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Back from obs in one piece! :)
Hahaha, it'd be an understatement to say it was 'good'. It was waaaaaaaay beyond awesome. Seriously, it was the best camp I've been to in my life I think? Haha. Really a pity that Jolene, Clar, Marie and the rest of the other 12 girls/guys couldn't make it :/ I guess partially it was 'cos of luck since I had a really awesome group + awesome instructor Elton :)
People who talked to me before I went for obs would know how much I was dreading it lah. Like worrying about becoming tan, getting insect bites, no comfy bed, no phone, no comp, etcetc. So yeah, at first when we were still at the jetty and stuff I had the totally SIAN mood. Lucky Nasrul was somehow awake at like 6 and kept me company by msging all the way 'till we reached Ubin! Thanks man, really! :) (There was actually full Singtel reception @ Ubin, but we had to surrender phones and stuff the moment we got there so yeah hmm) So we uhm, reached there and started activities in our group, and our watch was called Cook! Haha. Shall make someone scan the group pic so I can post it asap ;)
My group had me, Sean, Miley, Nat, Sihui, Ramesh, Laisum, MAMA Linh (shall explain later hehe), Gerald, Isaiah (sp?), Keeran, Jinyang, Yundi, Andrew, Nicole (but she left on like the 2nd day 'ços she hurt her back D:).
Argh I'm lazy to talk about every single thing but shall just mention/list some rly memorable stuff ^^
Day 1- Kayaking (water confidence) > Jetty Jump > Kayaking again (paddling)
Hm, I was looking forward to kayaking the most in obs since I haven't tried it in my life, so I was pretty :D that it was the first activity we were doing once we reached there haha. But we all had to take turns capsizing argh. I went with Sean & Miley, so we were like rocking left right left right to capsize it but idk, it's some sort of a reflex for me to scream at minor stuff so uhm yeah, I opened my mouth to scream just as we were hitting the water so I got to taste how salty sea water was. :/ Jetty jump was rly goooooooooood, I think it was one of the best activities we did there hahaha. Plus we did it during the low tide so even Elton said that was the longest jump he had, like the longest time to fall before reaching the water o: Tbh, everyone would freak out when you stand at the edge of that wooden plank, just that some just don't show it I guess. But the moment you tell yourself you can do it and take that one step off.. it felt great (Y) HAHA idek wth I'm talking about now omg. It was just srsly fun, idek how to explain that feeling when you fall through the air, wish I could do it another time rn haha!!
Day 2- Kayaking ~expedition~
Kayaked with Ramesh & Sihui on that day, so glad I made that right choice tsk ;) They're the best kayaking buddies ever I swear HAHA (I'm saying this 'cos I know they'd never read this lolol! Our awesome floorballers' kayak was supposed to be the 'sweeper' while everyone from Cook + Dagama (another watch) travelled tgt in the expedition to the other end of Ubin haha. So yeah our job was to uhm, keep everyone from lagging behind. In the beginning I sat at the middle and paddled quite a bit hm, they insisted there was no diff if I didn't even paddle wth! :( Then halfway there was this break 'cos we had to get off our kayaks and cross a road, so we decided to have a changeover and I ended up sitting behind Sihui with Ramesh at the front of the kayak. I swear it was awesome LOLOL, for this entire 2nd half of the journey, Sihui and I just leaned back in the best and most comfortable position a person can in a kayak and didn't even paddle AT ALL. Ramesh solo-ed the entire way and I've got to say he was good :) The journey was rly rly hilarious and awesome I think I was dying from laughing half the way. The both of them are rly (one of the) most retarded guys I've met in my life :') Like for eg we'd have to row past some low lying branches, so Ramesh would yell like 'MATRIXXXXXXX~', then we'd all lie down in a ~domino~ effect kind of thing and totally avoid the branches lmao. There was also 'LEPAK MACHINE READY~', and 'MAKAN TIME~~'. Really great memories thanks guys haha! :')
