Phew, just came back from Pulau Ubin...
OBS, quite enjoyable generally, though there were some small small hiccups here and there, but it was still not bad. Yup. :)
Day 1:Met up with my group outside AJC(was a bit late though... Woops! :P).
Jun Yang and my dad fetched everyone to punggol jetty where we are to board the ferry to Ubin. Everyone was kind of excited, i think. Lol.
Reached there, settled down, introduction of our instructors, blah blah blah...
UNTIL something
interesting happened... We were told that to fulfill our NYAA Outdoor Adventure segment, we had to sleep
outdoors,
literally. That translates to instead of our initial 2 night
bunk stay, we are to sleep our first night in the
forest and the 2nd in a
shelter... I still remember what our instructor said, "For your NYAA... ... ... We cannot give you a room with 4 walls, but we will give you all shelter. No 4 walls, just a shelter..." Yup. He
sure did... We built whats called a
basha on a small clearing in the forest not too far from OBS Camp 1... Basically its just a "roof" made of tarps and a "floor" made of groundsheets. Our "blankets" were ponchos. How
nice...After that, we all went to learn some basic kayaking skills... Due to some
unforeseen circumstances, there was an odd number of kayaks, and because the capsize drill was to be done in pairs, me and
Sok Yin didn't manage to do it due to the lack of time... So, oh well. Lolz.
Dinner, wash up and off we go to our
nice cosey bedroom in the forest. Didn't manage to sleep much (at the most, the guys all only had about
1 hour and
15 minutes of sleep)... We were all supposed to take turns doing sentry duty, but for some reason, only the guys did it. From what I can see, the girls slept really well. Lolz... But coming back to sentry duty, it's
no joke sia... Dunno why, our senses suddenly become
super sharp... Every few seconds there's the sound of a broken twig or a rustling of the leaves... After the close incident that happened to me and my group in the DE camp, these sounds start to freak me out... I can't even sleep well, and we were all trying to make some noises as an attempt to keep any animals away but hitting our sticks on the bricks lying around... The night never seemed to end... Dang,
no more sentry duty for me man... No more...
Day 2:Managed to survive the
long long night... The guys were all like
zombies lah... Made our way back to our proper bunks... Since we still had time,
Jun Yang, Han Wei and
Kuan Teck pulled out the mattresses and pillows and slept for about 30 mins before heading down to breakfast... Well, we had to grab any opportunity to rest since the next activity was a
ROUND ISLAND KAYAKING EXPEDITION!!! Holy XI GUA!!!
After breakfast, we packed what we needed and launched... Everyone was kinda shaky with the paddling at first, but soon after everyone got the hang of it and we moved on smoothly. Sun was kinda hot, but at least the water is calm, with the occasional sea vehical creating wakes as they sailed past us...
Stopped at
Pulau Senuku for lunch, but we forgot to bring our mess tins and matches to cook, to we all just ate biscuits and energy bars for lunch. Lolz. After that, we set off again to complete our remaining 50% of our journey... Fortunately, clouds came in and shielded us from the Sun, so the weather was much cooler. Yeap. Had quite a close call in the end. It started raining and the the wind was quite strong, creating strong currents... When we rafted up near the end, we didn't notice that we were drifting
dangerously close to a
huge rock that was just beneath the surface of the water... Luckily we all saw it
just in time and managed to steer safely around it... Man, that was
too close for comfort sia....
Beached up at OBS Camp 2... Whoa the whole place was filled with girls... The 7 guys in our group were the only non-instructor guys in the whole campsite... Lolz... A few of us, after settling down in our shelter (luckily man-made and no forest this time... Phew...) KO-ed and slept a while, especially me,
Jun Yang, Han Wei and
Kuan Teck... Woke up around 9 plus for dinner nicely left for us by the girls... Thankew girls for not finishing all up! :) After that, it was to
lalaland...
Day 3:Woke up with my hands all stiff nad my body numb and aching from the hardcore kayaking yesterday... Kayaked back to OBS Camp 1... BIG wash up of all equipment and ourselves, then lunched... Bought an OBS shirt at the souvenir shop and then went for the flying fox... Kinda disappointing cos it's quite slow; was expecting it to be faster, but then, oh well. Haha.
After the flying fox, we all went back to clear our bunks and went to the jetty to take some pictures. Well, the whole experience was quite fun and memorable...
Anthony was quite worked up when he recieved one of the AJ teacher's sms. Haha. Well, she'll freak out if she knew that our whole proposal was changed, but then again, oh well. Haha.
Back on the mainland, went to have dinner with the other
15/07 guys at Hougang Mall. Finally some nice food. Haha. We were all tired and not at 100% health, but we all felt that the camp was quite shiok. :P So after that, we all parted and went home, and now here i am. Haha.
Alrightey then, got
4/10 gathering tomorrow, gotta go lalaland... Now thats all
3 camps
DOWN! WOOHOO! Finally got time for some study... Cya peeps! :)
