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Outward Bound Malaysia,Lumut

DAY 1 : The first day we reached there, i met a lot of strangers. Btw, Dic Vinn and me ended up in the same watch, Brinchang. We were told by our CAs, Justin and Kuan Lin, that we're the first to arrive too. haha..Our instructor's name is Syafri, and he's a greatt guy!He's the nice but shy guy. We filled in our particulars and waited for the rest to come. We sat at the same table, but we barely know each other. I saw two girls from my group, that looks very cool and pretty, and i was afraid i wouldnt be able to mix well with them, because i always think im the .. lame kinda person. As usual, the first day is quiet and lonely, because you dont know anyone. I was kinda sad because i wasnt in the same dormitory as Liza or even Andrea. I was dreading to drag my bag up to the dorm, it was like, so steep and high, and my luggage was freakingly heavy. I was halfway up the steps, but i couldn't make it no more. I stopped there. Many people jus passed by, and many looked down at what i was doing. None offered to help, not a single soul asked. Luckily, my CA,Justin passed by, and he was really nice to help me out, though he should not be doing so. Im really thankful for his great help. Up in the dormitory, i felt like a total stranger. I knew NOBODY in the dorm. I took up the only down bunk bed left, and started putting on the bedsheets and arranging my things. I did it all in silence, as i already said, i do not know anyone there. But there was this girl, Khasrina, that introduced herself to me, and talked to me a bit, but i was too.. emo to talk to her, so i spoke less than a few sentences. After finish putting on the bedsheet, i went out of the dorm alone, and stood outside facing the opposite of the dorm. It was a nice view from the top of the dorm,actually. i stood there for quite a moment, unsure of what to do next. we were supposed to meet up at duno what time. After that, a girl from my watch,which is also in the same dorm as me, came out and stood near me. So i spoke to her lar, asked her where's her friend from Gading. Because i saw her mouthing words to her friend in the dining hall earlier. She said she has no idea where they were. I was really in desperate need to look for Liza lor, really needed to talk to her, because i really felt so lonely... anyway, that girl from my watch i was talking bout, shes Sher Wen, and she's leng lui! hahahah..Anyway, things got MUCH better after that, when we had the briefings, and had some warming up sessions to help us blend in with each another. At night it rained, but it was okay la..Anyway, in OBS, the motto is "rain or shine, life goes on.." so, We survived hahaha.. That night also, we sat between the Boat House and the beach, and we played games.. some bing bong game lar.. damn cute wan lor.. laugh non stop, cause we always get confused..

DAY 2 : The next morning, we got up at 5 45, cause everyone in the dorm still dont know each other yet, so we had to get up on our own, afraid to be late. We got ready, and went downstairs to the flag area, and sang Negaraku at 6 30 in the morning. Right after singing Negaraku, we broke up into our groups and starting jogging outside of OBML, to one of the parks. We jogged up and down the hills, kinda tiring. Especially for me lar, since my stamina sucks. After that, i can barely remember actually, but then we had breakfast, and then we did the pre-rope activitiy training. First, we learnt how to use the gears and equipments for rope activities, and then we did the rope climbing. It was tougher than it looked, but it was a great experience, seeing that i have not tried any rope activities before. After that, we learned how to tie different type of knots used to tie the tent ropes. Then, we were shown how the tent sheets were folded and raised to become a tent, a group tent and a solo tent. Following that, we had a mini jungle trekking, jus to give us the feel of what jungle trekking is like. It was kinda tough, as i have not been for jungle trekking before. I was really dirty at the end of it, cause i fell down twice.. damn lousy. hahah. then after that was dinner, and after dinner, we had briefing. They told us about our FIRST expedition, which is JUNGLE TREKKING. It is a 2day 1 night affair. we had to jungle trek to our campsite, then pitch our tents, cook our dinner, and the next morning we hv to pack our things again, and jungle trek back again. So anyway, we packed our things, got our backpacks from the store room, and head back to our respective dorms to pack our clothings and personal belogings.

