I am flaking so horribly that my arm looks diseased. I'm sorry 301, for leaving so much dead skin in your classroom. ): anyway, andrea finally brought mawpee on friday and we made it! I had to go and ask for hot water and after that, when I first shook the mixture, it went "Pfft" and it splashed onto me. andrea started laughing a lot and so we went to find meijia to get her to shake it. she shook it alright, but it splashed onto her friend instead. I'm sorry ruici! but i didn't think the mixture was that hot. We managed to succeed in making Mawpee in the end. :P It was nice and cold and delish as usual.

Oh oh, i got my first attire booking (i'm guai, ok?) and guess where? On a saturday at a bus stop near my gym training place, henry park pri. I was damn unlucky lah. It was the first saturday in so many weeks that i wore pe shorts to gym and a PIT just had to get down from that bus and book me. hmph. it's been years and years since we started wearing pe shorts to gym and i've never heard of anyone getting booked. so why was that PIT so extra? but whatever, first attire booking anyway. The PITs (most of them) are crazy this year.

odd week mondays for us is extended till 3pm for career education and that sucks. We stay back to watch boring videos and do career surveys. Oh joy. Okay, i still have to conclude my stupid yi lun wen which i just crapped through.

The formal photo of the greatest watch of all time, RGS SUI SEN 07.

Okay, i miss OBS and Sui Sen big time. It's really hard not to think about them at all. I keep looking back on those five days and a totally random moment we had will pop up in my head. And i must thank all of you sui sens for everything.

Fiona: I love you dear, you were the greatest kayaking partner. As Vanessa said "woah, you're so strong." (: Thanks for singing while paddling as it made me brighten up. You also volunteered for the jobs most ppl wouldn't do. The way you smiled in the candid photo cracked me up. I hope your burns heal soon. :D

Meijia: MJ the hairball! How will i ever forget washing together with you and andrea? LONG LIVE MAWPEE! Thanks for being brave when it comes to insects (: You are my heroine! Sorry for accidentally hitting you on the head with the empty jerry can but maybe if i didn't, mawpee would never have came about :D oh, and all the random smileys you draw everywhere!

Yenlin: My bunkmate! yeah! i still rmb how freaked out we were by the giant praying mantis in the toilet and continued staring at it for the whole time we bathed! Thanks for saying loads of crap (: and helping out whenever you could. It wouldn't have been as fun without you, i bet.

Aera: You freak out at insects too! it's nice to know i'm not the only one (: Thanks for just being there and saying the funniest things ever. It's sad to see all your sandfly and mosquito bites though. Get well soon!

Erika: I don't know if you've realized, but i think you've been really optimistic and bright in these five days! You help out whenever you can too, like when scrubbing the flithy bottles and washing them afterwards. Thanks for all that but you dumped loads of water on me though. Continue being all cheery kay?

Jan: Sweeper no. 1! haha, thanks for "volunteering" to be our sea ex leader. I know it's a horrible job to be a sweeper. You can't go ahead if you wanted to cuz you've got to chase the people behind. I really appreciate all that you've done. You've taken the initiative and helped out so much even when it's not your job. Thanks loads. You can roll your eyes really well too. (: ohoh, hope you've managed to remove all the fibreglass and your scalp heals.

Rachel: Sweeper no. 2! once again, thanks for being the sweeper. i heard that although you were grumbling, you still kept on doing your job. You've been a great help in the group too and we should "hook up and drift" again next time (: Thanks for everything! and heal soon.

Andrea: HAHAHA! You're the A in Mawpee! Thanks for making me laugh so much with ur stoning and triangular smileys and comments! You're my heroine too, cuz you chased out the humongous brown cricket in the room. I'll set a little froggy on you one day though, for laughing at me (: I'm sure that will make you wake up in less than 5 seconds. You were a great Wee too, CANT TOUCH THIS! oh yeah, don't forget to wear your fbts the right way round! i'll be seeing you around and one day, the 3 of us can laugh together again. :P

Eliza: Hello hello! I didn't think i talked much to you but i think you were really responsible at keeping the dorm keys and i hope your burns/bites heal really soon! Thanks for being one of the first to call our drink Mawpee! I won't forget that (:

Nicole: You speak really little but you're there to help almost all the time! I remember you helping in this and helping in that. Was there anything in which you didn't help at all? Thanks for that and i think you were brilliant at the triple-d. Never give up! Yeah!

Jiaying: Yoyo food-ic! Thanks for making sure we have all our cutlery so we didn't have to pay so much. (: You helped out loads. I do hope that your burns heal soon. The colour difference was so great, it must hurt a lot. Oh, and thanks for helping us to wrap our "wounds" on sea ex morning 2, we must have looked liked a really seriously injured watch! :D

Joyce: You helped to bandage our wounds too! Go red-crossers! (: I didn't talk much to you too but i've seen you help out loads. Like taking down the ponchos/tarps and hooking them back. Thanks and remember to wave to me and say hi when we meet!

Erjia: Heyy, i really think it's a pity you missed the dance auditions. You dance really well. Show us again sometime! Thanks for helping out and i'll being seeing you in class! (:

Jiayi: Again, i don't think i've talked to you much but you were really helpful, especially when we were pitching bashas. You cut lots of string for us to reinforce the bashas. Thanks!

