Monday, December 06, 2004

Leadership Training Camp!!!

Day 1

Campsite a damn damn damn ULU place la!!!
Passed by 3 cemetries (christian, chinese and muslim)
Passed by chicken farm, goat farm etc etc....
Trees, trees and even more trees???
(ok la dun haf so mani trees)

I luvVvVvVvvVvVvvv day 1!!!
It's ta best!! (in my opinion)

I was kinda looking forward to high elements and tower!!!
RAWKS!!! =)))
*so sadd no rock climbing...

We did onli 4 stations for low elements
coz we were late....
The Wall was the best... i think easiest...
The rest haf ta lift ppl...
which we dun realli haf strength to do so...

I din expected our meals to be nice actualli...
but it turned out rather delicious!
yumm.... haha....

*1st time actualli seeing myself stuffing everything in....
trying to fins in the quickest amt of time....
eating record: within erm 10mins?

I can take 1 hr at home juz for the same amt probably....
kekex....

High Elements was quite funn....
*Tower even more funn!!!

i tried on broken bridge and erm...
walking on rope de.... (*forgot ta name)

I luvVvVvvV belaying!
so funn!!!
belaying issh funn!
*damn tiring oso

I lost my whistle at high E!
*blehx...
fancy losing it on day 1!
2nd Act onli....

I couldn't realli be blamed ba?
i was so damn worried...
ask the other grps le...
then search ard the area i left it...

*NOT THERE!!!
*screams....

i rmb i put evathing there...
duno why it disappeared!


Zipline! so cool!!!
wanted Yvonne to go first de...
*coz i scare
like so high....
call mi to jump down like tat.....
*freaks
then stoopid mi walk so fast then i went first lor...

Din realli dare to go down...
*was hesitating

But it was so funn!!!
The instructor he very funni lehx....
Coz our grp is Hawk ma...
then actualli onli need to say
"Is runway clear?"
then he call mi to scream
"i'm flying" too...
so funni.....

Flying kite was nice! haha...

Twin Centipede....
*i thought was the rock wall for a moment...

so disappointed, we not climbing rock wall...

The rocks on the twin centipede are at the
*WEIRDest place ever...
so hardd to climb....

*kept switching places....

after Jess climbed...
Leader Crystal was saying if anione can reach the top,
she gifs us a point....
=)))
I reached the top!!!
yays!
but suppose to climb down....
i din noe, i fall dwn instd....
*blehx....

Field Cooking was horrid!
mushroom tasted disgusting wifout cooking...
maggi was yucks...
*no taste....
i dun like chicken maggi....

I not much of a fussy eater,
so i still manage to swallow the food...
*there's like so oooo little time!!!

Gd thing we onli field cook once...
*it was a gd expr aniwae....

wht i learnt: soot cums off easily if u smear toothpaste under the mastins...

Item prep....
Thanks to Yvonne, the missing beat of step was fixed in...
like 8 of us... none can rmb...
*luckily Yvonne rmbed!!!
=))) *grins widely

Bathing time is realli
*Cannot make it arh!!!

wah... i onli shower cum out...
bathing record time: 5mins
I can take like 30mins or more at home...
*dun even noe wht the heck i doing in there...

Item Prep is basicalli to prepare our campfire items,
or learn campfire songs....
Prac few times onli ba....

NIGHTWALK!!!!!!

It's my ultimate favourite!!!
so RAWKS!!!!

It's so thrilling!
I like walking in the dark...!
tat's y I luvVv coming home late...
*it's thrilling la!

*PHEW PHEW PHEW!!!
*wipe my cold sweat off....

luckily nvr get a scolding from chief...
coz i lost my whistle
which is needed to bring for nightwalk...
it's my responsibility to look after my stuff...
but i lost it!!!
*cries
but gd thing i nvr realli kena scolded la...
*completely no idea where the thing went...
and of all things my whistle!

I'm like the onli one w/o whistle!
Leader Crystal was attached to our grp...
She shld be the one bringing us ard...

It goes in this order...
Shermaine, Jessica, Me, Ke Li, Shao Yu, Yvonne, Xiu Qi then Evelyn...
Evelyn kena pulled away first...
we were like oh no! where she go!!!
*freaks

We did alot of head counts la... then
Shermaine was pulled away...
we had alot of distractions....
*funni...
wasn't realli scared...
-air blowing into our ears
-hands touching ur necks/face
-scary voices
-wet hands
-"raining"

So funn!!!
din get to remove my blindfold....
*i was damn curious where i'm at la!!!
but aniwaes i had lotsa funn!!!

I had rashes alreadi...
very dirty....
din haf time to bathe either....


Clean myself wif wet tissue...
*gross...
the whole thing was
BROWN!!!
*like duhh...
how clean did i expect myself to be???

Put lotsa powder!
*tat is the onli thing i forgot to bring for ltc...
*powder!!!
Thanks Ke Li for it...
otherwise i can spend the rest of the nite
*SCRATCHING away....
blehx....

It was a lights out,
toss few times,
fall asleep nitex....



Day 2

FIRE DRILL!!!
*i still got the huh? look for a while...
before realising wht happen....
sheesh....

I was shivering at the carpark....
Bbbrrrbbrrr.....
COLD!!!!


The next time i woke up....
it was 5.24am!!!!
*I rmbed....
i am the time-keeper ma...
(we supposed to wake up at 5.00am!)

*shock... Our whole grp still asleep...
looked ard... Indigo/Gryphon are awake alreadi....
*quickly woke the grp up....

Dom Inspection was horrible...
*lotsa stuff not standardise...
*sighz....

Morning PT
*tiring....
so glad it was over....
*cannot take it le....
record: 1st time do so mani pushups (ard 10+????)
thought my hands going to die....

