I went with the 29th Tahanners and 30th trainees, togther with Emily ( 23rd) , Weiqin ( 24th) , Yuankang(26th) , Zhiqiang ( 27th), Mr Alex Tan and Mr Soh, to Ophir from the 29th April-1st May.
The rest of the photos can be found @ here
I had several aims for this mini 2D2N trip, but I had failed to achieve most of it.
One of my main aim is to get to know the 29th and 30th tahanners better. Apparently, I did not make the effort to approach and talk to them. Once again, I was not others-centred and not proactive enough. Perhaps the only service I render to them was the many photos and videos that I have taken of them and posted at my imagestation.
It really takes effort to know a person and try to understand the person....I ought to ask them more questions.....; it takes even more effort to love a person....
My other aims was to know the Alumni members better too. Although I had much more interactions with them, but I guess the conversations were still surface-level, and had not proceeded to the open stage.
Perhaps a pleasant surprise was that Mr Alex Tan ( a PE teacher) went along as the teacher in charge. Did struck some conversation with him about PE and triathions. Learnt that he was in charge of some Overseas Outdoor Leadership Programme in Hwa Chong.
On hindsight, I should have talked more to him to find out more and learn from him about PE related stuff and the Outdoor Education programs. Shall attempt to keep in touch with him.
Overall, I must admit that I was still more inward-looking than outward looking. Perhaps during the climb, I was kinda of 'struggling' with the load ( ~15kg to campsite ; ~9kg to summit). I treated this trip as part of my training for my adventure race next Sun ( 15th May).
I never seem to learn the lesson of carrying less...., Thank God the cramps that I experienced was only temporary , unlike the ones that I experienced in Tahan 03, that caused my team to abandon the Tahan trek after the first day, and having to spent 5 days stonning at 2 different campsites. Morale of the story : Train for the trek; else carry the minimum.
I was experimenting with cooking a healthy dinner, thus I choose to cook cabbage+ tomatoes+ onion+ garlic soup for dinner.( all using fresh ingredients) Although the soup taste was nice, but I still had the craving for more saltish stuff. Guess now I know why instant noodles+ seasoning + can food are still a popular choice for campers, though it is more unhealthy...
Shall try other stuff to cook next time.
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