Ohoh & when we finally reached the campsite that we had to navigate our own way to, we all got to jump into this really gorgeous freshwater quarry. Only our 2 watches Cook & Da Gama got to do that 'cos we kayaked there so we were like covered in sea water. 2 other watches hiked there and the rest kayaked to Pasir Ris (we all had diff. itineries I guess!) We spent almost an hour just soaking and chillaxing in the nice and cool water after ignoring the random queries of 'are there piranhas?' or 'omg maybe got Loch Ness here!' It really felt damn awesome, + there was also tj, rj & bran since they were in Da Gama! :)
Day 3- Hiking ~expedition~ > Height elements
The hike back to our initial campsite was reallyyyyyy crazy. Apparently we walked for roughly 4h and somehow covered 10km? Idk it didn't feel like 10km to me hahaha but my shoulders rly died 'cos all of us had to carry this slightly less than 10kg backpacks w/ our day's worth of clothes/toiletries/shoes + lifevest + poncho. Oh and we found out that the previous groups who did the opposite (hike to campsite & kayak back), merely hiked from campsite to campsite. And 'cos there was 'no kick', so they decided to add checkpoints for our groups ;_; One of them was to go to the highest point in Ubin, which was this 65m tall hill haha. It was alrightttt I guess, it was rly nothing compared to that hike up Mt Gunung (sp?) we had in ip1 @ Bintan haha! And when we reached the top the view was woahhhhhhh. Took a picture there w/ Elton's camera haha but idk what happened to it hm. So yeah we went past the other 2 checkpoints (German Girl Shrine & some bicycle rental place) and made it to our campsite @ Camp 2 :) Oh yeah and we did random vj cheers along the way LOL! I guess it somehow made us a tiny bit more motivated hahah!!
Height elements was pretty awesome tooooooooo hahaha! I did it twice tho, the first time with Linh. We attempted the easier one where the rungs of the huge ladder thingy was closer together but we died at the 2nd last one and decided to go down D: After that everyone took turns and everyone who did managed to reach the top hahah so I went again, this time with Nat. My dear son haha I'm so proud of him aw, I had to step on him to climb each rung so yeah oops sorry :/ At first I really thought I couldn't do it, I mean like, Nat is so small compared to the other guys and I've already failed once. So when we were at the 2nd rung I rly wanted to give up and stop wasting everyone's time o: Somehow we continued and yno the higher you get, the less afraid you get of the height (for me at least hahaha!) It was more like, argh are we there yet?! So eventually we made it like the rest to the highest rung haha, I swear it felt great sitting on that log and hearing ppl cheer to the fact that we did it :)
Oh yeah and since it was the last night we had this uhm, special ~feast~ with more canned food/veggie. And we also had to prepare this skit about some retarded sailor and a girl and her fiance etc. Lazy to explain argh I wish we could get hold of that video! It's prob with Elton/ the other instructors hahah. Sihui was rly epic as usual lmao he acted the girl (obviously), and looked surprisingly good with my pink hairband ;)
Day 4- Trust dive > random slacking around > heading back
Hm we didn't do much on the last day haha. Except for like this one last activity where the entire group holds this uhm... groundsheet-like thingy with handles at the side. We hold it in such a way it looks like a.. stretcher I guess? Then one person from the group at a time takes turns to dive onto the 'stretcher' from an elevated platform while hitting a bell before landing. Does that make sense? Hahaha ohwell that was pretty fun I guess! :)
Other random stuff~
Shared the tent with Miley Laisum & Mama Linh (duh, since we were the only girls in the group). Haha they're rly awesome tent mates lor seriously. Except on the last night Mama Linh and I had a mini tug of war throughout the night lmao! It was rly retarded lah. we had 3 sleeping bags, so we decided to open up 2 for all 4 of us to share, then use the last one as a blanket. Since Linh & I were on the 2 ends we obviously had to do a lot of pulling. I'd randomly wake up from the cold and reach out to yank the blanket, and when I finally got it after a round of tugging and go back sleep, I'll wake up again to find it gone then the cycle would repeat lmao!!!
