Just came back from Class Adventure Camp.
As usual, we had lots of fun and laughter with the many jokes, funny remarks, and pervertic statements we cracked, but the planning of the entire camp really left much to be desired, in my opinion.

We were first spilt into feed me, protect me, and lead me groups, such lame names, but yeah it our class did it totally randomly and I was in feed me (cooking), which I totally suck at.
After arriving at Ubin, we had lunch and found out that the "non-drinking (but SUITABLE for washing hands etc.)" water had a tinge of brown on it. An understatement indeed. Managed to get a shot of Chen Xi staring at a 'STOP' sign for more than 3 minutes. Haha. Talk about spiritual link. zz.

Then we had our hiking activity which was pretty lame, just using a map and finding locations based on grid coordinates. Yes, it involved pacing and reading of bearings and checking of landmarks, and perhaps it's because I've been there twice for ATC (and OBS people would find it equally similar), it just felt a little boring. Got to 3 checkpoints until Yiting had an "eye ulcer" which was quite bad, so she unfortunately had to go home and we decided to abandon the hike thing and just stone around the basketball court.
Then, this facilitator made us solve this problem cum game which was about throwing stones. It was so diffucult and a high level of skill was required and so we couldn't do it, sigh, but what was worst was when we found out that the "solution" was really just that and involved so much skill and speed which made it as good as impossible. Or maybe TJ would have the solution to that if he was there, lol.

Well that burnt a lot of time and me ahlu and shiya went to buy dinner with whatever money we had 'earned', and how lucky that we could take the van all the way to the campsite, leaving the rest who had left quite awhile ago in their wake. I felt guilty though, lol. So we reached the campsite and to our relief there the water was at the least transparent. Man, the psychological effect of such differences cannot be underestimated.

So anyway we got about cooking dinner while the 'protect me' people were working hard setting up our 'tents'. Due to the restricted budgeting dinner was the usual noodles with canned food. Fortunately the pot did not collapse and thanks to great 'healthy food cookers' like Anna and Shiya dinner was pretty good, I.M.O again.

After that we had an oh-so-exciting nightwalk, where it was like a km or two of a straight trail which got darker and darker as you kept walking on. Of course I went solo for the kick of it, and yeah I just spent some time saying a prayer, and the rest of the walk reliving Federer's awesome win against Nadal, which I'll get to later.

So that was all for the main day of the hyped-up camp, and by 11 we were free to do whatever we wanted / sleep. So anyway fortunately due to my golf club membership, I got to sleep in the neatest tent along with 3/4 of the bridge club and xinyi and friends. lol. It was big but still tight for space. Anyway, we spent like an hour or so just plain joking about the day and about Giraffe, lol, which is what I call amusement. Oh, and AG's occasional random sick jokes. Ah, I really pitied the girls i.e. the bridge club people, esp. Giraffe for they just couldn't fall asleep for a long long time no matter how much they tried, esp. Alicia, haha. Not that we boys could do any better with the exception of Chris, lol, definitely not with non-stop comments about hurting internal organs and the tenderness of Giraffe neck meat, lol. zz.

So the average person had like 2-3 hrs of sleep. Which was OK for a camp la. Woke up at 7 and had a (as AG would agree) fun time cutting all the strings and destroying the tents, and hurling rocks down into the water and folding groundsheets and compressing them so much till they were able to fit into the bags which we were provided with. Breakfast was the bread with jam and lychee syrup. Big thanks to Giraffe for holding the bottle of jam and helping so many people spread jam on their bread. After that, Yong Jin and I played bridge with half of the bridge club i.e. Alicia and Joanna, where Yong Jin kept losing...aha.

At 9 we left the campsite anticipating something interesting like high elements or something of the sort but all we got to do was this sick task where we had to be blindfolded and walk together maintaining contact and eventually finding A tree quite SOME distance away and having everyone's hand touch the tree. I didn't really get the objective of such a task because it heavily relied on the skills of the front person, and whether she could walk straight and not get disorientated. Full marks to Elita for trying so hard and it must have been tough trying to do something virtually impossible and impractical. Hmmm, either that or maybe 'we chose one of a million possible strategies and it just happened to be one which wasn't suited for us'. Oh whatever la. I mean, fair enough, the facilitators (who according to Bong are primary 5 camp - rejectees) were doing their best to make the most out of the activities which had been planned for us, it was just that the activities were way too boring and un-interesting for us. Yes, my sympathy goes out to them if the events had been pre-planned by some other people but if otherwise then......

So that was it! And we were like off and heading back to Singapore i.e. civilisation and being within Singtel's network range, lol. Didn't really have much of a lunch, and just boarded the bus back to RJ the moment we got off the boat. Was left to do some cleaning stuff which was pretty...fun, splashing water to clean the groundsheets at the watermelon steps. And then, the best part of the 2 days....filling in the feedback forms! Boy were the few of us desperately waiting for it to really give the school our peace of mind so that future batches of j1s who go to Ubin as well enjoy themselves more. Speaking of that, it's just plain unfair that Jun Jie's class got to go to dairy farm and enjoy he high elements there. And still he thinks it's boring...haha. Well, thought about going to attend the first H3 phy lecture since it was only marginally after 1530 hrs...but then found out (rather obviously) that changing into uniform and staying awake would be too much for me to overcome, and so it was just home sweet home after that, heh.

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Got some much-needed sleep in the late afternoon, since I had slept at 2 on Sunday night watching the Wimbledon final, which I must say is the best tennis match I've ever watched live, and it was a pity Mom wasn't here to watch; Dad and her were in Prague for a week. Federer, winner of the Wimbledon in the last 4 years was outplayed for large parts of the match, to the surprise of the crowd, by Nadal's deep strokes which I must admit, are damn impressive. It was 15-40 twice in the final set and any of the 4 break points lost would be equivalent to Nadal winning the title, but he amazingly held on with great determination and then played a series of stunning winners to earn his 5th in consecutive years, in what was a hugely unlikely victory considering how the match panned out. Well, Federer sure inspired me on Sunday. How he managed to dig his way out of such a sticky situation only he knows, but for that he has achieved immortality status in the sport. And he......deserves it.