REwind!

-POST STARTED ON SATURDAY NIGHT-ISH, FINISHED SUNDAY 3:07PM



`Everyday mostly felt like two.


i'm just posting these according to the arrangement in docs. so melissa's up there.

the boat ride to Ubin, i got sea water in my eye, and a rub later i was crying :( till very jialat. it looked like i was so sad to go to obs. [heh]





MARSHALL had the spill over from 3/1 and 3/2 - which was ok in the end. but at the starting, while everyone was cheering we were the most silent. Serangoon sec came too. the guys outnumbered the girls by lots. i think there were abt 5 [girls] and our instructor was Bernard!

Appointed ICs, different people for every day -overall. me and lihong did food -accounting for the food was so confusing.

He got down to business ( rushrush ) the tents.fold.setup.groundsheet.stuff.the store.

We dumped our bags in the store room [the whole house i called the store] and pitched our tents on a hill in the forest, the walk uphill got steep but no one fell [good] , anyway. it was still light when we pitched tents, and bernard made half go down to get sth and come back up. When we went down, he made the other half go up to get his bottle ' So that we know our way ' , even though we just follewed the 3/2 group up.

Most of us just ran up the hill. and it was really tiring. like HuffPuff, but we got there quick and ran the smoother half down, he asked why we were running, like we saw pontianak. [heh]. shared his water -everyone

and most of us signed the Marshall book, i flipped backward, and there was some guy 'Ooi' sth sth. from hwa chong i think :]

stuffstuffstuff happened ,

i don't know what [i'm like referring to ml's blog now... heh] we cooked dinner on the walkway/drain part so it was 'our' road. cooked wayy too much rice. but it was sticky and soft :] heee. when i took the lighter from mei and made the flame bigger bernard was like 'you can tell who smokes very easily at camp '.. something along those lines. pffftt.

Since Marshall pretty much travelled at light speed , we popped corn on the first night

solid fuel tablets smell horrible. they smell like... fuel~

Ooi,Goh

waiting for pop.

(hey)(their orangey cuz it was in night portrait mode)

Sng - Ooi - Goh

that's Julia over there (pointpointleft)

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After dinner we had night 'activities' . game lahh..

treasure hunt. sorta. we were given a rough map of the camp and points where we had to go and identify stuff and write down their description. me,mei,mel and lihong went together . and in the end we were like.. ' hopefully that water one is correct ' cuz everything else seemed so off. so we were counting on getting at least one point. but when they announced the results one by one. ours was last so we were like.... +.+ but we got 9! hahahahaha. the best :b

Melissa,Lihong,Meilin and me shared a tent on the left side, closer to the toilet-area.

When it was Lights-out, it was so humid and hot. so we just opened out my sleeping bag and lay on it, but later int he night it was freezing. mostly, everyone woke up at odd hours, and around 12 some people started laughing and giggling and screaming and keeping us up. - -

and around 3++ when it got even colder my feet started to hurt T.T

was i wearing socks? anyway, i got up and plastered the horrible blisters on my two pinky toes [they were like watery!]

day 2

we woke up earlier than supposed to [duh] cuz. it was either too cold to sleep or we just couldn't or i and mel just had to pee. [like really badly] and then we unpitched everything and went home. [store]

beehoon breakfast wassss not nice but i don't even like bee hoon so nevermind. lihong drank 3 cups of milo.

was height element. Rock climbing was the only one we did besides the low wooden-metal steps thing. :( i [and we] wanted to do the wooden stuff outside! lots of us climbed to the top. and even then, mostly reached the red line :] PLUS, we got the right wall-which's harder than the left one, cuz there are so many easy to hold rocks sticking out, while we got lots of small ones. and my side of the wall [right-right] was even worse - - one of the holds was broken and so many were missing.

Me and Mei climbed first and we got to the top first. [yay]
and then we tried the middle wall :) the one with the protruding part. and like all of us who tried got to the part below the rough part of the rest of the wall.

Spotting,Belaying,Anchoring,Rope Managing.

Then, we went kayaking :} well, not so. but we learned how to get back on when we capsized. the deep green (blue water with yellow pee) -not very scary leh . Mei's my kayak partner- partner for practically everything actually :D. and we went in circles while waiting for people to be done. raced with people , and won! but when we were [like] racing with melissa and i think zai for the orea cookie bernard was eating we lost :(

' i bet we never fail to amaze him ' -mei lin

Shower! (i think)

pitched tents.

