The year of 2009 is coming to an end. Our venturing year has come to a close. We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun. And rain. And forest. And Ubin.
Yesterday was 01's annual Group Celebrations. The BBQ was awesome, the parasites in the pavilion were lazy, and the atmosphere was one of.... i dunno how to describe. Ask some lit dude.
Hope 01-06 keep in touch. ((:
Our next batch outing will be in....
(Someone fill in the blank next time.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Hillary Challenge
Haha just a quick post to congratulate Kenneth Kuan and Francis Yee!
Both RI teams first and second place in Hillary Challenge on Monday.
Yeah guess of them were damn imba. Haha and the rest of the batch cause we went down to support them. But yeah woo.
Both RI teams first and second place in Hillary Challenge on Monday.
Yeah guess of them were damn imba. Haha and the rest of the batch cause we went down to support them. But yeah woo.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
PnH photos
PnH (pioneering and hike)
Pioneering: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=105891&id=597022487&l=283d37b241
Pioneering: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=105891&id=597022487&l=283d37b241
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
last act of term 3!
this blog shall not die!!!
today we had a random act that consisted of pt + pm + PnH briefing. i like abbreviations!
ok for those who couldnt figure it out, pt is just pt, pm is post mortem carried over from monday, and PnH briefing is really just night (nike) hike briefing. pt was running rounds and rounds around the junior block, and also spending quite a lot of time at Raja Block.
post mortem was...confidential :) Everyone seems to be like Hiok, and Hiok likes to suan Tak.
and the briefing was just boring and noisy because of the SU.
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and to make up for the past few missing posts, last wednesday we had first aid revision and tests. started off with PT, then went to seminar room to mug first aid, and lastly had SRIT.
monday we first had PT once again, then did a short session of knots revision, before we started R&R on the entire year. a lot of talking for this part, but it was good to just reflect on the entire year so far.
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next act is PnH, which francis and i will be missing :(
till then! (psst, someone update whenever you are free)
today we had a random act that consisted of pt + pm + PnH briefing. i like abbreviations!
ok for those who couldnt figure it out, pt is just pt, pm is post mortem carried over from monday, and PnH briefing is really just night (nike) hike briefing. pt was running rounds and rounds around the junior block, and also spending quite a lot of time at Raja Block.
post mortem was...confidential :) Everyone seems to be like Hiok, and Hiok likes to suan Tak.
and the briefing was just boring and noisy because of the SU.
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and to make up for the past few missing posts, last wednesday we had first aid revision and tests. started off with PT, then went to seminar room to mug first aid, and lastly had SRIT.
monday we first had PT once again, then did a short session of knots revision, before we started R&R on the entire year. a lot of talking for this part, but it was good to just reflect on the entire year so far.
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next act is PnH, which francis and i will be missing :(
till then! (psst, someone update whenever you are free)
Monday, August 24, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
vpas are over
i (kenneth kuan) has made a damn stupid, silly mistake of typing the wrong email address to send to. i felt dam screwed up and shitty after that.
oh well.
and today was the last of VPAs! but sadly next week no more act until HMT EoYs are over.
good luck to all for all the CCTs/assignments.
and shit i still feel dam screwed up
oh well.
and today was the last of VPAs! but sadly next week no more act until HMT EoYs are over.
good luck to all for all the CCTs/assignments.
and shit i still feel dam screwed up
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Camperama
video of deo-spray XD
lorry journey
i posted pictures on facebook.
its public, so everyone can see (even those without facebook)
(:
go view it OTOT
lorry journey
i posted pictures on facebook.
its public, so everyone can see (even those without facebook)
(:
go view it OTOT
Monday, July 27, 2009
Camperama: A Summary
Just a short post to recount Camperama.
Gathered after school.
Oreos.
Bradell Westlake.
Mini-Pudge.
Leonard Leng and his imba skills.
Sitting in the lorry.
Carpark.
OTOT is the new Dubyew.
Tying gateway.
Bony!
Red ants.
Deo flamethrowers.
$4 Hokkien mee.
Go Fish!
Pavilion.
Next day.
Putting up banners.
Tak's $4 knife.
Roti prata breakfast.
Softball!
Mervin's Monkeyfist Madness.
Alvin the caveman.
Kitchen tents.
Angsty ice-cream man.
Blasting music.
Tying balloons.
Balloons within balloons.
Balloons within balloons within balloons.
Pitching dome tents.
Retrieving the tent which went into the sea.
More softball. (Knotball?)
Prepare for campfire.
Reverse tepee.
Kerosene bomb.
Dinner.
Campfire.
Durian shelling.
Movie screening which we didn't see.
Cycling.
Cycling even more.
Park connectors.
Foam.
The bridge which we crossed the long way.
Getting lost in Bedok park.
Pasir Ris.
Snickers and 100 Plus.
Cycling.
Back to camp at 3am.
Sleep.
Wake at 7am.
Foam.
Breakfast.
Unpitch stuff.
Lorry.
Siglap CC.
Bradell Westlake.
Unload stuff.
J8 and lunch.
Good to go?
Gathered after school.
Oreos.
Bradell Westlake.
Mini-Pudge.
Leonard Leng and his imba skills.
Sitting in the lorry.
Carpark.
OTOT is the new Dubyew.
Tying gateway.
Bony!
Red ants.
Deo flamethrowers.
$4 Hokkien mee.
Go Fish!
Pavilion.
Next day.
Putting up banners.
Tak's $4 knife.
Roti prata breakfast.
Softball!
Mervin's Monkeyfist Madness.
Alvin the caveman.
Kitchen tents.
Angsty ice-cream man.
Blasting music.
Tying balloons.
Balloons within balloons.
Balloons within balloons within balloons.
Pitching dome tents.
Retrieving the tent which went into the sea.
More softball. (Knotball?)
Prepare for campfire.
Reverse tepee.
Kerosene bomb.
Dinner.
Campfire.
Durian shelling.
Movie screening which we didn't see.
Cycling.
Cycling even more.
Park connectors.
Foam.
The bridge which we crossed the long way.
Getting lost in Bedok park.
Pasir Ris.
Snickers and 100 Plus.
Cycling.
Back to camp at 3am.
Sleep.
Wake at 7am.
Foam.
Breakfast.
Unpitch stuff.
Lorry.
Siglap CC.
Bradell Westlake.
Unload stuff.
J8 and lunch.
Good to go?
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Return of the Acts
Test taking next Wednesday.
Ventures who have passed their gold standard need not take the tests again. Ignore what the excel file says about that.
For the ventures taking tests, good luck and all the best! (:
Acts are finally starting again.
Some reminders:
NYAA Kayaking, remember to sign your forms and bring money to hand in.
NYAA skills, wait for more info.
Camperama
NYAA CIP
And most important of all currently: SELL YOUR DONATION DRAW TICKETS!!! It's time to start if you haven't already.
See you guys soon! (:
Ventures who have passed their gold standard need not take the tests again. Ignore what the excel file says about that.
For the ventures taking tests, good luck and all the best! (:
Acts are finally starting again.
Some reminders:
NYAA Kayaking, remember to sign your forms and bring money to hand in.
NYAA skills, wait for more info.
Camperama
NYAA CIP
And most important of all currently: SELL YOUR DONATION DRAW TICKETS!!! It's time to start if you haven't already.
See you guys soon! (:
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
H1N1
Lull in acts...
VPAs didn't get carried out.
Sad.
But on the bright side, we have 4 less activities to plan next year. (:
Ah well, the SU loses out. They didn't get to experience our awesomeness. Haha. Joking.
But honestly those were fun acts. (:
Oh and MJ died quite a while ago. Dunno how that is related...
Think of it, we live in the era where the King died. WOW!!
And we also live in the era where H1N1 broke out!! Wow! Broke out like lions in a cage. Rawr!
We've lived through SARS, H1N1, Asian Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, MJ's death, Den renovation, VPA cancellation, etc.
Work going on now:
NYAA CIP
Camperama
I was bored. And i'm livening this thing up.
VPAs didn't get carried out.
Sad.
But on the bright side, we have 4 less activities to plan next year. (:
Ah well, the SU loses out. They didn't get to experience our awesomeness. Haha. Joking.
But honestly those were fun acts. (:
Oh and MJ died quite a while ago. Dunno how that is related...
Think of it, we live in the era where the King died. WOW!!
And we also live in the era where H1N1 broke out!! Wow! Broke out like lions in a cage. Rawr!
We've lived through SARS, H1N1, Asian Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, MJ's death, Den renovation, VPA cancellation, etc.
Work going on now:
NYAA CIP
Camperama
I was bored. And i'm livening this thing up.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
VLC hoohaa!
On the 13th and 14th of June, some of us went for VLC (Venture Leadership Course).
Hoohaa!
It was a lecture-filled, sleepless-night, laughter-a-plenty, self-directed, network-forming, initiative-taking, knowledge-acquiring, and of course VENTURE-filled, camp.
(:
We had joy, we had fun, we had not a lot of time in the sun, but hey thats a good thing! (:
The lectures were very informative. What is venturing, leadership styles, RAMS, Programme planning, SIC (Scout Instructorship Course) and more! We sat through lectures, had activities, improved ourselves. And of course we all made a lot of friends.
We were split into 6 ExCos, namely: Wildcats (miao), Nitrogen (N2, enthu), Marlot, Zebra (later known as WhiteHorse xD), Hi 5 (1-2-3-4, HI 5!) and lastly, Sixers (Cub scouts?).
Each ExCo planned a detailed activity, this was for assessment by the Instructors. We planned an activity, with all the objectives and everything included. All it needed was to be rearranged and it would be a proposal for an activity already.
Oh and i forgot to mention the instructors. The people who made it all possible.
I shall use their scout names since i can't remember all their real names. (paiseh)
Our lecturers, Wisdom Keeper (Justin), Staunch Owl (Ruhan), and Roving Ferret (is that correct? i really dunno how to spell his real name. sorry!).
Our Camp director, Steady Wolf (Yang Chen).
And DC Smiling Ox (his real name is on his name card. Check it out! or knock at 12 midnight...)
And all the staff at Terror Sea Scout Camp who cooked the delicious food and allowed us to use their campsite. (:
As Wisdom Keeper taught us, APPRECIATE! And of course, ATTITUDE!
Hope all the ventures who went learned something knew and will apply it in his scouting life. Remember, we are Ventures now.
VLC!
Hoohaa!!
Hoohaa!
It was a lecture-filled, sleepless-night, laughter-a-plenty, self-directed, network-forming, initiative-taking, knowledge-acquiring, and of course VENTURE-filled, camp.
(:
We had joy, we had fun, we had not a lot of time in the sun, but hey thats a good thing! (:
The lectures were very informative. What is venturing, leadership styles, RAMS, Programme planning, SIC (Scout Instructorship Course) and more! We sat through lectures, had activities, improved ourselves. And of course we all made a lot of friends.
We were split into 6 ExCos, namely: Wildcats (miao), Nitrogen (N2, enthu), Marlot, Zebra (later known as WhiteHorse xD), Hi 5 (1-2-3-4, HI 5!) and lastly, Sixers (Cub scouts?).
Each ExCo planned a detailed activity, this was for assessment by the Instructors. We planned an activity, with all the objectives and everything included. All it needed was to be rearranged and it would be a proposal for an activity already.
Oh and i forgot to mention the instructors. The people who made it all possible.
I shall use their scout names since i can't remember all their real names. (paiseh)
Our lecturers, Wisdom Keeper (Justin), Staunch Owl (Ruhan), and Roving Ferret (is that correct? i really dunno how to spell his real name. sorry!).
Our Camp director, Steady Wolf (Yang Chen).
And DC Smiling Ox (his real name is on his name card. Check it out! or knock at 12 midnight...)
And all the staff at Terror Sea Scout Camp who cooked the delicious food and allowed us to use their campsite. (:
As Wisdom Keeper taught us, APPRECIATE! And of course, ATTITUDE!
Hope all the ventures who went learned something knew and will apply it in his scouting life. Remember, we are Ventures now.
VLC!
Hoohaa!!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
open house +prep
I LOST THE GAME
opn house prep:
on friday, we had open house prep. when i first called the horseshoe, the sight was miserable, each patrol was represented by at max 2 people. for the ventures, many had either humans club or chinese remedial. despite that, we made use of the man power we had and brought all the poles we needed to the raffles square.
by this time, those who could make it reported to the raffles square. we then started work. hiok helped to manage the building of the swing and i managed the building of the gateway/ observation tower. we soon got to work, and it ran smoothly, tying the basic foundation of the gateway - trestles. however, i soon ran into some problems. we were short of some poles and had too many of the other. therefore, i had to rethink the dimensions of the gateway. it was soon solved and the height of the gateway was changed -again, and became taller, only slightly, by about 50cm, than it was supposed to be.
soon, we were done and started to erect one side of the gateway. by this time, mr yuen had come down to observe us, and soon after, dhm mrs tan too. ever since mr yuen, who kept calling me "eh IC ah...", had arrived, he was extremely concerned about safety. he was busy testing out the half completed structure, scurtinising every knot was tied. to be honest, i was quite impressed with the SU, particularly the sec 2s as they were much better then i expected and there was little "...can you please go and re-tie so and so knot..." that was said during the whole tying part.
after the second part of the gateway was erected, the tricky part came, the connecting of the 2 triangular things. i had meant for someone experienced like the campfire-ac 1st-pro amos to scale the uncomplete gateway and connect the 2 triangular things together. however, it turned out that alvin and jack were very tall and we could just use a canteen table with a chair stacked on top to reach of the connecting pole. it worked and soon the uncompleted gateway was standing on its own. seeing that the connecting pole was bending and the rope ladder's rope breaking when hiok attempted to climb up, mr yuen, despite my persistence and persuasion, said that no one is to climb. sigh. so we just snaked lashed about 5 poles at each end, to make it look like it actually could be climbed, cunning the p6 students into thinking, "wow". and so, shockingly, the act officially ended for the SU about half and hour earlier than expected and it ended for us after the banners were put up.
open house:
715 report. i arrived at 720. i was about to start to worry, so i called jack. jack said he was sleeping and had just woken up. luckily, mr yuen arrived at about 735 and came to our rescue with the storage area key. we started shiifting the logistics to the gazebo. we arranged the stuff neatly and francis got to lighting the charcoal stove. apparently, i was blacklisted by mr yuen and ms goh cause i forgot to buy marshmallows...
soon, parents and p6 students started to come. the rest that happened later on was pretty much standard, parents given a tour of the booth, some people slacking, talking among themselves, next shift comes in first shift leaves, so on and so forth. there were some gl people who came to ask funny stuff like, "can scouts be used for DSA?" and there were children who stayed at the carrom board playing as much as they could before they had to leave with their parents. also, quite a significant number, 3 or 4 (if my memory serves me well) of old boys turned up, sjut to see the 01 booth. one of them even went up to the table with all the old photos and pointed at one of them, saying, "hey, that's me!" on the whole, most people turned up for their shifts and the whole open house ran rather smoothly.
