Yesterday was the Earth Hour thing. Helped to set up to speakers and projectors and stuff, was super fun. But I didn't watch the movie haha I went for star gazing. Which I didn't really look at the stars through the telescope, but lie down on the basketball court and looked at the sky. The floor was real warm and comfortable. And me and jessie lay down side by side and hummed hymn<3 and looked at random stars, and felt like sleeping.
Which reminds me. A few days ago I listened to hymn and look out my window. I saw the evening sky, and hymn really describe the sky. I felt like I moved higher and higher by every cresendo. And got back the feeling I had during limelight. All the goosebumps. And feel like crying because I was so touched by the infinity. Like you heart suddenly increase in size, and your lungs expand like mad.
Haha what I am trying to say is just Hymn really made me know how to feel.
I believe in nycb, we just have to believe. And aim for platinum! When we reach for the stars, we will still fall in heaven.
Goodbye my friend. I will be back. Without regret.
FOCUS FOCUS! C.H.O.N.G CHONG AH! ;D
5 more days!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
I thought she was the one that was cheering the loudest.
I think the point is how much do we feel for our band,
how we are always touched when we played together
I don't know why some can love the band so much yet
not willing to spend some time practising.
I must say, I felt a little relieved when friday prac was cancelled
because I can have more time with my family.
But is that all？
I felt more worried. Can we still make it.
What the band has lost is a full day practice,
out of 8. Thinking back,
band isn't just fun.
We need to give to have fun.
Is it fair if we only have fun
and not work?
Is it fair to those, or most,
I would say, who worked so hard?
What will matter is not what we got, but what we gave.
If the whole band worked hard and focused,
I won't feel sad even if we didn't get gold with honours.
Because I know we tried our best.
But, are we?
Believe in yourself. And we can do it.
If we choose to go on, we will find the way.
I think the point is how much do we feel for our band,
how we are always touched when we played together
I don't know why some can love the band so much yet
not willing to spend some time practising.
I must say, I felt a little relieved when friday prac was cancelled
because I can have more time with my family.
But is that all？
I felt more worried. Can we still make it.
What the band has lost is a full day practice,
out of 8. Thinking back,
band isn't just fun.
We need to give to have fun.
Is it fair if we only have fun
and not work?
Is it fair to those, or most,
I would say, who worked so hard?
What will matter is not what we got, but what we gave.
If the whole band worked hard and focused,
I won't feel sad even if we didn't get gold with honours.
Because I know we tried our best.
But, are we?
Believe in yourself. And we can do it.
If we choose to go on, we will find the way.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
OBS
Hello. Long time no see. But I spent much time in see (sea). Well the past week has been OBS. And OBS, oh well, only OBS. But.......HAHAHA it's super fun!
I woke up around 6am on the first day then get ready to go down. Went to find xinyung and realised she has a big fat bag too [; Anyway, we went to school and stoned until 710am and got up a bus and byee nanyang. FYI, I bet some people are still sleeping in the boarding school. I am in watch 7, with 15 other people. XY, joy, qiuluan, hannah, stephanie, carrie, cherie, pig, peizhen, yuehan, claire, jingting, yining, deborah and yijing. We stopped at the reception centre and waited in watches. We were the first to reach but last to leave. We practically stoned there for very long. Our instructor came really late we thought no body's taking us to pulau ubin. Anyway we got Bernard(toh)! as an instructor, and our watch is called " Marshall" :) so cool right. Anyway Bernard look very dao at first, like ._. but later he just proved me wrong. You know he kept calling us weird names, he called Carrie Jessica, Cherie Carrie, Xinyung Yihong, yuehan yuhan, steph vanessa or smth. Lucky he can remember part of my name haha so he calls me beibei. Sometimes he thinks I am jingting ._. He finally remembered most of our names on the last day.
