Raffles Trail

After a day of mentally tiring lessons...okay i must admit it wasn't too bad since it was a friday and i got dismissed about half an hour early. anyway, after coming down from class and going to the 01 booth, some of the logistics were already there. i guess you figured out that the first thing i had to do was to help to bring the logistics. since some stuff was already there i only had to make 1 trip from the den. after all the logistics were brought to the booth, mr tan appeared with the marshmallows (yum) and some guys and i had to go help to tighten/ re-tie the lashings on the gateway and bridge which was quite shocking as most of them were quite loose. while we were doing that the logistics were being arranged.

when we finished our job, amos and i had to go to the rige/ rico classroom/ project room to get tables, 8 of them in total to be precise to be stacked in 2s so we could set up the poster boards. after finishing that task, we had to use our favourite gorilla tape to tape the poster boards to the table, which proved to be harder than it sounds. first thing: the wind was bomb strong, and due to the large surface area of the poster board, amos had to help to hold it down while it was being taped. the problems did not stop there. the second thing: after taping the poster boards to the tables, the poster boards caught the wind and the stacked table was blown down. because of that they had to be taken down and pasted on the gateway. getting owned by the wind...notice boards and tables being blowned down, it was like some hurricane was approaching the field in front of the raja block

the troubles brought by the wind did not stop there. i was asked over and over again to un-tangle the banner on the gateway and paste more gorilla tape onto the raffia securing the flag or banners to the gateway so as to prevent the wind from doing anymore damage. after that there were even more poster boards to set up on the fence. seeing that the wind was very strong, kenneth had to peg the tables used in the booth to hold up poster boards down to the ground.

it was kind of late when we finally went to change into scout u. after changing in the den, the j1s whom had tied a flag staff asked zhong jun and i to carry it back to the booth so it could be erected (maybe to keep up with the competition?) the sec 1s were already streaming in by the time i got there and the guides were doing quite a good job. and firdaus arrived! making it kenneth zhong jun, rong jun, amos, francis, firdaus, bryan and i there. the ropes on the bridge was getting loose again, while the sec 1s walked over the bridge, i had to hold it up so that john trach could tie the sq lash :S because the wind was so strong, the guides, amos and i switched to booth maintenance (MAN-tenance - add in the jensen accent) to keep everything in check.

then some food arrived and we took turns to eat our lunch. this is where kenneth started to angst (i understand) us to stop slacking. the parents trail started and i took some parents for a tour around the booth. talk talk talk...explain explain explain... until it was over. the sec 2s helped to take down the kitchen tent, gateway and bridge and helped to bring the logistics and the poles back to the den. the sec 2s were dismissed and (half) the VU had a short debrief about the whole raffles trail thing (planning and the acts) i felt quite bad after what kenneth had told me...sorry :/ after that we had to pack up and wash the pickets and pegs and put everything back into place.