time flew by, and open house was over. at the end, the ventures in the last shift started to la la around with the structure,climbing up and down. we then took down the structure, and efficiently, everything, including the logistics and poles within less than 45 minutes and there open house was over.
opn house prep:
on friday, we had open house prep. when i first called the horseshoe, the sight was miserable, each patrol was represented by at max 2 people. for the ventures, many had either humans club or chinese remedial. despite that, we made use of the man power we had and brought all the poles we needed to the raffles square.
by this time, those who could make it reported to the raffles square. we then started work. hiok helped to manage the building of the swing and i managed the building of the gateway/ observation tower. we soon got to work, and it ran smoothly, tying the basic foundation of the gateway - trestles. however, i soon ran into some problems. we were short of some poles and had too many of the other. therefore, i had to rethink the dimensions of the gateway. it was soon solved and the height of the gateway was changed -again, and became taller, only slightly, by about 50cm, than it was supposed to be.
soon, we were done and started to erect one side of the gateway. by this time, mr yuen had come down to observe us, and soon after, dhm mrs tan too. ever since mr yuen, who kept calling me "eh IC ah...", had arrived, he was extremely concerned about safety. he was busy testing out the half completed structure, scurtinising every knot was tied. to be honest, i was quite impressed with the SU, particularly the sec 2s as they were much better then i expected and there was little "...can you please go and re-tie so and so knot..." that was said during the whole tying part.
after the second part of the gateway was erected, the tricky part came, the connecting of the 2 triangular things. i had meant for someone experienced like the campfire-ac 1st-pro amos to scale the uncomplete gateway and connect the 2 triangular things together. however, it turned out that alvin and jack were very tall and we could just use a canteen table with a chair stacked on top to reach of the connecting pole. it worked and soon the uncompleted gateway was standing on its own. seeing that the connecting pole was bending and the rope ladder's rope breaking when hiok attempted to climb up, mr yuen, despite my persistence and persuasion, said that no one is to climb. sigh. so we just snaked lashed about 5 poles at each end, to make it look like it actually could be climbed, cunning the p6 students into thinking, "wow". and so, shockingly, the act officially ended for the SU about half and hour earlier than expected and it ended for us after the banners were put up.
open house:
715 report. i arrived at 720. i was about to start to worry, so i called jack. jack said he was sleeping and had just woken up. luckily, mr yuen arrived at about 735 and came to our rescue with the storage area key. we started shiifting the logistics to the gazebo. we arranged the stuff neatly and francis got to lighting the charcoal stove. apparently, i was blacklisted by mr yuen and ms goh cause i forgot to buy marshmallows...
soon, parents and p6 students started to come. the rest that happened later on was pretty much standard, parents given a tour of the booth, some people slacking, talking among themselves, next shift comes in first shift leaves, so on and so forth. there were some gl people who came to ask funny stuff like, "can scouts be used for DSA?" and there were children who stayed at the carrom board playing as much as they could before they had to leave with their parents. also, quite a significant number, 3 or 4 (if my memory serves me well) of old boys turned up, sjut to see the 01 booth. one of them even went up to the table with all the old photos and pointed at one of them, saying, "hey, that's me!" on the whole, most people turned up for their shifts and the whole open house ran rather smoothly.
time flew by, and open house was over. at the end, the ventures in the last shift started to la la around with the structure,climbing up and down. we then took down the structure, and efficiently, everything, including the logistics and poles within less than 45 minutes and there open house was over.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
anderson clover guides' gateway
we (zj joel francis rj me) went to anderson
we took 3 hrs
we built their gateway
we the pro!
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
monday, wednesday and everything in between
i think the roster is pretty screwed, so whoever wants to update just update. if no one updates then poor blog will just have a missing page in the book =(
monday we started off with PT, which was more like a run. we ran to rjc track, ran 5 rounds according to bryan, and ran to pullup bar to do 3 sets of half our max pullup number.
following that we went to a seminar room in JB which subsequently led to it being more like a chem lab with the ammonia from zj's shirt/swimming trunks. we had a lecture on orienteering, a basic run through of the basics like taking bearing, reading map etc for the not-so-new comers. then we had the more medium stuff like pacing and back bearing and the somewhat high level stuff like dead reckoning (super impt!!), handrail, triangulation etc. and we also had the random stuff like how to find the height of a tree (hint:use trigo), how to find the length of a river (hint: either use the long but imba method involving 2 teckos and a lot of walking that was presented by zj, or the dam short and easy method which needs a bit of brains presented by amos), how to find the speed of the river, how to find the depth of a river etc. for the last one, according to hq you stick the tecko into the water. if it doesnt reach the bottom, you know its too deep to cross.
and that was basically all we did for act that day! although after that there was a vexco meeting + joel which was really just an update on each of our work progress.
and on tuesday some of us had a really fun time moving poles from braddell west lake to RI while some other ppl also had a fun time playing interug but losing 0-2 to npcc. and we discovered a shorter route to get to bwl from the den, after going there 3974384 times. ohoh and i had a showdown with my nemesis, The Bee(tle)s, in which i was victorious and left a bit of them on my shirt in the form of bee paste.
and today we first had a shelter building lecture conducted by yanzhi, before we went to our 2nd home bwl to chop up somepoles belong to *ahem* for firewood. bryan was the physicist, im the brute, and hiok/amos is the handicapped. and every one else is the dub-dew. oh and anurak is the dood who lost his phone in the poleshed but found it later on. and joel is the latest dood in the hiok/amos back injured club. and our vtl zhixuan is the dood who can fly up the wall!
of course in between all these stuff theres all the small stuff we laugh about that makes us this wonderful batch of 01-06, and typing them out here will not do justice to how great these stuff are. a very minor reason is also because my memory fails me =D
monday we started off with PT, which was more like a run. we ran to rjc track, ran 5 rounds according to bryan, and ran to pullup bar to do 3 sets of half our max pullup number.
following that we went to a seminar room in JB which subsequently led to it being more like a chem lab with the ammonia from zj's shirt/swimming trunks. we had a lecture on orienteering, a basic run through of the basics like taking bearing, reading map etc for the not-so-new comers. then we had the more medium stuff like pacing and back bearing and the somewhat high level stuff like dead reckoning (super impt!!), handrail, triangulation etc. and we also had the random stuff like how to find the height of a tree (hint:use trigo), how to find the length of a river (hint: either use the long but imba method involving 2 teckos and a lot of walking that was presented by zj, or the dam short and easy method which needs a bit of brains presented by amos), how to find the speed of the river, how to find the depth of a river etc. for the last one, according to hq you stick the tecko into the water. if it doesnt reach the bottom, you know its too deep to cross.
and that was basically all we did for act that day! although after that there was a vexco meeting + joel which was really just an update on each of our work progress.
and on tuesday some of us had a really fun time moving poles from braddell west lake to RI while some other ppl also had a fun time playing interug but losing 0-2 to npcc. and we discovered a shorter route to get to bwl from the den, after going there 3974384 times. ohoh and i had a showdown with my nemesis, The Bee(tle)s, in which i was victorious and left a bit of them on my shirt in the form of bee paste.
and today we first had a shelter building lecture conducted by yanzhi, before we went to our 2nd home bwl to chop up some
of course in between all these stuff theres all the small stuff we laugh about that makes us this wonderful batch of 01-06, and typing them out here will not do justice to how great these stuff are. a very minor reason is also because my memory fails me =D
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
poles
today,
alvin, sup, kenneth, jon ed, zhong jun, francis, jack and I had a fun time at braddell westlake
alvin, sup, kenneth, jon ed, zhong jun, francis, jack and I had a fun time at braddell westlake
Monday, May 18, 2009
Here's info about VC.
-Jon Ed
Date: 30th May - 1st June (3 days 2 nights)
Reporting venue: 7am at MacRitchie Venus Drive Carpark
Dismissal: 12pm at an unconfirmed venue
Venue: Whole of SG and outlying islands
Pack: Whatever you think you'll need (including FA kit (number not confirmed) & Survival Kit (1 per person) - inspection standard)
Skills needed & other stuff:
- Plot and Pace (bearing, plot location every 20/50/100m, control card, aperture card, pacing)
- Physical fitness (be able to run/cycle)
- Pack light
- Bring 10 stones per person
- 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches ($1.50 per person for breakfast, $2 per person for lunch)
- Staple, veg, meat required
- Emergency rations for 24 hours (sealed)
- Basha stuff
- Proficient fire-lighting skills
- No bathing points
- Scout uniform not necessary
- 1 piece of solid fuel per person
- Mess tins
- Parangs
- 2 maps for entire batch
- Groundsheet and poncho
- Patrols will vary from 2 people, to a quarter of the batch, to half of the batch.
- Sationary including OHP markers (EVERYONE)
- Ez-link and $10
- There will be inspection
- 3L of water per person
- Sandals/slippers optional
- Bring newspapers; about 2 days' worth
Survival Night:
- Leave you somewhere to survive for one night (in pairs)
- Prepare: rice, bread dough
- Build a shelter with available materials (vines, leaves, etc)
- Water procurement
- Build traps
- Prepare firewood
- Prepare food baskets
-Jon Ed
Date: 30th May - 1st June (3 days 2 nights)
Reporting venue: 7am at MacRitchie Venus Drive Carpark
Dismissal: 12pm at an unconfirmed venue
Venue: Whole of SG and outlying islands
Pack: Whatever you think you'll need (including FA kit (number not confirmed) & Survival Kit (1 per person) - inspection standard)
Skills needed & other stuff:
- Plot and Pace (bearing, plot location every 20/50/100m, control card, aperture card, pacing)
- Physical fitness (be able to run/cycle)
- Pack light
- Bring 10 stones per person
- 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches ($1.50 per person for breakfast, $2 per person for lunch)
- Staple, veg, meat required
- Emergency rations for 24 hours (sealed)
- Basha stuff
- Proficient fire-lighting skills
- No bathing points
- Scout uniform not necessary
- 1 piece of solid fuel per person
- Mess tins
- Parangs
- 2 maps for entire batch
- Groundsheet and poncho
- Patrols will vary from 2 people, to a quarter of the batch, to half of the batch.
- Sationary including OHP markers (EVERYONE)
- Ez-link and $10
- There will be inspection
- 3L of water per person
- Sandals/slippers optional
- Bring newspapers; about 2 days' worth
Survival Night:
- Leave you somewhere to survive for one night (in pairs)
- Prepare: rice, bread dough
- Build a shelter with available materials (vines, leaves, etc)
- Water procurement
- Build traps
- Prepare firewood
- Prepare food baskets
Thursday, May 14, 2009
VC Briefing
today was maths test. hope everyone did ok (:
and yesterday was our first official act in ages. TWO WEEKS. haha for other ccas 2 weeks won't really be a short break, but for scouts its shocking! :o
came late as Mrs Lim held her classes back after RE period. but we didn't miss much... just in time for the start of PT. -.- in fact, when we ran in, the rest had just finished their stretching. PT with haoqin was quite ok, but since this was NAPFA season hq took it easier on us, so thanks! haven't done much exercise in ages...
then came VC briefing with zhi.
here are the notes of the briefing:
- bring bashir stuff, first aid kit, 10 stones, portable stove, two 1.5 litre bottles, mess tins, rations, full day emergency rations, and everything you think you'll need.
- pack light.
ooookay.
unfortunately since both our VTLs fell sick on the same day ("Eh, you sick? Ok set, I sick too." -lol-), we didnt have vexco meeting, instead going to braddell westlake tomutilate poles that didnt belong to us cut firewood. serious. anyway, 02 didnt want the poles anymore.
before that, went to get the toyogo boxes with kenneth, kenneth. ghosh. by the time we reach BWL the rest had started working. cutting poles with axes and saws, picking up sticks covered in ants.
and soon time to go. with a full bucket of poles and boxes of twigs and leaves, we went back to RI. and then went home.
and yesterday was our first official act in ages. TWO WEEKS. haha for other ccas 2 weeks won't really be a short break, but for scouts its shocking! :o
came late as Mrs Lim held her classes back after RE period. but we didn't miss much... just in time for the start of PT. -.- in fact, when we ran in, the rest had just finished their stretching. PT with haoqin was quite ok, but since this was NAPFA season hq took it easier on us, so thanks! haven't done much exercise in ages...
then came VC briefing with zhi.
here are the notes of the briefing:
- bring bashir stuff, first aid kit, 10 stones, portable stove, two 1.5 litre bottles, mess tins, rations, full day emergency rations, and everything you think you'll need.
- pack light.
ooookay.
unfortunately since both our VTLs fell sick on the same day ("Eh, you sick? Ok set, I sick too." -lol-), we didnt have vexco meeting, instead going to braddell westlake to
before that, went to get the toyogo boxes with kenneth, kenneth. ghosh. by the time we reach BWL the rest had started working. cutting poles with axes and saws, picking up sticks covered in ants.
and soon time to go. with a full bucket of poles and boxes of twigs and leaves, we went back to RI. and then went home.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Run!
Today, 11 of us, ok fine 9 of us went for a jog around Bishan, Thomson, YCK, AMK, and the total distance covered was 11.8km! Good job to Amos, Sup, Joel, Alvin, Francis, Anurak, Tak Wei, Rong Jun, myself (Kenneth), and of course Yanzhi and Cheeyeow who wanted/had to follow us. Terrific achievement for all, especially to those who have not done it before!
For those who are interested, the route was this.
Hooray on completing your first, of many, hopefully, 10Ks!
For those who are interested, the route was this.
Hooray on completing your first, of many, hopefully, 10Ks!
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Campfire!
Hey my first post on this blog :D
So last night was the 75th Anniversary Campfire for 01 Raffles Scout Group, but preparation started way before hand. On Thursday the ventures went to load poles to be transported to Sarimbun but I wasn't there, so I have no idea what to write about that.
Then on Friday, there was an activity after school for one last prep before the campfire started. The haka people took the bus to Sarimbun while the souvenir comm members (Rong Jun and I) stayed in school with the others to rush the final few souvenirs.
Souvenir comm is easily one of the most saigang comms in the process of staging a campfire. This year was even worse; not only did we have to prepare 15 group souvenirs for the scout/ guide groups who would be attending, we had three guests of honour who needed special souvenirs, as well as ONE HUNDRED old boys who would be attending. For the groups, we made hourglass towers, with decorations, while the VIPs' souvenirs were bigger (like twice as big) versions of those. Then for the one hundred old boys' souvenirs we decided to use bottles of sand, with a nice scroll inside.