Anyway,
We reached camp 1 which is very very nice, and big. Very big. I think we went for some opening ceremony. At that time it felt like some ceremony to celebrate our definite death in 5 days time. But anyway, everyone survived and came back in one piece. Oh, no. Before that Bernard and watch sat together to talk about people's allergies and stuff. Settled the jobs and collected valuables. Then we walked around in the camp (Bernard said it's small) oh well. Apparently I still can't remember where is the medical centre. But I know where is orchard road and lucky plaza and mph. Sounds weird. And I found that instructors have an amusing way of calling each other, they sound like the morning birds. x10 times louder. Later on we got our happy meal and group food. A LOT A LOT. I still have a big pack now. Then we had our first lunch then went to do stores. We took the bottles to wash and filled them up. It's quite disgusting at first because all the caps have black things in it. Everyone just adapted to it hmm. At least I did. Then we went to do belaying. It feels funny to wear the harness and the hat stinks really bad. Overall is fun and hot. Later we went up to the cook house for fresh dinner! Had a fun time taking the plates out and putting back into the box. Proper planning is the word haha. I think we went back to pack bags and pitch tents. I guess obs really did us good, at least people not so icky anymore. The first day people are like "eeww"-ing all the way (haha including me) when we walk in the mud and touch the mud when we pitched tents.
And we spent our first night in the forest. It's very hot and I was sweating when I woke up.
Day 2
Woke up at 5am. Unpitched tents and washed up. We were supposed to meet Bernard at 630. But only have 4 person showed up on time, not really on time actually. I felt quite frustrated then, for being late. But later I thought I was partly responsible for this. We should have woke them up before we left.
We did kayaking. We tested our life vests and did capsizing drills. Haha jingting and the pantie+dead fish. That's not the point. The first capsized I swam the wrong way and my legs were up haha instead of my head. It's quite scary yet funny. Bernard told me to relax then I stopped moving haha but my head still underneath then he suddenly told me to swim up. The second time was better, it was deeper in the sea and I swam the right side up. But I took very long to climb up the kayak haha quite sad. And I didn't stick my butt in first. I just climbed the only way I could think of. xD
We kayaked the shorter way since the sea ex leaders said there's not enough time.So we kayaked for around 3 hours and reached camp 2. Bathed and cooked. Actually bernard did most of the cooking. Later we were supposed to meet him at the instructor's place at 930 but somehow we thought we were supposed to meet him at the 'cooking place'. So everyone waited and waited. Now I think back, I wonder why didn't I go to look for him? Yeah, so at 10pm me and joy went to the toilet and dropped by to see if he's there. And guess what, he's stoning there. We thought he forgot then he told us that we were supposed to meet him there. We were giving the :o face and fetched the rest of the watch. He inspected the pots and messtins and made us wash again. At first I thought he did that because he was angry, but then I realised the black things really come out if you rub it with sand. I think he's quit upset with us. Well, I think he's pretty upset with us for the first 2 days. We were quite un-enthu and quiet and sian and passive.
Day 3
Mandy's tent woke up first and woke everyone up. At that time every watch was still sleeping. We kept our tents and brushed teeth and gathered outside the instructors' place at 6.30 sharp. Haha we were the first watch there. Since we had nothing to do we formed 4 rows of four. Like foot drills. The other instructors were looking at us in a weird way. He came out 3 minutes after we arrived and looked amused. haha.
Ehh too sleepy to continue. Shall post tonight.
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haha oops I didn't post yesterday night, was watching tv. You know, there's so little time at home you want to spend all the time with your family. Had stomach ache yesterday D: After the dinner in bs. Anyway, continue from yesterday.
