
First picture of the day. No, there’s nothing to do with camp other than the fact that the humans there were preparing to go to camp. That’s actually behind—in front, really—of the
LAS room. There’s a better one without the wire but that’s not the first picture of the day and I don’t think you care a lot.
Anyway, here’s when it starts.
The Bus
Yes, the bus. See that human with the bottle there? That’d be me. I sat alone ‘cause everyone else had someone to sit with and probably ‘cause I was one of the last person to board the bus.


You may not know it, but the human you’re looking at right now’s (If you are looking at the picture on the right, that is)
Ang Hui Mei. The other picture just looks nicer and I’m horrible at remembering names so I can’t give you names, but you may know them. Oh yeah, I sat behind them, and
Chicken's across the lane from them. Most of the morning class students had to buy food in the canteen and eat on the bus since, well, we’re not eating lunch at the campsite.
Anyway, see that thing at the background of the left picture? That’s the gas station as you probably already noticed. We had to lug our bags all the way there. Good exercise though.
We stayed on the bus for about 45 minutes. I checked. Normal ride, nothing much going on. No crazy humans playing stuff, not loud enough that I can hear it at the back anyway. We did watch a movie I don't know the name to though. That is actually quite significant, well, as significant as the bus’ plate number and the driver's name. Why? You’ll find out later.
The Camp
We reached camp. We placed our bags at our tents.
Again, my friends already had enough people to go with in the tents and an extra person which means four people pretty much equals to four dead bodies the next morning due to the lack of air, so I had to go with others.

Well, say hi to the campsite. (I really don’t expect that to happen) See that little building at the back? Say hi to the girls’ bathroom/toilet. As for that orange tent near it? No idea what it is. What’s that tiny little thingy by the right with two humans? I have no idea what you call it and I’m not sure why it is even there. You noticed the three tents nearest to the person that took this photo, no? Well, those were the only boys’ tents. The rest at the back? Those belonged to the girls.
As for the picture on the right, that’s the clothes line you’re looking at behind the tent. We
didn’t really use it as a
clothes line. It was more of a
towel line. There are others, of course. Those are at the back of the tents in the left photo. And the tent in that photo's the teachers' tent.
After Settling Down in the TentsWhich pretty much includes dumping our bags in the tent, regardless of which bag lands on top of the other.
We gathered at the Hall, all 37 of us and only 9 of them were guys. We had briefing and all that. I don’t think you’re interested in that so let’s forward to the part where they separate teams.
Tee
Yee Teng, this one’s for you. Do you know that if you could make it you’d be our (me and my teammates) team leader? No joke, though you probably already know.
We got split into four teams. I’ll tell you the names soon.

That would be my team. Name’s
ING, named after the song that the
excos danced to before (It was funny. That’s because it was extremely
uncoordinated). We never officially chose what it stood for, but we went with ‘I’m Not Gay’ most of the time. Our team leader’s Win
Sheng and our
penolong was… I can’t remember her name… But see the girl on my right? (Find me yourself) That's her. Our slogan was ‘
I-I-I-N-G N-G I-N-G!’ and our
handclap was ‘1 123 12345’ or something like that.

This would be Chicken’s team. Name’s Royal. Why? I never found out till later when I asked her. Her exact reply came out in a rather raspy voice and was, “I don’t know. Because it was yellow?” Their slogan was 'We are Royal. (Or something like that)' Then they would make human alphabets, like
cheerleaders, '
cept not as good. I don't know the name of the guy that's R. I remember the Chicken was O. After that, I can't really remember who's what, but as for the last person, I have no idea what's he suppose to be since all alphabets were taken. I could not decipher their
handclap.

Oh, here’s
Bloo. I have no idea why they’re named
Bloo. Their slogan was something like… Okay I can’t really remember but I do know that it consisted of shouting out the alphabets of their team, and I could only hear three people; they were very, very loud. Their
handclap was something I could not remember as well… In the end, they go ‘Chi
chak. Boom(!)’ When they say ‘Boom’, they jerk their elbows back, making sort of like an ‘L’ shape, with their fists being the end of ‘L’. I’m sure it’s supposed to be sorta like a gun shot.

And then there’s
OMG. Unlike
ING, they settled for Oh My God. Their slogan was in Chinese/English—English only when they said the name of fruits and the Oh My God part—so I’ll give a translation. Don’t worry, even I know this one. It’s ‘We’re not orange, also not mango, and definitely not guava. We are
OMG.’ Their
handclap was the fanciest. While clapping their hands and knees, they go ‘O-O O-O-M-G’ or something like that.

