Chapter 35- Concentration Camp
I announce my return to the blogging world, but i wouldn't blog as actively as i did before. I'm here to report to the people about how fun concentration camps can be. Let's start with the weekends before the camp, i took a helicopter and searched far and wide throughout singapore to search for nice nice track pants, but i only bought one in the end, so i frantically searched for an answer to whether or not we needed two, after drying my tears caused by the need for one more pants, while i flung my brother's closet open, i found one pair of track pants that he never wore, i have two! =D So i pack pack lor, then on tues go to school lor. Only after i got on the bus did i get excited, then, i was so excited that i slept on the bus, how exciting!!, i only slept for 1 min, while the clock was ticking into 2 mins, that xuan thing had to wake me up, i'm a poor victim to these terrible tormentors, can't they let me sleep even for 2 mins on the way to concentration camps? So we got thru everything and soon arrived at our venue, some rundown malay village, i didn't feel so then, i just wanted to get to my room, with aircon, and nice comfy beds, and big spacious clean toilets. We were all instead baking in the sun, entertaining ourselves by learning cheers. So after some introduction by the innotrek trainerrs, we were finally led to our dream rooms, wow! no aircon! one fan, sqeaky old beds! and worst of all, wonderful manual flush toilets!!! We definitely weren't happy, i could take it all, but the thing i can't take most is the toilet, i need, a goooood toilet, i cannot use those toilets. So after we changed to shorts, i went out hoping that i wouldn't have to use the toilet for anything besides peeing, i mean, let's imagine passing motion, its something wonderful and soothing if you can do it in a nice sparkly clean toilet with cold seats, passing motion is a time to enjoy, so, can you imagine doing it in there!??@$?>!@# Here, is where the phrase of the year 2006 first came about, '' i should've gone to china man!"
So, e2 was seperated into 2 groups, group 3 and group 4, with wei ning leading 3 and aza leading us, in four, i felt quite lucky as i felt that aza is the funnest trainer there, so if my memory hasn't failed me yet, we gathered, aza learned our names, and we called our group bloop bloop after his nickname. after some briefing, we got to cook our own food. I wasn't very happy then for my stomach was rumbling and they were still briefing us.... Finally, after years of stoning and fly swatting, they got some rice cooked, rice with egg with oyster sauce. After seeing the whole group eating a mouthful of rice each and moping their salivated lips against that same spoon, leaving their irresistable tasty saliva on the spoon, i thought twice, but with my hunger pangs slashing at my stomach with their claws, i had to eat a spoonful! mmmm, it wasn't exactly good nor was it that bad either, but i had to live with it, i was trying to eat as much, and that mrs how had to keep laughing at how i had to swallow each mouthful with excruciating pain. So, we all left later on, those food i ate didn't even satisfy a quarter of one of my hunger pang cell's hunger. i've forgotten what came next, but if i got it wrongly, i'll update again. But i only remember i kept asking when was dinner. Then i think we got to the waterfalls next. The going up journey was still manageable as we were still fresh, and when we reached the waterfall, i decided against going in for, c'mon! we still have a return journey and i wouldn't want to get wet. But, i just followed yuan hong and he went in, so i reluctantly stood there, until i was dragged by an unknown monster into the freezing river. I failed to see how everyone could enjoy themselves, our group members were all happily hee hee hahaing, while i was freezing, and my teeth were chattering, but the swim was invigorating as it refreshed all of us. Here comes the part where phrase of the year 2006 begins to make itself known as the phrase of the year 2006. Really, firstly, the trainers took a wrong turn, then we started taking a different route, a long perilous journey which was supposedly a shortcut back to our ''holiday resort'' But as we started to trudge aimlessly for hours, hope started to fade, with people falling one by one into the darkness of the leeches, i began to suspect that we were lost, the trail was untouched, with branches and booby traps sticking out. After seeing many hapless people losing their sanity to leeches, screaming their lungs out in pure pure pure horror, i began to worry, how many were crawling and sucking my tasty blood now? But i did not dare check, so for hours, we just followed in one line, with our clothes heavy and shoes full of sand, we went on, i felt very very hopeless, i wanted to see the road, i wanted to suddenly be bathed by hot water, have my clothing and shoes removed, dried, and being carried to a warm bed, where i'm clothed, and then, slip into dreamland, but slipping into a dream in that dream is a dream, how could it possibly happen? As i walked around, i heard people say phrase of the year, i myself repeated it to yuan hong several times. "I wonder what ray and wei zhou are doing right now in China, are they having high tea? And what are we doing here? "
After centuries of walking in the dense dirty wet forest, we finally got out into our promised land. After that, we got changed and had dinner i think. I looked forward to dinner, finally, we could be served professionally, not with our own cooked food. But when i saw the canteen, my 100% dropped to 60%, the canteen was quite uncanteenish. Then, when we saw the variety of food available, my 60% dropped to 20% It was still ok, the food, but when i tasted the rice, my 20% dropped to -600000% The rice was tasteless and bland, luckily there was some fish to help. And when i realised we had to wash our plates, i almost fainted. Its not that i'm lazy, but being spoiled and pampered, i can't stand dirty stuff, with dozens of pupils queuing up at the side of the dirty canteen, with wet and dirty floors, queuing up to wash plates, ewwww, luckily, there are kind souls that miraculously exist in this tainted world of men, souls i must honor, souls i'm eternally indebted to, souls like cheryl, its impossible that she would want to wash my plate, but she did, i still mantain a strong believe that what she did was impossible, but, what am i talking about. So i forgot what happend, i'll update again...
