Sunday, March 22, 2009

WHhhoohhoooo !!! !!! Completed Expedition 3 !!! ALOT ALOT ALOT TO WRITE !!! The trek started at 10 pm thursday , took MRT to Yew Tee MRT station and began plotting ( 8 figure map reading ) , plot to somewhere nearby the MRT and easily acomplished that checkpoint ( Chua Chu Kang blk 771 ). Next checkpoint was at the summit of the Bukit Gombak Nature Park , the trek from Chua chu kang to the Bukit Gombak is hyper far and for anyone else who have got no trekking history may well faint at this checkpoint already ... got to the summit and my partner ryan got athsma attack up there at the summit , luckily the safety vehicle is up there too . After the Bukit Gombak Nature Park checkpoint we plotted to dairy farm , and realised we have to go the long way in , met up with the other groups and decided to walk together to the check point , if i am not wrong , its morning at around 12++ am of Friday already , the road is quiet , the street is quiet ... have to walk into a small road in a quiet place with many parked trucks at the side of the road , we walked in those 2 s***** helpers jumped out and shocked the group !!! It scare the h*** out of us , then the helpers brought us to a near by house and realised our captian's car is there ! We thought we are going to be in deep s*** as maybe we are walking too slowly compared to EX3 pacing , Captian loaded Ryan's bag into his car and ask Ryan to carry on . We walked to some forested area and could not even see your own hands if you do not have a torch light , went to the wrong exit of the forested area that led us to some high way and waited for the captain to drive his car here again , this time the captain took Ryan away as he is not feelin well and i joined the other group , it's 7 am when we entered the forest again and find the right route out of it , got it right after severals backtracks ... and got to this protected place which only authorised ppl can enter , we jus went in , heard ppl fire-ing pistol as training there , climed out of 2 gates in the protected area and got onto the safety vehicle as we were too slow .They dropped us at opp. sembawang air base , we walked to the outside of the Northbrooks Secondary and found our MGR for the next checkpoint ( following Tiek Wee and Basil's group ), its at the bridge which links Sembawang to Sengkang , ryan joined me back there ;) then we continued to trek the bridge and got into this industrial site which i almost gave up plotting,mapping and navigate for the entire group . But in the end , professional navigator Tiek Wee plotted us out of it , really wan to thank him ... without him we would all fail EX3 for being stucked in the industrial site , moving on to Sengkang CC, searched the bridge and when we found the MGR of the checkpoint , the safety vehicle came to ferry us to the next checkpoint at Hougang , teamin with Bryan now , managed to trek easily as i know the road from Hougang to Old Tampines road , trekked even longer than any checkpoint its a hyper long stretch of road where you have only 2 choices , to move on or backtrack , when we are quite near the checkpoint , the van picked us up again to send us to the ending point at Pasir Ris Park ... camped there for a night ... the next morining we have to trek to Changi Village from the Pasir Ris Park , got on a boat there to Pulau Ubin , we still have got 3 more checkpoints around Pulau Ubin to clear , after clearing the check points , we had dinner at a seafood resturant at Pulau Ubin . gettin back to Changi Village , we were told that we have not reached 30km and wants to drop us at somewhere then we will walk back to school to cover-up the distance missed ( WHAT !?!?!?! We walked 40-45 km liao leh !!! Their calculation is very ,very lousy ... ... ) So we cannot argue back and they drop us at Tampines and were given 1h 30min to walk back to the school canteen !!! Both of the EX3 groups managed to accomplished the final trek in less than 1h 30 min , we went to the classes and slept . Final day ,we have this event of making something so that we could cross the '' river '' by using only tent-pitching equipments , after that did the reflection on the camp and were dismissed. After dismissal, went to the field to see AQ team training for archery that Mr Teo is teaching ... ... RANDOM PICTURES of EX3 !!! !!! ... disturbing and embarrasing photos will not be put here* ... photos taken by my handphone camera ...