Look, here's the complete list of who's who. No, I can't
realyl read it as well. As for who's hands are those, that shall remain a mystery.
I just found out that I don't suck at remembering names, I suck at remembering
Chinese names.
AbseilingNope, no pictures here. Not with me, anyway.
Abseiling was fine, nothing too special. I done it every time I went to camp. Abseiling is this thing where you climb
down a slope, not
up. A loose string in my glove got caught and I had to pull it out and that was pretty much it.
It looked like it was about to rain all the time, but, thank the sky, it didn't. Well, not yet, that is.
DinnerAfter that, we ate. Food was good and all. There was fry chicken. Veggie wasn't so much of my taste, but then again, it's me.
All teams ate together, no mixing, which was fine with me. And again, we were told to keep our ribbons safe by our team leader. We were reminded constantly.
CCINo pictures here as well.CCI:
LAS Camp, is as close a title you can get if you compare it with
CSI: New York or something like that.
First off, the
excos did a performance for us, which was maybe a little better than their dance. That performance started off where they had a new friend but that friend was found dead one day and no one knew which of the seven killed him/her (I can’t remember). The seven of them were blamed for killing that friend for many reasons. (i.e. stolen
shih tzue, taken food, being hit but unable to do anything and all that.) So, we have to solve that mystery.
Each team was given one piece of paper giving
instructions and telling us what possible place and weapon was used and also the possible murderer. We had to collect seven clues and solve the puzzle behind to solve the murder.
To start us off, we received a green coloured clue, and sadly enough, we flipped it back and solved the puzzle, which we were
specifically told not to do until we collected all seven clues and return. Partly my fault since I was the one that solved it. We ended up at the lake and after some time of searching, we found out and went off to the
registration building or whatever you call it. First slope of the camp, as it said. Yeah, we spent a token after a vigorous amount of searching only to discover it was on a tree, which I find rather disturbing since they warned us not to shine at the trees (How ominous can you get?), making us think that there would be nothing to do with trees. They later told us that we
weren’t supposed to shine at the leaves. Ever since then, we were paranoid that clues may be hidden on trees. During the time we were searching, we found two teams’ clues.
I’m not very sure where we went after that but everything went smoothly and we used another token. There were a few memorable moments then. We were in the canteen, searching like hell for that clue, and being told that it was easy after some time made us crazier. We were then given a clue.
“What was the last thing you touched?” Our
exco asked, pointing to a team member. We were so tired of looking in the same area that she forgotten what was the last thing she touched. Eventually she remembered it as a pot plant. Of which every single member seemed to have searched. The clue was at the lowest leaf/branch, whatever you called it.
We were running to camp and then—
“CRAP!”
That would be me, and my left leg. Which was left bare as the mud stole my slipper.
“Holy crap(!)” I hopped back to where the mud’s victim was before pulling it out.
I
didn’t mean to curse so much, what with all the humans around, but I tell you, it was reasonable. I ended up washing my leg with my water bottle when we got back to camp since going to the nearby toilet would be out-of-the-way.
Well, we had all seven clues but on the front of the seventh clue, it said seven-eleven. The only place on camp that is anything like seven-eleven was the souvenir shop, which we foolishly went to and spent all our time on.
Eventually we returned with not any more clues and begun solving it. I did most of the stuff that included English but I was useless when it came to who was the murderer since they asked questions like ‘who was a nurse?’, ‘who’s Korean?’, ‘who’s an ex-librarian?’ and ‘white time carrier’. That one
didn’t make any sense to me. It was a watch, apparently…
In the end, the only thing all teams got wrong was the murderer. It happened at the souvenir shop and the weapon used was a pair of scissors. Murderer: I forgot… But I might know who it is if you point me to her. I know it’s a her… This is much longer than I thought…
How Much Did You Observe?
After that, we were asked to line up in four lines with our teams. After we were asked to pick a member that is quick and ha great observation skills, they were asked questions. Questions like 'What's the name of the bus driver?', 'What's the bus plate number?', and 'what was the name of the actors in the movie we watched ealier on?'. And now you know what I meant.
Our team was the worst and Royal wass the best but after another team got marks deducted for something I forgotten, we were fine.
Sleep Well
Or try to, anyway.
Man, the forest floor (Well, not really) can be really, really hard. I'm happy to say that with the free time I had before, I cleaned up the tent a little with my fan (Who knew it had other uses?). Of course, it didn't help the smell however much I fanned it out wince it just returns like a mosquito. With the moon above, we eventually slept, ignoring the whispered conversations around us.
Night Watch
Ah. We had night watch from four to six.
I was surprised when I emerged from my tent. Before, it was bright and you can see beyond the stream beside our camp despite the light shining right at us, and the moon was so bright, you can see the light and shadows on the clouds surrounding. But now, no moon, and what little amount of stars there were before was gone. Seeing even the river was impossible. I was hoping to get a glimpes of dawn on our night watch but no luck there as well.
And it was cold. Having no jacket, I used a towel. After a while, me and a friend went to the toilet and when I returned, I found someone's green ribbon on the ground.
'Hey. Who's is this?' I kept repeating something like that a few times but didn't check my own wrist since I was sure mine was secure. Just to make sure I took a glance and found out it was mine that ws missing. Bleh.
After night watch, we slept for minutes before waking up.
Well, that's the end of Day 1 or the begining, whichever.