OBS; Shears !

outward bound singapore/ benjamin SHEARES !

these 4 days 3 nights was such a wonderful period of time. really wanna thank all of Shears for the wonderful memories (:

At first, Shears was like a bunch of restless people. Everyone's sian that Liew is rattering so much useless stuff. But everyone soon warmed up when we built the raft. hoho, we made such a great team and made the best raft ever ! We didn't sink; ha ha ha. Fun to pretend to capsize and climb back on again. Gosh, I so love Shears.

We went for jetty jump after paddling so hard. It was scary, but FUN !
bathed, dinner and briefing for rock climbing, den back to bunk. Zi xiang hid in the cardboard to avoid being raped by zongye. Played bridge ! It was super fun and taught chanxi and xin ying how to play. thanks to tenghui who taught me how to play before i went for obs. ha, Chanxi is our da jie da. went back to our bunk to talk for quite a while. ha, attention to all taxi drivers, never drop a passenger beside a drain. ;) Zong ye soon came to hunt for zi xiang, he took the blanket and hid under it. Damn funny. Zy found him, then they cannot sleep, so they went to wash clothes. When zi xiang got out of the girls bunk, 3 secs later he ran in and shouted, faster faster ! come see! And there we saw bryan and kent sleeping together. lol.

Next day was rock climbing. ha, okay i admit i was lazy and lousy to make it to the top, left 3 more squares and I stopped. heh.Went to pack for the expedition to camp 2 next, carried the row of water bottles with zi xiang. Damn tiring, but Zi xiang is nice enough to carry most of the load. Reached camp 2 with aching arms and back. Then did a little of kayaking practice, the mangrove waters were... YUCK. den we practised capsizing. ha ha, our patner kayak was chang hong's group. when we finally used all our energy to climb back on the kayak, they pushed us down again !! LOL, but they got retribution, cos they fell in themselves twice. Kana scolded by Shukor. haa.

Went to find the toilet, asked 3 instructors, and they were darn cute. All of them pointed at 3 different directions. Cartoonish. The guys plus some of the girls went to set up our tent while others went to wash mass tins and make dinner. ok, rice was BAD, tastes like stale biscuits. lol, but it looked so nice! LOOKS CAN BE DECEIVING (:

ho, i couldnt finish my rice, zi xiang ate my rice. haha, xin ying was right, he eats like a horse, although he looks like monkey. again, looks can be deceiving. After that briefing about the kayaking expedition the next day, den went to sleep. squeezed in the tent, had a little sleep talk convo with chek kai while sleeping. ha ha Zongye was saying he can't make out what we were saying, and our back were facing each other. hohoho

Third day; kayaking ! me, xinying and zhiwen one kayak. tired, but was worth it. trained muscles! Zongye's kayak held on to us for 200 m before we found out cos Chanxi was like : " Joane, do you find your kayak very difficult to move?" Zhiwen! why did you let it happen! lol. then at Chek kawa, it rained really heavily and all of us on the small island cuddled together behind the poncho to shelter from the cold wind. We finished our expedition within 6 hours plus! FAST? ho, we're macho dudes. trekked back to campsite 1(our grand palace) and went for night activity! finally there's something planned for us at night. we crawled through the tunnel. really dark and i couldnt see a single thing except for some white pokka dots which i assume it's my hallucination. heh, was fascinating how we found the exit. Shears rock ! when we reached the exit, we had the head count,counted till 13 and then there was no answer. so everyone shouted. ZI XIANG ! haha ! thought he was lost or something. end up was that he was blocking chang hong's group from finding the exit. SPASTIC.

Our last night at obs, played cards till everyone of shears slept except for me and Chanxi. Yijun, jolyn, nana, adeline they all were playing Cheat, and they play until damn excited and loud! pure madness. and some gay instructor carrying a turtle soft toy came in to warn us about the noise level. heh. after everyone slept, we went to Kim san's bunk to play with them. played to 3, den had no choice but to sleep,. everyone's seem to be so tired. haha, anthony was funny, i still dont know whether he was sleep talking or was he awake. haha, totally hilarious.

went to sleep and the bed seems to be swaying left to right, squeezed my eyes real tight to stop the dizzyness.

LAST DAY !! did high elements and it was hell fun!! me and xinying were patners. Someone told us we were the first girls to try climbing out of all the groups. forgot who, honoured. but i was a little uneasy at first lah, thanks to xinying and chanxi my belayer, we did it! i climbed up to the top without being scared. [: and chek kai for telling me the instructions and directions to climb.

zi xiang and zong ye managed to climb up this really difficult obstacle, amazing. zi xiang the legendary monkey. LOL

me and xin ying waited damn long to climb the middle obstacle. it was damn tiring, esp the rock wall. scaled myself up, den i sat on the log for a little while, so shuang. haha, while xinying climbed higher. ha, sorry ): rested until zi xiang gave me the : still rest !! face. climbed again, at the rope part, im alr out of energy alr, so dint bother to climb all the way till stand on the top, so came down. ACCOMPLISHED! hoho, we rock.

All of us were so excited to see populated singapore again. When we see high rise biuldings, everyone cheers. and when the guys saw lamp posts, they were going : woah! lamp posts leh !! " went to hougang mall and talked a lot. so glad to drink coke again. chanxi and I sat bus 72 back to tampines, but sat the wrong side! we sat all the way to ang mo kio! dumb us. i miss obs...

Xinying, Chanxi, Zhiwen, Yijun, Jolyn, Adeline, Christina, Chek kai, Zongye, Zi xiang, Yixiang, Mint Hong and Kent.

We all made this camp so memorable. 3 cheers for Shears ! "WE LOVE YOU LIEW ! "

Long post.. but i want to narrate all that happened, cos even when few years down the road, i wanna keep all these memories.

BYE BYE OBS.hello, back to my life and reality.