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Secondary 3 Camp 2010 - Ashraf Azhar


We came to TWSS, all suited up with our big bags waiting in the hall for our trip to Sarimbun scout camp for our Secondary 3 Camp. Personally, I was not looking forward to it, being a scout camp and not knowing what to expect. To some, they prefer the mystery of finding out what will happen during the camp, but I was worried that the mystery will end to be a boring mud filled sandy holiday. Not something I would naturally look forward to.

For the camp, we were split into 2 teams from 1 single class. I can't remember the names of the groups properlly but I do remember that my group (group 6) was called Ninat, the other sounded like "Barrel Roll".

The food was amazing,we had 'Zombie Curry Chicken' (Half-Cooked Chicken Wings), "Zombie Oranges" (Greenish-tinged oranges), "Grandmother Hairstrands" (Bee Hoon), Floury Wan Ton's and so much more amazing delicacies found nowhere else in Singapore with amazing standards as such.

The 1st day, we did height elements ; boring. I did one of the C.R.C's , I can't remember what they stand for, I think Challenge.Rope.Climb or something. I had to do one about 20 metres tall, a flexible thin plank with ropes for support. In order to hide my fear, I kept screaming at my beleighers and whoever tugging on to my life (rope) for moving too slow or sometimes too fast. I finished that and was the only person asked to fall down.

The helmet smelled pretty funky too. Mmmhmm...

Next was Rock-Climbing, the guys had to do the right-side of the wall while the left-side was done by the girls. Apparantly, the right-side was really really hard, only three guys made through a certain height. Apparantly, the rock wall was missing 1 rock. It made the guys look stupid, as all the girls on the other side made higher than us.

After Rock-Climbing, we had Abseilling and Zip-Ling/Flying Fox. Abseilling was freakingly scary, the waiting time, the 'anticipation' of going down a 20 metre wall was so enticing it nearly made me wet my pants. Serious. But once you get to trust the ropes and the instructor, you will make it down without much problems. As usual, I tried to hide my intense fear.

Zip-Line was boring. The only fun thing about the zip-line was the instructor sited there. He was playing some 1970's music and humming and singing to the tune in an apparant attempt to fcalm us for the zip line. I found it freaky. He was probabbly the reason why I didn't enjoy the Zip-Line

The second day was much better, we did water events like rafting and kayaking. Rafting was a bit stupid, our raft didn't make it so far as it was a triangle-shaped. As much as our hypothesis sounded good, in real life it sucked. Ninat lost to "Barrel Roll" in rafting but thats okay, were all in this together.

Kayaking was kinda sad, we were swept away with the current and we were 45 minutes late for lunch. Me and Fairoz were using one kayak, we kept getting stuck in the mangroves, nearly into one of those floating islands with dogs in it. NEvertheless, our trainers said if we did a kayak exam, we would have passed it well.

Camp fire night, we were dissapointed. We owned all other classes in cheering but we didn't win best class. I guess best class isn't only decided by how well we cheer, nevertheless, I felt that our class has grown together closer.

We are literally drunk in Class Spirit. (Reference: Spirit = Alchohol)