Inter-Area Project-Based Competition + Survival Training Camp.

20th October 2008
4.45pm

Hi to all, I'm back from my 3D2N Survival Training Camp at Pulau Ubin. More about that later. Friday marked the end of Inter-Area competition. I'm really gonna miss my favourite team mates that made this experience such a memorable one. Though we didn't get top three but we made it to the Finals, which was Area 10's inaugural success competition. Now that we've got the experience, we're gonna impart whatever knowledge we've gained to our juniors, so they'll win us back the top three places in two years time :)

Here are some pictures of the rehearsal. We're a bunch of punctual people, we reached HTA, which was inconveniently located at the other part of the island, on time :) Thanks for the effort people. Though we were only given insufficient time, we managed to make good use of it. I love you guys man!

Joshua, our scammer :)

AhMa (Farzanah) with AhGong (Nigel)

We were such a great sport, after dinner at HTA we made an effort to rehearse outside the cafe!

Raudhah, Farzanah & Nigel (Pardon the poorly resoluted photos, it was late).

Nadhira, Raudhah & Farzanah :D

& while waiting for bus 172 to go down to Boon Lay, we started to turn into werewolves & went crazy cam-whoring. (The pics had been edited to my best ability)

Crazy girls :D

The guys continue to share a secret.

Nadhira, Vivien, Raudhah, Farzanah :D

The secret is: AhGong & Scammer's actually good friends :D

I'm such a calefare at the back :)

Nadhira, Joshua, Nigel, Vivien, Raudhah, Farzanah :D

We top!

Thanks Nigel, for screwing this otherwise perfect photo up.

Okay, so on the actual day I was shivering before going up on stage cos' I realise I'm gonna make my presentation impromptu therefore not preparing any script. I did my part to present & even Miss Fadhzilla saw through me, that I was downright nervous. But I did my best, & I'm sure Team Arbeit did their best :D Though our logbook didnt not outshine the rest, our performance did. & that was good enough :D Here are some photos on the actual day :D

P.S: I look extremely disturbing in the following photos as I have camp directly after my competition & I wasn't allowed to wear contact lenses.

Nigel & me, look who's nerdier.

AhMa & Me :D

Look at their costumes, aren't they all INTO it?

Nadhira & Scammer. Spot on.

Okay, now for some Survival Training Camp action. So, no more pictures since we were obliged to surrender our phones to prevent any networking happening in the event of the camp. Gonna just talk through this last part.

Missed the tent-pitching section since Team Arbeit managed to reach camp around late 8pm. (Did I mention we got to eat at Changi Village before heading camp!) We were praying feverishly to be in the same group but of course, the organisers won't be that nice. I was designated to be in group 3, no budge. I loved my group, seriously. Mostly people I know, eg: WeiJian, Rowena & Aishah. By the time we arrived they were already having group debriefing so I got to know that my group CI was Eric Sir (Yes or No?) Hahhaa.

I slept in tent 5. I'm grateful to have Raudhah with me, less a loner. Haha, day two approached shortly with minimal amount of sleep, thanks to the incessant mosquitoes buzzing around my ears. I don't rmbr such annoyance last year. Maybe I was too tired then. Three cycles on third day. Only managed to complete 2 out of 3.

Cycle 1 - Firestarting
Sir Fahmi took over Sir Eric as he was off to kayak with Sec 2s. Sir Fahmi took us deep into the dense forest for fire starting. Was briefed the three main components in order to start a fire. So we ventured off to look for our own dry materials to try start a fire. It was dumb, since it rained the previous night, & nothing was dry. Fed mosquitoes & headed to the jetty for something thrilling.

Cycle 2 - Jetty Jump
I wanna give 5 thumbs-up for this. Since it was the activity I was looking forward to the most, & that Mervyn Sir was in charge of it. Felt as if I saw my dad when I saw Sir. So heartwarming! Was the second girl to take a step off the wooden plank, plunging straight into the sea. Though its my second time going for jetty jump but I felt the thrill nonetheless. But it was fun & Sir allowed us each to go twice since we had time. I was taking my own sweet time swimming back to the ladder. Lolz. Fun!

Cycle 3 - Treasure Hunt
I wanna say this would be fun should we have the time to complete it. Started to rain shortly after we finished our first station. I didn't know there's a Secret Garden in Pulau Ubin! Fantastic place with lots of plants & trees we can barely ever find in mainland. Thanks to WeiJian & his relative, travelling around Pulau Ubin was made easier :D Hahaha.

Due to the lightning warning, we headed back to camp & started on some Sec 3 bonding time. Shared cheers & songs which we went crazy. Prepared for campfire & because our group was named Crumpler, we made bags for our fashion show. I was to model for my group's handmade haversack. Had such a crazy time being the designer I felt I was in Project Runway. Something scandalous happened during camp too. Lotsa laugh.

Campfire after that. High as ever. Pretty much the same as last year. Secondary 3s were palpably in higher morale as compared to the Sec2s. Rocked the runway with our new summer designs. Super crazy.

The next day was mainly area cleaning & prize presentation. Crumpler clinched the Best Group Award! Whoooooooohoooo! :D Our group had the least number of members, which goes to show that its the quality, not the quantity. Same for our unit, four of us, its the quality, not the quantity :) Sir Eric was a good CI :D

Left for Singapore after that. I'm too lazy to post detailed information about camp. Too much to remember. The insect bites are annoying me. Gonna see a doctor in case they leave scars D: