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exquisite waste of time
20090629 / 04:21


Because I can't sleep till you're next to me (No i can't live without you no more)
Sorry song lyrics stuck in my head. Insomnia. Or actually I woke up in the middle of nothing and couldn't get back to sleep. So I got up and messed around with the template.
And I pondered the meaning of me.
To no avail as expected.

a. Insect bites from OBS fricking multiplied I swear. Double itchy too.
b. The renovated Tampines swimming complex is awesome :D
c. Haven't done any elearning.
d. School's starting in a week. Sucks big time.
e. Skip the following, it's a recount for myself incase I forget anything.
f. Am typing weirdly now. Too early in the morning I think.

Obs was fun. And tiring. And unsanitary. But still fun. :D
First day was nothing remarkable. Pitched a tent. Had horrible food. First night sleeping in a tent with Qingying, Chin, Zhidan and Yuping.
Did the high elements on the second day. Yuping was belaying for me I think. Was supposed to climb with Qingying but switched to Aaron halfway. Damn scary being up there but the view was good :D Danica accidentially let go of the rope when she was belaying Jasper and he fell the remaining distance to the ground. Ouch max.
Learnt to kayak after that. Capsize drill. Hahah the guys capsized thrice. Very amusing. Then again it's not easy to kayak. Started the expedition to kekek (if i'm not mistaken). Shared a kayak with chin and christopher. Hahah it was damn gay in the beginning hahahahah had loads of trouble rafting with the others. Got the hang of it after a while. Pretty fun hahah I saw a crab!!!! and started trying to poke random bits of flotsam with my paddle hahahaahah oh and I kept going big rock big rock ahhhhh then it progressed to even bigger rock and to HUGE ROCK!!! or smth like that haahhah. There srsly were evil looking rocks omg we went so close to one yknow damn scary hahah. Poked fun at chin and her terminology hahaha "Right paddle right paddle!" "No it's right sweep!" I think we did lots of fun random stuff on the way haha but I can't rmbr anything in particular. K so at kekek we pitched a tent and had plain instant noodles for dinner. Spammed insect repellent and deodorant. Briefing on the following days' expedition then retreated back to the tent to sleep. Woke up at 3:30 for the guard duty (spent it looking at stars and refilling water bottles). The stars at pulau ubin are pretty. On the last night the instructor taught us how to find scorpio :D so coolllllllll hahaha.
Next morning there was some fiasco about cleaning up the area. Hahaahh kinda gross to type it out here. Started the kayaking expedition again. Turned into a mangrove swamp! :D hahah before turning into the river-swamp-thing there were some waves hahah so we kinda bobbed up and down with them. Damn fun :D K then kayaked through the swamp. Did a land crossing (I forgot the term). Distinctly rmbr being stuck in the mud. And Christopher making some smart comment about my mismatching shoes (one was much muddier than the other). And some random crap about mudbaths being great for the skin hahah :D Started kayaking again and got stuck in one of those mangrove trees D: HAHAH Eunice and elton keep getting stuck hahahah it was super hilarious hahahahahah there were twigs in eunice's hair after that HAAHHAHA. Everytime they got stuck someone would shout Good game or GG hahah funny max. At one point we crashed into mangrove trees so much I/we were damn scared of them haha. Oh and we drifted with the kayak xD you know the initial-D kinda drift. And I finally learnt how to backpaddle. And Christopher thought the Limbo was actually the macarena so everytime we looked like we were gna crash he'd be all do the macarena again or smth hahah until I corrected him (while laughing like crazy). Then someone dropped the map into the swamp haha. 海底捞图. Good game hahah. After a while our kayak was getting very dirty because of all the crashes and mud from land crossings ._. Then we capsized. Not accidentially (Christopher claimed) though haha. We wanted to "clean the kayak". HAHAHHAHA damn funny christopher kept showing off our literally squeaky clean kayak after that and telling everyone we capsized to clean the kayak. Anw we lost a 1.5l bottle of water, a few caps, and some earsticks. Maybe lost some happy oranges too. After capsizing we zihighed like crazy hahahaha. Made it to the second campsite and waited for the speedboat with our bags to arrive. Bags and everything were soaked because they apparently fell into the sea or smth so the boat took longer to come. Major grossness k EVERYTHING was soaked. Clothes food tents. Camera died (never to be revived) D: At least OBS is refunding. That night was the worst. Second night of not bathing (imagine how gross we were) and covered in gravel and salt. Soaked to the skin, tents also dripping wet. Had more instant noodles for dinner then the guys started experimenting with prickly heat. HAHAHA DAMN FUNNY HAHAHAHA. Tried Elton's superstrong counterpain. Felt damn good plz, muscles were aching from hours of kayaking. Danica applied too much hahahah xD Sat at the shore with eunice looking across the sea at singapore and wishing we were there. Started catching planes (to wish for a better life at obs haha). Started consolidating the number of planes we caught so we could get the wish faster. In the end I lost count at around 40 or smth :X That night was horrible. Danica was shivering like crazy. Tent was sandy and wet. Could barely move from muscle aches when we woke up. Woke up many times in the night too D: I think we kayaked more than 10 hours in two days.
Set off hiking the next morning with the superheavy backpack. Hiking was gruelling srsly. Oh but the view from the highest point in the island was awesome. Hahah shouted stuff like go home and bathe. Echoed back :D We were half dead when we made it back to base camp. Srsly. 10+ km with a super heavy bag D: Pitched tents then finally bathed. Bathing was like our source of motivation throughout the hike. Celebratory dinner. Fried rice was good :D Didn't eat much else. Had some sandfly infestation in some tents but ours was spared. Slept very soundly. Was either too tired or alr used to gross surroundings. Next morning was cleaning up and Eunice stole a lot of oranges, the pervert -_- then some hit the bell thing which I do not want to think about in detail. And home-home. Finally. But it was kinda sad leaving the place. We were so fascinated with all the high rises and sbs buses and hdb flats when we got back to the mainland :X Haven't seen much but trees and the sea for too long. Went subway with chin danica and eunice after that :D Had a lot of fun thinking about stuff that happened in obs. It felt damn good to be at home that night. Quite an experience and I think I boringified it alr but nvm :D May go again in JC if i get the chance.

Am going back to sleep in a proper bed with proper aircon with proper blankets and pillows and stuffed toys! :D

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