By that Friday, we had finished making all of the smaller hourglass towers, but were left with the three VIP souvenirs, the Most Enthu Group award and the foaming old boys ones. I decided to make the award first, and came up with a random plaque which looked like this:
Haha, nice font eh? The rest of the time was spent lala-ing around the third floor atrium and filling the sand into the bottles. And supervising the rest of the comm, which was pretty much quite bored by all the saigang. Then we discovered that the glass tiles on the ceiling cast a nice rainbow effect on the wall and Jeremy was busy positioning a souvenir for an artistic effect:
Oh I just discovered I took a picture of one of the certs which was stuffed into the bottles. We had to stain them with coffee to give them a vintage kind of look, which came off pretty successfully:
In the end, we ran out of sand and had to stop filling bottles, but continue to stuff/tie certs inside the bottles until the act was over. (We still had 1/2 the bottles and the VIP souvenirs to do.) Then after packing up the foamy logistics some of us headed over to J8 with the J1s for dinner. After that, all of us took the MRT to Kranji and then hailed three taxis to go to Sarimbun. This part was quite funny, because all three had no idea where the place was. In the end, Yan Wei took the first taxi and directed the guy, while the other two were just told to 'follow the cab in front'. The first cab ended up making a turn and disappearing from sight, causing the second cab (which I was in) to foam, because the driver didn't know where to go. Naturally the third cab also followed us. In the end Yan Wei called us and told us where to make the turning.
The road to Sarimbun is quite scary at night. Very dark, long and ulu; Chuyong kept commenting on how scared he would be to walk along this road at night. Then Trach turned around and told us that we might be walking along here for GTC...
After we got there, we unloaded all the logistics from the back of the cab and trudged into the MPH, where Rong Jun and I joined the rest of the ventures to lala around. I can't exactly remember what we did then, but I suspect it was mostly cock-talking. Then washed up in the Sarimbun toilets (which all smelled like urine, for some reason) and lay out our groundsheets in the MPH to sleep. Some of us ended up in the A-huts, which was quite shuang but I decided to sleep in the MPH because we could play cards there. I was quite shagged then so don't remember much apart from Sups' 'Picassos' and 'Picassios', which turned out to be 'Pistachios.' Which are incidentally quite addictive to eat until I ended up crunching an unshelled one ><
After that I fell asleep on my groundsheet and woke up the next day...
Since it's quite late now (though not for Jack xD) I think I'll finish the next two days another day.
Ok now it's the next day so let me start again. After a restful night's sleep, on a groundsheet in the multipurpose hall, we all woke up at around 6 to wash up and get ready for the day. Actually I woke up a bit before that, feeling quite jack; the previous night I had spammed Rongjun's insect repellant on my body, which worked quite well. What I forgot was that the soles of my feet went unsprayed so I woke up in the middle of the night frantically scratching at my feet, which were then covered with mosquito bites.
At six thirty a horseshoe was blown and we ate breakfast. At first, there was no spread and we only had plain bread to eat. According to Amos, it tasted like chicken rice. Then Chuyong found out that our kaya had been in the trash and gave it to us, after describing his experience of the previous night where he also had to search through garbage to retrieve his handphone.
After that we were broken into commitees and finished up our stuff. I joined the rest of the ventures at the gateway, which had thankfully been mostly erected the day before. All that was left would be to tie up the walkways (or the ladders, as they were called) up on the pythons and inset the handrails. We did this pretty quickly and I had fun climbing the thing to secure a bowline or something. All this while we had random suans flying around; the previous night Rongjun brought some shortbread biscuits, which I said were for me. Then Ziheng walking around without his shirt, and some others followed suit.
At seven or eight the lower sec people arrived and assembled in the multipurpose hall, and the ventures were mostly done so I joined the souvenir comm from this point onward. The other ventures went to set up the AV tent and rehearse for haka. It was at this point that someone discovered the ice machine. ( I think it was yiming, who somehow overheard the lock's code as well.) Within moments people had discovered the ability to fill entire water bottles with little bits of ice, as well as just crunching the ice directly from their palms. This proved to be a trend, as during break times there would always be a rush of people at the machine, which everyone also knew how to unlock. (The code, incidentally, was 114.) Haha ok will continue this another day, quite late already.
Ok back again for the third edit to this post. Hmm so we were all stoning and making the souvenirs at the dining area. The dining area is quite a cool place, being very conveniently close to our beloved ice machine (which explains why Rongjun's bottle was almost always filled with ice), but also the toilet and sinks. That area has many benches and tables on which we worked. The previous day, we had run out of the nice colourful greenblackwhite sand, and Jeremy being so neow didnt like our other bucket of sand, so we sent a group of people out on an epic journey to find sarimbun beach and bring back the sand.
After their return, we opened their plastic bags to find them - shock and horror - empty. Turns out that their epic journey was a wasted trip. They had walked quite far to the seashort, but then came to a locked gate. The only way around this gate would be to walk along some breakwater, next to a fench with barbed wire. So they ended up with no sand. Luckily Nigel spotted some in Sarimbun and they later brought it back, where we used John's pouch to filter the chunky bits out. (This sentence hardly makes sense, I know.) So anyway yeah we finished all the old boys' souvenirs, and later started on tying all the guest of honour. In the middle of all of that we had lunch, which was with our patrols and the other ventures. The food was quite nice. And surprisingly filling.
Anyway yeah we finished all the stuff that we needed to do by four o'clock, because we needed to clear up for the campfire which was starting in a few hours' time. We were given a briefing on the various usher commitees and sorted out; I found out that for the first part, I was a VIP usher and was supposed to spot for VIPs coming into Sarimbun and escort them about. After taking a quick shower (because I didn't want to stink in front of the VIPs), Kenneth and I proceeded to the entrance area and met the welcoming/road commitee.
We came up with this weird system where Kenneth would spot a VIP car by number plate, and then I would run up to it when it went to park and escourt the VIP in. Needless to say, cars travel faster than humans so I had to run up and follow each to its eventual stopping place.
After everyone was seated for the campfire, Chee Yeow asked me to help paint his face/ chest. So I start experimenting with the various face paints and ended up with quite a nice design on him, with all four colours.
Then the rest of the batch came and I painted them. This one really went wild, playing around with the patterns and the colour combinations. I distincly remember trying out a lot of weird styles like whiskers... Ok will update another day.
So last night was the 75th Anniversary Campfire for 01 Raffles Scout Group, but preparation started way before hand. On Thursday the ventures went to load poles to be transported to Sarimbun but I wasn't there, so I have no idea what to write about that.
Then on Friday, there was an activity after school for one last prep before the campfire started. The haka people took the bus to Sarimbun while the souvenir comm members (Rong Jun and I) stayed in school with the others to rush the final few souvenirs.
Souvenir comm is easily one of the most saigang comms in the process of staging a campfire. This year was even worse; not only did we have to prepare 15 group souvenirs for the scout/ guide groups who would be attending, we had three guests of honour who needed special souvenirs, as well as ONE HUNDRED old boys who would be attending. For the groups, we made hourglass towers, with decorations, while the VIPs' souvenirs were bigger (like twice as big) versions of those. Then for the one hundred old boys' souvenirs we decided to use bottles of sand, with a nice scroll inside.
By that Friday, we had finished making all of the smaller hourglass towers, but were left with the three VIP souvenirs, the Most Enthu Group award and the foaming old boys ones. I decided to make the award first, and came up with a random plaque which looked like this:
Haha, nice font eh? The rest of the time was spent lala-ing around the third floor atrium and filling the sand into the bottles. And supervising the rest of the comm, which was pretty much quite bored by all the saigang. Then we discovered that the glass tiles on the ceiling cast a nice rainbow effect on the wall and Jeremy was busy positioning a souvenir for an artistic effect:
Oh I just discovered I took a picture of one of the certs which was stuffed into the bottles. We had to stain them with coffee to give them a vintage kind of look, which came off pretty successfully:
In the end, we ran out of sand and had to stop filling bottles, but continue to stuff/tie certs inside the bottles until the act was over. (We still had 1/2 the bottles and the VIP souvenirs to do.) Then after packing up the foamy logistics some of us headed over to J8 with the J1s for dinner. After that, all of us took the MRT to Kranji and then hailed three taxis to go to Sarimbun. This part was quite funny, because all three had no idea where the place was. In the end, Yan Wei took the first taxi and directed the guy, while the other two were just told to 'follow the cab in front'. The first cab ended up making a turn and disappearing from sight, causing the second cab (which I was in) to foam, because the driver didn't know where to go. Naturally the third cab also followed us. In the end Yan Wei called us and told us where to make the turning.The road to Sarimbun is quite scary at night. Very dark, long and ulu; Chuyong kept commenting on how scared he would be to walk along this road at night. Then Trach turned around and told us that we might be walking along here for GTC...
After we got there, we unloaded all the logistics from the back of the cab and trudged into the MPH, where Rong Jun and I joined the rest of the ventures to lala around. I can't exactly remember what we did then, but I suspect it was mostly cock-talking. Then washed up in the Sarimbun toilets (which all smelled like urine, for some reason) and lay out our groundsheets in the MPH to sleep. Some of us ended up in the A-huts, which was quite shuang but I decided to sleep in the MPH because we could play cards there. I was quite shagged then so don't remember much apart from Sups' 'Picassos' and 'Picassios', which turned out to be 'Pistachios.' Which are incidentally quite addictive to eat until I ended up crunching an unshelled one ><
After that I fell asleep on my groundsheet and woke up the next day...
Since it's quite late now (though not for Jack xD) I think I'll finish the next two days another day.
Ok now it's the next day so let me start again. After a restful night's sleep, on a groundsheet in the multipurpose hall, we all woke up at around 6 to wash up and get ready for the day. Actually I woke up a bit before that, feeling quite jack; the previous night I had spammed Rongjun's insect repellant on my body, which worked quite well. What I forgot was that the soles of my feet went unsprayed so I woke up in the middle of the night frantically scratching at my feet, which were then covered with mosquito bites.
At six thirty a horseshoe was blown and we ate breakfast. At first, there was no spread and we only had plain bread to eat. According to Amos, it tasted like chicken rice. Then Chuyong found out that our kaya had been in the trash and gave it to us, after describing his experience of the previous night where he also had to search through garbage to retrieve his handphone.
After that we were broken into commitees and finished up our stuff. I joined the rest of the ventures at the gateway, which had thankfully been mostly erected the day before. All that was left would be to tie up the walkways (or the ladders, as they were called) up on the pythons and inset the handrails. We did this pretty quickly and I had fun climbing the thing to secure a bowline or something. All this while we had random suans flying around; the previous night Rongjun brought some shortbread biscuits, which I said were for me. Then Ziheng walking around without his shirt, and some others followed suit.
At seven or eight the lower sec people arrived and assembled in the multipurpose hall, and the ventures were mostly done so I joined the souvenir comm from this point onward. The other ventures went to set up the AV tent and rehearse for haka. It was at this point that someone discovered the ice machine. ( I think it was yiming, who somehow overheard the lock's code as well.) Within moments people had discovered the ability to fill entire water bottles with little bits of ice, as well as just crunching the ice directly from their palms. This proved to be a trend, as during break times there would always be a rush of people at the machine, which everyone also knew how to unlock. (The code, incidentally, was 114.) Haha ok will continue this another day, quite late already.
Ok back again for the third edit to this post. Hmm so we were all stoning and making the souvenirs at the dining area. The dining area is quite a cool place, being very conveniently close to our beloved ice machine (which explains why Rongjun's bottle was almost always filled with ice), but also the toilet and sinks. That area has many benches and tables on which we worked. The previous day, we had run out of the nice colourful greenblackwhite sand, and Jeremy being so neow didnt like our other bucket of sand, so we sent a group of people out on an epic journey to find sarimbun beach and bring back the sand.
After their return, we opened their plastic bags to find them - shock and horror - empty. Turns out that their epic journey was a wasted trip. They had walked quite far to the seashort, but then came to a locked gate. The only way around this gate would be to walk along some breakwater, next to a fench with barbed wire. So they ended up with no sand. Luckily Nigel spotted some in Sarimbun and they later brought it back, where we used John's pouch to filter the chunky bits out. (This sentence hardly makes sense, I know.) So anyway yeah we finished all the old boys' souvenirs, and later started on tying all the guest of honour. In the middle of all of that we had lunch, which was with our patrols and the other ventures. The food was quite nice. And surprisingly filling.
Anyway yeah we finished all the stuff that we needed to do by four o'clock, because we needed to clear up for the campfire which was starting in a few hours' time. We were given a briefing on the various usher commitees and sorted out; I found out that for the first part, I was a VIP usher and was supposed to spot for VIPs coming into Sarimbun and escort them about. After taking a quick shower (because I didn't want to stink in front of the VIPs), Kenneth and I proceeded to the entrance area and met the welcoming/road commitee.
We came up with this weird system where Kenneth would spot a VIP car by number plate, and then I would run up to it when it went to park and escourt the VIP in. Needless to say, cars travel faster than humans so I had to run up and follow each to its eventual stopping place.
After everyone was seated for the campfire, Chee Yeow asked me to help paint his face/ chest. So I start experimenting with the various face paints and ended up with quite a nice design on him, with all four colours.
Then the rest of the batch came and I painted them. This one really went wild, playing around with the patterns and the colour combinations. I distincly remember trying out a lot of weird styles like whiskers... Ok will update another day.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Campfire's drawing nearer, drawing nearer
First things first.
The product of today's effort and the effort of the past few activities can be summed up in one sentence.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=94378820990
Well technically its a hyperlink, but why bother getting all "technical" and stuff. Its a sentence. Yes, because i say so.
So ya. The day started with many people at the annual ORA walka-jogathon. However its spelled. More like a walk-a-talk-a-jog-a-lala-a-go-a-just-a-to-a-get-a-a-a-new-a-free-a-shirt-a. xD Have fun reading that.
People like Kenneth, Alvin and I (francis), ponned the 2.4km walk halfway through cos honestly it was boring and damn waste time. The rest went the whole distance then came back for campfire prep. We assembled at the drama room and readied ourselves for the transformation into maori (warriors?).
We went through the rounds of visualisation, solemnisation, respiration, concentration, execution, distraction, revision and finally PERFECTION!
Amid the chorus of "PERFECT!"s, Chee Yeow and Jonathan Kenric Trachsel watched with a trained eye, looking out for every little mistake, ready to pounce and gobble up any one who made a wrong move.
Ok fine i'm exaggerating. They were lying at the back and watching us practice in our pairs and triplets. I think they were bored.
And our guest for today was: YAN ZHI!!
He randomly came in and took videos of us. Even all the sad and unglam moments. All stored in his phone, on that little memory card. Oh the scandals of the stick performance. The multitude of sticks rolling aimlessly on the floor, the clatter of sticks on the ground, the random flying STICKS that can't seem to stick to our hands. Yes, even the one that dropped on my head. Some how...
I was practicing with Kenneth Lam and Jack in the triplet move. I think we improved tremendously. Ok, we didn't shout "PERFECT!" like the rest. Cos we are modest people. =D But we did do a lot of perfect ones. 4 perfects ones in succession. =D Must show off a bit mah.
