Note: This post is really HUGE and LONG and I have been writing it for more than an hour. Its not completed yet but it will still take you like at least 15 mins to read it. I shall continue later. Oh and one more thing. The colouring is abit... so um u might just spoil your eyes. Whoops. my bad.
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WOOHOO YEEHA YEA YEA YEA YEA LALALALALALALA WOOOOO AHHHHHAAAAAAA LALALA PING PING PING DOING WHOOSH WADILALILALALALALLA DIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUU BAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMM BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH POOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRR PAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRR POOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOING EEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR WHISH WOSH WAAAAZAAAM BLAM BLAM BLAM POINK POINK POINK BING BONG PEEEEETOTOTTOTOTOTOTOTOTO POINTIA DIIIISSSSSHHHHH PINKYWONKYWATTALALA...
ok i think that is enough.
oh and for the clueless, ATC stands for concen... i mean ADVENTURE TRAINING camp.
Ok how would i describe ATC...
ubin water
yup
ooooh instructors
and of course POCARI SWEAT
ok wadever
I know i usually dun recount what happens on a day but heck tis aint a normal day.
Day one of ATC was super fun NOT.
I thought ATC was gonna be bad
i underestimated it.
DONT DA PAO CHICKEN RICE FROM CHANJI JETTY.
ITS HORRIBLE.
PITCHING TENT WAS STUPID. We had a REALLY ROCKY ground to pitch the stupid tent and its like sia to drive those pegs in. the stupid inner shit i mean sheet wont go in the damned poles.
Of course our tent was really screwed up
Good news of course is that we didnt sleep in the tent we made so we saboed some one ppl =D.
Of course the "BEST" part of the whole camp was the instructors
They have really... interesting logical assessment of things.
YOU ARE ONE SQUAD
ONE FOR ALL ALL FOR ONE
SO WHY SOME PEOPLE PUT PONCHO ON WATER BOTTLE SOME PEOPLE PUT WATER BOTTLE ON PONCHO?!?!?!
WTP MAN
I felt like walking over and pouring my supply of ubin water on them.
I will talk about ubin water later. Its the...crux of this ATC.
That was just stupid.
You wont understand how horrible the instructors can get unless u see them. They scold still can but they scold us over really STUPID things.
Sleeping in the tent sucks. The ground is ROCKY. Come on. Its freaking hot in there. Nonsense.
The "games" were ok but its still kinda gay. Cant be borthered to elaborate.
We got CI Leang Keeiat from neaw toawn as our instructor for group 5. Hes generally quite ok. Btw, if an instructor is ok, hes probably one of the best in the whole camp COZ THE INSTRUCTORS SUCK (whoops um...lets hope they dont read this =D). He can seriously do funny stuff too... if hes in the mood that is.
I seriously cannot describe how horrible the first day was...
Like what was the only fun thing that day?
MOVING THE DAMNED RATIONS FROM THE SEC 3 CAMP TO THE SEC 2 CAMP WITH A TROLLY. HOW FUN CAN THAT GET.
Ok it was reasonably fun since we went upslope and downslope but heck. Really how fun can moving a trolly be. Think about it and then think about what i said about moving the trolley is the most fun thing for day 1.
I shall now put behind one of the most horrible days of my life. Ok thats not the correct word. most TORTUROUS. Yup that works.
Ok 12 midnight. Pass day 1 so not considered day 1 anymore LOL. B4 sleeping ppl in our tent (I dare say the BEST combo ever coz we're a bunch of crap talkers =D), the other ppl from mah tent, tent ten (pun not intended though we made a few puns out of that.) couldnt sleep (only darveed simm slept at 12+. I slept at 1+ and im like 2nd out of 6).
Did some really stupid things. Spammed some rong ting thingy dun borther to try to understand =D. Lol keep singing stupid songs and really hilarious. Like twinkle twinkle little star. Most ppl would just say SHUDDUP if someone started singing but this group, everyone starting singing along =D.
The tent opposite ours, the one with bent ung and keyane teao, kept telling us to shuddup. Like we will lol. Then they did stuff like throw rocks at our tent then we sang back louder. Really funny (to us =D). Yea this morning i was also told from tent 9 "Tent ten cannot shuddup one night time keep singing".
Yea finally i slept but had to wake up a 3 for sentry duty.
It was ok actually. Learnt some stuff that MIGHT be useful.
but the nice stuff isnt the duty itself. Its the scenery.
Seriously ubin at night looks SUPER NICE.
There are like ALOT of stars in the sky. In Sg you can barely see one. Apparently coz Sg too much air pollution + that was a cloudless night. The horizon looks nice coz there is like no light but beyond the horizon at Malaysia area can see the light from there and it looks cool.
Yea.
Oh and after sentry duty we were forced to fill our bottles with the UBIN WATER. Say yuck.
Retuning back to main area for sec 2 camp, 6 girls were getting scolded for bathing. WTP the instructors are seriosuly unreasonable. Like the other camps i attended wake up in the middle of the night to bathe no big deal wad. Later bathe then got congestion. WTP la. They scold them like siao la.
Heck.
And i know this post i far too boring for a TRCT post.
as such i bring you the morning of DAY 2
Ok actually the start of day 2 is gay as well.
After we went back into the tent, we spammed nonsense crap talking until it was time to wake up. Really funny stuffs that wont be good if i post it anyway. You just have to be there and understand some stuff about the ATC.
