Survival Lecture

Hi guys. This is your flight captain speaking.

Actually, it's only me, RJ. As I was attempting to mug Bio with its action potentials and whatnot, Bryan kindly reminded me on MSN that it was my turn to blog today. I was like "Shit really?", and it turns out that shit, really. So here I am trying to type a blog post while struggling with my Na+ gated channels.

Today started off fairly well - beginning horseshoe with the new Sec1s joining in today. However, the Ventures got called off to Chee Yeow after a while. Chee Yeow, trying to find enough space for us to do "something", changed location a few times. When everyone was at the horseshoe, we used the "space" to do "something", which was go into pushup position T.T

With Zhi Xuan questioning us why we were in pushup position, for a few moments everybody was dumbfounded. The occasional answer popped up but naturally it was the wrong one. Finally, Joned (past tense of Jone) mentioned that incident which happened the previous week, in which things broke down a bit (refer to Tak's blogpost). In any case, after an admonishment from the VTLs about our batch spirit and expressing their shock at the incident (because they said our batch was actually one of the most bonded batches they have ever seen, go 01-2006!), we realised our mistake, and ended up owing 200, which we were about to clear off during PT, led by Chee Yeow.

The great run began. Start point: Area near Gym Hall. End point: RI(JC) track. GLHF. Chee Yeow started running at the speed of light towards RI(JC) track, with the Ventures following closely behind. Along the way, we met the Sec 2s and 3s, who also happened to be running. Anyway, about the linkway between RI(S) and RI(JC), some girl shouted, "Hi Chee Yeow!" at who else but our dear VTL. Possible scandal? Maybe.

In any case, we reached RI(JC) track alive, after breaking through the many obstacles and hurdles the track team had placed in our way, literally. Owing 200, we started to clear it off by doing 40 pushups. Simple enough I suppose. After that we owed 160. And then, we did 40 crunches. Cleared another 40. Then, Chee Yeow asked us to run 2 rounds round the track - for each round done under 2 minutes, 20 would be cleared. First round done was ok - under 2 minutes by a bare minimum, partly cause we had to stick together, but batch spirit more important than clearing or timing.2nd round did not manage though, since Soham had a stitch, so we all ran at his pace. Didn't really matter though. After this, we did 30 squats, leaving 70 left to clear. Giving us a water break, our VTL headed towards the chinup bars...

Well, here we are at the most dreaded physical training apparatus yet - the chinup bars. Our objective: Complete 20 pullups each, while the rest of the batch cheers unrelentlessly. Sounds like a plan. So we did. The main part was not so much the pullups - we all completed the 20 in the end. The fun part was the crap load of cheering. Well we cheated and used "01, 01 *clap clap* 01, 01 *clap clap* 01, 01 *clap clap* 01, 01 *clap clap*..." spamming it continuously. There was also the intermittent cheer like "01! OI! 01! OI! 01! EHBAH!" and other such uncontinuous cheers to spice things up. Apparently the group of girls who happen to be playing the clarinets of some sort near us were quite disturbed by our cheers - anywho, they stopped playing the instruments everytime our cheers got louder. In the end, we were asked to go to Sem Room 7 in the Junior Block to find ZX, leaving the RJ students playing music and doing homework and whatever crap to their own devices. Oh, and we met Wee Kien.

After assembling in the Sem Room, Survival Lecture officially started. What can I say, it was quite interesting and entertaining. After all, it was interesting because our VTLs made the powerpoint (:D), and entertaining because of ZX and CY's random quips about the slides (:DD). In any case, it was quite lala. Some Youtube vid was showed where some imba guy made a fire with the bow and drill method, as well as his imba embers. Apparently, in the part about getting water for survival, we realised that Zhong Jun was more often than not dehydrated, and Joel more often than not overhydrated.

After the Backwoods Briefing (we are SO looking forward to it. Right guys?), some info about Overnight was disseminated to us. It turned out that the plan was we were not staying overnight. Then why call it Overnight? Overnight was not fun without staying overnight, so we petitioned. Apparently we could stay overnight, but we had to plan what activities we wanted the next day: So how guys? Soccer tournament? Basketball tournament? Sports stuff? Cooking? Pioneering? Movie screening? Crashing Hiok's house? Zhi Zhi Zhi Zhi Zhi's leadership talk?

Finally, before we were dismissed or bersurai-ed, we still had that infamous 2n^2 formula to contend with. We needed to do about 13 more pullups, so we headed to the bars yet again. Lalaing, Chee Yeow asked as to shout "01 I love you" while doing a pullup for each syllable. So we split into front and back team, taking turns to shout each syllable towards the SU who were horseshoeing in the Gym Hall. After that, we were finally dismissed and ritually headed towards the canteen.