Back from 5 days of OBS at last! Yuppie! But I kinda miss sleeping in a tent le lei - I was getting used to it. Hahax. I miss my watch! Junko was a great team. =) Ah! I miss camp. Hehex. Weird how I was missing home so much during camp and now that I'm back, I'm missing camp! Oh well... and I still miss her. =(

Mmmmx... Kayaking, tracking, rock climbing, night walk and so on. Those were the contents of OBS. Hahax. Oh yea! Still got tent pitching, cooking and washing! Hahax. I did my own laundry for once. And I cooked! Hahax.

Day one of camp was so-so. Went to the jetty with AJ. Was chatting with Kerrin, Joshua, Wen E and Chinthin on the boat. Kerrin imagined OBS camp to be some holiday camp on Sentosa or something - then she wanted to wear her Cedar bikini. *No chance la Kerrin!* Hehex... So we got to base camp and mmmx, were seperated into our groups. My group was made out of AJC, SRJC and NJC people. Junko! Hahax. Quite similar to my name too. Hehex. We got to know each another really fast. Junko consisted of myself (AJC), Wen E (AJC), Jessica (AJC), Joanna (AJC), Joshua (AJC), Bing (NJC), Chin Ping (NJC), Ye Wee (NJC), Jolene (NJC) Benjamin (SRJC), Amanda (SRJC), Wan Ting (SRJC) and Wen Si (IP2 - NJC). Oh yea! And our lovely instructor Cindy! Hahax. She's nice.

So back to day one. We assigned the group ICs, store ICs, food ICs (and yes, Wen E was one of them... hehex... but she can cook la.) and campsite ICs. Thereafter, we went Kayaking! Took practical lessons first then later, went into the water to paddle around. Then we had to do the capsize drill. Hahax. I love capsizing but I hate rescuing. Hahax. Tiring process. Seesaw! Hahax.

After paddling around a bit, we went to wash up and then, learnt to set up tent. I hate A-shaped tents. They suck! Hahax. Details later will update. Hehex... Wen E cooked dinner for us. Rice and some can food. It was nice. Oh yea! We did our rationing before that too. Hehex. We set up tents thereafter on a nice ground. =) That's all for day one. We bathed then snuggled up in bed le. Learnt a bit of first aid from Cindy then all were in the tents trying to sleep. The stupid mosquitoes were damn irritating. Hahax.

Oki... on to day 2. We woke up at about 6am and collasped tents. Ate breakfast then washed up. Changed into hike gear and guess what, it rained! Hahax. We ended up doin rock climbing indoors and then, playing some lame lame games with blindfolds. Hahax. I've got no affinity with knots. =) Can't tie for nuts. Hahax. And Junko's defination of a square is a figure with 6 sides. Hahax. We are creativy ppl la. What to do? Hehex. The group got quite sian but nevertheless, we still co-operated.

Later in the afternoon when the rain got less heavy, we went to pack our hike bag. The freaking thing was heavy la oki? I backed in my clothes and some admin equipment. The plus the stupid poncho. That made the bag quite heavy le. Plus the food rations - about 4kg le la. Hehex. Now comes the fun part - 4 liters of water for each person... so that's another 4kg to make the bag 8kg. Then cause the group had only 6 guys and 4 tents plus one bluetub to carry, I had to carry a damn tent. So tent is about 2kg and the ground sheet about 4kg. Add anoher 6kg to get 12kg! Hahax. Plus a little of this and that here and there, my bag came out to be about 15kg. So yea... 15kg on my shoulders and we tracked to our new campsite 1.6km away. =) Oh! And me and Jessica were the Land Expidition leaders for the next day so we had to plan during dinner while Wen E cooked. When we saw the route, we started panicking. Hahax. Long sia! Hahax. I was wondering how i'd ever make it. So we planned...