Then we had pt, all the lame games but very fun. Some weird greeting game,captain game, and the 5 basic exercise. Then they did some running. After that we had breakfast and talked about the night before. After that everyone learnt something and everyone became better! Wee. Then we did rock climbing. Had a bad time wearing the helmets again. Belaying was fun, and glad that hsiao fong enjoyed me belaying her haha. I guess my hands are a little stronger than others. Being the butt-supporter is very funny, the hands look like 如来神掌 haha. Then the climbing part was really scary. I almost didn't dare to climb up when I was at the bottom. Then bernard told me to believe in myself and if I want to do it I can. Then he promised to tell me a story later on. The encouragement really helped a lot and I just told myself. Just do it! I want to climb up there! And I just climbed. It wasn't easy. I slipped down countless times and I wanted to give up. But somehow I thought of the point of coming to OBS and my supportive friends and instructors below, I managed to climb through the thing. Alas, I reached the not-so-top top of the wall and looked down. I really feel very very happy and accomplished when I see them cheering for me. Although I did not manage to climb to the highest part, I exceeded my own expectations. Seriously, I only aimed to climb one or two steps up the wall, even the red line look to far away. Oh yes, then all the cartoon things happened. XY climbed up and started shouting that she wants to come down. You know why, her shoes were dropping out haha! then we were like ._." Then when she's coming down amanda told her that she can see her butt, then she lost focus and flew to the other wall. It's very scary when you see it, but apparently she's enjoying herself up there. Around lunch time we all completed the climbing and bernard told us the story. It's about the deaf tadpole being the only one that made up to the mountain because it can't hear the discouragements. I think everyone was awed when he told us the tadpole was deaf. After lunch was rafting. Our group didn't really have a leader so we were quite inefficient. We didn't finish the raft but the other munshi did. They did a great job and passed the kicking test and shaking test. But the knots they tied were not enough to hold down the barrels and raft broke apart. Everyone was quite sad, but people also learnt from mistakes [without failures we won't taste victory] Then we went back to our cooking place and it started raining. M&M cooked dinner while waiting for bohseng and kurt to come back from rock climbing. Then we packed our things and waited for the rain to stop. After the rain stopped we let Berneard check all the tins and pots. Around 8+ the 4 watches walked to camp3. We walked in the forest and it was very scary because we didn't take out our torch and we can only see the bagpack immediately in front of you. So we hung on to the bag in front and walked. I slipped into some mud and my shoes were dirty, but there's no time to talk about these. Many people fell, hannah even sprained her ankle. But everyone had to continue walking and get out of the forest. The bag was super heavy btw. We didn't know how to pack and brought lots of rubbish. Oh! we saw wild boars! A few of them. We reached after 40 minutes of walk and my entire shirt was wet with sweat. We set tents in the dark and settled night duty after Bohseng and Kurt arrived. Our tent got the 130 to 2am slot. FYI, camp 3 has nothing but grass, rocks, trees, tents and us. Oh and the sea. We went into our tents to change out of the wet clothes and powder bathed ourselves. I think we took quite long because 5 minutes after you put the powder you sweat it away again. But it's quite fun haha. Then we slept and groaned when the rocks poked us on our heads and backs. Night duty was scary cos we heard loads of weird noises. We heard the mosques praying and some disco music. I partnered joy and when we walked towards the instructors' site we suddenly heard a disgusting croak. It's not even a frog croak but sounded like untuned radio. We were so shocked haha but the duty ended real fast and we went back to sleep.
Day 4
We woke up and went to the grass to pee haha. We didn't want to do it on the beach so we went further. It feels really weird, but it's good experience. To have 3 friends holding a poncho and you peeing behind. Then we went back to un-pitch our tents and got ready for PT. But somehow people wasn't ready Bernard and us went to sit somewhere for breakfast. Then we were informed that hannah's going back first and not joining us for land ex, sadly. We took photos again then we had games with camp 1 bravo(the 4 watches). Haha people from 303 worth 50 cents each but we are only worth 5 cents. Then we played some math game to bond the two classes. And did dodo dance. Adding in the 'fishball!' behind. Haha we created meatball and sotongball, the instructors were laughing like mad. But in the end they had to do them once. Super funny ;) Then we set off for the land expedition. The process was very very tired and we walked very slow so we had to miss a few checkpoints. But we went to the highest point in pulau ubin, and it's very beautiful. Then we walked and walked and walked and my legs almost gave out. I got that feeling that I will just kneel down anytime, but I didn't. I just kept going although I walked slower and slower and became the last few in the watch. Oh, but Bernard kept us entertained by singing the very meaningful songs. The umbrella song was hilarious and they said he kept singing one part wrongly. The journey was so tough it was almost impossible for me to stay positive. It just somehow got numb and I just kept on walking. And the bagpacks suffocates me. I had to spray ventolin to get my breath back. I kept telling myself I can do it I can do it I can do it. I just forgot about it and walked. We walked back to camp 3 and rested for a while. We actually overtook bohseng/kurt I can't remember. Then when the arrived we were ready to go again. We walked to camp 2 in 30 minutes without breaks, then they stopped at the gate of camp 2. We didn't know that we were so near, then Bernard said, keep on walking and see. Haha then I heard joy shouting in joy. Anyway we were exhausted and rested there. We were very lucky. 