After reading the last entry by Fan, whereby he requested that ALL are required to write, I sat down in front of my computer and thought to myself “haven’t I already written an entry already?” And then in the brackets, my name was included in that ALL. How can that be? Just to be on the safe side, I’ll just put in another entry.
Looking back at my last entry, I realized I haven’t touched on one interesting event during the trip. I shall name this entry as ‘Terror Lorry’.
There was this school that I went with. They sat the terror lorry to get to the white water rafting site. They sure had a lot of fun. Screaming, yelling, dodging tree branches and leaves, jumping up and down. They went absolutely NUTS! Then the fun came to an end when this little girl (12 years old I think) tried to avoid this tree branch and slammed her forehead onto the metal railing of the lorry. These metal railing was suppose to save life by keeping crazy kids in, not injured them! Anyway, she had this really deep cut on her forehead. Blood kept coming out non stop, she kept crying non stop. Finally we got her to a doctor and had her head patched up.
I told this story to Sufiyan. Warned him about the dangers and asked him to ensure that the other VJCians don’t get injured in such a manner again. BUT!!! When I got to the white water rafting site, Sufiyan walked up to me with blood all over his PE t-shirt and his nose bleeding. Half smiling, he told me he tried to avoid this tree branch and hit his nose on the railing. Did you know that humans never learn from history? The Romans tried to take over the whole of
Alright, where was I? Yes, Sufiyan and his bleeding nose. So during the trip back, I was asked to board the lorry to ensure that none of the students wouldn’t do crazy stuffs and have their body parts left behind. Up on the lorry, the VJC students were dead excited again (sheesh, Singaporean kids are so deprived!! I can almost imagine the local Malaysian kids looking at the Singaporean students and wonder “what’s scaring them so badly that they are screaming so loudly?”). All looking forward as they do not want to get hit by a branch or leaf. Some like the girl in the photo below took chances by looking behind. She must be thinking, “hahaha, I am right in the middle of the group, nothing can get me!!! All my friends can die for all I know including Chewy but I will be safe and sound RIgHT here in the middle!!!!”
After awhile… it wasn’t just that girl who got cocky. The whole group of them went nuts! Screaming, yelling, dodging branches… even I didn’t bother about the branches and took this photo
These Students never seem run out of energy. They spent 3 days in the mountains, and most of them could hardly walk straight after that and here they are screaming their heads off. I started to wonder, was I like that before? Was I always on drugs? I think these students are on drugs. They can’t possibly climb a mountain and yet have so much energy on the fourth day. Drugs, I tell you… they are on drugs.
Of coz they did stop screaming and yelling on one occasion when they looked around and realized how beautiful the mountains were. They were like little squirrels looking around up and down admiring God’s creation (those of you who believe in the big bang theory, fair enough, change it to Mother nature).
You can almost tell that they were getting rather bored with screaming, yelling and dodging branches. It’s not exciting anymore. They realized that the branches and leaves are not going to kill them. The most they will get it just bleeding forehead and nose. Then they thought of an innovative way to make it exciting. It’s called “NO HANDS”.
Can you believe it??!! NO HANDS!!! Look mommy!! NO HANDS!! What were they thinking? Drugs I tell… it’s the drugs….Chewy
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