Oh and as for food, we were given this gigantic container of rations filled with bread+biscuits that was supposed to last our 4 days of breakfast & lunch. Then there'd be seperate maggi mee/canned food each night for dinner that we have to cook ourselves. So that's where Mama Linh comes in heheh, I swear she knows every single thing in the world. She'd own everyone at opening the cans, and she'd know what and how to cook the foods, and everything else idek. Throughout the camp whenever we had troubles or anything, Mama Linh knows the solution LOL! So yeah laisum & I started calling her Mama Linh hahaha!!
And of course I'm thankful for the awesome ppl who were there with me at the camp heheh. I wna say a huge thanks to Miley heh she'd always wait for me at the toilet and stuff, and yeah I think I hanged out a lot with her at the camp! :) & Sean of course! /waves HI aren't you touched ;) Thanks for idk, hanging around with me during the camp? Tbh I don't exactly know/rmb what you did oops, hahaha but srsly the camp would've been rlyyyy diff without you in the group, bff! (awwwww) Nat too, my awesome sonnnn and of course SIhui & Ramesh haha aiyah everyone was great lah, rly wna say thanks to everyone in Cook :')
Argh I don't think I can ever finish talking about the interesting/awesome parts of the camp hahaha I can't believe I actually want to go back and have obs all over again o.o!! I guess that marks the end of the fun and awesome retarded epic stuff we can do before all of us ~officially~ become j1s during jco this coming Thurs hmm. And this post has gotten way longer than I expected it to be oops. Need to get my hands on the pics/vids argh. Shall update once I get them hahaha :)
On another note......... I rly thought I'd gotten over it. Idk how to explain how good I felt at obs. Maybe I was too preoccupied with the awesome activities/worrying over the tents and insects etc that I didn't even stop for a second to think of you. But the moment I got back it seemed like I was back to square 1, srsly wailt I'm so fucking annoyed already, really. I guess I can only let time heal this wound. I really really really never thought you could hurt me this bad. I'm such a fool for believing you. I'm such a stupid fool for loving you.
Hahaha, it'd be an understatement to say it was 'good'. It was waaaaaaaay beyond awesome. Seriously, it was the best camp I've been to in my life I think? Haha. Really a pity that Jolene, Clar, Marie and the rest of the other 12 girls/guys couldn't make it :/ I guess partially it was 'cos of luck since I had a really awesome group + awesome instructor Elton :)
People who talked to me before I went for obs would know how much I was dreading it lah. Like worrying about becoming tan, getting insect bites, no comfy bed, no phone, no comp, etcetc. So yeah, at first when we were still at the jetty and stuff I had the totally SIAN mood. Lucky Nasrul was somehow awake at like 6 and kept me company by msging all the way 'till we reached Ubin! Thanks man, really! :) (There was actually full Singtel reception @ Ubin, but we had to surrender phones and stuff the moment we got there so yeah hmm) So we uhm, reached there and started activities in our group, and our watch was called Cook! Haha. Shall make someone scan the group pic so I can post it asap ;)
My group had me, Sean, Miley, Nat, Sihui, Ramesh, Laisum, MAMA Linh (shall explain later hehe), Gerald, Isaiah (sp?), Keeran, Jinyang, Yundi, Andrew, Nicole (but she left on like the 2nd day 'ços she hurt her back D:).
Argh I'm lazy to talk about every single thing but shall just mention/list some rly memorable stuff ^^
Day 1- Kayaking (water confidence) > Jetty Jump > Kayaking again (paddling)
Hm, I was looking forward to kayaking the most in obs since I haven't tried it in my life, so I was pretty :D that it was the first activity we were doing once we reached there haha. But we all had to take turns capsizing argh. I went with Sean & Miley, so we were like rocking left right left right to capsize it but idk, it's some sort of a reflex for me to scream at minor stuff so uhm yeah, I opened my mouth to scream just as we were hitting the water so I got to taste how salty sea water was. :/ Jetty jump was rly goooooooooood, I think it was one of the best activities we did there hahaha. Plus we did it during the low tide so even Elton said that was the longest jump he had, like the longest time to fall before reaching the water o: Tbh, everyone would freak out when you stand at the edge of that wooden plank, just that some just don't show it I guess. But the moment you tell yourself you can do it and take that one step off.. it felt great (Y) HAHA idek wth I'm talking about now omg. It was just srsly fun, idek how to explain that feeling when you fall through the air, wish I could do it another time rn haha!!
