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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Jerald. Just in case you don't know, I still have more than 50 posts more than you do. xD Even though I post so little nowadays. Muahahahhaa. Okay, stop. Lol.

Anyways. Haven't posted since Sunday. My longest ever, I think. So many things happened since I last posted lah. But I won't have time to write about every single thing that happened the past few weeks. Or rather, I don't have that much memory space in my puny brain. Anyways. ATC. I kind of miss ATC now? D: I can't believe I said that, LOL. Seriously. I kept saying that I hated ATC like shit, but in the end I thought it was quite okay. I wouldn't mind living there, of course without the PT. Haha. And the walking from our campsite to the jetty -.- That was a total waste of time. Anyways. ATC.

On friday, went to school with big ~~bag~~bags. Late again -.- Then put my big bags into NP room, and went on our way to errr. The Johor Battery. Apparently some guy from Malaysia that side gave them 500,000 pounds to build some giant guns. So much money for nothing. Lols. I don't think they were useful anyway. Oh yeah. Our tour guides were like .... errr. The guy was so damn professional. But I don't think he knew what he was talking about sometimes. Then the woman, very weird. Lols. But I so would have preferred her. Took a class photo at the fake gun. Probably our last one already. Then after that bus-ed to Changi Museum. I think I went there before, as I have told Jerald. Anyways. The guy was bringing us into the place and telling us about the WW2 stuff. And the guy was like, not very clear in what he was saying? But the pictures and excerpts were so interesting. And it was so sad how so many people died. Ahhh. This is boring. Fast forward to Changi Jetty! Lols.

Hmm. First day. Took the bumboat to Ubin. Then walked alllllllll the way to the campsite. First time we walked that path, damn long and boring. The only thing good was that I wasn't that tired, since I like walking -.- And there was this cute white dog that kept following us there. It practically went the whole way with us and into the campsite. The only sad thing was that it had to be chased away by the guard. Sad. Anyways. Reached the place. And waited damn long for other schools to come in. ACS (both land and sea), RV, Clementi Town, New Town, Clementi Woods, Tanglin. I think that's all the schools. Besides NanHua. I think. Anyways. Found out that the place we were in was for the Sec 3s. So we had to walk allll the way to another campsite. Okay, I'm exaggerating a little. But it really was kind of far. Who knew Pulau Ubin was that big O.O I think our campsite's name was Baru? Aiya I forgot. I only know the Sec 3s one was Noordin. The nicer, more advanced and newer one.

Reached our campsite, and put down our bags. Some sir asked for four volunteers from NanHua and me, YangYee, ChangJing and Jerald were right in front so we went. Then we ran all the way there just to get one person -.- Sir JiaHao. It was a waste of energy but found out that we went there to get our dinner. Then walked back to our campsite again and had flag raising ceremony. So quiet. And ZhiYun was the one raising the Singapore Flag. Lols. I think so. That's what YangYee said. Anyways. After that, briefing on rules and regulations. Then moved on to pitch our tents. All I can say is that our tent was a failure. But I was so proud of the people I pitched the tent together with. Seriously. There were six of us. Three of them didn't go for the extra lesson on tent pitching. And in the end, our tent was still pitched up. Even with so much difficulties. After that, we totally overshot our schedule with the tent pitching. Then got separated into groups. Our group name: Baris. 17 people, 3 girls, 14 guys. Let's see if I can remember all of them. Girls: Hazel (NH), Zoe (so coincidental that I same group with her and she only realised I'm daniel on the second day -.- Zoe are you reading this! Lols. NewTown) and Teng Yee (Clementi Town). The guys names ah, 13 of them how to remember. Shall try. Joven (NH), Kok Siong (same as Games Day leh. Tanglin), Jia Ying (Tanglin), Eman (Clementi Town), Bala (Clementi Woods), the rest of them I can't remember schools, only names. Jun Wei, Jonathan, Sanjay, Hmmmm. I think that's all I remember. Ah crap. Wait. I shall go try and find out. Ah shit. Hazel didn't update and Zoe's blog is errr. So I don't know. Ah shit. Oh I know! MING YANG. Hmm. Another one was Jie Shu? Oh this guy is the one whose name I never got. 3 more guys. Okay I give up. Lols. No one more. MARK! Lols. Aiya I'll just move on. If I remember halfway then just say. Haha. Lots of ACS peeps.

Our CI's name I never got too. -.- From RV. Anyways. Played Whacko. Not really confusing. All you had to do was read out random names when your name was called. As long as it wasn't the person who called you or the person whacking. Bala was the only one who kept losing so he had to run to this tree and kiss, hug and shout something to it. It was funny for awhile until the novelty wore off and I just listed him off as attention seeker. =x I know I'm bad. But Joven was as bored as I was, so. After that was dinner? I SHALL TELL YOU ABOUT PULAU UBIN INSECTS. The insects there are like so evolved and 'advanced-looking'. Even ants are not so simple and their bites pack a punch. There were insects crawling and flying around that you probably wouldn't see in your entire life. Seriously. Who knew the Insect Kingdom was that big. Anyways. The food was cold already but I was hungry so no choice. And then we got a taste of Ubin water. Desalinated, actually. Either the mini desalination plant there was total shit or desalinated water just tastes like shit. The first time I drank it, I just felt it was okay, just a little thinker. Then after you swallow it, this whole salty plus other sediments taste comes and hit you. It just totally sucks. Urgh. But cannot complain. The main theme of this whole camp was to have 'EXPERIENCE'. I guess that was what the CIs meant. Lols.

