10:28:00 AM
I'm Back, I'm Back, I'm Backkkkk
Finally back from 5 days of OBS, haha :)
Thought it would be quite stupid at first because i was in a 3Q watch but haha after 5 days, now im really good friends with half of 3Q, and 3 other people from MY OWN CLASS. Like, what the hell. Anw, our watches are named after famous Singaporeans, (those who went to camp 2 first have watches named afer explorers), and our watch was called, TOCK SENG hahaha. Like, you know, Tan Tock Seng :O
First Day
After arriving at obs and meeting our instructor Jonathan, and all that stuff, we dumped our stuff at this nice domitory (nice for a dorm, i dont mean like apartment standard la) and went to eat, after tt we did "team-building" trust activities like the very cliched trust fall, but it was quite fun. After that we did belay school, which is basically an intro to belaying. You know, the guy who pulls the rope when another guy is climbing? Haha yeah. Anw, Yi Shu from my watch (haha sounds like Tissue), the choir one who seems to be gay, was going ard like..
"Squeeze Check" (proceeds to try and squeeze someones youknowwhere)
"Pull Check" (tries to pull the same guy in the same place)
"Climb On" oh my **** that is like so sick
ahaha
for the night we were supposed to sleep in bashas that we pitched earlier, but it HEAVY HEAVY rained (cat 1) at ard 2 and we ran back to the dorms to sleep in beds. Bashas are basically a blue tarp roof above the ground, and u put groundsheets inside and sleep. haha. Oh on second thought, I wonder why they call it cat 1, when its raining cats and dogs, like, the dogs leh?
Second Day
Did kayaking in the morning, while it was raining haha. Did capsize drill and the TX rescue thing, which was fun cos i can rescue my kayak with no help from my partner MARK TAN, and the mandatory help from Ben Low and Yishu. After that we packed bagpacks of our stuff and headed for the dreaded camp 2, aka the primitive metal strung together to resemble a camp.
After that did rock climbing on the much smaller wall, but not climbing the huge wall at camp one wasnt such a big miss, it was still fun. Plus, we got to go many many times and got to do all the parts, climber, belayer, rope manager and anchor so that was quite ok too.
Pitched out bashas in this stupid place 100 steps above the main camp (WE COUNTED THE STEPS LO, SO BORED) and cooked out instant noodles and ate hahaha. Oh yeah, we forgot to take along the rice, isnt that good. Haha, dont worry, we didnt starve. We were quite full. Learnt how to read maps haha, and while we were at that some wild dog came and carried/chewed/threw two of our food bags into this imba muddy field so there went our Milo packets and our Khong Guan haha.
haha we were supposed to sleep in our bashas again, but then it started cat 1 raining again, so off we went to the shelter to sleep haha.
haha i shall post more later, now im going to play play play, i really miss this tablet pc. haha