I Like Orienteering!!!!
so funn!!!
like some kind of treasure hunt....
*kekex...

Very pathetic though...
we haf onli 4 in our grps...
Kena forfeit... 2 ppl blindfolded...
then is like i was one of the blindfolded ppl...
we were still "jogging" la....

We din go to all ta checkpoints...
left one....
*sadz
so disappointed...

We haf ta proposed to Leader Yunqian
wif a stalk of leaves b4 moving on...
haha....
I was the "torch bearer"
was holding the leave with my arm out-stretch...
Like olympics torch bearer...
*blehx...
It was so funneh....
We went on our knees b4 Leader Yunqian accepted the leaves...
haha...

Test!!!
*freaks...
My first aid so gonna FAIL!!
surely de lor...
I like duno how to do....
Then the stretcher...
Turn up and down...
duno y cannot close....
the 2-hand seat was horrible too...

I duno abt the other tests la...
*dun dare to think abt it...

Had Mass Com after tat...
It was quite funn actualli...
*somehow boosted my confidence lvl...
I thought we were like gonna haf a test...
as in they gif u a topic then u suppose to impromtu
in front of the leaders or sth....
*luckily not....

We sat in a grp
of 4 (Ke Li, Shermaine, Jessica & mi)
And the attached leaders were Leader Vivian and Alicia...
We were suppose to read this passage
abt Elvis Presley...
And grade each other ltr...

We chit-chat after reading...
haha...
tok lotsa stuff...
intro each other first...
It was funn chit-chatting...
heee =)))

CANOEING!!!
so rawks!
=)))
It was so tiring!
But so funn!

I'm so proud of myself...
Coz for once i volunteer!
which can realli count...
haha...
*to tok abt my canoeing expr
=)))
It was funn!!!
then Leader Valerie ask mi why?
I din realli thought abt tat...
so I juz say coz it is a new expr
and sth else... (can't rmb)

lalalalala...
CAMPFIRE!!!
so funn!!!
Was pretty nervous abt the item...
Leader Shuyan say i dance well...
*yays!

We cheered we sang we dance!
it was soo funn!!!
*grins
*hot
*tiring

Good thing I still haf my voice...
*blehx...

I like the cheer/song
the leaders came up...

It's so nice!!!
funni too!
haha....
I forgot the first part...
*briefly rmb few parts onli...

High elements
Very scary
Low elements
Very shiok
Canoeing
Very tiring
With my leaders, and my grpmates and mi

(sth like tat)

Then there was one verse
abt bathing and
cannot make it...
Then abt underwears
EVERYWHERE!!
haha...
no lar...
*luffs

The milo at Night Cap
was *disgusting
water wif milo powder
not sweet...
*most digusting thing i ate: milo at night cap
no taste realli
like drinking boil water...
it wouldn't be bad if i was drinking boil water
but it smell and looks like milo...
*i still fins the milo la...

I ate very little biscuits...
I was busy trying to fins the milo....
*yucks

My butt, my back
so painn...
sit up straight for damn long...
*ouch

I wasn't falling asleep
*tat's a gd thing
*i feel awake....
I dun sleep early at nite: gd thing for debriefs like this...

Saw Lizards mating
*laughs
so digusting...
haha....

Tat nite couldn't sleep
i was itching from head to toe...
*cleaning myself wif wet tissue
didn't seem to help mux...
Powder did little help too...

i was tossing and turning...
*Horribly hot...
for like 30 mins
then ard midnite
*so weirdx
it became sooo cold!
i went to take my jacket!

*brrrRRrrbbBbrr
*extreme weather

I almost woke up every hour
*hafing the fear of Fire Drill


Day 3


5.00am sharp!!!
Fire Drill!!!!
rushed to the carpark...

I hit my knee
when we ran behind the mph
din see the bench in front of mi
*ouch

I reported strength to Assistant Chief Pei Ying
When I went back to the grp
I realise i din say "Hawk reporting"
I onli reported our total and present strength....
*well we reported in alphabetical order
so minus tat 2 words din realli get mi scolded???
*hee....

Dom Inspection was betta than the day b4...
But still not up to expections...
We were ask to hold up our bottles
*straight up
*mine was almost to the brim
I couldn't take it...
was trying to figure a way
*to hold the bottle
and lessen the load on my hand...
*nth came up
Then we had to do more PT
coz we kena punished...
Did 2 times the jumping jacks
*so tiring!!!
We left 10mins earlier
for kitchen duty
*i was pretty glad
our duty was scheduled on that day

During Big Sweep
We all came up wif a Calsberg cheer
(Xiu Qi came up wif ta idea)
Had funn...
During Prize Presentation
Hawk got 2nd!!!
numerically we were 1st...
Lost to Echo ltr
coz they got bonus marks...
*oh wells...
our marks were very close la...

We got 2nd big packet of Biscuits
Bravo was 3rd
It was quite alot of biscuits
*i duno wht happen to them

Journey back was funn too...
tok alot on the bus...

I luvVvVvVvVv LTC
It rawks la!
It wasn't tat scary as i thought it will be...
3 days is such a short time...

I think the onli thing i miss during camp
would probably
to haf a nice bath!
I was hafing rashes la...
*hehe....

As for the Missing Whistle Mystery
I duno wht happen to it...
I got it back from Leader Ping Siew
After Big Sweep
I ask Leader Crystal (i tink)
ltr back at sch
wht happen to it...
She say it was at QM base...
*This is so weirdx....
*well yays! I got back my whistle!

I hope i becum an instructor???
it's very funn...
it would be great
if i had chances for
more of such camps!!!


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