Then. We could go to sleep already I think. Quite early. Just that we had sentry duty afterwards. And my tent was the last one in -.- So other than climbing up all the rocky slopes, we still had to walk all the way in. Sians. At least same tent as one NanHuarian, Joven. Then went back to tents. Didn't really sleep, since there was one huge rock right below me. And whatever position I slept in the space I had, the rock would still be there -.- So I kept sitting up. And I was so damn bored, you know what I did? I took out my shoelaces and put them back on. Yes, I was that bored. And I couldn't read my book since everyone in my tent was sleeping already. But other tents were noisy. Damn noisy. Went out to do sentry duty earlier than expected. Oh duh cause I was in Group 2. All we did was walk around flashing our torchlights around. Really boring. It was a waste of our time! Even more boring than staying in the tent. Anyways. The time we finished was the time that we were allocated to start sentry duty! Lols. After that went back to tent. Only slept for a little while. The surprising thing was that I didn't have a single moquito bite on me. Only other insects -.- And me and Joven were getting irritated by somebody in our tent, Lols. Shan't say his name.

Then. Second day. PT. I this kind of lazy person also can find the PT slack, that means is really slack. And no circuit run. Lols. But when do pumping, the rocks were like damn pain on your hand, then your shirt will get damn dirty when doing crunches. Sians. Breakfast next. First time witnessing field cooking. So I didn't know how to cook anything, so all I ate was an energy bar. And I wasn't hungry anyways, so not much of a difference. After that, our first activity for the day was High Ropes Elements and other stuff. I refused to do the rock climbing. Lols. I just realised my fear of heights can be really bad. Aiya. Heck. As long as don't have to do can already. To hell with 'experience'. Anyways. Then there was this cannon thing. Once again, me and Joven got irritated by the same person. Cause he was doing everything and then some other sir was asking the two of us why we were not doing anything. WTH. Nevermind. I won't complain. After that was the maze. The maze was nice! Even though the floor was wet and who knew what things breed there. But it was damn nice. And you seriously couldn't see anything at all. Nothing! Just feel around. And it was real cool since that place was used by the British during World War 2. Damn cool. The only sad thing was that we never met the two ah peks. D: Sad. >.< thing =".=">

After that, went for lunch. Cook again. This time I forgot what I ate. Maybe a few pineapples? Plus biscuits. Lols. Then. Went for our next activity. Orienteering. Boredom. Complete and utter boredom. One good thing came out of it though, we kind of learned how to read a map. Actually, we already learnt it in Geog. But we learnt more about how to use a compass together with a map. Anyways. We walked to Noordin Beach first. There were no activities for us to play at the stations so it was practically walking around. The next one we had to go to the sensory trail. Our CI told us about this 'short cut' to the sensory trail. Personally, I don't think it was much of a short cut. Cause when we walked back, I realised that the normal way was somewhat the same, and the road was less rockier. And the dogs at Pulau Ubin are so poor thing lah, like all so sick like that. Really sad. Oh I learned one more thing. How to find your way when you are lost. Just look at the way Coconut Trees point to. They will point towards the sea, cause they need to disperse their seeds into the sea. Lols. My group CI told us that. Haha.

Then walked back to campsite from jetty again. Sian until don't know what level. Then the CI was making us play this 'game', where the last two people walking had to run to the front everytime he blew his whistle. So damn sian. Then learned this thing called the Hornet Drill, used when you are attacked by Hornets, LOLs. Then he made us do that on the road, to block this other group from walking. Then ran back to campsite. After that, kayaking. Put on the bouyancy vests or whatever they're called, and went to the beach. Learnt about the kayaks and blah3. I wasn't listening, so I didn't know what the different parts were called. Haha. Then learnt how to kayak. How to use the oar. Then paired up with YangLe. And so we went out, and we were really coordinated. But the only problem was, whenever we kayaked left and right, we would go in a circle. -.- Then when we tried to turn back the same direction, like if you want to turn right, you have to kayak on your left, but when we kayaked on our left, we just kept going left. So by some point of time I wanted to give up already. Ah so sian already. And we were supposed to gather at some point, and me and YangLe were like going around in circles. Lols. And when we finally reached the point, they asked us to kayak to the front, and me and YangLe were just going in circles again. The only good thing was that the circles weren't at the same place. Which meant that we were moving forward, but in a circular motion. Lols. So by the time we had to get back, we were still moving forward slowly and then we had to be towed back by the speedboat. Lawl.

