Flying~Soaring through Dreams

Day 3

MAN! It's only Day 3! Another stupid morning jog of 2.4km. I felt like i did worse than yesterday, clocked at 22min 06sec. I was running crippled like an old man, and the last one who reached the finishing line. Haha! At least I did it.

Breakfast was horrible, i am not going to even attach any photo of it here. Pain from yesterday was even more excruciating today. So pain that it literally took me more than a minute just to remove my shirt. Those who were more observant and sympathetic offered to assist me in changing. =.= I told them i was fine though, thanks anyway :P Hope that the pain will subside eventually, but looking at the current condition now i guess it's hard. Otherwise, I can't see how am i going to move on.

Breakfast was over, now it's time to get ready for boat rowing. I bet it's gonna be tough, oh well..i guess i'll just do whatever that's thrown at me and try not to give up. First of all, we have to prepare the boats (kinda upgraded version of 'sampan'). Then push it all the way out to the launching bay which is so very slippery i almost fell a few times. I think everyone was suffering the same trouble. Once we were at the launching bay, 2 boats were launched at a time so that we would not crash into each other (the boats weren't exactly that light you know?) There will be 4 main rowers + 2 paddlers + 1 helm (captain who will be in charged of giving direction; kononnya) + 1 rudder control (left and right steering a the back) + 1 'kelefeh' = 9 people per boat. Yes, there were 3 boats altogether and it's ultra packed. These roles will be rotated throughout the journey for the next 5 hours. Apparently main rowers would be the most shitty roles, paddlers not so bad, and the last 3 people who do nothing will get the chance to rest. Me? I rested most of the time. LOL! Oh, my boat's name is Stinray VIII.

After launching, we were off to row and row and keep rowing forward until we hit back our starting point. Yes, around the island. My first role was to be the helm! Woohoo!

Random photos taken not-by-me after launched!


My boat! I was the paddler by the time the photo was taken :)


Lunch time! Everyone rafted up by holding onto each other boat to prevent separation.


Left : Hello ferry! (Waving towards the passengers) Right : Danger! Stay away from the rocks!

We have been clearly instructed not to row too near to the coast especially rocky area because we would risk losing control and ram into one of those and damage the boat or get stuck in between those rocks. However, i must say that i was very impressed because one of our boats tried to pull a stunt by rowing over a narrow passage between two chunks of big rocks, luckily without any incidents. When questioned, they said that they wanted to take the shortcut. Fuh! My guess was that, we have almost reached the destination by that time so i guess everyone couldn't wait to get home :P

A very dangerous maneuver. Please do not try this at home.

FINALLY, rowing was over, around the Pulau Ubin, covered at least 20km. Ben rowed from beginning until the end, NON-STOP! Respect!I felt like drag to the team because i couldn't do much. Arms hurt like hell. Still, thanks to our strong rowers and team determination, we were the first boat to make it back in 4 hours 30mins.

Da finishing line! Beaching up!

In the evening, i miraculously complete another run, this time round it was a 5km run. Of course it was no easier than yesterday, tired as hell. Tomorrow will be a even longer run. F*ck!

CPR briefing during night time was funny, even though many of us took it lightly, upon second thought, i think that it's really important as it could actually make a difference between life and death, and even by learning this seemingly unimportant lesson could actually improve the odds of saving someone's life one day.

Tonight's activity ended late, i slept at 11.30pm. I have never appreciated sleeping so much in my life before, and now i know how important it is to be able to sleep early. Anyway, good night, another one day over. Still aching all over.

Mood : (Hellish)^2
Day's Left : 18