Oh man, I survived through OBS!!!

Aiyah, I think I abit kua zhang, but I really thought I couldn’t make it. I was excited at first before obs, then that morning in school I felt nothing. I was just like “orh, going obs later lor.” That kinda feeling..

Day 1
First got acquainted with seaweed and rain. Cos I got randomly grabbed onto a boat so I went first without yanxin they all.. and they told me that group 21 is called cheng ho. I almost burst out in laughter about the weird name lah! Then I realized that actually everyone got weird names too like cook and batutta. No offence.. (: so attempted to look for the group then mel said there’ll be a key at the front with the group name. So I walked to the front to find, and found myself beside Deborah and yuanhan and near jiawen! Started chatting. And from the first time we officially met steven loo, our instructor aka fishray, we knew he was lame. We went up to him as a group. Then he was like “cheng ho issit? Hai your instructor still haven’t come yet.. or yall want me to take you?” then we like blur blur stare at each other. Then he said “no lah, I’m your instructor” -___________- abit the lame lor..

Played some icebreakers then the blindfold game where one person would be blindfolded while the other person have to direct her without using words and the geniuses Nicole and I used the first word of jap to direct. Eg right is migi in jap so we said mi. clever right.. can still rmb rain slapping her face like duno what, haha.. anw did belaying after that, I think my belayers can die, cos all like small size one.. but I think they managed.. anw pitched tents and cooked after that. Oh and I cut myself on the jack knife!! Oh man first day got injury le. And it didn’t heal and kept bleeding when I accidentally hurt it again! Oh man a burden for the rest of the days..

And the pegs were pathetic. So teeeeeeeeeny weeeeeeeeny lor.. as in compared to the ones we use. And it bent so easily when we pegged hard when there were stones underground. And I could push in the peg into the ground lah! Anw our punctuality was like super lousy and our sense of urgency also. And bcos I was the day I/C (thanks to Nicole lim who raised her hand/my hand when our hands were tied together) I had run all over the place to look for fishray look for this look for that.. and we all felt homesick by dinnertime!!! And we were unsure if we could make it till day 5 to go home lor.. and it was damn cold that night and I couldn’t sleep cos I forgot to take my windbreaker.. ended up waking up every hour curled up in a ball to get more warmth. Some more I wearing pe shorts..

Day 2
Got awakened by inconsiderate ppl talking loudly, went to wash up. Anw we all made shitting (yes you didn’t see wrongly, we were this desperate) plans cos fishray said we would be leaving camp 2 and will only come back on thurs evening so we all shitted that morning.. anw ate bread and did morning circle. And went rock climbing!!! Oh man I was super excited cos I’ve never tried it before, although I went for 2 camps with the facilities but it rained on both accounts. So I was rather excited. Then I helped to belay some ppl then it was my turn!! I see ppl kinda struggle struggle the drop I feel abit scared.. but I think I did okay.. halfway abit tired so kinda “relied” more on the harness.. poor huifang and fellow belay team.. anw reached the 5th panel and realized I was bleeding again! And I panicked and also bcos I was tired so I decided to give up.. poor evelyn had to keep doing first aid for me, lol. Thanks evelyn! And also my belay team! But I think I did okay, kinda enjoyed the rock climbing too.. but coming down abit scary cos I abit scared of heights.. so luckily I not doing flying fox if not I’d chicken out even b4 I reached the top..

Anw changed for kayaking. The kayak super heavy lah! Was dreading carrying the kayak all the way from changing.. sigh.. anw did the usual learning strokes, test float, etc. ad we ahd to do the capsize drill. And both and I fell upside down!!! So we both let go of the paddle, haha.. and drank a lot of seawater, and cannot open eyes cos of the salt. Sian. Anw fishray got me to help demo rescue drill cos I think he asked who got kayaking experience and I said I have then he thought I should know all these too. But unfortunately not. Anw it started raining and lightning so we all had to move to boat shed. Stoned there while discussing what would happen, where we were supposed to kayak to, whether it was camp 1 and if it was a good thing. Anw zippy came and said we’re staying here in camp 2. so stacked the kayaks nicely, cleaned the area, carried our backpacks from the boat, pitched tents, cooked, ate all at top speed cos zippy said whether we get to shower depends on our speed and everyone was desperate to shower.

Anw saw jieqi and ah gwen!!! Was so excited that I screamed! I was always excited whenever I saw sqdms during the camp, cos like very long nvr see le, miss sqdms alot.. anw we were still late for a lot of things, but some things not our fault, like shower. If ppl don’t wanna come out you cant do anything right.. anw sleep very well that night, cos I learnt from my lesson and brought my windbreaker and wore long pants to sleep..

Day 3
Got sabo-ed for the reason that I was in NP and can navigate to be leader of land expedition by tay yan xin. But nvm that, cos I didn’t even navigate, got navigators for the job! (: anw trekking was a killer, cos I was having cramps and still had to carry the super heavy tent and super heavy backpack. At first when it was not so bad, I was rather high and attempted to get the group cheer the baa baa cheng ho cheer created the day before but to no avail. Sigh. Ended up discussing what to do when we reached home after obs with feli and evelyn.. the raft buildig activity was okay, and felt like we bonded more after that too. Didn’t wanna go into the quarry cos it’d feel gross and also bcos we’re behind time. Trekked to some german girl shrine and met yuanhan and Deborah on the way to the reservoir and felt super high after that! Didn’t do the activity at the reservoir cos we were running late but saw the 2 monitor lizards there. Kinda cute. (:

And we made it to camp 1 in good time!! Oh man paradise!!! Pitched as fast as we could and rushed off for dinner. Explored the place and discovered AHEM fishray’s photo on the board. Oh man so funny! Anw went to the canteen and felt very touched that we actually had chairs to sit on! And tables to eat on! And can eat with both hands on proper plates! And had our first sweet drink in days!! Oh man, really treasured what we had at that time, cos we knew we couldn’t enjoy much of it anymore after that day. Then played the mind sweeper game with shackleton, and went to shower and sleep.