Of course, in the clan of maoris, fights would obviously break out. This would explain the random "TAU POK!!!" warcries that occured, and the sudden appearance of a mass of bodies piled atop of each other, with a hint of a voice at the bottom.
Soon, it was time for us to leave the comforts of our cave and to venture out to the real world. Also known as the gym hall atrium. We were to show off our newly acquired talents in hand-eye coordination and our new maori selves.
First we watched the sec1s and 2s do their performances. I shall not comment on that. And then the sec3s performed for us their "Chu Yong choreographed" dance. I shall not comment on that either.
And then finally it was our turn. The stick dance was pretty well done. Not that many screw ups.
We heaved a sigh of relief when we finished. Then the sticks went aside and it was time for our manly side to take over.
O PEK!
And the haka began. I think we did quite well. The volume can be improved. And i guess sharper actions and stuff. But other than that, it was pretty good.
Then we had some coffee thing.
And then off to lunch. On the way to J8, we saw a bunch of cub scouts. Being the idiot i am, i waved at them. And they waved back. And then everyone started waving. And the cub scouts went crazy inside... All become hyper or something. Haha.
And then Sup suddenly became damn lame. And something about differentiating Jack came up.
So to differentiate Jack.
dy/dx= 1(Jack)^0 = 1.
So the gradient of Jack is 1. Whatever that is supposed to mean. Sup damn lame lah... Differentiate Jack from Jim.
Both still equal 1. Haha.
Lunch at food court of J8. We talked about stuff.
Then Amos, Zhong Jun and I camped at Bishan library to waste time until River Valley camfire started. The campfire was damn fun. But i want to sleep now and so i shall not write about it.
The product of today's effort and the effort of the past few activities can be summed up in one sentence.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=94378820990
Well technically its a hyperlink, but why bother getting all "technical" and stuff. Its a sentence. Yes, because i say so.
So ya. The day started with many people at the annual ORA walka-jogathon. However its spelled. More like a walk-a-talk-a-jog-a-lala-a-go-a-just-a-to-a-get-a-a-a-new-a-free-a-shirt-a. xD Have fun reading that.
People like Kenneth, Alvin and I (francis), ponned the 2.4km walk halfway through cos honestly it was boring and damn waste time. The rest went the whole distance then came back for campfire prep. We assembled at the drama room and readied ourselves for the transformation into maori (warriors?).
We went through the rounds of visualisation, solemnisation, respiration, concentration, execution, distraction, revision and finally PERFECTION!
Amid the chorus of "PERFECT!"s, Chee Yeow and Jonathan Kenric Trachsel watched with a trained eye, looking out for every little mistake, ready to pounce and gobble up any one who made a wrong move.
Ok fine i'm exaggerating. They were lying at the back and watching us practice in our pairs and triplets. I think they were bored.
And our guest for today was: YAN ZHI!!
He randomly came in and took videos of us. Even all the sad and unglam moments. All stored in his phone, on that little memory card. Oh the scandals of the stick performance. The multitude of sticks rolling aimlessly on the floor, the clatter of sticks on the ground, the random flying STICKS that can't seem to stick to our hands. Yes, even the one that dropped on my head. Some how...
I was practicing with Kenneth Lam and Jack in the triplet move. I think we improved tremendously. Ok, we didn't shout "PERFECT!" like the rest. Cos we are modest people. =D But we did do a lot of perfect ones. 4 perfects ones in succession. =D Must show off a bit mah.
Of course, in the clan of maoris, fights would obviously break out. This would explain the random "TAU POK!!!" warcries that occured, and the sudden appearance of a mass of bodies piled atop of each other, with a hint of a voice at the bottom.
Soon, it was time for us to leave the comforts of our cave and to venture out to the real world. Also known as the gym hall atrium. We were to show off our newly acquired talents in hand-eye coordination and our new maori selves.
First we watched the sec1s and 2s do their performances. I shall not comment on that. And then the sec3s performed for us their "Chu Yong choreographed" dance. I shall not comment on that either.
And then finally it was our turn. The stick dance was pretty well done. Not that many screw ups.
We heaved a sigh of relief when we finished. Then the sticks went aside and it was time for our manly side to take over.
O PEK!
And the haka began. I think we did quite well. The volume can be improved. And i guess sharper actions and stuff. But other than that, it was pretty good.
Then we had some coffee thing.
And then off to lunch. On the way to J8, we saw a bunch of cub scouts. Being the idiot i am, i waved at them. And they waved back. And then everyone started waving. And the cub scouts went crazy inside... All become hyper or something. Haha.
And then Sup suddenly became damn lame. And something about differentiating Jack came up.
So to differentiate Jack.
dy/dx= 1(Jack)^0 = 1.
So the gradient of Jack is 1. Whatever that is supposed to mean. Sup damn lame lah... Differentiate Jack from Jim.
Both still equal 1. Haha.
Lunch at food court of J8. We talked about stuff.
Then Amos, Zhong Jun and I camped at Bishan library to waste time until River Valley camfire started. The campfire was damn fun. But i want to sleep now and so i shall not write about it.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Sitck Performance! (15/04)
Hi all,
Kenneth Lam here!
This will be my first blog post on this blog:D I'll be blogging on Wednesday's Scout activity, which was basically campfire prac.
We did about 36 pushups (separate from the SU) to start off the day.
Then, the dance commitee, basically the haka and stick performance group, gathered at the area outside the second level of the hall, close to the gym, to practice our stick dance. We started off showing chee yeow the full routine, ("level 1", then "level 2", then "level 3") but our "mission failed" and so we decided to practice (and perfect) our level 1, which was basically forming 2 single files and thrusting and catching the sticks. (Personally, I feel that stage 1 and stage 3 are the hardest parts to master). I think it was here when hiok yang injured his finger slightly and the teacher i/cs were to be informed. Then Jun jie came in and i think his region became the new "hot spot" where he held like 7 sticks at one go (although he said it was sup - who was later found out to be a good thrower).
It wasn't long before the decision had to be made - our position when we were performing. Chee Yeow recommended a pose for us, basically kneeling down and sitting on your heels (?!). But we decided it looked too unmanly (??). We tried it out, and Chee Yeow said we looked okay (well, not *** at least), but looking back at his pose, we were highly doubtful. So this was the time when we spent like eons deciding which pose to take. Amos apparently came up with quite a good pose (not the one where you put your leg behind your head). We tried it but it was unbearable on the ankle for most of us, after a few minutes (or seconds) as we were bare footed.
Then Ms. Alicia Goh came, initially to look at Hiok Yang's finger, which I think was rather ok by then. After a thorough examination of his finger, we asked her to determine if the chee yeow's position looked ok. Her sentiments were same as ours, thus we eventually adopted the "zi heng's stance" (i think he came up with it right). It turned out to be the most viable alternative to sitting, so it was then decided (or was it tentative?) that the front row was to sit down (yay us) and the back row was to adopt that posture. Ms. Goh asked us to sit up straight (not too straight) though, for the front row, as it would look distasteful slouching. She also commented on our faces when we were doing the stick dance-performance. It was then we decided to show her all the 3 levels of our performance, which she took a video of our expressions (which I knew must have been rather dull).
Thanks to Ms. Goh's resourcefulness, we managed to get the drama room (which I have never been into before) with a big mirror to look at ourselves as we threw the sticks. I think this was th e point where we showed a marked improvement. Ms. Goh asked us to set targets as we couldn't just spam throwing aimlessly, hence she timed us for 3 minutes and counted the number of mistakes we made (mistakes were mostly dropping the sticks). Chee Yeow counted an approximate 60-70 mistakes. This meant about 0.36 mistakes were made per second, or one in every 3 seconds [which wasn't exactly positive]. Ms. Goh then found out that we were only to do this (stage 1 as I call it) one time during the actual performance, hence she reduced the time span to 1 minute, and set us an aim for 15 mistakes. We made about 12 mistakes, which was a marked improvement. (0.2 drops per second, 1 drop per 5 seconds). Ms. Goh then did some psychological training on us, asking us to imagine the beautiful moves perfected and executed nicely, and she asked us to close our eyes, and open only when we were 100% ready). We did the performance again, and we only made about 7 mistakes. (0.12 mistakes per second, 1 per 9-10 seconds). Our first performance was usually free of mistakes, which was a positive sign. Ms. Goh got different people to share their views on our AOIs (area of improvements) and this allowed mutual learning. [What are the key ingredients of a successful performance? I would say the right attitude is the key. (a calm state of mind, a willingness to exceed). Of course, chemistry between you and your partners is also important.] We repeated our stick dance several times, till about 650, then we shared on what we thought were the strengths and AOIs of the group. Thanks Ms. Goh!
As we left the room thinking about the performance, we were greeted by music by the string ensemble (or was it CO?) we were mesmerized by the melodious music for a while before going to the field outside the 'gym hall atrium' for dismissal. I think that this act was one of the most fruitful, as many of us perservered till the end and really concentrated on practicing on our performance, despite the temptation for 'soccer!'.
As the Chinese saying goes, you reap what you sow. I believe our hardwork will lead to the success of our performance!
go 01!
Kenneth Lam here!
This will be my first blog post on this blog:D I'll be blogging on Wednesday's Scout activity, which was basically campfire prac.
We did about 36 pushups (separate from the SU) to start off the day.
Then, the dance commitee, basically the haka and stick performance group, gathered at the area outside the second level of the hall, close to the gym, to practice our stick dance. We started off showing chee yeow the full routine, ("level 1", then "level 2", then "level 3") but our "mission failed" and so we decided to practice (and perfect) our level 1, which was basically forming 2 single files and thrusting and catching the sticks. (Personally, I feel that stage 1 and stage 3 are the hardest parts to master). I think it was here when hiok yang injured his finger slightly and the teacher i/cs were to be informed. Then Jun jie came in and i think his region became the new "hot spot" where he held like 7 sticks at one go (although he said it was sup - who was later found out to be a good thrower).
It wasn't long before the decision had to be made - our position when we were performing. Chee Yeow recommended a pose for us, basically kneeling down and sitting on your heels (?!). But we decided it looked too unmanly (??). We tried it out, and Chee Yeow said we looked okay (well, not *** at least), but looking back at his pose, we were highly doubtful. So this was the time when we spent like eons deciding which pose to take. Amos apparently came up with quite a good pose (not the one where you put your leg behind your head). We tried it but it was unbearable on the ankle for most of us, after a few minutes (or seconds) as we were bare footed.
Then Ms. Alicia Goh came, initially to look at Hiok Yang's finger, which I think was rather ok by then. After a thorough examination of his finger, we asked her to determine if the chee yeow's position looked ok. Her sentiments were same as ours, thus we eventually adopted the "zi heng's stance" (i think he came up with it right). It turned out to be the most viable alternative to sitting, so it was then decided (or was it tentative?) that the front row was to sit down (yay us) and the back row was to adopt that posture. Ms. Goh asked us to sit up straight (not too straight) though, for the front row, as it would look distasteful slouching. She also commented on our faces when we were doing the stick dance-performance. It was then we decided to show her all the 3 levels of our performance, which she took a video of our expressions (which I knew must have been rather dull).
Thanks to Ms. Goh's resourcefulness, we managed to get the drama room (which I have never been into before) with a big mirror to look at ourselves as we threw the sticks. I think this was th e point where we showed a marked improvement. Ms. Goh asked us to set targets as we couldn't just spam throwing aimlessly, hence she timed us for 3 minutes and counted the number of mistakes we made (mistakes were mostly dropping the sticks). Chee Yeow counted an approximate 60-70 mistakes. This meant about 0.36 mistakes were made per second, or one in every 3 seconds [which wasn't exactly positive]. Ms. Goh then found out that we were only to do this (stage 1 as I call it) one time during the actual performance, hence she reduced the time span to 1 minute, and set us an aim for 15 mistakes. We made about 12 mistakes, which was a marked improvement. (0.2 drops per second, 1 drop per 5 seconds). Ms. Goh then did some psychological training on us, asking us to imagine the beautiful moves perfected and executed nicely, and she asked us to close our eyes, and open only when we were 100% ready). We did the performance again, and we only made about 7 mistakes. (0.12 mistakes per second, 1 per 9-10 seconds). Our first performance was usually free of mistakes, which was a positive sign. Ms. Goh got different people to share their views on our AOIs (area of improvements) and this allowed mutual learning. [What are the key ingredients of a successful performance? I would say the right attitude is the key. (a calm state of mind, a willingness to exceed). Of course, chemistry between you and your partners is also important.] We repeated our stick dance several times, till about 650, then we shared on what we thought were the strengths and AOIs of the group. Thanks Ms. Goh!
As we left the room thinking about the performance, we were greeted by music by the string ensemble (or was it CO?) we were mesmerized by the melodious music for a while before going to the field outside the 'gym hall atrium' for dismissal. I think that this act was one of the most fruitful, as many of us perservered till the end and really concentrated on practicing on our performance, despite the temptation for 'soccer!'.
一份耕耘，一份收获
As the Chinese saying goes, you reap what you sow. I believe our hardwork will lead to the success of our performance!
go 01!
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Campfire Prep 13/4 (special day!)
special day's blog done by special person. its also (e)specially late.
Attendance was all here except for leonard who had some leadership thing, marcus who didnt go sch and of course, not forgetting firdaus for reasons only he knew.
As you can guess act was campfire prep as usual, and this post will be on sec 4 performance. After attendance taking, we did 32 pushups despite having only 4 count. After that we went to the audi/gallery level and demonstrated the haka to yanzhi, who made a special appearance today. Thankfully we only had to do the haka once, and our thighs were spared. And yanzhi, being himself, could not control the laughter that was stuck at his throat and so desperately wanted to get out. However, us being trained maori warriors, resisted the contagious laughter zhi tried to spread.
after the haka was done, we "officially" started the stick performance (ill try to avoid stick dance, sounds too last year). First we went through the whole thing, with Chee Yeow showing us and forgetting some parts of it. Then after a lot of time wasting and very little actual work, we got down together and started practicing the first part of the performance, which was the solo/group part. we thought it was QUITE ok, but apparently from today (wednesday), we found out there was lots more to improve on. so we took only a very short time for the first part, before proceeding to the pairs part. at some time around here or maybe before this, the j1s had to leave for a meeting with the teachers, and they pangseh-ed us for the rest of the act.
the rest of the time was spent at the pair part of the stick performance. at first we just lala-ed around and practiced with our own individual pairs (except for amos who was the odd one out), then after that we got more organised and did it together, with someone to see and comment. the rest of the time was spent doing that, and we got better at the 2nd part.
after act was soccer with, firstly, 01 dudes only. then after a while 01 dudes + a couple of random ppl. then after a while was many people + few 01 dudes. hooray!
