Sunday, July 23, 2006

Outward Bound Singapore; 19 July - 23 July 2006

Hello! I'M BACK! lol, I know for sure I've been greatly missed by Zong and immensely desired for by Lings ;) Anyway the camp was just wayyyy coooooool. I enjoyed it very much and have brought home with me many priceless experiences and lessons. Here's a hearty thank you to our instructor: Boon Wee, for being so patient with us throughout and also for being so self-sacrificing. Okay so here's a list of what we did: Belaying, High Elements (where I did the Double-Log-Duo with much help from Jiahe as my partner), Sea Expedition - Boat Rowing (which lasted for close to 3days because we circled the whole island on boat!), Land Expedition - The Legend of The German Girl (where we trekked to the shrine and highest point of Ubin [YES JOANNE :) I DID THINK OF YOU AND ALOY!] and also where I put on Gary's sianjibua look to accompany him on our way back to camp) and some other team games.

And if you think they sound so simple and boring, think again. Behind every wonderful stageplay, there's a lot of hard work behind the scenes. The group had a good mixture of different kinds of people and I really had to learn to adapt to everyone's working habits. Found myself lamenting about how people back in PL would never be like this or like that but it eventually dawned upon me that it's going to be like that out there next time because everyone is not going to come from PL like myself and do things like myself. Also learnt that there isn't only one way to doing things and that really had a great impact on me. I used to think that I'm a very hardy person and seldom have complaints about the circumstances that I'm in but this time round I heard myself whining about itchy bites all around my ankles, tsking away when I have to embrace the nature when Nature calls, ecking away when I can't straighten my legs in the tent because I suddenly appear so tall and throwing tantrums when my surrondings were so stuffy. I never do remember myself doing all these before this. Well, it's either the situations were really that bad or that I've grown too comfortable with life which obviously is the latter.

I've brought home with me not only cuts, bruises, bites and aches but most importantly a new courage that I've found within me and have begin allowing it to be used. And since I cannot discover new oceans unless I have the courage to lose sight of the shore, I'm going to continue allowing myself to drift away from you and meet someone new.

These hard times have made us

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