I just came back from camp this Aftnoon. I feel dang tired la. This OBS camp is one of the most TIRING camp i have in my whole life. plus i find this camp boring and it doesnt really suit my liking.
First day ( Monday )
Its an awkward day, there were like more than 300 people in this camp! all weird + funny faces are seen everywhere and i think that our school is the most quiet school. All of the leaders waited at Outward Bound singapore and then off to take the ship to Pulau Ubin. We did not really did much on the first day but we learnt how to Kayak and how to capsize our kayak.The sun was super hot i swear. Lunch was included and started on tat day, on dinner time, we have to cook our own meal. We even played some bonding games so that we could know each other more better.
Second day ( Tuesday )
We prepared our things and off we go to Camp 2! Starting from the second day, we will be living outside and not in Camp 1 where we will not have our clean toilets. The instructors have actually fooled us. We are supposed to go to the right to our camp site but we went to left and in the end they said it was a drill. It rained and we still have to continue kayaking, the wind was strong so it was like blowing us away and waves are strong too. So we came back to camp 1 to wait for the rain to stop and then we can head to the right.
On that day we only Kayak to our camp 2 for around 1.5-2km, so its quite a short distance and we reached our destination quite fast.We have to put loads and loads of sun block as the sun is seriously hot after the rain. Once we reached our destination, all of us have to carry the HEAVY kayaks to a safe spot so that people wont steal it. It was really tiring as we have to carry like 30-40 kayaks and it requires alot alot of TEAMWORK. Once we carried the kayak, we immediately pitch our tents before the sun goes down. Not long, the night came. Dinner was cooked by us, we ate maggie ! and many other canned food. *BURP* After dinner we have nothing to do so an instructor shared with us his true story when he was younger and here it goes.........
When he was around our age, like 15, he was a gangster, a very very rough and strong gangster where all sorts of gang called him to join their gang. He always get canned by his mother as he always did many wrong things but mom canning him and public canning is a normal thing for him. He always came back home with blood stains on his unifrom and his mom know him very well by telling from his face, his mom see his face already know that today confirm will fight with someone in school. How great his mother was. He really really hated MALAYS when he was younger.In the past they dont use like knifes or tiny items, bt guess what they used Metal poles, chairs, tables, etc for their weapons. One day when he was about to go out of the house to go to school, his mom grabbed his hand and said ''son, dont go.'' and all he did was push her hand away and say sorry and he left. When he came back, blood stains was over his uniform. He have never ever came back with clean uniform. One day, he and his brothers, they are a team VS the malays, they fought at the Canal, his team has only around 10 people while the malays has around 24 people in their team. People were around the Canal watching them fight but without a moment's delay, police came, they ran as soon as possible and the instructor managed to ran away as he was the fastest runner in school and he is able to run away from the police. And again, the next day, his mom grabbed his hand and said the same thing... '''Son, dont go'' the same three words as his mother got a feeling that today something really really bad will happen which is true as today will be the real fight and the MALAYS brought even more people to versus the instructor's team. And the same thing happened, he pushed his mom's hand away. His mom gets the cane and he thought that his mom is going to cane him again so he just turn to the other side and close his eyes. But he heard his mom broke the cane into 2 pieces and dropped it to the ground and she fell on her knees, begging him not to go and find trouble with tears in her eyes. The moment he saw his mother like this, only then he realised his mistake, imagine your mom fell on her knees without doing anything wrong to you. YOUR HEART WILL SERIOUSLY SHATTER INTO PIECES. So, he told his mom '''Sorry mom, i wont do it again.'' ....... -END-
there was actually PART 2 but he didnt have enough time to tell us cos we have to rest for the next day. This story i will always remember. As this told me that dont do something that will make you regret. treasure your parents.
