WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
okay. time to get back to blogging! i never blog seriously for so long. but so many things happened in my life recently, really.
OVERSEAS TRIP @ STONG!
i koped pictures from the oac album heh.
DAY 1.
tanjong pagar railway station.
took train!
GOT BUNK. TOTALLY COOL. q comfy (really, as compared to how we got back.. which i'll elaborate later :D)

waiting and waiting. i spent my time eating and talking mostly hahahahahah.

ON THE TRAIN! BUNKS! it became like some gambling den at night lah! there were 4 to 5 groups of people playing cards from bridge to urh "dai di". i was anti-social. din feel like playing cards so i "attempted to sleep". HAHA. and i found out that both me and jillian were pretending to sleep when they tried to wake us up to play cards also HAHAHHAHAA ffffffffffuuhhh-neeeeee.
the guys were all at the bottom and the girls took the bunks on top (cos they say ltr on at night someone come and find us HAHAHAHA).
this is.. ME!!! :D me and my bunk. yay!

random picture. haha on a side note, the train passed by jillian's condo and then jillian saw her brother playing basketball HAHA so cutely convenient.

at night. train was shaaakieee.

spastic jillian who slept opposite me (and conveniently threw things at me when she wanted to go to the toilet HAHAHA)
OH. YOU KNOW! THE TOILET! everything that comes out of you goes down the track. and on the way back, jessie said the toilet was clogged up, and RED. HAHA. and nearly overflowing. if the train were to jerk, it will go allllllll over jessie HAHAHA. of course... it din. haha.

CLAIRE SENIOR! HAHA. the poor person who is like severely self-injured now (from all the falls)

after 13 hours, we reached dabong!!! look at the mist in the background!

the pee/other things marinated track. and shu wei and claire, of course. haha!
after breakfast, we started our trip by hiking up a waterfall. A REAL ONE. like seriously make our way up it.

TADA! u see the right side arh.. the steep slope there, we went up that way. it was really.. one wrong step you will slide or fall and drop into the waters and get washed down haha. this was where i asked myself WHY AM I HERE!!! I'M GONNA DIE!!! HAHAHAHAH. but fortunately, that was the only time :D
it was really a tedious journey... everyone had bagpacks, and many with bags 10 kg or more like me with 3+ litres of water. and you have to overcome gravity and keep hiking upwards, climbing and going up in large steps.

top of the waterfall!!! but still a long way from our campsite...

we've reached our campsite! or near.. we have to cross this everytime to want to get out of our campsite -.= its even more dangerous the other side hahahaha which is not in the photo.
we pitched out tents and went to hike up to the summit!!!

and we cldnt reach the summit in time... cos we were too slow. it was really hard lah. hours and hours and hours of climbing up muddy or rocky slopes!

another picture.
we went back down without reaching the summit ): if only the day was longer then we cld have reached it (if we insisted on going to the summit it wld reach out campsite at 10 plus, cook and eat dinner and sleep at 12 lol and wake up at 6). it was more of a matter of safety so i also thought that we should return to our campsite earlier haha.
DAY 2!

SUNRISE... not. HAHA. well.. suppose to have but it was SO cloudy and misty in the area that the sun was sorta beside the clouds and everyone just sat there and slacked.
i din sleep much in the night.. as usual in camps HAHA. and in the morning like 5+ or earlier the guys from the tent next to us started gossipping about some stuff hahahaha better not mention here in case all of us end up in someone's blackmark list... but anyway, it was super loud and clear and it woke us up hahahaha and we just HAD to listen hahaha cos there was nothing else to do anyway.

okay brighter! the weather is really good here though. like cooling! no mosquitoes at all (or rather, none stung me cos amanda kept saying she got mosquito bites and showed them to me haha). really nice. don even need insect repellant actually.

you drop down from here you will go to the end of no where! hahaha.

and all of us just sat there.

okay finally, THE SUN!!!!!!! THEEEEEEEE SUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!! HAHA.

we had to get across all these large rocks to get to our campsite. SO FUN!!! HAHA.