-this is either or [before/after showering] we gathered for the expedition briefing.

voted our leaders [2eachof4watches] melissa and zai from Marshall, and they ended up navigators. cuz nobody else wanted the job.

we packed our packs for , and it was kinda messy. me mei and lihong shared one. their like half my height = = but ti was as organized as possible i think. zip-loc bagged everything according to schedule. heh. and B had to repeat our packing list so many times :b

while me and mei were packing and i borrowed her long sleeved tee, we wanted to change. and sicne it's mostly all-girls i was like just change here lah. so while we were putting the shirts on. mei was like what if Bernard comes. and HEYHO. Bernards walking up the hill to our store. gagaga. so funny.

everyone just pretended nothing was seen-nth happened.

We went back to the campsite for lights out.

but then in the middle of the night . I apparently, started sleep talking (but i remember i was asking mei to sleep on the sleeping bag leh..) don't know how, but it was freezing and in the morning i woke up and Mei's sailing jacket was my blanket.haha and Melissa scolded Mei cuz she was trying to sleep [ahaha]

Bernard had a toe infection-salt water.

Khee Meng was our stand in instructor

Bernard had a 4-day MC

day 3

the next day,

everyone was late [we weren't] because everyone else [but marshall] was packing like crazy.and the whole expedition got pushed back an hour-so. so, the instructors shortend to whole thing.. and changed our route to. shorter sea route.

:(

so the bags weighed .. A LOT

and a lot of filled bottles were on sticks. me and Mei took the eight bottle stick . [the other one had like 6!] anyway, melissa and zai were up front and we were right behind. anyway,

it was a 2.5 km trek . some parts up hill. me,mei,elizabeth,amanda,samantha and julia alternated the sticks with bottles all the way cuz it was the crappiest job . OMG.. so depressing, and eventually we lagged a bit behind. but nvm about that. When we slowed down to let the others catch up they went even slower ~ and when we sped up so that they'd get the hint they complained [walao eh]

but we reached the kayaking area eventually. oh yeah, when we were at a pitstop. i dumped the pack on the ground and couldn't get it back on. and i was thinking geez.. [cuz i thought it weighed the same as every other one] but when we reached the shore, i realised i was carrying the pack with all the ponchos. WTH

plus, i was helping to pack all the 12 ponchos the nigth before, and they are serisously heavy [just one]

STARVING! but no proper food.. :( anyway, everyone had to help carry the kayaks down this rocky slope. and [phew!] since i was one of the first to carry a pack down, i got to hold the booooaaat :} heeeheeehee.

the job: hold the boat straight and make sure it doesn't get grounded. so i stood in the water till hip level holding the boat. hmm, o yeah. Mr Tan came and held it too [the shallow part~ wuss] and he told me to tell Mei not to go too fast .

anyway, went to help some girl fold the tarp.

somewhere some when, i was with Amanda Sng, and i said i'm wearing shorts inside the tkd pants [hee]. and she said ig to smart already. hahahaha, cuz the day before they were my wet pants too, and Lo & Behold, my yellow panties and white pants -just picture it : l keke

anyway,

Me and Mei got bored soon since we didn't have a position, and onward was hardly moving, and everyone kept bumping into each other, we just went left right back front.

...

we had the totally wonderful job of switching kayaks with Vivian and Li Ling! wooooo i got Viv and she got Li(llian) so we split up. sob~ Mei got good. and i got bad. walao eh. "LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT" for over and hour can suck so much man. and 3 hours of paddling and steering's tiring . no pee break either.

So, when we got to shore P break! yay! and one of the instructors asked 'how long have you been holding it' -the whole trip!

helped carry the kayaks up the beach and helped hold the boats steady :) Mei held the other boat this time. so we slacked :D

Everyone [for some reason] started setting up tents at hyper speed, and we were so lag. and i was darn tired.

hmm, the white flecks (like) all over my head. . is.. salt.

dragged Lihong to go start dinner in the kitchen :b we picked rocks and stuff to balance the pot on, and i said natural boil [leh] she said boil water very fast one, so we went to look for the maggi mee before starting the fire. and in the end it took forever for the water to start to boil = = OUR MAGGI MEE'S LIKE SO MUCH NICER THAN CANTEEN NOODLES. When me and Lihong were boiling the water, we realised there was sand in the pot. . heh [but, what to do ? gonna boil alr anyway.. :] and we forgot toothpaste on the bottom [shit]

