*warning - this is a long... post and i do mean long. but do read it ^^ its interesting. im just apologising for this extremely long post. its 10 times longer than my longest post. hahas sorry*

hellos! wows. my muscles are like kind of aching. hahas all because of yesterday's general leadership program. it was kind of fun actually! hahas. we went for a hike from MacRitchie and walked all the way to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve. how tiring was that! our instructor told us that we'll be travelling on foot for 30++ km!! wows! thats like a LOT more than 2.4km run!! so much more. hahas

we were so energetic at first when we were at macritchie and when we walked around the erms.. well it asnt really a lake but somehow like one? hahas. and we were screaming and shouting cause we were so excited for the rest of this trip!

Then we proceeded to this really shady path through the erms.. small 'forest' and the path was so rocky that i had to glue my eyes to the ground at all times. man was that hard for my neck. hahas. We had to go up hill and down slope so many times that it was starting to get tiring.

And we walked walked walked walked walked, through the golf course and across some running water on a log.. the sun was blazing hot and we were perspiring like crazy. it felt as if i had just bathed with my clothes on. After refilling our water bottles at the ranger station which was way before the first half of the trip and we were all dead tired and wet. hahas. We took a picture of the rainbow in the toilet and proceeded to the tree top walk. how fun!

The tree top walk was seriously fun! Vanessa kept shaking the bridge. hahas and i kept staring below my feet and imagining me falling all the way down with no bungee rope or whatever so. how scary can they get. was so fun! all the trees were beneath my feet! wows! and of course, time passes by when you're having fun. hahas after clearing that exciting checkpoint, we continued walking up hills and down slopes just to receive this apple which was supposed to be our passport to the next checkpoint.

Probably just to boost our energy with that apple and it was also the completion of our first half of the trip. man im tired! i still have it now didnt eat it. my hands were freaking dirty. and we walked to the main road where there was partial civilization-cars and some buildings. lols and we walked in the piercing rays of the afternoon sun as its heat reflected from the solid cement beneath our feet. We could hardly open our eyes to see as it was so glaring.

It was shit tiring. and the 12 of us divided into 3 clusters-the lead, middle people and last few. so freaking tired and so roxanne zhixin and i started to sing songs to 'cheer' us up and it actually made us forget that we're actually climbing uphill. We didnt realise anything until our instructor asked us to slow down. that was when i turned around and realised that the others were like a few metres away from us. hahas

At last, we're going back into nature again. e climbed through the fences and finally! We've reached Bukit Timah Nature Reserve! well nto exactly. only at the edge of its property. hahas then we walked through rocky paths and under the hot sun going up hills and down slopes and my toes were aching shit then. I felt so sleepy, all my energy was used to climb up and down.

We walked walked walked and walked again. and we finally reached this shady area. when we thought we were ending, out pops a thousand flights of steps! ohGOSH! was i tired! up and up and up. my legs are so tired! my feet can barely walk anymore. Then reached this resting area with benches and we jumped on them. the instructor let us rest for awhile and then continued on the climbing of steps sheesh!

I i thought i couldnt make it anymore when i found out there was a few more hundred flights of steps!!! MAN! i was shit tired then!!

OK! lets skip all the walking and some singing of our p5 camp songs and all the way to the finale!YES! we's reached the ending point and had walked down this really steep slope that my toes were freaking aching at the end of everything. We could finally having our lunch! We were happily sitting down on the benches. The abigail took out her loacker snack for us, then suddenly this mad mnokey jumped out of the tree and jumped onto the packet of loacker. man it was greedy. it took 3 at first then it saw us staring at him. He took more and stuffed it in his mouth. hahas so funny.

We were screaming mad because abigail had went to the washroom. that monkey was still there! and our instructor went to get our lunch. we couldnt help but scream! hahas! Then it even wanted to take abigail's bag. then weiting siying took their bottles and 'attacked' the monkey. they swung their bottles and the monkey ran away. AHAHS! Then it wanted to come back. hahas but we shooed it away XD SO FUNNY! we've seen a number of monkeys actually.

ok here comes our lunch and we proceeded pass the playground where 2/4 group A clapped and cheered for us and to the sight seeing spot. There was this really nice scenery of this 'mountain'. so cool ^^ our lunch was filling and our instructor had to leave for his exam. some examination. shouldnt he be studying for it? hahas. anyways we were dead tired then. roxanne and me just stood at the side and stared at them play at the playground. hahas and on the way back. we actually counted about 17 monkeys lying lazily under the sun. hahas.

what an exciting trip! i'll definately recommend it to the seconary twos of the coming year! come to think of it now. all those times when we were complaining during the trip. its actually kind of fun! it was superb! hahas. i better end off now. byebyes~