Are my cries heard?

Friday, March 09, 2007

8:49 PM

[Note: this post was made on the 9th of march, saved as draft and completed only on the 12 of march at 1.27am, so it would be shown as a post of the 9th of march]
Sigh.. I'm finally back from camp. Still wished that I hadn't gone for it. I'm here typing this post with all the injuries I got from the camp, Ouch! Heres what happened:

~although I don't really wish to remember about the camp, but I shall blog abt it for the sake of you ppl and this blog~

Day 1(monday):
There was school in the morning as per normal. About one third of the class didn't come. Probably cuz they wanna feign sickness so they wouldn't have to go for the camp. Night came, I was in my dad's car rushing to school in the traffic jam. I thought I was late cuz my teacher told me to be there at 6pm. I grabbed 2 sardine puffs from cheers for my dinner and went to school. I was actually early. Only like, 6 ppl were there in the classroom where we were supposed to meet. When everyone had arrived, there were like, only 2/5 of the class. I was like.. LoL! I should have skipped it also.. but my dad didn't allow =(
We waited for the bus. It came at like 8.30pm. Sat in the bus for an hour before we reached the immigration centre. After checking our passports and stuff. We sat in the bus for another 8 hours.. zzz I know, wow. That has bee the first time I've sat in a bus for so long. And of course there were pit stops. I got some snacks along the way, yum!

Day 2(Tuesday):
Arrival in Pahang Malaysia, Taman Negera if I'm not wrong. Pitching and allocation of tents. I was in the same tent with Kevin, Daniel, Jack and Faulzan. Actually, Jack left and went to another tent cuz there wasn't enough space. Anyway, we went for hiking and a night walk. It seems so short, but the day passed as we went for the hiking and the night walk. The hiking took place at a nearby hill. We climbed and climbed from morning till late afternoon. Its was kinda fun at the canopy walk when I was like more than 10meters above the ground on a shaky narrow little bridge. We went back to camp after that, had dinner. Oh ya.. there was this fat woman, one of the instructors of this camp. The woman told us not to eat so much when we went for seconds. And you know what? she was like eating so much arh. She just wants to save the food for herself.. I also didn't like her cuz she confiscated my gunpowder(the explosives that I had mentioned in earlier post before I left). I was playin with a little of it when she saw me. She asked me to empty my pockets... that was how I lost the explosives. Well anw, after dinner we went for a show abt Taman Negera then the night walk. The day ended after the night walk.. went back to tents and slept. It was kinda hard to sleep cuz my tent was placed just above a drainage cover.. can you believe it? my frens said that it was firm, so we slept there..

Day3(wednesday):
We left the campsite and went to a place that seemed to be a beach, but there was a river instead of the sea. We travelled there by boat. So everything there was natural. Ther wasn't even a toilet. We put our stuff there and left for a walk in a river with lots of stones and little rocks. Our shoes were soaked. It was like a survival game, cuz if we slipped and fell we might hit our head. It was so life threatening!! Well.. it was over in like 2 to 3 hours. We went for rapid shooting after that. In case you dunno whats rapid shooting, its riding in a boat and drivng around? at least i think. Actually I also dunno wads rapid shooting x)
Well anw, we sat in a boat that went really fast. It was fun while i lasted. We returned to the place(the place that seemed to be a beach but had a river except the sea). We waited for dinner to come. After dinner, we had to go for a show by the villages of orang ausli(or at least I think its spelt that way). The place were home to some people. And the show they gave us wassn't really a real show, it was just showing us how to start fires with pieces of wood twigs and vines. Wait, its a showing us stuff.. its a show! haha.. well I guess it wasn't just a typical show so I thought it wasn't a show.. but shows are about showing us stuff rite? so I guess it can be considered a show. We went back to the mats on the sand that were given to us so we could put our stuff and sleep there.Oh yah, I havent told you have I? we had to sleep on mats under shelters made of wooden pillars and some special cloth that didn't allow water to pass. My group was second last, so we had to sleep on the mats without the shelters. Thank god it didn't rain. Thinking about it, it hasn't rained throughout the whole camp.. ever since Monday. Pretty ironic issnt it? during the camp it didn't rain even once. The camp went so perfectly well. Anw, back to sleeping on the mats. It was pretty squeezy there. The worst part was, a group of bloody idiots put toothpaste on my leg while i was sleeping! I woke up while they were squeezing some on my leg. I was still half asleep, so I said hey! what are you doin. They split up into 2 groups and ran away after they heard me. I was like.. so frustrated. There weren't any water except the river.. but it was beyond the bondaries that the instructors had set for us. I was lazy to go there anw cuz I felt sleepy. I put some sand on my leg and rubbed the toothpaste off. I managed to get most of it off. I went back to sleep after that.

