I've got the OB Spirit all over me

Before I start, I’d like to tell you that the first thing I did yesterday upon reaching home was to jump in front of my laptop, flip on the internet and check my blog, my friendster and email account. Oh the shame of it. What happened to 14 days of being virtually confined away from technology?

Outward Bound Malaysia, Lumut 2005.

The place remains the same but the experiences differ everytime. To say that you’ve been to OB for so many times that you know what to expect is just plain bull-shitting. For all the times that I’ve been there, I’ve always been surprised by new turn of events.

This year, drama was turned right up full. Drama drama drama.

11 Dec 2005

OB loses CAs to bees.
Whilst coming down from our rock climbing site, Karen and Sookie were Mysteriously Stung by things that were assumed to be Baby Hornets. In the ensuing uproar punctured by “OUCH OW!!” and “Run Karen RUN!!” and “KEEP MOVING!!” and me looking around wildly at the invisible attackers…we all managed to run down out of the jungle and to safety.

OB loses CAs to snake and monitor lizard.
During Adam’s Bluff orientation, our motley crew of CAs stumbled upon a black snake upon entering into the jungle. After much ooh-aah-ing at the snake and more sliding down muddy slopes, we were startled by (according to reliable sources) a huge big-ass monitor lizard which promptly fled. Please be informed that although we were lost at at least 2 checkpoints we managed to make it out safely and in front of the 2nd team. GO EXPERIENCED CAs!!

OB loses CAs to wild boar.
This happened to the 2nd team of CAs that entered Adam’s Bluff. Apparently they heard a grunting and rustling sound that came from god-knows-where and ran away. No one got hurt.

13-22 Dec 2005

OB loses Participants, Instructors and CAs to Conjunctivitis.
Everyday brought new surprises and the top question playing in everyone’s head was “Did he/she get Eyes?” Yes. Sore eyes, red eyes, eyes filled with sticky gunky eye shit was all the rage in Outward Bound. There were enough participants getting sore eyes to fill up the treatment room and also two new blocks of dorms. Yes. They were the Red-Eyed Peas and they had to be quarantined. The only CAs left standing, obviously with the best hygiene *sniggers* were Sookie, TPL, Tim and I.


16-17 Dec 2005

OB loses Participants to Tsunami.
From the start till the end, the expedition to Pangkor was a mini-disaster. Bad weather and strong winds claimed most of the participants’ tents and helped cause a mass-capsize of kayaks in the sea. Highly interesting.

More on bad weather…the other groups of CAs had to trek in rain and rescue participants who were unfortunately also having their solo-camp, at 1 a.m..

18-19 Dec 2005

OB loses participants to Things-That-Goes-Bump-In-The-Night.
Solo camping commenced and there were reports about participants hearing foot-steps in the middle of the night when we didn’t do any night checks. There were also claims of glowing spinning orbs amongst the trees, according to reliable sources.

Supernatural-ity aside, an 80+kg participant slipped and fell and pulled his muscle real bad and had to be carried all the way down from his camp-site which was ironically the last and right on top of the camp-site. He had Eyes too.

21 Dec 2005

OB loses monkey to unknown causes.
Upon returning from their land expedition, participants living in Korbu dorm found a dead monkey inside the first toilet stall apparently dead from a big gash in the middle of its back. The whole dorm was in an uproar and it was concluded that there was some big-ass monkey battle in the dorm before the unfortunate one was killed.

Lucky me. I had to clean up the monkey.

This concludes the mishaps that went on during OB. There were still many other sightings of snakes, which was truly weird because all the other times that I’ve been in OB, the animals have been rather placid and shy but this year they seemed to have come out in full force.

All in all, this year was A-to-the-W-E-some. Cranky animals aside…great fun was to be had. Pictures will be up asap cos me being old-fashioned *ahem* I used an analog camera instead of digicams. Thanks to OJ…I stole your photos. I can’t wait to steal photos from Karen *sniggers again*…and Sookie’s too.

In the boathouse

The mighty boathouse

The kayaks sleep tonight

In the boathouse

The mighty boathouse

The kayaks sleep tonight

Single kayak Double kayak

Single kayak Double kayak

Single kayak Double kayak

Single kayak Double kayak

We have cruder songs...which will not be published here. ask me when you see me and i'll sing for you. Gladly.