Day 4
Kayaking! The kayaks were much lighter this time round, and I was excited about kayaking. Okay, I’ll change that, worried about the rescue drill, I mean not the rescuing part, it’s the capsizing part as I not really tat part but smth else but whatever ya. So didn’t feel as excited after that. The rescue drills were ok, but it felt gross. Anw tried to kayak, but the kayak kept changing direction, and yanxin and I were totally pissed. But after getting into the river we were better, at least not as pissed, and after passing round the island, we were super energetic and enthu about the red roof aka camp 2 jetty was getting big or not. So we kayak with all our might. And we reached camp 1 again, though late. Washed the kayaks and put them back, poor peiying got splashed by water a lot. No wait, zippy practically poured the water onto her.

Anw changed into dry clothes and trekked over to camp 2, and feeling guilty for only taking the tent twice the day b4, I took it. And when we reached camp 2 in 20 mins, we were tired, but proud of ourselves. Went down to put our backpacks, caught up abit with friends, demanded orange drink from vivien, and pitched our tents and ate. Ate a lot of mushrooms. Then I realized I still had the feeling that I was bobbing up and down the sea. And when fishray talked to us later it worsened cos we were standing. And I felt like puking after that. And so didn’t help in clearing up. Felt bad, but really cant do anything about it. And didn’t dare go shower cso I was really afraid that I’d faint in the shower and no one would know. Finally went after huifang helped me massage. Thanks huifang! Felt like puking in the shower afterwards, but still felt better. Went to find fishray and played the ding dong game we played with 36 ma’ams last time. Wrote journal and grace went to eat the ai xin mian fishray cooked for her.. woohoo~ anw went to sleep after that.

Day 5.
Going home day! Had to clean the tent equipments, etc, and check for missing items. No loss!! Thanks to fishray who helped us find lots of stuff like spacer that kind and also Nicole who ran around looking for the tent bag! Thanks a lot! (: bought a red obs tee. Wanted white but smallest size was M and I figured it would look like a pyjamas on me so I got the S red one.. Anw abit she3 bu4 de2 to leave leh, like very fun.. kope a lot of vivien redoxon while waitig for the boat.. decided to meet on Saturday too to get our nyaa forms..

Saturday
Only chengxin, seaweed, huifang, chenchen, Elizabeth, yihui, evelyn, yanxin and I manged to go.. and fishray was late for like 4 hours!!! And he same with AHEM someone too.. shhhhh it’s a secret! Anw didn’t get the form cos don’t have the obs chop. But was quite fun, got to hang out with fellow cheng hoies.. and took neoprints too! Abit funny to have so many ppl taking cos in between shots ppl rush rush around then very fun.. didn’t manage to find ai de qi ji 3 though, and hmv sell so ex! I very heart pain that I didn’t buy the other day. But nvm, I’ll find tmr at jurogn point! (:

Today
Went to northpoint popular to get the mag cos got I’m a cyborg but that’s okay on the cover! Which means cute rain. And bought 2 books, 2 pens and 1 pair of school shoes!!! Made up for not buying anything on Saturday cos really wanted to buy smth back..

Anw that’s about it, such a loooooooooong post to make up for not updating for so long! (: 4 pages on Microsoft word!!!

P.S. this post is dated 11th March 2007 and I didn’t post on the day cos I couldn’t get my blogger to work on that day cos I was watching hana kimi.. (:

Anw today I realized I lost 1kg before OBS, another after OBS, and another 0.5kg after taking my weight at evelyn’s house. So now I weigh 46.5kg. if only I weighed as little during caiqing or DALTs when we had to do zhan jiao, yuanhan would be more qing song..

Anw the book I bought, the horoscope one says that geminis are inquisitive and has short attention spans and gets distracted easily! Which is like me lah. Good example is at evelyn’s house today, I has the urge to read through every single thing on her table. And I grabbed a lot of random stuff to read while Cheryl and evelyn were slogging their guts out. Sorry! But evelyn’s house really too interesting le.. and when I was rushing home I kept getting distracted by the numerous things in evelyn’s room.. and I fiddled with her disk drive too.. oh man, I feel like a home destroyer, lol..

And I’m supposed to be on bad terms with Sagittarius, but I’m okay with them, can also say quite tan2 de lai2 bah.. (: anw I learnt that not everyone is a typical whatever star sign they are, cos if their moon (control of emotions) happens to be in cancer or smth with is supposed to be wen1 xun4 and they are some fiery star sign, they’ll still be wen1 xun4, so a personal birth chart would be more accurate.. I’ll go do one when I have the time! After I finish with my SIAs, holiday homework and tmd stock taking, that is.


And today on the way back from evelyn’s house on the mrt I kept falling asleep while standing. Yes I was standing. And at the space right beside the door where you can lean on the glass panel. Anw my knees kept bending suddenly I duno why and I guessed it scared some ppl. And the mrt was quite cramped as well.. kinda embarrassing.. anw thanks to yihui for smsing me and keeping me too busy replying to fall asleep, haha..

Now I’m typing in geog survey, and minutes for LA/IH SIA.. then I’m off the finish my huayang ep 15 part 3..

3/12/2007 07:47:00 PM
if only i could let u stay by my side...