PT (physical training) is more of physical torture. WTP la. Keep making us do the jumping jacks, push ups and crunches. ALOT. 100 of each? Ok maybe not but ALOT. No fal dont laugh and say we're weak. If you are there you will agree too.
Here of course we were scolded my the crazy instructors over stupid things again. I mean if they make sense still nvm but this is plain stupid reasoning.
Breakfast i shall skip.
and now FINALLY, something i can call worth remembering about the ATC. Its the ACTIVITIES TIME!!! =D
Group 2 5 and 8 went for i dunno wad they call it but basically its low rope challenge, rock wall, some dark tunnel thing and some shooting thing put into one.
Group 5 went for the low rope challenge first. Basically those at WCP? Similar. Its quite fun actually. Lol.
Rock wall the first one i didnt managed to climb up coz of the protruding part on the wall then grab bu dao. Yea yea i know Chaoz can. The 2nd one was quite easy to climb so i went up, touched the top.
Then the rock wall instructor (a different group from the crazy group of instructors of the camp. These one only teach rock wall so they arent classifed under the crazy instructors) didnt want to let me down lol. Its not a serious serious dun let u down la like a joking one la. Then CI Leang Keeiat was like "Oi why you dont bully just now the group now come bully my group." Lol there was some funny exchange of words den i came down. CI LK den decided to climb the rock wall. His belayer and the guy holding the belayer (forgot the title) both instructors coz he heavy =D. Scared the belayer fly if CI LK slips. Then he climbed to the top and when he want to come down they refused to let him down LOL. I thought they only do that to the campers. CI LK was like "first u bully my group now u bully me". More exchange cant remember clearly and finally he was let down.
And then after that some Neaw Toawn guy from another group wasn't let down and he went "wah lao what is this now u bully my school".
After rock wall group 5 split into 2 groups and the first one went for the cannon thingy first while my group went for the dark tunnel first. Basically they told us to line up in one line and we had no idea what it was about. Then they open some tiny door and told 2 guys to go in. Then they SHUT IT in their faces and LOCKED IT. I thought it would be like Spark C tunnel. Lol the 2 guys were banging on the door and saying some stuff and the instructor and CI LK was laughing and firing back at them. So seeing that the instructors and CI LK was in the mood for crap, guess what I did? =D
Yea basically talking crap with them is fun. All the nonsense la. Then the instructor kana outtalked my me wad so use his power. His power is his ability to send me into the tunnel alone. Damn. Lol. Anyway somehow the first 2 ppl didnt leave at all and were waiting when i came in which was kinda funny actually since the instructor and CI LK expected them to be long gone. The tunnel was PITCH BLACK. Close your eyes now (and open them later of course). Yup that same darkness. There is ZERO light. Had to use hands to navigate. I took the lead and knocked my head once but got helmet =D. The place was unintentionally wet at some points. A point to crap talk about later ("Wah lao you see la. How you all mantain this place one. Later someone slip and fall and hit his head how? So dark and the wall everywhere can die one leh. Your fault ar and you will have it on your conscience FOREVER" "Dont talk so much or i'll make you go in again, this time REALLY alone. Then see how you slip and fall and die" "OK!!! No prob its fun." "*speechless*") The crap talking was seriously funny. I realised that alot of bad things and good things i cant really elaborate in a post >.<. Sad.
The cannon is nothing much. 3 pullies, one to control aim left one to control right one to control up and gravity controls down. Put the ball in then it fires out and try to go inside the hole. We scored 0 out of 5 lol.
After that was lunch, in which after lunch we got scolded like siao again but i hold no grudge against this as we, the other groups i mean, really did some stupid things. Pour noodles into drain. Clog the sink. Rubbish bin no rubbish bag zao throw all the noodle and soup in. Diao la.
Next was orienteering. IT WAS HILARIOUS. Orienteering is a nice word for 5km walk but heck it was super funny (Thanks to me of course). Darveed Simm sprained his leg somewhere and didnt go for this activity and the one after that.
I shall dedicate more time to this since the previous parts were quite a bore but you will probably find this more interesting =D.
Purple shall be CI LK, Brown shall be the other CI who came along for this, light blue for me and green the other campers from group 5, sometimes including me.
*group 5 walking in silence*
"Why is this group so dead?"
"Ya la. No noise one. Talk to them they answer one sentence then stop."
"Ok group 5 if you dont start making some noise i shall make you all do the 1 2 3 (He says numbers and we have to keep sitting, standing and lying down) thing again. Sing a song or something"
"TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR, HOW I WONDER WHAT YOU ARE"
*silence*
"Oi wah sian so dead one"
"Group 5, please dont be so dead"
*random noise from group 5*
and so on. It was really boring.
THEN.
*2 instructors ride their bicycles back towards the NP Camp, passing by us.*
"HI!!!" *waves*
"You like to wave to people isit?"
"Ya"
"Ok i tell you what. For the whole of this trip everytime you see a person you wave and say hi"
"Ok"
*The CI stares blankly*
"You sure"
"Ya. I do it all the time"
*CI funny look*
"But then NP got one rule. One for all all for one. So one wave all must wave"
See this is an attempt to sabo me coz i started the waving, however,
"Ok"
"What?"
"We said ok sir"
*stares blankly again*
*two random ppl on bicycles come our direction*
"HIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"I dont know them."
