Thursday, June 04, 2009
WHEEEEEEEE! I'm back from fac comm camp! I expected little of the camp as I thought 2 days 1 night of a duration was too short for us to know one another better. However, now that the camp is over, I think the camp was short and sweet and enriching!
On the first day, we did rope course for the entire day. (this explains why all of us are burnt) It's easy to recite the belay commands, but when you are doing the real thing, you're so occupied by your fears that you either forget to shout your commands or you will start to blabber nonsense. LOL! For instance, when we tranfer the carribeana from one rope to another, you're supposed to tell you partner:
1. TRANFERRING!
2. UNSCREW! (then you remove the carribeana)
3. CLIP! (when you attach it to the next rope)
4. LOCK!
5. ROTATE!
6. SQUEEZE CHECK!
When we're up there, we forgot all our commands that we started shouting:
2. REMOVING!
3. ATTACHING!
4. TIGHTENING!
5. ROTATING/TURNING OVER!
LOL!! Worse still, for the usual belay command, the climber may accidentally shout the belayer's command. HAHA! Very hilarious!
After the rope course, I realised that I've a little height phobia. lol. When it was my first time to get up, I was damn scared. After that, I wanted to try again. Haha! You know, short people are at disadvantage. Cos the lobster claw rope will be tautened as you cross over from one end to another and the carribeanas may get stuck on the cables that you have to pull them 'manually' to cross smoothly. Even when we're clipping the carribeanas from one rope to another, we may have to tip toe to reach for the cable and it's even harder to rotate the carribeana. -.-
I rmb there's once, I was on this platform with a furious Ares guy, cos he had waited for the carribeana (to travel vertically) for very long. I happened to be the last person with that carribeana, so I hastened my tranfer of carribeanas to another rope so that he could get the carribeana asap. Unfortunately, the cable was too high for me and I had difficulty in clipping the carribeanas onto the cable. I was panicking and I anyhow clipped my carribeanas. In the end, I was being caught for clipping one of my carribeanas facing the wrong side. So I had to do it all over again. Really very sorry to that guy for making him wait for my carribeana for so long. :x
Oh next to our pole, there's this mango tree. (haha! only artemis has this mango tree cos it's next to our pole -.-) All of us got free shade cos of the tree. Haha! There's once, a mango fell form the tree and almost hit Ian. LOL!!! Fortunately all of us had our helmets on lah.
The campfire at night was fun too. During our rehearsal, we realised a BIG secret: DANETTE IS TALLER THAN ME!!! Ubelievable right?! That means im the shortest in Artemis fac comm. Artemis performed the Algorithm's March with a cheer. We were quite high cos we started inviting other people (even the teachers) to join our march. We did random actions while the rest have to follow. HAHA! It was a failed but interesting attempt! Then there's this competition which requires a 'hunk' from each fac to blow a beach ball within the duration of a song. Minron was damn good cos when he managed to inflate the ball, the rest of the balls were still unblown (deflated). Apparently, we were the first for this competition! WHEEEE!
Next, we had rubberband tying competition. Again, each fac was supposed to send a hunk but along with 2 other babes. the objective was to tie as many hairbands onto the hunks hair as possible. The fac with the most no. of hairbands wins. Apollo won this. All of us were saying that luckily Athena didn't send Zitao as their hunk, cos he just shaved his hair! HAHA!
The next morning, we started disclosing secrets of how unglam Yijiao is. So now, she's known to be the most 'GLAM' person in our fac comm. HAHA! As we were walking to ECP, we chatted and they concluded that CO makes people short. (cos Wenhao, Yijiao and I were walking tgt) Then we realised that Wangchi's the exception. Then they said he's tall cos he joined MAD. -.- Perhaps that's why im the shortest cos im the only one who is still in CO in jc. -.-
Rafting was fun. Luckily we have Danette, who is an ex-girlguide, in our grp. Cos we needed her help in teaching us how to tie firm knots. Anyway, in our first attempt, our raft almost overturned cos we all sat towards the centre of our raft. But it was very exciting! HAHA! After that was I-Cook, where all the facs have a cooking competition. Well, due to the lack of proper equipment, our vege were all uncooked. AHHA! The best was our sphagettis. The process was very funny cos most of us didnt know how to cook. The most epic thing that I saw was how Wenhao cut the garlic. HAHAHA! (Nvm, shall not elaborate too much on it! :P)
Hmmm... After I-Cook was Amazing Race. We walked (plus ran) all the way from Boon Keng to Bishan. That was approximately 9.6km. :O Through this race, I realised that Danette is really good at ropes while Ningyu is very smart lol.
Eventually, Artemis came in second! KUDOS TO US! The end of the camp was kinda cheesy (as quoted from Wenhao), but still meaningful and symbolic! Thanks to all the instructors and teachers who made this camp so enriching! :D
After the camp, we had fac dinner at SWENSWENS! WHEEEEEEEEEE! (n we continued suaning yijiao about her GLAMNESS and took GLAM photos of her) HAHA!
Well, through this camp, we have known one another better (e.g. Danette is very good at ropes, Ningyu is very smart, Ian has no fats at all!, Minron wants to be LOW PROFILE (but failed haha!), Yijiao wants to 走 GLAM 的路线 (but failed badly!), Kaini is really an ultimate Tahan-ner, Leon is very strong! etc....) I also realised that all of us specialize in different areas and we are able to make good use of our specialties! However, we still gotta work on our efficiency! I've faith that we'll do a great job! ARTERMIS FAC COMM FTW! :D
7:43 PM
Till we meet again..
