Ok I know I have not been around lately because I was nowhere near civilisation for almost 2 weeks but no worries, I'm back in one piece, along with several cuts and bruises, a small weak heart and 2kg lighter.
I remember...before this camp, I spent my time calling people up and stressing over National Review, then I had to pack my luggage the day before camp sigh...but other than that its a total blank, what I did before my camps has been erased from my brain, all except the bad memories sigh..again..The venue for this event is at Templer's Park, Rawang. It is supposed to be a NS campsite for 500++ participants but somehow they're squeezing 900++ close to a thousand people in it! All the participants are divided into 5 "villages" represented by the colours red, orange, green, purple and yellow respectively. Then the participants in each village is further divided into 5 groups e.g Yellow 1, Yellow 2, Yellow 3, Yellow 4 and Yellow 5. There are a few foreign participants from countries such as Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Zambia and Sri Lanka.
10 December 2008-
We gathered in front of our school at 5am and while waiting for others to arrive, we started to compare each other's luggages because it is a 7 day 6 night camp so we were all eager to see what each other brought. Apparently I have one of the simplest ones and my bag was one of the lightest too. When everyone arrived, we headed to SMK Damansara Utama so we can meet up with all the KSTU members(PJ side) who are also participating in this camp. First day in camp had nothing much to do, Sasa and I actually get to sleep in the dorms but we switched with 2 other girls cause Teri, Dana and Sya were sleeping in classrooms..bad move. Turns out dorms actually has BEDS and better, bigger toilets sigh.. Each classroom is divided into 2 and each half is supposed to fit in 20 girls, unfortunately Sasa and I couldn't sleep together cause I was in BK11, Sasa and Yvonne is in BK16 while the other three were in BK14. Lepaked like crazy till lunchtime cause had to wait for other state people to arrive, had lunch and er briefing and such. First day was pretty dull, assigned to our groups and my group is Yellow 5 yay!! Got chosen as group leader then started to scramble for ideas for our group name, group flag and group cheer. Finally settled with the name "B&B" which stands for Beauty and Bob, the flag shows a picture of the ever popular character of Spongebob Squarepants finally meeting the sponge of his dreams(so we drew a girl sponge too). One part of our group cheer is like :-
I love you
You love me
We are happy B&B
Living in ICC in the month of December
We will win and beat the rest
You love me
We are happy B&B
Living in ICC in the month of December
We will win and beat the rest
I didn't even know the exact words for that song till now...
I love you
You love me
We are happy family
With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you
Won't you say you love me too
You love me
We are happy family
With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you
Won't you say you love me too
After that it rained and all the participants had to squeeze under 4 canopies which was tough since we were all hot, sweaty and sticky. The boys from my division were practically drooling when they saw the Hong Kong girls haha...Then the committee started playing a song that we have to sing-along but I couldn't really get the tune because the guy behind me was singing soooo loud and top it all off, he was out of tune. That night we had the usual ice breaking, only this time we had to literally BREAK ICE and then MELT it into a bucket, whichever team that melts the most water wins. After that we had to show our group cheer and thankfully my turn is tomorrow night since it was getting late and there were 25 teams. That night I had one of the worst sleep in my life, since I was so stubborn to bring my own sleeping bag, I had to sleep on a cold hard floor freezing through the night, my body was literally shaking with cold, I even had to get up 3 times in the night to lower the speed of the fan but it doesn't seem to slow down sigh...counting the seconds till 5.30am...