(wth is that thing?) i have no idea, i think it's a burned spiky plant

*whiny sound* i look like a stump :( & Mei's shirt's comfy and full of salt

-love this one-

Because Bernard told us not to bring a ladle, there wasn't any soup for the first batch of noodles.. but me & mei improvised and used the other mess tin to scoop soup :)

WAAAAARGHh. super hungry and sorta last to eat :]

(not my foot)

Me and Mei decided to just let ourselves dry and sleep in our dry wet clothes. [ wearing clean clothes and changing into gross dirty ones -opposed to- wearing dirty clothes all the way ]

we star gazed. but i only remember the belt of O Ryan.a nd the 4 box ones.

weeee had an awesome sleep :]

the rocks below felt ok. [massage even-lol] and we didn't wake up at all through out the night :]

waking up at 3.50 to watch was so sad :( a good few hours sleep halted. and going to the grass toilet alone is like really scary. last resort too. the sea. and bla bla bla. you'll know if you go.

day 4
we lugged the kayaks to the shore.

and rachel was shouting at us to help and not just stand there... uhh~ kinda was waiting for the next kayak. anyway, Me and Mei were like "NO WAY, we are so sticking together today"

we kayaked quite a short distance. i think it was one or 2 jetties.. but we were seriously lagging behind everyone else, tired as hell. i think our juice was running out. : [

We did jetty jump, and Mei's ears popped :/ and almost all of us shouted Bernard.haha

Changed in the good toilet with Melissa and Mei, and then people started going there too. heh. and apparently our lunch was the dry food we had. i thought it would be cooked canteen food :(

we hiked a considerably shorter distance than the day before, but still very tiring. zai and rachel switched roles , so zai went to the middle. Anyway we got back to camp :] but i was still dead tired x[

then we lugged everything back home and started scrubbing and cleaning all the ground sheets adn pots and tarp :l so tired. me and mei scrubbed one of the ground sheets totally blue cuz we thought the grey wasn't allowed.. - - but it felt good anyway :]

We had our special dinner that evening. and it took more than an hour to cook. heh. me and melissa fried the luncheon meat [and it smells like canned dog food ~] but anyway... khee meng made apple crumble:] which we packed for the next day's breakfast [leftovers]

Washed and Scrubbed the dirties and rushed to meet Khee Meng. Mei and i are so same same :D

Went to MPH (multi-purpose hall) for the last night of games :} first we had to run with newspaper on our chests without holding it, and then skip rope with the whole group, and then solve a puzzle and then transfer the hoola hoop in a circle and then do our watch cheer! ! !\

Marshall was the second group to finish . all of us were cheering and hugging and hi-fiving :D and then we went to cheer and help the other watches. in the end we got fifth placing [wth] but that's because we only restarted 5 times, and the others restarted a lot more times. the skipping rope part was so hard man :/ jump high! to your knees!!!

debrief and had to push the cart back uphills T.T with the barrels of food and utensils. ugh. Me and Mei volunteered (?) so we were pushing and rachel came to help and drink our orange tang :b as we were approaching the first hill i started running to we could gain momentum, apparently it's also so that we could avoid the serangoon ppl . but as we got closer it sorta misbalanced and one of the guys came to help us :D push the trolley all the way over the first hill. like THANK YOU!

Mei was looking for her shampoo and stuff which she lost early on and Munshi had it! phew. so we dumped our bags beside 'our' rock wall and went to the one for all all for one toilet.. GUESS WHAT. nobody was there!! eeeeeeheheeeeheee. :} so i started the shower and the cold bullet water shot my sunburnt head T.T [waaahh] omg. so pain!! so i was gently massaging the top of my head o.o

i think we bathed for ten minutes or sth :b hehehe. and nobody even came . so we took our time time time :] heheh. i couldn't get over that [in my head] for a long time. cuz i always had to rush showering. cuz i was last the other time and late for staircase meeting with Bernard.

anyway. our hair was soooo smooth :} heheehe. i haven't used conditioner for 4 days. plus all the sea water and sun exposure. my hair just frizzed and it poofed out when i took off my rubber band earlier :P oily like the wok too.heh. but mostly dry. -sooo contradicting.

