The 5 Day 4 Night OBS Camp(last 3 days)
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
On 23rd May 2007:
I woke up in a cold n wet morning today, and I didn’t really noe the reason for the droplets of water on our tents every morning until I realised today tt it’s most probably the morning dew, as the forest tt we’ll camping at is rather damp. After un-pitching our wet n rather dirty tents, we did PT in camp 2, which was rather fun n hilarious cos not onli was the PT grp size much smaller( only gt Nehru n Elizabeth), the PT instructor is the fun Iskanda! N the games tt he instructed us to play during the PT were really fun, like for instance the ‘sumo wrestling’ game, ‘karate’ game n much more! Dis is definitely 1 of the BEST PT tt I’ve had in OBS!!
After breakfast, we started playing a game called “hu’s the murderer?”. we were all given a card which has the victim tt u’re supposed to “kill”, the place u’re supposed to “murder” tt person n the weapon tt u nid to use. The game was suppose to last throughout the whole day.
we had our high elements activities rite aft tt. The first stop was the belay station. Even though it’s not really tt high, it was fun as I get to try out all 4 roles of a belay team: the climber, the climber assistant etc. however, the best part of the high elements was the Double Dangling Duo(DDD in short), in which u n ur partner were supposed to climb up to the top of the logs tt are suspended in mid air. It was challenging as the distance betw the logs are quite far apart, n my whole body when stretched onli barely touched the log above another log. Luckily, eng kiet managed to push me up to the next log every time, n I managed to complete it(phew).
The highlight for this however, would be tt when jovina n shermaine were climbing. After both had completed climbing up to the top log, jovina climber assistant tool ann refused to let her down. If she wanna come down, she must shout out “I love ben sia!” loud n clear 1st . And she did shout it!
Another interesting part was tt I gt “killed” there by saffir b4 I even climbed(argh!), n coincidently the place tt I was supposed to kill the person was the DDD! with my card, saffir managed to do a triple “kill”.
After tt, after lunch, we had our hiking back to camp 1, carrying bags tt r so heavy tt they muz have weighed tons. It was hot n uncomfortable on the way, but halfway thru the hiking we stopped n played “ubin rescue”, in which u muz carry a stretcher with an injured “person”(actually it’s juz bottles of our water” across a set of obstacles without having a grp member or the stretcher touching the ground. My team managed to win the game despite many setbacks( yay!!). And after tt we had more hiking until we reached camp 1(finally back to civilization!I tot initially tt we had to take days to reach camp 1). Soon after, we started preparing for our YJC cheer.
At nite, we had our last outdoor dinner. We also had our tents pitched near the sea for the 1st time. However, there’s no breeze blowing into my tent despite placing the entrance near the sea =( .
On 24th May 2007:
We played new games dis morning for the PT, egs are “caterpillar” n “evolution”. After tt, we had the “YJC Cheerleading Competition”, in which each buddy watches( Nehru n Elizabeth for my case) were to come out and present a cheer tt could be used as a YJC cheer. Even tho my watch didn’t get into the top 3 positions, I was glad tt my buddy watch n my watch made the effort to come out with a cheer less than 1 day.(P.S Barker n its partner watch were the champions of this competition)
Rite aft tt we had the YJC Challenge. The objective of the game was to raise enuf money thru completing the stations in order to build 3 rafts n 2 catapults. It was fun! My watch did quite a lot of stations for it, such as the skipping rope game, the floating ball game etc. But sadly I onli participated in a few of these games, cos halfway I was told to go help build the rafts >< . Anyway aft tt we had the self-made rafts setting off ceremony(not really a ceremony), marked by the blasting off of the 2 catapults(wonder y they wanna have catapults in the 1st place, cos it didn‘t seem useful…) . I was certainly glad to be on the raft, cos it’s so fun! Even tho the raft tt I was on was already half-sinking by the time it was midway in the sea, it still manages to float. However, on its way back to shore, it suddenly sinks even more! Wat’s worse was tt the guy at the top-left of the raft sinks into the sea! Luckily he held on to the still-floating raft! During the last nite tt I had at OBS, I decided to stay awake throughout the nite with sum of my classmates. Even tho I didn’t managed to “thorn” throughout the whole nite( cos shi wei wanted the rest of us to go slp 1st at ard 2am), it was an eye-opening experience for me cos I learnt juz how many times u can get bitten by mosquitoes in the forest at nite without mosquito net! I was bitten countless times as I played “ true or dare” with the rest outside the tents( P.S the game tt we played didn’t have the “dare” component). As expected, I kenna “truth” many times but wat’s the highlight was tt I learnt the secrets of many of my classmates, thus allowing me to understand them more. On 25th May 2007( the last day of OBS):
It was a day filled with mixed emotions, a day in which I do not know whether to rejoice or sadden with the knowledge that it was the day that I complete my OBS course, the day which I will bid goodbyes with Pulau Ubin and my watch instructor Iskanda, and the day which I would return to my beloved home.
After the last briefing that I had at the MPH, the whole batch of YJ
Cians played the puzzles game. It was the last game tt we’d played in the OBS course.
Tears and agony fell upon sum when we took the ferry from pulau ubin’s jetty and go back home. Interestingly, just b4 the ferry went off, I managed to caught sight of a twister juz beside an island close to pulau ubin(we were damn curious at the same time when I shot it using my juz returned hp, n I tink it’s a rather unique way for me to remember my OBS course.).
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