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written on Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:21 PM ✈

Area ATC was really fun!! I've never tried anything like that or even similar. On the first day I took a cab and I reached school very early. Saw Yan Ni and Zi Han :) Since I ate already, I just watch them eat. :P Yeah, halfway changed into PT kit, and went to audi. We were very high and our squad was like singing cheers and doing the "dance" - 旁边旁边旁边前面后面..I can't believe we did it in front of 40 ma'ams. Haha too high le. When we went up the bus, we started singing cheers and songs. The atmosphere was so nice, I looked forward to ATC a lot that time, but I was still a bit scared because there would be guys at the camp. Yeah, since I've been in a girls' school in primary school and now. I thought I wouldn't be able to communicate, but it was a little better than I expected. I feel like I'm doing reflections. :O Never mind. We were waiting under the hot hot sun at the jetty. Pei Yi ma'am told us our groups, and I got into Group P with Pei Ting and Wen Xian. And Group P is actually Pluto! :D (we came up with the name with grpmates later) Finally, we got up a boat (my first time taking one to Pulau Ubin) and walked a long way into the campsite. In the middle of the journey, we stopped to wait for squadmates who were on the other boat.

We got to know our groupmates at Ubin, and also the sirs and ma'ams' names. In my group there was Xyn Yee, Jia Yuan, Hui Qun, Justin, Ignatius, Kai Hong, Ashiq, Shaik, Imran (actually they are both Shaik : P), Ding Quan, Jing Hao, Marcus, Bryan, Hong Yi, Hong Jie, Yi Wei, Faizal and Ruben, of course, and Wen Xian and Pei Ting. And then after a while, we mixed into groups of 5 and proceeded to set up our tent. We gathered in our groups, and then we played ice breakers in the training shed area. And there was quite an amount of games, before we proceeded to dinner. Oh, just before dinner, we gathered at the canteen area and waited for the flags to be lowered. Apparently, starting a fire is hard. Took a long time to gegt the fire up, and we got ration packs, and we shuttled between the roads, and sinks to get our utensils, wash them etc. We managed to get the fire up, and then we cooked a packet of maggie mee. But then on the first day, as we didn't know, we overused the solid fuel. Pei Ting and I couldn't get the fire to blow out, so there were guys from ACS who helped us. I think it was very nice. Haha back in school we are the ones helping ma'ams, not the other way round. I was pretty surprised by it. Actually we tried to have a night walk but it was cancelled due to a drizzle. After that, we had to fall in and learn songs and cheers. But then I realised something, sometimes NY was leading the cheer, because some schools were not familiar with it. Especially Linger haha. It was rather fun because we started moving towards the front. As in squadmates, then we "float" all the way to the front. :D I think by the end of Day 1 we were more familiar with the ACS people. Haven't gotten a chance to talk to the rest until 2nd/3rd day. We also slept in the canteen because of the rain. Was a little cold. Haha, then our squad was like scrambled. We didn't exactly lie down straight. Bent and twist like worm like that.

Woke up and there was PT. I was a bit tired. And then we did warm ups and all but we had to stay in pumping position because we didn't claim our stuff. I was shaking so much. Argh. Had breakfast, and I was trying to swallow biscuits. I just got my braces tightened, so when I bite the metal stuff starts hitting each other. We didn't get to do the whole thing, because of the weather and time constraints, so we did low ropes and rafting. It was quite useful, got to use what we learn and put it to use. Like lashings. And I was pulling really hard. I was afraid the raft will sink. Haha. After that, we didn't sink and could even do a little competition with the other group. But the only thing that was a pity was, only 10 people from each group could go. So not everyone got to enjoy it. After lunch we went to do low ropes. Alicia asked a guy to help me light up my stove and then he just came over and helped. It's like very surprising eh. I think he sort of overheated his thumb. I feel so guilty man. It was a really nice act. And Pei Ting came back, so we started cooking maggie mee. Ate the food. We then proceeded for low ropes. There was this maze, and somehow I ended up in front because I could feel the walls and see shadows. Darkness. Then did rock climbing which I was no good at. And then the ropes part. I enjoyed the tarzan swing. But the West Coast park one bigger and more fun.

Dinner was soon after, and we sat in the dark. We set off for Camp Noordin afterwards for campfire, and we went there already before. Saw lots of flies and weird things that stuck to you. And we saw 40 ma'ams walking in the area. Did cheers, songs and performances. Was quite long. Pluto's performance was not very good, but we tried our best. I know I could have done more, and I'm feeling bad. Debriefs, and it was quite okay. Yeah, and we quickly packed and slept in the tents. I was sleeping at the corner, and was quite cold. Sometimes, tried to cover my face and body with my jacket. And then Zi Han was flipping a lot in her sleep. I got shifted like 1 footstep's length away from where I first slept at. Luckily, there wasn't much insects that came in. Woke up and tried to wash up and fall in. We skipped the PT and had flag raising. Then we ate in front of the canteen area. I went to get paper from the tent, then after that Justin was saying he had paper -.- Ahh! Wanted to write down contacts at first. Got allocated with our jobs - Pluto had to clean the toilet area and dustbins. If I'm not wrong, I think I heard that the guys needed to do tentage too. Yeah. I was thinking, toilet then toilet lor. Forget that it's gross and just clean. I spent some time trying to clean the dead stuff before I could pick up the half alive ones. Woo. And I scrubbed some parts of the front area with Wen Xian. Finished cleaning and helped a little with dustbin. Very pro eh Pei Ting and Justin. Cleaned up the mess. It's really pro lor! Most people fell in.

Then Jiajia, Glenda, Nicole and I went to volunteer and clean kitchen. And I took my rags and started grabbing the insects. Glenda also, and rest was wiping. Both of us was at the sink and the sponge was dirtied. I dirtied it a little. So we had to get rid of the bugs. Ran in and out. Grabbed brooms and went in and out. Sweating a lot. I noticed everyone fell in already. So we quickly finished and joined the girls. Sir was like trying to list out 10 things about ... and later we fell in and did lots of claps to show appreciation for officers, CIs and instructors. The camp closed and each group had some time to themselves. :D We got to write down our contact details and talked a bit lah. Yeah, but some group mates didn't get to write. I'm hoping that their squadmates can forward the mail to them (: Hiked the way back to jetty, and we stopped at the place where we came in. Was rather high, and we left Pulau Ubin and reached Singapore. Reached school and Dad came. Ahh.

I was thinking, it's really weird. Kinda slack. At first not very used to it. But I like reporting, once you get used to it, you can do it. PT was okay, and not as demanding as school. But I'm scared for ATC because it's just next week. Maybe my body recovery rate not even as fast as then. I shall rest!! To end off, I think that the camp was really fun, and got to bond with area mates, also try out various items on Ubin, interact better with people from other units. Also we got to build up teamwork with people you have never worked with before! Really incredible.

edit: I forgot to include our cheer :D

P - L - U - T - O,
Pluto pluto we are the best
Pluto pluto we rock the rest
Pluto pluto we overcome any test
Pluto pluto yes yes yes

Pluto to the left to the right
Pluto to the centre we fight
Pluto from the start to the end
Pluto to the end we'll fight
P-L-U-T-OOO ...PLUTO!! (:

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