1 minute after we put our bags down it started raining. The other 3 watches from camp 1 bravo were still stucked in the forest. So we just waited in camp 2 until the rain stopped and continued walking to camp 1. Later on Bernard said he's quite impressed that we walked so fast when we were walking back to camp 1. Although we were the last group to reach we were the only group that's dry. Not for long huh. After we put our bags down Bernard wants us to change into wet shoes and wear our lifevests. And here we go, jetty jump!! Bernard demonstrated once(perfect example of facing your fears) first. Carrie was the first to jump I was second. Actually no, I was just standing there then I just went. But I couldn't see where on earth is the board ending I had to squint and squint. Then I just repeated 'I.Can.Do.It.' And told myself "weee!" and jumped. The moment I hit the water was quite shocking. I just winced and then floated up. Hah! Then I became super fun. I swam aside then Bernard told me to wait for cherie to jump. In the end cherie can still swim but I just let her go up first. Then everyone went for second time!! And good for steph, she made it finally! Me and joy stayed in the water for quite long and lazed around. After that I didn't go for third round cos I didn't have anymore strength in my hands(need to climb up the slimy ladder) I just waited there. Later everyone went back to bathe. Long queue because munshi haven't bathe also. We met Bernard again for dinner and pitching tents. Half of us cooked dinner the other half went to pitch tents. We had all the weird dishes then we presented our dishes. 303 has the interesting dish called 'china'. It's vegetable soup. haha because it's 菜呢? haha. Anyway Marshall did a cheer. A little lame but quite inspiring, I think it's quite meaningful. After dinner we cleaned up and went back to wash up. We met him again at 1030 but it suddenly started raining. So we stayed in the mph. 5 person from our watch didn't bring sleeping bag so our dearest kind Bernard lent us his tent and bluetub(for those who brought sleepingbag as blanket). So nice of him right. Then we set up the tent and slept.
Day 5
I have no idea everyone wakes up so early. Our watch woke up quite late compared to the others. Actually Bernard came to wake us up haha. So we went to keep tents and brush teeth and stuff. Then we ate breakfast outside our dorm(we never stayed there) and dried the tents and packed the store rooms. Then we went around to look for missing items (since people conveniently took our camping sticks)But we managed to find everything back. Then we took our bags and went to orchard road when Bernard went to get our valuables. We got back our valuables and went shopping haha. After that we sat down and took our obs photo and commitment sheet, then talked about our own strengths and weaknesses. And went to do the trust jump. I did a super retarded thing, I forgot to say the cue to jump and just jumped like that. But thanks to the rest of them I survived. Then we went back and talked more. Like the highest and lowest point in OBS, and what have we learnt and threw the twine around. When everyone finished talking he cut the twine and said, everything is over, the leftover ones are our memories, and he cut the twine "that's my memory" and he cut all the twine. We kept the twine tight in our hands, tied it around us, whatever. I guess that's something we will keep for a long time. Then Bernard gave us the other people's certificate and wanted us to give it to them personally. When I received it from my friend and the hug, it really gave me the sense of accomplishment that, wow, I completed the entire course of OBS! And the horrible ending feeling, But like what Bernard said, everything will come to an end, no matter sad or happy. So I managed to stay positive. But I see amanda starting to give the i-am-going-to-cry look, I felt hollow. Just then, I think he sensed that, he told us to be strong. Then we went down to mph for the final debrief. Later on we did three cheers for Bernard and Marshall. I really shouted my heart out when we led the cheers. Then I started to tear quite a lot when amanda hugged me again. Sort of lost control. Later on 304 did the crazy game haha. I can't remember how it sounds like, but it reminds me that when there's sadness, there can be happiness too. So let's spread happiness and let everyone feel it! :D Ahh then we said byebye to the building and went onto the jetty. After leaving the place, the natural smell just poofed. But we were quite happy again and went back to the reception centre to wait for our bus. Bernard came also haha then we found a bottle cap on the floor haha then we gave it to him. Huh he laughed at me and said there's no use anymore haha so he refused to accept our farewell gift for him. Yeah then later we got a very gay pink bus and went back to school. And then it's all the hostel and soft bed again. Not really happy over there. Emo-ed a little ehh then lingran saw me with the ): face and patted me haha. Then I bathed and had dinner in the canteen. Saw mr chia and told him about OBS. He knows Bernard too, not very suprisingly. Stoned in xinyung's room for a while and realised that her roomie ngan had Bernard as her instructor too! And we found the blog that said stupid bernard haha. That's actually ngan's watchmate. haha.
