Trek Part 4
So we reached our camp base, and the guys set about gathering firewood, for nothing, cause in the end they didn't use it. -.- They were very drama though. They actually pulled down this trunk/HUGE branch thing, like tarzans... And after they managed to get it down, they basically stared at each other, wondering how they were going to chop it up. -.- Sigh... the girls gave up staring at their bewilderment and headed for the river thing, our bathing area. Wait, let me rephrase that. We were off to bathe IN THE RIVER! Haha how cool is that? Sorry, no photographs on this, it's umm PRIVATE. Nah, though the guys and girls bathed together, we took NO clothes off OKAY? No cloth or whatsoever. Nada. We umm took quite a while to bathe haha. Initially we were a wee self conscious. It was so cold! A few seniors very kindly splashed water on us, and i nearly died there. I felt like "rose" in titanic who was freezing to death in the cold winds and waters. Anyway, we waded in, SLOWLY, opened our shampoo bottles, SLOWLY, poured out the soap, SLOWLY, and EVER SO SLOWLY washed our hair. And then an amazing thing happened. Jia zhen who was beside me, suddenly floated up, with her legs in the air, and sank back down into the water. WHOA. MAGIC! Haha, and on the other side, krystel and stephanie were washing each other's hair. COOL, a salon! Behind me, Eileen was trying very carefully to balance on a rock and wash herself without getting her hair wet. Okay so FINALLY we were done. We probably took 2 hours? Haha Longest bath i've ever had in my entire life!
Upon reaching our tentage area, our group members were hilarious! One commented that we drowned in the river, haha since we took so long. Hahaha. Dinner time it was however, so we had to assist in cooking! Unfortunately, the people there were so efficient, they had already started, and there didn't seem to be anything we could do. We were free... again. So we sat down, and LOOKED.

Ahhh we're cooking! =) That bright orange thing is uhh me. haha Wore orange as i was afraid i would get lost haha, so orange is well, see-able. hahaha

The fella looking into the camera is Caleb! Haha Jia Zhen thought he was a girl. We were looking through the names of those in our group, and i insisted "Caleb" is a boy... haha
Ahh something for krystel and me to do! PASTA! We took the mess tins and started cooking pasta. Obviously, we weren't very good at it, so haha, it was one unhealthy meal. We added too much milk, too much butter, too much of everything except the pasta, which was limited. -.- Yeah yeah, keep those comments to yourself. BUT, they still tasted real good =) Usually, unhealthy stuff taste good hahaha. There wasn't anything else to do other than the pasta, so jia zhen felt relaly bored and stoned. Poor girl, but it's alright, we all enjoyed eahc other's company. The two itnernational guys behind us (vietnamese and mongolian) were largi best. One was SLEEPING, and the other uhh, hmmm... Haha but when we were done cooking, we passed around spoonfuls of food feeding each other. Rex's a pretty darn good cook! Lucky us. There was mee sua, curry chicken and potatos, fish, egg, luncheon meet, and of course AHEM pasta!
Halfway through our meal... ... ... AIYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SCORPION LURKING IN THE GRASS!!!

Ahhh our saviours. Someone put it away in a box. =)
I think they wanted to cook the scorpion and eat it or something, but ummm...
Oh yeah! And then sigh, we had to pee. Haha this was so funny! There was nowhere to pee! So jean, krystel, jia zhen adn i had to run to sme ulu place with bushes, and...
"one, two THREE! SQUAT AND PEE! QUICK QUICK!!"
Yep, that's what we did, we stood in a row, and peed for all our worth, and ran back to camp, half embarrassded but half proud that we did it. We were real jungle women! Now all we needed were leopard skin bras and bottoms. -.-
That was the reason why we held our shit the entire trip! Haha, we so did not want to dig a hole in the ground, shit, and then cover it back up! Though of course, it would have been good fertiliser for the soil... haha
Ahhh here comes the fun part of the night. We didn't want to sleep jsut yet, although it would have been a wise thing, since we hardly slept the night before, and we were going to have to set off at 6 plus the next morning for Bukit Paranoma. So we all gathered in the girls tent, for a reason. A 6 man tent filled with 10 people? Haha WHY? Let me tell you why. (jia zhen, laugh now) The girls were afraid of these humongous flying ants, plus baby ones, that were attracted to our torch lights! Thus, they all went screaming into the tent. I wasn't scared, but i was grossed out. Imagine them crawlign all voer me, *shivers* But i wasn't hysterical. With everyone screaming and yelling though, i started to panic a little. -.- Haha jz too! Initially she was calm, then she began to get clumsy like me! Haha i tried picking up the ants with tissue paper, but the more the girls squeaked, the mroe i dropped the ants. In the end, i think my tissue paper picking amounted to nothing. Sigh...
Well the whole thing was very dramatised lar. It was kinda like a comedy actually, cause the guys were relaly sweet. Imagine...
5 beautiful princessess are terrified of the dangerous man eating dragons. 5 knights in shining armour rode on their horses, took out their swords and slayed the scary dragons. All stayed in a palace and lived happily ever after...
But in reality, it were 5 girls screaming in a tent, afraid of flying ants. 5 boys in slippers and short, ran to our tents, and plucked/shoot/snapped these ferocious insects away with tissue papers, torchlights and tees. Everyone went into one tent, and played UNO plus heart attack plus bluff. Hahahaa cute eh?
Uno was... boring after a while. Haha It was such a long game and no one was winning! It was very obvious who was losing though, and that was Sebastian haha, cause he kept drawing, and drawing, and drawing....... 4, 8, 12......
Heart attack... Hmmm.. It was alright, but we couldn't ;play it forever, and it was hard for 20 hands to pile up in the center. haha
I think everyone had the msot fun during the game of "Bluff". It was nuts! We constantly guessed the wrong people, and had to take the whole pile. Jean was cute. In all the games, she was honest, and the ONE TIME she bluffed, she was caught. Haha. Guess who lost in the end? Yours truly. The last 3 losers had to do a forfeit, truth and dare. We were William, Krystel and me. WHO on earth would chose the dare right? So we chose truth. Our questions were basically the same.
"Which person of the opposite gender, in ODAC, do you admire the most?"
William never did answer, but oh well. Krystel chose Eileen's partner on the trek, and i wanted to too, but she was faster. Why? Cause he's a sweet guy! When eileen's track shoes died on her, he actually lent her his sandals and walked barefoot all the way back! Poor guy. Haha, but nvm. I had another one in mind. And that was, Jia zhen's partner, our hero! I mentioned he helped us carry our bag right, so that was one point. The other was that he seemed to take an initiative in doing stuff. He was the first one to get the firewood (albeit of no neccessity), and he was always the one sweeping away branches during our lorry ride.
Ahh so taht was about it. After the game, we went to watch fireflies. So pretty! =) But we didn't take pictures. Too busy trying to find our way in the dark. It was pitch black out there okay. Goodness! After taht we went to bed! Will tell you mroe about bedroom activities in part 5! Haha