12.5.06
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COWS GO MOO !
3:38 PM
Battuta
Battuta
total strength: 16 + 1
junyin jaslin olivai huiyu val me michelle inez si'en joycelyn diana yingchen regina stephnie wangling
Instructor : KENNY leong wai seng
obs was fab. I so dont want it to end.
Day 1
reached punggol jetty at 8 and waited for some unknown reason till 9 plus. walked to the parade square where we were divded into our groups (Armstrong Amunsen Battuta ChengHo) Mich and I were in the same group but van went to Amunsen. still quite sore with Cladius for not going or else it'll be a prefect clique camp :( played some ice breaker and checked out store. collected our food rations and set off to learn how to belay. pitched tents and Kenny taught us how to pitch tents.
Day 2
We woke up around 4am to pack our food rations and clothes. Set off for camp 1 on kayak, theory was ratehr boring though. After arriving we were not allowed to bateh, only rinse our clothes of salt water and pitched tents. We had our lunch before heading of to do high obstacles. Had fun belaying though I didnt get to do the obstacles cause of an approaching hunderstorm. Dinner afterwards and Kenny taught us how to use the compass and read maps. Had night circle and watched a performance by Cheng Ho our buddy group. Rather hilarious.
Day 3
Me and Jun were the what-you-call-that, navigators? Thank god we didnt get majorly lost though Keny forgot where the clue was and we had to climb all the way to the top of Puka. jun and I had to put on a brave front (: and boy Jun can walk fast la. Kenny was sweet cause he did something. We had loads of fun during the land expedition. Reached our campsite with was pretty much land, no buildings nothing. Had to use rocks weigh the tent and fly sheet down cause ground was darn hard, therefore out tent was pretty much screwed. We were shown to out oh-so-disgusting toilet which was pretty much just rocks and sand. eww. Had dinner and met the instructors regarding the sea expedition the next day and boy was I feeding the mosquitos and sandflies. Sentuary duty was rather screwed and teh groups got mixed up, but rather fun cause we did it two groups at a time.
Day 4
The starting of day four was pretty much screwed and things didnt go as planned but thank goodness for the st nicks spirit and everyone's optimism we managed to stick to our schedule. Many apologies to everyone if I went too fast or didnt wait up long enough. I switched kayaking partners and kayaked with vanfor the rest of the journey, she was very funy and we were busy humoring ourselves amongst the dirty water. For the last 200meters van and I chionged for camp 2 and amazingly were able to reach there without capaizing on top of being the first to arrive. Well Im just glad that we completed the expedition in good timing although we didnt break the record. We cleaned the kayaks and had water fight and did ai wo shen ni ge la . Kenny looked seriously gay though :\ Pitched our tents and cooked rice. It was the last day and the atmostphere was somewhat clam and soothing and we saved rice for Kenny who later proclaimed it 'not bad la' after taking three mouthfuls. t started to drizzle and we refused to move so we took steph's jacket and 'protected' Kenny's rice. We did the Family dance for Kenny and the other instructors got jealous. HAHA. Wrote in our journals until it started to pour and had to go indoors. couldnt sleep in our tents as it was pourng very heavily and our tents were soakedo we had to sleep at the set parade square. that stupid gay guy who's name sounded like algae was darn irritating. hurr. We stole Kenny's markers(which appeared to be algae's) to make his present and he cleaverly exposed us. But Kenny was nice and totally oblivious. He walked us to teh sleeping area and switched on the fans for Battuta only (: very sweet. We decided to wake up at 4.30 so the instructors would be less suspicious but we couldnt wake up in the end. I had a hard time getting to sleep as I was darn scared and bunked in with michelle and grabbed her hand to sleep. Very grateful to WangLing for her comforting words and being there for me.
Day 5
We met Kenny at the area near the jetty at 6am for morning circle. Everyone was rather emotional cause we didnt really want to part. We talked for a long time until the sun came up and unpitched tents and checked our stored. But wangling diana and I were busy chionging kenny's present and managed to complete it in time :DDD Bt then I really didnt want to part and all and had a bloody hard time holding back my tears. kenny kinda saw hald the present and said 'if you call have anything to give to me you call can give to me now or else lets go' and we were 'oh dont have la' and his face fell :\ He was plesently suprised when he found out our present for him was rather big and all. WE ARE A BUNCH OF BLOODY SWEET PEOPLE I DARESAY. So we too a photo with our buddy watch Cheng Ho and instructors and set off after de-briefing.
I hate the feeling of knowing that you will never see a place or person again and have to live with it for a period of time, it just totally sucks. Well Kenny, if you ever read this, We'll, oh fine, I"LL MISS YOU. And of course the whole of BATTUTA.
battuta we bonded so much in shuch a short peroid of time, the bonds we have are everlasting and I wouldn't go through this with anyone else but YOU GUYS.
For its not the destination that matters but the journey.
I'm gonna think about this and cry for a long peroid of time I say. I so hate the rat race. I miss Kenny and Battuta already.
goodnight angels .