Day 2- Kayaking ~expedition~
Kayaked with Ramesh & Sihui on that day, so glad I made that right choice tsk ;) They're the best kayaking buddies ever I swear HAHA (I'm saying this 'cos I know they'd never read this lolol! Our awesome floorballers' kayak was supposed to be the 'sweeper' while everyone from Cook + Dagama (another watch) travelled tgt in the expedition to the other end of Ubin haha. So yeah our job was to uhm, keep everyone from lagging behind. In the beginning I sat at the middle and paddled quite a bit hm, they insisted there was no diff if I didn't even paddle wth! :( Then halfway there was this break 'cos we had to get off our kayaks and cross a road, so we decided to have a changeover and I ended up sitting behind Sihui with Ramesh at the front of the kayak. I swear it was awesome LOLOL, for this entire 2nd half of the journey, Sihui and I just leaned back in the best and most comfortable position a person can in a kayak and didn't even paddle AT ALL. Ramesh solo-ed the entire way and I've got to say he was good :) The journey was rly rly hilarious and awesome I think I was dying from laughing half the way. The both of them are rly (one of the) most retarded guys I've met in my life :') Like for eg we'd have to row past some low lying branches, so Ramesh would yell like 'MATRIXXXXXXX~', then we'd all lie down in a ~domino~ effect kind of thing and totally avoid the branches lmao. There was also 'LEPAK MACHINE READY~', and 'MAKAN TIME~~'. Really great memories thanks guys haha! :')
Ohoh & when we finally reached the campsite that we had to navigate our own way to, we all got to jump into this really gorgeous freshwater quarry. Only our 2 watches Cook & Da Gama got to do that 'cos we kayaked there so we were like covered in sea water. 2 other watches hiked there and the rest kayaked to Pasir Ris (we all had diff. itineries I guess!) We spent almost an hour just soaking and chillaxing in the nice and cool water after ignoring the random queries of 'are there piranhas?' or 'omg maybe got Loch Ness here!' It really felt damn awesome, + there was also tj, rj & bran since they were in Da Gama! :)
Day 3- Hiking ~expedition~ > Height elements
The hike back to our initial campsite was reallyyyyyy crazy. Apparently we walked for roughly 4h and somehow covered 10km? Idk it didn't feel like 10km to me hahaha but my shoulders rly died 'cos all of us had to carry this slightly less than 10kg backpacks w/ our day's worth of clothes/toiletries/shoes + lifevest + poncho. Oh and we found out that the previous groups who did the opposite (hike to campsite & kayak back), merely hiked from campsite to campsite. And 'cos there was 'no kick', so they decided to add checkpoints for our groups ;_; One of them was to go to the highest point in Ubin, which was this 65m tall hill haha. It was alrightttt I guess, it was rly nothing compared to that hike up Mt Gunung (sp?) we had in ip1 @ Bintan haha! And when we reached the top the view was woahhhhhhh. Took a picture there w/ Elton's camera haha but idk what happened to it hm. So yeah we went past the other 2 checkpoints (German Girl Shrine & some bicycle rental place) and made it to our campsite @ Camp 2 :) Oh yeah and we did random vj cheers along the way LOL! I guess it somehow made us a tiny bit more motivated hahah!!