Jingya: You helped out when cleaning stores and i hope you conquer your acrophobia. Being able to overcome your fears is a great feeling, not that i will ever feel friendly with insects. (:

there are also many many great times we had together. We played the stupid icebreakers (: peed, did sentry duty, joked, pitched bashas, queued to bathe and eat, wrote journals, climbed, talked, laughed :D, bobbed, kayaked, got burnt and bitten and cut, complained, grumbled, woke up, slept, packed, washed, cleaned, checked stores, ate rations on the sea, chionged, koped heaven tables, screamed in the first dip, wrote on butcher sheets, sang, clapped, dried cutlery, drank mawpee, ran, cooked, lived and did so much more together. It's really sad to think that these five superb days we had together have passed by so fast. It was very very fun and great to be able to go through OBS with you girls and i'm extremely thankful for that. I wouldn't want to have it any other way. Love you all! Don't forget to say hi when we meet in the corridors or canteen. (: and I want us to meet up again someday. I don't know when, but definitely someday.

I really really love you Sui Sen, and my watch still beeps at 4.30 am everyday ;)

hello! i'm back again cuz i don't know where to write this but i don't want to forget it. Anyway, OBS was really really fun. (:

Day 1 15 Jan 07
around 13 ppl of 309 was sent to the wrong jetty by the stupid boatman. We were in Camp 1, Residential but he stupidly sent us to the jetty for Camp 2, Mobile. So after walking across the loooonnnggg jetty and climbing a pretty steep slope, we reached the wrong camp. Got kinda pissed as i was lugging along this really gigantic bag which made me look like a turtle. But we got sent back to the resort-lookalike Camp 1.

Groupings were quite weird at first cuz the whole of 309 and 315 were spilt into Barker, Tock Seng, Washington and my beloved Sui Sen. Everyone was like "huh? isnt OBS for class bonding?" but later on, everyone bonded and it was great. :D anw, we met our instructor Chu Ai whom we thought looked quite fun at first but turned out to be really serious. we checked our store and laid out the bed mattresses on our bunks before going to the cookhouse for lunch. The food was good for camp food. (: We played some ice-breaker games before belaying practice. The falling game or whatever it's called was pretty fun. You call out to your grp to make sure they're ready to catch you on the mat and you fall backwards. If you don't trust you watchmates, you wouldn't be able to fall so ya, trust. (: The calls went like "Sui sen, are you ready?" Then the ppl below go "Sui sen ready, sui sen pull!" It's ok for our grp name but what about Danabalan or Nila Utama or De Gama? I bet they would have sounded damn funny. So after that, we had belaying prac. We learnt a very impt thing there, NEVER let meijia belay you if ur climbing sth really high or dangerous. Your life could be in danger. She was belaying yenlin i think and when she went "squeeze check", she squeezed the carabiner and it wasn't locked! x) We practiced pictching a basha and it turned out somewhat screwed. lucky we didn't have to sleep in it that night. At night, we bathed, ate dinner and attended some funny medical talk. The male nurse who briefed us kept going "Basically... basically..." and lots of us were laughing. Had a night circle thingum after the briefing and we talked about non-philosophical stuff before chu ai came. Went to have supper (green bean soup) and sleep after the night circle.

Day 2 16 Jan 07
We had to wake up bloody early (5 am) in order to make it for physical training at like 5.55 am. I think our watch arrived slightly late though. The warmups and exercises were all pretty lame but tiring. The run was urghh. wished i could stop running because of my stitches but completed it. We had kayaking lessons after breakfast and it was fun and disgusting. Kayaking with your partner was fun, but going into and capsizing on purpose into the flithy sea and getting gravel and sand into your shoes are positively disgusting. We also had a taste of how heavy kayaks could be, how tough going against the current is and how far it can push you. Fiona and I were trying to keep up with Chu Ai so we paddled really hard against the current. However, we turned our heads and realized that we had been stuck in that same spot for the past few minutes! We hadn't moved from the line of the palm tree at all. We found out later after rinsing that we would be going for a sea expedition the next day. We would be paddling all the way to SEMBAWANG lah. It looked extremely far on the map they showed us. What's more, we would be going AGAINST the tide for around 6 hours. Freaky. after the briefing, we packed our rations tents ponchos mess tins into the 2 plastic bins. After dinner, we went for the Vertical Challenge Activity. We were supposed to climb these two climbing structures and get points. We also had to set a goal. Ours was 2500 points. so we started climbing. Meijia yenlin fiona me erika erjia jiayi and jingya did the snake and ladder one first. Other than the first connection being a little hard, it was quite okay. Fiona nearly forgot to wear her helmet before climbing! lol However, we watched the people doing the triple-d and they looked like they were struggling. We were all like "oh dear, i don't think we can reach our goal." Surprisingly, after a few more people climbed, we started to chalk up loads of points (: Meijia Fiona me Eliza Nicole and a few others managed to complete the triple-d, which was logs strung above each other horizontally. It was really hard to pull yourself up we realized. But we kept cheering each other on. Nicole was so good! She only managed 3 logs the first time round but she didn't give up and when she tried again, she finished the whole thing! yay nicole and yay everyone cuz we exceeded our grp goal by like 1150 points! we got 3650 points in the end! and andrea's triangular smiley! we had night circle and had to pack our personal belongings for the sea ex. Everyone passed forward their own ziploc bag and andrea started squeezing them into the bin. It wouldn't fit so we had to repack over and over again.

