beautiful disaster
this is starrystarrytwenty
"No, there is no escape.
There is no heaven with a little hell in it -
no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets
Out Satan must go, every hair and feather."
- GEORGE MACDONALD
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen:
not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
- C.S. LEWIS
Sunday, May 28, 2006
instructors oei!!
haha.. first ting: eyez healed totally.. my visionz fine.. (:
to the point that i keep forgetting to apply the medicine..
anywayz.. the highlight of the week would be friday nite.. and i mean thur the nite.. haha..
from 9pm to 11am.. yes thru the nite.. i attended an initiation camp to be an instructor with the events company outdoors consultants.. it was a camp to make sure only those who had the quality became an instructor.. (: hafiz and hamzah got a flyer asking for interested camp instructors.. so yar.. karen, eddison, james, alif and sharizal from sb and i answered hafizz call.. haha.. more wld have made it but we all only knew a day b4 the camp..
we met at the stadum and we went to their office..
theyre office is like a shop house located next to the jalan basear stadium..
we were registered.. waited for more people to arrive..
were spilt into 3 teams.. i was with james and eddison in team1..
had a short lesson on being a good instructor and the history of the company..
then we had a little lesson on bellaying.. then went behind to a rock wall they set up to get a feel of it..
then came the hike.. a sUper lONg hike..
it was like an amazing race kinda thing with pitstops and tasks to do.. and the team to reach first would most likely become recuited by OC.. there were 11 people in the group.. my group members were mostly from nyp.. haha.. SBM club members.. only 2girls, sisters, dolly and dora were from NUS.. one in her first year of law and the other starting her first year in architechture soon.. then the 3 of us from sw of coz.. (:
first task: solve a mathematic problem..
we cld solve it any way along the trek..
first stop: katong park
task: had to look for an important war site and find out the history of the park..
second stop: start of east coast parkhad to use the bearings and distance given to us to find the location of this place..
we werent told it was east coast park of coz.. had to find out from the map..
topography basically..
task: find out the third stop from the riddle given.. then find the bearing and distance from the start of east coast park.. haha..
third stop: the sea sports club
task: had to find the next stop by using the bearings and distance given..
fourth stop: end of some road.. haha..
itz near the runway of changi airport..
task: to count the number of lights on the runway.. bleah.. there were 36.. haha.. some girl with great eye sight counted.. haha..
fifth stop: outside the gate of the fire station at changi airport..the clue given was E2A along with bearings and a distance..
task: to grab 4 pipes abt a metre long and a diameter of 8cm.. plus 2 hula hoops..sixth stop: a bus stop somewhere near the changi ferry terminal
the clue given was "recruit, get ready to go on board" along with bearings and distance given.. again..
task: solve a suduko puzzle..and this point in time we've been walking for the past 8hrs.. haha..
my bum feels sO tight, sounds different when smacked.. haha..
so our grp used the fast foward for the last leg..
basically u had to answer a couple of qns and the van will drive the whole team to the next stop..
the qns were: what was the word that lee kuan yew said with his fist pumped into the air when singapore merged with malaysia.. ans: merdeka.. i answered.. haha..
when they gave the clue it started with 'm'.. people started wild guessing.. haha.. merlion.. majulah.. merger.. haha.. the instructors were laughing their heads off..haha..
anywayz.. the fast forward took us to our next stop..
last stop: changi beachupon reaching..
we were asked to pitch the 2tents that we carried since the start of the trek..
only ting is that 6 of the 11 of us wld have to be blind folded.. the rest wld have to stand aside not allowed to touch the tents or any of them.. only direct..
man.. u have to be sUper specific w instructions.. haha.. aft that task, my voice went manz.. haahaa..
we were given abt an hr or more rest aft that.. breakfast was provided.. nasi lemak and teh-si.. we sw were sitting in a grp.. cant help it aft being separated the whole nite.. haha..
got to know james has quite good leadership qualities and getting lost w him will be no sweat coz he can sO navigate.. haha..
then we took a small written test..
then unpitched the tent.. haha.. returned all the equipment that we carried like mass tins and stuff.. and then prepared for some water games..
i changed from my sw tee into my crescentian tee..
we made a circle holding hands.. all the grps.. walked into the sea til neck level..
we were made to sing majulah singapura while walking clockwise, later twinkle twinkle little stars the other way.. haha.. quite fun.. first time in a long time since i sang the national anthem.. havent forgotten the words.. haha...
we had an obstacle course.. had to do druken sailor with the pipes we carried, 20 rounds.. then go on to jump side to side over the length of another pipe.. then do the drunken sailor again 10 times.. swim into the sea to a marker(mind u it was quite deep, and i had no goggles on.. first time i swam free style with my head above the water.. didnt know i cld do that.. (: hurhur) then swim back to ur team then the next person will go on..
i finished the same time as the other two boys in my turn, and even when they cheated on the drunken sailor.. haha.. :D my quats are like sUper tired adding on to the already tired hamstrings and bums.. haha.. it was really fun tho..
it ended aft the water games.. were invited to a bbq later that nite near sembawang camp, but had to attend aunt emilyz bbq.. so too bad..
sw pepz had a bath, then we headed to tampinies mall, had lunch and took neo prints.. heehee~
wonderful experience.. :D