Survival Course

Stolen from Yanwei's blog since he is too busy (lazy) to do a post for this.

Survival course went pretty much OK, just that I still doubt that I can survive after getting booted out of a plane with a parachute at 20000 ft into the great jungles of amazon. (Provided that operating the parachute is as easy as just pulling that one and only strap)

Reached Woodlands Ring Pri Sch at 10.25am, 35 minutes early. If you would like to phrase it in a nice way, I am being punctual, but if you like to phrase it in a nastier way I am an idiot who doesn't know how to gauge how long I take to walk 1km. (20 minutes off target since I wanted to reach there 15 min early)

Survival lecture was in the scouts den which was air-conditioned. I sat right in the face of the air-con so I was freezing, while the rest of the scouts at the back were complaining of the heat.Went for lunch, had to eat at a hawker centre precisely on the MRN/MGR given to us by Kumaran. Navigated there using a topo map. Quite lame but thats a little bit of training.

Went to some jungle near Republic Polytechnic to get started on the practical part. We had to walk past some clearing near the lodges of the foreign workers working at a construction site, and guess what we saw.

Condom packets.
Condom packets.
And more condom packets.
Refer to Yanwei's blog for picture as he is too busy (lazy) to upload it again.

Then we took a 10 minute hike into the depths of the jungle. Walking over stuff like garbage, vines, mud (yes, a lot) and rotten tree roots which look ok but crumble into termites + rotten stuff when you step on them.

Anyway we started on our shelter building. We were split into 5 teams of 6. We had to build the shelters with whatever natural resources we could find. And at the end, there would be a test on the waterproofity/waterproofness of the shelters.

Came the "inspection" of the shelters, so we had to get the largest member (Shide) of the team to hide inside the shelter and Kumaran would pour water on the shelter to see if it is waterproof. Ours was the least waterproof because its not really our fault: All other groups had some form of plants with large leaves near them, ours had small and narrow leaves. So during the inspection:

**Kumaran pours a little water here**

Shide: "Oh Crap."

**Kumaran pours a little water there**

Shide: "Oh Crap."

**Kumaran pours a little water at yet another spot**

Shide: "Ohhh Crap."

Quite failure arh. But not really our fault anyway. Shide, you should have just endured the water for the sake of our pride xD

Other shelters were ok I think, most comfy-looking was Chuyong's shelter.

Then we cleared up and went home =)