Attendance was all here except for leonard who had some leadership thing, marcus who didnt go sch and of course, not forgetting firdaus for reasons only he knew.
As you can guess act was campfire prep as usual, and this post will be on sec 4 performance. After attendance taking, we did 32 pushups despite having only 4 count. After that we went to the audi/gallery level and demonstrated the haka to yanzhi, who made a special appearance today. Thankfully we only had to do the haka once, and our thighs were spared. And yanzhi, being himself, could not control the laughter that was stuck at his throat and so desperately wanted to get out. However, us being trained maori warriors, resisted the contagious laughter zhi tried to spread.
after the haka was done, we "officially" started the stick performance (ill try to avoid stick dance, sounds too last year). First we went through the whole thing, with Chee Yeow showing us and forgetting some parts of it. Then after a lot of time wasting and very little actual work, we got down together and started practicing the first part of the performance, which was the solo/group part. we thought it was QUITE ok, but apparently from today (wednesday), we found out there was lots more to improve on. so we took only a very short time for the first part, before proceeding to the pairs part. at some time around here or maybe before this, the j1s had to leave for a meeting with the teachers, and they pangseh-ed us for the rest of the act.
the rest of the time was spent at the pair part of the stick performance. at first we just lala-ed around and practiced with our own individual pairs (except for amos who was the odd one out), then after that we got more organised and did it together, with someone to see and comment. the rest of the time was spent doing that, and we got better at the 2nd part.
after act was soccer with, firstly, 01 dudes only. then after a while 01 dudes + a couple of random ppl. then after a while was many people + few 01 dudes. hooray!
Saturday, April 11, 2009
the day started off for some at like, 9.30? that was inter-ug soccer against red cross. apparently we won 4-1. go 01!
for me, the day started when we had our nyaa lesson. today's lesson revolved around our homework from the last lesson, which was to prepare a 2-3 min speech on any issue. i talked about comics, and why i liked them. since we couldn't use the projector, i ended up drawing the comic strips on the board, so it was quite epic fail. in case anyone was wondering, here are the comics i was referring to.
yeah. so here's what everyone else spoke about:
- rongjun (time)
- joel (cars)
- takwei (conflict management)
- leonard (lies)
- anurak (AMD)
- hiok (being a good listener)
- sup (movie review)
- zhi xuan (life)
- amos (leadership)
- kenneth kuan (his 156 bus journey)
- kenneth lam (pastimes)
- jack (animes)
- francis (why he wants to be a doctor)
- alvin (er...shit...what did alvin talk about?)
- zhongjun (pen-spinning)
after our nyaa lesson, we went for lunch. some of us went to s-11 while the others went to foodjunction. subsequently, we bought bubble tea and walked back to ri to work on our haka. the first few tries were damn fail, since everyone kept laughing, what with all the "TAUPOK" and other random stuff. haha. then when we tried to do the haka again in a louder and more manlier voice, hiok suddenly zao xia'ed, making us all ROFLMAOZEDONG.
after some haka practice, we sat down for a while to discuss a possible 01 magazine/handbook thing, the hillary challenge, and some ymca stuff.
so that's it for today. lol.
jon ed
(still can't figure out the author thing)
for me, the day started when we had our nyaa lesson. today's lesson revolved around our homework from the last lesson, which was to prepare a 2-3 min speech on any issue. i talked about comics, and why i liked them. since we couldn't use the projector, i ended up drawing the comic strips on the board, so it was quite epic fail. in case anyone was wondering, here are the comics i was referring to.
yeah. so here's what everyone else spoke about:
- rongjun (time)
- joel (cars)
- takwei (conflict management)
- leonard (lies)
- anurak (AMD)
- hiok (being a good listener)
- sup (movie review)
- zhi xuan (life)
- amos (leadership)
- kenneth kuan (his 156 bus journey)
- kenneth lam (pastimes)
- jack (animes)
- francis (why he wants to be a doctor)
- alvin (er...shit...what did alvin talk about?)
- zhongjun (pen-spinning)
after our nyaa lesson, we went for lunch. some of us went to s-11 while the others went to foodjunction. subsequently, we bought bubble tea and walked back to ri to work on our haka. the first few tries were damn fail, since everyone kept laughing, what with all the "TAUPOK" and other random stuff. haha. then when we tried to do the haka again in a louder and more manlier voice, hiok suddenly zao xia'ed, making us all ROFLMAOZEDONG.
after some haka practice, we sat down for a while to discuss a possible 01 magazine/handbook thing, the hillary challenge, and some ymca stuff.
so that's it for today. lol.
jon ed
(still can't figure out the author thing)
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Campfire Prep 2!
Please note that I will be writing from the perspective of a haka group person, so not everyone's experiences will be covered! =) Yesterday was yet another campfire prep session, and the first thing we did was our haka. Think all of us would agree that this time we were more familiar with the haka than before! So I think as a whole we have done pretty well in remembering the lyrics and actions! But Zhi Xuan and Chee Yeow said that we still need to work on our style, like the basics, the VOLUME (which I dont know what to say about myself), the straight face (NO smiles, and again, the same for me), our postures, and the firmness of our actions, among others.
So we split into 3 groups, of which 2 of them joined to become one, haha. This was the lone group:
Anyway, after some practice sessions in groups, and correcting each others' mistakes, we again did once as a whole, before moving off. Kenneth Kuan's voice was really man! Haha.
Yea so after that, we moved to the space outside the audi, so that we could really let our voices out and shout! See this nice, windy place?
Haha, we practiced our haka more times here, and we got better everytime, making some modifications along the way, especially to the ending. Scary faces vs Jump? Haha. And please dont remind me about my 'scary face'... Lols, my 'towel' was seriously saturated from wiping all the smiles by then, every time before we started. Although it was meant as joke, I find this method rather effective for me, haha. =)
After a while, at about 5.30pm, most of us were restless already, and wanted to go play soccer, haha. Inter UG is this Saturday! But then it was decided that preparing for our campfire was more important...(hm...or was it that certain matches dont need training...? sorry!) So some people suggested gym instead, but then we didnt have towels! (or all of ours were already soaked from the smiles by then, lol) Someone said I have a Chiken mouth--->(denotes because)Foul mouth--->My 'towel' was really dirty and wet--->Wiped too many smiles, and some even required 'soap' to remove. Ok, understand? haha.
So it was decided that we would practice our stick dance instead, and i went to get the sticks, while the funk people, funked. Gosh, nearly switched the letter 'n' with something else. Anyway, its really cool to see them dance, haha! Hope their funk can be a success too! Anyway, when we were ready, Chee Yeow demonstrated the actions in the dance, and got us to try it. Surprisingly, it wasnt as hard as it looks! Think most of us got the hang of it rather quickly. Just loved the continuous left right throw thing. So fun. Haha. Especially when we get excited, counting the no. of times we can do it before anything falls. We even tried different variations, such as throwing the sticks from a greater distance, speed throwing, quad throwing-via stagger method and up-down method. Lols, sounds so complicated, but you should be able to get it, lol.
Yep, so after all the practicing, we had some fun, like taking group photos, and tow-poking/towing-pok! Haha. Then we were dismissed. No time for soccer today! Jeremy commented that Im too cute for haka. Could that be a compliment? Hmm...
Lets go on and make our performance and the campfire a success! =D
photos!
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So we split into 3 groups, of which 2 of them joined to become one, haha. This was the lone group:
Anyway, after some practice sessions in groups, and correcting each others' mistakes, we again did once as a whole, before moving off. Kenneth Kuan's voice was really man! Haha.
Yea so after that, we moved to the space outside the audi, so that we could really let our voices out and shout! See this nice, windy place?
Haha, we practiced our haka more times here, and we got better everytime, making some modifications along the way, especially to the ending. Scary faces vs Jump? Haha. And please dont remind me about my 'scary face'... Lols, my 'towel' was seriously saturated from wiping all the smiles by then, every time before we started. Although it was meant as joke, I find this method rather effective for me, haha. =)
After a while, at about 5.30pm, most of us were restless already, and wanted to go play soccer, haha. Inter UG is this Saturday! But then it was decided that preparing for our campfire was more important...(hm...or was it that certain matches dont need training...? sorry!) So some people suggested gym instead, but then we didnt have towels! (or all of ours were already soaked from the smiles by then, lol) Someone said I have a Chiken mouth--->(denotes because)Foul mouth--->My 'towel' was really dirty and wet--->Wiped too many smiles, and some even required 'soap' to remove. Ok, understand? haha.
So it was decided that we would practice our stick dance instead, and i went to get the sticks, while the funk people, funked. Gosh, nearly switched the letter 'n' with something else. Anyway, its really cool to see them dance, haha! Hope their funk can be a success too! Anyway, when we were ready, Chee Yeow demonstrated the actions in the dance, and got us to try it. Surprisingly, it wasnt as hard as it looks! Think most of us got the hang of it rather quickly. Just loved the continuous left right throw thing. So fun. Haha. Especially when we get excited, counting the no. of times we can do it before anything falls. We even tried different variations, such as throwing the sticks from a greater distance, speed throwing, quad throwing-via stagger method and up-down method. Lols, sounds so complicated, but you should be able to get it, lol.
Yep, so after all the practicing, we had some fun, like taking group photos, and tow-poking/towing-pok! Haha. Then we were dismissed. No time for soccer today! Jeremy commented that Im too cute for haka. Could that be a compliment? Hmm...
Lets go on and make our performance and the campfire a success! =D
photos!
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
8 Days Ago - Campfire Prep 1
Yeah, the title says it all, the act happened 8 days ago, so sorry for the mega lag, no one told me the need to do this blog until quite recently. So lets begin quickly to what happened 8 days ago.
First of all, Marcus was back, and we were all happy to have him back!!! RE ended early (again...) so that made us go to the den early to slack off. By the time act started, we were waiting for SU to form horseshoe, then followed by attendance taking, where due to dismal attendence, led us to pump the count down. Ventures however, were doing it as a batch and this was, naturally, done much faster then when we were with SU. We then went on to pull up bar to do more pull ups, 8 days ago
After which, CY took us to around Artspace where we began the rehearsal for CF 01's stick dance. At first, CY just told us to wait for the Maori sticks to be found by Jack and Ziheng, which turned out to be bomb long, so basically talk kok, like what to put on our bodies with paint during the performance. Then came the sticks, which were small sticks, maybe the size of the axes that the Troll Warlord throws. So CY told us to imagine about what the campfire was going to be like (like how Kirk says 'let me paint you a picture...'), and then told us to work hard to ensure that what we thought of does happen. Then, we officially entered 'Practice Mode', 8 days ago.
CY started of with lyrics, which were damn hard to say at first, but everyone soon got the hang of it. Then, he began doing actions, which looked damn easy to do, but we realised after a few throws, that for everyone to do it perfectly, it just will screw up by 3 throws or something. So we split up to two groups, thinking that the smaller numbers means higher chance of success. This proved otherwise, where the group will still screw up by 3 throws. But like Maple (the REAL ONE, not the Private Server), you grind like nutz, you will own like nutz and that was what happened to us. Throw after throw, we gained experience and slowly began entering perfection. Then, came the part where two becomes one, and the two groups began to combine again, 8 days ago
This time, we didn't screw up that fast, but the effect was unavoidable, and one 'clang' sound of the stick touching the ground leads to laughter and many more 'clang' sounds. This basically went on for so many times, we decided to call the first person who screw up 'hotspot', which resulted in hotspot galore left right and center. With hotspots, screwups and constant switches, we just practised the basics until CY stopped us to go through the next stick throw movement, which he perform with Jon Trec. Again, that looked damn complicated, but i'm sure we will learn it somehow. By then, it was time for dismissal, so CY called Venture Call in the Gym Hall Field, 8 days ago.
By then, CY and Zhi Xuan debriefed us and told us about spiritsticks, which were the symbols of leadership some long time back, and we shouldn't play with it like it was a poking stick or scratching stick or something along those lines, and then dismissal. Time now, 5.30pm, 8 days ago.
So only one thing to do, BATCH SOCCER!!! Sup went to take the ball as we left to the Raffles Square, 8 days ago...
First of all, Marcus was back, and we were all happy to have him back!!! RE ended early (again...) so that made us go to the den early to slack off. By the time act started, we were waiting for SU to form horseshoe, then followed by attendance taking, where due to dismal attendence, led us to pump the count down. Ventures however, were doing it as a batch and this was, naturally, done much faster then when we were with SU. We then went on to pull up bar to do more pull ups, 8 days ago
After which, CY took us to around Artspace where we began the rehearsal for CF 01's stick dance. At first, CY just told us to wait for the Maori sticks to be found by Jack and Ziheng, which turned out to be bomb long, so basically talk kok, like what to put on our bodies with paint during the performance. Then came the sticks, which were small sticks, maybe the size of the axes that the Troll Warlord throws. So CY told us to imagine about what the campfire was going to be like (like how Kirk says 'let me paint you a picture...'), and then told us to work hard to ensure that what we thought of does happen. Then, we officially entered 'Practice Mode', 8 days ago.
CY started of with lyrics, which were damn hard to say at first, but everyone soon got the hang of it. Then, he began doing actions, which looked damn easy to do, but we realised after a few throws, that for everyone to do it perfectly, it just will screw up by 3 throws or something. So we split up to two groups, thinking that the smaller numbers means higher chance of success. This proved otherwise, where the group will still screw up by 3 throws. But like Maple (the REAL ONE, not the Private Server), you grind like nutz, you will own like nutz and that was what happened to us. Throw after throw, we gained experience and slowly began entering perfection. Then, came the part where two becomes one, and the two groups began to combine again, 8 days ago
This time, we didn't screw up that fast, but the effect was unavoidable, and one 'clang' sound of the stick touching the ground leads to laughter and many more 'clang' sounds. This basically went on for so many times, we decided to call the first person who screw up 'hotspot', which resulted in hotspot galore left right and center. With hotspots, screwups and constant switches, we just practised the basics until CY stopped us to go through the next stick throw movement, which he perform with Jon Trec. Again, that looked damn complicated, but i'm sure we will learn it somehow. By then, it was time for dismissal, so CY called Venture Call in the Gym Hall Field, 8 days ago.
By then, CY and Zhi Xuan debriefed us and told us about spiritsticks, which were the symbols of leadership some long time back, and we shouldn't play with it like it was a poking stick or scratching stick or something along those lines, and then dismissal. Time now, 5.30pm, 8 days ago.
