PHOTOS!!




1st day:

we reached school around 7.00am and took a bus to punggol jetty, where we took a boat to OBS camp 1.



me, shermaine and qingyuan on the boat. atiqah. marissa, naz and khai are in the background.





when we reached camp 1, we had a briefing and we put our bags at our bunk, which was the one RIGHT AT THE TOP! i was quite exhausted by the time we reached the top it was like climbing up a hill and my bag was so heavy! but after walking up and down for 5 days i got used to it. we then gathered near the medical centre and took a watch photo!



all of us on the first day with daniel at the Inverse Tower.



all of us with a retarded daniel at the inverse tower. we were shouting his name and he just came and lay himself on the ground!




the next activity was rock climbing! daniel climbed once for a demonstration and it looked so damn easy! i tried and i think i climbed only 3m before falling. gosh, it was way harder than i thought. mine and jiaxin's hands were aching like anything.





me, shermaine and jiaxin at the hall during rock climbing.




there was this part when jasmine was climbing and cihui was the belayer. jasmine fell off and cihui was supposed to support her. in the end, cihui was off the ground and some of us had to pull her down! haha it was quite fun la. the same thing happened to me too when i was belaying shermaine.





5 ppl trying to pull cihui down!



5 of us holding cihui down again. jasmine is the one hanging in the air.




we did dinner duty and that night didn't really turn out to be good cause we did not meet the lights-out time. erm, dont really want to elaborate furthur but we slept around 12am.




2nd day:

we assembled outside the training hall at 6.30am. had flag raising, morning jog, 5 exercises, some games and morning circle. we had kayaking and all of us had to learn how to capsize! i was quite scared initially but after capsizing, it turned out to be quite simple. it was a very quick process though. 1 second you are in the water and the next second your head is out of the water and you are floating already. daniel sprayed us all with water after we finished kayaking cause we dint have time to shower. so we just rinsed and changed to get ready for the next activity which was at the inverse tower.


the first thing i thought when i saw it was 'WOW'. it was definitely not going to be easy if you try attempting to climb it. we were supposed to pair up with your buddy to do this challenge - in this case sherm was my buddy! so we climbed together la. lols.




me and sherm climbing up the rope ladder on the inverse tower challenge!



inverse tower!




3rd day:

it was our watch's turn to lead morning pt. valencia, sherm and me lead with the warm ups. it was quite fun leading morning pt as a watch. we had breakfast and went to the Indiana for the Indiana Arts Festival. each group had to act out a skit or song, to show what kind of characteristics a good leader should have. it was damn hot that day and the instructors were just under this shade thing from IKEA.





from left: hiap loh, choon and daniel. they were having a good time under the shade while we were boiling under the hot sun! the leaf shade was cute though. we emerged 4th for our skit and got ovaltine biscuits as our prize. not bad, it was considered a luxury there:)



us after our skit on the Inidana



us and daniel at the Indiana. he was being gay and clinging on the eunice. i have no idea why.




after that we were involved in other activities like the team ski, team link, matchstick game and find a tree. greace was so funny can! were were to be blind-folded and walk together to find the tree that we had chosen. halfway grace was like "let me go see my root there or not". blind folded and she knows where there are roots! i think she can go be a gardener she would be a very accomplished one! haha.



team ski!



matchstick game.



after our dinner we had a briefing in the classroom for our sea expedition the next day. the SEE-X leaders from ENG SOON were valencia and qingyuan:)




SEE-X expedition leaders.


briefing all three watches - ENG SOON, Ghandi and Dhanabalan in the classroom.




4th day:

the day of our see expedition! excited as we were, we still had to get alot of things done. we had to carry our life vests, two 2litre bottles, our paddles and kayaks all the way to the shore. we set off at 9am. after kayaking a few hours we got tired, and it began to drizzle. suddenly we saw a WHOLE rainbow!! i LOVE rainbows! haha. so it was like a positive thing that we saw a rainbow, and i think all of us felt better and thought more positively.

a WHOLE rainbow! it was just AWESOME:))

another rainbow!

so much for the happy times! we had to enter a magrove swamp as it was stated on the map. we had to kayak throught this small passage way in a single file and there were 5 dogs at the sides barking at us! as we got deepper we had to stop at this point where we pulled our kayaks out of the swamp, bring it across the road, and back into the swamp on the other side. it was very very physically challenging, all of us had mud on our legs and hands. most had mud on their clothes and life vests too. daniel put mud on his face la! one word for it: YUCK.

video of some ppl trying to carry one kayak. it was damn hard cause the mud was so soft and sticky! it was very hard to walk some shoes were stuck inside! we managed to get all 23 kayaks across the road and back to the swamp on the other side.

we finally crossed the road and got the kayaks back into the other side of the swamp! all of us were muddy, and so were the kayaks.


after getting back into our kayaks and into the other side of the swamp, sherm and i realised that our kayak had a crack at the bottom and water was coming into our kayaks. but VERY SLOWLY. we weould bail the water out and the next 3 seconds more water would appear. once, the water was level with my seat! it was damn scary and we were afraid of capsizing. i want to thank liqin, yanti, crystal, delia, abigail, lynnette and all those who helped us in one way or another. im sorry to sherm for being angry. realised communication is very important.



we stayed up late to make daniel a card and to write him a song. all 16 of us were on 5 mattresses on the floor. it was quite a funny scene. it was way past 11pm so we turned off the lights and used torchlights instead. all of us were getting ready to lie on the mattresses if daniel came in. so many false alarms. a few of us would think that he was coming and we would pretend to sleep, but the person who came in was just one of our watch mates. daniel came at around 12am and it was so unexpected. cause usually he would open the door quietly, but that day he just opened it and walked in. all of us got a shock and we just lay on our mattresses. we were giggling can haha and it was so obvious we were awake. daniel was like " pretend pretend only arh". then he was like "oh sorry, i tripped accidentally" and he fell on jasmine, sherm and me la! it was so obvious he did it on purpose. he returned sherm's camera after he fell "ACCIDENTALLY", so i assumed he knew that we wouldnt be sleeping.



shall blog somemore another time.

♥Bid Farewell