Training camp was meant to be held on the 18th for both the boyscouts and the rovers. However due to the stubborness and ignorance of our teacher adviser, it was canceled. However, the 6 of us was still incline on going albeit w/o the rovers.
I went to school on friday, ( a waste of time actually) and the plan was to head out at 2 o'clock from school to the the bus station. So i decided to play basketball after school to kill the time. It wasnt fun as it used to be. But then again its never fun losing, moreover when u lose to the same team 3 weeks in a row! At 2 o'clock liks arrived in sch and we went to the scouters room to pakc the tents and essential equipments liks golok, axe, bow saw and so on. Then it started to rain. Heavily! And we had to hold up in the scouters room to wait for the rain to cease. At 4 pm it did and we were way out of schedule. Met up with chris at petl. str. and we decided to buy a bottle of chivas to bring it to camp. Danny came a lil later and we headed to Yusof to take a bite. Arrive at the bus station at around 4.30 and boarded one at around 4.45.
We arrived at templers at around 6.10. The walk to our campsite took only 20. This was because our usual campsite was taken and we had to make up with one that is nearer and less strategic. By the time we set up the tent, it was already 7 and the sky has turned dark. However, we still managed to chop down 2 trees to be used to build gadget or as firewood. We couldnt do much more and hadto wait for anand and nick to join up with us and bring the mantle for the gas lamp. Alas, when they arrived empty handed! No mantle. So we had no light for the night except from those of the small torch lights. We ate maggie mee and played cards till around after midnight then started cam-whoring for a while and continue playing cards until we dozed off. We didnt even sleep inside the tent. Only on the friggin fly sheet.
We woke up at 9 in the morning. Well, 4 of us did and we ate tuna + bread for breakfast. Maggie for breakfast is not good!! We then woke the other 2 sleepyhead and started chilling around. Talking cock, singing songs. At around 12, anand and danny went out to collect the stuffs that anand's cousin was to bring to us : Marinated chicken, sausage and the mantle for gas lamp. We gave em money to buy nasi lemak but the stall was closed and instead they bought egg,s 6 bottles of coke and sauce. The other 4 of us stayed back. Nicks was in charge of collecting twigs and cleaning up the campsite while me, like and chris went to chop down trees for wood. We chopped down another 4 trees gathering a total of 6 trees. It's sufficient only because we did not build any big gadgets, just a table and bench and as firewood. At around 4, we went upstream and found a spot that was just nice for us to bathe. With deep and shallow patches and a place to hang our toiletries. We bathe for around 1 1/2 - 2 hours. Yeah, we like to enjoy our bathing times! XD Oh, we cam-whored there too! Pictures of us brushing our teeth, posing around and with diff hairstyles. We went back to our campsite and started preparing for the barbeque. Some of us chopped and saw the wood to build a bench by the pit which danny and nicks was taking turns at digging while the others collected twigs cleaned the utensils. Liks started building the fire after the pit was finished. A small fire was started and we wanted a big fire so we began chucking twigs in. It was not to be, the fire remained small and at one point almost died off. We decided to take out most of the twigs and start over again. The twigs and wood was wet due to the heavy rain that fell on that afternoon that i failed to mention earlier. LOL. Try as we might we couldnt get a big fire. At 11-ish, we decided to start cooking the sausages 1st. Boy oh Boy was that 2 black pepper sausages tasty! I have never tasted anything so delicious before.( when a man is hungry, everything tastes perfect! ;-) )We practically gave up trying to get a big fire started and began frying the chicken. However i wasnt satisfied and pulled liks together to continue working on building that fire. Our perseverance paid off as asoon after we got a big fire going and we placed the chicken over it. I took over the job of grilling the chicken while liks continued maintaining the fire. Our efforts paid off as the chickens look friggin delicious. A golden brown colour and not only does it look nice, it taste good too! Boy am i good!! After the bbq session, we sat around drinking chivas and talking while playing cards. We just chilled for hours and began jiwang-ing. Singing songs together being damn emo and all. It's nice to know u have other brothers who can share your pain and your joy with you. After some time, we all just ran out of energy and slept. On flysheet's alone again.
Woke up the earliest the next morning and went to fetch water to cook maggie mee cups for the rest as they were all beginning to wake up too. We then played cards and im K.U.R.A.P! WTF, they all plotted against me! We then went to bath....for another 2 hours b4 returning to clean up the campsite and pack our stuffs.
Oh, i forgot, we shared our campsite with a group of malays who came to camp as well. It was obvious they weren't scouts as they we're doing things.....wrongly. LOL. And they weren't prepared so we acted like a rental shop lending equipments to them. But they were all right chaps. Polite and friendly.
That's that for our 3 days camp. It's way much different from our normal camp but hey we went there as a good of friends not as a scouting troop. It wasn't much yet it was still fun in it's own special way. I will never get bored of these camps that i will attend to with my brothers and i hope never shall they. Cheers!!!
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