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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

aiya.. sian.. life is damn sian.. nothing to do.. be4 last week, all i do is eat, slp, dota, training, work. then now after last week, things are going back again. last week went camp damn fun (got some outdoor activities), damn sian (lets not call them workshops, call them "listen and sleep sessions"), damn relax (able to sleep 8 hrs a day in a camp and most of all, everything happen in a resort), and damn fruitful (coz i had buffet for 4 days 3 nights straight ^^) Nvr gone to a camp so relaxing in my life.

DAY 1

Finally get to travel in a ferry. nvr did be4. off to batam.

the bloody system, nvr give seat number, then can c all the sp students all over the ferry, no1 talk to. reach batam there at 9+(gtm+7) the duty free shop so attractive, wanted to buy a whole carton of 24?? cans of beer. but then rushing for time, and then got lecturers around, nvr managed to get any. so, we reached the resort. lets c how it looks like.

ya.. thats its out look.

Training facicilties are provided for dragon boat:

i shall skip all the other things n go straight to activities.

Sea Rafting
*build a raft to travel in the sea
*paddle to the target and make it back in one piece
*items provided: 4 1.5m pipe, 4 3.5m pipe, 10 ropes 10m long each, 6 barrels.

sort of similar to obs quary rafting. having said its similar, the outcome is similar too. i failed during the obs rafting building, so did this.

planned out everything

Oh they built the ship Titanic
To sail the ocean blue

And they thought they had a ship
That the water would never go through;

But the Lord's Almighty hand
Said that ship would never land,

It was sad when that great ship went down

It was sad. It was sad.
It was sad when the great ship went down.

there were casualties of coz

that was the maiden sail of the raft. only half of the grp went up, the other half "hijacked" another raft and set sail

btw, it didnt came back in 1 piece too, we manually tore it apart. ^^

wat else better to do than going for a swim after such long time spend at the beach..

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Day 2:

High Ropes: basically just like going through obstacle course at a high (but actually not so high) place.
*go through the obstacle course and try not to fall off.
*total stages: 5
*train to overcome fear

lets take a look at the interesting stages.
stage 1:
walking on a rope while hands holding on another. no challange.. easy for everyone

stage 2:

not too bad, out of the 26 pple, 2 or 3 didnt make it through this stage.. its harder than u think it is though

stage 3:

most challenging stage of all. most time spent here. wind condition makes matters worse. another 2 or 3 came off.

stage 4:
no pics. no kick also, balancing and walking on the beam with the belaying rope in front of you.

stage 5:

the stage most people looking forward to. its just a not so high flying fox.

arh, so, went there early in the morning. got a briefing, and then started preparations.
------------------------preparation 1------------------------
------------------------preparation 2------------------------
and wat nice equipments they provide
------------------------benedict------------------------
dont forget insect repellent also
------------------------mosquito------------------------

personaly experiences:
stage 1: like wat i said, piece of cake
stage 2: no problem also. just that moving on the rope is easier than walking on the wooden sticks.
*got stuck while change stage. my caribina didnt want to come off, arh well, spent quite a lot of time there, mean while, got a instructor getting onto the course to come to help me. the caribina give way just when the instructor was abt to start on stage 2.. lol.
stage3: most difficult as i mentioned, especially when a strong gust of wind came while i was on the rope. damn scared, not becoz high, coz i scared my belayer cant support my weight and if i fall, whey will all be flying upwards. while i'm taking my time on this stage, this guy behind me, ee yong, crossed stage 2 by hands only, and started doing pull up in the middle of that stage.

stage 4: balancing and being able to hold onto the belaying rope is no problem.
stage 5: got my cam in my hands and took video of fly fox, similar to myong soo take that 1, but then just that mine got more battery.

like wat i said earlier, pple do fall off the ropes.
lets take a look at stage 3:
john came off,
------------------------john------------------------
and up the belayer goes
------------------------up------------------------
the feets are almost off the ground, and needed the instructor to back him up.

people to take note:
of coz there is the instructor

this guy who goes on the course when anything got stuck to save the people
(he's also the guy who was on the way to help me when my caribina got stuck)

lecturers

fastest zhabor, not really on the fastest but then no1 expected her to be that fast. got to even wait for billy who's in front

and last of all, this guy behing me, the stunt man
------------------------stunt man------------------------

afternoon 1st activity:
listen and sleep session:
nothing interesting abt this programme, but then just to tell u y issit listen n sleep session
------------------------listen n slp------------------------
the guy thats dozing off, he's the cc of the camp
*cc = camp commmander

after that session, played captains ball, my group, charmeleon camp in last. (chameleon cant stand up against water)
------------------------swimming------------------------