HRC post, finally!

Finally, the HRC POST, you guys better fill up my Cbox ah!

Was late in getting to Changi Jetty, had to miss the bumboat carrying my squadmates to Pulau Ubin. Luckily, Sariza, Zhun Yi and myself (They were also late) were able to get to the island with the Bedok South cadets (bless them, even though I have doubts in god :P).

After a 1/2 hour trek upon reaching Ubin, we finally reached Camp Resilience :) On the way there, we saw the Bedok Town cadets on the way there in a van.....bloody hell.....

So, once we reached Camp R (As i will call it from now on), met up with the other guys, had a few briefings (with SL as our lovely "model") before we set off.

1st station: The "Pamper pole", a very high pole with a trapeeze, very simple, just climb, try your best to balance yourself on the pole (which I failed to do so) and take a leap of faith (a.k.a. try to reach the trapeeze without falling off). I managed to reach it (thank goodness I was the very 1st cadet to jump, other trapeeze was sweaty like hell afterwards), tried 2 pull-ups, sang part of the national anthem upon request (yes, I really did) and "flew" down.

2nd station: the Flying fox, it was not as scary as I thought it will be (since the bloody tower is so damn high above ground), and Tzu Ying mdm was right, the climb up WAS irritating, you get higher and higher and you cannot hold on to the railings due to the MASSIVE amounts of bird poop on them, YUCK! Was in the 2nd pair to go off, with Seng Wei, the instructor actually commanded us to jump off so we did not need much determination to make our ansatz into true "manliness". Actually wanted to shout "Feet 1st into hell!" like during my STC (which got me into not so hot water) but the 1st few miliseconds were so (frightening?) that I shouted "Sieg Heil!" instead. (Don't worry, it means hail victory, unlike Heil Hitler) As we waited to be "rescued" after having our fun, my ****s hurt like ****! Seesh!

3rd station: The tunnel, which is so damned dark, so damned stuff and hot, plus there is a pool of plastic balls to simulate water, has two sections, the starting with a downwards slope and the next section (after the pool) with an upwards one. Was really fun and nerve-racking, but it soon got irritating Firdie kept dragging everyone in front of him down into the pool and I had to go back into the tunnel after getting out. (imagine now damned slippery the tunnel was by then :P)

4th Station: The dangle duo, looks easy at 1st, but is in fact quite a challenge when you are in a pair (especially when your partner is not as agile as a monkey). Went up with Firdie and he fell out on the 3rd step. I managed to solo till the 4th before I was called to come down.....damn....

5th Station: The challenge rope course, when for one with the skateboard thingy and stuff. It was the 'scariest' of all the courses in Camp R, even though it is not the highest. After the whole course, I did not feel it during the course and right afterwards, but my arms were soon numb and DEAD! I cannot even go for ladderman duty because of it. Some CI from Chai Chee saw me and said that I was some future CI or something like that, he can dream on man, I'm just super enthu at times, that's all......  

Finally, when everything was over, we had our debrief, and we had to trek back to the jetty while some other schools (including BTSS) went there by van, ****! At least we got some exercise, plus Syafiq got into trouble when he supposedly spat in the bumboat, was so bloody irritated with the boat man that I made farting sounds everytime he tried to be some saint.

On the mainland, had some ice-cream, before having our discusson about March Camp and stuff (we had a bit of a conflict then) before heading for makan. You will not believe what we saw there......

Dad soon came, gave Bhala and Firdie (get the message of the pics above yet?) a lift before bringing me to dinner (crap, I just had my makan.......) Any, below are some more pics of the HRC