Wednesday, December 19, 2007 . 3:11 PM
Im alive!Long grandmother grandfater story again... here it goess..
16/12/07
Reach Bishan MRT at 7am
Dolphin, Owl, Grizzly and E.G were there to give us instructions.
Splitted into 2 grps.
Me, mathew, dongkun, kevin, fadhli
Benedict, Derrick, yingzhi, jeremy, zhengxun
Then we started our hike with occasional visits from
Dolphin,Owl,Grizzly and E.g
The route was central-> North-> South-western of singapore within 12 hours.
Mre detailed: Bishan->Upper Thompson->Macritchie->Bukit Timah->Clementi->NUS->Kent Ridge Park.
Estimated to be 30 kilometers.
Halfway during our lunch(Instant porrige), me and jeremy switched teams with each other because the sir's said so.
So along the way... we got our grp names...
Mathew 'Ehh fire hydrant. our grp name will be FIRE HYDRANT!'
Dolphin' U all wear poncho like turtle sia..' our name became TMNT!
So after we reached kent ridge we made camp there,
ate dinner (maggi xP) and packed up went to sleep for 2 hours.
then there was.. 'FIRE FIRE!' Fire drill... Nehhh nehh....
So woke up, packed equipment and tent. while packing,
Me, dk, jeremy, kevin were kidnapped and tied with ropes together at the fitness corner.
So we had to wait till derrick and the rest came to rescue us.
So it became like a mini 'counter strike' there.
Aim was to teach us to do things quietly and cunningly.
Hehe.
After that... day broke.
17/12/07
Got instructions from the 3 sirs and 1 E.g to hike from
kent ridge park to buona vista mrt and take a train down to pasir ris and hike to changi jetty.
So we did that and along the way crapped alot together.
EDITTING SONG LYRICS IS OUR PROFESSION!
HAHAHA.
So we sang and hiked and kept our morale up. 1 pm we met marcus lay thr
And so he brought us to hell.
Also known as PULAU UBIN.
But before that.... kevin got INTERVIEWED!!!! by Kym Ng and Ponsat (dunno how to spell)
And his jersey made him famous.
'Your name rambu your surname tan?' LOL
If im not wrong u see next week tuesday 8.30pm channel U.
THATS KEVIN TAN FROM NGEE ANN WICHITA. WOOO!!
Btw he was buying lunch for the 6 leaders at pulau ubin. xD
The changi village power packed nasi lemak. lol
Then we reach ubin and hiked down to our campsite with an
army of mosquito following us.
After a while we reach mamai beach and pitched tent there with instruction from meerkat.
Then we collected firewood and had a briefing with milo that we cooked ourselves.
Then the torture came.
Extremely Heavy Rain.
Tent almost flying away.
Arrival of Hell Dolphin, Hell Grizzly, Hell Owl, Hell Meerkat
After that was a series of 'Move from * to *. Slow, take your time, knock it down.'
'Move slowly, give me twenty. Take your own sweet time, another twenty'
And 'Think u all pass hike big f**k? Show us f**k up attitude?'
And 'GENTLEMEN, TRAINING JUST BEGUN!'
Everyone was shag when we went to sleep at 8.15
the tent was wet... it was really hell.
So cleaned up and stuff. then we planned to pretend to sleep
But everyone eventually started knocking off.
1am, 'fire.'
FIRE FIRE! fire drill no.2
We jumped up, put on foot wear and headed to the front of the bonfire
Followed by a series of
'How come some wear slipper some wear shoe? Cannot wake up ur idea right?'
And 'Move your equipments from this tent to that tent.'
And 'All take your own sweet time... very welll....'
Dolphin- 'Gentlemen, welcome to wichita PLC training camp...'
After that we stayed in push up position and did at least 120 consecutively.
reasons:
ONE push up
(A, B, C.......O. A, B, C.....N. and so on... Each letter 1 push up)
I Really really really really really dont want to give up exclamtion mark
(each letter one push up)
Fire Turtle ( our new PLC name. Combination of FIRE hydrant and ninja TURTLE)
(Eahc letter one push up.
And many more that i cant rmbr.
With our palms pressing against the hard sand, bruised,
Shoulders bruised with the weight that we carried during the hike,
legs and elbows aching due to 15 minutes of endurance,
dolphin said 'Gentlemen, do you know how ur PLs can lead you all?
Its because they've went through SHIT. They've seen HELL. That's what your seeing now.'
And they were throughout the whole time telling and taunting us to give up.
Offering coke if we gave up, offering chicken rice, sleep, home..... etc
But we didnt gave up.
The most painful offer was this.
Either you spell 'I want to give up' with each letter one push up.
OR 'I really really really really really dont want to give up' with each letter one push up.
So we endured and after that, the leaders went to hell part 2.
Footdrill. With every mistake doing a set of punishment.
one mistake = one set.
one set :
10 pushup
20 crunches
8 counts of 4 jumping jack
20seconds leg raise
8 counts of 8 chase the rabbit
8 counts of burpees.
We did a total of 5 mistakes before reaching perfectness.
So our hands were really pain and everyone was almost at their limit.
Still enduring... enduring...
After that they informed that after every shit, there's always a fun part.
ANd that was the confidence walk.
1.6km in the dark through pulau ubin with no one beside u and no torch.
We rested while waiting and the frightened one went first, with the brave ones behind.
I was the last so yeah.
It wasnt as bad as i thought..
Just that the poles at the side look like people through the side of your eyes.
Trick is to believe in ur religion when ur walking, trust ur god and say ur prayers.
For me,my secret in not getting freaked out in confidence walk is...
DONT NEED TURN UR HEAD, JUST WALK STRAIGHT. HAHA! :D
Then after the walk we sang songs and jogged back.
Keeping our morale high.
After arriving back at camp,
they gave us breakfast, which was standard bread kaya.
The leaders interviewed each and everyone of us individually
And asked us to rank the ppl that we think shld be TL and PLS from 1-6.
Its confidential ;)
After that day broke.
18/12/07
Lots of cleaning up...
Debriefing...
Praises by the sir for completing the main part of the camp.
And we packed up our stuff.
Still hungry, they gave us good to clear.
Includes wholemeal bread... sausages... honey baked chicken(:D) etc.
And so we chat and laughed alot among ourselves.
The last activity in pulau ubin, trust 4.
Haha before we jumped we need to say something that we learnt during the camp.
So we hiked back to the jetty, took a boat back to singapore
Last debriefing and we were dismissed.
Ate lunch together at changi village, went home,
showered, bathe, unpack, on computer. lol
Today, went back to schl to clean equipments.
We shared stories of the camp among each other.
Our side and gaoyang's side.
Then we told stories of 'How we fall asleep'
Mine- 'I bathed alrdy every ok le, eat hell of a dinner then i sleep lor.
From 7 pm to 7am in the morning. Justin woke me up.'
Benedict- 'I go home bathe, on computer, want to play dota. I going to click on the map
then i fall asleep.. zzzZZZ'
Mathew- 'I go home, then i bathe and unpack a little. i switch on my computer.
Then i lie on my bed look at the clock 3pm, telling myself later i still wan go out with frens.
I close my eyes for like 15 minutes. Then i open my eyes i look at the clock 5am.
Knn i miss dinner, my ah mah nvr wake me up.. blah blah...'
LOLOL!!!!!!
Whole body is aching now...
And CCA hike is a 1 day difference...
Although Aetiiqcaz failed i'll be chandan's companion.
All the best to us :)
And cheers, rmbr do ur homework xD
"Return from hell, and grow stronger"