We had some soul-searching as a group next, haha, but aza asked us several questions that was thought provoking, whether we did what we should have done, stuff like encouraging, helping, warning. Then he went on to ask what we first thought of when we heard about the camp, luckily he didn't pursue this and ask each and everyone, because, the first few thoughts that came into my mind when i heard of it was a hotel to stay in, and fun games to play...
Next was the song session, the whole express stream gathered together to learn yet more songs and cheers, being boys, the boys weren't very interested and i was dozing off, only to be tortured back to life by that xuan thing, she had to pinch and beat me, and smack me and beat me again, to tell me about the stars above the sky, i wasn't interested either, but i wasn't given sleep in return. When the song session finally came to a finito, i was very pleased and thankful, only to realise that what was coming next would made me wish that the song session went on all night.
Firstly, while i was shining teck's torch at the trees, i was immediately stopped by yuan hong and teck, they warned me about people living up in the trees. I failed to understand what they meant, so i at first thought i thought they meant monkeys were living, but they were reluctant to tell me for they thought that i knew what they meant. After much persuasion, they told me that unwanted guests linger there. After they told me that, i received a 1 mill voltage shock, can you imagine shining the torch at night at the trees, and seeing one ghost hanging there? I felt a chill down my spine, i was freaked out, and what came next was the blind man's trail, into the dark mysterious forest. To add fuel to the blazing bonfire, the trainer in charge had to update us on the past casualties of the unfortunate previous groups that went in, and he kept us all quiet. Sitting down, in the middle of a huge village, all quiet, in groups, i was totally scarededed, it seemed like we were all awaiting death, and everytime a group is sent off before ours, i can't help feeling that our death would approach soon. But soon after, i began calming down and realised that it wasn't anything much, i began laughing at that sheryl sia cause she was more afraid and paranoid than me. When it was time for our death, i began to relax more, 80% to be approximate, as long as i wasn't the first or one of the last, the last 20% was my fear of the dark and ghosts. As we went on, i didn't feel quite much, i just didn't look around and i was joking for the rest of the walk. There is one thing i've failed to make clear, that is during the walk, i passed down a message to slow down cause hexun is very sad, i want to make it clear that i was joking, ahhahaha, really. Apart from the sweating and the rocky road, we all wished it would last all night, but it was still scary, along the way, we met waiting trainers ready to guide and help us...NERVES OF STEEL!, i wouldn't do what they dared to do if they gave me a hundred bucks.
Afterwards, we were late and we were debriefed, had good but insufficient supper, then cause of the lack of time, we skipped showering, with i didn't intend to go ahead with anyway. Lights off by1130, i shared my bed with murali, and both of us tried to sleep, but because the bunk was making so much noise, loud laughter by peera and kenneth, the trainers called us out, and i began to feel like we were in boot camp, but we were released soon after.
So after the campfire, was supper and debriefing, and we were allowed to stay till 12. After i changed, i walked out and found my lost teck siang flirting with his lover, but i quickly stold him back from that her, she's the third party!! Luckily teck siang hasn't forgotten me yet. Soon enough, it was bedtime, and i decided not to bath, just for one more night and i slept like an iron hog.
