Sunday, August 06, 2006
sports trip was really enjoyable. those 3days 2 nights were just wonderful days. with the accompany of retarded lingli and also zhixi and gillian. they are just so fun to be with. and i enjoyed being in group 9. and i cannot help but must say something about the trip at bintan.
day 1, thursday, 3rd august 2006:
all 190 of us assembled at the forum, getting ready to set off for the journey. after some briefing and taking of attendance, we board the buses and we were on our way to tanah merah ferry terminal. when we reached the ferry terminal, we cleared the customs and boarded the ferry, and we started the sports trip. then we reached bintan and we went to the nirwana function room to have some reflection activities. then we set off for the various activities. hiking (mountain climbing), dragon boat/kayaking, and team building. well, my group started off with hiking, and we had to have our lunch on the bus. it was so cramped in the bus and so warm inside. to think we had to have our PACKET lunches on that particular transport. we reached our destination in around 45 mins, and we had to walk to the mountain, which was mount bintan. and we started climbing the mountain. i must say, climbing the mountain was not an easy job at all.
with the steep and slippery slopes, and any time you might just slip and fall and go WOAH, I THINK I ALMOST ROLLED DOWN THE MOUNTAIN. hah. i think clumsy lingli has like almost 10 major slips and falls. hahah. i had one really terrible fall while stepping on rocks to cross the small stream. i landed on my butt, because the rocks were simply just too slippery. all of us were practically grabbing on to any branches or trees we see around us when going up and coming down. we even grabbed roots that were found on the ground because the slopes were simply so steep, like almost 60 to 70 degrees, and there were no trees and branches around. so we just clinched our fingers into the mud and gripped hard on the roots. and i really must say that lingli is retarded. throughout the whole mountain, she kept shouting out "go lingli! eh. who shouted for me?" and everyone were like thinking that she was super duper noisy. joey was so funny. she kept saying that she's scared but she kept laughing and singing. haha. cool climb to me. yeah, but we all thought that the climb was a great experience, and a very good training for us.
then we went straight to bintan lodge from where we were, and we went back on the same crampy bus. everyone were so weared out that when they boarded the bus, they went straight to sleep. except for lingli, me and zhixi. we were talking so much crap. jokes, lame riddles and all. the whole journey was filled of our wonderful laughters. HAHAHAHA.
well, we've reached bintan lodge and we thought that it was quite a good place to stay in. i stayed in room 1006. by the time we reached the room, we had half an hour more to bathe. which was obviously not enough time for 5 or 6 of us. but the rest managed to bathe except for me. i bathe after we come back from dinner and debrief/reflection, during free time. but good thing is i could take my own sweet time to bathe. well, during the debrief/reflection, each group had to nominate a spokesperson to tell the rest about the activities we did that day. and i was the one for my group. so yeah, i stood up and told everyone what happened, what we did, how we felt, and all. one thing i didn't really understand, was i really funny? everyone kept laughing at me when i was talking. and they said i was really funny when expressing. stated by amandalau "whatever came into your mind, you just said it out." did i really do that? ): hmm. even miss lim was sort of laughing and smiling. but ya, it was fun though. :D and then we all went to sleep. i slept in the room together with shuwen, suwen, weiling, haoyi and tiffany. haoyi, tiffany and shuwen slept on the bed while the rest slept on the floor. it was really so cold alright. i woke up at 1.30am and really couldn't take it, so i went out to the sofa to sleep. and yes, one day is over like that, it was rather fast to me.
day 2, friday, 4th august 2006:
a new day started and more fun was to come, and i looked forward to it. well, we had breakfast real early, and we set off for the various activities again. our group, GROUP A, went for team building. and clumsy lingli fell for the second game which was called spongebob squeezy pants. she ran to the sea, trying to collect water for the group, but she slipped and fell. she was sort of like racing with lihuang, and she said to lihuang "yes, i faster that lihuang!" and whoops she fell. lihuang was alright. but pamela wanted to sort of help her, but she also landed into the water. lingli had several scratches. poor thing. then after that, we had this blindfold game, which we could actually see through the blindfold. haha. our group had to choose a leader and a victim. the point of the game is that the rest of the group members have to be blindfolded, and listen to the leader, and then we had to lift the victim up and then carry her back. first round, lingli was the leader and zhixi was the victim. second round, i was the leader and gillian was the victim. it was sort of a stupid game i thought. because we could see through the blindfolds. lol. okay. but anyway, we carried on with some other games, and then we went back to the lodge to have lunch.
after lunch, we went back to the same place to do dragonboat and kayaking. those were rather fun i should say, but yet tiring to the arms. my group sat the boat called blackjack, and we kept on winning, even though watermelon cheated a lot. ahha. but ya, it depended very much on teamwork. as for kayaking, we did it in pairs. i paired up with zhixi. and i should say that we worked rather well together. kayaking is fun i thought. yeah. but we didn't get to capsize. hm. but we still enjoyed ourselves. i ended up getting some sunburn on my face, arms and legs, and i had sock tan.):
pictures of group 9 dragon boating. and zhixi and i kayaking. if you're wondering why i could take these photos, remember lingli fell? so she couldn't do these water activities, so she could help me take photos! :D hah. thanks cloooomsy lingli!
after these 2 activites, we went back to the lodge to bathe and wash up. well, this time, we only had 15 mins to let 5 or 6 people bathe. and it's the same group of people, including me. well, i didn't even have the time to go to the toilet. and we rushed out of the room to assemble at the carpark. and we set off to nirwana resort hotel for the BBQ dinner. once we reached there, i rushed to the toilet. and then we went on to the beach. and there, we had our BBQ dinner. it wasn't a bad dinner, but just not filling. the food was not enough for the 200+ of us including the instructors and teachers. but still managed to get some food. and we took many many photos. 2hope too! our first class photo.
don't we look so cute?
then we had to start the campfire, which was on the beach. cool isn't it? and we had some singing and some cheering and some chacha and some tango. and retarded lingli just kept playing with the sand. she kept on 'burying' the lightstick and expected me and gillian to find it. and it was just as easy as 1,2,3. ahhh. then we splitted up into our different groups and we started to create our own cheers. well, our group didn't win, but we enjoyed the time. and after that, we went back to the lodge and yes, we get to bathe. then we went to sleep. i slept on the bed this time, together with weiling and suwen. (:
day 3, saturday, 5th august 2006:
boring day, also the last day at bintan. ): well, in the morning, we had some reflection about the camp and CCA, and then some free time and packing up. and we had some a.gym team programme. announced the 2007 commitee. then some unhappy things happened, and we had a great cry. nat, joy, peiqi, veron, tina and me, we all cried. but i shall not talk about it. it was something that i can't really explain. so yah. and then we went to the ferry terminal and did some shopping around. and we boarded the ship and went back to singapore, our homeland. haha. :DD
well, i really loved group 9. especially lingli, zhixi and gillian. (: we really had a great time together. :D
i love this shot so much alright. the wind comes whoooooof at our faces(:
