Day before the trail...

So...today is the day before the Raffles Trail, where the sec 1s will be looking through all the CCAs booths and get to know what they are in for if they join the CCAs...blah blah. SO its basically an important event to showcase our best. The preparation session was quite usual for us i guess, i would think that we have done this many times before...

Ok so the day started off with the kitchen tent falling...due to the unusually strong winds, which were a constant bug throughout the day, but of course also rather cooling... We decided to go for lunch first, in hope that the winds will subside after that and make our job easier...but even after lunch the wind didnt change much, so no choice but to continue...We splitted up into a few groups, each group focusing on a particular task, like joel and amos were doing the bridge, and hiok, sup and rongjun were doing the gateway, while the rest started on the kitchen tent. There were some slight problems with the verticals, cos some of the nails/screws at the top were either too short or loose. Fortunately after some creative ideas, we managed to get everything up and standing. So I went over to help with the gateway, while Francis and Amos was doing the fencing. A lot of climbing up and down was involved la, to adjust the structure, hang up the flag, and then the banners, too long, fold in, slanted, retie. All for the sake of quality! Haha. An interesting sight, carrying tables around to climb on...

Then we did up the basha, which was one of the last things already, and I realised that we have been left with less people, haha, people have been streaming off slowly since the afternoon...busy people. Haha, so by now some people were taping up the display boards while Joel and I went to the storage to clean some metallic equipment. Might as well put the more specific steps here cos some patrols would have to do this for the upcoming qm session anyway, haha. ;) So first was the most tedious part of removing the rust using sandpaper. Heard that last year, the equipment displayed was below standards, so we tried o$ur best to really get off as much as possible... Then wiped the surface briefly to check the surface for any obvious marks and stuff, before using what we call the WD4D solution, to spray on the metallic surfaces and then wiping with the thin green sponges. This not only helps to remove the dirty stuff, it also makes the surfaces shine! =) Ok so thats about all... We all worked hard! haha, the cool strong winds were an interesting challenge too, blowing stuff around while also cooling us down. A good day of prep! =)

When the sails are up, we just need to wait for the winds...

Jack