LOL IT WAS DAMN STUPID
Of course after that,
"Group 5 SING ME A SONG!!!"
looks at the indian CI (a teeny weeny bit racist but not supposed to be la. Like nothing against indians but since he is an indian it fit perfectly in.)
"One little two little three little indians"
*Group 5 looks at the CI, laugh and join in*
"Four little five little six little indians"
"OI I DONT WANT THIS SONG. I WANT AFRICAN AND PORTUGUESE!!!"
"One little two little three little Africans"
*Done with African and Portuguese version*
*more stupid nursery songs*
"Anymore songs group 5?"
"Blossom, the commander and leader,"
"Bubbles, she is the joy and the laughter,"
"Buttlecup, she is the toughest fighter,"
"POWERPUFFS SAVE THE DAY!!!"
"FIGHTING CRIME, TRYING TO SAVE THE WORLD,"
"HERE THEY COME JUST IN TIME, THE POWERPUFF GIRLS"
"POWERPUFF!"
*CIs laughing like mad*
*Random guy on bicycle goes pass us*
"HIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!"
ITS SUPER FUNNY =D!!!
And after we're done with spongebob, barney, elmo, gatsby, bananas in pajamas and so on...
"No more song already group 5?"
"Need time to stream la..."
"No song say no song la!!!"
"Ok fine we dont do song"
"HI IM SELLING MY HOUSE!!!"
"YOU LIKE IT?"
"ITS CLEAN AND GREEN WITH THREE HUGE ROOMS!!!"
"THE BEDROOM'S OVER THERE!!!"
*Random guy on bicycle gives us a weird look*
"HIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
*Random guy goes off*
"THE KITCHEN'S OVER THERE!!!"
"THIS IS MY BEAUTIFUL BATHROOM, CHECK OUT MY MATCHING PIPES!!!"
"WANT TO SEE MORE? CALL THIS NUMBER!!!"
IT WAS SO RANDOM!!!
"EH MUMBAI DAR!!! INDIA!!!"
"CAN YOU GIVE ME... ANYTHING!!!"
LOL
Yea and we reached some markety place and in the MIDDLE of it we were told to lie down on the floor and roll like idiots. Then more stuff. We were also told to like lie down on the floor and then one of us run past us, like step in between. Finale two CIs run together. Yea. Then we had to trek back, which wasnt as fun. So yea. Thats about it for orienteering. Ooooh some interesting stuff on the way back include:
*Other CI holds up the radio thingy which can make a beepy noise*
"Group 5, I think that you all are a bunch of *beep*"
"Honestly you all are *beep*"
*Someone gets jidong for me being slow in getting into audi. Whoops. Shall continue later.*
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
angry !
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
hmph.
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
BYE./
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Ok im too tired to continue with my continuation now. Just colour coded it. Added some stuff as well. Will continue with 2nd part later. For now:
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
EXCUSE ME
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
UR POST.
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
AT THE END
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
OHMYTIAN DLTE IT
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
dlte it k !
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
im going to bathe
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
when i come back
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
at night prolly
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
i ebtter see it GONE.
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
and you better not quote THIS
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
BYEE
Actually i had no intention of quoting it but den i see the thing there...aiya... uh oh i hope i dun get killed for this. Ok assuming that I would, i need a decent excuse. Um...um... im just checking all of you out there on ur opinion on whether i shld delete the previous part ok? =D
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Hiya I'm back. Ok now to continue.
Yea after orienteering, went for kayaking, which is like the only thing i looked forward to before the ATC. Its not as fun as I expected it to be but its still ok. Darveed Simm didnt come along so i paired with a random guy. Self taught myself some tricks on quick turning (sweep backwards when moving foward to sharp turn. Requires alot of energy) but the instructors taught a less energy consuming method (sweep correct direction but with a wide radius). Fal would know all these but HECK. Mah post =D.
Yea after kayaking had to carry all the kayaks up the slope into the shed thingy and this guy, teacher age so isnt a CI, started to boss us around and tell us to do this do that. Screw him la. Talk nicely also cannot want ppl to help say properly la. We brought our kayak up already so technically we're done wif our job. help u carry the rest up is not our prob right. Aiyo.
Yea then we were allowed to take a bath (FINALLY) and yea. After the bath some ppl forgot to take their dirty shirts etc etc out and when the instructors (back to the crazy ones) found them, BANG, we're dead. CI LK went pms and decided joined the ranks of crazy instructors here and started scolding us. Like wtp? Ppl forget to take stuff then just leave it there tell them to collect or if buay song throw away la. Make us do shyt stuff. Kns la.
On a side note, I am now being pestered to remove the stuff... uh oh...
Back to topic, other than that, dinner was uneventful.