LAST DAY OF THE MOST WONDERFUL OVERNIGHT EXPERIENCE OF MY SCHOOL LIFE:
The next morning, it was pretty ordinary, we rose and had breakfast, then we packed, and waited under the excruciating sun, for the bus, when would that bus come?? Me, yuan hong, teck siang and kenneth decided to head to safra after we returned. When the bus finally came, i sat beside my beloved and slept like a fire boar, with my saliva almost flowing out. We finally reached the kelong and i realised this familiar sight, it was the restaurant my family and my friends go to almost every month during my primary school days. I had the best lunch in 600 years, and we had a great time. Finally, when we went back to s'pore, i could see many reluctant faces, and althought it was tough to get through this period of time, no doubt we had fun...
We arrived in safra, and it was here where i played the few of my best rounds of pool ever, no competition, just as friends, i mean, we just went through 3 days, and i felt very close to them, very refreshing and clean, although i haven't bathed. I played great pool with yuan hong, thrashing him, but we were laughing throughout, and i was recalling the bumblebee song, and i decided to record it on teck's handphone the following week. When kenneth challenged me race to 3 racks, that was were my mood sank a little, we were like a real competition. Kenneth really wants to beat me, i can tell, i know he isn't too happy that i'm ranked higher than him, he's been in the business much longer than me, and i don't think he ever thought that i would outrank him, i would think that way if i were him. But thankfully, i beat him 3-2. And for the rest of the night, we were laughing as i watched teck siang play.
This camp has been a great experience, what a way to unite e2 again after a tought half year, with many people doubting the classes' eventually ability to become the best in each and everyone's hearts, but soon after, you can see many people love their classes now. It has been great, but not the best of my live yet, there's still a church camp to come next week, but i've learnt that i'm such a spoiled idiot. I also want to announce that i'm eternally indebted too to that sheryl sia, for she washed my plates more than once, she did what i still believe now as impossible, thank you csheryls.
So, e2 was seperated into 2 groups, group 3 and group 4, with wei ning leading 3 and aza leading us, in four, i felt quite lucky as i felt that aza is the funnest trainer there, so if my memory hasn't failed me yet, we gathered, aza learned our names, and we called our group bloop bloop after his nickname. after some briefing, we got to cook our own food. I wasn't very happy then for my stomach was rumbling and they were still briefing us.... Finally, after years of stoning and fly swatting, they got some rice cooked, rice with egg with oyster sauce. After seeing the whole group eating a mouthful of rice each and moping their salivated lips against that same spoon, leaving their irresistable tasty saliva on the spoon, i thought twice, but with my hunger pangs slashing at my stomach with their claws, i had to eat a spoonful! mmmm, it wasn't exactly good nor was it that bad either, but i had to live with it, i was trying to eat as much, and that mrs how had to keep laughing at how i had to swallow each mouthful with excruciating pain. So, we all left later on, those food i ate didn't even satisfy a quarter of one of my hunger pang cell's hunger. i've forgotten what came next, but if i got it wrongly, i'll update again. But i only remember i kept asking when was dinner. Then i think we got to the waterfalls next. The going up journey was still manageable as we were still fresh, and when we reached the waterfall, i decided against going in for, c'mon! we still have a return journey and i wouldn't want to get wet. But, i just followed yuan hong and he went in, so i reluctantly stood there, until i was dragged by an unknown monster into the freezing river. I failed to see how everyone could enjoy themselves, our group members were all happily hee hee hahaing, while i was freezing, and my teeth were chattering, but the swim was invigorating as it refreshed all of us. Here comes the part where phrase of the year 2006 begins to make itself known as the phrase of the year 2006. Really, firstly, the trainers took a wrong turn, then we started taking a different route, a long perilous journey which was supposedly a shortcut back to our ''holiday resort'' But as we started to trudge aimlessly for hours, hope started to fade, with people falling one by one into the darkness of the leeches, i began to suspect that we were lost, the trail was untouched, with branches and booby traps sticking out. After seeing many hapless people losing their sanity to leeches, screaming their lungs out in pure pure pure horror, i began to worry, how many were crawling and sucking my tasty blood now? But i did not dare check, so for hours, we just followed in one line, with our clothes heavy and shoes full of sand, we went on, i felt very very hopeless, i wanted to see the road, i wanted to suddenly be bathed by hot water, have my clothing and shoes removed, dried, and being carried to a warm bed, where i'm clothed, and then, slip into dreamland, but slipping into a dream in that dream is a dream, how could it possibly happen? As i walked around, i heard people say phrase of the year, i myself repeated it to yuan hong several times. "I wonder what ray and wei zhou are doing right now in China, are they having high tea? And what are we doing here? "
After centuries of walking in the dense dirty wet forest, we finally got out into our promised land. After that, we got changed and had dinner i think. I looked forward to dinner, finally, we could be served professionally, not with our own cooked food. But when i saw the canteen, my 100% dropped to 60%, the canteen was quite uncanteenish. Then, when we saw the variety of food available, my 60% dropped to 20% It was still ok, the food, but when i tasted the rice, my 20% dropped to -600000% The rice was tasteless and bland, luckily there was some fish to help. And when i realised we had to wash our plates, i almost fainted. Its not that i'm lazy, but being spoiled and pampered, i can't stand dirty stuff, with dozens of pupils queuing up at the side of the dirty canteen, with wet and dirty floors, queuing up to wash plates, ewwww, luckily, there are kind souls that miraculously exist in this tainted world of men, souls i must honor, souls i'm eternally indebted to, souls like cheryl, its impossible that she would want to wash my plate, but she did, i still mantain a strong believe that what she did was impossible, but, what am i talking about. So i forgot what happend, i'll update again...