Then went back my room to sleep. Jumped up in the morning at 630am thinking that I woke up late for PT. Then I realised I am lying on my bed. Slept again and woke up at 7. Stared at the OBS picture for a while and went to wash and and look for xinyung for breakfast. Turned out that she's still sleeping. So in the end we only had time to grab 2 pieces of bread before our lesson starts (8am) Lesson was more bearable than usual will our fresh heads from OBS, full with encouragement. Then I went home to malaysia! :D Brother's at home too. Went out for lunch and I was so sleepy I couldn't eat properly. Plus my stomach ache. Went home and blogged for a while and wanted to sleep but didn't. So I walked around the house and stuff. Still having stomach ache at night but ate more. I love IB more than IPA I realised. My mum threw away my bread from obs lol. Slept very early around 10+.
Then it's today! Didn't do anything actually. Went to pluck two jambus from dad's tree but the birds pecked on it D:< Went out for a while. And came back to blog until now. I spent so much time here man. I shall go already.
Byee.
End from where you begin.
Pandas can fly!
I woke up around 6am on the first day then get ready to go down. Went to find xinyung and realised she has a big fat bag too [; Anyway, we went to school and stoned until 710am and got up a bus and byee nanyang. FYI, I bet some people are still sleeping in the boarding school. I am in watch 7, with 15 other people. XY, joy, qiuluan, hannah, stephanie, carrie, cherie, pig, peizhen, yuehan, claire, jingting, yining, deborah and yijing. We stopped at the reception centre and waited in watches. We were the first to reach but last to leave. We practically stoned there for very long. Our instructor came really late we thought no body's taking us to pulau ubin. Anyway we got Bernard(toh)! as an instructor, and our watch is called " Marshall" :) so cool right. Anyway Bernard look very dao at first, like ._. but later he just proved me wrong. You know he kept calling us weird names, he called Carrie Jessica, Cherie Carrie, Xinyung Yihong, yuehan yuhan, steph vanessa or smth. Lucky he can remember part of my name haha so he calls me beibei. Sometimes he thinks I am jingting ._. He finally remembered most of our names on the last day.
Anyway,
We reached camp 1 which is very very nice, and big. Very big. I think we went for some opening ceremony. At that time it felt like some ceremony to celebrate our definite death in 5 days time. But anyway, everyone survived and came back in one piece. Oh, no. Before that Bernard and watch sat together to talk about people's allergies and stuff. Settled the jobs and collected valuables. Then we walked around in the camp (Bernard said it's small) oh well. Apparently I still can't remember where is the medical centre. But I know where is orchard road and lucky plaza and mph. Sounds weird. And I found that instructors have an amusing way of calling each other, they sound like the morning birds. x10 times louder. Later on we got our happy meal and group food. A LOT A LOT. I still have a big pack now. Then we had our first lunch then went to do stores. We took the bottles to wash and filled them up. It's quite disgusting at first because all the caps have black things in it. Everyone just adapted to it hmm. At least I did. Then we went to do belaying. It feels funny to wear the harness and the hat stinks really bad. Overall is fun and hot. Later we went up to the cook house for fresh dinner! Had a fun time taking the plates out and putting back into the box. Proper planning is the word haha. I think we went back to pack bags and pitch tents. I guess obs really did us good, at least people not so icky anymore. The first day people are like "eeww"-ing all the way (haha including me) when we walk in the mud and touch the mud when we pitched tents.
And we spent our first night in the forest. It's very hot and I was sweating when I woke up.
Day 2
Woke up at 5am. Unpitched tents and washed up. We were supposed to meet Bernard at 630. But only have 4 person showed up on time, not really on time actually. I felt quite frustrated then, for being late. But later I thought I was partly responsible for this. We should have woke them up before we left.
