24.11.06
OBS camp 20/11/06 to 24/11/06
Raffles Watch
Eugene, Sebistian, Zakir, Juameen, Mazlan, Amirah, Amriah, Nina, Bernice, Yong Xiang, Yingshan, ZhouDao, YingDuan, HoweLiang, Hwee hong
Instructor Sobirin, Hiap Iun and Daniel
Day 1
Was soo excited about the OBS camp.. curious, had high expectations of the camp..fell down twice at the jetty… Samuel, one of the instructor crap a lame joke with me " U saw that boat, big lift, it is travelling at a speed of 200km/hr and it was have it arms up to catch to" I was giving face so I laughed and I said " I caught no balls lar" gather at MPH..did self intro.. had to share something about ourselves.. the girls are GGR and the Boys are BBR… lol.. did some funny movements with hiap Iun, the miss clap the ankle shake.. went to have food rations… so many food.. HL was soo low lar.. I shouted to him" why are you soo dao? Act cool ah?" he suddenly become very hyper.. and show us all the food he had.. did the rope thingy game which we can't let go of the hand in block 7.. so fun.. learnt teamwork.. did trust fall.. zao geng.. show my butt to ppl.. haha.. instructors did.. so fun.. instructors are soo playing lar… belaying until half way.. den CAT 1.. seek shelter.. and Eugene played with matchsticks.. hl thought that the toilet caught fire.. he went to check… pitch tents when raining.. cook indoor.. bath and sleep in the canteen cos the tents were too wet.. the night was soo cool and we were shivering.. i was sleeping in between shan and amirah
Day 2
Woke up at 5 plus cos the boys were making a lot of noise… went to belay and did flying fox.. xinrui yingshan and I came together and kiss one another for fun.. I am soo crazy with HL… he's soo handsome.. did the rope man.. belayer and went up to play.. haha.. hl looked soo sian lar.. shouted all the way down.. so fun can??? we had to design our own flag.. we were writting the word "RAFFLES" suddenly, hiap lun came from the back and said, " hey guys, u spelt it wrongly!" we were like, OMG!! wat is the correct spelling then?? and he said " CAUGHT U!!" so funny at tt time...hiap lun told us a story.. the state animal of thailand elephants were tammed when they were small, their necks were tied to a strong tree or metal pole or some foundation strong.. they will struggle of cos, but in vain.. they get soo tired and hurt and pain, they begun not to struggle.. cos their thought constrict them.. they will think that it is soo painful and then dun struggle.. so whenever u go shopping in thailand, u will always see elephant, big elephants tied to a small tree, but they dun run away, cos their thoughts constrict them.. moral of the story... nvr let our thoughts constrict us in doing things... i rmb during flying fox, when yingshan xinrui and i were the rope man.. we do the hip hop action to hiap iun.. hiap lun yo back to us.. we got soo excited and we shouted " hiap lun, wo ai ni!!" haha.. memories
Den did kayaking… did capsize drills. In shallow waters.. hl was in charge of me and yong xiang.. he shook the kayak and den we just fall and I could not feel the dew line and I put the paddle on the kayak and I hit his face.. " DUN HIT MY FACE LAR!!" he was shouting in a funny way..lol.. he is not disfigured… HL demo the deepwater capsize drills.. Hl was soo monotone.. I can demo for u "help help help help help!!"kayak to the next campsite..reached there around 6 plus.. den pitch tents, powder bath.. felt like giving up.. makan.. went to the toilet, could not find the hole in the forest.. had to let the guys to led the way.. hahaha.. den gather in a circle.. saw one guy standing up and hunch back.. I shouted “ must be Samuel, cos he hunch back!" den I shone my torch on him and he looked at me with his famous trademark smile… I kena electrocuted.. januver helped me powder bath before sleeping!!
