Thursday, December 14, 2006 12/14/2006 12:07:00 AM
sweat! 2006
i'm home! anybody miss me? haahaa...- mon 11 dec - reported in nus @ 9am. had some ice-breaker games in LT26 before setting off for ecp, our initial campsite. long bus journey and it was hot, scorching hot. checked into our little humble tent at ecp. lunched and it's time for some games - romance of the 4 kingdoms. haahaa..what a name for the game. there were 4 different grps W-E-A-T and sci sports comm form the grp S, together we make up the word S-W-E-A-T. first war, paint war with water bombs, filled with colours that represents our respective grps. BLUE is us! yeah...nxt war, rafting to rescue our sage that is out there on an "island". this so-called island is just a cute boat that carries a team member and our job is to use our self-bulit raft to rescue that person. paddle, swim or whatever, we have to get out there to the seas on our own. boy, it's really tough and tiring man. exhausted frm all those kicking, paddling. but we had loads of fun playing in the water of course.everything was turning out fine until it started to rain! walked back to our campsite but heard a few tents collapsed and even those tents that didn't, our bags got wet too. some pple bags are soaked and 'drenched' too. what a spoilsport, we had to head back to nus for the night. sianz...back in sch, cleaned up and then it's time for some outdoor cooking. got partnered up with gary, if i didn't remembered his name wrongly. it has been so long since i did some outdoor cooking, the smell and feeling just reminded me of npcc times back in sec sch. but we didn't cook the maggi, had fried bee hoon instead, all thanks to another guy cos his aunt has a stall nearby sch and she had some leftovers. even had dessert too! yummy..went back to our assigned tut rm then had a really old way of bathing. having just a pail of water, i really don't know how to bathe lor...don't care, just had to use water wisely. the initial plan was to spend 2 nights at ecp and the first night activity was actually movie screening under the stars but the rain spoil our plan so ended up watching 'dodge ball' in LT25 instead. my grp didn't watch the show anyway, too tired and sleepy already. decided to go back to our rm and have an early night.first time sleeping in a tut rm. not that i didn't slp on the floor before, but the floor of the tut rm just feels too hard. and it was freezing too. wrapped up in the sleeping bag till i was almost hiding under the covers. haahaa...- tue 12 dec - started an early morning with lots of bread. think it's the first time i had so many pieces of bread for breakfast, ard 5 slices? haahaa...cos our first activity is high elements leh. need some strength and energy to take up those challenges.proceeded to ang mo kio ite for high elements activities. i experienced alot of first-times there. mr victor was damn funny when he heard what was my name, kept asking me for some increase in his pay. tried the flying fox, it was so cool! a little scary the moment i'm abt to jump off the platform but i know i'm secured with harness and everything so it wasn't that scary. not much kick at flying fox lar...the only thing that was exciting is the part where you zipped across the sky.then proceeded to alpha zone, where all the really challenging stuff starts. 1st checkpoint: dooer-danger. it's just some logs tied vertically up at different distances frm each other. the higher up you climb, the further the distance is between 2 logs. it was really challenging and it requires teamwork to climb up. my initial aim was only until the 4th log cos it was really difficult to climb up at each stage. but i was very happy! i made it all the way to the top, the 6th log! all thanks to ji bo, who helped me up all the way as we both challenge our extremes to go all the way up. i felt so bad, having to step on his white shorts as he helped me up by using his thigh as a stepping stone for me to go up. the view up there was quite nice too, i think i was abt 2.5 stories high? shld be, or maybe a little lower than that. a sense of satisfaction just overwhelmed me when i came down. yes!!2nd checkpoint: postman walk. had to climb up and walk across a tight wire with another wire to hold onto. this checkpoint wasn't much of a challenge. too easy and not scary too. haahaa...the only fun part was when i was being belayed down, the guy purposely released me down so fast, kinda scary. felt like i'm in some ride in those outdoor theme parks.as we were quite behind time, there wasn't much time for any more checkpoints. next stop, ecp for some windsurfing! the instructor, robert, make it sound so difficult and scary. having a feel of it, it was really difficult to learn how to windsurf. balancing on the slippery board on waves is really tough. i stood on it, tried to turn 2 rounds to try balancing but i only managed to turn 1 round then i fell off the board. haahaa...nxt, trying to lift the sail up. i stood quite ok on the board, slowly pulling the rope as i lift the sail. i managed to lift it then after a few seconds it was up, the sail fell and it fell towards me as i dropped into the water. and the heavy mast fell on my head, now i'm having a little bump on the side of my forehead. *ouch* choked a little then decided to take a rest. boy, what a difficult sport. but i had fun having to know that at least i had a feel of how it was like. heehee..then it rained again. after 2 days of getting caught in the rain plus hot weather in the mornings, i was feeling a little feverish.night came and it's time for bbq dinner and party time! first time i had bbq in sch and it's still fun though we were supposed to have it at ecp. maybe it has been very long since i had bbq, i actually enjoyed barbequeing the food for my grp. had games like dressing up the boys into ladies. haahaa..it was damn funny to see all of them having very huge assets..there was even chivas for everyone. cool! then phototaking session with everyone and the project director, baoyun. a cute girl who doesn't seem to be only in yr 1, based on the kind of experience and the way she thinks on her feet.after a very fun bbq dinner and some partying, bathing time at src. walked to src to shower cos i didn't want to go through the old bathing style again. it was free time for everyone and we decided to play some games before going for prata supper @ fong seng.first time walked all the way frm sci to fong seng, frm one end to the other end of nus! but it was breezy and fun walking with a large grp of 17 peepz. haahaa...then walked all the way back again after supper. back in our rm after supper, we didn't want to slp and continued playing games again. all the way till 5am then we all took a 2 hrs slp. =P- wed 13 dec -another round of bread for breakfast. i'll probably be afraid of bread for a few days after this camp. haahaa...then time for lucky draw. i wanted to win the usb light for laptops and the 'men are frm mars, women are frm venus' bk...but i just couldn't believe it when i was picked for the first prize! yes, the FIRST prize! i couldn't believe my luck too. hmmm... i won a hipholster sponsored by urban tool.even after we break camp, we still stayed on in sch for awhile just to continue playing the game that got us all so bonded, murder..haahaa...reached hm ard 1pm, washed some stinky wet clothing then i was so tired that i fell asleep even after reading a few lines of past day's newspapers. slept all the way till 830pm and now i'm still quite awake. how to slp again? haahaa..oh, i broke my records. i realised breakfast is the only meal i had for the whole of today. heehee...gonna need some rubbing for my forehead. the bump may be smaller but it's still painful even if i only move my eyebrows or frown. gonna ask mum to boil me an egg tmr to rub it...overall, sweat! 2006 has concluded and it was indeed fun. except for the rainy weather that prevented us frm enjoying the tent-staying. however, it was considered gd for a first-time event. could say it's quite successful. i was impressed by the way the sci sports comm pple worked. fast, efficient and they do look after our welfare well! *claps*
