Combined Camping

Okay, without further delay, I try my best to write out some parts of my 3-day and 2-night camping experience with the Scouts and St.John Ambulance members in a Durian Orchard somewhere Batu Kawa.

Annie, Shirley, Serene, Natalie, Adeline, Siti and Fazila <--- PROUD OF YOU GUYS!~!~!

First day, once we arrived, we built the tent. It was a modern tent but the difficulty could never be UNDERESTIMATED. As a Petrol Leaders, I had to ‘lead’ them. The truth was the so-called PL was also a noob. HAHA!!! With the teachers’ help and committees’ guides, we managed to build it after hours. We even had to build the gates by using bamboos or woods. We should have taken some photos but due to the packed schedule we did not. Had to do clothes racks, shoes racks, knife racks, rubbish bin, drains and a door. It was like ‘wow’, how was I going to do it. It sounded so complicated but luckily with my lovely members and Assistant Petrol Leader (APL), we managed to make it! BRAVOOOOO~ <3

After building the tent, we had our lunch (self-brought). Then, we had fire-lighting activity. We had three chances which meant we were given three matches to light the fire. Of course, with those dry leaves and woods. That was too amazing that we actually succeeded with the first match. Next, we continued with our camping site decoration. Our handphones were kept by the committees. I called my mum and she showed off what she ate on that particular day. Hmmph! I had my harsh life there. We moaned at each other (members) while we were in the tent. We had only 4 minutes each to bath. WOW! Rocket speed but we basically managed to make it. We could not be more sticky than that few days. At night, we had First Aid Course. We learnt pick-a-bag, Darling Carry and another one which I forgot its name. ;-P About 10 p.m., all the three Petrol Leaders had the meeting with the committees and teachers. We discussed and reported our troupe members. At that moment, I forced my eyes to open with the air of fingers. HEHE~ Sorry for that, I was just too sleepy. It was raining, we had to wear rain coat and walk in the rain. The geographic factor there was kinda challenging for me, the typical city girl. Merely fell down for few times, thanks all the friends and committees who really helped me a lot by lending me a hand when I was in need. So touched!!!

Second day, I had my night shift to make sure my tent and camping site were in safe condition. It is due to the possibility to be intruded by the thieves (committees) who would steal our things. As well as emergency call. I had it with Adeline and Natalie. We planned our performance (for the night) in the dark, designing dance steps and practicing singing some more. Time was packed there, we did not have enough time to actually sit down and work on it. In the morning, we did our aerobics and a run with the lead of Daryl. We had our awesome breakfast prepared by the food masters who were Alicia and Jiun Lang. That was really a wonderful meal with simple ingredients. We went hiking. Before hiking, we had to find ourselves a ‘pancung’ which meant a height length wood.During hiking, I was feeling not well. Dizzy and shaking, perhaps it was due to the merciless weather and the night shift. Hmm, it was over, thanks for my friends for the courageous. The jungle trekking was cancelled. It was replaced by First Aid Course. We learnt Arm Sling and St.John Sling. We had a game which was tree chopping competition. Our group got the last. How sad it was huhu? We performed ‘Melodi’ for the first part and ‘Nobody’ dance for the second part. The dance was quite messy but I think it was marvelous to have this with few minutes of discussion. We did not have camp fire because of the rain, replaced it with pillow talk without pillow at Mr.Bong a.k.a the house owner’s car porch. We threw up our words. I did keep some haha!!! I actually fell asleep while somewhere in the middle of others’ ‘truth NOR dare’ session.I had my night shift at 2-4a.m.. The committees gave us an emergency call about 3.40 a.m.. We arrived slow, sorry for that ya my dearest committees.

Third day, we had our backwood cooking session. We were first worried because of the weather. Was it possible to light the fire in this kind of weather. We faced a lot of obstacles while backwood cooking. We cooked Butter Chicken in the Mud, Nyonya Curry Bamboo Chicken with Lemon Grass, Bamboo Glutinous Rice, Roti Lilit (Twist) with raisin, butter and honey and finally Banana Melted Semi-sweet choco with Honey. Our backwood cooking was considered quite okay among those disasters. We did not take group photos. HOW CAN WE FORGET THIS… However, memories are always in our deepest heart. Although at first I think this camping experience was a disaster, I started to miss it <3