We had just come back from sand-castle building and we were sandy, burned, lala and HAWT (as usual).
Seeing as the PSLs wouldn't be joining us, the few of us met at the den at 1.30 after lunching at the canteen.
For attendance, there was: Kenneth, Francis, Amos, Joel, Zhong Jun, Rong Jun, Soham, Bryan.
So we met at the den and then moved to the storage den with Ram the GQM. Where we then proceeded to get stuff we needed for the act. Getting the python was some obstacle course lah. I crawled under the table which was covered and overflowing with cooking utensils and cutlery and pots and pans and all that. Then once in there i had to pull out the pythons and then also the pegs. 15 pegs. We got out the banners and pickets also. Ram and Kenneth played with the discus... Which honestly can be used as a carrom seed, you use that right, confirm win. Cos the white cannot score the discus. =P
After moving stuff over to the den, some of us went to see the sec 1s doing their blindfold walk thingy. And we "helped" the PSLs there. Looking at the sec 1s, i think they are generally ok lah, but some quite screw up, like the "kicker" and the "spitter". Those that respond when i talk to them are generally ok, at least they don't dao.
Then the Teenage Mutant Neeeeenjas went to Braddell Westlake with Ram. They were an advance party to go set up the place to receive the sec 2s, the only batch coming for this act. This party consisted of Amos, Joel, Soham and Francis (myself). Ram being there to make sure we didn't accidently kill anyone along the way with our awesomeness.
Ok enough with the cockster stuff. We got there, gave the guard the letter, started picking poles. *Vibrate vibrate* *Pick up phone* And taadaaa Kenneth told us the sec 2s were at the RJC gate... And we hadn't even picked out 1 pole yet...
So we went into hyperdrive and started ripping poles out of the pole shed. Ram sat there to make sure we didn't damage the poles. Suddenly the weight of responsibilities of the QM falls on Ram and with his "Lock Cutter of Proper QM Procedure", he makes sure we didn't destroy the poles. Basically he sat there and warned us not to own the poles.
The sec 2s arrived. Help in the form of the other Ventures arrived. Pole picking leveled up. The poles flew out of the shed. Meanwhile, Jonathan Trachsel and Poh Chu Yong, our beloved and most inspiring STLs distracted the sec 2s by running around the place and doing our favourite activity: PT!
And our very own VTL Zhi Xuan helped us pick poles. So the building of structures started on time, as according to the timeline on the proposal. The sec 2s, +Francis + Zhong Jun + Rong Jun + Soham were set on the task of building the gateway for Raffles Trail. While Kenneth, Amos, Joel, Bryan and the STLs and VTL and Ram and Wayne and Jeremy went on the build the bridge.
I think we pretty much accomplished teaching the sec 2s figure-of-8 lashing AKA tripod lashing. Then we erected the 2 tripods and one quadrapod. And the sec 2s got to work on tying square lashes. Most of them were pretty tight and only a few were loose lashings. And then we started tying on the other decorative parts of the structure.
Overall, i think the sec 2s are quite close as a batch and can work together. Although this time there were too many of them stoning and not doing anything. Or some lashings had 4 people around it... Too many cooks spoil the broth. Too many scouts spoil the lashing. But in general, good job 01-08!
But i have to say i'm quite jealous. Their first batch structure quite big and nice and simple. Ours was spam lot of lashings. 3 trestle frames man... Haha. But we had fun. I think we have to do one more batch structure together soon. Like for pioneering act... Haha.
And that is it for our first VPA.
On a side note, on Tuesday, 6th Jan 2009, Zhong Jun, Joel, Amos, Kenneth and Francis stayed back in school to print, cut and fold pamphlets. Wow that was fun! (insert sarcastic tone)
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