After going back, we had to clean up all the kayaks and vests and oars. We are the unluckiest group of people lah. We are the last ones to kayak, so we had to clean up everything. And the instructors were like scolding us when they saw that the kayaks that were put back on the 'shelves' were sitll dirty. It's not our fault lah. We're not the ones cleaning. The instructors are the ones cleaning. -.- They scold without reason. Anyways. After wasting energy carrying all the bloody kayaks for them to clean, we finally got to fall in. Then on our way back to our tents, some CI called us back. Apparently, somebody cut the flagpoles. I didn't even see anyone doing that, but the CI claims that, so we owed 20 for the next day's PT. Anyways. Sweet sweet bath time. Lols. We finally get to bathe! Even if it was for awhile. Ah wells. The toilet was crammed when I got in. Then quickly bathe and changed. Since we only have awhile. And I couldn't wash my sandy shoes in the sink cause the CI came in and scolded. Urgh. So changed shoes and then went back to tent. Kept everything and went down for dinner. Ate more this time. I ate pineapples, tuna and curry chicken. A little of everything. Lol.

Eat finish, went to have campfire in the Noordin campsite. Had to walk all the way there. Bloody hell. Then the campfire, was errrr. I shan't comment. And then the Sec 3s performances .... I shan't comment on that either. Anyways. The fire sucked. But since it was so weak, it gave me a chance to sleep. Lols. I can't believe I actually dozed off there. Seriously. Then then. Went back to our own campsite. After that could go to sleep all the way since it wasn't our sentry duty anymore. And halfway I woke up to find somebody's leg on my neck. Joven was saying that he saw it too. Wahlao. Since that somebody's hand was on Joven. Ahh but I shall not talk about him. Even if he was an extremely arrogant person the whole camp. Oh and. Throughout the whole camp me and Joven were talking about going home, Lol. And how we could kayak back to Singapore. But the island beside us was Pulau Tekong, so if we kayaked there it wouldn't have been much good. Haha.

Okay, then. Third day. Woke up and packed bags. Brought our bags down and had PT. Taken by Sir Chee Hoe. We did 75 sets of 8 counts of jumping jacks -.- 8 counts is one jumping jack now then I know. Then the rest is normal stuff. After that, area cleaning. Group 1-5 was supposed to clean up the tent sheets and all. So unpitch tents, brought the tent sheets down and then cleaned them with our rags. I hate the ground sheets. So damn dirty. The inner and outer sheets were so much nicer. Lols. Anyways. Then. Finished cleaning already, the five groups gathered at some hut thingy. Then the CI made us play this game where one person would run in front everytime he blew his whistle, then lie down. Then the next person who runs has to jump over the first person, making sure not to step on him/her. The punishment was five rounds around the field if you stepped on somebody. Lols. Nobody stepped lah duh. Kind of lame. But no choice, had to play. And it was such a long line, we had to keep jumping around forever. Sians. Okay then when we were going back, somebody cut the flagpoles again. WTH *@#(#*!@* Thankfully the CI didn't care. Yay thank you CI. I think he's from New Town.

Then after that finish everything. And we had to bring back some rations. Gawd. It's not enough that we eat the same food every meal. Then the CIs were being really lame and asking us whether we liked them or ATC. And blah blah blah, lame things happened. Then walked to Noordin camp. Amanda won best female camper for Sec3. Fizah for Sec2. And Eman from my group for best male camper for Sec2. YangYee was still thinking that the guy in his group should win. Lol. Anyways. Walked back to jetty. then took the bumperboat back to Changi. And bus-ed back to school. Went to central. Bought oreo crush. I was so damn elated when I tasted the oreo crush. It felt like I was back in civilisation! Lol. Then took a cab back home. Haha. Cause I was so lazy to take a bus home. Then when I reached home, I realised I didn't have the key, and nobody was at home -.- So I went to borrow my neighbour's phone and called my mum. Turns out she put the key in the flowerpot on the corridor -.- WTH. Like that also can. So went back home. And then after I bathed, I realised I was craving pineapples. Haha. Those canned pineapples from our rations. Then I found out that I didn't have my ration pack! That means I accidentally put my rations in another person's bag. OMG so sorry to that person. ROFL. Seriously I didn't know.

Anyways. THat's ATC. AHHH. I finally posted. Oh oh this whole week was like bowling week for me. Monday, ponned school. Tuesday, played three games. Wednesday, five games. Thursday, three games. Friday, another three games. And these three games all above 150. OMG like, the first time for me. Anyways. Plus I played three more games with my sister on oen of those nights. So altogether I played 17 games. God. My money was ripped away from me. But I don't regret it. It's good therapy! Haha. Okay, that's all. Didn't do anything much today. And must remember to go hand in appeal form tomorrow. Sians. So I'm going to wear half school uniform then change to go to library. Lols. Okay bye bye!

daNIel

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