Rewind.

 

and so. OBS was definitely tiring, but loads of fun too. :) after five days in Pulau Ubin, it's kinda strange seeing so many cars around, hearing the sound of the tyres across the road, the ringing of telephones, the noises coming out from televisions etc instead of  the chirping of crickets, complaints about the hot sun, squeals of disgust at insects and "Hairi, how long more must we walk!!!!". haha. the night sky full of bright stars are fantastic too. Columbus consisted of Karen Theresa Vaish Chermaine ShiBei Namreena Tania Rachael Zakiah Salwa Shahidah JianMin Sara Vivian HweiYen and i. and of course, with Hairi aka The Dude. 

we didn't do much on the first day. learnt how to kayak on the second day. hahah with capsize drills, overweight kayaks and Karen laughing while we're trying to do our T-ex rescue thingy. hahah. height element was fun as Vaish and i climbed up the logs together, while i was singing I Kissed A Girl with Theresa at the bottom. :)

we had our trekking expedition on Wednesday, which consisted of heavy 6kg+ backpacks, trekking about 10km, a blazing hot sun and laughter about ants' butts and ants masturbating on the ground while Hairi then proceeded to stare at Chermaine and covered his ears. hahaha. oh. and shouting of chemical formulae and ionic compounds to distract our attention. did quarry jump too. heh hehh. and Vaish is now bimbonized by Chermaine aka Princess-
"omg we're floating in the water!!!"
"that's cause you're wearing a life vest now!"
"OH YEAH!"
"omg Vaish. bimbo moment."
and then awkward laughter when Hairi handed Theresa a ahem, sanitary pad, saying "er. i think this belongs to Vaish." HAHA. the quarry water was super nice and clean, and sort of made up for the bath that we couldn't have that day. sentry duty at night was quite okay even though there was the strange tribal chanting-like music coming from nowhere. 

Thursday was spent kayaking back to Camp 2. and kayaking for six hours straight = sunburnt arms, hands, scalp, ears, face etc. but no one will ever be able to beat Namreena's striped tan due to not putting sunblock cause she "doesn't get sunburnt easily" and then wearing a long sleeve shirt that had translucent stripes. hahaha. Ahmad's advice is the best. "apply your water, drink your sunblock, eat your shit and throw your food into the sea." ha. half of the journey was spent with my eyes half-closed, tearing, trying to get sunblock out of my eyes, dealing with the aftermath of getting hit by pedals on my face twice and using Hairi's zebra-striped bandana to wipe my eyes (i swear, his bandanas are AWESOME). and the last night was spent playing 200 second games and sleeping on the concrete floor of the multi-purpose hall, trying not to freeze to death. ohoh. and we cooked our special dinner too! with our new creation, WayCool, which is fried maggie noodles with cabbage, long beans, eggs, luncheon meat and carrots-
"so what's your dish name?"
"er. our dish is called WayCool, cause it's like, way cool."
haha.

and we have the best instructor ever-
"must we really do it, Dude?"
"okay girls don't worry. you girls can do that. get it? DUDETTE?"
-inserts fainting emoticon here-
while cooking- 
"okay girls, now that the egg has dropped to the floor, throw it away. or else you'll get stomachache. get it? stomach-EGG?"
-silence, i turn to stare at him-
"omg shutup la Dude. hahahahaha."
and then when he was rockclimbing-
"whooo!! go Dude!!!!" 
-he bows and flicks his long hair-
"HAHAH whoo!!! Sunsilk!"     
today-
"ewwww!!! all the ants keep crawling on my feet!!!!"
"okay okay move away then. you're too sweet already, Angelyn. hahah too sweet? -gives us the "get it?" look-"
"omg."
and-
"what the kway teoh is that?!" and
"which is the other kway teoh who forgot to write their name?"

HAHA. :D

i miss Pulau Ubin.
i miss Mentors.
i miss Columbus.
i miss The Dude.
i miss Dayah Ahmad Jasmine and YongKang.
i miss OBS.
:)