When we reached the new campsite, it started drizzling again. Had to pitch tents under the rain and yes, they got wet inside. Hahax. The ground was SO muddy that we had to use bricks to tie the tents down. Irritating. My tents were all leaky. Hahax. Jessica and myself planned the route a little more with the help of our ground and then, lights out came lo. I was shouting across to Kerrin's tent a chatting with her. Hahax. I slept with Joshua and Chin Ping. They were nice. =) Our tent was like the emergency tent la. Your tent collaspe, you find us. Hahax. And that's why we had no sleep.

At about 1am in the morning, I was woken up cause the tent sprung a leak. The ground sheet apparantly wasn't water proof and the water was coming in from the bottom. I tried to ignore it until the tent started leaking from the top. I heard the girls complaining about their tent too. Joshua and Chin Ping woke up too and we began mission "Salavage the Tent". We were trying to make sure it didn't collaspe until we could set off. Used pots and pans to store the dripping water. So old fashion. Hahax. I was really home sick then. I wanted my bed! Hahax. And yes, began missing her again. hahax. Stupid tent.

In the end, I couldn't stand it inside so I wore the band jacket and went out to fix the tents. Not much difference but well, the leaks did stop for a while. helped the girls too then went over to talk to Jessica about the trip again. Decided to collaspe tents at 7am since we could only leave at 0730h.

So, at 0700h, we started working on keeping the tents and emptying the water from inside. In the end, we got the tents damn muddy and all. Lost a whole bag of tent pegs too but din care. We had to clear the whole area and ended up as the last grp to leave as we still had to brief the group on the plans. left about 0830h with more than 15kg on my beg le. Water is damn heavy. Hahax.

The track was a long long one. 10km lei! I was so tired and fed up that I lost interest in leading. But then, Joanna, ever so cute, kept singing and all. So cheery until I wanna scold also cannot scold. So, I tolerated 15kg on my back for the whole journey lo. Hahax. It was tiring but we managed. =)

Pitched tent at some crappy place again. Ground damn hard. I had very very bad blisters on my legs due to the weight and the long walk. Couldn't walk properly then. Hahax. So i slacked. Watched them pitch tent and watched Wen E cook again. Hahax. maggie mee! Hahax. Ate then had sea Expidition briefing my the leaders for sea ex lo. Hahax. Long journey ahead so went to sleep. Oh yea.. forgot to mention... the group went for mass shitting. Hahax. We shit in the jungle! Dug holes to shit! Hahax... Oki.. then we went to sleep lo. Hahax. Slept well at last and didn't want to wake up... but had to.

The next day, woke up at 4am and then collasped tents and all. left campsite at 0800 cause of Kerrin's group. They overslept! Hahax. Tracked through an extremely muddy path and then, saw our kayaks. Loaded our bags into the safety boat then set sail for our course. I paired up with Wen Si... we cant go straight for nuts. Hahax... so we paddled and paddled until we reached a dam. I had to get off to help transport the kayaks over it. The mud in the swamp was disgusting but still, i gave myself a mud bath when pulling the kayaks over. I could hear Kerrin screaming in the process. Hahax.

Mmmmx.. so we kayaked on and on... oh.. half way during the journey, cause me and wen si crashed into the tree and had to paddle through it, wen si flicked a brach holding a spider test onto me. Eggs and all were on me la! And the mama spider was on my lifevest. Hahax. I was screaming like mad. Hahax. Luckily the spider jumped off if not, i'd have to capsize in the swamp le. Hehex. Stupid girl. Hehex...

We reached back at 1327h... OBS record time! Yea! I set a new record. Hahax. Washed up the kayaks and lifevests before tending to my wounds. Set up the muddy tents to dry and pack up the store too. Bathed then cooked dinner with Wen E. I liked the soup that I cook. Hahax

Had the best sleep that night. Guess I got used to tent life. Didn't want to wake up the next day but Joanna was making too much noise la. Hahax. So yea... woke up and went to pack store again. Played with water. =) Hahax... Last day was fast la... met up for one last time and drank milo and did evaluation. Then exchanged contacts, washed the girls' toilet and then bought OBS shirt before coming back to singapore.

I slept for the whole afternoon. Dreamt of her. =) Hahax... I miss her... oh wellx... I'm sleepy le... time to go back to sleep! Night world!