Yea after dinner was campfire. Like in campfire, the fire is nicer than the performance and the singing >.<. That is two sided by the way. I means 1) the performance and singing louya and 2) the fire was cool. The fire was like flicking the sparks out and licking the sky. Looks really really nice. Most performances were stupid and we dun get anything. Most of the skits were like spoofs of commericals and stuff as if that was the theme... ok maybe it is but there is no reason why the instructors would come up wif a theme like that. Oh well. Lol a few interesting performances include: "The canteen is over there! The foyer is over there!" "Do you guys have ANYTHING? I need it to destroy this monster!!!" and the best one of course cannot be described by quotes. It has to do with UBIN WATER and POCARI SWEAT =D. Lol. Yea and some point through the song leaders suddenly went "SLs bomb, SLs bomb, SLs bomb to CIs bomb" and the CIs were caught off guard and kana bomb. Boom. But den after that when they kana bomb 2 more times they sang the "I got peace by the river" which indicates they are safe. No fair la. Lol but it was funny when the SLs use it back against them. Oooooh and this morning CI LK was telling us to be more innovative, dun always use the peace by river thing. So we had: Oooops miss na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na to the tune of can can chorus. Lol. And there was a freaky sense of de ja vu there. I can tell you unlike other de ja vus i had, this one seems VERY REAL. Its so real its scary. I could really swear I seen those words ATC with the lightsticks before. And thats not the end. Yea and we left campfire tired and i ate a couple of sweets (Shh dun tell them i brought sweets) and went to sleep really quick this time. Yep and now onto day 3!!! Day 3 was not as eventful as day 2 of course. Nothing much really. So i shall skip the entire thing until like near the end. Ok group 5 is gathered at some shelter with CI LK for debrief. CI LK was saying how the other CIs agree that we, group 5, is the most high group and we've got a screw loose, especially me =D. After that CI LK was giving out the remaining rations for the thing. Some people said they wanted milo. Some wanted biscuits. Some wanted the noodles but one thing that everyone wanted was POCARI SWEAT!!! Lol and everyone was like "gimme one pocari sweat!" So what CI LK do? he kept it for himself >.<. Lol and then we were like "oiiiiiii" so he said he will add the pocari sweat to his exsisting ubin water in freezer so we get cold pocari sweat and we were going "yayyy" Then of course he cheated us of the pocari sweat >.<. EVIL. Lol and ya shall skip the next part as well. Ok zoom zoom zoom ok now we're leaving the place. Lol Narn Huar Heigh, Neaw Toawn etc all left before us and Reaver Varley barely. Whoile they walked, we smart ACKSiens called for minivans =D. So we took the minivans pass RV pass NH pass NT all the while going "AHHAHAHHAHA", "Happy walking", "AC bomb, AC bomb, AC bomb to NT bomb" =D It was lame. Yea and finally we reached the jetty and took the boat back to S'pore!!! WOOOOOOOOO!!! NO MORE UBIN WATER!!! We need an anti ubin water campaign. Lol consensus that the first thing we do when we reach S'pore is to buy a drink. I got mah sprite zero =D. Tired I shall continue part 3 which elaborates about what is the deal wif ubin water and pocari sweat + more stuff. Yea. - End of Part 2 -
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IM BACK!!!
Lol this post is so long that it takes TWO DAYS to complete it.
Today, I am here to tell you all about the horrors of ubin water and the powers of pocari sweat.
But before that, i would like to say that while sending darveed simm home, i fell asleep on the car and i woke up just before darveed simm left the car and then 5 mins of driving later, i had another freaky de ja vu feeling whereby i saw THAT exact tree before. Thats TWO de ja vus in a row and its so FREAKY. How the HELL can that happen. Its an omen...
Ok back to topic.
Ubin water, by definition is the water obtained by the NPCC campsite through their own means of water purification. It is consenses by the people that ubin water tastes HORRIBLE. The first day when eating my chicken rice (which tastes horrible too btw but pales in comparison to ubin water), some people ALREADY ran out of water and they went to refill it at the special tap that gives us ubin water. They filled their bottles with it, drank it, and spat it out. EVERYONE spat it out. Seriously. I was thinking wtp? Does it taste that horrible? Isn't it just like tap water in Singapore? So i tried it from my friend's bottle and i SPAT IT OUT. YUCK. Its like SALTY and has a slight hint of METALLIC taste and some other stuff. HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE (and to those emo people out there who think that blood too has metallic taste and yet tastes nice *looks at Quezzy*, THIS ONE IS PLAIN HORRIBLE. Later, after alot of people already drank it and spat it out, then did the screwed up instructors tell us that we must let the water run for some time before we fill our bottles because the tap might be RUSTY. WTP WTP WTP WTP WTP!?!?!?!?!?!?
And btw, even after we followed their instructions, the salty taste is still there and though there is less metallic taste, it can still be detected. Screw it. I was tempted to go without water for days but 1) that is just plain stupid and 2) THE STUPID INSTRUCTORS FORCE US TO FILL OUR WATER TO MAX EVEN IF ITS AT 3 QUADS AND THEN MAKE US DRINK IT. When an instructor says drink up, you BETTER drink up.
So ubin water was horrible and we had to stick with it. You know most camps people say "the first thing i do when i get out of here is to play com" etc etc? This one goes "the first thing i do when i get out of here is to get a PROPER drink. So imagine how it was like when on the 3rd day i saw this guy walk out of a shop with a coke...
Ubin water would have killed us all. But one thing saved us all and it became in constant demand. During the camp, we ate rations, which consists of canned food, noodles, biscuits, milo and stuff. One of the stuff is POCARI SWEAT. Pocari sweat is this powder thingy in a packet, similar to milo powder. You add it to a drink to give it an isotonic drink taste, sort of like 100 plus. IT DESTROYS THE TASTE OF UBIN WATER. As such on the final day group 5 still had like 6 out of 16 packs worth of rations untouched, but every single packet has been ripped open and the pocari sweat extracted. POCARI SWEAT FTW!!! It may simply be 100 plus taste but if you have 100 plus in the mist of that horrible ubin water...
We could tell that instructors hate ubin water too. They steal our pocari sweat.