our campsite. first time nj oac camped with tents. HAHA. i think we are all becoming more and more civilised, in a way. 60% of the stuff in the store i dunno what are they doing there hahahah (likes axes and some weird stuff).

we drank water collected from the runnning water from the waterfalls, with aquatabs, which make them taste like swimming pool water :D withouth the aquatabs the water tasted which nice actually, yellow colour but sweet HAHA.

dah-dum. one of the places we collected out water from i guess.

and slacking on rocks is a hobby at stong.

happyyyyyy!

charmaine has the totally all nature look. i can imagine her living happily in a jungle and saying life rocks hahaha.

see see! HAHA.

okay group 1 slacking hahaha. the water is super cold and chilling. even after i brought some water back from ms, like at least 18 hours after it was collected, it was still uber cold when i poured it out in the sink.
sadddd don have pictures of my group ):
my group had quite serious people... we have three old aunties who are contented just by sitting at a nice corner and stone, namely jessie, jillian and kaiting. and we have a young unsettled member who always visits the ip tent haha namely amanda. and we have two very serious guys called chi cheng and yi neng who stone quite alot... HAHAHAHA. and we have our group leader daryl who i personally find him funny, responsible and nice hahahaha. last of all, wai kit! (no comments HAHAHAHHAA)
the second day we went caving luhh... me jillian and wai kit stuck together like glue cos we were seriously SCARED to death at the thought of leeches sucking our blood hahahaha. it was quite funny. i had to make a few KUNGGGGGG FUUUUUUUUUUU moves man hahahahha cos there were some steps whereby i reach down my leg cannot touch the bottom... luckily my track pants never split HAHAHAHA. next time must buy dance pants i think.
mud din matter in life at this point of time, whereby your shoes are already muddy, weird black stuff clung on to your palms too, and what matters is that you cling ont to anything that supports you and slide down mud if you have to.
but i loved it, really! it was tiring but now i think about it, i really loved the kinda freestyle climbing and clambering up natural rocks and stuff.
oh yeah, in the end all of us din get bitten by a leech. but we have daryl who got a leech bite at his ARMPIT (super memorable i think.. first leech bite at ur arm pit HAHA, and before the hike i was still thinking i wld rather the leech bite my armpit then anywhere above my thigh below my waist... HAHA), and sue-ann who had TWO, one at the back and one the top of her thigh which she discovered while bathing and left behind the half-fat leech in the cubicle.
TALKING ABOUT BATHING.
we went back to dabong train station at the end of the day, and there was FLIES everywhere. 2-3 cm big flies which are attracted to light.. terence had the honour of being the first to experience flies getting stuck to his body while bathing (cos it was wet) and asking pple (obviously guys) to help him pluck them off HAHAHAH. super funny.
by the time me jillian and jessie decided to bathe, there werent much flies actually (somehow all the flies disappeared after 8.30pm LOL). but the girls' toilet was DARRRRRRRRRRRK!
and this is what happened...
well, cositwasdarkandtherewasonlyoneworkableshoweringcubicle,jilliantookthatandtherestofushadtomakedowiththeotherthreewherebytwohadonlytapsandbucketsandonewithnowateratall.therewasaleechinthelastone(sue-ann'shalf-fatleech)andiwassoscaredthatijustkepthoppingonthesamespotinmyundergarments(itwasdarkandwewerehelpingeachotherholdourstuffyouseeandthemostconvenientbutopenmethodistostripandbathesinceallofusaregirlsanyway)andmskhoowalkedpastandshesawmeandshesaid,"whatareyoudoingbimbo?"butthatwasnttheworstcosafterthatihadtomovetoanothercubiclecosthatonewastotallyoutofwaterandihadtoletlightinsomehowrightsothedoorwasopenandjilliansawmybuttandlaughedatit.itwasquiteafunnyexperience,butsuppperrrrrrrrembarassingsincetherguys'toiletisjustonewallbesideyouandthetopwastotallyopenandtheyheardeverything,stufflike,"i'mnakedokay!donlook!","iseeyourbutt!","okayimlikestarknakedandimcomingoutnow","okayyoucancomeoutnowipromiseiwontlookandimnicelycoveredinaclothsoitsokay".accordingtotheguysitwastotallyverballyexplicit.
that's about it!HAHAHAHAH. let's forget about the past shall we? let's not think about it openly but remember it secretly. HAHAHAHA.
ALAS! our trip back was quite jialat.. cos we sorta gao wu long and then got a ride back on the 31ST instead of 30TH at 9.30pm, so that means we have an extra empty day at dabong. then the teachers tried super super super hard and got us on the train we wanted to be on, but we had no bunks, no seats, and had to fill up the junctions in between all the carriages, get seats when they are empty, and get shooed away at some stations if they are someone else's seat. it was really.. like some refugee HAHA. and the passengers on the train (all malays), some looked at us in disapproval cos we kept shuffling up and down the aisle and sitting down and putting luggage, when all of them are trying to sleep, and on top of them we are the most revealing people on the train (girls in super short fbts LOL), whereby the rest of the women revealed only their face and feet and hands -.=