Brushed our teeth and it was lights out soon enough, opened my sleeping bag and shared with mei . the others slept in their own bags or on the tarp.. . in the middle of the night the temp. dropped and she went to get her pants and socks. i thought i dreamt going to take my socks, but then in the morning i was wearing my socks. haha. we tome-ba-leked the bag and used it as a blanket. in the morn mei was complaining about the floor being too flat [after all the grass and rocks.. it really was flat..] but then... i still slept like a pig. haha

back and shoulders hurt like hell nonetheless. the tent and pack carrying serisously took a toll on all of us.

Marshall slept in for once, but later we had to go back home and scrub the cooking stuff again. the popcorn pess tin is permanently blacked spotted. finger nails hardly worked. and we all cut them before we came anyway... Me and Mei were comparing fingers. and they were red meaty sausages i tell you.. all the kayaking..

-now i'm looking at my long slender finger :p .. and gee, the difference is like enormous-

Marshall first to finish cleaning too :] i swept the perimeter. all the leaves into the dustpan, and then leaves thrown down the hill with all the other fallen leaves. haha it's like sweeping the concrete parts and dumping the stuff onto the grass part.

We went to do trust fall. we had to stand on a step, say out our goal fall and try to ring the bell.

i am gonna 'keep my word' and i got the bell on the third try :] Khee Meng said i was like doing kung fu cuz i stepped on the tarp thing. hahah. so. short, so instead of reaching. i told zai to step on the mat and then reach for the bell. easier.haha.

when Khee Meng was giving his sappy y o u c a n d o i t talk, i got ~ahem teary. so did zai. but i was at the corner, so nobody saw. but then we went up for final debrief, and he gave a speech/talk kinda thang with encouragement and all that. and about us. and stuff. and then almost everyone started tearing. which gradually went to crying. T.T it got so watery. [heh] khee meng went to get a roll of toilet paper to pass around.

we threw this ball of twine to each other and each of us had to voice our high points,low points, thoughts, thankful to who, and apologies. walao. everyone's eyes were puffy and stuff. ~ mine too. keke. we cut our strings and wrote in our journals.

i used up mine the day before cuz of the whole kayaking thing!

anyway, b e r n a r d came! wooo. ahhaa. he was like so shocked to see us with dried up tears.ahah. and since i was lying on the floor closest to him and furthest from the group, he was like are you ok?? cuz i kept sniffling :l

and then we went to buy our shirts:]

geez, can someone trade S size with me. XS so tight lah T.T. i mean.. i like baggy and loose :)

anyway, we took a group photo, and the indian instructor who took the pic for us cut off Bernard. haha. when we saw all of us started laughing. lol

look at my uneven tan!! the top part of my fingers are fair cuz of the oars and the top of arms are fair cuz of the shirt. haha legs same too ~

and then we went back to MPH for final debrief. first it was one of the instructors talking, but next was one of our tk woman teachers. and all was gone. it vapourized! i mean, i was still happy happy and fun. but then the way she talked was so draggy and reminding of how boring singapore and school can be - -' we just got turned back into drones mann.. [sorta]

we were the first to get ont he first boat :] me and mei shared the 3 seats

i look horrible :( was brushing my hair away somemore...ugh

the 500m walk to the bus was so draining. plus all the stuff we had to carry. i kept cursing :/ sorry you had to listen to all that mei...

3/9 kept cheering and singing while we in front just wanted quiet. ugh.

bus driver uncle turned on the radio to some chinese station and i was like " A uncle :) can turn to 95 anot? :) "
in like my very nice voice. ahahaha.

i realise right.. when you talk really nicely to middle aged men, they just do what you say -hoho [i'm not winking!]

like at the canteen in the morning, when i felt totally awful, i was like. " uncle. gei wo yi dian er yi ke yi ma? " cuz normally he just dumps a lot of bee hoon on your plate and we end up throwing half of it away cuz its so gross. and he gave me a quarter of the usual :)

So anyway, mei went home and i was standing around. [apparently] looking moody and emo when other 3/1 ppl came and told me not to so emo. ahha. and amanda and samantha came :] and then my mom came :]

yes! car!

anyway, geez... she dragged me to parkway to do her shopping. i wanted to sleep so badly. [even though i now miss camp more than i missed home then]

and then... i went home . with runny nose, mucus and phlegm and went to crash. like totally conked out and woke up at 6 something, and she made me go to chem tuition la >:[ so tired alr..

and till now, am still sick with phlegm and cough. . . and i didn't bathe until yesterday. cuz.. crashed without changing and went to tuition in the same clothes and came home and slept in the same clothes and only bathed the next day. hahaha.