Sailing camp @ Krabi, Thailand!

Note: EDITED! ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF MS CHENG, since my photos are gone with my dear camera.

Hello world! I'm back from sailing camp @ Krabi, Thailand! :)

We did caving, kayaking, snorkling, deep water solo, rockclimbing, abseiling..


I'm thankful to have such a lovely and family-like bonded sailing family and wonderful teachers-in-charge, because thanks to them we had our camp in Thailand instead of school, and the camp was successful!

But yeah, the sec4s got back their Level 1 already. :( will miss them!

I'm back with 16 mosquito bites, 11+ cuts (especially one from this morning's caving activity that made me look like I slit my wrists cuz its a cut thats longer than half my arm) and 2+ blueblacks.

But all thats worth it.

Oh, but losing my camera wasn't.

And it was lost in transit from our first staying area to the kayaking area, which makes me feel more pissed! Like, why was it MY bag that the uncle dropped out all the things from??

DAY 1

"bus" ride with the luggage.

MOOOOSH!

We kayaked to this island with loads of crabs.

And David did crab fishing with a water bottle. :)

Why so serious, Joseph?

DAY 2

When we opened our curtains in the morning, this was the scenery we saw.

Then we packed up and took the boat down to another place for kayaking, again.

Yup, these rocks and stuff were directly above our heads while kayaking.

Cool, or what?

Mrs Koh's trained us Pure Geog students too much, cuz wherever I went during the kayaking trip was,

"How was this formed?" "Why is it like that?" "Are the rocks pourous?"


It rained after we went to Krabi from our kayaking island. After the rain stopped we went to have a "small" trek (as according to someone) that lasted for like more than 2 hours?

We went up this side of the mountain then back down, on to a beach, walked past resorts that looked oh-so-comfy, and past 2 more beaches.

And I did it all without shoes!

Well, except the climbing of the mountain thing.
After that I washed my feet in the sea water so I refused to put my shoes back on.

So my feet hurt pretty bad and numb cuz of the pebbles on the beaches and all. David was walking beside me the whole time, so the poor dude had to listen to my "OUCH-es" and "OOOPFH!-es". :P

End up he forced me to wear the shoes he was wearing. Thanks! :)

Belle saw a chicken and she started doing the "bok bok bok!" sound chickens make thruout the day. LOL.


DAY 3

3rd last day started with Deep Water Solo and Snorkling/Beaching.


A chicken woke us up at like 5.30am Thailand time k.

It still went to every area the girls were sleeping in to give us a wake up call, and we all got annoyed at it lol.


We climbed like, super high? 2 stories+ high? Idk.

Oh, the kick?

No ropes and no support. :)

I climbed 3 times, only reaching the top at the last try.

Determination really DOES help, cuz I told myself, "Okay we're going for lunch, and I'll be really damn peeved if I don't climb all the way to the area and experience jumping off it!"

And regardless of the cuts from the first try, I just pushed myself.

The jump was... I can't describe it with words!

It felt like, I was committing suicide? Except for it was killing myself by landing on the deep waters below. Its like, you don't hit the water immediately.

There's this split second that you're hanging in the air and you're thinking,
Am I there yet?

Guys trying a different route than the one shown by the guides.

See where David and Ryan are?

Thats the high part I climbed till on the 3rd try.

Idk what Ryan was doing..

But he jumped so...

Jump David, jump! :)

Aaron J. jumping.

Me and Mr Shoo jumped together.

Thanks for all the encouragement! :)

No, don't ask me what they were doing either.

After that we had lunch on the boat, and went snorkling and beaching.

It was the best!

It felt made me feel like I was in Loola again,
Joseph agreed with me. :)

I didn't snorkle since there was nothing much besides the nice fishes that ate all the rice we couldn't finish.

We just sat out at sea, lying down on our lifejackets. Or just stayed on the beach, playing SANDball fights and all. Awesome.

And oh, not forgetting catching waves!



Since we finished snorkling etc early, we and went down to have Ryan's mango sticky rice.

It ended up raining, so we were stuck there, giving the aunty business since we all thought the bbq chicken was gooood.