DAY 3 : Next morning, we hv to be down at 7 . So, as the usual me, i got up at 6, bathe and then recheck my stuffs, and got down. We started our journey at 8 something i think, i cannot remember clearly. and then we walked along the main road for about 1 hour, and rested a while, before starting the jungle trekking expedition. We trekked for i think 5 hours plus minus. The journey there, is going upwards to the peak allll the way, then dowwwnnnhillll alllll the way. so yeah, i dont think u can actually imagine how was it like, hiking up the hill. damn freaking tough lor.. I had no stamina, so i hated myself so much during the journey upwards. I kept stopping, and i felt so bad, because everyone else had to stop to wait for me. I keep slowing them down also, and had to rest several times to restore my breaths. Im really so appreciative of my watchmates who did not blame me, but also supported me all the way, mentally and physically.... LOVE THEM!! oh btw, i had 9 leeches bites. 5 round my ankle area, one at my top thigh, and one betweeen my thighs, and another one on my top back.i have no freaking idea how the leeches got to those places man. It actually hurts, the leeches bites. ok lar, so we reached there la k. and pitched our tents, and the leeches bit me till my panties were soaking in blood. darn freaking disgusting, like i was having period or something.. it even soaked into my pants okay! ewww.. we managed to cook dinner, but the rice wasnt fully cooked, it felt like eating bones. HAHAH! dang funny lor.. oh btw, we didnt manage to take bath also ok. we slept in that sweaty, smelly, disgusting condition and we trekked back in the same, but worse, condition. oh so lovely huh? oh and before getting into my tent, i got shoulder massage from sher wen and zi wei.. i got to know zi wei more that night.. we talked quite some stuffs larh.. oh and zi wei's definitely a good massager =D

DAY 4 : Journey back was a little less steep, cause we ascended and descended four small mountains. However it is still very exhausting, and once again, they stopped many times for me, the useless person. OKay la, the same things, walked walked walked walked,trekked trekked trekked trekked.oh, we even took a few photos when we reached the last peak! then we reached the main road, walked bout 30 mins. Reached OBML, and we had to clean up the equipments. We had to wash the tent sheets, the backpacks, mess tins, gallon bottles and allllll the things lar. We had fun splashing water at each other, and also cleaning up, but the Berembans managed to finish cleaning faster than us. After all the exhausting cleaning up work, we ALAS can trot up to the dorms. We were really damn tired already, and we went back to the dorm to bathe, and wash our filthy clothes. That night, we gathered in the Gym Hall again, and this time, we were not briefed on our expedition, we were taught how to sing several new songs.. We learnt the OB School Song, which sounded.. funnay.. and OB spirit song.. it was hilarious, because we kept singing out of tune.. hahahah.. but in the end we managed to sing properly also lar.. :)

DAY 5 : Next day, i cannot recall clearly, but i think we had kayaking practise in the morning first. We had to find our partners, my partner was Sher Wen the leng lui and then we hv to kayak to the OBML motherboat, and we rafted there. Rafting is holding on to each other's kayak, to stabilise all the kayaks, and then to help those who capsized and those needs help. However, when we rafted, the people sitting at the back had to stand up, and sing half of the OB spirit song first, and following that, the people at the front had to stand up and sing the other half of the song. After all the singing, our instructor instructed each of the kayaks to take turns capsizing, and then the rest hv to help overturn the kayak back to normal, and the capsized people hv to climb their way into their kayaks again.i didnt capsize, because of my dear partner.. anyway, After everyone completed their capsize activitiy, we were given another 10 minutes to kayak around the area. After kayaking, we went back to take bath and change into fresh clothes, and we had lunch. After lunch, we were told to change to our rope activity attire, which is long sleeves and long pants, in case of rope burn. My friend actually told me there was no rock climbing, but actually there were. So anyway, we had to walk alongside the road again, for approx 15 mins, then we had to jungle trek a lil while into the jungle, to the rock area. Over there, there was a hugeee rock about 10 m high, with three climbing ropes. Everyone had difficulty climbing it, as it was kinda slippery and its kinda tough to hang on to rocks. I was the last girl to climb, and i can say that i suck at it also. If it wasn't because of the belayer pulling my rope too strong, i wouldnt be able to climb up the rock also. oh and did i mention that i was unlucky because when i started rockclimbing, it started drizzling..so it made the rocks even more slipper... suck!!And at the last part, i didnt have enough strength to pull myself up, so the instructor had to help me out also. I felt so useless, as i was the only person there like that.After rock climbing, we jus went down to the same place as before, and rested a while, before walking on the main road back to OBML. That night, they briefed us on our second expedition, KAYAKING. We are supposed to kayak over to Pulau Pangkor, which is located approximately 5-6 km away from OBML beach. Then, we;re supposed to camp over there again. We hv to cook our lunch, then go for repelling/abseiling, then cook dinner and spend the night there.

