Tuesday, December 07, 2004

SIKE as a boater

Ohz hrm... how should i start?
Oh ok... i know... hehe~

Day 1
Went early in the morn on 2nd dec to PM to help with the last min stuff, surprised to see only GX there apparently the rest were at adeline's house... wonder why. Some Eco-Nex bullshit craps came and we were chased out of the topple lab. Ended up have to slp in rigging room. Participants had a short briefing at the open concept classroom, took out the kayaks and to bed. I prepared the boat with the instructors and the seniors. Trainees stayed up late to do last min stuff but were chased to slp by us. At 1+ we went to the nearby mac to grab a bite. Yes and i had my fav mac nuggets.

After which we speedily went to 7-11 to get alicia and wei siong some strepsils. Hmm at 2+ am kumar and i took a bathe and proceeded to pack our sealines. OPERATION MAMA SHOP was also carried out. Each boat was fitted with : 1 1.5 soft drink, 1 box of mini MAMA shop. During this time dear BEAR found a new target and was flirting with her throughout the night. Even ze wei and jia liang commented on it. Ahhh... my mind was at peace knowing he wouldn't be disturbing me! MUHaHA.

*Wondering how the expedition would turn out, wonder how the trainees will perform*

Hrs of slp = 1.5

Day 2
Woke up at 6.15, lazed ard abit before waking ze wei and jia liang up. Went down to use the toilet, half naked cos i dun want to smell bad. Surprised to see all the participants already awake and my trainees preparing breakfast... haha pai seh~ but i have to act professional and just walk into the toilet and walk back up to get my shirt. Helped lunch the boat and pack the belongings into the boat. Help the trainees to ensure that everything was ok and nothing was left behind. Found out that i will be on Gary's boat, the civil. And for some reason we forgot to take out the muffler... and that bear scarcastically remarked "wads this doing here. Can forget arh!". F like he never lunch the boat liddat! The drain plug of the civil was missing but was finally found out that it wasn't screwed in. Trainees lunched but i stayed behind to ensure that they never miss anything out. The ATL's job but to my dismay he never check anything... he just lunched. And i had to do the cleaning up... hai...

when will they ever learn?

On the brighter sight of things, ECO-NEX ppl left a whole bunch of extra food for us, including apples and oranges. Bear and I loaded all of it into 2 card board boxs and rushed it to the boat. HAha Thanks ECO-NEX! No need to spend money on the apples!

Off goes the air horn and off goes the kayaks. Within the 1st 10 mins problem arose, one kayak was extremely slow... partnering fault. Never judge a book by its cover. Partners were swapped at the raft. And expedition resumed. Just then the sun came out so both gary and i put on our sunglasses. Phew man that glasses rules! No more irritating sun man. Expedition was slow moving throughout and charlie was not seen... cause they are tired? Dun know. Being the tail boat has its advantages. Slack and slack, just look out for safety. Guess wad, other then the big jerry can on our boat (inaccessible) and gary's waterbag, there was no other water source on our boat. Gary was good, he let me drive most of the time while teaching me and irritating me to take pictures of him occasionally. The boat was so rocky that most of the time i had to take it twice. While participants were having bread for sea lunch at sentosa we were having bee hoon. Muhaha courtesy of the ECO-NEX people.
I almost killed yu lan because of an inexperienced reverse... i got confused over the reversing direction!
After sea lunch we proceeded on, blah blah all the way to Jong. Current was quite ok lar, maybe cos im on boat... but gary and i were giving out apples as motivation food... Kumar even stole my MAMA shop to distribute the items. No more food for kun han~ n no food = boring...
They reached Jong and had a 10 mins break b4 lunching off again. OH yar my boat was known as the sunglass duo, kumar's the hat boat and jia liang? no special name. HAHA.
Against current from Jong to Hantu was terrible, as bad as the one i faced at SRK. Many participants were totally shagged out... gary and i had to keep singing stupid songs to keep ourselfs awake... i almost fell asleep while driving, in the end i went to the lead boat to help with the tow rig. Then change to kayaking with Yu Lan while the boat went towed the rest.
The current was horrible... 10 mins into kayaking with yu lan we were still at the same place. 20 mins into kayaking and we finally proceeded from the 3rd tank to the starting of the 4th tank... HAHA we fianlly moved! That was when ze wei's boat came to pick us up. Waoh finally a rescue! All the way to Hantu Kechit.

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