Justin Ng: 19 December

Hello people, just came back form camp, a jungle camp. This is the third time I've been to Templer's park this month. Honestly, this camp is lack of man power and skillful people. I wouldn't say that I am skillful, but in this camp, I did not have a chance to slack. During the previous camps, I could depend on Yew Leung or Kin Cheng but not this time.

Anyway, I followed Michelle's car since her mom was willing to fetch us there. It was only 4 of us, me, Siva, Michelle and PhuayYee. Me and the girls hiked up to the campsite first leaving Mr. Siva along with the other equipment. First thing we did when we arrived was the usual, which is to clean up the campsite and get rid of the fallen leaves.

An hour later, I receive a call from Mr. Siva asking me to go down and help out the others to carry the equipment up to the campsite. I hesitated because it took me a while to get to the campsite now you want me to go back down. I sort of ran all the way down empty handed. First time running down, took me 10 minutes only. When I got down, everyone was using the toilet. So, I ate half of my breakfast which I think already turned bad.

By the time all of us got up to the campsite, we were already 2 hours behind schedule. So, we had to go out to chop bamboo without resting. We were only able to complete our sleeping place at 3.00am. I had to do night-guard duty till 4 with Yujing. I woke up at 7.00am, which means I got at most 3 hours of sleep which is considered quite good in camp.

In the afternoon, me and Yujing continued chopping bamboo. By the time we got back tot eh campsite, there were a lot more people than I expected. We got quite a lot of scolding from Sir Vincent because our equipment was not sharp enough. He even went to the next level by asking Yujing to chop his chest with all the axes and parangs we had. That was the time I realized my own personal parang was missing. I was really disappointed and sad. Because the previous camp, I took my dad's Stanley© Measuring tape and broke it.

Before dinner, Sir Alwin asked me to build a tripod table before we could start eating. I really felt the pressure because we screwed up our backwoodsman and everyone was hungry. At that time, no one was free to help me I sawed every piece of it by myself. Michelle and Sir Alwin helped with the tying. After dinner, we had our Malam Kebudayaan AKA bond fire. I was suppose to pass the torch to Mr. Siva but as soon as the flaming torch was directly above the pile of petroleum soaked wood, everything just exploded into flames. There was a wave of blue flames traveling on the ground. Cool but dangerous.

We did not really plan for an sketch so what we did was tell what happened from the first our of camp to the present. We even did a forecast of the future. We did our survival night which I was looking forward to before camp, but not so much during. After our survival night, Sir Alwin told us that if we could not finish 15 gadgets by the next morning inspection, we will be punished. It was 3.30am already. I was too sleepy to do anything. So what I did was went to bed. Yujing woke me up at 5.00am. I started work on my bamboo cup and bamboo water container. at 5.30am, I woke Michelle and Phuay Yee up.

By morning inspection, we had 16 gadgets up. We still got punished anyway, I guess life is unfair that way. I was actually counting the number of hours left till we get home. We took public transport home. So happen that the bus driver of the bus we rode was the same as the other day. We then transit to Masjid Jamek line and to home. I can't describe how good I felt putting my sore hands on cold metal poles. It is just so good. I reached home at 5.30pm. Was suppose to take an hour nap before the attending the BBQ party to celebrate Soon Way's birthday in front of my house. Turns out that I over slept. I went to the BBQ at 8.00pm. They were done eating. Everything was in a mess. Plates and food were everywhere. If we did this in scouts, we would probably be dead.