Tuesday, June 13, 2006
im back
finally im back from OBS! woohoo.abit late here though. was back in spore on sunday. haha. but no strength to blog. burn out. totally tired..but after much rest. im back in gd condition.and im glad to say im free of sandflies attack. heng man..ok now i shall try to blog on the memorable 5days in obs. woots. brace urself for a long entry nw. but i mite not be able to recall all though.haha.so summarise.haha1st day in OBS.
was in the watch: SUI SEN. me ahmad and chin yang all in the same watch. lol. same class. haha and also 3 other sc. harold zhiying and peggy. so knw quite a few ppl in my watch lo. and all the usual intro of one another in obs lo. haha. and i must say all are v nice people.woohoo.now for the activities.was expecting a less tired day. tot it will be easy on 1st day. but i was wrong lah.i faced my greatest fear in the 1st day. kayaking. its not that i duno how to kayak. but rather more on the part that i duno how to swim. and naturally im afraid of getting drowned n live in the ocean forever lah. even with the lifevest im sitll afraid. at that point of time, i must say im lacking in confidence. and for the capsize drill. im afraid lah. n i told the instructor im not going to capsize. but after much encouragement from my kayak mates, i gt no choice but to capsize. and i did it!! woohoo. its much easier than i tot. its just a matter of confidence. and the lesson learnt. a gd lesson. never say u cant do it until u try it. nothing is impossible. and thats so true that i cant believe it.and after the kayaking is dinner time. blah. everyday also got vegetables and im always left with 2 types of food only.sick of the food lah. but its gd enough for a training camp like OBS. lol
now 2nd day.
its the height elements. we did only 1. which was the vertical height. something lidat lah.den only have enough time to do 1 climbing part because of a storm approaching. spoilsport sia the weather. but me and climb buddy- chinghwa managed to reach the top.and thats gd enough man. to have the experience of climbing all the way to the top. and also have to work with her to reach the top. not an easy task. if u slip n u fall. although u will hang in the air.haha.and thats abt it for 2nd day. not tiring 1. lol. haha and at nite is the briefing for land expedition on the 3rd day and sea expedition on 4th day. and im one of the land ex leader.
on to 3rd day.
early in the morning rise up to go for land expedition. the backpack is damn heavy lah. and we have to hike around 10km to reach our campsite for the nite. we walk a long way man..but all the encouragement, motivation, care and concern is all there. v nice watch i have here. woots. and we sing along the way..laugh n talk along the way. and at the same time navigating through our way. we only completed 1 out of 4 checkpoints though. but we did try to look for it lah.den it was raining as well.den legs damn tired lah..and we reach our campsite loh..den slp lah..
on to 4th day..
sea expedition..initially din wan to go for it. because of my ever bugging cough..and really gt not much strength to kayak..burn out by the cough..cough until my strength get drained. but no fever so cant be excused. and my instructor told me it will be fine. cos early in the morning ur strength haven get warm up yet. which was quite true..after starting kayaking, my strength grew. and began to kayak easily. my cough only bug me sometimes. so that was gd enough. and din capsize at all. but there heavy rain and drizzling throughout the whole expedition lah.. glad theres no storm. haha. the kayaking was tough lah.. hands quite tired. but thats not the main tired part. its my butt legs and back. damn pain lah.. leg cramp butt pain and back also pain. ahhh. just happy to go through the expedition smoothly and had a gd experience man. all the encouragement and committment. and to strive to reach the finishing line. and near the finishing line we did 3 or 4 cheers ah. damn fun lah.
the last day
had the last challenge in the morning which is to build a raft and send out 16ppl on the raft to plant a flag on a boat out in the sea. its not easy to build the raft man. thanks to shee kwang and another whom i 4gt his name, then we managed to build it. their tying of rope skills is damn pro lah. so tight and can do so fast. gd job man. all the others do was to help them pull n support them. and our raft is the best!! the barrels din fall off and the structure is still there after rafting out to the sea. intact man.
den have the indiana arts festival. each watch supposed to have a max 10mins performance.
shall not elaborate on my watch performance. dun really have a clear idea about it. but i tink my watch did ok lah.nt that bad.haha.
den the last is the sharing session. i felt emotional at that time. and i really think that the time in obs is so memorable and unbelievable. for i made it through kayaking. n im satisfied and proud of myself
overall the lesson and experienced gain from obs is so much.
to be a good leader, u must 1st learn to be a good follower
must have confidence in urself that u can achieve it.
to 1st overcome myself.
committment, motivation, encouragement.
so many many things. and instructor HL said a very true thing.
the life out there is for us to explore and there is a long road ahead.
posted by ®le0nhArtsUrf™ at 4:45 PM
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