Day 3
Woke up at 6 plus… unpitch tents and eat breakfast…went to practice the deep water capsize.. FUN FUN FUN!!! Pee in the water,. Chatted with HL.. den HL announced that the opted to drop out of the course due to some reasons that I am not going to mention here.. den said something very touching.. I cried.. I should be the one comforting him and ended up he comforting me "wei shen me ni ku, bu yao ku le lar!"sorri HL.. Daniel went to replace him.. Daniel is the manager..he came cos lack of manpower.. he's so strict with us.. no smile..soo dao.. den we did the cross island exp.. from the south to the north.. of ubin.. my kayak was soo full of water sia!!! i keep asking yongxiang to take off his shoe so tt i can scoop the water out!! so fun!!! eat orange and lunch on the boat... lost our way again and again and again.. low tide.. CAT 1.. lost half the group, Daniel scolding.. angry with myself… then had to pull our kayak in the swamp, legs keep on stucking in the mud.. gotta pull out.. zakir pull me up the first slope.. I stuck halfway and he also stuck.. den saddam pull me up and lie on me.. " JIA YI JIA YI JIAYI JIAYI!!" he keep shouting.. den Samuel also tau pok me.. den he was laughing.. pair with Janice.. pull the kayak about 100 to 200 m in the mud.. keep stuck in the mud, soo xin ku… den I helped to move the kayak up the slope.. I keep sinking the kayak keep sliding on my stomach and legs.. so pain…lost both my footwear.. went up.. carry kayak all the way on a stone pavement without footwear,it get so painful and i couldn't take it, i just cry.. xinrui cried with me.. third time crying together!! Samuel kena sting by some unknown creature..they suspect is catfish.. I wanted to give up.. thx peeps for encouraging me.. thx peeps for wanting to pass me ur footwear though I dun wan to wear.. itchy from the mud spa.. 7 plus.. still stuck and lost.. thx yongjie and gang for talking soo much.. I nvr talk but it cheer me up..resuce boat came and had to go down a slope.. den someone push me from the back, I fall onto a mangrove and my whole body weight was on that feet.. no time to cry pain or wat, I gotta carry on.. reached the campsite.. st Theresa girls were nice ppls.. they cook for us and offered us water to clean ourselves up… they keep asking us wat happened.. den SKY girls face the sea near the forest.. we lined up one row and change everything.. underwear blah blah.. powder bath… eat makan, pitch tents.. tent collapse in the middle of the night.. Bernice keep touching my face and " Jia Yi Jia Yi Jia Yi the tent falling!!" I woke yingshan up and she settle everything.. btw. i asked the instructors if we were the first one to experience such things and they said yes.. it was a nightmare okay!!! smauel, zul and saddam were sent to the medical centre..
Day4
Eat campbella mushroom soup for breakfast… so tasty..zul came back from the medical centre... he was scolded by alot of ppl.. in medical centre, they have free pants, free shirt, mee goreng to makan, bath..but if i can choose, i would not go medical centre, i would rather spend the time with my friends!!! experiencing once in a life time experience!!did de-briefing with Daniel.. he said some vugularites… his words impact me a lot lar.. I quite like him.. den trek till the quarry.. built a raft within 1 hr.. actually we buy time one lar.. we closed the door so the instructor will take more time.. but we were the onli grp which managed to build a raft.. the barrel topple and the raft almost sink..we were joking that it meant to be like that.. but daniel asked " did you guys failed techinally though it managed to float?" Daniel told us the story on ubin.. it was named aft the stones..and the quarry was 30 m deep ..we can see a straight line on the walls of the rock.. this is cos the people drill the rock so they placed explosive in the rocks and blow them up.. we swim back to the quarry and wash our hair too… I was in front and the ppl at the back push too fast.. my head keep on knocking towards the raft.. changed in the forest.. trek to the campsite.. soo fun… lost our way but we achieved our goal..reach the campsite by 6pm… I apply insect repellent.. but mosquitoes keep biting me… Daniel asked me if I know why or not.. I said " I am too sweet.. the mosquitoes are attracted to me and I am too attractive!!" this is the first time I saw Daniel smile.. he actually laughed at me.. den we keep encouraging one another by saying " hurry up, the market will close at 6.. the fish will die and the chicken will lay their eggs by 6pm.. den we sing as we walk to the left as we walk to the right, suddenly Daniel come up of nowhere and I suddenly “ Oh Ho… shit!!!"I diam all the way..lols..livingstone welcomed us and they keep saying I slim down liao..lol…when we were cooking, yingshan tau pok me sia.. and hit me right in my butt with yong xiang!! pitch tents and makan clear the store at night.. we wash our clothes outside the boys toilet.. ha… den we wash underwear and hang them..mazlan show us his underwear and he said he like bright colours cos it is sexy….We got couple in the camp.. hwee hong and mazlan.. haha.. love is in the air.. went for medical care, cos my feet was soo pain that I could not walk.. L help me.. but den Daniel just looked at me and diao me.. he did not even care about me or say anything.. he is still that dao.. sam walked past and i asked him how is his foot, he said, a fat man was lying ambush in the mud. it bit me and after that it bit you.. it passed all his toxin to me and to you..i am turning into a fatman soon...played in the tent with Bernice nina and shan.. so fun!!! Bernice was soo hungry and she keep wanting to eat food.. den eat orange.. I was lying down, facing zakir tent.. suddenly I saw a shadow approaching our tents.. den I pointed towards the small window.. zakir was there, nina and Bernice turned and screamed..!!! so cute lar.. den play play talk gossip about our group.. asyraf they all wanted to prank ppl.. chio us along and we wanted.. den got other group de people keep having cock talk, saying wat their cock can shoot like a machine gun.. den we shouted shut up lar.. got cock big deal ah? And cockles guy shut up lar.. Bernice shouted instructors came and everyone ran back to their tent… den instructors really came and they shut us up.first it was samuel followed by daniel, one said, "ladies, you have been talking for the past 10 min!!"they stand near eugene tent... den we overheard what they said.. there are wild boars at the forest.. den we were like soo damn scared lar.. and we seriously did hear the wild boars, we swear.. and we just fall asleep so we did not prank anyone though they really did…people got toothpaste and oil on them!!!