we were like.. this.

this!

and this.. haha i think this is outside the toilet. HAHAHA. actually its not that bad cos alot got seats eventually and only some pple had to keep shuffling about for the 12 hour trip haha until we reach johor bahru whereby many pple alighted.

looking at this pic.. well not we arent that depressed at all actually hahah it was just tiring but quite an experienced. i know some pple played cards hahahaha.
towards the morning, benedict, yineng, chicheng, wai kit, me, jillian and jessie all cramped up at the end of the train (which served as one of the junctions initially but got cut off since its the end of the train i think), something like this:

HAHA. but 2 hours before johor bahru.. everyone had seats!

i really slept that time, and woke up time to time feeling really BLLLLLLLLLARRRRRH cos i din sleep throughout the night much hahahaha.
oh, this is a really random video taken at the highest point we went on stong, and you can tell how crazy our tour guide is. HAHAHAHHA. he's called batman. . .
AND THAT CALLS THE END OF OUR TRIP!!! HAHAHAHA. it think this trip really bonded all of us hahahah and everyone enjoyed it lah, its really out of the world kind despite all the obstacles we've been through (not being able to reach the summit, raining when caving, not finishing the third cave, not being able to get back to singapore ahems NORMALLY.)
loved it :)
i think our batch this year is smaller, but more bonded than the last batch... last batch was quite clique-ish but this year's batch is a anytime anywhere kinda social interaction. recently got closer some in oac and i really love how they made life in oac more fun! :)
looking forward to what the next batch brings, and hoping that the current batch and make sure of this holidays to have fun! :D
TODAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. (after so long i finally got back to reality HAHAHAHA)
lets see. claire, claire, me, wai kit, ben hong, kah han, and phong went to spend out ben and jerry's vouchers which we won from icac as group number 1 in speed and number HAHAHA. first time there. cool man. lovely and sinful. hahahaha.
partially we wanted today cos it was ben hong's birthday also, 1st june! so ben's bd @ ben & jerry's! so cool right. i was saying if i had twin boys ill name them ben and jerry. SO CUTE. HAHAHHAHAA. then must have proper family planning, make sure i give birth to them around the date of anniversary liddat i don need to pay for it when we celebrate it at ben and jerry's HAHAHAHAHHAA..
i think they will hate me.
stupid mom, they'll say. BUT OHWELLS. LIFE'S FUNNNNNNNNNNN HOHO!
well after that everyone left, and four of us claire me wai kit and ben hong went to play pool at meridien!! claire din know how to play at all... it was v funny HAHAHAHAH. lets not talk about all her misconceptions... but she was quite good for a first-timer leh!! seriously. i cldnt even hit the WHITE ball straight for my first time, and it kept jumping!!
it was fun :D looking forward for more of these kinda outings with oac pple.
HEEEEEEEEEEE (:
BYEBYE. IM GONNA SLEEP. ONLY SLEPT 14 HOURS AFTER MY TRIP. STILL TIRED.
tml i have to go for bio study session with ms tay in the afternoon in sch. BOOHOO. but its good. can force me to START studying. i think im already behind time. DANG!
(:
lots of things that happened, lots of things i realized about people and myself, and lots of new-found things which i realize that i should appreciate more about.
(: