Midweek Update

Hello! This is Bryan posting on this blog for the first time and the first time since P6 or sometime during that era.

Sadly, this post will be void of any pictures until someone(like Joel or some other guy who took shots and would like to post them here) edits my post and injects some colour into it.

Moving on to today's act. Well, there wasn't an actual name for it, unless you use the one on the VU calendar: "Survival Lecture" which is epic fail description.

So at 330, horseshoe was called and Anurak responded to the SU breakoff call for the Xth time. Maybe you have to break a certain height barrier to be free of the urge to respond to it. After breakoff, Chee Yeow called a Venture call about 20m away from the Gym hall atrium, but Mr Tan wanted to speak to the entire group, so it ended up being a "prank call".

Before I forget, welcome to the 4 new members of the Venture Batch; Amos, Kenneth, Ziheng, and Leonard.

Then we had PT (which, "by the way, means Physical Training" as quoted by Sup). The cunning Chee Yeow took careful measures to ensure that all muscles in our body were exercised well. Some examples were arms, legs, brains, abs (thanks to Anurak), and etc etc. Dunno why, but the leg training route was much more curvy than usual. Brain training involved finding X = Y^2 where X is the number of crunches we had to do and Y was some fail because it was always expressed in surd form! Should have done it in decimals, so there'd be a better challenge. But I'm not complaining, X = 35 is quite enough for me and probably the floor of the 3rd floor raja block.( I wouldn't be surprised if the sweat marks are permanent, especially Zhong Jun's)

And while training leg muscles, I got knocked down by a stationary car. Actually it was not stationary per se, because we all know that we are moving at 29,800 metres per second around the Sun. SO technically the so called "stationary car" was moving at 29,800 metres per second and I was moving at 29,801.5 metres per second, and we sort of crashed into each other. Something like that is inevitable, sadly. But I wonder why no one else has met with such an accident.

At 4+, we reached the Pull-up bars and since the SU was doing 15 pullups we had to do 16 because VU > SU. Or maybe because there exists some competitive spirit within the VTLs that cause them to automatically assume that VU > SU. Which may or may not necessarily be true. In the end, CCALs and ACCALs had to do 16, and the rest had to do 8. I think.

You see, a PT session is like a snowflake. No two are alike. In terms of distance ran, number of pull-ups done, number of push-ups, number of crunches, number of accidents with a stationary car. So its worthwhile to spend time commenting on every single PT session!

Now back to the REAL act of the day. The batch of 21 - 2 = 19 proceeded to the Junior Block. Supposed to be J1-07, but ended up as a scam because we got J1-03 instead. The main part of the act would be to introduce to the new members of 01 what we do regularly. Which according to Zhi Xuan, doesn't exist. I mean, he said something along the lines of "We have no routine activities in 01". But I'm getting ahead of myself. So there were like 7 presentations, ranging from 10++ slides (Money Matter$) to a really brief 4 slide show (CIP).

So basically there was Routine activities, by Sup, Rong Jun and Takwei. SPammed all the "routine" activities like PT in big, large, size 44 words, etc etc. The highlight of the powerpoint presentation was when the slide showed "Nike Hike" instead of, "Night Hight". Wait, I meant "Nike Hight". I meant "Night Hike". In other news, we caught a glimpse of the real Anurak in a picture.

In the presentation about camps, we learnt that VTC'09 is made up of 9 question marks in a row, and 2007 was a year with no camps as Francis had pictures for only 2006 and 2008.

THen came the Alvin "One-Man-Show" batch project presentation. He expertly analysed that all the 01-2006 batch projects have failed to various extents in 2007 and 2008. Just hope that this year won't be such a fail year I guess.

Then somewhere in between (Dang, I forgot the order) Anurak impressed us all with the 10++ slideshow Money Matter$ (I couldn't find the euro sign) and the importance of Jobweek and Donation Draw. Actually we all know that money is important, don't we?

CIP presentation. What to say? Very short. Like these sentences. We learnt that an ingenious board game designed by some people was inspired by the iPod game of the same mechanics! That increases the number of uses for an iPod to 357,392,102.

During the campfires presentation, we found out that 700 people came to our 01 Annual Show in 2008!(Thanks to Zhi Xuan). We also saw the impressive display of light energy created by the Owl Patrol in AC. Then came the 01 Annual Show 2007 Fantasma videos. All 18 minutes of them. For some reason, Joel had to click "Watch in high quality" when a video was fully loaded so we had to restart buffering. But luckily RIWLAN >>>>>>>> RI-Boarding internet, keep that in mind if anyone decides to live in boarding. Also shown was the Venture dance in that same Annual Show.

So at 620, Kenneth(the CCAL) taught the new members of our batch Horseshoe-ing 101. So now they should be very proficient.

Shortly after we were dismissed, the manly J1s showed us an 11.5 metre sherlashed pole which was supposed to be so much better than the one we built on saturday. But still, cannot lift up without seriously endangering the lives of anyone in the 11.5metre radius. Lol.

So that's all that happened today. Yay!