BACK FROM OUTWARD BOUND SINGAPORE (OBS) CAMP! this camp is really really tiring! test our patience, endurance, determination, resilience and more to our limits! really removed all of our pamper-ness! i've never attended such a stringent camp before! BUT... i've never grown and matured so much before! i've never known and become great friends with strangers that seemed like knowing them for years before! i've never heard so many inspiring stories before! this camp is one of the best i've ever had! i can't possibly share all stories we've had but let me say a few memorable ones. my watch which is my grp, NIla Utama, love to fool around with Nak Kencing (want to pee) and Merepek (crap) these words! but we're also very loving esp when we care for our team mate Jocelyn so much! as we went for land expedition, trekking for 8 hours plus with an extremely heavy bag each weighing more than myself i suppose and probably about the whole of pulau ubin! we still had to carry jerry cans of water, food packs and tents! had to go checkpoints to checkpoints, tired until cannot grumble. finally reach campsite, were given 2 choices. first is to shower, eat, rest. second is to go all the way another camp site to fetch jocelyn from the medical centre. without further ado, everyone said the same answer and there we go, walking quite a distance again. very touching moment. this is how bonded we are. we also had sea expedition. kayak for 6 hours, having lunch and peeing in the big sea. with fishes, sea snakes etc. had to keep on peddling cos once stop, no strength and difficult to start boat moving cos got strong currents. sun is strong until parts of body were burnt if didn't put on sun block. but really very very fun! we had to camp at public camp sites too, jungle and beaches. no electricity and water sources. cannot shower, pee and poo have to dig a hole in the ground. have to do santry (?) duty at night which is patrolling. have to cook dinners which is instant noodle and canned food. also lots and lots of bread and biscuit. we did jetty jump. whr jellyfish are lying around in sea. before jumping have to shout out what kind of leaders we want to be. it's a commitment. we did high height elements too. all the aboved said isn't complaining, it's a sincere sharing that i've really really enjoyed. sharing almost everything with watch mates. none of us were selfish. shared water, food. do everything together even peeing in the sea (with pants on!) lessons learnt were so new and i better understand my strengths and weaknesses now. this camp is also successful cos we had the most awesomest instructor ever! he's zhiwei. he's unlike any other instructors. he goes beyond his job. cos of him, we are who we are as a watch today. i promise i will not forget this unique camp! thanks jocelyn, jia hui, marilyn, rebecca, jeslyn, mandy, syahfura, syakila, farizuan, nazri, izdi, azri, azman, ren yi, kris! thanks OBS. congrats cuiting, for completing this course! :D
CuiTing