So only one thing to do, BATCH SOCCER!!! Sup went to take the ball as we left to the Raffles Square, 8 days ago...
hakka1
i'm screwed up. Its 7.58 in the morning and I'm writing this on my phone in school. Anyway, yesterday, we had hakka practice or campfire prep. I came for act, unable to recall more than half of the moves we learnt on wednesday. As a result, i had to depend heavily on the pros such as sup and hiok to help me remember all the moves of the hakka.
so after the horseshoe we proceeded to the 3rd level admin block (the place where we used to paint banners) to practice the hakka. we were first unofficially split up into groups by sup, with me in the all blacks which included jon ed franis and i. (surprisingly soham pang seh-ed. just joking.)we practiced the hakka together as a full batch (excluding you know who) and we ran into some problems. first of which was that we didnt have enough of the hakka spirit and secondly marcus and tak didnt come for the previous act so they didnt really know the moves. because of that kenneth, the one with the hakka spirit embodied in him went to teach marcus and tak and the rest had to be more maori-ish.
throughout the course of practicing, some moves had to be changed. this was because we forgot some of them and implemented a mix of tee yong style and morris-junjie style, ending up with the 0106 remix of the hakka. after the change, it took me quite a while to adjust cause i was still quite unsure and still mixed up the v 1 and v1.2+0106 remix hakka. now, this was while we were being officially split up into groups with h!ok sup amos and i in 1 group. i was screwing up. i had to rely on hiok's moves. and when he made a mistake, i also made a mistake and i killed everyone. sigh. some fail. after the 3 groups had done the hakka in front of everyone, the ones who had been imparted the hakka spirit returned with kenneth, we were again split into groups with our respective teachers. they included hiok [who was sabo-ed], francis, kenneth, and sup [who sabo-ed himself]. amos and i were thought by hiok.
we went to the semi circular area of the 3rd level atrium to practice together. we immediately went into problems (caused by me). the problems can be sumed up by saying that i didnt show enough of the "hakka spirit" + i wasnt very clear with the moves, what came after the other. hiok and amos were helping me to try to get rid of this fear of 'screwing up' by encouraging me to do it alone. but i let them down. hiaz.. but in the end, after what zhi xuan had reminded me of about self motivation made me do it. honestly speaking, it wasnt so bad.
from then onwards my attitude towards the whole thing totally changed. i tried my best to remember what i had been thought and what i was told.enough about that. moving on, at about 530 we went to the gym (jim) field where we lined up in the v formation and took off our glasses and did the hakka. i must say it was quite okay, the strange thing is that in my row, i could only hear myself and not the rest despite having takwei behind me (maybe cause he's sick). according to the manly ram, we didnt look manly enough cause we basically, didnt look like the (real) all blacks.
nevermind about that. after that act ended and there was soccer training which, as usual, hiok tried to escape from and pangseh the rest.
so after the horseshoe we proceeded to the 3rd level admin block (the place where we used to paint banners) to practice the hakka. we were first unofficially split up into groups by sup, with me in the all blacks which included jon ed franis and i. (surprisingly soham pang seh-ed. just joking.)we practiced the hakka together as a full batch (excluding you know who) and we ran into some problems. first of which was that we didnt have enough of the hakka spirit and secondly marcus and tak didnt come for the previous act so they didnt really know the moves. because of that kenneth, the one with the hakka spirit embodied in him went to teach marcus and tak and the rest had to be more maori-ish.
throughout the course of practicing, some moves had to be changed. this was because we forgot some of them and implemented a mix of tee yong style and morris-junjie style, ending up with the 0106 remix of the hakka. after the change, it took me quite a while to adjust cause i was still quite unsure and still mixed up the v 1 and v1.2+0106 remix hakka. now, this was while we were being officially split up into groups with h!ok sup amos and i in 1 group. i was screwing up. i had to rely on hiok's moves. and when he made a mistake, i also made a mistake and i killed everyone. sigh. some fail. after the 3 groups had done the hakka in front of everyone, the ones who had been imparted the hakka spirit returned with kenneth, we were again split into groups with our respective teachers. they included hiok [who was sabo-ed], francis, kenneth, and sup [who sabo-ed himself]. amos and i were thought by hiok.
we went to the semi circular area of the 3rd level atrium to practice together. we immediately went into problems (caused by me). the problems can be sumed up by saying that i didnt show enough of the "hakka spirit" + i wasnt very clear with the moves, what came after the other. hiok and amos were helping me to try to get rid of this fear of 'screwing up' by encouraging me to do it alone. but i let them down. hiaz.. but in the end, after what zhi xuan had reminded me of about self motivation made me do it. honestly speaking, it wasnt so bad.
from then onwards my attitude towards the whole thing totally changed. i tried my best to remember what i had been thought and what i was told.enough about that. moving on, at about 530 we went to the gym (jim) field where we lined up in the v formation and took off our glasses and did the hakka. i must say it was quite okay, the strange thing is that in my row, i could only hear myself and not the rest despite having takwei behind me (maybe cause he's sick). according to the manly ram, we didnt look manly enough cause we basically, didnt look like the (real) all blacks.
nevermind about that. after that act ended and there was soccer training which, as usual, hiok tried to escape from and pangseh the rest.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Pioneering Act
Pioneering Act started as usual, at 8 am at the den, and we lugged even more stuff to Braddell Westlake. This time we brought a lot of pegs. Like seriously bomb lot of pegs. By this activity, the design was suppose to be finalized, and the structure should work out. This time, the damn fun mound of some construction crap was take away, so it was some distance from the top of the fence, to the ground. The gate that's suppose to keep people out also changed. Due to the pass few weeks of people climbing over, a small hole in the gate became a big hole, and we could fit through that hole.
Being the number X pioneering act of the year, most of the parts were already settled and only needed tightening. As usual, by the first 2 hours, I ran out of sweat, so I was technically sweat free for most of the pioneering act. Which is some miracle. The usual things happened like tying stuff, finding poles in the pole shed, etc. This time, cause most of the time was spent setting up stuff, there was a new part of pioneering act, which involved avoiding/stepping into some sick muddy shit. Sadly, nobody stepped in, cause the marshland so sick that it emitted a sick aura, so everyone knew when they were about to step in.
In the end, the ground too fail, so for the front panel, the pickets all fail, so we couldn't bring up the bridge, which was suppose to be the coolest part of the act. After lifting up half the bridge, we took it down again, packed up again, and went to eat. And as usual, my shirt was foaming.
Being the number X pioneering act of the year, most of the parts were already settled and only needed tightening. As usual, by the first 2 hours, I ran out of sweat, so I was technically sweat free for most of the pioneering act. Which is some miracle. The usual things happened like tying stuff, finding poles in the pole shed, etc. This time, cause most of the time was spent setting up stuff, there was a new part of pioneering act, which involved avoiding/stepping into some sick muddy shit. Sadly, nobody stepped in, cause the marshland so sick that it emitted a sick aura, so everyone knew when they were about to step in.
In the end, the ground too fail, so for the front panel, the pickets all fail, so we couldn't bring up the bridge, which was suppose to be the coolest part of the act. After lifting up half the bridge, we took it down again, packed up again, and went to eat. And as usual, my shirt was foaming.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Pathlight Songs Session 2
today, after school and remedials and meetings, we went to pathlight for the second (and last) song teaching session.
after the first session, we of course learned from our mistakes. lets review what we should have learnt.
1) Don't come late
During the first session, due to 55 coming in late and us leaving a bit late, we arrived about 15 minutes late. This time, with the benefit of hindsight, we came in... 10 minutes late. The bus was late again, although we left a bit earlier... haha but anyway we came in 5 minutes earlier! improvement!
2) Don't underestimate the Pathlighters
Revising the songs with them was rather quickly dealt with, because they mostly remembered! It was great that they all could remember at least most of the actions of Gako, Father Abraham. Haha if it was me I might not have remembered so fast. lol.
i think this sessions are great for helping us revise our songs too (:
3) Stations are over too fast
like i said, they learn fast. so nothing we can do about it... for this session, even the long songs like jamaican farewell and BP spirit was finished quickly. so to compensate we had another station, which was BP spirit. i was in charge of that station... but since amos station of edeweiss before me took quite long i went to help them a few times (:
4) Sore Throat!!
quite a lot of singing today, being a station master. lol singing the same song over and over again 4 times after a while starts getting a bit sian... luckily people come and rotate and help to teach the song! didnt get a sore throat this time, but the Pathlight students must have suffered a bit too singing for an hour, so they were quite happy to go for a water break.
5) Sweets!
this time we got sweets! thanks francis. he bought around 200 sweets o.o in the end even though we give each person two each we obviously left with loads of sweets. where are they now? ask kenneth...
note: never throw opened sweet package (otherwise we tell your class...)
6) Don't believe Hiok
('SPRAINED ANKLE!) luckily we (sup, amos and i) managed to convince him to play though sheer willpower and a little phone-kidnapping. lol. but anyway he did play soccer, so good job! score like a hat-trick or something. we might have hope for inter UG! and tak wei was solid at the back too. firdaus as keeper? lol he not that bad...
overall, i think we did quite a good job with the song teaching sessions, and managed to convey the enthusiasm and fun of the songs to them! i was guide in first session, station master in second, and i feel that both are important. one thing to improve one could be the level of interaction with the Pathlighters, cos sometimes we are too focused on teaching and not on them learning.
On a related note, CAMPFIRES tmr! everyone sing loudly like today hahaz XD
after the first session, we of course learned from our mistakes. lets review what we should have learnt.
1) Don't come late
During the first session, due to 55 coming in late and us leaving a bit late, we arrived about 15 minutes late. This time, with the benefit of hindsight, we came in... 10 minutes late. The bus was late again, although we left a bit earlier... haha but anyway we came in 5 minutes earlier! improvement!
2) Don't underestimate the Pathlighters
Revising the songs with them was rather quickly dealt with, because they mostly remembered! It was great that they all could remember at least most of the actions of Gako, Father Abraham. Haha if it was me I might not have remembered so fast. lol.
i think this sessions are great for helping us revise our songs too (:
3) Stations are over too fast
like i said, they learn fast. so nothing we can do about it... for this session, even the long songs like jamaican farewell and BP spirit was finished quickly. so to compensate we had another station, which was BP spirit. i was in charge of that station... but since amos station of edeweiss before me took quite long i went to help them a few times (:
4) Sore Throat!!
quite a lot of singing today, being a station master. lol singing the same song over and over again 4 times after a while starts getting a bit sian... luckily people come and rotate and help to teach the song! didnt get a sore throat this time, but the Pathlight students must have suffered a bit too singing for an hour, so they were quite happy to go for a water break.
5) Sweets!
this time we got sweets! thanks francis. he bought around 200 sweets o.o in the end even though we give each person two each we obviously left with loads of sweets. where are they now? ask kenneth...
note: never throw opened sweet package (otherwise we tell your class...)
6) Don't believe Hiok
('SPRAINED ANKLE!) luckily we (sup, amos and i) managed to convince him to play though sheer willpower and a little phone-kidnapping. lol. but anyway he did play soccer, so good job! score like a hat-trick or something. we might have hope for inter UG! and tak wei was solid at the back too. firdaus as keeper? lol he not that bad...
overall, i think we did quite a good job with the song teaching sessions, and managed to convey the enthusiasm and fun of the songs to them! i was guide in first session, station master in second, and i feel that both are important. one thing to improve one could be the level of interaction with the Pathlighters, cos sometimes we are too focused on teaching and not on them learning.
On a related note, CAMPFIRES tmr! everyone sing loudly like today hahaz XD
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
pathlight
before i start, ive uploaded the haka video of jun jie and norris to youtube so you'all can go take a look.
on friday, we were supposed to meet at 145 at the gym hall atrium but for some reason we ended up being late for the thing at pathlight. apparently, amos had realised that sup had the slackest job and wanted sup to exchange job with him. this was despite the fact that amos only had to teach 'campfire's burning' to the students which had NO actions. so there was a heated debate on the bus.
nevermind about that. we proceeded to the basketball court at pathlight where the students were all ready and excited about us teaching them campfire songs. after everyone was introduced, while the guides (someone thought girl guides were coming) which included alvin, jack, jon ed, kenneth(s), zhong jun, and sorry if i left out anyone...were playing some ice breakers, the SSMs (song station master) went to get ready at each of the 4 corners of the basketball court.
i had to teach father abraham, amos had to teach campfire's burning (-.-). rj had to teach thousand legged worm and francis with gako. i was overwhelmed by the first group's enthusiasm for learning. to be honest, i was a little, how shall i put it...i was a little shy or not able like raise my voice at them even though i was required to cause i was a little scared that i might say something wrong. but then, all this changed when the full-of-leadership kenneth came (i seriously think so, im not suanning). instead of me teaching when his group (which was the first group) came, he took charged and did about ~60% of the talking. i tell you the truth i was like inspired by kenneth.
from then on, much of the teaching went quite smoothly, i was quite surprised that most of the students were extremely cooperative and had a good time. i also had a good time, sabo-ing the guides and making them demonstrate the song to their groups.
after the teaching ended (which was earlier than expected), we had a mass song singing session and sup promised that the loudest group would be awarded the next session. sup decided that everyone was winners and so as you would have figured out, everyone would be getting a prize. the whole session ended and we had a debrief. a pathlight staff came to tell us that he was happy with us being so open towards the students :) another debate arose from the hot spot and sup debated with hiok about going back to play/ train for inter ug. sup, "dont pang seh lah hiok"... and so the song teaching session ended.
on friday, we were supposed to meet at 145 at the gym hall atrium but for some reason we ended up being late for the thing at pathlight. apparently, amos had realised that sup had the slackest job and wanted sup to exchange job with him. this was despite the fact that amos only had to teach 'campfire's burning' to the students which had NO actions. so there was a heated debate on the bus.
nevermind about that. we proceeded to the basketball court at pathlight where the students were all ready and excited about us teaching them campfire songs. after everyone was introduced, while the guides (someone thought girl guides were coming) which included alvin, jack, jon ed, kenneth(s), zhong jun, and sorry if i left out anyone...were playing some ice breakers, the SSMs (song station master) went to get ready at each of the 4 corners of the basketball court.
i had to teach father abraham, amos had to teach campfire's burning (-.-). rj had to teach thousand legged worm and francis with gako. i was overwhelmed by the first group's enthusiasm for learning. to be honest, i was a little, how shall i put it...i was a little shy or not able like raise my voice at them even though i was required to cause i was a little scared that i might say something wrong. but then, all this changed when the full-of-leadership kenneth came (i seriously think so, im not suanning). instead of me teaching when his group (which was the first group) came, he took charged and did about ~60% of the talking. i tell you the truth i was like inspired by kenneth.
from then on, much of the teaching went quite smoothly, i was quite surprised that most of the students were extremely cooperative and had a good time. i also had a good time, sabo-ing the guides and making them demonstrate the song to their groups.
after the teaching ended (which was earlier than expected), we had a mass song singing session and sup promised that the loudest group would be awarded the next session. sup decided that everyone was winners and so as you would have figured out, everyone would be getting a prize. the whole session ended and we had a debrief. a pathlight staff came to tell us that he was happy with us being so open towards the students :) another debate arose from the hot spot and sup debated with hiok about going back to play/ train for inter ug. sup, "dont pang seh lah hiok"... and so the song teaching session ended.