We did kayaking. We tested our life vests and did capsizing drills. Haha jingting and the pantie+dead fish. That's not the point. The first capsized I swam the wrong way and my legs were up haha instead of my head. It's quite scary yet funny. Bernard told me to relax then I stopped moving haha but my head still underneath then he suddenly told me to swim up. The second time was better, it was deeper in the sea and I swam the right side up. But I took very long to climb up the kayak haha quite sad. And I didn't stick my butt in first. I just climbed the only way I could think of. xD
We kayaked the shorter way since the sea ex leaders said there's not enough time.So we kayaked for around 3 hours and reached camp 2. Bathed and cooked. Actually bernard did most of the cooking. Later we were supposed to meet him at the instructor's place at 930 but somehow we thought we were supposed to meet him at the 'cooking place'. So everyone waited and waited. Now I think back, I wonder why didn't I go to look for him? Yeah, so at 10pm me and joy went to the toilet and dropped by to see if he's there. And guess what, he's stoning there. We thought he forgot then he told us that we were supposed to meet him there. We were giving the :o face and fetched the rest of the watch. He inspected the pots and messtins and made us wash again. At first I thought he did that because he was angry, but then I realised the black things really come out if you rub it with sand. I think he's quit upset with us. Well, I think he's pretty upset with us for the first 2 days. We were quite un-enthu and quiet and sian and passive.
Day 3
Mandy's tent woke up first and woke everyone up. At that time every watch was still sleeping. We kept our tents and brushed teeth and gathered outside the instructors' place at 6.30 sharp. Haha we were the first watch there. Since we had nothing to do we formed 4 rows of four. Like foot drills. The other instructors were looking at us in a weird way. He came out 3 minutes after we arrived and looked amused. haha.
Ehh too sleepy to continue. Shall post tonight.
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haha oops I didn't post yesterday night, was watching tv. You know, there's so little time at home you want to spend all the time with your family. Had stomach ache yesterday D: After the dinner in bs. Anyway, continue from yesterday.
Then we had pt, all the lame games but very fun. Some weird greeting game,captain game, and the 5 basic exercise. Then they did some running. After that we had breakfast and talked about the night before. After that everyone learnt something and everyone became better! Wee. Then we did rock climbing. Had a bad time wearing the helmets again. Belaying was fun, and glad that hsiao fong enjoyed me belaying her haha. I guess my hands are a little stronger than others. Being the butt-supporter is very funny, the hands look like 如来神掌 haha. Then the climbing part was really scary. I almost didn't dare to climb up when I was at the bottom. Then bernard told me to believe in myself and if I want to do it I can. Then he promised to tell me a story later on. The encouragement really helped a lot and I just told myself. Just do it! I want to climb up there! And I just climbed. It wasn't easy. I slipped down countless times and I wanted to give up. But somehow I thought of the point of coming to OBS and my supportive friends and instructors below, I managed to climb through the thing. Alas, I reached the not-so-top top of the wall and looked down. I really feel very very happy and accomplished when I see them cheering for me. Although I did not manage to climb to the highest part, I exceeded my own expectations. Seriously, I only aimed to climb one or two steps up the wall, even the red line look to far away. Oh yes, then all the cartoon things happened. XY climbed up and started shouting that she wants to come down. You know why, her shoes were dropping out haha! then we were like ._." Then when she's coming down amanda told her that she can see her butt, then she lost focus and flew to the other wall. It's very scary when you see it, but apparently she's enjoying herself up there. Around lunch time we all completed the climbing and bernard told us the story. It's about the deaf tadpole being the only one that made up to the mountain because it can't hear the discouragements. I think everyone was awed when he told us the tadpole was deaf. After lunch was rafting. Our group didn't really have a leader so we were quite inefficient. We didn't finish the raft but the other munshi did. They did a great job and passed the kicking test and shaking test. But the knots they tied were not enough to hold down the barrels and raft broke apart. Everyone was quite sad, but people also learnt from mistakes [without failures we won't taste victory] Then we went back to our cooking place and it started raining. M&M cooked dinner while waiting for bohseng and kurt to come back from rock climbing. Then we packed our things and waited for the rain to stop. After the rain stopped we let Berneard check all the tins and pots. Around 8+ the 4 watches walked to camp3. We walked in the forest and it was very scary because we didn't take out our torch and we can only see the bagpack immediately in front of you. So we hung on to the bag in front and walked. I slipped into some mud and my shoes were dirty, but there's no time to talk about these. Many people fell, hannah even sprained her ankle. But everyone had to continue walking and get out of the forest. The bag was super heavy btw. We didn't know how to pack and brought lots of rubbish. Oh! we saw wild boars! A few of them. We reached after 40 minutes of walk and my entire shirt was wet with sweat. We set tents in the dark and settled night duty after Bohseng and Kurt arrived. Our tent got the 130 to 2am slot. FYI, camp 3 has nothing but grass, rocks, trees, tents and us. Oh and the sea. We went into our tents to change out of the wet clothes and powder bathed ourselves. I think we took quite long because 5 minutes after you put the powder you sweat it away again. But it's quite fun haha. Then we slept and groaned when the rocks poked us on our heads and backs. Night duty was scary cos we heard loads of weird noises. We heard the mosques praying and some disco music. I partnered joy and when we walked towards the instructors' site we suddenly heard a disgusting croak. It's not even a frog croak but sounded like untuned radio. We were so shocked haha but the duty ended real fast and we went back to sleep.