I only bought mango sticky rice, which I shared with David.

Then he bought chicken and gave me a whole drumstick after he ate how much he wanted. I was like, omg thats a lot! then he and Ryan said they could finish it in two bites.


DAY 4

View from the cave of the route that the other 2 groups took, I think.


Today morning was rushed, cuz we had to leave by around 2pm+ to catch our 8pm flight. The boat ride+bus ride was like, total of 4hours?

Our cave route was shotened, and before it we did rockclimbing.

In my group only Aaron and Yanling made it to the top. I hit my knee and like, couldn't continue already since I had a blueblack and a lot of cuts from the Deep Water Solo from the previous day


Caving = we go into a cave. And oh, abseil down from it which is at least.. about 8-9 stories high? Okay it felt like it.

This was how high up we were when we were going to abseil down.

As in, this was what we could see!
NOT that we were as high as the mountains in the picture!


I ended up crying because while going up the cave, it was super dark and the sand was super fine. I fell backwards and slid downwards.

Can you imagine? You falling down when you know if you kept sliding downwards, you would end up falling from a damn high height?

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Okay maybe I started getting scared when I saw a plank.

I thought I had a phobia for nothing, but from this camp I found out I am terribly afraid of crossing bridges/ladders made of planks/bamboos.

Abseiling down.

The guys were laughing at me cuz the moment guide Alex told me to release my hands, my face "totally changed", and Ms Cheng started snapping pictures.

You can kinda see how nervous I was the moment he said,
"Okay now you release your hands".

The guy's accommodation for the 2nd place was much better than the girl's, can you believe it?? So we hung out at their place for the last few days.

Besides that, the nights at Krabi were fun.

We mostly spent our nights after dinner walking around to the restaurants and roadside stalls near the beach.



Yeah, I think I'm still laggy and sleepy from the plane ride back.

The bus ride was around 2hrs. I fell asleep as soon as the bus set off to the Phuket airport and I woke up with my neck hurting cuz my head ALWAYS moves when I'm not sleeping beside the window. Again, poor David was sitting beside me so I think his shoulders suffered a bit. Sorry, and thanks! :)

Well,

THANK YOU & KUDOS TO MS CHENG, MS CHEW, MR SHOO, MR YEO AND MR NARA!
You teachers are the most fun. :)

And oh, Ms Claudette too!

SL camp! Publicity rocks so bad we rock your stinky socks. :)

I feel so dumb.

OKAY TIME TO BLOG ABOUT THE SL CAMP!
Meiting can't send over the pics yet cuz her MSN has been problematic.
She didn't reply my email! :(:(:( so I asked Ken to send them.

Day 1

Gathered at school, thought I was gonna be late!

Wondered where David was cuz Mrs Nathan was asking around for him.
LOL, always late one ah you! :P

Bus trip there was tiring yet stupid cuz me and Meiting were absolute retards! x)

Activities were okay, started with rope entanglement. Stupid la, we thought we got the ropes untangled and we jumped around screaming like siao but in the end it got worse than before.

HAHAHA, we were like a bunch of retards!

KENNETH WAS OUR MIGHTY INSTRUCTOR! :D

Our group was pretty quiet till Ken told David: "David, go to the bbq pit now and push it and shout "Help! Help! The bbq pit is falling!" now." BLOODY FUNNY LA DEY.

It is now Publicity's well known sentence, besides "Thou Shall.."
(insider's joke.)

Overall it was boring? Till the flag-painting and potrait-drawing activity at night. :)

I loved our lovely PUBLICITY flag!
Major thanks to Zoe for drawing it! :)

Drew my potrait, and David ruined my pretty thing by writing "You look like my father - From David", he and Nic Yeow la! Nic pushed me aside so that David could grab it from me :(

In the end I grabbed David's and wrote "You look like my mother - From Gwen".

Got room 33.

Loved sleeping on the top bunk! Suwen slept below me. But it was freaky staring out of the window tho, in the night somemore!


Day 2

Gladys woke me up, and she said I scared her cuz people usually slowly get up, while I just shot up the moment she tapped my shoulder.

