I miss adventure camp. Not all of it, cause I'm still fervently scratching all my mosquito bites and ant bites and the bruises on my back, but I miss the atmosphere and the fun and the people.
The first day was the height elements day, where we got to see
1) Ballball doing the monkey leap as forfeit, 5 x 2 times.
2) Absailing, two-logs thing and rock climbing
3) Challenge pole where Jiaen screamed and writhed in pain as the harness pulled on...something.
4) Walter belaying and complaining that he would never celebrate father's day again if it went on any further.
5) Walter being T3H MAN and doing pull-ups on the bar at the challenge pole.
6) Walter demonstrating how to put on the harness, where the instructor hit on him. Both literally and physically. (Btw the harness really looks like some kinky lingerie garters or something.)
7) Auyong demonstrating how to climb the pole, where the instructor smacked him on the butt and pushed him against the pole. O.o Sounds bad. Well it looked worse.
And of course, the challenge pole. It was much better than the previous time at the end of sec 3, cause this time I climbed straight to the top around there without stopping, and that there wasn't kenneth tan around to make me laugh while climbing (which is a dangerous combination). But at around the top I freaked out when I realized that 1) The top wasn't flat, and 2) the pole was shaking like a piece of shit. Much hilarity ensued, consisting of mainly screaming on my part and bribes on the part of those on the ground. (Bel: IF YOU CAN DO ONE PULL UP I TREAT YOU TO GELATO!! Me: WELL I CAN'T DO ONE PULL-UP ON THE GROUND. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I CAN DO ONE NOW!) Anyway I didn't do the pull-up, but neither did bel, so we don't owe each other ice cream, but we shall reward ourselves somehow anyway.
After I did the challenge pole we sat on the ground as a class and er. Engaged in the intellectual activity of throwing stones at our helmets. Well! It was fun okay! (Alex: I can feel my brain cells draining away.)
Yeah. Oh before all activities Auyong got stripped by the guys the moment he entered the guys dorm (see how deprived they are), and my class just lazed around the top half of the bunk and talked and tried to get auyong to do the dare of flashing the other class. Which he didn't do, but that's quite okay, since I don't really want to see his byfords.
I think that the moment we're free to do what we want we do something scandalous. MUAHAHA.
DINNER! Yayy shum's totally a fabulous cook. We ate animal-shaped pasta! With sauce that had sausages! It was super nice. Then we popped the sparkling juice and generally gayed around celebrating the april babies' birthday, threw ice down bel's back (ICE FIGHT! Cause sam the ice princess brought ice from her house) and er gayed around somemore. Yayy I hearts you all. I don't think I can ever think of class dinner without remembering thursday night.
Then night walk! Being the scaredy-cats we are, me and bel went with gen as a group of three, where gen went first, I went in the middle (cause I'm scared liddat) and bel at the end, holding hands for dear life. XD (Bel: did I mention how I love the two of you? Me: Your hands are my lifeline)
Halfway through denise joined us, but not before scaring us half to death. We were walking when suddenly bel was like, Who's that? And since it was in the middle of the night, I almost had a heart attack, until denise called back: ME! So our group of 3 became 4 and we all stepped into the mud puddle ><. And after we reached our destination we all knew when someone stepped into the mud cause there'll suddenly be this screech in the night.
And during supper bel and I gathered the female power around us to annoy mao and arun. Which went along the tune (HAHA okay fine not punny) of
Topic of conversation: random
Me: OH i love cow and chicken! I used to watch and laugh at it!
Bel: YES I LOVE THE THEME SONG! How does it go again...
Me: Mama had a chicken! Mama had a cow!
Geri: Dad was proud, he didn't care how!
Bel: lalalalalalalalala
Gen: COW!
Bel: lalalalalalalalala
All: CHICKEN!
Arun: *throws us a disgusted look and gets up*
All: lalalalalalalalala...COW AND CHICKEN!
Mao: *throws us a disgusted look and gets up*
All: MUAHAHAHAHAHA. *gets up to go wash plates*
After which my class remained in the canteen to spam songs, and everything was kinda hazy and dreamy cause it was around 12, so we just randomly sang songs and leaned against each other and talked random song talk. <3
We like bathed at 1.30 in the morning @.@, where the water in the female toilet was damn cold, and since there were few cubicles, me and shan and sam showered in the female toilet while joo and nicole waited until auyong finished before separately going into the male toilet, which unfairly had the hot water. D:
And then we went back to the dorm, where we played truth or truth, or rather the other three played while shan I and used them as background music to fall asleep. XD
Then friday was the emo day, but it was also the day where I got to know a lot more people from 13b better. The sharing session started off being those happy cliched stuff like there'll always be a shadow in front of you, but if you look up the sunlight will always be there. But it went from that to the semi-serious of the reightards stuff, which are serious, but not that intimate sort that you would keep from all but those closest to you. But after that people started opening up and really telling their troubles and stuff that are really personal, and...yeah.
It's okay to like not share lah. As in such stuff is really personal and it's understandable if you want to protect yourself even from yourself. If someone wanted me to share things like some of what the others shared, I would totally have told them to go and stuff their programme right up...where the sun doesn't shine.
But thanks to all those who really opened up. I think these people are really brave, cause it takes a lot of courage to reveal your deepest secrets to those that you've known for 4 months, and to those of another class who you've known for even less. I may never find that courage to open up to those other than my closest friends, much less admit it face to face to a group of people. But it's very warming to know that there're all these amazing people who DO have that inner strength and bravery out there, so hearts to all of you. I love you all, and don't worry about all these little twists and turns, cause they'll happen anyway and you CAN make it through and be what you want to become and work where you want to work, so cheer up okay. <3
And it's this that made the whole camp in overall such a success. After that even after HC wittingly or unwittingly dispelled the emo mood (hc: haiyah if you feel emo then go do pull-ups!), there was this sense of intimacy and closeness amongst everyone that translated into high-ness for the walk back. And I realized that I haven't felt so high for damn long. Thanks to 1b and 13b, all of you.
Cause seriously the games were damn pretentious and contrived, and without everyone they would have fallen flat. I think even the instructors were shocked at how much we put an effort into stuff like the lift art and challenge pole and the walk back. Though they got a bit annoying at the end during the debriefing, when they continuously asked us why we didn't ask people if they were tired while walking. Who wouldn't get tired when walking for 2 hours straight carrying a backpack? And wasn't the point to push ourselves anyway? And we know cheryl got weak knees, and we did constantly ask her if she wanted a break. But I don't see the point of walking back to school if we had to stop every 5 minutes. The satisfaction is in pushing ourselves and finally reaching the goal tired but knowing that you've done your best, not reaching it fresh and feeling like you just finished shopping. Grrr.
Okay don't bitch. I like the instructors though, especially shukor (or however you spell the name), cause he's nice and sensitive and is a very good counsellor. XD
And just so you know, adventure camp ftw. XD
AND I WANT WALTER'S PHOTOS.
