..A World of Nonsense..

Commando Orienteering

Haunting at Suntec's Carrefour.

We purposely meet at suntec carrefour to prepare relevant stuffs for our "Topography Course" on Friday late at night. (Prior to the picture above, the ghost had not slept well for the past 3 days due to work issues)

Cat wearing pampers!

The first interesting stuff I've seen that fateful morning, was a cat wearing pampers standing at a 2nd storey's window.

Some of the guys..

..with Lara Croft.

Moved off to the CCI (Cheers Connect I..something) through the Clementi Stadium and towards the side of the West Coast Stadium. Me, Clemen and Weixiang were split up into groups 1,2,3. Jeff and Yuhui were in the 4th group. We had our theory lessons.

All hell break loose from there onwards, well, specifically for me.

The fast march from West Coast to Bukit Timah Hill

Participants were screwed because they were told to assemble 5 mins downstairs after the CF (Course Facilitator) instructed them, but some of them were a minute late or so. "Guys! I am trying to be a GENTLEMAN here!"

I was like, wow, why so serious? Why are there no considerations for activities to lag behind time, which is normal, instead we got to go with the CF's timing because he wants it. Seems familiar to me, the regimentation that we had back in military. I wanted to start fuming, but I calm myself down and think it was probably he was from Commando and that he was brainwashed to talk and lead that way.

Upon reaching the starting point, I heard, "Who SAY you can wear EAR STUDS! Take it out before I DROP everyone!" and saw another trainer shouting at a participant.

Well, who said cannot? One of the participants were already drained upon reaching the hill with gastric pain or whatever. Like I will even DROP for him. Most of the time, who would expect to be punished after paying $20 for a course that haven't even started.

Walking through uneven terrains

Lost our way.

Bottomless,topless flight of steps.

It was hours of meaningless navigating through the woods with a map with resembles street directory. One or two of the checkpoints given to us were wrong, as in, the MGR given was wrong. I cannot see the purpose of this course from the exhaustive walking and climbing.

One guy was on the verge of collapsing

Jeff was carrying his bag, as well as yuhui's. They were both his team, and luckily my team is around with them. So, what would really happen if they fainted, suffering from heat exhaustion. There will be no ambulance that is capable of driving through the mazed-like tracks to search for casualties. Will Jeff and his remaining teammate capable of carrying them to wherever the ambulance will be - through the long flight of steps and hills. What if they stopped breathing. Conducting CPR without a cert is an offense because you might kill the person if you do it wrong, just to let you know.

I am asking about safety here. Exhausting everyone is a big problem.

"Wa lau.. we also travelled 3 times here before you all did!" Says the garang army officer to a 20 year old girl.

My thighs were cramping from the 4 hours of trekking slopes already, as everyone else, "Move faster! Encourage one another!" rang throughout the final rounds of upslopes and downslopes. I'd just felt like I've paid $20 for a BMT training all over again - on top of I-am-not-prepared-for-this.

My last picture.

I thought it would be a fun topo course which I can take pictures of the surroundings, atmosphere, plants, anything interesting and old. Walking with fume through the 7km meaningless, guided route by CF. I was wondering what objectives we achieved so far.

Jeff, "Chong, stop and stretch your legs abit."

I, saying loudly, "Cannot 1 leh, behind will ask you to move forward, push one another! My leg tear nevermind one."

Trainer, from behind, "Move faster, cover up!"

"You HEARD it?" to Jeff.

The very lousy safety measures, the lousy planned checkpoints, the military style applying in a civilian course, the wrong target audience, the injured participants, the unhappy CF who vent his anger on the participants by driving them recklessly from one place to another - after spending $45 on the course and preparation.

Dinner was around 8pm. 2 pieces of bread, plain water and a few sips of redbull was all that I had - Eating outside a cemetry, not a really bad setting I thought.

"Guys! Gather up!"

2 seconds later.

"HEY! Is this the FUCKING ATTITUDE you all give to your trainers! You want me to DROP you all a not!"

Walking through the cemetry was a rather enjoyable experience despite my painful legs. Although I'd find it disturbing when I had to walk through some overgrown grasses and bushes, just to realise I've stepped on some grave. The whole trip was guided too. Thankfully, cos we're at least being watched.

My team won and had collected all checkpoints. The guides told us that there will be reward if we win, so I chiong up with my crampy legs and say, "Rewards! Why not!" Thinking that there'll probably be cold drinks, or stuffs like that available if we reach, is really boosting my morale.

Upon reaching, there's nothing. One Ah Beng was mopping the cafeteria floor, the shop is closing. Nobody is there. So I had to guess the reward was - able to rest longer. Totally rubbish, so my legs cramped again.

Before a spot check on the equipments, most teams' maps were taken by trainers who sees them being placed on the floor or tables when they were resting and gone to the loos.

"KNOCK IT DOWN!"

I simply fuck-off myself back home.

Hey.

Even Lara Croft also cannot take it ok.

Chongz stepped on your garbage at 12:30 PM