this system called number from the back, whereby you shout ONE if you are the last person, and the persons in front of you will consecutively yell out numbers till it reaches the first person, which shows the total strength. (we were partnered in twos, and i partnered joann)

the jungle was seriously dark, so we had to keep close together. also, from time to time we had to whisper messages from the back and vice-versa, such as keeping to the left (due to a nasty mudpuddle on the right) and slowing down (for the 56kers who were blindly ambling down the path)

the funny part was that joann was pretty freaked out by the darkness, so we decided to lighten the humour. we passed messages to the back (peter piper picked a peck of pickled pepper ; ITS HOT IN HERE ; WE KNOW ; theres a fricken pony farm on the right, stay away)

among other funny things, eugene and yq were infront of us. joann (who was clutching my hand tightly throughout the walk) suddenly swung both our hands at yq's butt. you can pretty much imagine the response. xD

we then continued to whack eugene's and yq's butts till we were back to the campsite whereby our hands ached due to the excessive whackage, but whatever. *whackity whack*

and then, we were dismissed back to our tents. god said sleep, and we slept.

day two

we had our breakfast, then proceeded to the first activity for our tribe, jungle survival in the oil tree plantation.

the summary of the whole activity was basically to find water, food, shelter and fire. we had to find stuff from a certain area and form the four essentials with it. it was reeeeaally boring. the most boring activity of the 5 activities. but i guess some of the tips were helpful, like how to filter muddy water using ur socks. yes yes, i know, disgusting, but whatever.

we proceeded back to campsite. oh yeah, i havent mentioned the hill and lovegrass right? theres this hill that has the building structure where campers gather and do stuff like wash, eat and so on. below the hill are our campsites. so basically you have to climb to the top of the hill to do everything. and located on the campsite AND the hill are loads of lovegrass that stick to ur pants that are hard to peel off, but whatever.

we had our lunch, and then we gathered in front of the structure for the next activity, canoeing. canoeing was damn fun. me and yiwei were canoeing together and we messed up alot in formation, lol. when we finished basics of the canoe and were going to race, guess what?

it RAINED.

damn right. it rained when the tekuniangs (the gu niangs, geddit geddit?) were huddled in the middle of lake semborong. wow, so fantastical right? it was seriously cool, because the rain made it hard to see and the current was strong, PLUS we had to get back to shore. imagine canoeing in the rain. it was seriously awesome, and everyone were drenched to the bone.

(me and yiwei were the last canoers to get to the shore, btw. xD)

naturally all of the tekunians ran to shelter after getting to shore. and the hormat people were there. we took this opportunity to showcase our songs to each other. hormat had the watermelon song (more like the fruitbasket song, more on that soon) and we had our banana song.

banana song

peeping thru the window
what do people see?
if you want to eat banana
do the proper way

eat me tonight by the moonlight
eat me tonight all alone
i got something to show you
something thats yellow and long!

watermelon (fruitbasket) song

watermelon, watermelon
banana, banana
raisin raisin raisin
raisin raisin raisin
rambutan, rambutan

so that was it. and yeah, the i got something to show you, something thats yellow and long was ambiguous. ;)

then we proceeded to prepare for the campfire night (which would be taking place on day 3)

tekun 13 and 14 were doing cheers and tekun 15 was doing a skit. basically the skit was about what we did during our normal lives and how this was all changed when we came to camp. and i was the narrator. but whatever.

after the rain subsided, we went back to camp. and we took our baths, blabla, and slept.

(god said, come forth john, and receive eternal life. but john came fifth, and received a mug.)

day 3

hokai.

the third activity was rafting. basically, we were given a scenario. suppose you are stuck at one side and the other side has civilization. there is a deep river between, so you cant swim your way through. make use of 4 barrels, 4 poles and a limited amount of raffia string to construct a raft in order to safely meet your fellow homosapiens. but whatever.

iirc, only tekun 13 managed to successfully get all their members over to the other side. the rest had flimsy construction. yeah. poor ashyura and cheryl, getting soaked repeatedly. ahaha. but like what cheryl said, it was pretty fun and the experience was cool. x)

after that, we went back to the campsite, bathed and then gathered. rex was so damn funny. everyone was already gathered but he strolled from the direction of the marquee (which meant he ate) towards us. jonathan was pissed as we had not eaten yet and he had suchh a nonchalant look on his face. xD

he got verbally abused. rofl. but was good, is funny.

after we had lunch, we then had the fourth activity, finding the lost pendants.

we basically had to apply knowledge of navigation and we were given a map with six-figure grid references, of which there were 5 pairs of co-ordinates which had pendants hidden around that area. we had to find the pendant, find it's colour and any words written on it and return to the shelter where jonathan and charmaine were waiting to confirm our findings. (kamal was good enough to help us find =D)

after finishing the activity, we had our campfire. everyone was seated around the fire and we had to perform our acts in front of all the tribes.

the thing is, tekun 15's skit had a part where we introduced our instructors, jonathan and charmaine. we secretly planned kamal into the picture and it worked. the whole thing was pretty fun, and teratur's kengleong was FUGGING FUNNY. his act, omg. me, bosheng and rex were practically rolling around laughing. dammit. his act was something about shaking his head violently and singing some wangwang songs or something.

the campfire wasnt that great, but whatever.

that night, yq and junsian left cos it was too cramped. xD

day 4

the fifth and final activity was the hike up gunung lambak (a mountain) which was 51om high. we had to travel there by bus which took 45 minutes. when we reached there, we were pretty stunned. the place was huge, and we did some exercises first.

jonathan explained that there was a midpoint and the peak. as it was the last day and we were running short of time, those who did not want/did not feel like/could not/would not/would never/did not wish to/wanted to but were too tired to go on to the peak could stop at the midpoint.

boy, the hike was the most fun activity. the midpoint had rope, steps and railings so it was pretty safe. when we reached the middle, half did not want to continue. i did. geez, you came all the way here and refuse to go to the top? what a waste. tralala.

the second part was like damn hard lor. loads of crevises, ledges and slippery rocks but it was all so fun lor. and along the way, we saw old people and liddle kiddies. i was sorta shocked, as i was pretty exhausted but these kids are here barely sweating and from what i heard most of them climb the damn mountain a few times a week. great stamina building, if you ask me.

the view on top of the mountain was breathtaking. everyone was cheering when we reached the top. there was this signboard which said 51om, that was how i knew the height. xuhan took pics of the place and then we went down.

my legs sure were wobbly. but it was all worth it.

after that, we wore our camp tshirt, lunched, had camp officially closed, went back to singapore etc etc.

this is sorta a rushed end, but im really tired. the point is , this camp rocks. i might've complained about it at the beginning, but if there were any such camps in the future, i'd go. i miss the instructors.

but whatever. okay its not whatever. but whatever. my results sucked btw, so im not going to elaborate on those. sigh. tekun rocks.