Monday, March 30, 2009
St Margaret Campfire
Saturday, after Pioneering Act (the blog post for it is LATE), was St Marg's campfire. It started about 1 hour late, so they had to cut off some parts of the campfire. But the game, Don't Forget the Lyrics, was fun, even though not very original. There were songs that everyone knew, like Love Story or Poker Face, and there were also songs that were super cock, like Girly Man (pronounced Marn) that only people like Yanwei and Rong Jun knew. And of course not forgetting their own version of Earth Hour, they had Earth 3 minutes!
The campfire itself quite fail, but still dam fun to go with friends. And Yanwei has a sister called Chan Yen Mei in St Marg.
Attendance for ventures: Bryan, Anurak, Tak Wei, Rong Jun, Kenneth
Date: 28 March 2009
The campfire itself quite fail, but still dam fun to go with friends. And Yanwei has a sister called Chan Yen Mei in St Marg.
Attendance for ventures: Bryan, Anurak, Tak Wei, Rong Jun, Kenneth
Date: 28 March 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Job Week Quotes
This is 1 day late.
Hiok Yang's sms: "wtf. got gay"
Francis' reply: "where?"
Hiok Yang: "auntie house."
That was cleared up later... Gay in condo block.
Gay: "Want to come in for a drink?"
Zhong Jun: "eh dude your house tio scout or not?"
Hiok Yang: "Lol. i just got surprised by a surprise party"
Jon Ed: "Let's go to pulau merambong for jobweek."
Joel, in response to statement above: "PFFFT (sprays out chrysanthemum tea all over nearby dudes)!"
Kenneth Kuan: "omg. Degen!!"
Zhong Jun and Francis went to Little India for Job Week day 3. 90% of the time, they were speaking chinese. Ironic...
$2 job. His Mee Pok cost $3. He gave Francis and Zhong Jun $2 each. Worth it?
Hiok Yang's company.
Cool lift.
Cool lift's brother.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
NYAA Session 2
attendance: jon ed, francis, zhi xuan, alvin, jack, sup, hiok, amos, joel, rong jun, zhong jun, kenneth
time: 10am to 12pm
location: 4C classroom (S Raja Block 2nd floor)
homework: Prepare a 2 to 3 minute presentation on any subject of your choice. Focus on delivery. No notes allowed.
2/12 done. hooray!
time: 10am to 12pm
location: 4C classroom (S Raja Block 2nd floor)
homework: Prepare a 2 to 3 minute presentation on any subject of your choice. Focus on delivery. No notes allowed.
2/12 done. hooray!
Friday, March 13, 2009
An insight part 3- road trip!!
50km+
Francis- 50km+
Kenneth- 53km+
Joel- 67km+
Joel cycled 14km more cos his house is 14km away from Kenneth's.
We started at 10am. Ok actually, i started at 10am cos Kenneth and Joel met me at my house. And then we cycled for about maybe 6 hours. I think reached back at 4pm. Or 3+ anyway. We cycled along Tampines road. Ya the damn screw up long road that we all curse at during GTC. But this time it was a breeze. No kick sia.
We managed to reach Tampines Park Connector and from there we just followed the connector. All the way to Changi. So far so good, no one injured, no near-death incidents.
We saw quite a lot of cyclists. All look so pro with helmets and stuff. We were 3 dudes, with small backpacks, water bottles, Kenneth and I had gloves, we were wearing shorts, Joel and i were wearing RI PE shorts, we had mostly everything to look pro. Including our bikes of course. The one key difference between us and them pro cyclists is: no.1 speed. no.2 helmets.
A bit dangerous right? Cycling on the road with no helmets. But happy to report that none of us lost a head of any other limb.
How do you describe a cycling trip? Very windy, enjoyable, fun. We stopped at Changi Village to eat lunch. Quite an early lunch. We locked our bikes and chose a seat where we could see our bikes. So that we could make sure no one would steal our seats, wheel, or any other detachable part. There were a bunch of old dudes sitting at the table next to us and their bikes were nearby. And when they got up to go off, one old dude pointed at Kenneth's bike and then they all went to look at it. Lol. Like never see road bike before. Joel's and my bike got ignored cos ours were mountain bikes. Haha.
Lunch and then off again. Trying to out run the dark ominous clouds. Which we didn't manage. So we camped out at a pavillion. But after a while we continued cos the rain was sort of lighter and a bunch of dudes cycled past anyway. And we got royally wet. Not drenched. Just wet. Stopped at another shelter quite soon. Where we waited for the rain to stop. And then we set out again.
This time we were cycling along the park connector next to the Changi Airport runway. And we saw an A380 take off. Quite cool sia. Try racing it. Haha.
But the rain sort of started again and we got wet again. And the wind was damn strong and it was damn cold. Wind chill factor. But it was damn fun. Cos we could go damn fast there since the road was mega straight.
And then to East Coast park. Boring there lah. Same old same old. But damn empty. Very different from the usual saturday and sunday there.
We then took an underpass to Siglap link. And from there we saw Victoria school. Kenneth was angsting cos he had to go there later for CCA briefing anyway. Haha. Then into Siglap Linear park and to Amos' house.
Amos got sore throat. Damn funny voice. He helped us refill our bottles. Then talk cock a bit, lala. Then Amos went back to watching the construction going on opposite his house and we went on to Anurak's house. Actually Yi Ming's house first cos it is nearer the entrance of the road. Anurak's is just after Yi Ming's house. On the way out we admired all the rich houses in Amos' estate. The 4 storey giant house. All the rich rich one. Haha
So we went there. Hardly much of a distance. Honestly walkable. Like maybe from RJC to J8. Anurak was at DI, so we didn't bother bothering him. Joel tried calling Yi Ming but no response. So assume he was out lor. Sat there a while looking at the houses and see the difference between them. Then off to Hiok Yang's house. Again!
Hiok Yang's house. Nothing to say lah. We all see before. Hiok Yang wasn't at home so off back home now.
Jln Eunos to Eunos Link to Hougang Ave 3. Finally!! We cycled on the road most of the way. Buses and lorries and cars and taxis all rushing pass us.
Finally we reached Kovan MRT and then we split up. I went home, Kenneth and Joel continued on. Kenneth heading for home and Joel heading for Kenneth's house and then home.
Pictures!! For proof. So you won't say we scam.
The second shelter we stopped at. Quite a cosy place. Left bike is mine, center is Joel's, bike seat on the right is Kenneth's
Tada! Amos!
Lunch at Changi Village.
The first shelter we stopped at. Watching the great blue sea.
Our bikes at Changi Village.
Thus conclude insight part 3. Where we had an insight to the outside of 4 houses. And went around one-third of Singapore.
Francis- 50km+
Kenneth- 53km+
Joel- 67km+
Joel cycled 14km more cos his house is 14km away from Kenneth's.
We started at 10am. Ok actually, i started at 10am cos Kenneth and Joel met me at my house. And then we cycled for about maybe 6 hours. I think reached back at 4pm. Or 3+ anyway. We cycled along Tampines road. Ya the damn screw up long road that we all curse at during GTC. But this time it was a breeze. No kick sia.
We managed to reach Tampines Park Connector and from there we just followed the connector. All the way to Changi. So far so good, no one injured, no near-death incidents.
We saw quite a lot of cyclists. All look so pro with helmets and stuff. We were 3 dudes, with small backpacks, water bottles, Kenneth and I had gloves, we were wearing shorts, Joel and i were wearing RI PE shorts, we had mostly everything to look pro. Including our bikes of course. The one key difference between us and them pro cyclists is: no.1 speed. no.2 helmets.
A bit dangerous right? Cycling on the road with no helmets. But happy to report that none of us lost a head of any other limb.
How do you describe a cycling trip? Very windy, enjoyable, fun. We stopped at Changi Village to eat lunch. Quite an early lunch. We locked our bikes and chose a seat where we could see our bikes. So that we could make sure no one would steal our seats, wheel, or any other detachable part. There were a bunch of old dudes sitting at the table next to us and their bikes were nearby. And when they got up to go off, one old dude pointed at Kenneth's bike and then they all went to look at it. Lol. Like never see road bike before. Joel's and my bike got ignored cos ours were mountain bikes. Haha.
Lunch and then off again. Trying to out run the dark ominous clouds. Which we didn't manage. So we camped out at a pavillion. But after a while we continued cos the rain was sort of lighter and a bunch of dudes cycled past anyway. And we got royally wet. Not drenched. Just wet. Stopped at another shelter quite soon. Where we waited for the rain to stop. And then we set out again.
This time we were cycling along the park connector next to the Changi Airport runway. And we saw an A380 take off. Quite cool sia. Try racing it. Haha.
But the rain sort of started again and we got wet again. And the wind was damn strong and it was damn cold. Wind chill factor. But it was damn fun. Cos we could go damn fast there since the road was mega straight.
And then to East Coast park. Boring there lah. Same old same old. But damn empty. Very different from the usual saturday and sunday there.
We then took an underpass to Siglap link. And from there we saw Victoria school. Kenneth was angsting cos he had to go there later for CCA briefing anyway. Haha. Then into Siglap Linear park and to Amos' house.
Amos got sore throat. Damn funny voice. He helped us refill our bottles. Then talk cock a bit, lala. Then Amos went back to watching the construction going on opposite his house and we went on to Anurak's house. Actually Yi Ming's house first cos it is nearer the entrance of the road. Anurak's is just after Yi Ming's house. On the way out we admired all the rich houses in Amos' estate. The 4 storey giant house. All the rich rich one. Haha
So we went there. Hardly much of a distance. Honestly walkable. Like maybe from RJC to J8. Anurak was at DI, so we didn't bother bothering him. Joel tried calling Yi Ming but no response. So assume he was out lor. Sat there a while looking at the houses and see the difference between them. Then off to Hiok Yang's house. Again!
Hiok Yang's house. Nothing to say lah. We all see before. Hiok Yang wasn't at home so off back home now.
Jln Eunos to Eunos Link to Hougang Ave 3. Finally!! We cycled on the road most of the way. Buses and lorries and cars and taxis all rushing pass us.
Finally we reached Kovan MRT and then we split up. I went home, Kenneth and Joel continued on. Kenneth heading for home and Joel heading for Kenneth's house and then home.
Pictures!! For proof. So you won't say we scam.
The second shelter we stopped at. Quite a cosy place. Left bike is mine, center is Joel's, bike seat on the right is Kenneth's
Tada! Amos!
Lunch at Changi Village.
The first shelter we stopped at. Watching the great blue sea.
Our bikes at Changi Village.
Thus conclude insight part 3. Where we had an insight to the outside of 4 houses. And went around one-third of Singapore.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
JobWeek Briefing
since no one knows who's supposed to update, i'll just briefly run through jobweek briefing last week (:
on wednesday, 1st wednesday of March, so there was muster parade was as usual, quite boring. this year's muster parade is much better than last year's though, since they reduced it to once a month and cancelled the marching part. however, still, footdrill is never fun. this time, the principal was down to do a check on all the UGs, and she went around and talked to some of the UG members. At 01, she stopped at hiok, who was in front of me. lol. anyway she asked him what he liked about scouts, he gave quite a good reply, and that was it.
oh yea, and the weather was screwy. giant drops of rain one minute and then sun.
the ventures then went to help carry mugs to the seminar room, where the briefing was held. 40 mugs in total. why? read on...
at the room, we waited for the SU to finish their pumping and commerce with the briefing. jeremy, the finance sect talked about the usual Job Week objectives, details, tips. Amos was taking notes for the ventures this time (and when he left, francis). thanks! writing notes/minutes all the time is damn sian ba...
jobweek special activity. i went with kenneth, zhong jun, joel, tak wei, jack to our station, which was scenario testing. lol one of the more interesting stations. we split into two groups, with jack, tak wei and me in one group. here are the four scenarios to be acted out:
-phaedophile (-.-)
-robber
-lazy unwilling uncle
-dangerous jobs
then came the first group to our station, Eagle! Jack was the phaedophile (lol). I was the robber and tak wei was teh uncle with dangerous jobs (we combined)
"you look tired... do you want to come into the bedroom and rest?"
long story short, the sec 1 we tested was unable to resist jack's charms and failed.
jack then went off to talk to zx, so left with tak and me at the station. luckily, at the next station, leonard joined us. he was a very good lazy uncle that gave dangerous jobs. potential haha.
"Hmm... can you stand on one leg with your hands raised?"
"Hmm... can you stand on that window sill?"
"Hmm... can you juggle these sharp knives?"
while nicholas kok tried to be funny.
Tak: "Freeze! This is a robbery! Hand over your money!"
Nick kok: "Eh oh no... look over there, i dropped my money on the floor over there!"
i must admit i am not a very good phaedophile. lol one career option out of the window.
last patrol was owl, and anurak joined us to act as the phaedophile. do check next year's academy awards to see if he has won the best actor award (he's the favourite) or check the news to see if he has been arrested yet.
all in all, the activity was quite fun, and i think that the SU also learnt and revise about the different scenarios. i was damn impressed with one of the sec 1s from owl. actually i wanted him to fail terribly so i could ask lionel to try and do a better job, but he was so good that i couldn't find any flaws. he even spoke in perfect sentences! omg.
back to the seminar room. heard how francis' station added an extra step lol. jeremy gave out the mugs to the highest job week and donation draw earners for the previous years. now u see whats the mug for.
the ventures then did 32 chin ups. while waiting for jack, i got owned by zhong jun in carrom. thanks jack.
and then we went home.
on wednesday, 1st wednesday of March, so there was muster parade was as usual, quite boring. this year's muster parade is much better than last year's though, since they reduced it to once a month and cancelled the marching part. however, still, footdrill is never fun. this time, the principal was down to do a check on all the UGs, and she went around and talked to some of the UG members. At 01, she stopped at hiok, who was in front of me. lol. anyway she asked him what he liked about scouts, he gave quite a good reply, and that was it.
oh yea, and the weather was screwy. giant drops of rain one minute and then sun.
the ventures then went to help carry mugs to the seminar room, where the briefing was held. 40 mugs in total. why? read on...
at the room, we waited for the SU to finish their pumping and commerce with the briefing. jeremy, the finance sect talked about the usual Job Week objectives, details, tips. Amos was taking notes for the ventures this time (and when he left, francis). thanks! writing notes/minutes all the time is damn sian ba...
jobweek special activity. i went with kenneth, zhong jun, joel, tak wei, jack to our station, which was scenario testing. lol one of the more interesting stations. we split into two groups, with jack, tak wei and me in one group. here are the four scenarios to be acted out:
-phaedophile (-.-)
-robber
-lazy unwilling uncle
-dangerous jobs
then came the first group to our station, Eagle! Jack was the phaedophile (lol). I was the robber and tak wei was teh uncle with dangerous jobs (we combined)
"you look tired... do you want to come into the bedroom and rest?"
long story short, the sec 1 we tested was unable to resist jack's charms and failed.
jack then went off to talk to zx, so left with tak and me at the station. luckily, at the next station, leonard joined us. he was a very good lazy uncle that gave dangerous jobs. potential haha.
