Saturday, October 21, 2006
I'm back from OBS, ALHAMDULILLAH. I'm well and alive. I don't know about well, cos my body aches, but I like it. Any longer at that place can make me go crazy. It's not all bad la, but I just felt out of place and.. I don't know I had this uneasy feeling. I don't know why. And OBS was pretty much like other camps, rock climbing.. high elements.. kayaking.. field cooking.. hiking.. yah.
Day ONE - We did KAYAKING the minute we stepped onto Ubin, well not exactly, not counting the admin stuff. I WAS IN BARKER! Together with NADHIRAH!, Sammi, Valerie, Angel, Angeline, Cheng Feng, Kryslin, Coco, Shi Han, Minyun, Jia Jin, Lu Xun, Xiaolei & Qi Long! We had a 16th member.. but.. I'll explain later.
We did kayaking in the afternoon, did all the rescue stuff. I was with nadhirah, so it was total fun. Had some first aid briefing at night. Bahaha. And I volunteered myself to be the medic, oh yeay.
The night was pretty cool, was the first time sleeping at the bunk. I slept at the lower deck, with no one sleeping on my upper deck. Talked to nadh before I dozed off, cos the instructor from sui sen shut us up. Oh and he tucked me in to sleep too! So sweet i tells ya.
Day TWO - I was already home sick on the second day. Horrible, no? Was supposed to go hiking, but thank you haze, they cancelled it. I was seriously not looking forward to it. Firstly, we were not prepared, secondly we had to carry what seemed like a tonne on out backs and thirdly, I felt so tired and it was only the second day. So we did belaying and rock climbing, which I did NOT get to do, I was happy at first, but now when I think of it, it was kind of wasted that I did not get to go. Bah heart pain number 1.
Since we were stuck at camp one, what did we do to all the rations? We had to field cook at the beach. It was okay la, I've had worst field cookings. Nadh broke her fast and we had a romantic dinner eating half cooked rice, together with sardines, tuna, anchovies and curry chicken all mushed up in a cup. Sitting on the pavement with ants crawling up my shorts, sniffing the hazy air and staring at a boat in the middle of the sea.. with hazy lights far far away lighting the place up.
I can't remember when and where we had our circles. But I loved the supper that night. Barkerians gathered at the dorm, and we had a milo party. Twas fun, and messy. And I remember sleeping so well that night. Probably too tired la.
Day THREE- THE DAY WE HAD TO GO HIKING. BAH. Brought our bags(WAH THEY WEIGHED SO MUCH, I THINK I HAVE MUSCLES BY NOW) to the multi purpose hall and had flag raising. Mmmm, did much preparation and packing, and off we were to camp two. One thing's for sure, reaching the destination depended on Val and I, since we were the navigators. Felt loads of pressure, for one thing, we didn't want the group to suffer cos of our mistakes navigating. hehe. But thank God, we managed to reach camp two, safe and sound.
Then off we were to wherever we had to be, which was the Granite Quarry! Hahaha Got lost halfway cos we didn't know which way to go.. Reached that place after almost 2 hours of hiking? Without our heavy bags this time, at least. Mmm Chiew Ling made us carry 8 pipes 4 barrels and 1 bucket of rope to the quarry.. as I've thought, we were gonna make a raft. hahahaha. At first we thought we had to do a jetty jump, turns out we were gonna do our jetty jump at the quarry!
The quarry was so nice!!!!! Clear water! Ahhhhh bestest reward after hiking for sooooo loooooooooonggg......... I swear I didn't want to get out of the quarry after all that. It's such a nice place to be in. Plus, we won't get to go there again, unless I get to go for another OBS camp(which I don't think I want to, unless I'm way way way fitter than I am now).. hahaha
Oh after all that, we walked all the way back to camp two.. talking to nadh helped alot cos we didn't feel tired after that. At camp two, we did field cooking for dinner and yeah, camp whored after that waiting for our sea expedition briefing. Hahaha Barker is love(:
Mmmmm, oh then we had to sleep at the main purpose hall, which was infested with mosquitos, cos i got bitten so much, i woke up in the middle of the night, just to scratch my bitten feet.
Day FOUR - Woke up early, packed our stuff onto the boat, and waited for almost 2 hours later before we embarked on our expedition. I got tired before even reaching the swamp area. but hey, having nadh for a partner puts aside all the tiredness cos we gossipped all the way through the swamp area. OH! the swamp was so cool, cos we passed by kampungs and TOILETS! hahahaha eeeewwww... imagine seeing floating faeces! hahahaha. And the water smelt like shit ah. hahahaa. We kayaked for 6 1/2 hours! yay ;D and I', at least two tones darker, how about that? lol
Reaching camp ONE! was the best feeling ever, I felt so happy setting foot on solid ground. Wah happy(: the haze was back by then. Yeah.. so erm, did the washing and carrying the kayaks to the washing area. Felt for fibre glass on our hands and legs. Haha we were lucky cos we didnt get burnt so much, compared to group one. Plus! We COMPLETED our expedition! Yay group 2
We had a PROPER dinner at night, which felt sooooooo gooooood.... and sleeping was the BEST feeling, ever...
day FIVE! - YAY LAST DAY!!!!!!! Did some high element thing, where we had to say out our goals or something. Stupid PEAKS profiling thinger. Hahah I remembered having to sit for two hours in Vinson having to hear some PEAKS theory shit. Bah, totally boring. The high element was cooooooool, hahaha and I love belaying.
MMMM yeah, well thats about it. Headed for school after all that. Said our farewells, bye bye barker.
Ahhhh that was OBS. I'm not gonna talk about what happened next.
I'm sleepy, gotta mug for tomorrow
nights.
