Snapshots of my team-building @Ubin

My colleagues and I headed to Ubin on 30 Apr for a team-building event. It's been a while since I went. The last visit was prob in 2003 when Cher was still organising her urban escape I think.

It was a first time experience for many of us, to kayak in Ubin. And we started our expedition in the hottest time of the day, near 12pm. what started out as a leisure kayak soon turned pretty chaotic as we frantically tried to navigate our way to avoid crashing into mangrove swamps or one another.

I think I will always remember that moment when my boat crashed into one of the trees and JT2 who was sitting in front was covered with all the giant ants, water cockroaches, spiders etc. I had to sweep the ants/ cockroaches off her using my paddle. Some of them got onto me too. It was scary. We got so paranoid with trees after that. yikes. horrid experience.

But the water was pretty cooling lah. some parts (when we were out in the open and without any trees of course) were pretty scenic. And we saw quite a lot of jellyfish. Too bad I didnt manage to catch any on my camera. I do think our paddling caused the jellyfish to have severe head concussion though. ha.

Anyway, at the end of the team-building, everybody was badly sun-burnt. My colleagues still feel the "repercussion" now. One of them took 3 days MC this afternoon cos of sunburn and fears of possible skin infection. Another colleague had swollen ankles and couldn't walk. One of them went to A&E cos her mother-in-law was so worried. All in all, high casualty rate sia. I'm okay cos I'm used to being sunburnt every week liao. That's one good training I suppose. hurhur. :p

Heard from CC that Vietnam's Hanoi Bay is good for kayaking. The water's peaceful and you will get to kayak into limestone caves etc. Sounds tempting. Perhaps I will try kayaking in Vietnam in future...

For the time being, I've settled on Shanghai for my trip in July. Gotta start planning and booking air tix liao. Can't wait actually. Work's crazy cos so many of them out of action. bleah.


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