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DA GAMA LOVE~
Date: Saturday, 13 June 2009 10:57 am

Mood: YAHOO *scratch* ITCHY D:
Music: Doubt & Trust by Access
Shout: BACK IN ONE PIECE FROM OBS! :D
"We were strangers, starting out on a journey."
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED (:


I'm back from OBS people! :D didn't update yesterday because i was really itchy and went to sleep and well, i had pizza hut for dinner :B and than i fell asleep again (o.o') gosh :O the past 5 days were wow (: really unexpected. going there, i thought i did the wrong move to actually go there :x *i kind of regretted at first* when we were at punggol jetty, we were split into different groups :O which mean that i have no jiayan in my group ): my group is combined with Chua Chu Kang Secondary (: group consist of: Hui Peng, Sheila, Victoria, Jie Qi, Me, Yu Xiang, Oscar, Yong Sin, Macalino, Felicia, Dephane, Wendy, Eunice, Jia Jie, Charmaine, Cher Yang! last but not least, our dear donkey imported from China *aka instructor*, Nicholas :D and all of us makes up DA GAMA! the time there was fulfilling and fun, really (: but there were times where i would happily give up :x *hides*


not much fun from the first day, but there were alot of whining :x because ants are EVERYWHERE! :x we bonded a little though (: we learnt how to belay each other :D it's the rock climbing stuffs (: where we are to bring our team mates down the damn'd wall and such xD there was: The Climber, The Belayer, The Anchor, The Assistant Belayer (: all those behind is to help the clilmber climb i think (o.o') *laughs* go check it out what a belayer is :B anyway, it's really fun :x sorry Oscar for hanging your up there for quite a long time :x he was screaming xP after belaying, we had our team building games (: Loop-the-Loop and Trustfore{?} :D Loop-the-Loop is the one where we must all hold hands and let the rope go one round (: we managed it at first, about 2 mins, the second time was only 1 min plus! :D go DA GAMA! the whole game was hilarious :x *laughs* after that, the trustfore is were all the team members will hold a mat and spread it out. and one of us will have to fall back from a step, into the mat :x "it's all about trusting your team mates." as Nicholas said (: it's real fun and real exciting! :D woo! after that we bonded just a little (: i'm glad :D than it was pitching the tent and out-door cooking :O hohos (: after that we bathe and LIGHTS OUT! :x or something like that (: the tent's mosquito netting was spoilt and it's like ... argh ): we had alot of mosquito bites just because of that D: ohh! my tent mates are : Hui Peng, Sheila, Jie Qi and Victoria (: man, they were a fun bunch :D


all of us crawled out of the tent at 5.30am the next day and un-pitch the tent and stuffs :O and also pack our things for later on, because we were changing our campsite to outside OBS Camp 2 :O *terrible* after that we changed to our wet attire, which consist of long sleeves and long pants :\ thankq TAY YU XIANG for borrowing me the long sleeves! :D I'll return it to you after holidays :B hohohs :x before that we had PT of course :O PT: Physical Training and some really idiot-but-fun-and-funny games :x okay, once in wet attire, we put on our life jacket, and went into the sea, to test the life jacket and than started to train for the next day's Sea Expedition :x we brought down our Tri-yak and than started to learn how to save ourselves in the event where we capsize when we're in deep sea, where we cant reach :x at first i was with Sheila and Hui Peng, but we didnt know how to Kayak, so ended up, me and Sheila was with Oscar and Hui Peng was with BAI YI TIAN SHI *aka Yu Xiang as he was wearing White Long sleeves tee* hahs :D I'm really scared of capsizing because, i dont know how to swim (-.-) and! i cant go up the Tri-yak without Sheila and Oscar's help :x SORRY AND THANKQ TO BOTH OF YOU! (: so we kayak'd for like some hours befor proceeding to our High Elements (: we didnt do Flying Fox though ): but we did rock climbing! :D Oscar and Victoria managed to reach the top! :O *clapsclapsclaps* Macalino and Yu Xiang was really close to the top :O *wait, or did bai yi tian shi got to the top :\* i wasnt even half way through (-.-) i didnt have the strenght :\ wahhh :x than after that it was last min. packing and we set off for our new camp site :O which is the OBS reservoir :\ terrible the whole night, i didnt sleep ): no space and alot of mosquitoes ):


