"letting go doesn't mean giving up. it means moving on. it is one of the hardest things a person can do. starting at birth, we grasp on to anything we can get our hands on, and hold on as if we will cease to exist when we let go. we feel that letting go is giving up, quitting, and that as we all know is cowardly. but as we grow older we are forced to change our way of thinking. we are forced to realize that letting go means accepting things that cannot be. it means maturing and moving on, no matter how hard you have to fight yourself to do so."

Day 1

Before I start, let me intro my team mates. They’re super impt and had given me wonderful memories for this camp: MEISY GEOK MEI RIBERD CHARLES WILLIAM LIN XIONG JEFF AARON VICTOR WAN

went to airport early in the morning with mummy. 1st nice thing of the day was when I stepped into the cab and told the uncle I wanted to get to the airport, he caringly asked me if I’ve brought along my passport. (: yea. was actually quite worried as it was my first time taking a plane and I ONLY KNOW A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE GOING TO SARAWAK but things turned out to be very different throughout the trip. the flight was very smooth and yea, reached quite soon. took bus to get to santubong resort and we went to our rooms to put our stuffs before going for lunch. There’s when the real interaction among our team MELANAU started. (: went to the cultural village – main thing of the day – toured around and watched performances. then if I’m not wrong we headed back to hotel where we washed up, ate dinner, debriefed – BORING and practiced our skit. couldn’t really concentrate in our room so we went out of the room and to some ulu place to feed mosquitoes. ((: then went back le. I slept on one bed and my roommates – meisy and geok mei – shared one. we fell asleep……


Day 2

Woke up at 7..? BATHED – something I dun have the habit to do early in the morning, esp when it’s damn cold lar. But the bed’s COMFY ((: met the guys for breakfast and MAN...it’s nice!! much better than day 1’s meals haha then set off for water activities although it rained. there we found out abt meisy’s admirer ((: and we were supposed to split into 2 grps for raft building – among 2 MM grps and 1 BE grp. BE grp supposed to be split into 2 but we sort of refused and we won…- but conflicts arose. Anyway we learnt lashing during raft building. me, geok mei, william and charles were like a little grp doing the lashing together. We pulled the rope until we were all rope burnt. Haha but it’s fun. But we sort of made a unsafe one and re-did one under the command of the instructor. We had a nice race. Shouted SAFE SEX throughout, giving the guys paddling the tempo. Oh btw, William invented this slogan – SEX – for MELANAU peeps to shout before taking pic. It sort of became very famous in the camp ((: we won the race heehee. TOTALLY COOL. then the whole BE had lunch together before we switched activity – kayaking. But we played a short dog and bone before that haha. wan’s totally biased haha. anyway we had kayaking. I did with William. Haha it’s fun. Whenever he’s tired, it’s time for me to do training – kayak alone (: we reached shore and built sand castle and had riddles before coming back. I was the frontman this time and William followed my tempo. He made improvements. He didn’t really stop and we reached shore fast – first few ((: and we carried the kayak back together. Well done!!! Yeah then we headed back to hotel to wash up and went back to the same place for dinner. We were supposed to do team cooking but we took the dish the instructor demo-ed and went to take a seat while it was being cooked. In the meantime, we played the kissing game. Hmmm you can say I’m lucky and unlucky at the same time. Hmmm yeah haha…then we ate dinner and went back to hotel. Had debriefing – headache at the same time but thanks to Christopher, I had panadols ((: had another bebriefing for BE peeps. It’s like a feedback session cos there’s rumours that BE cant get along with MM. yeah stuffs like that but the headache’s quite bad so I dun really care but me and meisy took a pic haha. miraculously the headache just got better after that and we went with the guys to pools and drinking session. But I participated in none. ((: ok then went back to sleep soon.