11 December 2008-
After that dreadful night I finally learnt my lesson and the first thing I did was attack my group member who is sleeping in dorms to borrow me her sleeping bag since dorms have beds(hmph). Bless Siau Jia for borrowing hers... Today was the opening ceremony and it was supposed to start at 11am but we started at 12.30pm, so we all waited under the hot afternoon sun tanning our already sun-browned skin. Then Yellow village had to go for our first activity which is Wing Chun Kung Fu lesson(this activity was to replace Absailing sobsob). If I'm not wrong, Bruce Lee himself was a master of Wing Chun Kungfu, which uses the simplest of movements and minimum time to cause severe injuries. The Grandmaster even demonstrated the skill of breaking plastic chopsticks in between his collarbone when his partner striked in that area. Overall it was pretty cool though we were soaked to our skin on our way to the canteen since it was raining. At night we showed our group cheer then played this game called Mix n Match. Each group is assigned a different part of an animal, for example my group had to build 2 elephant legs using nothing but newspapers and marker pens. When the team is done, the leader had to gather on stage with other leaders who have similar body parts. When all the leaders have gathered, we had to stick the different body parts to form an animal. There was an elephant, eagle, rooster, fish and lion. The results were hilarious because most of us did our body parts in different sizes so when all the parts are joined together it would turn out like a mutated organism. After everything is over, we headed back to sleep and me gleefully sleeping in my borrowed sleeping bag wee.. Oh yes, the group leaders were told today that the next night each group have to present a group presentation, be it a sketch, dance or musical..o man...oh ya, I still have not taken my bath till now.
12 December 2008-
Woke up at 5.30am, washed up, had breakfast etc then headed for Activity B which is Water Rafting. Each little raft can only fit 6 people so since most of the group had at least 30+ members, means each group have to go about 5-6 rounds. We had to row from one end of the lake to another, make a U-turn then row back, switch place with the next set of people. Amazingly my group's first set did spectacularly, instead of maneouvering the boat around they actually turned their bodies instead which saved a lot of time. In the end my group won the race!! It was soo cool yet tricky to steer it in one direction because my group was the one on the outer left and the water ripples caused by other rafts kept affecting us.
After lunch we had Activity C which is Obstacle Course consisting of 8 obstacles. First obstacle was to jump over some pole and walking across a hanging bridge above water, second is to climb over a 7-foot wall, third is balance and walk on a high wall, fourth is monkey bar over water(I thought I'd fail this one but I didn't), fifth is swing across a pool of water like tarzan(I thought I'd fail this one too and I did), sixth is crawl through some tunnels, seventh is commando crawl and last is to climb over a 12-foot wall. This one the guys had to basically lift all the girls up, pity them...the guys in the camp really sacrificed alot. I finally had my first bath today but I sneaked off to the girl's dorm toilet cause there bigger, I went in one with a broken door but who cares la as long as it works..After dinner we had our group presentations and my group decided to do an advertisement promoting our product>>Chong Yong(my group member). It went pretty well I guess.. My group was seated in the front row on the floor and when a guy was doing some breakdance on the stage, his slipper actually flew and hit the guy on my left!! It was so funny and shocking... Some groups did well and some groups was just..a lost for words. There was more than one group doing a sketch about Digi, Maxis, Celcom and U-Mobile. One of them was so confusing till all I could do was stare at my friend with a blank look on my face. Really tiring to watch all 25 groups performing and it was also really time consuming.
13 December 2008-
Usual wake up, wash up, exercise, breakfast then Activity D which was Flying Fox and High Rope done simultaneously. One person can only do either one because there were too many people, My division people all did before so we sat in the back allowing others to try. Ended up lepaking, dancing and all anyway... After lunch we had Activity E which is Jungle Trekking. I don't mind getting down and dirty but leeches bother me a lot. Plus we started when it rained, went through some water, played at the river and walked back when the rain ended. It was sooooo cold, even colder than my first night haha..Can't really say that the trail was tough, just abit tiring cause of the steep slope but other than that it was fine. Found out how badly out of shape I was too..Had my second bath in the exact same cubicle I bathed in yesterday. After dinner we enjoyed local cultural performances performed by the participants from various states of Malaysia. My favourite was Johor's because they showed the Chinese Yo-Yo. Looks so amazing and difficult, normal Yo-Yo looks like child's play compared to this. One of the states was holding this long stick during his performances and when he swinged it he knocked out the lights above him and it shattered on the floor, it was cool yet shocking obviously, just happened out of nowhere.. Oh right, there's one performance which is hip hop and I have to say it was already pretty good as it is.
