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Sunday, March 01, 2009 @ 10:47 AM

WARNING: This post shall be (maybe brutally) honest and uh, it's very long. Go go, get your popcorn then start reading. :D

So yes! I'm back from the ODAC great hike!
My smallest toe on each foot is in a disgusting state but no pain no gain man! The hike was so awesome. :D

You know, the night before the hike, I dreamt that I called Rubez I wouldn't be going for the hike even though I packed everything already.

I think I would've regretted like hell if i didn't go. Serious.


Okay, so we set off for Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve by bus first, trekked, then gathered at the grass patch.
We were supposed to do an inverted human pyramid, so you know what we did? Squat on the grass in the shape of an inverted triangle. Yea, like bowling pins.
But after that we had to do the real deal (as in the normal human pyramid lah). I was right on top. I had to go on top of Kai Peng and Rubez, and he was like "Whoa, nice massage." Lol..okay..


So yea, started on our Orientation Race, where we were given clues as to where the next checkpoint is. I think we walked from SBNR to Kranji to Woodlands.

Then walked to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve. It was quite muddy cos we took the inner trail, and I realised the guys in my team are quite thoughtful (my team had 3 guys, 3 girls including me, excluding the JC2s). Ming Xuan carried Rubez's bag for a period of time cos she was like half-dying already, HAHA. And Sky and MX would randomly lift up our backpacks from behind during the trek. But I never made anyone carry anything for me. You see? Girls from girl's schools are more independent. :D


When climbing up the final set of soil steps that were like, each the height of my foot to my knees, damn, I finally felt what it meant to exert yourself. Oh, and I saw an ant this big:

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Life-size ok! (And I know ants have 6 legs, not 4).

Finally reached the summit, and when we were sitting down at the shelter resting, these two tourists came and took pictures of us. HAHA WTH. Natural and man-made scenery put together eh? LOL, we are photogenic picturesque.

Headed down by the (much) shorter main way, and I had flashbacks of the geography excursion we had last year. The steep slope, especially. We were racing down the slope and got kinda told off by muimui. Ahh, the fun times. Then the JC2s tol us that walking backwards might be easier, so Vanessa, Rubez and I linked hands and walked backwards together. Tourists were like staring while walking past. (Ah, they are amused by anything and everything).

Trekked all the way to Macritchie (or was it Lower Peirce..) Whoa, my feet, by then, were aching like never before. Like all the blood in my body just sank to my feet. It felt like it, I mean.

It started raining! And I had no poncho or umbrella! But MX shared his umbrella with me, haha. But predictably, we both couldn't have got any more drenched in the end. I got experience with sharing umbrellas with people to know that.

Stopped to eat our chicken rice (Rubez and I were like Oh yay! Fnally some meat!). BUT! There were like gangs of monkeys hanging around. The JC2s told us that they would suddenly pounce on you and grab your food, so someone had to be holding a stick to scare them off.
So funny, cos at one point, another JC2 from another group came, wailing "The monkey bully meee!" So Augustus went to help him chase away the monkey LOL. Classic moment of the day.


Gathered before going for the nightwalk. We were all given lightsticks. Yellow! Cos it's like the brightest. I like. :D

Oh guess what. When we were about to start the nightwalk, it started raining again! The skies were throwing tantrums man, keep raining and stopping and raining again. Torchlights weren't allowed, so we all grabbed onto the bag of the person in front, and kept passing on "steps" and "hole in the ground" and turn right/ left"s in case the person behind was nightblind.

We were supposed to go bashing (into the unknown) a.k.a. solo nightwalk, but it got cancelled cos it was too dangerous to be walking on slippery soil in the dark ALONE.
One aim of the camp/ hike was to Break Barriers (part of SRJC's HABITS) and the bashing part would've ensured I did that, cos I actually got a really morbid fear of being alone in an unknown place. So it was like a relief yet a disappointment.

But in the end I did break barriers! Cos that was my first time walking so much in a day. :D
If it could be counted in the 100km challenge thing I think I finish half of it already please. HAHA. Eh, plus 5kg+ load somemore.

Decided to take the bus back to school (we were suposed to WALK all the way back to school. Imagine.)

Got back at school, bathed, played a super short game of truth or dare, and slept!
Whoa, for once, I was ever so grateful to rest my feet.


All in all, the camp. hike was really great. I dare say I benefitted much, both physically and mentally. Although I procrastinated a bit at one point of time during the hike (I still remember it was sometime when Mr Tan said '5 min walk' but it was quite long), but hey, I managed to motivate people by smiling! :D

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