Ubin Trip

Here I am, with a glass of cold chocolate milk, alone in my room when everyone's asleep. I just love to have a glass of milk late in the night, it makes me feel so pampered. Haha! Make no sense right?
Anyway, I just came back from camping overnight at Pulau Ubin. Though this is not our first time camping there, but it's the first time that we can camp there without any obligations, meaning we don't have a bunch of juniors under our wings. Therefore, i reeaaallly look forward to this camp-over.
But maybe we are so relaxed in this trip that we forgot to pack two most important things. One is the mosquito repellent, a MUST in Ubin. The packs of mosquitoes are really ferocious, like some crazed Singaporeans at those buffet restaurants. So now I’m suffering from our negligence, vigorously scratching my 20 something "love bites" from the mosquitoes while I’m typing this.
The second most important object is torch lights! Gosh, I really wonder how can we forget such an important item as there are no street lights or whatever luxury in Ubin. But maybe it’s our forgetfulness that leads us to an experience of a lifetime.
You see, we decided to go to the eatery for dinner which is located at the jetty. But our tents are pitched at Mamam Beach, which is some distance away from the jetty. After our dinner, it's already around 8pm. Ubin at 8pm is really dark. You can just feel the blackness covers you, sometimes making it harder to breathe (well, that’s actually due to the fear). The whole bunch of us only has a torch. But luckily, we got those light sticks which will glow when they are broke. So we each have one "bangle" light stick on each hand. The one leading the way has the torch, so he became our eyes.
It's really exciting by then. When we cycle into the forest, all we can see is the "bangle" light sticks wore by each cyclist in front of us and nothing else, not even the edge of the road. We must follow closely as we do not want to get lost in the dark forest. At that point in time, I learn to trust my friends whole heartedly. Usually if I’m dumped in a dark area, I will be too scared to move. But at that time, I knew I have to keep cycling because I knew I can trust that friend in front of me and because the line of friends behind me trusted me to follow the way.
Thru this incident, I’m really really glad to have that bunch of good friends, knowing that I can trust them no matter what happen. And that we can work together and make sure each other is safe. Even when at that time we actually got lost because we missed a junction due to the darkness, there's no blaming of the person leading and we still trust him to lead us back to the right way.
Thank god I have such good friends whom I can share these hair-raising adventures with. I hope to keep them forever by my side. :)