14 December 2008-
Today had to get up at 4.30am(I always get up half an hour earlier than supposed to) because after breakfast we had to be at Dataran Merdeka by 8am for National Review 2008. Thank God camp participants didn't have to stand in line because we would all fall like Dominos, we just sat and watch the whole event. Then we had City Tour which is mainly for the participants from overseas. Had lunch in Time's Square which cost a bomb then I bought souvenirs for my group members which is little Xmas tree decoration balls in yellow so I can write messages on them. When I had questions about those balls I asked the shop trainee for assistance(I knew he was a trainee cause he was wearing a tag), I gave him a box and ask what is the price for it so he left to check carrying along the box. A few minutes later ANOTHER guy showed up on my other side wearing a different shirt(under same company) and he was keeping the box I sent the first guy to check the price for! So I asked what happened to the first guy and the second guy do't know anything about it, he said something about it is a public holiday and the other guy had the day off, IF the other guy was having the day off then who the hell was I talking to earlier?! Later at the counter, the 2 people working there were moving sooo slow I was practically jumping to hurry them up, they were messing with the wrong person cause my time was nearly over and I had to get my members. Then I had a hectic time trying to gather members in Time's Square man, many were late and really hard to find them. Next stop was the KL Tower, haven't been there for years...There are many shops there now and I bought a bookmark for Eggy there haha. Didn't go up the tower because we don't have permission for it. Next stop is KLCC. First time going into a mall wearing trackpants and camp shirt. Oh ya, all the buses sending us were escorted by police, felt like a VIP! Anyway I heard a few people actually went to KLCC toilet, paid RM2 to BATHE in there, that is probably why many were late. Somehow when the time is up my group waited in our bus to leave but even after an hour we didn't even budge, turns out no bus was allowed to leave because a girl was missing...or was it a boy...either way we had to head back to campsite after that since there was no time left.
Before dinner I spent about an hour writing the messages on the souvenirs, I bought 36 balls that came in sets, gave 33 of them to my members, 1 to my group officer and the extra 2 to my room mates cause they were sort of jealous and they helped me so I give lo, didn't even get one for myself but it's alright x) .Then I bathed in the exact same cubicle again. After dinner and rest we enjoyed Campfire and International Culture Night. This time they held it in the assembly ground and it was so dark adn the ground was wet so didn't really enjoyed it. But the best thing was the committee prepared fireworks!! So beautiful to watch and what a lovely surprise for us....My body shut down when the lights went out which was weird because for the past few days I've always been the last to get back in the room and the last to sleep and all but today I was the first haha..
15 December 2008-
11 December 2008-
After that dreadful night I finally learnt my lesson and the first thing I did was attack my group member who is sleeping in dorms to borrow me her sleeping bag since dorms have beds(hmph). Bless Siau Jia for borrowing hers... Today was the opening ceremony and it was supposed to start at 11am but we started at 12.30pm, so we all waited under the hot afternoon sun tanning our already sun-browned skin. Then Yellow village had to go for our first activity which is Wing Chun Kung Fu lesson(this activity was to replace Absailing sobsob). If I'm not wrong, Bruce Lee himself was a master of Wing Chun Kungfu, which uses the simplest of movements and minimum time to cause severe injuries. The Grandmaster even demonstrated the skill of breaking plastic chopsticks in between his collarbone when his partner striked in that area. Overall it was pretty cool though we were soaked to our skin on our way to the canteen since it was raining. At night we showed our group cheer then played this game called Mix n Match. Each group is assigned a different part of an animal, for example my group had to build 2 elephant legs using nothing but newspapers and marker pens. When the team is done, the leader had to gather on stage with other leaders who have similar body parts. When all the leaders have gathered, we had to stick the different body parts to form an animal. There was an elephant, eagle, rooster, fish and lion. The results were hilarious because most of us did our body parts in different sizes so when all the parts are joined together it would turn out like a mutated organism. After everything is over, we headed back to sleep and me gleefully sleeping in my borrowed sleeping bag wee.. Oh yes, the group leaders were told today that the next night each group have to present a group presentation, be it a sketch, dance or musical..o man...oh ya, I still have not taken my bath till now.
