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School of Business
Batam 11th - 14th Sept
DAY 1
SOOO. we reported at tanah merah ferry terminal at the wee hours of the morning. okay fine it wasnt that early. 8.30am. still, nearly everyone were late. me, justina and jiayi shared a cab. SERIOUS JAM. we were in the cab for nearly an hour! =\
coached to turi beach resort. nice place with sea view, kampong style resort rooms. lots of mosquitoes. -_- we had to walk down a treacherous flight of stairs AND a ridiculously steeeeeep slope. which we all hoped we wouldnt need to climb in the 4 days.
the sea view from the top. thats the looooonnnngggg jetty.
had briefing at a room called "HANG TUAH", where most of our activties were held in for the 4 days. got our room keys. my room mates are JUSTINA and noisy YANTING. room 427.
THEN. we find out that ALL our rooms are situated atop the flight of stairs + slopes. its not simple, those stairs and slopes. its almost a full 10 minutes of pure climbing. MAD! its like trying to climb 10 storeys up a HDB flat to get to your house. =\
settled in and had lunch. BUFFET. yummy. then SB director gave an opening speech in Hang Tuah, and we were briefed on the day's activities.
which was Raft Building.
which sadly, i have no pictures to show because no one risked bringing their cameras to the sea. no one in my team, at least.
anyways, we had to build a raft from scratch with given materials(empty barrels, ropes and pipes) that can hold the entire team as we paddle against the other teams out in the sea.
HO HO HO. black pearl went against hookerwreckers and deathjackers. all 3 teams used the same design to build the raft. we were the SLOWEST in building! BUT! our raft was the only raft which didnt break apart in the sea. HEH HEH HEH.
so we went and paddled OUT! with one team in front of us, the other behind. then poof, the raft behind us breaks apart. cant remember whose. i vaguely remember seeing them struggling to cling onto the "debris". LOL. rescue boats and motorskis come to the rescue eventually anyway.
so we went and paddled BACK! by then our raft was getting shaky already. but it held on lah. near the end of the race, the raft in front broke apart! hahahaaaa. well okay, i shall not boast. our raft got stuck on corals in the last leg of the race. so we all got down. then the guys happily dragged the entire raft back to shore by foot. -_-
so the girls were left stranded in the middle of sea, standing on sharp pokey corals! hahahaaaaa! damn. we spent a good half an hour making our way back to shore.
UNTYING THE RAFT was a bloody pain in the ass!!! cuz we spent so much time making sure every single knot was tight when we tied them. -_-
the whole afternoon was gone by the time we ended the raft building activity. so we went back to rest, and then went out for dinner. BUFFET! yummy.
after dinnner! we had captains ball. SMART vs SB CLUB. prettty lame. -_- we played it in Hang Tuah. non-players were all just sitting around the "court", unblocked. so it was very congested. pretty surprised that no one got a concussion from getting hit.
captains ball in hang tuah. carpets and cushioned chairs and aircon!
CALEB! in his elf-ish look. hahahaa. "SB vs SMART, SB tuck in."
back to our rooms and a nice sleeeeep. =)
DAY 2
breakfast! buffet, yummy yummy. the whole breakfast area was brimming with our camp people.
see? =D
then was mr lee ee tat's workshop in hang tuah. for like 3 hours!!! damn. i cant even remember what the whole thing was about. i TRIED to pay attention. we all did, i guess. but... after a while, humph. our minds just drifted away. LOL.
took an entire group photo before it started.
HAH! you can see we're really attentive. its gary secretly taking photos who's not paying attention!
lishi vivian millie carrie peishan!
in the middle of the talk, there was a pretty fun exercise, albeit CLICHE. used so many times already lah. table was split into half. so one half has the picture, the other half has to draw the picture out. a communication game. we did pretty well!
from this...
to this!
that was cheesecake i'm holding onto in the 1st photo, by the way. we were fed tea time snacks during the workshop. freeflow orgasmic cheesecake and samosa! hahaaa.
so after that communication game! we started playing really spastic table games. silently of course. indian poker, murderer, hunter, polar bear, and, i dont know man, crocodiles? really stupid games! lol.
the retarded fingers game. dididididi didi!
i was so bored i drew this.
camwhoring. kaiyin vivian and carrie.
OKAY OKAY. after the boring workshop. we went for the day's outdoor activities. which was LOW ROPES.
pretty name and all, but it was just team building games.
OH YAH! THIEN HOON GOT FOOD POISONING! poor guy. he's therefore known as lao sai king to everyone. LOL.
so back to the games. we played a total of 4 games; moonwalk, pole and tyre, hotspot, and the jigsaw puzzle one. HAHA they were really gooood! showed all our flaws as well as desirable traits as a team. too lazy to elaborate on each and every game. -_-
lishi was daaamn funny during the jigsaw puzzle game.
we were all blind folded in a boundary, except kahhung and glen who were supposed to be leaders outside the circle to lead us to get the scattered jigsaw pieces on the ground. without speaking. SO; the men inside are blind, the men outside are mute.
what we had planned on beforehand was. the blind men all stand along the circumference of the boundary. the men outside will steer us in the right direction, we stoop down, they clap, we move and feel for the jigsaw pieces. once we find it, we walk backwards to the circumference and give it to one blind men collecting all the pieces with the help of the leader outside.
