haha. i said i would blog before i left. so here it is! im keeping my fingers really crossed that i'll somehow manage to find internet connection there. i rather that than handphone reception. coz then at least i wouldnt have to call home xD
soo. lets see what happened during the camp.
DAY 1
reported at ri at 7am (i think). haha mr chan made us pack so much stuff that we could barely fit all our clothes in our bag lah! (yeah, we are a bunch of idiots hiking in singapore with WINTER clothing in our bag.) haha. should have brought a camera to take the different contorted shapes of the bags xD after a hell lot of stuffing and cramming and squishing (we squished a whole loaf of bread to like 7cm thickness and stuffed it into our bags. SUPER SICK. haha.), we managed to fit in all the rations into our bag and then we set off!
first stop was shines adventure centre at kallang. yes. that means we hiked from RI to kallang with PACKS. mine was something like 15.6 kg. thats like 3/8 of my weight. imagine the weight the guys were carrying. oohh.. scary lah.
did rock climbing, abseiling and more high elements at the outdoor place. seriously. the rj one was like 10 000x scarier. after you do the high ropes at rj, the others are really like no kick lah >< just walk only. and and! once you get the hang of abseiling, its actually pretty fun! esp when you go super fast! like just zoom down the whole wall xD the instructor that was doing back-up belay for joel nearly got rope burn coz joel went down like super fast xD
after that, we walked BACK PAST RI, and all the way to sembawang water venture. by the time we reached, it was like 10pm >< super dark and super ulu place >< dinner was rice, jap seaweed, curry chicken and miso soup. AWESOMENESS. haha. we only finished eating at around 11 though. and most (haha actually just gracia and francis) people were sunburnt!
we climbed over the fence to get to a nearby toilet to wash our cutlery and pots. then we all promptly proceeded to crash in our tents.
francis' half dug shit-hole was never used xD
DAY 2
we somehow managed to lose the flour in the middle of all the cramming the day before, so we had boiled apples and instant cereal for breakfast!
haha the boiled apples were SUPER NICE, and the instant cereal was well... instant cereal.
first time in a single-person kayak! the instructor gave us bandits- which are supposedly the hardest to control and most disgusting kayaks around. yupp. that just about fits the description. for the first 30min or an hour, most of us were just going around in circles and turning at places we didnt want to turn. in short, we went in all directions but where we wanted to go xD
after lunch we started on our mini expeditions. after we all kayaked a certain distance from the start point, we had to pair up and tow someone. haha so someone takes this belt thingo with a long rope and straps it on, then ties the rope onto the other person's kayak. so we did this in like guy-girl kinda thing.
lucky me. i got bryan >< tall and super strong. hahaha i had a great time being towed. then once we reached the end of the route, the instructor told us to switch over. so i had to tow bryan. who is 1.5 times my weight (or more). oh, did i mention we had to TOW THE GUYS ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE STARTING LINE? WTH. haha. i swear, we were moving at a rate of 1cm/min. haha. the instructor semi-gave up on us halfway and just told us to kayak back to shore when he saw that the girls really COULDNT tow the guys xD
once we reached the start, we still had to carry the kayaks out of the water. by ourselves. so i got this huge bruise on my hip from an 18kg kayak resting there ><
after washing up and everything, we left at around 6pm? and mr chan said he wanted us to reach changi village by 10pm. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. initially he wanted us to walk there. FUNNY. in the end we took the mrt, then we walked to the campsite, and we reached there at 10pm. HAHA WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF WE DIDNT TAKE MRT MAN.
oh oh, and in the mrt (circle line) we managed to get an empty train, so we camped at the end of the train. haha with our big huge hiking bags, it really did look like some refugee corner xD quite funny.
when we reached the campsite we all just died man. all the random aches. dinner was spaghetti and minestrone soup. quite good. especially when you're starving ><
haha a cat ran in and out of the guy's tent. TWICE xD
DAY THREE
packed up the campsite and had a SUPER LONG DEBRIEF by teachers after breakfast. yupp.
went over to ubin to bike abit. AND JUST AS I WAS SO PROUD OF MYSELF FOR NOT FALLING OFF THE BIKE, I FELL.
okay, it wasnt a really drastic fall. just got scratched by the bike pedal. i swear i see my blood every biking trip. grah.
AND A WARNING TO ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BIKE AT UBIN. THE PLACE CALLED 'EASY RIDGE' IS PLAIN BULLSHIT. someone needs to educate the people about the meaning of easy ><
it started raining so we couldnt bike all the way to chek jawa.
BUT, we stopped to have lunch! courtesy of mr raymond chan! haha after 3 days of camp food, cooked food is really super awesome.
went home sunburnt and just died on the bed.
haha. im just glad im not sunburnt to the point where i have different coloured skin after i peel xD (sorry gracia, sorry francis xD)