12 December 2008-
Woke up at 5.30am, washed up, had breakfast etc then headed for Activity B which is Water Rafting. Each little raft can only fit 6 people so since most of the group had at least 30+ members, means each group have to go about 5-6 rounds. We had to row from one end of the lake to another, make a U-turn then row back, switch place with the next set of people. Amazingly my group's first set did spectacularly, instead of maneouvering the boat around they actually turned their bodies instead which saved a lot of time. In the end my group won the race!! It was soo cool yet tricky to steer it in one direction because my group was the one on the outer left and the water ripples caused by other rafts kept affecting us.
After lunch we had Activity C which is Obstacle Course consisting of 8 obstacles. First obstacle was to jump over some pole and walking across a hanging bridge above water, second is to climb over a 7-foot wall, third is balance and walk on a high wall, fourth is monkey bar over water(I thought I'd fail this one but I didn't), fifth is swing across a pool of water like tarzan(I thought I'd fail this one too and I did), sixth is crawl through some tunnels, seventh is commando crawl and last is to climb over a 12-foot wall. This one the guys had to basically lift all the girls up, pity them...the guys in the camp really sacrificed alot. I finally had my first bath today but I sneaked off to the girl's dorm toilet cause there bigger, I went in one with a broken door but who cares la as long as it works..After dinner we had our group presentations and my group decided to do an advertisement promoting our product>>Chong Yong(my group member). It went pretty well I guess.. My group was seated in the front row on the floor and when a guy was doing some breakdance on the stage, his slipper actually flew and hit the guy on my left!! It was so funny and shocking... Some groups did well and some groups was just..a lost for words. There was more than one group doing a sketch about Digi, Maxis, Celcom and U-Mobile. One of them was so confusing till all I could do was stare at my friend with a blank look on my face. Really tiring to watch all 25 groups performing and it was also really time consuming.
13 December 2008-
Usual wake up, wash up, exercise, breakfast then Activity D which was Flying Fox and High Rope done simultaneously. One person can only do either one because there were too many people, My division people all did before so we sat in the back allowing others to try. Ended up lepaking, dancing and all anyway... After lunch we had Activity E which is Jungle Trekking. I don't mind getting down and dirty but leeches bother me a lot. Plus we started when it rained, went through some water, played at the river and walked back when the rain ended. It was sooooo cold, even colder than my first night haha..Can't really say that the trail was tough, just abit tiring cause of the steep slope but other than that it was fine. Found out how badly out of shape I was too..Had my second bath in the exact same cubicle I bathed in yesterday. After dinner we enjoyed local cultural performances performed by the participants from various states of Malaysia. My favourite was Johor's because they showed the Chinese Yo-Yo. Looks so amazing and difficult, normal Yo-Yo looks like child's play compared to this. One of the states was holding this long stick during his performances and when he swinged it he knocked out the lights above him and it shattered on the floor, it was cool yet shocking obviously, just happened out of nowhere.. Oh right, there's one performance which is hip hop and I have to say it was already pretty good as it is.
14 December 2008-
Today had to get up at 4.30am(I always get up half an hour earlier than supposed to) because after breakfast we had to be at Dataran Merdeka by 8am for National Review 2008. Thank God camp participants didn't have to stand in line because we would all fall like Dominos, we just sat and watch the whole event. Then we had City Tour which is mainly for the participants from overseas. Had lunch in Time's Square which cost a bomb then I bought souvenirs for my group members which is little Xmas tree decoration balls in yellow so I can write messages on them. When I had questions about those balls I asked the shop trainee for assistance(I knew he was a trainee cause he was wearing a tag), I gave him a box and ask what is the price for it so he left to check carrying along the box. A few minutes later ANOTHER guy showed up on my other side wearing a different shirt(under same company) and he was keeping the box I sent the first guy to check the price for! So I asked what happened to the first guy and the second guy do't know anything about it, he said something about it is a public holiday and the other guy had the day off, IF the other guy was having the day off then who the hell was I talking to earlier?! Later at the counter, the 2 people working there were moving sooo slow I was practically jumping to hurry them up, they were messing with the wrong person cause my time was nearly over and I had to get my members. Then I had a hectic time trying to gather members in Time's Square man, many were late and really hard to find them. Next stop was the KL Tower, haven't been there for years...There are many shops there now and I bought a bookmark for Eggy there haha. Didn't go up the tower because we don't have permission for it. Next stop is KLCC. First time going into a mall wearing trackpants and camp shirt. Oh ya, all the buses sending us were escorted by police, felt like a VIP! Anyway I heard a few people actually went to KLCC toilet, paid RM2 to BATHE in there, that is probably why many were late. Somehow when the time is up my group waited in our bus to leave but even after an hour we didn't even budge, turns out no bus was allowed to leave because a girl was missing...or was it a boy...either way we had to head back to campsite after that since there was no time left.
