Ok la, i was back yesterday but then was too tired to blog....

i cant be bothered to write EVERYTHING down so its kinda going to be in short form.

Day 1


















I was quite shocked when my CCA mates bought me cake to celebrate my birthday (it was tomorrow and it was a small cake but i was really touched that they remembered my birthday) and after eating it, we set off from punggol jetty.
Basically, when i stepped into the Base Camp, i was still feeling a little down and uncertain about how the course will be like. It started off fine with a rock climbing activity and I FINALLY REACHED THE TOP!!! (finally!!! lol). And it was quite a day getting to prepare for the big sailing day tomorrow. Slept in bunks! (i didnt know they had bunks!..lol)

Day 2
We started off preparing for the start of our sailing trip. We were aiming to reach a camp site at changi but there was a heavy storm before and caused our start off to be delayed. In the end, we just tried to understand how does cutter sailing works and i can seriously say.... there's alot of stuff to know even in a small boat...lol... So we just sailed around the area and camped off at Base camp 2 instead. Base camp 2 gave me back a few of my old memories as i walked to the toilet (Hey, come on, the toilet is way deep in base camp 2 and we were just "pit-stopping") so it was just a short 'flashback' moment. We then started to choose leaders to start off the journy again and this time, we were going to head straight out and all the way to East Coast Park! (that was around 24+km!!!).

Day 3
We started off quite well, being that we were on time, but we still didnt get how a cutter works so our instructor had to motor-powered us to the changi area. We were quite stunned and had no idea what to do when all of a sudden our instructors ask us to lead ourselves. I was to be the nav leader and i was afraid at first being that i was in quite of a shock and didnt know what to do. It was then I realised that i had to do something and something fast so i kept thinking about the basics that my instructor taught me and led the ship. At first my instructor was angry at me cause i was the leader and was too stunned and blur for too long, but then i managed to convince him (somehow) that my instructions to the crew will be good and right, he allowed me to try again. In the end, we still had to motor power the ship alittle but at least we made it to East Coast Park. The Campsite there was really great and i loved the point where as I can finally bath again! (i didnt bath for day 2, toilets were bad there).

Day 4

We were tasked to reach marina barrage by 1.30pm today without using motor. We started off early and well and reached there at 1pm! We were very happy and glad that we reached our point and we started off heading back to ECP. Suddenly, a huge storm started brewing. I was the captain this time (the Captain is the person that just controls the router and follow advise from the leader). IT WAS AWE-SOME!!!! It felt like we were in a priate boat and the winds were so strong we thought that we might just capsize! The storm kept blowing and blowing and we had to remain in closed hull positions as the winds were strong thus allowing us to fast. Soon enough, it stopped and we celebrated as we reached our back to near our campsite. Our instructor then wanted us to further pratice our sailing skills before we head back. He threw a life buoy over board and we were to retrive it. It was quite easy but then! Something happened! one of us didnt hold his cap well and IT WENT OVERBOARD! so we went on to try and get it back again. It took us ages before we got it back and we went at least 5-6 rounds trying to get it.
Cheered loudly and then went back to campsite. Shocked to find out that we were to over night on the ship..... (there went my chance to bath and sleep in a tent). Was uncomfortable the whole night but I realised that some of us even got very wet as they slept on the deck. I was quite sadded at myself for being unable to do anything/react to the situation.

Day 5
Today will be the last day of sailing, all the way from morning to 4.30pm from ECP back to Base camp 1. The instructors told us that if we didnt make it, we would have to camp at Base camp 2 instead. So we started off around 9am after preparing everything. Strangly, today, there isnt much of any wind at all. We started off rowing (When there's no wind/light wind, rowing is a must unless your instructor decides to on the motor). We rowed and rowed till a point whereas we were going much of no where and were tired so we power-motored all the way to around changi. When we reached changi, THERE WAS STILL NO WIND!!!. We had to row again and this time, its worst. It was around noon and the sun was high up, it was so hot our ship turned salty (as in everything was dry and very warm). Then we started to get a little crazy.... Well it was sort of a good thing being that we started singing all sorts of random songs and it moved the thoughts of rowing away. We enjoyed it and rowed around 5-6kms! Then we saw the other group when we reached around the pular ubin area. It was around 3pm by then and our instructors were saying that we cant make it cos there was around another 5-6kms to travel and wanted us to stop at Base camp 2 but we never stopped. We were so close and we were not going to give up on reaching our main target point so we used the method called "Mind over body" and rushed all the way! Even the winds started to agree with us as they started to blow strongly all of a sudden but we knew that the winds are not enough so we used both sailing and rowing all the way back. After all our hard work, we reached base camp 1 at 4.15pm!!!! Celebrated and rested on the rest of the day.

I'll add in somemore tomorrow, very tired now... lol..

{ 2:07 AM }
let's fly across the blue sky

Like i said before in my previous post, i'm heading off to OBS tmr... its going to be a 9 days camp and it will also mark the last of my activities this holiday (maybe going back to PSS to help ms ng after this but thats not the point.. lol) haha so yea!















Btw, i loved the celebration the TBC (Teh Bing Clique) peeps gave me. Came as a total shock though haha cos i really thought it was for queenie's farewell party or something like that. haha. To think that i thought maybe this year my birthday will not be celebrated so its totally way cool. Thanks a lot you all! (btw the pictures are way cool too haha)

{ 5:05 PM }
let's fly across the blue sky