Ok and thats the end of the ATC POST!!!
SAY WOW!!!
Its like an essay...
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ITS OVER!!!
Ok unless you are really bored, highlight below.
WOOHOO YEEHA YEA YEA YEA YEA LALALALALALALA WOOOOO AHHHHHAAAAAAA LALALA PING PING PING DOING WHOOSH WADILALILALALALALLA DIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUU BAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMM BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH POOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRR PAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRR POOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOING EEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR WHISH WOSH WAAAAZAAAM BLAM BLAM BLAM POINK POINK POINK BING BONG PEEEEETOTOTTOTOTOTOTOTOTO POINTIA DIIIISSSSSHHHHH PINKYWONKYWATTALALA...
ok i think that is enough.
oh and for the clueless, ATC stands for concen... i mean ADVENTURE TRAINING camp.
Ok how would i describe ATC...
ubin water
yup
ooooh instructors
and of course POCARI SWEAT
ok wadever
I know i usually dun recount what happens on a day but heck tis aint a normal day.
Day one of ATC was super fun NOT.
I thought ATC was gonna be bad
i underestimated it.
DONT DA PAO CHICKEN RICE FROM CHANJI JETTY.
ITS HORRIBLE.
PITCHING TENT WAS STUPID. We had a REALLY ROCKY ground to pitch the stupid tent and its like sia to drive those pegs in. the stupid inner shit i mean sheet wont go in the damned poles.
Of course our tent was really screwed up
Good news of course is that we didnt sleep in the tent we made so we saboed some one ppl =D.
Of course the "BEST" part of the whole camp was the instructors
They have really... interesting logical assessment of things.
YOU ARE ONE SQUAD
ONE FOR ALL ALL FOR ONE
SO WHY SOME PEOPLE PUT PONCHO ON WATER BOTTLE SOME PEOPLE PUT WATER BOTTLE ON PONCHO?!?!?!
WTP MAN
I felt like walking over and pouring my supply of ubin water on them.
I will talk about ubin water later. Its the...crux of this ATC.
That was just stupid.
You wont understand how horrible the instructors can get unless u see them. They scold still can but they scold us over really STUPID things.
Sleeping in the tent sucks. The ground is ROCKY. Come on. Its freaking hot in there. Nonsense.
The "games" were ok but its still kinda gay. Cant be borthered to elaborate.
We got CI Leang Keeiat from neaw toawn as our instructor for group 5. Hes generally quite ok. Btw, if an instructor is ok, hes probably one of the best in the whole camp COZ THE INSTRUCTORS SUCK (whoops um...lets hope they dont read this =D). He can seriously do funny stuff too... if hes in the mood that is.
I seriously cannot describe how horrible the first day was...
Like what was the only fun thing that day?
MOVING THE DAMNED RATIONS FROM THE SEC 3 CAMP TO THE SEC 2 CAMP WITH A TROLLY. HOW FUN CAN THAT GET.
Ok it was reasonably fun since we went upslope and downslope but heck. Really how fun can moving a trolly be. Think about it and then think about what i said about moving the trolley is the most fun thing for day 1.
I shall now put behind one of the most horrible days of my life. Ok thats not the correct word. most TORTUROUS. Yup that works.
Ok 12 midnight. Pass day 1 so not considered day 1 anymore LOL. B4 sleeping ppl in our tent (I dare say the BEST combo ever coz we're a bunch of crap talkers =D), the other ppl from mah tent, tent ten (pun not intended though we made a few puns out of that.) couldnt sleep (only darveed simm slept at 12+. I slept at 1+ and im like 2nd out of 6).
Did some really stupid things. Spammed some rong ting thingy dun borther to try to understand =D. Lol keep singing stupid songs and really hilarious. Like twinkle twinkle little star. Most ppl would just say SHUDDUP if someone started singing but this group, everyone starting singing along =D.
The tent opposite ours, the one with bent ung and keyane teao, kept telling us to shuddup. Like we will lol. Then they did stuff like throw rocks at our tent then we sang back louder. Really funny (to us =D). Yea this morning i was also told from tent 9 "Tent ten cannot shuddup one night time keep singing".
Yea finally i slept but had to wake up a 3 for sentry duty.
It was ok actually. Learnt some stuff that MIGHT be useful.
but the nice stuff isnt the duty itself. Its the scenery.
Seriously ubin at night looks SUPER NICE.
There are like ALOT of stars in the sky. In Sg you can barely see one. Apparently coz Sg too much air pollution + that was a cloudless night. The horizon looks nice coz there is like no light but beyond the horizon at Malaysia area can see the light from there and it looks cool.
Yea.
Oh and after sentry duty we were forced to fill our bottles with the UBIN WATER. Say yuck.
Retuning back to main area for sec 2 camp, 6 girls were getting scolded for bathing. WTP the instructors are seriosuly unreasonable. Like the other camps i attended wake up in the middle of the night to bathe no big deal wad. Later bathe then got congestion. WTP la. They scold them like siao la.
Heck.
And i know this post i far too boring for a TRCT post.
as such i bring you the morning of DAY 2
Ok actually the start of day 2 is gay as well.
After we went back into the tent, we spammed nonsense crap talking until it was time to wake up. Really funny stuffs that wont be good if i post it anyway. You just have to be there and understand some stuff about the ATC.