3rd day was waking up at 4 plus, and they packed their stuffs while they let me sleep for one hour (: thankq! :D than changed back to our wet attire which is really wet at that time, and un-pitch tent again :O ate our breakfast while un-pitching our tents and carried our heavy backpack and hiked to OBS Camp 1 :O half-an-hour walk (-.-) reaching camp 1, we pull'd the tri-yaks to the sea and got ready what we needed for the Sea ex. (: which is our happy food and sun block and our 2 2liters OBS water bottle (-.-) this time, our triyak mates were the same, but Hui Peng was with Jie Qi and Victoria (: Bai Yi Tian Shi was with Daphane :O so we started to kayak :O we were to kayak to a mangrove and cut through the mangrove to the other side of Pulau Ubin and kayak back to camp1. so it was cross island-kayaking (-.-) thankq Oscar really really much because he kept kayaking :x and sorry to both Sheila and Oscar again, for screaming every time we collapse with another tri-yak and screaming when I thought we were going to capsize :x *bows* Thankq Sheila for feeding us constantly xD we had Oreo, and biscuits :x and when we were in the mangrove, we kept crashing into the mangroves (-.-) i got cut there D: and all of us lied down on each other's lap to escape th mangroves :x it's really funny :x I was lying on Sheila, Sheila on Oscar, Oscar on Tri-yak :x and there was one point where i tried to kayak and i cant because Oscar was pulling the other tri-yak out of the mangrove and only i paddled (o.o') no movement ): *head low* through out the mangrove, we only let one person kayak at a time because if three person kayak at one time, it's to fast :x but when we are going to have an emergency turn, all the three of us was paddling like mad :x it's either me or Sheila paddling and Oscar was in-charge of turning (: so in the end, we kayak'd for 8 hours straight :D congrats to us! :D Yu Xiang because a lobster after the trip xD his hands were red because he forgot to put sunblock on his hands (-.-) my ankle is now really black because my long pants wasnt long enough (o.o') lol. it's terrible :x my cheeks and forehead and sclape also kenna sunburn (-.-) than we cleaned our tri-yaks and bathed! :D and of course pitching up our tent :O and our dinner was catered for the first time at the cook house! :D man! i ate alot :x delicious :D and we had a cup of ice cold guava drink (: than we had our de-brief and went to sleep (:


woke up at 5.30 am again and well, un-pitch tent and stuffs and it was land ex. time ): we walked the whole of Pulau Ubin! :D from OBS campsite to our Sec 3 adventure camp campsite and back to OBS campsite again (o.o') check the Pulau Ubin Map if you want to know what i mean :x we tracked for a whole 9 hours with a bagpack that's about 5-10 kg on our back ): i have to say, Oscar, you are one strong guy :O his bag was the heaviest :O throughout the tracking, Jie Qi, Oscar, Victoria, Yu Xiang, Yong Sin, Hui Peng and Sheila was talking (: okay, mostly me and Jie Qi :x hahs (:and thankq all navigators yea! :D we wouldnt have made it through (: anyway, Sea Ex was better :D *laughs* after that at night, it rocks totally :D dinner was ... wow (o.o') kindda pissed, but it's actually delicious :x sorry for getting pissed :x Mac actually killed Jie Qi's first lunchon meat :x *laughs* and so, me, Jie Qi and Oscar started to scold Yu Xiang for not being a good body guard for the Lunchon Meat, and he being from NPCC and all :x and we started to suan each other's CCA (o.o') mostly NPCC suan-ing GG and GG suan-ing NPCC *aka me suan YX, YX suan me* it's damn hilarious :D and Yu Xiang and Mac were each other's constant entertainment :D they just have to see each other's face and they go ... "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" :D damn hilarious :D after that we have to climb 101 steps up to our campsite which is at the High Elements :O and all of us just went sugar high :D our tent were giggling away thoughout the night xD Hui Peng was doing the frog sound and all of us thought that it was really a frog xD and we were panicking :x damn funny :D and Jie Qi kept calling Murali Masuli xD damn funny :D i cant handle it xD and Da Gama was more bonded after dinner :D us being sugar high = blame it on the Tangs


the next day, all of us only woke up at 6am, and we were all late (o.o') terrible i tell you :x anyway, after that de-brief and stuffs (: we got certificates and photos! :D and we actually lost our entrentching tools (o.o') the one here we are to dig a hole to shit in the wild (o.o') and according to Nicholas, we are the first watch to lose it! :D *laughs* anyway, we had our trust dive later on (: i cant reach the bell though (T-T) than it was the ending speech and HOME SWEET HOME! :D i bought a white dri-fit polo tee and a black dri-fit polo tee :D and daddy came and bring me home! :D


anyway, i slept for like so long (-.-) ohh! I MISS DA GAMA AND NICHOLAS! ): I MISS THEM~

JESLYNN.