Before dinner I spent about an hour writing the messages on the souvenirs, I bought 36 balls that came in sets, gave 33 of them to my members, 1 to my group officer and the extra 2 to my room mates cause they were sort of jealous and they helped me so I give lo, didn't even get one for myself but it's alright x) .Then I bathed in the exact same cubicle again. After dinner and rest we enjoyed Campfire and International Culture Night. This time they held it in the assembly ground and it was so dark adn the ground was wet so didn't really enjoyed it. But the best thing was the committee prepared fireworks!! So beautiful to watch and what a lovely surprise for us....My body shut down when the lights went out which was weird because for the past few days I've always been the last to get back in the room and the last to sleep and all but today I was the first haha..
15 December 2008-
Woke up at 5.30am, usual stuffs then watched the First Aid Competition for awhile. All the countries participated in this event. I said for awhile because after awhile I sneaked off to my classroom and had a picnic with some of my roomies, then we took a nap, got up for lunch then get ready for closing ceremony. The ceremony was pretty long but I managed to tahan through it without fainting though my legs hurt like crazy.
(Yvonne, Chong Hong, Me, Sasa)
Took a few more pics and then rush off to get ready for tonight's Gathering Night/Costume Party. I bathed at the exact same cubicle yet again...My division decided to dress the same with the theme 'Rockstar' but unfortunately we didn't win. There was even a guy dressed as Jack Sparrow!! Partied and danced like crazy but some songs kept repeating so after awhile got tired and sat down. There was this indian guy who danced with me but I left after while because he was holding his *thing while dancing(ok I understand it could be a style) but he was also staring at my b**bs! sigh....to top it all off, he was the leader of his group and his group won one of the top5 best groups! Was quite upset cause I thought my group did a good job, nvm la will try harder next time. Slept early that night too...
16 December 2008-
My God...its the last day of camp! At the beginning I thought it wasn't going to end but now that it has, I don't want it to...The place was beginning to feel like home. All my stuffs were packed before breakfast so spent time taking pictures with my group members...voila! There were tears, cheers and laughter...so sad..
(Yvonne, Chong Hong, Me, Sasa)Took a few more pics and then rush off to get ready for tonight's Gathering Night/Costume Party. I bathed at the exact same cubicle yet again...My division decided to dress the same with the theme 'Rockstar' but unfortunately we didn't win. There was even a guy dressed as Jack Sparrow!! Partied and danced like crazy but some songs kept repeating so after awhile got tired and sat down. There was this indian guy who danced with me but I left after while because he was holding his *thing while dancing(ok I understand it could be a style) but he was also staring at my b**bs! sigh....to top it all off, he was the leader of his group and his group won one of the top5 best groups! Was quite upset cause I thought my group did a good job, nvm la will try harder next time. Slept early that night too...
16 December 2008-
My God...its the last day of camp! At the beginning I thought it wasn't going to end but now that it has, I don't want it to...The place was beginning to feel like home. All my stuffs were packed before breakfast so spent time taking pictures with my group members...voila! There were tears, cheers and laughter...so sad..
(Ka Ching from HK + Me)
(Yellow 5)
B&B FOREVER
<33
(3/4 of them only)
Love you guyss...miss you all so much and remember to keep in touch y
P/S: Must pack more socks and pants because I barely had enough. Sleeping bag too...a!
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P/S: Must pack more socks and pants because I barely had enough. Sleeping bag too...a!
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