OBS.

This probably be my last post for awhile after awhile, till i get around to changing skins or something.

OBS was fun. o_O Really contrary to what I thought it'd be like. I spent a substantial amount of time that week before dreading it and well... It never lived up to my expectations. =P

OBS didn't start very smoothly for me. I felt really down and depressed was right after the failed kayaking attempt on the first day. At that point I damn pissed with everything in general. Was wondering how the hell to survive the next 5 days. I mean... The very first activity flopped. And spectacularly at that. With all the mud and glass and cuts adding to its grandeur. I hated capsizing to begin with. I mean I got that bloody kayaking star liao still need to capsize for wadd. Then the stupid tide had to recede all the way to reveal and quicksand-like marine clay with glass shards embedded everywhere. The best and most mood uplifting thing I did then was to wash in the drainwater. Drainwater.

Dinner that day didn't help at all. Thinking and worrying ahead too much, we decided to cook a meagre meal. Uncooked rice with curry and anchovie sauce. Mmmm.

Everyone, I guess, was pretty pissed and sluggish all the way till the 2nd morning. So much so that even with an extra 1hr, we still were late for the Zipwire activity. And omg the zipwire... I dunno what possessed me to go third for it. In fact, I probably only went so easily coz I didn't have time to think about it. The first few seconds of acceleration was damn scary. Butterflies in stomach. Brr. Other than that the rest quite sian.

That marked the beginning of the amazing uplifting mood Armstrong had for the rest of the camp. In the land expedition that followed, wherein I the navig almost took a nasty turn (and would have if not for the fortunate meeting with Tensing), we didn't get lost. xD After avoiding the earlier blunder everything else was easy lar, cept that the Tensing ppl kept doubting my navigation. Walk 50m den stop and question. Kao. But navigating in Ubin is easy lar. If you can navig by principles like "Turn left when you can turn left", "Keep heading right", den you know you probably wouldn't get into too many problems. Armstrong was to get in none whatsoever. =D

We were the first group (with tensing) to the Quarry Camp. First to complete the checkpoints and reach Camp 1. First to return to Camp 2. Hard to be sad after that right? And the activites were damn fun too. Tripod was okay I guess but I loved rock climbing. xD Best of all was the Quarry, tho the barrel on the raft kept coming loose... (it didn't matter in the end. xD. goal post only wad.) Water frisbee was uber. xD Tho the changing up when RG Watches came in was messy. Bahh.

Thus the atmosphere was extremely bright and positive. Even an ant invasion couldn't kill the mood. After flaming (literal) the ants with an Off! spray and a lighter we could carry on as tho nothing happen. Heck... The torching was even fun. xD

Tho I think that the Finale after everything was damn extra and unneeded. The made-up games were lame... Moonball? Urghh. And the kayaking was like 5 mins of kayaking, 10 mins of washing up. -.- And the enddd. Anti-climax like siao. What sheet got wet and kayaked for a piece of paper to redeem chemicals for an experiment showing redox (whatever it is)? Pfft. And the "Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-dox!" toast... -.-" Lame lar. Went "YAM SENG!" instead for the heck of it tho. =P

And there I found out I got kicked out of SMP. Booooo. Nvm shall do Moot Parlie instead. Sounds like more fun. xD

At Punggol Jetty shayi requested to go back via public transport and I followed lor, with normie and bernard. Probably stank up the 82 tho. And that boarding was jack lor. We waited for the first 82 to ready up to set off. Then dis bus uncle came over and offered a lift (somehow he was one of the chartered bus drivers) to some block in punggol. So we left and went into it. Then we realized it wasn't going to move for some time. Not until it had all 20/30 odd people. By then the first 82 had left. So we alighted and waited for another 82. Then the boat came in and about 5 ppl went up. Thinking that the bus wouldn't leave, as only 5 ppl (not 20/30) went in, we continued waiting for the 82 driver to ready up. Then the bus left. -.- And we were left waiting for the bus driver, who was apparently testing out the passenger seats, to ready up. Bummer.

Overall, OBS was friggin fun. With all the drainwater bathes, marine clay, uncooked rice, rock hard (literal) floor. All the rock skipping, late night Karaoke from malaysia, overflowing "rations". All the sandflies, mosquitos and wild boars. The gargantuan hiking bag, trans-island-toilet-service and fire tricks.

Ok fineeeee. But it was fun lor. Definitely better than all the other camps I had thus far. It was slack. But who said slack wasn't good.

And I miss it already...




...But still am friggin glad to be back.