OBS! my watch was called DA GAMA! Woots! we were mobile.. they did a switch =P haha.. in my watch there was LiYi, Avril, Wen Jie, Joel, Bernard, Dinah, Wani, Ummu, Amirah, Grace, Brian, Damian, Adly, Sarahot (lol.. that's what she wants to be called) and of cos me! initially i din know anyone but over the 5 days we got to know each other much better i believe =) they are super fun loving pple to be with! all so enthu and high.. LOL. but all very encouraging too! our instructor jonathan is a super lame guy. hong kong guy. haha.. crack super lame jokes but we still laugh! He rocks! haha.. but he keeps saying dun lost ur things ok? n we love to correct him. he also calls us da gamat instead of da gama. lol. but it definitely brought abt lots of laughter =D the first day when we started OBS i felt kinda disappointed cos the activities were not as fun as i thot they would be. simple games but i learnt a lot from them as i look back now. i've learnt how to gain trust from others and how to trust others. it seem easy to say but the process is not as easy as it seems. We also learnt from another game how to expect the unexpected.. they taught a lot abt how to face life and i'm enlightened now! dinner time.. we had to cook in the dark.. so we ate uncooked rice and food. YUCK! x( so sad.. at nite couldn't slp tho. maybe not tired enuff.. haha.. next day FUN was jus beginning.. haha. we woke up early unpitched our tents and set off for camp 1.. (we were at camp 2) we had to prepare all that we needed for the next 3 days cos we wereb't going back anymore. we carried the SUPER HEAVY backpack and hiked. we reached there much faster den expected. we sand along the way to pass time. our watch was slowly starting to bond =) when we reached camp 1 we went rock climbing! haha.. i did buddy rock climbing with Wen Jie. my hands and legs not long enuff in the end take so long to do but we still reached the top =) DA GAMA guided me and encouraged me. real nice. during rock climbing was also the time wenjie became my "kor kor". haha.. they say when we rock climb look like kor kor and mei mei. felt very glad for some of them cos despite their fear of heights they still climbed to the top. all the way DA GAMA! after that we went to learn how to kayak. we had to do the capsize drill while it was drizzling so it was kinda cold.. brr. was so scared like who likes to capsize? what if we get stuck in the kayak? haha.. end up it was ok. i mean there's always a first time to everything rite? poor wen jie lost his specs while doing demo.. we had to rush a lot but at least we din have to cook our own dinner.. haha. got cooked food this time round! still kept waking up in the middle of the nite. slept on some muddy area.. hard to slp la. haha.. so fast 3rd day le. we had land ex. today! walk so LONG! my back nearly broke ok?! the bag made my shoulders so painful.. i wan massage! hahaz.. we got lost halfway and suddenly.. SPLAT! a bird shit on my head!!!!! ahhhh.. my instructor said i was lucky cos the bird that shit on my head was a bird that i was rarely seen. like riggghhttt.. i got to lead my watch and in the process learnt how to navigate. not bad eh? haha.. jkjk. that day we din get to bathe but the sea breeze was enuff. it really cooled us down and it started to get cold... did centriduty(i think that's how u spell it) with grace, wenjie and joel. sat under the starlight.. haha and got to know each other btr and of cos do our duty. found out the guys in our watch all so guai.. love their siblings so much de, dun use vulgarities, help the gals.. great! we could see changi airport from where we were. we missed civilization! haha.. what do u expect? we had to pee on the beach, in the woods.. [shudders] managed to read the daily bread after centriduty while waiting for avril ang liyi to come back. =) haha.. that nite was nice with the sea breeza but i still woke up in the middle of the nite.. dunno why tho. the camp was ending so quickly.. it was the fourth day already. we kayaked from where we were all the way to camp 2. that i practically arnd the whle pulau ubin! i kayaked with my "kor kor". haha.. we stayed behind and assist joel and grace in sweeping. making sure the slower ones could catch up. throughout the whole process of kayaking we encouraged each other a lot. i learnt that even a small act can make a great impact on others =) and that teamwork was the only way we could succeed. haha.. we left at arnd 8.40am which was way behind schedule. we were supposed to leave at 8am! the other grp only managed to reach at 5pm despite leaving at the same time.. they did it the day b4. we kinda found it impossible to reach camp 2 at 3pm. but WE DID! haha.. the last part was the part i enjoyed most mann.. wenjie and i wished grace and joel a nice day and we sprinted all the way to the end! we were more den 200 m away from the front pple cos some were really very slow. but we jus sprinted. it was amazing. going against the current. we kayak so fast and tho both of us were tired we jus continued padallind so fast that we reached b4 some of them who were in front! haha.. wen jie and his "well done"! lol. it was a real sense of achievement!! =D however, later in the day we kinda got a dressing down from jon. we became very slack and did not keep to the time given. but that somehow got us closer n more determined to work as a team! i wonder how jon does that.. but it's a gd thing isn't it? slept quite well that nite.. tired mahz.. haha. Thank God i din get my hand cramps again. i prayed and God answered my prayers! sooo sad.. last day le.. we did our jetty jump today.. i laughed so much! DA GAMA, I'LL MISS YOU! haha.. teamwork in da gama was now no. 1! haha.. jon was so proud of us and said well done. must be influenced by "kor kor" la. haha.. one thing DA gAMA def learnt was how to say is " WELL DONE"! =))

• Getting together is the beginning, keeping together is progress
• Thinking together is unity, working together is success
• To serve, to strive but not to yield

I MISS OBS!