Tuesday, November 28, 2006
11/28/2006 11:13:00 AM ● glad to be home

i haf not blogged for like almost a week. i was at camp. distanced frm civilisation. [it's gonna be a long post]
DAY 1-
first day of camp, we had to pitch our own tents. bad sign. coz dat means we'll be sleeping in them. dinner was like this orangey-reddish thing dat tasted like fish [maybe it was fish], some brown squishy that resembled spongebob, and veg. it was like abit too much lorh, coz we HAD to finish EVERYTHING.
recreation was kinda fun thou. we had to run around changi beach broadwalk to look for checkpoints to complete stuff. but at first, we were running like to dunno where lorh. one group ran like until the old changi hospital there. scaryy lahh! good thing it wasen't my group.
den when it was time to go to the tents, each group was like split into two smaller groups. my tent was me, liane, sherwin, shuwen and rebecca. but i went wif liane first, coz the seniors went for debreif or smth like dat. so we tok lorh. coz there was nothing better to do.
den aft we ran out of stuff to tok abt, i started toking to my name tag. haha. i noe, i'm nuts. lost it. when i go to camp, dat's wad happens.
DAY 2-
woke up at 6am. 6AM on a saturday! wad cud be worse?! den we had 5bx. wadeva dat stands for. den we rushed for breakfast and all that to get ready to go to pulao ubin. we WALKED to the changi jetty. carrying packets of instant noodles, 1.5 litre bottles of water, mess tins and other cooking stuff.
and sophie brought only a pouch, eventhough she had a backpack. coz she didn't wanna carry anything. so wad lorh. and she keeps complaining dat she tired la, and all dat kinda crap. and she wasen't even carrying anything. grrrr.
when we FINALY reached the jetty, i was in the first batch of ppl to take the bumboats. it was kinda kool. we went past dat place where i saw the frogs, when i was wif mel. go look in my archives. den when we got there, i was kinda expecting smth more than rough concrete steps leading to a tiny pavillion.
but u noe wad was kool? there were dogs there! and one looked almost exactly like ginger. and it scratches the same way too. i wud haf taken a picture for comparison of i had a camera. it was SO alike. same size, colour [except ging looks cleaner], same brown eye lashes. who noes, it cud be her long lost bro.
we 'hiked' for like what seemed like forever. and we had to pluck plant specimens for some project. i felt so guilty everytime i picked a leaf. they should haf asked us to take pictures instead of plucking real life living plants. we were like wrecking nature. it was so wrong. den i guess they realised that and asked us to take those which haf fallen to the ground. but those on the ground were either dead and black or partialy decomposing.
when i was like half dead, we reached the beach. where we were going to cook lunch.

lunch was instant noodles and hot dog bread. the bread was like all squashed in my bag. the noodles were quite nice... those slightly spicy ones. yum. lunch was like the best part of the hike. den after lunch, we set off for the bike shop.
and if you don't already noe, i can't cycle. you heard me right. I CAN'T CYCLE. at first, liane was supposed to tom-pang me. but we could'nt get very far. then rebecca tried. then jazzlyn. none cud get very far wif me weighing them down. [on the 2 person bike] finaly zhiyin tried. and we cud move! haha! to zhiyin[if you ever read this] THANKS! so i managed to go along for the ride. it began to rain, so i lent her my cap. it was the least i cud do. after a while we went back to mainland.
den we went back to prepare for special night. nothing really special if u ask me. so i won't go into details. we had to prepare a short play, we had a gift exchange. den we got to sleep indoors! there were 2 beds, so liane took one, and sophie took one. [i think sophie is a total spoilt brat who thinks she's so special and can do whatever she wants whenever she wants] i slept on the floor in my sleeping bag, next to tricia.
DAY 3-
woke up at 6.30am. a little later than the day before, but it was the sabbath! we had to rush again, coz we were going to the BB/GB capmsite to go canoeing! woohoo~ we had those high elements too. but we went canoeing first.
we had to carry the canoe to the beach. it was SO heavy. it took like 4 girls to carry one. we had to cross a small road and go down a short flight of stairs. after all the canoes were by the beach, we were taught how to paddle blah blah blah. den we went canoeing!
i was wearing those shorts that everyone thinks i'm wearing them the wrong way. and thay got wet! yay! it was the first time they got wet, which meant i cud see them become blue!
den there were these schools of fish dat were jumping out of water like the way dolphins do. and everyone tot it was so kool. and then, one like jumped into the canoe dat shuwen and i were using. den we started screaming like mad larh! i saw it first, coz i was sitting behind. it was flipping and flipping. we nearly stood up and capsized the canoe, but it didn't. den we were like totaly freaked. she tried to use her bottle to like shove it away, but it flipped, and she dropped the bottle, den the canoe was wobbling rite, den the bottle rolled over the fish. it was still alive la. it was those kinda fish wif the sharp pointy noses. den one of the instructors had to come over and take it out of our canoe and back into the water. really kool experience if u ask me.
den we were also taught how to capsize. when we were capsizing, i was more concerned about holding my nose than holding on to the paddle, so it kinda ended up on the other side of the canoe. but it was fun la.
den aft dat we rushed to change into dry clothes. den we did the high elements. won't go into details again coz nothing interesting happened.
when we got back, our tent like 'capsized' so we had to re-pitch it. looking for the pegs was the hardest part. we finaly made it stay, and rushed to dinner which we were late for. i rushed to eat and like totaly over stuffed myself, coz were forced to finish everything. i nearly died. den there was still supper. which cud haf killed me, soggy lao-ya-ish choc chip cookies. den we celebrated birthdays. so we had to eat cake. dis time, i jux shut my eyes and stuffed the whole piece in my mouth.
we had to sleep in tents again.
DAY 4-
woke up at 6.30am again. usual for a monday, but not during the holidays. almost the whole time was spent on area cleaning. and i hate cleaning. who dosen't?
den we went back to school, to wash the tents. we had a missing peg. so did other groups. den got to settle those problems la.
den we got out camp souvenir. it's supposed to be frm the land whrer guy's wear skirts and play blown up bags. scotland! i always wanted to go there. actually, i just wanna go somewhere, but scotland sounds kool. the souvenir was a plastic cup, wif a swirly straw curling round it.
den we had to complete our punishment. copy the camp rules 10 times. if we decided to hand in on wednesday, it wud haf been doubbled. so i finished it and went home.

i'm just so glad to be home.

xxxxxx

( Run to the city. )