PT (physical training) is more of physical torture. WTP la. Keep making us do the jumping jacks, push ups and crunches. ALOT. 100 of each? Ok maybe not but ALOT. No fal dont laugh and say we're weak. If you are there you will agree too.
Here of course we were scolded my the crazy instructors over stupid things again. I mean if they make sense still nvm but this is plain stupid reasoning.
Breakfast i shall skip.
and now FINALLY, something i can call worth remembering about the ATC. Its the ACTIVITIES TIME!!! =D
Group 2 5 and 8 went for i dunno wad they call it but basically its low rope challenge, rock wall, some dark tunnel thing and some shooting thing put into one.
Group 5 went for the low rope challenge first. Basically those at WCP? Similar. Its quite fun actually. Lol.
Rock wall the first one i didnt managed to climb up coz of the protruding part on the wall then grab bu dao. Yea yea i know Chaoz can. The 2nd one was quite easy to climb so i went up, touched the top.
Then the rock wall instructor (a different group from the crazy group of instructors of the camp. These one only teach rock wall so they arent classifed under the crazy instructors) didnt want to let me down lol. Its not a serious serious dun let u down la like a joking one la. Then CI Leang Keeiat was like "Oi why you dont bully just now the group now come bully my group." Lol there was some funny exchange of words den i came down. CI LK den decided to climb the rock wall. His belayer and the guy holding the belayer (forgot the title) both instructors coz he heavy =D. Scared the belayer fly if CI LK slips. Then he climbed to the top and when he want to come down they refused to let him down LOL. I thought they only do that to the campers. CI LK was like "first u bully my group now u bully me". More exchange cant remember clearly and finally he was let down.
And then after that some Neaw Toawn guy from another group wasn't let down and he went "wah lao what is this now u bully my school".
After rock wall group 5 split into 2 groups and the first one went for the cannon thingy first while my group went for the dark tunnel first. Basically they told us to line up in one line and we had no idea what it was about. Then they open some tiny door and told 2 guys to go in. Then they SHUT IT in their faces and LOCKED IT. I thought it would be like Spark C tunnel. Lol the 2 guys were banging on the door and saying some stuff and the instructor and CI LK was laughing and firing back at them. So seeing that the instructors and CI LK was in the mood for crap, guess what I did? =D
Yea basically talking crap with them is fun. All the nonsense la. Then the instructor kana outtalked my me wad so use his power. His power is his ability to send me into the tunnel alone. Damn. Lol. Anyway somehow the first 2 ppl didnt leave at all and were waiting when i came in which was kinda funny actually since the instructor and CI LK expected them to be long gone. The tunnel was PITCH BLACK. Close your eyes now (and open them later of course). Yup that same darkness. There is ZERO light. Had to use hands to navigate. I took the lead and knocked my head once but got helmet =D. The place was unintentionally wet at some points. A point to crap talk about later ("Wah lao you see la. How you all mantain this place one. Later someone slip and fall and hit his head how? So dark and the wall everywhere can die one leh. Your fault ar and you will have it on your conscience FOREVER" "Dont talk so much or i'll make you go in again, this time REALLY alone. Then see how you slip and fall and die" "OK!!! No prob its fun." "*speechless*") The crap talking was seriously funny. I realised that alot of bad things and good things i cant really elaborate in a post >.<. Sad.
The cannon is nothing much. 3 pullies, one to control aim left one to control right one to control up and gravity controls down. Put the ball in then it fires out and try to go inside the hole. We scored 0 out of 5 lol.
After that was lunch, in which after lunch we got scolded like siao again but i hold no grudge against this as we, the other groups i mean, really did some stupid things. Pour noodles into drain. Clog the sink. Rubbish bin no rubbish bag zao throw all the noodle and soup in. Diao la.
Next was orienteering. IT WAS HILARIOUS. Orienteering is a nice word for 5km walk but heck it was super funny (Thanks to me of course). Darveed Simm sprained his leg somewhere and didnt go for this activity and the one after that.
I shall dedicate more time to this since the previous parts were quite a bore but you will probably find this more interesting =D.
Purple shall be CI LK, Brown shall be the other CI who came along for this, light blue for me and green the other campers from group 5, sometimes including me.
*group 5 walking in silence*
"Why is this group so dead?"
"Ya la. No noise one. Talk to them they answer one sentence then stop."
"Ok group 5 if you dont start making some noise i shall make you all do the 1 2 3 (He says numbers and we have to keep sitting, standing and lying down) thing again. Sing a song or something"
"TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR, HOW I WONDER WHAT YOU ARE"
*silence*
"Oi wah sian so dead one"
"Group 5, please dont be so dead"
*random noise from group 5*
and so on. It was really boring.
THEN.
*2 instructors ride their bicycles back towards the NP Camp, passing by us.*
"HI!!!" *waves*
"You like to wave to people isit?"
"Ya"
"Ok i tell you what. For the whole of this trip everytime you see a person you wave and say hi"
"Ok"
*The CI stares blankly*
"You sure"
"Ya. I do it all the time"
*CI funny look*
"But then NP got one rule. One for all all for one. So one wave all must wave"
See this is an attempt to sabo me coz i started the waving, however,
"Ok"
"What?"
"We said ok sir"
*stares blankly again*
*two random ppl on bicycles come our direction*
"HIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"I dont know them."
LOL IT WAS DAMN STUPID
Of course after that,
"Group 5 SING ME A SONG!!!"
looks at the indian CI (a teeny weeny bit racist but not supposed to be la. Like nothing against indians but since he is an indian it fit perfectly in.)