HAHA okay i think you need to play the game to understand.
anyway. lishi FOUND the whole damn jigsaw backboard in the middle of the circle. but she just sat down beside it, and started building sand mounds, saying "i think i'm lost... should i take the board?". for like 6 mins or so! LOL!
caleb and our guide were laughing at her like shit throughout, as i'm told later. caleb even took a video. hahahaaaa.
anyway, the other games were really fun too. clinton was dubbed SUPERHERO when we played pole and tyre. he hugged the bloody pole for dear life, while we pulled it upwards straight! now that i think back, it was pretty dangerous. =\
sooo. low ropes toook up the whole afternoon.
went back to clean up and bath, then it was DINNER. buffet again. -_- sat down together as a team to eat, and discussed about what we should do for the skit we have to put up the next night.
after dinner, another workshop. =X by mrs tan yen yen. at least i remember the name of this one. "EQ in Leadership" we were quite attentive, since the lecturer didnt seem as soft as lee ee tat. lol.
moreover, she showed us a cool video about "borderline personality". its supposed to make people feel angry/sad, but instead we all laughed. LOL. and we played a pretty fun game of guessing emotions.
after the workshop, we're given time to discuss our skit for the rest of the night. WELLLL. i see all the other groups doing up their nice props, planning their storyline.
speaking of storyline, ongton was being spastic(as usual). hookerwreckers were developing their skit in one corner of hang tuah. they clipped their whole story onto the white board lah, so we could see a rather detailed thingy going on there.
"i thought storyline supposed to have only ONE line. why their storyline so many lines de. then like that should be called storylineS liao mah!" : clinton
-_- : vivian
yah. so everyone else were intense in their preparation for the skit. and what was blackpearl doing?
INDIAN POKER!
way to go carrie vivian and clinton! you all have really big cards!
trying to get me to change my card right... DREAM ON!
carrie doing her forfeit! banana dance! come on, PEEL!
back to our rooms and SLEEEEEP.
DAY 3
had to wake up super early to have breakfast. then boarded a bus to get to a nearby lagoon to have our Kayaking and Dragonboating.
the lagoon was really small lah! and we had to wait for out turns to kayak cuz only 10 kayaks go at once. so we had to self entertain most of the time.
really candid photo. glen must have spotted a bikini babe. and leonel.... he's just plain drunk.
dragonboating was fun! blackpearl went TWICE. my right arm was so sore by the end of the 2nd time.
both times we landed with the blue dragon boat. -_-
we played a lot of spastic games again while waiting for our kayaks. had to wait a looooonnnggg time since we wanted to go out as a team.
didididididid DIU! game. spastic to the core. high-strung, adrenalin pumping game. dont play play.
see us clapping? nothing good comes out of our clapping. FORFEIT! i think this was the leonel-kiss-ivan forfeit. HAHA!
when it was FINALLY our turn to kayak, we were all tired already la. -_-
i went with thienhoon, the laosai king! HAHA! we were all paired off guy-girl. but thien hoon doesnt know how to kayak! and obviously guys are put at the back. and obviously the back person has to steer. and obviously, thienhoon being MACHO PIG, doesnt allow me to sit at the back. boooo.
so i was his SHIFU okay. i taught him how to kayak with my "ban tong shui". lol.
back from kayaking. tts darren and carrie.
coached back to the resort, bathed, and met up to have lunch and discuss our skit. by then we only had a very very simple plot and very scattered roles and props. HAHA! blackpearl was the most unprepared and slackest team. =X
rehearsed our weird skit in hangtuah untill late afternoon. then left to go back to our rooms to dress up.
a picture in room 427 before we leave for gala night. clockwise: gary carrie millie vivian leonel.
once we reached hangtuah, we finished up some last minute preps for our skit. lol by then we're still pretty messed up. we were all depending on gary and glen's impromptu acting.
took a team photo together before the dinner. photoshopped it!.
out of nowhere we just started to take these bobby head photos. HAHA.
DINNER! WOOOOHOOO! BBQ BUFFET. okay okay. we were really kiasu. look at all the food!
delicious. =)
then it was time to send our mr and mrs pirate up for the pageant. GARY AND MILLIE! hahahaa. it was so last minute, we just chucked whatever props we had onto the two of them lah. the end product was not bad!
Black Pearl Mr & Mrs Pirate!
strutting their stuff onstage.
after pageant, all the teams presented their skits! LOL black pearl was sooo impromptu. mostly it was just gary and glen adding in funny lines. i thought the SMART teams did a lot better! rumster and pirata's skits were well planned. deathjackers and hookerwreckers were all damn spastic.
after that was the cheer presentation. we thought up of an entire new cheer VERY last minute. lol everything blackpearl does seems to be last minute. but we did great in the end!
then they announced the results of the night.
best skit: black pearl!
best cheer & flag: black pearl!
mr pirate: hookerwreckers!
mrs pirate: pirata!
woooohoooo.
mass dance, which was ridiculous. -_- hahahaa. then disco night, dance floor opened. and we all stayed for some time, dancing to the crazy music, playing, going mad.
can you see us going crazy? loook at justina's back! she's sweating!
went back to SLEEEEEEP after that.
DAY 4
checkout out very early, then went for breakfast.
debrief at hang tuah, where they presented the certificates and we voted for the best 5 leaders of every team. blackpearl: clinton gary glen kahhung vivian! THANK YOU BLACKPEARL! =D
then we went around writing notes on everyone's card stuck on the walls.
black pearl took our last team photo!
after that we coached to the mega mall, ate, shopped.
then it was HOME SWEEET HOME!
the end.
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phew. that toooook 2.5 hours!