We had some soul-searching as a group next, haha, but aza asked us several questions that was thought provoking, whether we did what we should have done, stuff like encouraging, helping, warning. Then he went on to ask what we first thought of when we heard about the camp, luckily he didn't pursue this and ask each and everyone, because, the first few thoughts that came into my mind when i heard of it was a hotel to stay in, and fun games to play...
Next was the song session, the whole express stream gathered together to learn yet more songs and cheers, being boys, the boys weren't very interested and i was dozing off, only to be tortured back to life by that xuan thing, she had to pinch and beat me, and smack me and beat me again, to tell me about the stars above the sky, i wasn't interested either, but i wasn't given sleep in return. When the song session finally came to a finito, i was very pleased and thankful, only to realise that what was coming next would made me wish that the song session went on all night.
Firstly, while i was shining teck's torch at the trees, i was immediately stopped by yuan hong and teck, they warned me about people living up in the trees. I failed to understand what they meant, so i at first thought i thought they meant monkeys were living, but they were reluctant to tell me for they thought that i knew what they meant. After much persuasion, they told me that unwanted guests linger there. After they told me that, i received a 1 mill voltage shock, can you imagine shining the torch at night at the trees, and seeing one ghost hanging there? I felt a chill down my spine, i was freaked out, and what came next was the blind man's trail, into the dark mysterious forest. To add fuel to the blazing bonfire, the trainer in charge had to update us on the past casualties of the unfortunate previous groups that went in, and he kept us all quiet. Sitting down, in the middle of a huge village, all quiet, in groups, i was totally scarededed, it seemed like we were all awaiting death, and everytime a group is sent off before ours, i can't help feeling that our death would approach soon. But soon after, i began calming down and realised that it wasn't anything much, i began laughing at that sheryl sia cause she was more afraid and paranoid than me. When it was time for our death, i began to relax more, 80% to be approximate, as long as i wasn't the first or one of the last, the last 20% was my fear of the dark and ghosts. As we went on, i didn't feel quite much, i just didn't look around and i was joking for the rest of the walk. There is one thing i've failed to make clear, that is during the walk, i passed down a message to slow down cause hexun is very sad, i want to make it clear that i was joking, ahhahaha, really. Apart from the sweating and the rocky road, we all wished it would last all night, but it was still scary, along the way, we met waiting trainers ready to guide and help us...NERVES OF STEEL!, i wouldn't do what they dared to do if they gave me a hundred bucks.
Afterwards, we were late and we were debriefed, had good but insufficient supper, then cause of the lack of time, we skipped showering, with i didn't intend to go ahead with anyway. Lights off by1130, i shared my bed with murali, and both of us tried to sleep, but because the bunk was making so much noise, loud laughter by peera and kenneth, the trainers called us out, and i began to feel like we were in boot camp, but we were released soon after.
DAY TWO OF CONCENTRATION TERROR
I woke up early in the morning and realised that we had no sink, i needed to brush my teeth. Jia jun told me that there was a sink outside the girl's bunk, i cannot see people without brushing my teeth, so with pasted toothbrush in our hands, we and jia jun ran out of our bunks to the girl's dorms, but when we saw many girls started to walk out of their bunks, we immediately ran back. And although the toilet was horrible, i brushed my teeth there still.