"One little two little three little indians"
*Group 5 looks at the CI, laugh and join in*
"Four little five little six little indians"
"OI I DONT WANT THIS SONG. I WANT AFRICAN AND PORTUGUESE!!!"
"One little two little three little Africans"
*Done with African and Portuguese version*
*more stupid nursery songs*
"Anymore songs group 5?"
"Blossom, the commander and leader,"
"Bubbles, she is the joy and the laughter,"
"Buttlecup, she is the toughest fighter,"
"POWERPUFFS SAVE THE DAY!!!"
"FIGHTING CRIME, TRYING TO SAVE THE WORLD,"
"HERE THEY COME JUST IN TIME, THE POWERPUFF GIRLS"
"POWERPUFF!"
*CIs laughing like mad*
*Random guy on bicycle goes pass us*
"HIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!"
ITS SUPER FUNNY =D!!!
And after we're done with spongebob, barney, elmo, gatsby, bananas in pajamas and so on...
"No more song already group 5?"
"Need time to stream la..."
"No song say no song la!!!"
"Ok fine we dont do song"
"HI IM SELLING MY HOUSE!!!"
"YOU LIKE IT?"
"ITS CLEAN AND GREEN WITH THREE HUGE ROOMS!!!"
"THE BEDROOM'S OVER THERE!!!"
*Random guy on bicycle gives us a weird look*
"HIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
*Random guy goes off*
"THE KITCHEN'S OVER THERE!!!"
"THIS IS MY BEAUTIFUL BATHROOM, CHECK OUT MY MATCHING PIPES!!!"
"WANT TO SEE MORE? CALL THIS NUMBER!!!"
IT WAS SO RANDOM!!!
"EH MUMBAI DAR!!! INDIA!!!"
"CAN YOU GIVE ME... ANYTHING!!!"
LOL
Yea and we reached some markety place and in the MIDDLE of it we were told to lie down on the floor and roll like idiots. Then more stuff. We were also told to like lie down on the floor and then one of us run past us, like step in between. Finale two CIs run together. Yea. Then we had to trek back, which wasnt as fun. So yea. Thats about it for orienteering. Ooooh some interesting stuff on the way back include:
*Other CI holds up the radio thingy which can make a beepy noise*
"Group 5, I think that you all are a bunch of *beep*"
"Honestly you all are *beep*"
*Someone gets jidong for me being slow in getting into audi. Whoops. Shall continue later.*
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angry !
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
hmph.
` ___ jidong ]] * says:
BYE./
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Ok im too tired to continue with my continuation now. Just colour coded it. Added some stuff as well. Will continue with 2nd part later. For now:
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EXCUSE ME
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UR POST.
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AT THE END
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OHMYTIAN DLTE IT
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dlte it k !
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im going to bathe
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when i come back
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at night prolly
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i ebtter see it GONE.
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and you better not quote THIS
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BYEE
Actually i had no intention of quoting it but den i see the thing there...aiya... uh oh i hope i dun get killed for this. Ok assuming that I would, i need a decent excuse. Um...um... im just checking all of you out there on ur opinion on whether i shld delete the previous part ok? =D
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Hiya I'm back. Ok now to continue.
Yea after orienteering, went for kayaking, which is like the only thing i looked forward to before the ATC. Its not as fun as I expected it to be but its still ok. Darveed Simm didnt come along so i paired with a random guy. Self taught myself some tricks on quick turning (sweep backwards when moving foward to sharp turn. Requires alot of energy) but the instructors taught a less energy consuming method (sweep correct direction but with a wide radius). Fal would know all these but HECK. Mah post =D.
Yea after kayaking had to carry all the kayaks up the slope into the shed thingy and this guy, teacher age so isnt a CI, started to boss us around and tell us to do this do that. Screw him la. Talk nicely also cannot want ppl to help say properly la. We brought our kayak up already so technically we're done wif our job. help u carry the rest up is not our prob right. Aiyo.
Yea then we were allowed to take a bath (FINALLY) and yea. After the bath some ppl forgot to take their dirty shirts etc etc out and when the instructors (back to the crazy ones) found them, BANG, we're dead. CI LK went pms and decided joined the ranks of crazy instructors here and started scolding us. Like wtp? Ppl forget to take stuff then just leave it there tell them to collect or if buay song throw away la. Make us do shyt stuff. Kns la.
On a side note, I am now being pestered to remove the stuff... uh oh...
Back to topic, other than that, dinner was uneventful.
