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skin by: Jane
Saturday, September 01, 2007 @ 1:00 PM

YOS! back to civilisation! hehee. back to msn, blogs, PHONE CALLS! but seriously miss the little windy island on the indian ocean! okayes, some notes for my logbook shall be posted here. xD going to be long long long post! =D

DAY 1

hmm. today our tour guide don showed us all around the island! it was quite unexpected cause the terrain was really really rocky! and like so undeveloped. and can you believe there are only 4 POLICEMEN on the ENTIRE island?! I think that was the most unexpected thing. oh yeah! in the morning while waiting for our ride to come, we saw a kestral perched on a radio antennae! and cait somehow managed to get hold of two butterflies mating! she's pro! took about three hours into the day to get finish all of our first lectures there. pretty informative and miss jenn is cute! BBQ-ed and played around in the water. managed to get some presents done too! hope you like it! (:


DAY 2

okayes, here's where the fun really began! early in the morning, set off the clean-up Greta Beach. and boy do they have loads of rubbish there!!! the whole beach was practically a rubbish dump. found everything from gasoline bottles to thongs(slippers) to the oh-so-cute HERMIT CRABS! and I sure did spoil my adidas shoes there! soo shouldn't have brought it there!! ah wells, it was for a good cause! and saw cute little nippers in the rocks of limestone! and I went all the way to go chase them in front of the cam! xD hmm. after that I went to slack off and dry my shoes. =p erm collected like 100+ mesh bags of rubbish! some weighing 1kg to 10kg! and we had to lift them up one by one through the long staircase leading up to the forest. as if we weren't tired enough?! then we had to lug those bags out even MORE to the parking place were they would be taken off to some dump I suppose. during lunch we had sandwiches and I picked the ham one, but turns out that there was like a 1mm thick slice of ham with loads of cabbage ontop just to make it seem fat! bleh! didn't really enjoy that lunch but it was still nice. then played with the currents drifting in and out! haha! superbly fun! made our way down to the rock pools but ended up we couldn't use it cause half-naked teenage boys were already using it. x.X also counted bats! someone (with a picometer brain) ended up saying "is that a bat?!" when we were well into our way of counting! "it had the shape of batman!" xD quoted from anonymous person. this was also the day were we went for an open air movie at night! and we watched, TRANSFORMERS(cut version). pretty cooling but of course, people behind were smoking so the ambience wasn't really as nice as you'd expect.


DAY 3

snorkelling! AH! the waters were to die for! its cool like the swimming pool and the top surface is warmer but if you duck dive, its super cold! the flippers needed a little getting used to though. couldn't tread water by froggy-style so used the freestyle type of kicking. the snorkel was kinda used and it didn't really functioned properly for me. the tube kept going horizontally when I put my face down into the water. so i had to adjust it from time to time. went out with sereness changhandium and desmondee cause ros and xinyi didn't feel too comfortable going out into open water without a gurantee. the corals were SOOO pretty! they came in like all different shades! plus the coral watch card didn't have a few of the colours they had. and the fishies! =D eye-opener! shall not go into detail cause there were too many to name! maybe you can get to hear them when we do our presentation to the school. my groups one was on coral reefs. got cut a few times by corals cause me and des headed back to shore without the whole gang and we totally forgot to go by the selected route so we ended up getting cut by those nasty boulder corals! trying my best to avoid them but it was of course inevitable. desmondee got more cause I think he just went for it as fast as he could and didn't really care much. after that traumatic experience i still wanna get back into those waters! xD

kayaking! went first with janice! and we went into hyper mode and started a new game called BUMPER KAYAKS! ahaha. played with xinyi and serene and yihui. yihui eventually got out of the game cause hers was only a one seater, whereas ours were two-seaters. mostly we bumped them because we were much faster and we got hit a few times too, maybe because of the strong currents out there. was fun! second time went with ros. she was way too traumatised by the snorkelling incident and was scared that we would topple over and crash as the corals were seriously super close. so after about 5, we headed back to shore. and I almost turned us the wrong way round! sorry! xD lost my sense of direction that time. I think this was the day our new family started! at the yong chong restaurant. brothers unite! <33


DAY 4

rehab! ok, we didn't go to any drug rehab or something. we went to visit phosphate mines. they were being rehabilitated cause of the abbotts boobies. long story! really rugged terrain though! and i was surprised that I didn't have any muscle aches after I got back to the lodge! hmm. the first site was nicest for me cause it was still green and NO MOZZIES! second site was still on its way there and the third had SOO MANY MOZZIES! I think about 50% of my bites were from the mozzies breeding there. even though I sprayed repellant!! then another 3 hours of class. this time I was a little more grumpy and sleepy then usual. also found out that even though its like only 0.25 of singapore, it still is SOOO much better! their com labs are filled with eMacs! YES! MACTINCOSH! why can't our school be like that?! and their classrooms are airconditioned too! =O


DAY 5

this could be the most interesting day ever! we went bird watching with nic! hehee yups, i know that sound super sick but it was nice! especially with desmondee and ros! they were super hilarious! xD then went all over the island to look at more birds. went back to the classroom for lectures again and at night right after dinner, we went to go spotlighting for hawk owls! and we were super lucky to even hear them! and finally we found them! A NEST EVEN! and there was the parents and the little baby hawk owl perched high up in the tree. most of our flashes couldn't get so far so we only got the glimmer in the eyes. hope that super pro guy with the super pro camera can give us some of his photos!


DAY 6

ok this day we went to look for those yellow crazy ants! and boy were there loads of them! xinyi, ros and me were like stomping on the ground just so they wouldn't crawl up our legs. but that didn't stop those pesky mozzies though! lauren is like the most chio girl I've ever seen! =D *jealous* then after that we went to the rec center and tried to irritate people with our singing. went back and was PACKING TIME!


DAY 7

this was the last day I admit that i was chionging to get souvenirs for everyone. and even now i realise that i didn't get some people stuff. ah wells! hmm packed up and had some trouble closing the luggage. also had trouble lugging it down the stairs! thanks johannes! (: and thanks mr soh for helping me load it into the bus! at the customs I was soo happy that I got through first. but in the end, I was randomly selected to try out this machines which tests for explosives. after sterilizing, the person swabbed me and my bag. and after the machine read my cloth, it went on to make 3 LOUD beeps! i tested positive for explosives. =.-! in the end, I was detained for more than 15 minutes just to get it to test for 2 negatives. xD super funny. must have been the joke of the day!

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