Thursday, December 08, 2005

I'M BACK! DO U MISS ME? I'M SURE U DO! haha.. this camp is actually a combined council camp wif ngee ann sec.. yah.. it's called X-Camp.. there should be 9 ppl in our group.. but only 7 went.. dawn, vi ting, me, guo zhang, lydia, ashley n lutfi.. we were in grp 8.. grp's name is xoclatl.. yay! grp 8 rox! haha..

day 1
we played amazing race around singapore.. we went to jurong bird park, bedok swimming complex and many other places.. we had to complete the tasks we needed to do at the places.. we din haf time to finish all.. but we did most of them.. then we went to the jetty at changi village.. need to take bumboat to pulau ubin.. i din really enjoy the ride.. haha.. scared of water mah.. hehe.. after that we had to make our way to the campsite n pitch the tent.. then we ate dinner.. after dinner we had some activites, like finding light sticks, candles.. yah.. then we went to sleep.. yay!
day 2
woke up early to see sunrise.. but we din noe where the sun would be rising.. so we ended up looking at clouds.. haha.. then we did morning exercise.. then we ate breakfast.. breakfast was jus bread n milo or coffee.. then we discussed our campfire item.. we had this very weird dance at first.. a bit like tribal dance or something.. but we did another dance in the end.. haha.. then we had to cook our own lunch.. we ate maggi mee n button mushrooms.. in the afternoon we had another amazing race.. but this time it was around pulau ubin.. we needed to go to some places on pulau ubin n complete tasks.. we were trying to find belatok hut but we got lost.. yah.. so scary.. but we got help from the OC.. we saw a komodo dragon jaywalking.. haha.. it's so big! we oso saw beehives n spider webs.. we got a lot of mosquito bites.. we oso got sunburnt.. my arms are red now.. then we went back to the campsite n discussed our campfire item.. we then ate dinner.. there were curry chicken, curry cabbage n curry rice.. so hot leh.. tongue was burning.. ahhhhh.. but it was okay after a while.. after dinner we practised the mass dance.. it was one of the campfire items.. finally i remembered the dance steps.. yay! then i learnt the ASC cheer.. but i could only remember a bit.. haha.. i'm suffering from SSTML.. Severe Short Term Memory Loss.. haha.. so i did only the last part of the cheer.. jus had to shout, "ASC!".. haha.. then after that was the campfire.. yay.. it was so fun.. we danced n did cheers.. after campfire we had the nightwalk.. we had to walk through part of the sensory trail alone.. omg.. alone leh.. so scary.. we were grp 8.. so we had to wait for a very long time before we could start the nightwalk.. we were the nightwalk grp by grp.. starting from grp 1.. so we took a nap at the pulau ubin jetty.. we were supposed to wait there.. i think i slept for 2 hours.. wow.. can't believe it.. so long.. then someone woke me up.. it was our turn.. we then made our way to the "entrance" of the sensory trail.. we were told that there were yellow, green n red lightsticks along the trail.. yellow lightsticks along the first part of the trail n green ones along the second part of the trail.. we were not supposed to walk on paths wif red lightsticks.. then we went in one by one.. lutfi first, followed by lydia, followed by guo zhang, followed by me, followed by vi ting, then dawn.. i was shaking when i went in.. there were no lightsticks along the first section of the trail.. so i started shouting, "why no lightsticks? why no lightsticks?" then i saw a yellow lightstick, then further on i saw another one.. so i jus followed the yellow lightsticks.. after that i din see the lightsticks.. so i freaked out.. i was about to go the wrong way when vi ting came to the rescue! yay! vi ting, u rock! we went on further and saw the lightsticks.. we followed the lightsticks.. then finally.. we reached the end of the trail! we waited for the rest of our grp members, grp 9 n 10.. after that we went back to the campsite n slept..
day 3
last day of camp.. we ate breakfast.. after that we packed our stuff n unpitched our tents.. we then went to the jetty.. haiz.. had to take bumboats back.. again.. haiz.. but the ride was rather short.. then we went to ngee ann sec to clean our tents.. after that was debriefing n some other stuff.. then we went back to anderson.. we bade farewell to our new friends.. wah.. so sad.. =(

i enjoyed myself at the camp though we din get to bathe.. but we made a lot of new friends n learnt a lot of stuff.. i din regret going.. yay! X-Camp rox! =)