Day4(thursday):
I told my teacher about it. And btw, I forgot to tell you smth, our form teachers also went for the camp with us. So.. anw, after I told my teacher, instead of taking it seriously he simply said "ai yah, play play one lah right?" I was like WTH! in my mind... I was thinkin of askin my teacher to pursue the matter, but then again it was troublesome and I was too lazy. So I just let the matter rest and forgave the idiots. Its what god would have wanted me to do right? actually I don't think I should call them idiots also.. afterall, they're my brothers and sisters of christ. Wait, only brothers. So anw, we went back to the original campsite and left our stuff there. We had to help paint a nearby school there.. I was like huh? I came to camp just to paint schools? I paid 200bucks(this was for the camp) mind you. But I went on with the program after I heard that we were gonna get CIP points=D
When we finished, the whole morning was gone. I also got a sunburn. But not too bad though. We went back to the campsite for lunch and were left to do whatever we wanted till dinner. I didn't do anything much.. just walked around. I found Amir this fren of mine sleeping on a bench. I sat on the table where his bench was. So I called my other fren Mitch and told him that Amir was sleeping. Mitch quickly went there to disturb Amir. Mitch put leafs on Amir's face, made some funny voices and stuff. Amir was like sleeping with his eyes open. He sleeps with his eyes open! well anw, he looked as though he was crying. There were like.. tears in his eyes, and some flowing out. When he woke up, we asked him what kind of dream he had. We thought it was a very sad dream, so he was crying.. instead, he told us "water". We were like huh? Then he told us again "water". That seemed to be a reason good enough to explain why he had tears in his eyes. So anw, after that I wondered what to do next. I was thinking.. thinking... then I was inspired by Amir to take a nap. So I took my sleeping bag and used it as pillow. I lay on the nice green grass under the shade of a huge sigh post where the scenery in front of me was beautiful.. so beautiful. In case you ppl didn't know, I'm the type that enjoys scenery well.. at least sometimes. Back to where I stopped, there was the sun giving the sky just enough light so it would become a nice bright blue, the trees covered the sun so it wasn't too bright, the clouds completed the picture.. a perfect scenery. I woke when I heard many footsteps at the footpath I was sleeping beside. There were many students from other schools. One was some muselim sch cuz they were like wearing the coth over their heads.. what do you call that thing arh.. nvm. I think you should get what I'm reffering to. One was a CHIJ school, and I'm not really sure about the rest. I had planned to go back to sleep when suddenly, everyone started falling in after a blow of a whistle. It was probably the head instructor. I though in my mind "yay its time to go home". When we were all there, the instructor started scolding us for smth. It was about a boy throwing a sleeping bag at one of the CHIJ girls. The girl ran away after being hit cuz she was scared. My fren Mitch told me she was swearing all the way while running away. He even joked "more like a tomboy, not a girl" I was like hahaha WTH! It seemed pretty true when I saw the girl xD
The whole batch of us got scolded for like half an hour.. he said smth like "you could have stopped that from happeningI was like WTH?? I was sleeping! What could I do to help when I was sleeping?!? Even superman, spiderman or any other superhero cannot do anything in their sleep! After the scolding by the instructor, came the teacher. I was like Noooooo! my sleeping time. The teacher asked the instructor why everyone was falling in when it wasn't time to leave. The instructor told the teacher everything and the teacher wasted 15 more mins..I was like -_-" So anw, after that it was time for dinner.. The food was okay, quite nice as usual, but the drink! It was the leftover of coffee and tea from a nearby restruant, and you know what? they mixed the two together!! yuck! I threw my drink away. So we had that long bus journey again. And of course there were pit stops again. It was the same place. I bought some malaysian popcorn. It has a special taste. I actually bought 3 buckets(not the big kind etc. size of three soft drink cans put together)..

Day5(Friday):
Woke up and heard a voice "Get down the bus and grab your bags, we've reached the immigration centre!" it was the bus conductor. I took my stuff and went through the centre with my frens. I got on the bus that was going back to school. I was wondering why the bus haven't moved although everyone was on board. There, waiting in the bus I heard that some students got caught for smuggling gum and CIGARETTES. I was like WTH, who would be so stupid to smuggle cigarettes. Well anw, I didn't know what happened to them. After a while, the bus moved off. We were heading back to school. Just then, I remembered something... I had left my handphone and wallet at home, so there was no way I could contact my parents or take a bus home using my EZlink which is inside my wallet. When we reached, it was around 5.30am in the morning. I tried asking my frens to lend me their phones but their battries were flat. I managed to borrow 50 cents from one of my frens so I took a bus home. I reached about 6.45am I think. I had no key. So I had no choice but to use the doorbell and wake my parents up. I pressed it continously or like 5 mins. I ws gettin desprate. I needed to use the toilet, and fast. I knocked the door repeatedly... finally, after 15 mins my mum came to open the door.. geez... my dad was still asleep so soundly on my waterbed in my room.. without the aircon.. which ment, the door was open. My mum was sleeping in the masterbed room with aircon and the door closed. Pretty ironic don't you think? my mum could hear me at the door while my dad couldn't. And I thought my dad was not a very sound sleeper. Now I know, he sleeps like a log when hes on my waterbed. He probably wanted to sleep on my waterbed so he made me to go for the camp. -.-
Anw, I home now.. finally

~I never thought I'd say this but, home sweet home~

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