Day 3 17 Jan 07 - Sea expedition day 1!
woke up at 4.30 cuz we had planned to set off at 8 plus in order to make full use of the good tide. The four sea ex grps gathered and we had a briefing and everyone had to say one word of blessing. i said "DINNER!" then we set off. Tze qing melanie and laura/carolyn were our navigators. Beatrice and laura/carolyn were our left markers, li hui and yishan right markers and jan and rachel sweepers. Fiona and i tried to stay with jan and rachel to accompany them but i think we didn't half the time. sorry! anyway, for the first part of the journey, channel crossing, we saw like a million dead fish floating around. It was DAMN gross. After that, we just had to follow the navigators in a diamond formation but it didn't really work cuz the fast were too fast and the slow too slow. We kept trying to ask them to stop but the difference was too big. We passed punggol jetty and since jan and rachel were behind trying to get ppl to hurry up, we joined them and kept "hooking up to drift". We sped up later in order not drift back so much while we ate lunch. Lunch for us was... a kaya bun! Fiona and I paddled really hard, then stopped and took a bite. then we paddled and stopped again for another bite and so on. Poor fiona started getting sunburnt as i think she had sensitive skin. I had rolled up my sleeves to not get a funny tan but it didn't really work. The breakwater part was so loonngg and really got lots of us down. no matter how hard we paddled, it seemed like we were still at the same place. of course, the tide against us was really strong then. oh, and i had to pee in the water. feels weird :/ so anyway, we paddled for like 8-9 hours or 22km before reaching sembawang where we set up camp. i realized i was sunburnt only when i reached shore. -.- i kept on bobbing too. Chu Ai taught us how to cook first and my gas lighter came in handy! Then some ppl went to cook dinner while the rest of us pitched bashas. Our first basha turned out really great. The top of it didn't sag at all. the 2nd one was almost as good. (: I think our tents looked the best out of all the rest. we had to finish the 2nd one in the dark though. we had dinner which i guess was passable. crunchy rice with curry chicken mushrooms and anchovies. we had to pee in the grass and change under ponchos. it must have been the dirtiest day of my life. Eight of us slept in one basha and we were packed like sardines. i couldn't turn if i wanted to and woke up every hour. Sentry duty was scary. the ppl before us was like telling us there are wild dogs there there and there! like under the kayaks and it was freezing.

Day 4 18 Jan 07 - Sea expedition Day 2!
we had peanut butter bread for breakfast and packed up. packing up was funny. heh (: i didn't want to get sunburnt anymore so i wore long pants and a shirt with quite long sleeves. then i wrapped the remaining part of my arm with a shirt and towel. but they got soaked and felt like weights. the journey back was much better, the tide just pushed us forward and we reached in a mere 3 hours. we managed the diamond formation too cuz the fast ppl waited. Some ppl like lihui and yishan got caught in fishing lines and most ppl got swept towards the kelong. Fiona and i nearly got stuck there but we escaped. we rafted up against the speedboat while waiting to go to shore and fiona and i were thinking that if we were the last, we wouldn't have to carry kayaks. so we tried to be the last. while waiting, i talked to my cousin's cousin, kristabella. i think it was the first time in 2-3 years we actually talked. (: we had to go to shore at last but we still had to help carry. pooh. oh, we couldn't do jetty jump as well. ): but after unloading everything, we had to carry it all up to the dorms. we decided it was stupid to carry up all the water in the bottles up so we had a water fight. We just splashed water at each other and got really soaked but it was super fun. we brought all the stuff up and had to wash them. erika meijia and i washed the bottles and jerry cans. Then later, when we had to wash the tarps and groundsheets, meijia, andrea and i had a very painful experience. we laughed for at least one solid hour till our throats and stomachs hurt. The three of us just laughed and laughed and laughed while washing. Washing was never so fun (: The story goes like this. Andrea and i held up the tarp while meijia put her thumb under the tap and sprayed. then andrea went "meijia, stop peeing!" and we started laughing. it just went on and on till ppl told us to shut up. it was very very fun and funny :D whats more, during dinner, meijia brought out a pack of orange juice powder and we laughed again. concentrated pee! we made it and it tasted really good. so i thought we should name it. it was at first WAMPEE but then we changed it to MAWPEE! cuz Meijia Andrea Wanting and everyone would go "i want MAW pee!" the more you drink, the maw you pee! Haha. and so the name stuck. meijia even split it all over herself while laughing. i think everyone thought we were crazy. yilin even asked me whether i hit my head. we had our last circle and everyone had to read out from their journal. it's kinda sad but it wasn't the end yet. we got or photos too. yay! fiona looks spasticated and meijia was a hairball. heh.

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