Day 5
Woke up at 6, no breakfast cos gotta pack the store clear up everything.. we were the earliest watch to pack everything.. so we did the jetty jump.. we said our commitment and ponder for a while..MY COMMITMENT IS TO NOT TO BE SOO SELF CENTRED!!! I was standing beside Daniel.. and I said, wa.. I want to shit now lar.. den Daniel looked at me and said.. "wat? U wan to wat??"Den I opps, nothing nothing.. hahaha.when it was my turn.. I walk behind him and do the action at my butt that something is gonna something is gonna come out.. he looked at me and laughed.. but I wanted to shit tt time lar.. 5days nvr shit lei… I jumped down.. and it was fun… mazlan said spread the love before he jumped.. we said spread to hwee hong lar.. lolls had fun!!! Daniel dun wan to jump…so wet blanket lar..did wash up.. bathed together with yingduan and yingshan.. we were playing with each other and looking at each other while naked.. did de-brief at block 7.. i cried.. daniel said, it is okay to let your emotions to flow, it is not good to hide you emotions.. everyone has two sided face.. it is just that if we had realized it or not.. don't supress you emotions...lols..did the reflections form.. comment for instructor.. i wrote" daniel, pls smile more!! you look nice with you smile!! " i patted him and show him and he read and laughed!!!.packed up.. no more shirts left to be sold.. not enough stock.. left for ponggol jetty..
i am holding on to my tears in band... i cried in front of ms neo and in my home toliet...
with much willingness, there is less diffcuilty
No man is an island
To serve, to strive and not to yield
a true leader is someone who is able to follow others...
it's determination that bring us on
As long as we have goal at the back of our mind, we will success
We cannot be too egoistic...
i miss u guys, u guys made a great impact on me... thx samuel, daniel, hiap iuh, and sobirin..
thx peeps, rmb our forfeit and trademark.. that action and the LAUGH LAUGH LAUGH!!
I wan to have a reunion pls can? with raffles and the 3 instructors.. any kind souls who have their e-mails, pls tell me...
well, OBS camp is now over, memories are meant to be kept, carry on with life, keep the OBS spirt on
tears welling up in my eyes... i am not ready to carry on.. things look sooo strange to me
thx raffles, for making my days brighter in the camp!!
thx shan, w/o you, i have no tent to sleep in, no one to accompany me to the outdoor toliet, no one to cheer me up..no one to joke with!!
thx nina, w/o u, no good food, no more funny funny jokes, no more enthu
thx bernice, another ms cook and the tai zi fei, you bought happiness and laughter not onli to me, but to the whole grp!!! forget about the attitude thingy on the second morning
thx yongxiang, i am grateful to partner with you during the kayaking.. it's fun with you, with the salty orange.. u are such a gentleman, u dun allow me to get down the kayak when we were stuck!!!
thx yingduan, it's nice being with you... all fun we had, those haywire thingy!!!!and always taking care of hwee hong
thx hwee hong, for adding laughter to us with mazlan ur spouse... ur trademark which bring a smile to everyone in the grp
thx zhoudao, for crapping those nonsense during the camp..i believe it is realli crap which bring joy to us
thx the two amirahs!!! the water had "zhoudao"!! so cute with u guys, the atmosphere had lighten up with u guys.. had fun and joy washing underwear with u guys
thx mazlan!!for telling us jokes and being soo femaine.. couple with hwee hong ah!! spread the love!!!
thx jumaeen, without you, raffles may be odd, yea, damn odd!!!
thx eugene, for the isotonic drink u made... it's nice!!!
thx Sebistian, u are hardworking, u helped to wash things, carry pots and continue to trek though u are tired w/o complaints
thx HoweLiang, for ur mubbles.. and the lame jokes u bring!!
thx Zakir, for helping to tighten the ropes and thus u ended up with rope burn!! nice guy to be with!!!
thx hiap lun, leaving halfway through the camp is not a choice, i noe it's hard on u too!! though time spent with you is not much, but i definitely learnt alot from u and thx for bringing laughter and enabling us to know u better
thx sobirin, a trainer for obs... always not on time ah!! ur commitment for jetty jump is to be punctal!!! u are friendly!!! funny!!! nice to be with at all times!! i salute u when u pull the kayak with samuel on it when he was injured though i believe everyone would do tt if friends were in trouble
thx daniel, i admire u for being able to control ur emotions throughout the camp though u did smile and laugh.. but could u pls say something encouraging to us and be more le guan??? i like ur professionalism!!! u are indeed got the qualities to be a manager!!! smile more pls
raffles, obs, instructors would be a memories for me
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