We gathered again and had not so nice breakfast, it was nice, but their raw tasting beansprout made it taste like raw bean sprout. Soon afterward, i was happy to know that we were doing many many many many wet activities. We first swam across the river, and did many many things. Then we learnt survival skills, and how to start a fire.
Much to our relieve, we had more water activities. But, it was swamp track. When i got into the mud, it stank like excreta, although i wasn't very glad, i was glad i wasn't totally muddy. But when they stopped, and everyone began to get engaged in mud fights, i slowly backed out of the fiery crossfire, but i was unfortunately spotted by my good ''friends'' and wen shan drew first blood when she splated MUD at my clothes. I was so like that that i wanted to scream, she got me dirty, i thank her... I then started to take revenge, but i was still thankful i wasn't totally mudddiedd yet, until that sammie girl threw a blop of MUD at me. By then, i was screaming, and started to dig deep, get mud, and throw a well aimed shot at her head, what a headshot. Then, she had to dig deeper and walk up to me, i could not resist her as she was so big and i was a weakling, she then threw it on my head too. Soon after, it stopped, but i didn't want to throw at her until i could get a full clean wide angled 100% shot at her, i didn't want her to block. So as we were told to go, i picked up a blop of mud in my hands, and along the journey back, that blop of mud stayed in my hand, eager to rocket onto that sammie's head. teck siang followed alongside me and he kept prompting me to throw at her, but i waited for the perfect opportunity.
When we finally reached an area near our campsite, where our instructor wasn't looking, i passed that piece of mud onto teck siang's hand, and he happily skipped over and simply dumped it on that sammie's head with too much simplicity, and all that little big sammie could do was to give him that ''hi! i'm sammie!'' face.. to this hour, it makes me laugh.
Next was more wet activities, thankfully, its the river this time. And we had many obstacles to cross, and of course, without the need to be said, i cleared all of them easily, just like when i was learning abc when i was a kid. .
Next was the campfire. That night was quite a memorable one, it was the first campfire i've had, and although thruout i was dreading the moment whereby aza would call our class for the cheer, i enjoyed the night still, until we had to perform. But it was pretty quick, and it soon ended. I wouldn't forget this night, where i spent my time throwing small pebbles into ricky's hair, being stoned on one's birthday, what a pleasant way to celebrate!
So after the campfire, was supper and debriefing, and we were allowed to stay till 12. After i changed, i walked out and found my lost teck siang flirting with his lover, but i quickly stold him back from that her, she's the third party!! Luckily teck siang hasn't forgotten me yet. Soon enough, it was bedtime, and i decided not to bath, just for one more night and i slept like an iron hog.
LAST DAY OF THE MOST WONDERFUL OVERNIGHT EXPERIENCE OF MY SCHOOL LIFE:
The next morning, it was pretty ordinary, we rose and had breakfast, then we packed, and waited under the excruciating sun, for the bus, when would that bus come?? Me, yuan hong, teck siang and kenneth decided to head to safra after we returned. When the bus finally came, i sat beside my beloved and slept like a fire boar, with my saliva almost flowing out. We finally reached the kelong and i realised this familiar sight, it was the restaurant my family and my friends go to almost every month during my primary school days. I had the best lunch in 600 years, and we had a great time. Finally, when we went back to s'pore, i could see many reluctant faces, and althought it was tough to get through this period of time, no doubt we had fun...
We arrived in safra, and it was here where i played the few of my best rounds of pool ever, no competition, just as friends, i mean, we just went through 3 days, and i felt very close to them, very refreshing and clean, although i haven't bathed. I played great pool with yuan hong, thrashing him, but we were laughing throughout, and i was recalling the bumblebee song, and i decided to record it on teck's handphone the following week. When kenneth challenged me race to 3 racks, that was were my mood sank a little, we were like a real competition. Kenneth really wants to beat me, i can tell, i know he isn't too happy that i'm ranked higher than him, he's been in the business much longer than me, and i don't think he ever thought that i would outrank him, i would think that way if i were him. But thankfully, i beat him 3-2. And for the rest of the night, we were laughing as i watched teck siang play.
This camp has been a great experience, what a way to unite e2 again after a tought half year, with many people doubting the classes' eventually ability to become the best in each and everyone's hearts, but soon after, you can see many people love their classes now. It has been great, but not the best of my live yet, there's still a church camp to come next week, but i've learnt that i'm such a spoiled idiot. I also want to announce that i'm eternally indebted too to that sheryl sia, for she washed my plates more than once, she did what i still believe now as impossible, thank you csheryls.
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