We changed like as though it was our first SUTC night call. Slow and half asleep. Thats just exaggeration. We were actually talking to the GC who were there and changing. You see, the thing is that, you don't do that in SUTC. SUTC is like a wife nagging at her husband. The J1s talk, you shut up and give standard answers like: 3-2-1 PER START! And how in the world did i get so out of point... So yea we changed and soon there was a horseshoe. Kenneth talked to the sec 2s and then attendance taking occurred.
First problem. Kestrel got no attendance to take. There were 5 patrols. It was kind of comical, but expected actually, seeing as there is only 1 batch attending these activities. But Adam did turn up in the end and so we had 6 patrols again.
The Ventures present were: Kenneth, Francis (myself), Joel, Amos, Zhong Jun, Rong Jun, Soham, Bryan, Firdaus. Yes, that was NOT a typo. Firdaus was there. Yay!! Oh and the whole GC. They are all ventures also.
Next up was a quick run to LT 2. Only Zhong Jun, Joel and myself were running. We ran, with Zhong Jun carrying his laptop and about 20 metres away, trailing us like a bunch of sec 2s trying to meet a deadline, was erm.... a bunch of sec 2s trying to meet a deadline.
We set up the laptop and Joel and i realised what a cool and innovative password Zhong Jun had. And as some other ventures also learned earlier in the day, Zhong Jun's laptop's touchpad buttons are SPECIAL. Left button is right click and right button is left click... The epitome of GL.
Then was a briefing on Raffles Trail. Roles, what to say, what will be happening, when to report, etc. First failure was that, LT 2 did not have a cable or port to connect to the projector... So that was a pretty big fail. But never mind, people with great skill and dexterity use their brains and still briefed the sec 2s with the relevant information they needed.
Failure no.2 was that i used a permanent marker on the board. Personally, i think that whiteboards should be made such that permanent markers are not permanent on them. Yes i know that make permanent markers redundant. Do you have a problem with that? Look man, nothing in this world is permanent, stop fooling yourself with these illusions and fantasies of PERMANENT markers.
But yea we got through the presentation. And Mr Yuen talked to the sec 2s also. Meanwhile Joel and i tried to undo my giant ugly handwriting on the board. Mr Yuen helped us through most of the FAQ that the parents ask and also he helped us brush up the sec 2s' knowledge of 01.
And we chionged to S.R block to start setting up the gateway and bridge and kitchen tent.
I was with the gateway people most of the time, so i didn't really know what was happening. Fail no.3 kind of involved 02, but we settled that and now things are fine.
Fail no.4,5,6,7,8,9,10. etc are most of the square lashes and one quadrapod lash that were loose or coming loose. Oh and the mega one where the base of the quadrapod wasn't aligned. But never mind, all those were fixed and settled. I guess the sec 2s were having fun setting up the booth.
We corrected some things and also modified some after some discussions and comments from the GC.
Now that is basically what we did for most of the act. What surprises me is that the sec 2s seemed to have done a better job at Westlake than here in home ground, RI. Maybe it was the PT? Or the environment? Well, we'll never know will we? Let this be a mystery that shall ever astound you and make you ask: Why? Why do ducks quack and chickens cross roads? Why did Kenneth mallet the picket so deep in?
Now let me tell you a story of a boy. Now, in AC'08, in the photo slideshow done by Ming E, this boy was the boy that wanted to fly. Or something along those lines. Now he apparently was sick of the sky and wanted to live underground. He took a picket, and using his well trained and mega muscles which were once used for flying, he hit the picket into the ground. With one hit, and using his bare knuckles, he hit the picket in so deep that it nearly reached hell. (Well in all honesty, it was a few hits and with a mallet, but where's the fun in that?)
The next half an hour was spent undoing this latest fail. By then the PSLs had already ended the Secondary One Orientation Camp, themed: Infinite. (the last "e" should be some frenchy line kinda letter thing). They ended off with a loud {SAY RA-RA-RA-RAFFLES} x3 *clap clap clap* RAFFLES. I have no idea what the name of that cheer is.
So yea, most of the batch was there. Now back to the story. This boy then had a problem. He couldn't pull out the picket. So Kenneth was there trying to pull out the picket and meanwhile everyone else was there commenting and trying and giving advice. Some Excalibur thing. Whoever could pull the picket out of the ground becomes King or something. So yea we slowly tried all sorts of methods. The rope we tied through it to try pull it out broke. The hammer nearly detached it's head. The hammer handle made creaky noises. The ground got wet. We found a random metal rod and we stuck that in the ground also.
After many many tries and methods, it was finally getting loose. And then Rong Jun, reached the climax of his cunning plan. He just pulled out the picket. Well... Seeing as it was already quite loose and the people who had been working on it were quite tired... It's quite a cunning and successful plan.
Then we packed up and left.
No we did not take down everything we just set up... We packed up the loose bits and then left.
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