Sunday, April 04, 2004

Alpha Camp

Day1
The bus took 1 hr to get there. quite far in actually. yeah. my grp is Andrew btw. consists of 3a1 and 3a2 galz. yeah. we were led to our huts. no tents. quite nice lei. and our instructor. waH. haha. he's called weiquan...reminded me and huihua of that zhss guy. heE. yeah. he's damn funny lar. and vain!! haha. he uses his sunglasses as a mirror to style his hair. laughs. mad mad. but 1 thing. he doesnt wanna admit that he's related to ms sharon ng. we think he is. their features look so same!! their eyes esp. he told us on the 2nd morning that his sis was playing guitar when ms ng was playing guitar. but he didnt wanna admit to the other grps that he was related to her. ha. ok. 1st activity happened to be jungle survival. did some cooking in mess tins (so np-ish). then off to the mud. well...it was diluted. not that dirty. but smelly! we had to swim across then put our heads in the water. haha. lunch. still wet. then kayaking. open kayak...so easy to turn!! i did with sin ae...co-ordinated quite well. but it started to rain. aWW. yeah. so we only got a while to kayak. wet again. 3rd activity was rock climbing. oh wait. it was raining. so we had to sit in the hut 4 a while. meanwhile, inst. weiquan was talking and teaching us cheers. mad us laugh a lot with his powderful england. crazy guy. we were supposed to prepare 4 our item la. haha. yeah. rock climbing. a few managed to climb to the top. me...3 quater. hEE. didnt know where to go ler so i fell. we did all this with Barnabas btw. yeah. wash up and grp time together. dinner next. woaH. we served it. cool. we were so hungry by then. food there was ok la. then learnt cheers...4 campfire night. quite similar to np. next was night challenge. what is that? something like night walk. not very scary. not like np ones. just walked outside of the campsite. had to find our own way back. which was acutally a str8 road. but we cldnt communicate in human language!! haha. came back...wash up i think. lights our at 2330. our inst allowed us to wake up at 5.30 to bathe since we didnt have enuf time. so yeah.

Day 2

sheryl set her alarm at 5.15!! so loud! woke the other grp up. hEE. bathe. huihua didnt bathe of course. expected. her bag was so small anyway. breakfast was nasi lemak. nice. then off to activities 4 the day. 1st was abseiling. i was the 1st few. was supposed to get the carrebena frm the inst upstairs the zip line(flying fox) station. in the end she hooked me on. and i was off...flying!! aHhh!! so fun!! but inst weiquan say obs more fun. 7 stories high!! waH!! i wan!! ok. so abseiling...ok like. quite boring. no kick. so low only. sld try the higher one. haha. was talking to inst. cuz he was frm np. yeah. area3 lar. was talking abt cc team. so i found out where the story abt the loop at the top of the flagpole came abt. frm his team! cuz he said that his teamates tied the man harness then pulling up the flag...the manharness dropped and the nylon was green so they spent 2 mins finding it! wahahaha. they didnt finish their dustbin. anyway. back to camp. we didnt get to go on the flying fox cuz no time. so we practised our dance, and was doing spider web. next was team dynamics. played some games. my bonnie lies over the ocean. haha. then was this flipping over the mat game. our grp won. but cooperation btwn the 2 teams were better. much better. haha. rain rain rain again. so we went back to prepare our item. oh yeah. Paul grp had translated our "wang wang" cheer into english. it was chinese. it was supposed to be "xi the guo dong"(suck the pudding??) they translate into suck yer jelly!! so funny! u sld hear them say it. then do all the cheers and stuff...stopped raining. went 4 high elements. damn scary can. huihua was so fast up there. was this bridge thing with tyres all hanging. u're supposed to cross it. damn scary. but huihua was so fast. our inst called her a ******* haha. i'm not supposed to say it out lar. i can use it as a threat!! hAhAhaha! ok. erM. it started raining again so we only got to try one of them. dinner later. then prepare campfire. and then cAmPfiRe!!!! ahHhH!! muahahaha.

ok. i have to start a new paragraph. our grp was one of the 1st. it was gr8. we sang cheers and stuff. damn nice. enjoyed it so much. 3a2 sabo-ed mrs tan. came and made her dance the shopping dance and "she bangs!!" hahaha. that was the most fun activity. and to me, my most fun campfire. we begged the teachers into letting us stay up till 2am. success to sec3s!! haha. we had debrief with our inst at 12am. ah yes. we were all still high then. going pee pee pee with Paul and our inst. he was the one who made the pee pee thing famous. he keeps blowing the whistle. so we wld do the action. damn funny. so high. sleep. waH. so tired. cldnt even stay up till 2. haha.

Day3

sheryl 4got to set her alarm. we woke at 6. went to wash up. but so sad. np ppl had to go 4 service day! so we missed pt. and pumpings. oh yeah. 2nd morning pt was...well...like np. really. pumpings...sit up. i think the pti was frm np. so much so that thruought the camp i kept having the urge to say "yes sir!" huihua said it out. haha. we ate a quick breakfast then went back to school. slept in the bus.

service day was ok lar. damn tired. and no more voice cuz of campfire. zao xia. walked ard. so many to tell. residents were quite friendly. so nice. haha. we like the ah mah. so friendly. went back to school to await our fellow campers. we kept pee pee the whole morning. eunice blew the whistle but didnt sound that pro. haha. they came back...and guess what!! ANDREW WON THE BEST GRP AWARD!! GO ANDREW! yeah. some say what paul actually tied with us. i dunno how true is that lar. but who cares! haha. we started cheering and pee pee with our grp. haha. ah yes. mon early in the morning we're gonna do the pee pee.

so went home to sleep. i slept frm 2 to 5. cldnt wake up...but needed to go out 4 dinner. and we were late. at marina bay. talk abt meeting at 6.30. haha. xt and turaiya didnt go. dunno why. but anyway...we walked all the way frm the mrt station to the restaurant!! so far!! abt six or 7 bus stops!! almost dieded of hunger. cldnt find the place. finally started at 8.15. when zhenying ma'am, melissa ma'am, ee boon ma'am and gwen ma'am came. yum yum. steam boat and the tepanyaki thing. ate a lot. i shall skip the details lah huh. anyway. melissa ma'am received news that those sqdmates who didnt go 4 camp but went 4 npcc day kana food poisoning!! omg!! hospitalised!! i dunno whether felicia got it anot. heard that she wanted to rush back to hq for it. but i think that it was really God's grace that protected the rest of the npcc day ppl who went 4 alpha camp. think that all those who went 4 the parade kana. so scary!! anyway. yeah. we walked ard marina then went home sharon's dad took me, yingle, huihua and jaime home. thanx!! but while waiting, grace and i was playing 2 player snake..damn funny. i keep losing. hehe. so fun. then came home at abt 2330. went to sleep.

it has been quite an eventful 3 days for the sec3s...yeah. i really enjoyed the camp. miss it right now. all the crazy stuff we did. and all the crazy instructors. really have learnt alot during this camp. lazy to type all. yea. but it was really very fun. i think it's the best camp. if not, one of the best. it'll stay with me forever!!~