RIO [China Hip-Hop]

Day One
From island wide, they came by buses, train, taxi and other mean of transportation. A group of ten people were magically link together to form a village. By the time of 7 plus, one after another they arrived at changi jetty. Our group leaded by our charismatic village head, Diana, gathers us and started off with a round of introduction, comprising of Sunderason, Shi Min, Jian Ming, Mark, Zhen Hong, Wei Jie, Jeffrey, Xinni and Paul.

It took a while for everyone to know each other as we take the boat to Palau Ubin. We reached our campsite after a long walk from the jetty. Terry, our camp commander welcome all of us as he introduced all the camp committees, the officers and also the kind lady who lend us her place for our activities. Danny, our captain, gear us up as he officially start RIO camp 2006 with a challenge posed to us to fast for 24 hours, it simulate the environment for project Pakistan and allowing us to step out of our comfort zone.
Before any activities start we had to come up with our village name, flag and cheers. With Wei Jie influence and his outlook of China, we come up with a rather refreshing name, "China Hip-Hop". At the same time, we also need to fold stars to exchange for materials to build our tent for the night, it seem that we didn't change much only 1 ground sheet. However with some wits of Wei Jie, he manages to get a large blue sheet from the old lady. Plus having Jeffrey's nylon string we build a rather simple tent compare to the rest of the groups but I will like to say it was the most spacious tent of all. Xinni and Shi Min folded the most stars in our group and their efforts were greatly appreciated.

After it we were given the task to design a mural wall as it will be part of project Pakistan, to show that all primers will be part of the trips and not just those who are going. We come up with a design of a heart surrounded by a ring of people holding hand to hand and having both the sun and the moon on both side and grass at the base, Sunder explain our design to the rest and the judges.

Soon after completion, we were set off for our first activities. The first station was a game something like Indian poker; all 10 of us will take a card from a deck and place it at our forehead without looking at the card. All of us cannot speak while one of us instructed the rest, to form into sequence starting from the smallest to the biggest by using trust. It a swift and fast game as Mabel (station IC), gave us the green light and presents our reward, a t-shirt.
We proceed on to the second station. Shi Hui (station IC), divided us into two group of 5, and form us into a line as we need to pass from one side to the other without getting jam if not we need to start again. At the beginning we do it for a few times and with Jeffrey instructions, we completed it. Seeing it, Lionel, our village officer who was assign to our group challenges us. He want us not to say a single word as we do it, we find it hard at the start but once we all know what to do clearly it carry on smoothly. We received a cup noodle as the reward and after all was done we moved on.

We moved on to Chun Yuan station, "jumping jack", we cannot shout out the number "2" as we do the counting, we finish it after the third try. The second part of it was not to shout out "2&3"; we tend to slip off quite easily and redo it for a few times, it ended as we all followed Paul by jumping slowly as we all count. After all ten counts are done; Chun Yuan presented us with a log for burning.

At the same place we meet the station IC for our 4th station, Aloysius. The task was simple, to read out the BB vesper, everyone just need to remember one line of it. Because the last line is just "Amen", all wanted to have that line, we play a simple game of "number one, two and three" to resolve it, Xinni got it and after all of us read for a while, we finish it at the first attempt.

Our 5th station was to stand on a piece of old open up newspaper; all of us need to stand on it without any leg stepping out. And after we were done, Citra further test us by giving us only half of the newspaper to stand on. Ten people, stepping on each other legs, tip toe, hugging, holding to each other and some instruction from each and everyone we mange to stand on the newspaper for 10 counts. Once done Citra gave us a small bottle of shampoo.

Finally all of us proceed on to the last station game, by Liang Ming (station IC). The game was to pass down the message from the first person to the last. Starting from Jian Ming to Jeffrey, we pass the message down, in between we miss out a few line. However it does not matter as the time for the activities were coming to an end.

When we return back to the starting point, we have a mass game, the game we play in Shi Hui station, definitely it on a larger scale as all primers were involved. We didn't really complete the game but surely we have quite a lot of fun doing it. After it's done, we are broke up back into our village and have a time of reflection with Lionel on the game we played. We find out the each game taught us some characteristic of a good team player.

Shortly after the reflection, we are being interrupted by the arrival of the terrorists, as spooky as it seem to be, we all were robbed of the rewards that we have earned during the activities. Those rewards are example of necessities to survive; we are left with three clues to get help. Well we have a great laughs at the terrorist before we set off for aid.

The first clue "help! Alternate no. 999" led us to think of the police station, thus we take the long walk back to the jetty where the police station are located near to it. Along the way, we were supposed to find some materials for our necessities to replace the items we lost like food, water, shelter. Once we have informed the police, we open up the second clue, and its destination was a cemetery, due to lack of time, we proceed on to the third clue which led us to a shelter at the top of a hill. We were given the task to make a short clip asking for the aid of UN. We film the clip with an innovation idea of adding humor to it, starting with serious attitude, two persons were killed but it ended with a comical close in on Wei Jie. (Catch the clip from primer youtube).
Back to our campsite, we are shrouded by fatigue, however it did not damper our lame and creative juice of producing idea, as seem in the final task of making an advertisement asking people to join primers. The camp committees open up the "Village gala night" by presenting soft drinks to us, while we sat back and enjoy the various group of performance. It ended on an emotion note, when all the senior and officers sang a song for us, and we all joining in. We also took a few pictures as a group and after it, it free time for all.

Day Two
The day started at 7am with everyone gather, as Danny gave us our certificates of survive and Kenny gave us our cup noodle. Once all of us have received, the time was nearing 9.40, which signify the closing of our 24 hours fast. 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 and beep….we went off to have our food taken, the cup noodle seem like the most delicious food taken in age.
After done with our meal, it started to rain, but it does not matter as we have a gathering to appreciate each other for their effort and Wei Jie took quite a lot for his humor. We also played the game of "animal game", Jian Ming lost and the forfeit was to propose to Terry and he must say yes. He tries a few time before Terry said yes and we some great laughing moment during the process.

At long last, the camp has ended when all of us took the van back to the jetty. We took the boat back to the mainland and after a security check we waited for the rest of primers to come back. But before it all ended, we took a few photos of the entire primers. We just can't forget the moment we share, it a trip to remember.