Day 4
We woke up and went to the grass to pee haha. We didn't want to do it on the beach so we went further. It feels really weird, but it's good experience. To have 3 friends holding a poncho and you peeing behind. Then we went back to un-pitch our tents and got ready for PT. But somehow people wasn't ready Bernard and us went to sit somewhere for breakfast. Then we were informed that hannah's going back first and not joining us for land ex, sadly. We took photos again then we had games with camp 1 bravo(the 4 watches). Haha people from 303 worth 50 cents each but we are only worth 5 cents. Then we played some math game to bond the two classes. And did dodo dance. Adding in the 'fishball!' behind. Haha we created meatball and sotongball, the instructors were laughing like mad. But in the end they had to do them once. Super funny ;) Then we set off for the land expedition. The process was very very tired and we walked very slow so we had to miss a few checkpoints. But we went to the highest point in pulau ubin, and it's very beautiful. Then we walked and walked and walked and my legs almost gave out. I got that feeling that I will just kneel down anytime, but I didn't. I just kept going although I walked slower and slower and became the last few in the watch. Oh, but Bernard kept us entertained by singing the very meaningful songs. The umbrella song was hilarious and they said he kept singing one part wrongly. The journey was so tough it was almost impossible for me to stay positive. It just somehow got numb and I just kept on walking. And the bagpacks suffocates me. I had to spray ventolin to get my breath back. I kept telling myself I can do it I can do it I can do it. I just forgot about it and walked. We walked back to camp 3 and rested for a while. We actually overtook bohseng/kurt I can't remember. Then when the arrived we were ready to go again. We walked to camp 2 in 30 minutes without breaks, then they stopped at the gate of camp 2. We didn't know that we were so near, then Bernard said, keep on walking and see. Haha then I heard joy shouting in joy. Anyway we were exhausted and rested there. We were very lucky. 1 minute after we put our bags down it started raining. The other 3 watches from camp 1 bravo were still stucked in the forest. So we just waited in camp 2 until the rain stopped and continued walking to camp 1. Later on Bernard said he's quite impressed that we walked so fast when we were walking back to camp 1. Although we were the last group to reach we were the only group that's dry. Not for long huh. After we put our bags down Bernard wants us to change into wet shoes and wear our lifevests. And here we go, jetty jump!! Bernard demonstrated once(perfect example of facing your fears) first. Carrie was the first to jump I was second. Actually no, I was just standing there then I just went. But I couldn't see where on earth is the board ending I had to squint and squint. Then I just repeated 'I.Can.Do.It.' And told myself "weee!" and jumped. The moment I hit the water was quite shocking. I just winced and then floated up. Hah! Then I became super fun. I swam aside then Bernard told me to wait for cherie to jump. In the end cherie can still swim but I just let her go up first. Then everyone went for second time!! And good for steph, she made it finally! Me and joy stayed in the water for quite long and lazed around. After that I didn't go for third round cos I didn't have anymore strength in my hands(need to climb up the slimy ladder) I just waited there. Later everyone went back to bathe. Long queue because munshi haven't bathe also. We met Bernard again for dinner and pitching tents. Half of us cooked dinner the other half went to pitch tents. We had all the weird dishes then we presented our dishes. 303 has the interesting dish called 'china'. It's vegetable soup. haha because it's 菜呢? haha. Anyway Marshall did a cheer. A little lame but quite inspiring, I think it's quite meaningful. After dinner we cleaned up and went back to wash up. We met him again at 1030 but it suddenly started raining. So we stayed in the mph. 5 person from our watch didn't bring sleeping bag so our dearest kind Bernard lent us his tent and bluetub(for those who brought sleepingbag as blanket). So nice of him right. Then we set up the tent and slept.