See, who said I was a pig? :P

Forgot what we did, but it was a lot of time spent in the auditorium.

Thanks David for the jacket! Eh its thicker than my black IP Zone jacket la walao.
My hoodie's too thin to keep me warm. :(

Oh I remember now, the activities were fun!

Except for the blindfolding one. STUPID LA, I di siao Ken then he sabo-ed me to play alone when I thought I was playing with David and Nic. Hahaha.

But I was wondering why my sense was telling me there was no one around me.
Cuz you know, when people are standing near you, you can feel it?

Then Ken said "Do you feel you're being sandwiched by two people?" I was like "HUH! .__." and quickly took out my blindfold. Everyone started laughing. Then I noticed David and Nic sitting on the floor. BLOODY HELL!

Then the other game was this game that felt like manual pinball. Haha.

David damn joker luh, kept throwing the ball at me and Nic.

Chased him around and our dept teased us saying we were a couple.
Somemore say what, only both of us got "blusher", face damn red.

=.=


Day 3

Time flew by fast!

We started out the day with horrid PT. Ugh.

I started feeling damn dizzy but I didn't wanna say. Didn't wanna eat breakfast so I just lay my head on the table.

In the end Ken said if I didn't eat he wouldn't give out the camp tees.
HORRIBLE GUY! Hahaha.

Mrs Nathan insisted I go on the safety car and not do the walk from Sembawang back to Mayflower Sec. Publicity tried to persuade her but she didn't give in :(

Ken helped me in the end! With a few words she was nodding her head. Hahaha.
Mrs Sidhu wanted David to make sure I drank lots of water LOL.
Got put infront with Ryan (not the sailing one), who was having phlegm {?}.

Quite fun! Walked till my shoe came apart, literally.

When we were reaching school we ran all the way and I had this damn sharp pain in my chest like I couldn't breathe? But aiyah don't care, I know my limits.

Felt good to be back in school! :) we were all sweaty and tired.

But we got an achievement:
We started out last, finished third.

You have no idea how happy and proud we were of each other.
But its also thanks to Ken, right? ;D

Prepared everything for the item, had a fun day.

But my headache spoilt it all.

Ended up crying when we got to the theatrette, cuz Lianyi's group started cheering when they were rehearsing their item.

Thanks Virginia for helping me calm down. :)

Headache all the way till sleeping time. Talked with Ken along with David, Nic Yeow, Virginia, Jinli, Meiting, Eugene and Landson. Ken's like the most fun and nice instructor luh!

Was supposed to wait for Mt and Sally before sleeping, but I was so tired I slept.

Slept at 2.30am leh, don't play play.


Day 4

Woke up feeling damn cold. Overslept! We were supposed to wake up at 6.30am?

Went down by 7.10am. Was late! But thank God there wasn't anything much to do. There wasn't PT. :)

Had debrief, took some photos with all the SLs who attended (David and Nic Yeow totally spoilt the pic! They both poked me and I ended up screaming and jumping up and down) and some SC things and we were dismissed at 8AM+! :D

Went opp for breakfast with Meiting, Virginia, Sally, Jody, Katini, David and Nic Yeow.

There were like so many Nicholas's in this camp la!

Nicholas Cho, Nicholas Wong, Nicholas Yeow, Nicholas Tan.

So Nic Wong thought Mrs Lim was talking about him during our theathrette thing on day 3. Hahahaha.

Ate at the usual pace I eat at besides when I eat rice.
Kena nagged at by all of them x)

Meiting said I am exactly like Mel, eat damn slowly.
Also damn blur. Hahaha. We're cousins mah! :P

Dad fetched me and I was so damn tired.
Saw gran on the way to the lift, she went to the market! :)
Felt so happy to know she's gotten out of her lazy state.

Homed and used com till about 3 or 4 plus?

Got damn tired and slept, aunty Tun woke me up for dinner and she said it was 8.30pm.
I was like wth I slept for so long??!

But ya, I didn't eat dinner.
Fattening to eat past 8pm! Hahahaa.

Photos from David's camera..