I'm back from my 7-day camp(OBS + Youth Camp), its really awesomee!
Outward Bound Singapore, 1st-5th Dec.
At first i did not really want to go for this camp, cause it clashes with my church youth camp. Last year's youth camp was fun, and i did not wish to miss this year's.
However i carried my heavy heart all the way to OBS, seeing that the rest of my school mates are also feeling the same way. We just stood there and complained like a bunch of girls. Hahah! Plus my heavy backpack, it adds on more sadness.
Get into rows and got our group name, COOK! Pretty cool yeah?
After a while, we gathered in our groups and i can see that fun is coming on our way (hopefully). Surrended our valuables, BUT! i kept my MP3 and brought in to camp. :x
Haha! Who cares now,anw i did not have the chance to use it. Kinda dumb rite?
Took a lousy bump boat to Pulau Ubin, and started with some ice-breakers.
Roughly knew the names of every member in my watch : not counting st gabs, there were Belle ,Susie ,Jems ,Carissa & Noelle. Cool names in the Cook Watch! :D
After that we did some besailing to get ready for next day's flying fox.
COOK COOK, we cooked our own dinner and ate them up like hungry monsters!
Have you ever cook milo in a pot? HAha! we did! we whacked like 20 packets of milo in the pot and cook it. With the sweet tooth of Belle, we just kept adding powder in.
The Milo is great!Build our own tents , talked and slept.
Second day, went for flying fox. Its fantastic! The whole of Cook watch did it!
I am really proud of out team, except for the long wait for clinton to jump off the platform. Hahah! Suprisingly he did not scream, i think its because of the girls that were looking at him. Went back to camp , had a rest and went for kayaking.
We learnt the basic stuffs, and kayak our way to an island wher we spent our night there. Set up tents, cooked food and we got sandflies/mosquitoes bites all over our body! For dinner we had maggie noodles, wj clinton and I took a mass tin collected our maggie and ate them up with only a set of utensils. We look like some beggers on the streets, haha! and we called ourselves the 3 xiong di. Went to our tents and had a good rest.
Third day, we woke up and saw Oma's lip swollen! HAHAH! its super funny. I think sandflies bite his lips. Unpitched tents, pack up and we were all ready to set off for our sea expedition. i team up with wj and paddled our way to camp 2, its really really tiring. Kayaking for 7 hours is no joke, plus! Our boat kept clashing into the trees and spiders all over our faces. and water just kept going into our kayak.
Grr.. kayak error it must be! Camp 2 was heavenly! there's proper clean toilet, delicious cooked food and the feeling is just great! Pitched up our tents and went to take a shower, the feeling is really shiok! All clean and happy we went up and had our proper dinner. Oma finally found someone to have some fun, there's 3 boys just kept on walking pass our table staring at us. When Oma asked them to come to our table to talk they looked away and did not even dare to look at us. Oma and wj just kept on shouting 'Humji Humji' at them. the rest of us had a good laugh.
Forth day, Land Expedition.
Another terror for us, packed our heavy backpacks and got ready for the long trek round ubin. Phew its really tiring, BUT! with a partner beside me, we just talked our tiredness away. How great. From the hike, i got to know more about Belle. She is really a nice girl and almost perfect. She is both excellent in her studies and cca, my jaw just dropped when she told me that she topped in her level. Way to go Belle!
Hhaha! Half way through the trek, it gets more tiring because Belle was asked to navigate and i had no one to talk to. Struggled our way through the woods and finally reached our destination. Back to Camp 1! -.-
Belle is really a strong girl, even with a bad flu she can navigate and reach the destination first! and i almost crawled my way there.
Something really stupid happended and i really wish that it did not happen.
the incident just exploaded and our group just felt helpless and hopeless.
Why must he do such things! It spoils the rest of our time at OBS.
Cooked our food and ate up.
Fifth and last day, packed and cleaned up.
We lost lots of equipments in our store and we had to pay for those losses D:
Haha! Got our certificates and took a boat back to city.
Now again my heart is feeling heavy, this time its because i did not want to go home. I miss all my team mates! Oh well, when we got to go we got to go. Bought our OBS t-shirts, took our last pictures together and said our last goodbyes.
There's smth that i wana ask for but smth really strong is pulling me back, argh!
Regret-
Church Youth Camp 6th-7th Dec
Woke up early in the morning , cabbed to camelot and met up with my team members.
Bryan is our group leader and how awesome is that, with Arthur Russ & Clement nothing can be better than that.Our group name is Mahao, cool! Got my camp t-shirt and off the my first activity, crossing the river. With not much difficulty, i'm able to bond with my team quite well. Came in first for first activity and things were getting better. There's one challenge where we must carry one person up with a coke bottle above his head and team members oppisite must lower done the string of mentos into the bottle with an explosion! When we were doing it, me and Arthur accidently dropped small little Kenneth on the ground when the coke bottle exploaded. He landed on his back and got hurt. I felt really bad, and when Kenneth got up on his feet saying he is alrite everything just went back to normal. :D
Next activity, we have to transfer all the fruits and veg from one place to another at wheelbarrow position. After transferring all of them there, we had to munch them up withour using our hands. There's honeydew, watermelon , celery, lemon!, chilli and papaya. The lemon and celery just taste terrible! But as a team we finish them the fastest! Really happy (:
That night had worship and got a talked from a speaker from Bedok Church, really meaningful. Theme song for the camp ; Lean On Me. Really nice. Before camp fire we played Patapon ( human version) really cute and fun! haha!
Patapon our way to the campfire and had our talent night. Our group did a dance, Arthur can really dance man. Although we did not win the talent night, we still enjoyed ourselves very much.
Stayed up the whole night writing encouragement cards for friends and group members.
Natelie and Bryan also stayed up the whole night, we just talked and talked whole night ( especially nat ) haha! She's like on drugs luh, never get tired but always super high. Early in the morning had testimonial sharing and the results, our group thought group Cinta will get it but they came in 2nd. And we came in 1st! ben & Jerry's ice cream voucher worth 60 bucks. AWESOME!
Overall the camp is really fun, and i did not regret coming to youth camp straight after OBS.
take care all & God Bless! :D
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