DAY 6 : Kayaking was so much more fun than jungle trekking.. i think its 5 or 10 times better! hahaha.. My partner for that day was Nicholas.. He's a good kayak-er. LOL. cause he can steer the kayak very well.. I manage to see a jellyfish underwater, when i was in the middle of the ocean hahah.. It was tiring lar, but then overall it's not as tiring as jungle trekking. it's cool also, seeing that we were kayaking in the middle of an ocean, it felt so cool and proud man! And when we reached, we were feeling so good, because the beach was beautiful, and the sea was awesome! After having lunch and resting for a while, Brinchangs, which is my watch, had to go up for abseiling already. Again, we had to jungle trek a little, and then we take turns ascending the rock, approx 30 m high. The view from the top of the rock was nice! I was kinda lousy at abseiling, cause i was slow and i kinda swing into my friend next to me. But overall, i did better at abseiling than at rockclimbing, cause its definitely much easier abseiling. after we reach the bottom, which is the beach, i helped to start preparing dinner, and played a while at the beach. We had a great time there, but it rained, and it was so freezingly cold, because we're all wet, and the wind is blowing hard. hahah..The rain caused our tents to be muddy and dirty, so we had no choice, but to bring down the tent sheet and use it as a mat near the beach. We slept under the trees and it was really really cold. None of us managed to sleep very well. We slept just so that we hv enuff energy to kayak back to OBML the following morning.

DAY 7 : The next morning we kayaked back to OBML, my partner was Ying Heng this time, cause Nicholas prefers a guy as his partner.. and when we reach OBML, we had to wash and clean our equipments once again.. Oh yeah, the kayaking journey there took bout 1 hour 1 minutes, and coming back took only 53 minutes! hahahah!. Then, in the afternoon, we had rafting. We had to build our own raft with only given 8 poles, 20 ropes, and 5 drums. okay continuation... So, we're given 45 minutes to build our own raft.. The design is up to ourself. So, we plan and we decided to use only 4 drums because we couldnt relly figure out how to place the last drum. Okay, we managed to finish tying our lastttt string when the instructor ask us to stop doing whatever we're doing. so yeah, we're supposed to move our "raft" to the beach and see if it floats.. ours and beremban's raft did float..... and we decided to take our positions on it, and see work out how we were going to move it.. then after jus like, 3 minutes we sat on it, the raft came out of place, and the position of the poles moved. so,overall its failure, of course.. but the berembans were rafting already.. but they were very slow la.. so our instructor quickly help us to save our boat.. and re-tie all the strings for us, so that it's firm and doesn't move out of place anymore. Our CA, so bising. keep saying "dont worry, it's all in the heart, it's all in the heart!!" cause he feels that we're so apek.. However, our joker of all times- isaac, kept our spirits high.. he kept telling us that we can do it, cause the berembans are not that far away from us only.. so yeah.. when our raft was finally saved, we quickly sat at our places,and started rafting and the people sitting in the middle were actually swimming and pushing the raft forward! To be honest, we were accelerating fast lor.. In jus a few minutes, we managed to get to the same line as Beremban, altho they left like so much earlier than us.. We're supposed to raft to the OBML motherboat, situated bout maybe, 100m from the beach? i dont know.. not sure... So, we're about halfway there.. Suddenly Isaac sitting at the back, kept paddling into the water, acting like a motorboat lolz.. then it speed us up lor.. ANd obviously WE WON!! then we're supposed to turn back and raft back! Unfortunately, one of our drums escaped from the place and floated away, so the front people had to swim also.. but no matter what, we reached much earlier than the Berembans.. and we posed and took a few photos~ This is like.. real fun for us la.. a great leisure time hahaha.. Then after that, as usual, we have to clean up the things.. and put them back in their respective places. OK, that night, we were told that, we're having our solo camping the next day.. heheheheheh.... sounds darn scary lor.. everyone was kinda freaking out hahahh..