"Hmm... can you stand on one leg with your hands raised?"
"Hmm... can you stand on that window sill?"
"Hmm... can you juggle these sharp knives?"
while nicholas kok tried to be funny.
Tak: "Freeze! This is a robbery! Hand over your money!"
Nick kok: "Eh oh no... look over there, i dropped my money on the floor over there!"
i must admit i am not a very good phaedophile. lol one career option out of the window.
last patrol was owl, and anurak joined us to act as the phaedophile. do check next year's academy awards to see if he has won the best actor award (he's the favourite) or check the news to see if he has been arrested yet.
all in all, the activity was quite fun, and i think that the SU also learnt and revise about the different scenarios. i was damn impressed with one of the sec 1s from owl. actually i wanted him to fail terribly so i could ask lionel to try and do a better job, but he was so good that i couldn't find any flaws. he even spoke in perfect sentences! omg.
back to the seminar room. heard how francis' station added an extra step lol. jeremy gave out the mugs to the highest job week and donation draw earners for the previous years. now u see whats the mug for.
the ventures then did 32 chin ups. while waiting for jack, i got owned by zhong jun in carrom. thanks jack.
and then we went home.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
sad day
On this faithful day, 5th March 2009, one of our hammies disappeared due to a couple of reasons. let us all mourn for it as it is probably dead by now.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
BACKWOODS
hey dudeys, if u are wondering when is this post uploaded, and where, then guess what, when all of u were busy watching digimon, playing cards or playing dota, and in Hi Ok 's house! lol saw some people wearing black t shirt that got 'Hi, Ok' printed on it. nvr took a picture as joel and i were foaming with the Jerry Can, yes the Jerry Can. ok, before we go into the specific details in backwoods activity, there was pre- backwoods activity...
Joel, Jon ed, Rong Jun and I helped tak wei to move some of the logistics to Braddell Westlake first as we did not have chinese remedial like the rest, as our chinese were all rather good. so we all took some stuff like saw, pa-rang, portable stoves and jerry can. so its was like everyone just chiong and took everything, other than the fully filled jerry can, so joel had to carry it alone. so we all left for Braddell westlake. when one hears this name, one tends to think, or have a feeling that this place is like paradise, fill with fine powdered sand, or whatever Jon ed's mom wants to describe it as. but the reality is that it is not 'Bridge to the West Lake', although it sounds like it, instead, it is a place that all of us dread to go to, or only me and joel + jerry can. background info: this braddell westlake place is situated just south of RI-JC, dilapidated abandoned school, foaming looking somebomb place, it is a place that 01 scouts like to hold more adventurous activities, like pioneering, backwoods cooking or NSPC preps. yap, this is where we dudes do stuffs like these. ok, so back to the main pre backwood activity, unfortunately, joel injured himself, so i helped him. it was really heavy that joel and i had to take turns every now and then during our trip from den to braddell westlake. before the activity even started, both of us foamed alr, literally and figuratively...
anyway zhi xuan called joel and we had to go back and helped the rest with the rest of the logistics. how did we get into rjc again? simple, we chiong in when some random rj girl was going out of the gate of course. but that random girl was going out when joel and i were halfway the overhead bridge, thus both of us really chiong all the way to the gate. thought that we could not make it, but luckily, a snap from Alvin, the gate somehow did not close, it remained open until we finally passed the gate, then it slammed shut. ok, let's be scientific, the gate door some screwed that was why. so we met the rest of you at raja block. saw 2 boxes but did not know what was inside, so i just opened the box that hiok was carrying and i got the surprise out of me, a chicken, not just a chicken, but a brown one, but not just a brown one, a living brown chicken one, yeah that one. the other box, which was carried by anurak, had many many birds known as quail in it
wonder what was anurak thinking of, with this weird expression printed on his face...
little quails...
so we made our way to braddell westlake once again, but with excitement this time, as we were going to watch chicken and quails being decapitated, and we were also told before hand that each and everyone of us had to try, experience purposes. the idea did not really scared anyone, as we were all still happily camp whoring...
am i even suppose to upload this type of picture?
god the second
after collecting the tinder and kinder, we started making different methods for laying fires: francis' group did tepee, hiok's group did pyramid while kenneth's group did cross-ditch which was almost the same as tepee, only that the hole i dug was not just a hole, but a cross shape hole. it was too deep so it was not as efficient as what it was supposed to be.
tepee
fail cross-ditch
after we were done with the set up of fires, yan zhi decided to demonstrate the killing of chicken instead of kumaran as he would be late. yes, it is Kumaran, dont refer him as Sir, or Mr, as that was what i did, and zhi+the vtls were laughing their head s off, and Kumaran told me to acknowledge him as only Kumaran. ok, so zhi held the poor chicken by its legs, surprisingly, it did not struggle then, until when its head came off, ok almost came off, then it shook really badly, not because it was in pain or anything, but it was just 'a natural reflex'. hopefully.
before the killing...
while killing...
after the killing...
didnt upload the video as it was too sick + violent+ holy bomb...
everyone of us screamed like crazy when we saw the 'natural reflex' of the chicken, after that zhi promptly de-skined the chicken, but with difficulty as he did not killed it fast enough, thus the chicken muscle was not relax, so very hard to tear it apart. after that we started the fire until Kumaran came. every groups' fires were da bomb big, da imba.
tepee in the making
who is that dude scratching his 6 packs?
while everyone was busy setting up fires, jack, zi heng, ken lam and i went to refill the jerry can again. going there was a breeze, but coming back with the fully filled jerry can was a blast. zi heng and i carried until we reached the front gate of braddell westlake, we decided that we couldnt da han the weight anymore, so we gave it to jack. jack was able to carry it without any problem, but he was grimacing, so i asked jack whether he could still continue or not, and he gave me another lame answer : "i cannot... but Jerry can..." the three of us were speechless... -_-"
so Kumaran came, he demonstrated the fast and humane way of killing the quails, fast and furious, the quail became headless in a second, or two. we should cover the quail's sight to calm it a little, stoke its head whatever, just to calm it, so that after after decapitate it it will be easier to de-skin it, wow, cunning. the little quail fell for this, it looked rather calm and it made some weird sound that sounded like this "twitch twitch". beheaded chicken before his lunch everyday, experienced as he was, kumaran twisted the head of the little quail, *snap*, or *piah*, the little quail became headless. it did not have 'natural reflex' afterward, because 'it didnt know that it dies'. all of us looked at the demonstration in awe. as u can see in the picture below, the j1s looked awestruck.
so the first three dudes to behead the quails were kenneth, hiok yang and kenneth. all of them snapped quails' head with their manly fingers.
then everyone tried, except bryan, who refused to snap quail's head.
i had to kill two quails, likewise for anurak, chee yeow and zhi xuan. there were extra u noe...
after that everyone proceeded on to the cooking. roasted the chicken and quails, taste rather plain though, but nonetheless nice. my personal fav food was the egg, or half cooked egg. simply delicious. so i kept cooking the egg, it was really fun, u need to poke a hole on top of the egg to prevent the egg from exploding, which happened a lot in the pyramid's group. and waited a while, then it was cooked!
holy crap, look at the broken egg and the burned pineapple. but the pineapple rice was nice (:
the broc and carrot were soft but plain, while the egg below was i dun noe, solidifying?
one moment that was not captured in picture was the dough that zhong jun made. some bomb dua. he left it roasted until it some how looked like a big mushroom, like zombie mushroom in maple, yap, this is the perfect simile to describe, as mushroom-ish as zombie mushroom. the dough. one other event i could remember was that i throw one screwed up egg into the pyramid's fire and after a while, it exploded. but when it boomed, the pressure was so greatly accumulated that the pineapple lit was blasted 6-8 meters away. initially we thought that the pineapple exploded, but actually it was the egg, as there was only a broken shell left, and some cooked yoke on the burned firewood.
after this we quickly packed up and dug all the bio degradable materials into the hole we made. not the carcass of quails or chicken of course. anurak loved the box of quail's inner organs and feathers. he said that it looked very artistic, indeed it was, after i looked at the picture. i doubt i can upload the pic here, but if u want, u can go get from anurak.
after the act, we made our way to hiok's house, which hiok, u should go blog about it. u noe best.
Joel, Jon ed, Rong Jun and I helped tak wei to move some of the logistics to Braddell Westlake first as we did not have chinese remedial like the rest, as our chinese were all rather good. so we all took some stuff like saw, pa-rang, portable stoves and jerry can. so its was like everyone just chiong and took everything, other than the fully filled jerry can, so joel had to carry it alone. so we all left for Braddell westlake. when one hears this name, one tends to think, or have a feeling that this place is like paradise, fill with fine powdered sand, or whatever Jon ed's mom wants to describe it as. but the reality is that it is not 'Bridge to the West Lake', although it sounds like it, instead, it is a place that all of us dread to go to, or only me and joel + jerry can. background info: this braddell westlake place is situated just south of RI-JC, dilapidated abandoned school, foaming looking somebomb place, it is a place that 01 scouts like to hold more adventurous activities, like pioneering, backwoods cooking or NSPC preps. yap, this is where we dudes do stuffs like these. ok, so back to the main pre backwood activity, unfortunately, joel injured himself, so i helped him. it was really heavy that joel and i had to take turns every now and then during our trip from den to braddell westlake. before the activity even started, both of us foamed alr, literally and figuratively...
anyway zhi xuan called joel and we had to go back and helped the rest with the rest of the logistics. how did we get into rjc again? simple, we chiong in when some random rj girl was going out of the gate of course. but that random girl was going out when joel and i were halfway the overhead bridge, thus both of us really chiong all the way to the gate. thought that we could not make it, but luckily, a snap from Alvin, the gate somehow did not close, it remained open until we finally passed the gate, then it slammed shut. ok, let's be scientific, the gate door some screwed that was why. so we met the rest of you at raja block. saw 2 boxes but did not know what was inside, so i just opened the box that hiok was carrying and i got the surprise out of me, a chicken, not just a chicken, but a brown one, but not just a brown one, a living brown chicken one, yeah that one. the other box, which was carried by anurak, had many many birds known as quail in it
wonder what was anurak thinking of, with this weird expression printed on his face...
little quails...
so we made our way to braddell westlake once again, but with excitement this time, as we were going to watch chicken and quails being decapitated, and we were also told before hand that each and everyone of us had to try, experience purposes. the idea did not really scared anyone, as we were all still happily camp whoring...
am i even suppose to upload this type of picture?
god the second
after collecting the tinder and kinder, we started making different methods for laying fires: francis' group did tepee, hiok's group did pyramid while kenneth's group did cross-ditch which was almost the same as tepee, only that the hole i dug was not just a hole, but a cross shape hole. it was too deep so it was not as efficient as what it was supposed to be.
tepee
fail cross-ditch
after we were done with the set up of fires, yan zhi decided to demonstrate the killing of chicken instead of kumaran as he would be late. yes, it is Kumaran, dont refer him as Sir, or Mr, as that was what i did, and zhi+the vtls were laughing their head s off, and Kumaran told me to acknowledge him as only Kumaran. ok, so zhi held the poor chicken by its legs, surprisingly, it did not struggle then, until when its head came off, ok almost came off, then it shook really badly, not because it was in pain or anything, but it was just 'a natural reflex'. hopefully.
before the killing...
while killing...
after the killing...
didnt upload the video as it was too sick + violent+ holy bomb...
everyone of us screamed like crazy when we saw the 'natural reflex' of the chicken, after that zhi promptly de-skined the chicken, but with difficulty as he did not killed it fast enough, thus the chicken muscle was not relax, so very hard to tear it apart. after that we started the fire until Kumaran came. every groups' fires were da bomb big, da imba.
tepee in the making
who is that dude scratching his 6 packs?
while everyone was busy setting up fires, jack, zi heng, ken lam and i went to refill the jerry can again. going there was a breeze, but coming back with the fully filled jerry can was a blast. zi heng and i carried until we reached the front gate of braddell westlake, we decided that we couldnt da han the weight anymore, so we gave it to jack. jack was able to carry it without any problem, but he was grimacing, so i asked jack whether he could still continue or not, and he gave me another lame answer : "i cannot... but Jerry can..." the three of us were speechless... -_-"
so Kumaran came, he demonstrated the fast and humane way of killing the quails, fast and furious, the quail became headless in a second, or two. we should cover the quail's sight to calm it a little, stoke its head whatever, just to calm it, so that after after decapitate it it will be easier to de-skin it, wow, cunning. the little quail fell for this, it looked rather calm and it made some weird sound that sounded like this "twitch twitch". beheaded chicken before his lunch everyday, experienced as he was, kumaran twisted the head of the little quail, *snap*, or *piah*, the little quail became headless. it did not have 'natural reflex' afterward, because 'it didnt know that it dies'. all of us looked at the demonstration in awe. as u can see in the picture below, the j1s looked awestruck.
so the first three dudes to behead the quails were kenneth, hiok yang and kenneth. all of them snapped quails' head with their manly fingers.
then everyone tried, except bryan, who refused to snap quail's head.
i had to kill two quails, likewise for anurak, chee yeow and zhi xuan. there were extra u noe...
after that everyone proceeded on to the cooking. roasted the chicken and quails, taste rather plain though, but nonetheless nice. my personal fav food was the egg, or half cooked egg. simply delicious. so i kept cooking the egg, it was really fun, u need to poke a hole on top of the egg to prevent the egg from exploding, which happened a lot in the pyramid's group. and waited a while, then it was cooked!
holy crap, look at the broken egg and the burned pineapple. but the pineapple rice was nice (:
the broc and carrot were soft but plain, while the egg below was i dun noe, solidifying?
one moment that was not captured in picture was the dough that zhong jun made. some bomb dua. he left it roasted until it some how looked like a big mushroom, like zombie mushroom in maple, yap, this is the perfect simile to describe, as mushroom-ish as zombie mushroom. the dough. one other event i could remember was that i throw one screwed up egg into the pyramid's fire and after a while, it exploded. but when it boomed, the pressure was so greatly accumulated that the pineapple lit was blasted 6-8 meters away. initially we thought that the pineapple exploded, but actually it was the egg, as there was only a broken shell left, and some cooked yoke on the burned firewood.
after this we quickly packed up and dug all the bio degradable materials into the hole we made. not the carcass of quails or chicken of course. anurak loved the box of quail's inner organs and feathers. he said that it looked very artistic, indeed it was, after i looked at the picture. i doubt i can upload the pic here, but if u want, u can go get from anurak.
after the act, we made our way to hiok's house, which hiok, u should go blog about it. u noe best.
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