Oooh I missed out the ice-breaker game – my grp lost and we kena forfeit. It’s stupid. haha…


Day 3

another tiring day awaits us – trekking and gala night. As usual, breakfast’s good. ((: the girls were somehow late, cos we were slow haha but the guys were nice – they waited for us ((: yep. Then we set off, an hour bus journey which almost all slept maybe except me and lin xiong and half an hour boat journey. All of us were busying applying insect repellent. Then we reached but we had to walk in the sea for a distance. we – me, geok mei, William, charles and victor and a lect and tour guide – walked barefooted – TOTALLY NICE. Haha we reached a reception area and washed our feet and dilly-dally a while and started the trekking thing. We saw 3 diff species of monkeys – very nice and special…oh yah, meisy was carrying her bag full of our valuables – MVP. Me and lin xiong were each carrying a bag full of bottles – training for me again. It was hard to trek – had to walk on the roots and branches, slippery and steep at times. Luckily I have very nice teammates who were constantly keeping a lookout for girls, supporting us when it’s hard to walk. Special thanks to my kayak partner - william who helped carry my bag ((: we had lunch there and went back to the hotel and had to start preparing for the skit. the guys went swimming and we girls bathed and went over to riberd, William and aaron’s room to rehearse. had massage there – by charles. I helped him too. Very comfy lor, he’s got that strength. I almost felt asleep while he massaged me (( :haha, we edited the skit and I was damn nervous. Though I dun have to speak a thing, but I’m just not used to performing to a big crowd. Damn nervous lar.
For dinner, my grp’s the most lok kok grp in terms of attire. Haha, yeah. We had fun at the gala, watching other grps performances’ great. Then after that we had to play game again. But we wanted to have our own free time lar. Sad. It was a candle light game. At basket ball court. But the game was cut short due to some reason : yea so we went back and bathed. It was already 12 plus by then. Then almost all BE people started to gather at mine, meisy and geok mei’s room. Haha, it was boring initially, too much people then dunno what to do. Then dunno why we started to massage again. Haha. apparently I was helping William and charles massage yea then everyone joined in. our room became very crowded and full of activities. Cards and puffs at the balcony with the doors shut and massage parlour at the beds. Haha. MASSAGE KING richard’s damn cool. NICE cant be described lar. Then we played the kissing game again. More people this time round…I guess we played for more than a hour. I was unlucky -_- yep and we switched to telling ‘stories’…it was 3 plus near 4 by then I guess. Haha then one by one felt asleep. 17 people ((: but 5 peeps didn’t sleep woah and that’s me, wan, ubai, man and shukri. They performed magic tricks for me to see and we played card games, black jack, bluff, detective and murderer. You can just call me dumbo lar. Haha but the funniest thing gotta be the loud snorings of charles. AT INTERVALS somemore. We played til 6 plus and we stopped. I slept for an hour plus and we had to wake up. All left and went back to their rooms to bathe and pack up.

Day 4

as usual, tasty breakfast. then last debriefing ((: asked to write our 3 WOW experience. the MELANAU peeps all came up with the same ones: raft building, kayaking and massage. haha then looked at photos taken. yep then some of us went to the beach but nth to see. we went for our last meal at the hotel after leaving our luggages at lobby - apparently, wan lost his wallet and was searching everywhere for it. cos he always sleeps at others' rooms. it was a tense moment then. back to lunch - the fish was SUPER yummy ((: haha. ok, wan found his wallet - at his OWN ROOM -_-. at the lobby we took lotsa photos ((: then took bus for a mini tour. then shopping. BAD DINNER. haha then bus to airport. apparently, there's some error while checking in. so we had to wait. TOOK EVEN MORE PHOTOS!!!!!!!! 7305 gang, japalan gangs, the cardmates haha. DID peeps took photos too ((: nice. haha then we finally boarded the plane. alot of people changed seats and i was sitting at the window seat. i waited til the plane took off then i slept. skipped the dinner and i woke up before the plane landed. didnt know there was a turbulence. haha. yea, the night scenery's super nice. seeing the skylights...we landed safely and we were abt to part. cant bear to part sia. it's like 4 days 3 nights together, really bonded us well. ((: melanau peeps also promised to go for kayaking test and lunch together...wooohoo...i'm certainly looking forward to that...end of story




DAY 5.

haha today, some of us went to sch for game of badminton. basketball too and pull-ups. haha yep. nth much but it's nice to see them once again. havent had enough back at sarawak.

last but not least. MELANAU RAWKS MY SOCKS!!!!!!!!! SEX!!!!!

what say you?