Day 8 : Okei.. so... we were already down at 7..we were very scared lar of course.. i kept asking the CAC's the night before about THEIR solo camping.. they told me its not scary.. cause the tents are located very near to each other.. so i kindaaaa trusted them.. but obviously the fear is still there.. ok, so after breakfast, we had last preparation.. and we're bout to bertolak, when i noticed there weren't enough gallon bottles.. lack of one for me.. so i had to follow instructor back to the store, and had to fill up my bottle with water.. which took about 5-10 minutes.. then only can bertolak.. so.. yeah.. i delayed them hahahaha.. Sher Wen and me walked kinda slow, because we were kinda tired and we dont wanna waste our energy.. AND we're not reallly that semangat because its solo camping.. hello~~.. we had to walk.. again alongside the road, for approx 15 minutes or more.. only reach the part where we stopped to wear our gears for rockclimbing that day.. and this time, we had to collect hay and keep it, so that we can use it as a firestarter.. okay, so we stuffed those hay into our pockets and bags, and we had to jungletrek a while again.. but very short while only la.. about 15 minutes.. then we grouped at one place, and the instructor will lead us one by one to our respective tent area.. So, i was the first one, and i was placed near the CA.. lucky man.. hahah.. so i tied the rafia strings to the trees, and put my tent sheet over, and TADAA, my tent is ready. lolz.. then i changed into my slippers and kept my shoes nicely inside the plastic bag and placed it beside my tent. okay, so im done. so i went to visit sher wen. then talk talk talk, i decided to go back to my tent. and when i came back, a few monkeys quickly run away from my tent area, to rest on the branches and to continue staring back at me. i saw my shoes out of the plastic bags already, so i hastily put them back into the plastic bag and tied it up.. i also noticed about 6 or 7 monkeys were staring at me.. all surrounding me man.. damn scary.. i was like talking to them la.. telling them not to kacau me.. cause its very scary leh. i dont dare to throw things at them, because i remembered my instructor said not to dare them or they will attack u.. so i jus tried telling them not to disturb me.. so i resumed to collectin twigs and branches to start my fire.. and then suddenly this monkey came.. and took the plastic containing the shoes in his hands.. his stare was really scary, he looks like the fiercest one among the group.. so i told him "NONO DONT TAKE IT<>
Day 9 : once i got up i went to nik;'s tent.. and sher wen's tent.. then i went back to my tent and started packing things up, after eating my sugar crackers for breakfast. then we started out journey back about 8, after everyone finished packing and all that.. i had to go back in slippers la, seeing that my shoes got stolen by the boo-ti-fool monkeys.. yeah.. so we went back to OBML, cleaned things up.. and then we clean up.. and after lunch, we got quite a long free time to linger around the place.. meet up with ur friends and all that.. We got our OBS group photograph also, so we kept asking for each other's signature and well-wishes.. then we got some survey forms to fill up also.. i wrote a freaking long essay of comments on the OBS Camp.. cause i was feeling damn emo ma.. Okay, about 4 o clock i think, we had the major yac briefing.. it was regarding the barbeque night on that night. So, we were told bout the schedule for that night, and we were given our task and duties to perform. Our watch was in charge of cooking, which is barbequeing the chicken and sausages.. After the briefing, we had to practise singing the school song and OB spirit,and Auld Lang Syne in a biggg circle.. So we did. After that, we were supposed to start carrying out our duties, but seeing that our watch have not discussed about what to perform for that night, we had to have an urgent last minute discussion by the beach . We decided to sing the chorus from Graduation by Vitamin C. In the middle of the song, Guy Eon walks out to the middle, and reads out some emo stuffs la.. Like "we endured many hardships together, ...lalala..." then after that, we did our duties lor.. we cooked chickens and sausages.. then parents were arriving already and we had to quickly finish cookin all the chickens and we rushed up to the dorm to change to our dinnerwear.. yeah.. the girls really dressed til dam nice lor.. i felt so........... haih. anyway..all the parents arrived d.. and sat inside the hall.. and all of us also gathered together in the hall, and we were greeted briefly by the director and all that. then after that, we had to go outside to eat our food. we took many photos that night also.. all posing and all that.. before and after our performances.. we had laughs!.. great time... already starting to feel so em seh tak.. then after that, we concluded the barbeque dinner with the singing in a circle.. then after that we had to continue cleaning up the place.. while our parents went back to their hotels or whatever.. then that night, our curfew was extended to 1 a.m! i slept at 2.30 lor.

DAY 10,last day...T-T : We got up at 6 something also, packed allll our stuffs and brought it down. Khasrina and me went up and down twice, cause we take turns helping each other out, as our luggages were really heavy.. so after everyone was down.. we had our briefing, we got our certificate!! after that closing ceremony, we got our t-shirts, and we grouped outside in our watches, and our instructor gives us our badge! our HARD EARNED badge!! ehehe.. money cannot buy okay.. then we had our group hug, took loads and loads and loads of photos everyone.... then.. farewell, we had to leave... I miss my BRINCHANG 2007 loads!! They're Sher Wen, Sum Hooi, Ying Heng, Zi Wei, Guy Eon, Dic Vinn, Nicholas, Nik, Khalis, Isaac, Jin Wei, Qi Heng, Wei Seong and Kuo Wei. LOVE THEM! i miss my dorm mates a lot too.. especially Rachel Chong and Eva!
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