Friday, December 09, 2005
Today we had our S1 branch Cohesion Activity. Woke up at the usual time, took train to AMK to meet Ms Lee because i had no idea how to take public transport to the place. Naturally, being an easterner, i am only familiar with bedok reservoir.
Anyway, we started walking at around 0845 after a short set of warm-up. Saw Mr Vincent Lee, a new PE teacher and a student probably doing recee. recce. How to spell? And when S1 was leading us with the warmup, the pe teachers were staring lah. But everyone was wearing the SAF issued NB shoes, so its quite obvious that we are from the army.
the walk started at the starting point of the reservoir(DUH!), proceeded to the boardwalk and then walked past singapore island country club and then finally reached the treetop walk(after about 5 or 6km). the view was spectacular.
Then we climbed up and down a series of stairs. haha. at least its stairs lah. We took a rest at one of the huts because it was raining! Actually the rain was intermittent. There were times when the rain sounded to be quite heavy but probably has been intercepted by the lush and thick canopy.
We went on en route to our destination - Bukit Timah, a whooping 7 KM away. So we walked and walked, and even took the wrong route, consequently finding ourselves at a dead end. We made a u-turn and took another route which was quite undulating and slope-y. That path led to Rifle Range road, which is indeed a long stretch of road lah. Along the way we saw lots of monkeys, small dead snakes and even little squirrels dashing across the road. We walked past 2 army camps. S&Ts one. Haha.
It was at murndane service reservoir where we were unsure of the route to take once more. The initial plan of going straight to bukit timah hill was cancelled because everyone was tired. So we continued walking out of rifle range road to Bukit Timah Plaza side and then walked all the way to opposite Beauty World for lunch. Lunch was good. but everyone was too tired to eat, and the dishes were a bit too spicy for our tired stomach and dry throats. Had stingray, sweet and sour fish, fish with chilli, kangkong, kailan, tomyam soup(which is referred to as assam by S1), egg omelette, lots of sotongs and the list continues. It was quite a spread! but there were lots of leftovers lah.
I took a bus to CCK mrt coz i had no idea what other buses are there to take. and i took the train home.
Having studied ecology system for physical geog, i tried hard to recall what i was taught today. Concepts like the recycling of stores in the rainforest, soil profile, microclimates, niches was turned into reality.
I hope for a good weekend. next week onwards gonna be busy, right now we are preparing for emob lah. all the software hardware crap to settle.
|| nobone ran out @ 12/09/2005 09:11:00 pm ||