Day 5
I have no idea everyone wakes up so early. Our watch woke up quite late compared to the others. Actually Bernard came to wake us up haha. So we went to keep tents and brush teeth and stuff. Then we ate breakfast outside our dorm(we never stayed there) and dried the tents and packed the store rooms. Then we went around to look for missing items (since people conveniently took our camping sticks)But we managed to find everything back. Then we took our bags and went to orchard road when Bernard went to get our valuables. We got back our valuables and went shopping haha. After that we sat down and took our obs photo and commitment sheet, then talked about our own strengths and weaknesses. And went to do the trust jump. I did a super retarded thing, I forgot to say the cue to jump and just jumped like that. But thanks to the rest of them I survived. Then we went back and talked more. Like the highest and lowest point in OBS, and what have we learnt and threw the twine around. When everyone finished talking he cut the twine and said, everything is over, the leftover ones are our memories, and he cut the twine "that's my memory" and he cut all the twine. We kept the twine tight in our hands, tied it around us, whatever. I guess that's something we will keep for a long time. Then Bernard gave us the other people's certificate and wanted us to give it to them personally. When I received it from my friend and the hug, it really gave me the sense of accomplishment that, wow, I completed the entire course of OBS! And the horrible ending feeling, But like what Bernard said, everything will come to an end, no matter sad or happy. So I managed to stay positive. But I see amanda starting to give the i-am-going-to-cry look, I felt hollow. Just then, I think he sensed that, he told us to be strong. Then we went down to mph for the final debrief. Later on we did three cheers for Bernard and Marshall. I really shouted my heart out when we led the cheers. Then I started to tear quite a lot when amanda hugged me again. Sort of lost control. Later on 304 did the crazy game haha. I can't remember how it sounds like, but it reminds me that when there's sadness, there can be happiness too. So let's spread happiness and let everyone feel it! :D Ahh then we said byebye to the building and went onto the jetty. After leaving the place, the natural smell just poofed. But we were quite happy again and went back to the reception centre to wait for our bus. Bernard came also haha then we found a bottle cap on the floor haha then we gave it to him. Huh he laughed at me and said there's no use anymore haha so he refused to accept our farewell gift for him. Yeah then later we got a very gay pink bus and went back to school. And then it's all the hostel and soft bed again. Not really happy over there. Emo-ed a little ehh then lingran saw me with the ): face and patted me haha. Then I bathed and had dinner in the canteen. Saw mr chia and told him about OBS. He knows Bernard too, not very suprisingly. Stoned in xinyung's room for a while and realised that her roomie ngan had Bernard as her instructor too! And we found the blog that said stupid bernard haha. That's actually ngan's watchmate. haha.
Then went back my room to sleep. Jumped up in the morning at 630am thinking that I woke up late for PT. Then I realised I am lying on my bed. Slept again and woke up at 7. Stared at the OBS picture for a while and went to wash and and look for xinyung for breakfast. Turned out that she's still sleeping. So in the end we only had time to grab 2 pieces of bread before our lesson starts (8am) Lesson was more bearable than usual will our fresh heads from OBS, full with encouragement. Then I went home to malaysia! :D Brother's at home too. Went out for lunch and I was so sleepy I couldn't eat properly. Plus my stomach ache. Went home and blogged for a while and wanted to sleep but didn't. So I walked around the house and stuff. Still having stomach ache at night but ate more. I love IB more than IPA I realised. My mum threw away my bread from obs lol. Slept very early around 10+.
Then it's today! Didn't do anything actually. Went to pluck two jambus from dad's tree but the birds pecked on it D:< Went out for a while. And came back to blog until now. I spent so much time here man. I shall go already.
Byee.
End from where you begin.
Pandas can fly!
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