Yea after dinner was campfire. Like in campfire, the fire is nicer than the performance and the singing >.<. That is two sided by the way. I means 1) the performance and singing louya and 2) the fire was cool. The fire was like flicking the sparks out and licking the sky. Looks really really nice. Most performances were stupid and we dun get anything. Most of the skits were like spoofs of commericals and stuff as if that was the theme... ok maybe it is but there is no reason why the instructors would come up wif a theme like that. Oh well. Lol a few interesting performances include: "The canteen is over there! The foyer is over there!" "Do you guys have ANYTHING? I need it to destroy this monster!!!" and the best one of course cannot be described by quotes. It has to do with UBIN WATER and POCARI SWEAT =D. Lol. Yea and some point through the song leaders suddenly went "SLs bomb, SLs bomb, SLs bomb to CIs bomb" and the CIs were caught off guard and kana bomb. Boom. But den after that when they kana bomb 2 more times they sang the "I got peace by the river" which indicates they are safe. No fair la. Lol but it was funny when the SLs use it back against them. Oooooh and this morning CI LK was telling us to be more innovative, dun always use the peace by river thing. So we had: Oooops miss na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na to the tune of can can chorus. Lol. And there was a freaky sense of de ja vu there. I can tell you unlike other de ja vus i had, this one seems VERY REAL. Its so real its scary. I could really swear I seen those words ATC with the lightsticks before. And thats not the end. Yea and we left campfire tired and i ate a couple of sweets (Shh dun tell them i brought sweets) and went to sleep really quick this time. Yep and now onto day 3!!! Day 3 was not as eventful as day 2 of course. Nothing much really. So i shall skip the entire thing until like near the end. Ok group 5 is gathered at some shelter with CI LK for debrief. CI LK was saying how the other CIs agree that we, group 5, is the most high group and we've got a screw loose, especially me =D. After that CI LK was giving out the remaining rations for the thing. Some people said they wanted milo. Some wanted biscuits. Some wanted the noodles but one thing that everyone wanted was POCARI SWEAT!!! Lol and everyone was like "gimme one pocari sweat!" So what CI LK do? he kept it for himself >.<. Lol and then we were like "oiiiiiii" so he said he will add the pocari sweat to his exsisting ubin water in freezer so we get cold pocari sweat and we were going "yayyy" Then of course he cheated us of the pocari sweat >.<. EVIL. Lol and ya shall skip the next part as well. Ok zoom zoom zoom ok now we're leaving the place. Lol Narn Huar Heigh, Neaw Toawn etc all left before us and Reaver Varley barely. Whoile they walked, we smart ACKSiens called for minivans =D. So we took the minivans pass RV pass NH pass NT all the while going "AHHAHAHHAHA", "Happy walking", "AC bomb, AC bomb, AC bomb to NT bomb" =D It was lame. Yea and finally we reached the jetty and took the boat back to S'pore!!! WOOOOOOOOO!!! NO MORE UBIN WATER!!! We need an anti ubin water campaign. Lol consensus that the first thing we do when we reach S'pore is to buy a drink. I got mah sprite zero =D. Tired I shall continue part 3 which elaborates about what is the deal wif ubin water and pocari sweat + more stuff. Yea. - End of Part 2 -
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IM BACK!!!
Lol this post is so long that it takes TWO DAYS to complete it.
Today, I am here to tell you all about the horrors of ubin water and the powers of pocari sweat.
But before that, i would like to say that while sending darveed simm home, i fell asleep on the car and i woke up just before darveed simm left the car and then 5 mins of driving later, i had another freaky de ja vu feeling whereby i saw THAT exact tree before. Thats TWO de ja vus in a row and its so FREAKY. How the HELL can that happen. Its an omen...
Ok back to topic.
Ubin water, by definition is the water obtained by the NPCC campsite through their own means of water purification. It is consenses by the people that ubin water tastes HORRIBLE. The first day when eating my chicken rice (which tastes horrible too btw but pales in comparison to ubin water), some people ALREADY ran out of water and they went to refill it at the special tap that gives us ubin water. They filled their bottles with it, drank it, and spat it out. EVERYONE spat it out. Seriously. I was thinking wtp? Does it taste that horrible? Isn't it just like tap water in Singapore? So i tried it from my friend's bottle and i SPAT IT OUT. YUCK. Its like SALTY and has a slight hint of METALLIC taste and some other stuff. HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE (and to those emo people out there who think that blood too has metallic taste and yet tastes nice *looks at Quezzy*, THIS ONE IS PLAIN HORRIBLE. Later, after alot of people already drank it and spat it out, then did the screwed up instructors tell us that we must let the water run for some time before we fill our bottles because the tap might be RUSTY. WTP WTP WTP WTP WTP!?!?!?!?!?!?
And btw, even after we followed their instructions, the salty taste is still there and though there is less metallic taste, it can still be detected. Screw it. I was tempted to go without water for days but 1) that is just plain stupid and 2) THE STUPID INSTRUCTORS FORCE US TO FILL OUR WATER TO MAX EVEN IF ITS AT 3 QUADS AND THEN MAKE US DRINK IT. When an instructor says drink up, you BETTER drink up.
So ubin water was horrible and we had to stick with it. You know most camps people say "the first thing i do when i get out of here is to play com" etc etc? This one goes "the first thing i do when i get out of here is to get a PROPER drink. So imagine how it was like when on the 3rd day i saw this guy walk out of a shop with a coke...
Ubin water would have killed us all. But one thing saved us all and it became in constant demand. During the camp, we ate rations, which consists of canned food, noodles, biscuits, milo and stuff. One of the stuff is POCARI SWEAT. Pocari sweat is this powder thingy in a packet, similar to milo powder. You add it to a drink to give it an isotonic drink taste, sort of like 100 plus. IT DESTROYS THE TASTE OF UBIN WATER. As such on the final day group 5 still had like 6 out of 16 packs worth of rations untouched, but every single packet has been ripped open and the pocari sweat extracted. POCARI SWEAT FTW!!! It may simply be 100 plus taste but if you have 100 plus in the mist of that horrible ubin water...
We could tell that instructors hate ubin water too. They steal our pocari sweat.
Ok and thats the end of the ATC POST!!!
SAY WOW!!!
Its like an essay...
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4420 words (excluding this).
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