Sec 3 OBS

Back from OBS. 5 days 4 nights. Was with more than half my class in a group called Dhanabalan (don't even know who he is, juz noe he's some minister)

Day 1-
Got to skool same time as usual, took a bus to some ulu punggol jetty then got onto those OBS bumb-boats. Went to camp 1 so we were residential, 2 nights in bunks and 2 nights in bashas (mobile ppl had 4 nights in tents). Our instructor/trainer was Cindy and so first we did some admin stuff lik taking away ur wallets and handphones and doing a little bit of icebreakers. Lunch was at the canteen, had catered food which consisted of rice, 3 dishes and a soup. Food tasted ok, similar to the dining hall one. After lunch was kayaking. where we fisrt learned some drills such as capsizing before going for a 2 to 3 hour trip to Pulau Ketam (Crab island), cutting thru the mangroves halfway before going back to camp 1. Heard Manek capsized 6 or 7 times. Nightime was dinner in the canteen again and we got our rations for the next 2 and a half days.

Day 2-
Morning and some part of the afternoon was spent doing some activities about trust, like blindfolding urself up and ur friend leading the way. After that was learning how to belay and then doing something like rock climbing but vastly different from it. Lunch was at the canteen again. Then we camped to camp 2 carrying our heavy bagpacks which was somehow straining my lower back and we managed to get to camp 2 in 23 minutes (record time according to Cindy), berting her other groups' record of 24 minutes. We cooked rice for dinner which was slightly undercooked and anchovies in chilli and mushrooms with minestrone soup. We also pitched our baashas. Dinner was considered quite good for first or second timers and then we intended on taking a powder bath but after looking at the female shower cubicles in the far end of the campsite with proper doors and of camp 1 standard, we decided to have a shower. After that we decided to sleep...
12.30 am. Woke up feeling wet on my socks and shirt. Realised that it was raining. We moved over to the holding area where we slept on tarps on the hard concrete floor for the next 5 hours. Very hard...

Day 3-
Woke up at 6am and ate breakfast, changed and went to do business (big) in the cleaner ladies toilet. Then headed off 1 hour behind schedule at 9am. We started trekking around Ubin Island, looking for yellow plates on the way. Halfway,...

To be continued...again

School- Sec 3

School's started again. Feel a little wierd, waking up at 6.15 every morning. 3J this year, 28 ppl in class, 3 scholars. It's been quite ok so far, the only major difference is the new teachers and the non geepers, which seem to have quite different characters from the us, more rowdy and noisy (doesn't apply to all). FT is Mrs Ho Wai Lin and many of the teachers teaching us this year are quite un-GE and quite new. Classes have been quite ok so far, except for Geography. Mrs Yak is our geog teacher and my class is so wierd that I dunno hu I can do project work with. Anyway OBS is next wk and I haven packed my bags yet.
Kudos and have a good year ahead.