Height elements was pretty awesome tooooooooo hahaha! I did it twice tho, the first time with Linh. We attempted the easier one where the rungs of the huge ladder thingy was closer together but we died at the 2nd last one and decided to go down D: After that everyone took turns and everyone who did managed to reach the top hahah so I went again, this time with Nat. My dear son haha I'm so proud of him aw, I had to step on him to climb each rung so yeah oops sorry :/ At first I really thought I couldn't do it, I mean like, Nat is so small compared to the other guys and I've already failed once. So when we were at the 2nd rung I rly wanted to give up and stop wasting everyone's time o: Somehow we continued and yno the higher you get, the less afraid you get of the height (for me at least hahaha!) It was more like, argh are we there yet?! So eventually we made it like the rest to the highest rung haha, I swear it felt great sitting on that log and hearing ppl cheer to the fact that we did it :)
Oh yeah and since it was the last night we had this uhm, special ~feast~ with more canned food/veggie. And we also had to prepare this skit about some retarded sailor and a girl and her fiance etc. Lazy to explain argh I wish we could get hold of that video! It's prob with Elton/ the other instructors hahah. Sihui was rly epic as usual lmao he acted the girl (obviously), and looked surprisingly good with my pink hairband ;)
Day 4- Trust dive > random slacking around > heading back
Hm we didn't do much on the last day haha. Except for like this one last activity where the entire group holds this uhm... groundsheet-like thingy with handles at the side. We hold it in such a way it looks like a.. stretcher I guess? Then one person from the group at a time takes turns to dive onto the 'stretcher' from an elevated platform while hitting a bell before landing. Does that make sense? Hahaha ohwell that was pretty fun I guess! :)
Other random stuff~
Shared the tent with Miley Laisum & Mama Linh (duh, since we were the only girls in the group). Haha they're rly awesome tent mates lor seriously. Except on the last night Mama Linh and I had a mini tug of war throughout the night lmao! It was rly retarded lah. we had 3 sleeping bags, so we decided to open up 2 for all 4 of us to share, then use the last one as a blanket. Since Linh & I were on the 2 ends we obviously had to do a lot of pulling. I'd randomly wake up from the cold and reach out to yank the blanket, and when I finally got it after a round of tugging and go back sleep, I'll wake up again to find it gone then the cycle would repeat lmao!!!
Oh and as for food, we were given this gigantic container of rations filled with bread+biscuits that was supposed to last our 4 days of breakfast & lunch. Then there'd be seperate maggi mee/canned food each night for dinner that we have to cook ourselves. So that's where Mama Linh comes in heheh, I swear she knows every single thing in the world. She'd own everyone at opening the cans, and she'd know what and how to cook the foods, and everything else idek. Throughout the camp whenever we had troubles or anything, Mama Linh knows the solution LOL! So yeah laisum & I started calling her Mama Linh hahaha!!
And of course I'm thankful for the awesome ppl who were there with me at the camp heheh. I wna say a huge thanks to Miley heh she'd always wait for me at the toilet and stuff, and yeah I think I hanged out a lot with her at the camp! :) & Sean of course! /waves HI aren't you touched ;) Thanks for idk, hanging around with me during the camp? Tbh I don't exactly know/rmb what you did oops, hahaha but srsly the camp would've been rlyyyy diff without you in the group, bff! (awwwww) Nat too, my awesome sonnnn and of course SIhui & Ramesh haha aiyah everyone was great lah, rly wna say thanks to everyone in Cook :')
Argh I don't think I can ever finish talking about the interesting/awesome parts of the camp hahaha I can't believe I actually want to go back and have obs all over again o.o!! I guess that marks the end of the fun and awesome retarded epic stuff we can do before all of us ~officially~ become j1s during jco this coming Thurs hmm. And this post has gotten way longer than I expected it to be oops. Need to get my hands on the pics/vids argh. Shall update once I get them hahaha :)
On another note......... I rly thought I'd gotten over it. Idk how to explain how good I felt at obs. Maybe I was too preoccupied with the awesome activities/worrying over the tents and insects etc that I didn't even stop for a second to think of you. But the moment I got back it seemed like I was back to square 1, srsly wailt I'm so fucking annoyed already, really. I guess I can only let time heal this wound. I really really really never thought you could hurt me this bad. I'm such a fool for believing you. I'm such a stupid fool for loving you.