Third day( Wednesday )
Woke up at 5am to carry the kayaks down to the sea, imagine you waking up so early in the morning just to bring the kayaks down and prepare your things as soon as possible? That's insane. It's time to move on to another destination which is CAMP 3! AND GUESS WHAT? 1.5-2km, we almost die liao and now it's 16km! Kayak and kayak all the way ...... Plus we must have our breakfast and lunch on the sea. We're like pathetic people as we ate snacks for both breakfast and lunch. We didn't have that much energy to kayak as we slept late last night. We kayak for 9hours and only then we reached our destination. I dont even know how i survived o.o AND THE WORST NIGHTMARE IS THAT..... Everyone thought that we might so called die... CHOICHOICHOICHOI *Touch wood* cos, there's a large rain chasing after us and we can see from the back that the rain is coming towards us very soon. Plus the rain is not those normal rain we have in singapore, the so-called '' Giant Rain '' is the kind of rain where we can't even see what's behind us, we cant even see the clear blue sky and we cant even see the islands and trees that is behind us. We kayak as soon as possible to our destination and luckily we are quite near to camp 3. Some people almost get hit by the 'Giant Rain' so we helped each other in the sea where we pulled their Kayaks as soon as possible to the shore. The instructors told us that if we got caught in that ''Giant Rain'' we wont be able to see our hands at all and we cant even see whats infront of us, therefore our Kayak might even CAPSIZE!!!!! I'm super super happy that i'm still alive. YES, thats one of my biggest nightmare, i swear. So we carried our Kayaks to a safe place again and how time flies, it's at night! Camp 3 have no toilets, it's like a jungle. So we could only bath with Powder. Ouch yuck, you all might think that its disgusting, and yeah it is ! Imagine you never bath after long hours, like EWWW, stinky! We cooked our dinner again and after a short debrief, off we sleep! GOODNIGHT.
Fourth day ( Thursday )
Oh well, time to wake up early again to put our Kayaks near the sea. Ate bread and off to the shore! today we will kayak back to Camp 1, YAYYYY we are back to our safe+clean+nice environment! We have to kayak around the Pulau Ubin island. So, we kayak around 14-15km today! Another super tiring tirng tiring day, but the happiest thing is that today is the last day of kayaking!!!!!!!!!!!!! The sun is dang hot. i covered my whole body with clothes around my hands as my long sleeves is not long enough. But to no avail, i still get DARKER. I hate the fact that i actually grew darker, it's like dang ugly. @_@ Lunch on the sea again~~~Snacks for lunch is like not enough!!!! OMGOOOSH but during camp i think about Mac's, KFC, all those fast food to make me excited to go back home hahaha! We kayak for around 5hours and we reached there around 2.30pm ! We placed our things and unpacked everything that is inside our Kayak. We washed our Kayak and put it back where we first took it. IMMA HAPPYGIRL97 when i knew that tomorrow we are going back home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYY NO MORE KAYAKING! Some of us went to bath while some of us went to cook the food for dinner and pitch the tents, yummy yummy place to eat! Camp 1 best place! We arranged back our things eg: life jackets, bottles, space skirt, etc, back to the store, we arrange back for around 2-3 hrs. Ah, it feels so great that we are able to sleep well tonight cos tomorrow we will be going back home! And it's at night again, we did some debrief stuffs again and off to sleep, i almost fell asleep while debriefing as i was really really tired due to the lack of sleep.
FIFTH DAY (Friday)
YAYNESS!!!! Time to go home today, SHIOK AH ! We played a game like exploring the whole Outward Bound Singapore and write some thankyou message to our friends, it was quite fun but it's quite sad that we are leaving each other today. We even went to OBS souvenior shop to buy OBS clothes so that we can remember this place. But oh well, im not gonna go to this kind of camp ever again x.x.... The instructors gathered everyone and gave us a closing speech before we leave Pulau Ubin. Assumption English School is the first to leave ! YIPEE. Goodbye then im back to singapore!
My new friends were very kind, very nice people and we are still talking in FB now ! Friendship never dies. :)
A PICTURE OF A KAYAK, two sitter, yEAP ! xD
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