camp!

okie. just came back from camp yesterday. tiring, but REALLY FUN. ooo loved it SO MUCH. ok. highlights of the camp:

1. 1st outdoor cooking: quite a disaster. the rain flooding our pit. disgusting, full of mud. ugh. really hard to cook. had to share fire with other patrols. food was good though, but we didn't get to eat much-no time.

2. orienteering: whoa. this one was hard. the patrol still wasn't very well bonded so we had a hard time coming to agreements. had to stay at the back to make sure none of them fell back. quite tiring, and the clues were pretty hard. for a stupid one like me of course. in the end we all went back kind of happy! botanic gardens is beautiful after all. grace was really cute. she fell in love with the black swans and when she went closer to them, one began to chase after her! she ran away screaming, of course.

3. night walk: this was supposed to be fun, but it didn't turn out to be much fun. larissa and i felt that we were more mean to them than we were scary. we kept so quiet to see if they were able to continue our conversation. it was hard for me. i couldn't laugh i couldn't talk. barely had to act. i already came up with new ideas for scary night walks like this. because i don't ever wanna do something like what i did this time. i was so mean, especially to jan. :( really heart broken. sorry ppl, it was really just acting! i didn't mean to be so mean!

everyone else was really good. larissa was great to work with! she didn't laugh or slip or anything! i really wanted to slap myself, cuz i only thought of grabbing their shirts at the later part. that REALLY freaked them. they just screamed and screamed. *raises eyebrows* i think bong and nic did a great job! we'll have lots of inside jokes from now onwards, made up a lot of them. *screams: MANAGER!*

4. first night in a tent: our tent was REALLY comfy. but my hair was really wet, cuz we bathed so late! first we had our night walk stuff to settle then we had COH! grrr.... COH would be fun if it wasn't so late. furthermore i had to pee halfway. miss tan let me go as i was the one brave [and urgent] enough to ask if i cou;d go to the toilet. didn't get to sleep with the leaders-had too many ppl in their tent. so bong and i went over to the sec 2 PLs tent! they're all really nice and sweet! love them all to bits!

in case you're wondering, e hui was the one who pulled me over. i didn't volunteer. i'm not so nice. but for e hui and clar's sake i went over. and i didn't regret it! they're all so funny and friendly! haha!

5. hike at macritchie: ok. i can't believe we survived this. 4 hours continuous walking in the rain. muddy and everthing. 11km to walk. tree top walk was only a short while. hmph. really proud of nic! *winks at nic* what surpised me was that the thing that was bothering bong was not the rain, nor the mud, nor the tiring walk itself, but the poncho! oh yes the poncho!

"this defies all fashion sense!"
"it's my most hated shade of green! yucky murky green! UGH!"
"why must i wear this?! it's so ugly!"
"stop looking at me! everyone stop looking at me!"

the funniest thing was that NO ONE was looking at her. everyone was eating their apples and pears. we were talking about the mud and stuff. and she thought she was so important that EVERYONE would be looking at and talking to her all the time. BODOH. [quotes nic] GET A BRAIN.

6. 2nd outdoor cooking: much more successful. yy, larissa, swee and i did most of it. was sharing pit with deneb. got walkie talkie before this! this was what happened:

miss tan: nic help me hold this. *passes walkie talkie to me and walks away*
*comes back*
me: miss tan! your walkie talkie!
miss tan: why? you don't want to hold it is it?
me: ... NO NO NO i want i want!!!
miss tan: then hold la!

so that's how i got a walkie talkie. *sniggers* haha. i had an obsession with it. i even brought it to the bathroom. so su yi and stef were talking and all the ppl showering could hear it. they just chose not to ;) dinner was great! except deneb's chicken was 'raw' according to miss tan. i felt really bad for them... but they still seemed to be having a lot of fun, so that was good.

7. concert: nic, kim, bong, deb and i were in charge of this. :D had loads of fun practising our songs, preparing all the stuff and watching all the groups! on the whole, i think EVERY group deserved the gummis that we gave them! you all did SO well! super proud of vega, you guys totally rocked! i'm sorry i wasn't there most of the time to support you guys... :( hope you can forgive me.

8. second night in a tent: everyone was much more tired that day. fell asleep really fast even though deb's tent was really noisy. and we thought it was the senior leaders tent. oops. sorry guys. i swore i heard nic's voice... hmmm. oh well. the sec 2s on one side of the tent woke up really early to lace the tent door cuz they said it was raining pretty heavily and the rain was coming in. their sleeping bags were wet! luckily, as we used cardboard to line the base of our tent, not much water seeped through from the ground. :D bong was really hard to wake up, as usual. had to grab her butt and shake like mad.

9. final clear up: it was fun today, taking down our tents and everything. vega had the duty of clearing up the area behind the kitchen. the rain soaked all the soil we left outside while we dug up pits for outdoor cooking so that it became mud.

i think xin ying was still a bit sleepy this morning during clear up. when we were asked by miss tan to clear the newspaper supporting the mud, she wrapped the mud up in the newspaper and threw it in the garbage bag! she kept doing that and in the end our stupid bag was so heavy we couldn't lift it! XD i walkie talkied for a trolley but we didn't have excess to any! luckily miss tan came to the rescue. she was so amused by xin ying that she couldn't stop laughing! we had a lot of fun scooping out mud and throwing it back onto the grass! our load was SO much lighter. hai yo. xin ying ah.

btw, nic has gotten her gold! nic.c!!! so proud of you dear! first leader to get gold! AAAHHHHHH! you go gurl.

yup. so that's camp for you. really loved it. i wish it would last longer! i'm already starting to miss school...