Leadership camp

Leadership camp, like my other events, has become a mere memory. If I do not pen it down, it will soon dilute and fade into darkness.

I feel that this camp was a failure although it was slightly better than annual camp. I definitely improved a lot in minesweeper and little fighter two during this camp.

Day 1
Woke up at 5.30am, intend to reach school by 6am. However, I realized that I forgot to print out the first aid slides! I got them printed and reached school at about 6.20am.

The camp starts with the traditional bag check. I took group 5. In this activity, me and papaya scolded and pumped them a little. I feel that they are ok compared to other groups.

After that was supposed to be a hoing, hell night-like activity. We are supposed to make them put their bags in their bunks, come down, go up take their bags, come down for 5 times. However, this activity was cancelled, making me utterly disappointed.

After that, I had a long break, about 2 hours, before my first aid slides. I went to the pri school canteen and brought breakfast and 3 oreyas. It was supposed to last until the end of the camp but I think I finished all of them before day2 lunch.

After that was my first aid lesson. After that was lunch.

After that was IFC. I was teaching movement by day. It was a really fun, did crazy stuff like lying down in the middle of the track before the next group comes. One group jacked me! I taught them already but they came back to m station. I didn’t know that I taught them already and carried on teaching. They made me teach for 10 mins before telling me that I taught them already. Mean sia!

The next main activity was their cadet’s night and presentation planning, together with their interview. Jackfruit purposely shouted and scolded into at no one to make them think that the interview was really scary.

Near the end of their cadet’s night planning, something bad happened. Jackfruit scolded ‘banana’ for something which was really quite minor. He almost made banana leave the camp. I can tell banana was really scared and almost cried. I feel quite sad as I did not expect all this to happen.

After that was supper and then bed time. I was trying to boil some hot water so that I can have some hot milo before tomorrow’s PT. It took a very long time to boil. In the end, I slept at about 1.30pm. I intend to wake up at 5.30am tomorrow to have some hot milo before PT.

Day 2
However, I slept too well. I woke up at 6.15. PT starts at 6.30! It was really hard to change to half 4 as it was dark and everyone was sleeping. In the end, I was about 5 mins late for pt.

PT was slack, so slack that I decided to pump them 50+50+50 near the end of the PT.

After that was breakfast.

After that was slack time. I have about 7 hours of slack time. I slept a little, finish up all my oreyas, played minesweeper, played little fighter 2.

I joined them again during laser quest. I didn’t know that it was so fun. The laser quest experience I had during p5 made me feel that it was crap. However, it was really fun and I regretted not participating.

After that, I went to buy dinner with Brandon. Dinner was fish ball noodle and bubble tea. After that was cadet’s night. Some of them were really funny. After that was supper.

After that was sentry. I was very fun. My year, they concentrated more on the guards, raiding their store. This year, we concentrated more on attacking the sentry. Here are the major highlights of the sentry route.

1. The canteen. I don’t know what really happened but it supposed to be really nice. First, only the lights above the water cooler will be on. As they approach the water cooler we will suddenly off the lights. Then, they will panic and we will attack them. One person will die at this stage.
2. As they move to the pri school side, there will be an attack. One person will die at this stage.
3. My station. I will pretend to be a ghost, under my sleeping bag, to attract their attention. As they advance towards me, thy will not notice Samuel behind them. Samuel will shoot them from behind. One person will die at this stage.
4. As they move to the chapel, there will be an attack. 1 person will die at this stage.
5. The piano station. This station is fun, only shift 1 made it here. We will play the piano to attract their attention. As they move towards the guy at the piano, the other NCOs will attack them from behind All will die at this stage.
6. The final place, the D and T toilet. Benedict and Ernest will attack them. They are not supposed to survive the previous stage.

Only two people, I think, survived the route, all from shift 1. Not that they are good, it is because we planned to let two people survive from shift 1. I think shift 2 was really good but we decided that all shift 2 people will die. Shift 3 was screwed up.

Day 3
I woke up late, about 10 am, cos I slept at bout 5.30am. I helped out at the tests. After that, we packed our stuff and go home

Interesting day

Two very interesting activity happened today and i want to talk about it.

Activity 1: Helping out in Sec 2 games

I was given a choice, should I watch a movie during the Chinese intensive programme or should I help out in the sec 2 games. I decided to help out in the sec 2 games instead of the movie as it is a more meaningful activity compared to watching a movie.

My job is to control the crowd. A first, it was very chaotic. There are people all over the place. However, when everything settled down, it became very boring. Most of the sce2s are playing games (Soccer, Captain’s Ball, Floor ball), the rest are allowed to walk about and cheer for their friends. There is actually not much crowd to control. Also I don’t want to spoil their mood by shouting at them, do I have almost nothing to do.

However, it soon became interesting as Banana, kiwi and mango are bored too. We got a handball and start playing with it randomly. It was quite fun, I enjoyed it.

I did not reject opting to help out in the sec2 games. It is a much interesting experience compared to watching movie.

Activity 2: Helping someone special

I went to Bishan library to borrow a book. On my way home, I saw a disabled person on a wheelchair trying to sell some biscuits, yet everybody that pass by her treated her as if she is invisible. That reminded of the trouble I had during Flag Day, trying to get people to donate. I felt that I should buy some biscuits from her.

However, there is another side of me urging me not to help and just go home. It is telling me the consequences that I may have to face if I help. ‘What will others think of me?’ was the main worry I have that stops me from helping.

I read an article in empathy a few days ago. That day, I vowed to show more empathy to the people around me. This memory gave me the courage and overcome my fears. I went up to her with the intent of giving her 5 bucks without taking any biscuits. However, in the end, I still took the biscuits. It goes like this.

“Here is five dollars; you don’t have to give me any biscuits,” I said.

“One packet for two dollars,” she said.

“Well then, I will take two, keep the change,” I said.

I was very happy after that, very pleased with myself.

‘What will others think of me?’ ANS: A cool secondary school kid who have a kind soul.

Saikano

Saikano AKA The Last love song on this little planet AKA Saishuu Heiki Kanojo

I bumped onto this brilliant manga and wants to talk about it.

The story begins with Shuji and Chise falling in love. Shuji is very unsure of his initial feelings for Chise and feels that their relationship is more trouble than its worth, though his feelings deepen as the story progresses.

Chise is a shy, clumsy girl with very little self-esteem and has poor grades in everything except for World History.

However, after an air raid in Sapporo, Shuji found out that Chise is actually a War Machine. She is a Cyborg and is in the army. She constantly helps Japan fight their invaders.

The series revolves around her and her fading humanity, the more she uses her powers, the less human she becomes. Soon, weapon-side starts to take over her body. In the end, her love for Shuji is the last of her humanity she can cling onto.

The happy parts in the story are very sweet (Chapter1-10, Chapter 60-72), however, the tragic parts (middle) in the story are very very tragic. Thus, I don’t recommend this manga if you are very emotional.

The manga has a lot of nice morals. I realize that power isn’t very important, every thing fade away in the face of death, making everyone equal. Instead of gathering more power, we should spend our loving, cherishing the people around us, making a difference in their lives.

The ending reminds me of a quote for Steve Jobs, ‘Everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.’ I really liked this manga very much.

Rating 9/10

Now, I am into romance mangas. ^-^

15-10-08

Today is quite interesting, due to script check and challenge quest trainings.

Today is the third day of the morning trainings with Watermelon. We have been training for Challenge Quest and have been pumping 100 every morning for the last two days. However, today he can only pump until 50 because his muscles have not fully recovered from the last two sessions yet. He will become stronger when his muscles heal.

After that is script check. Today, we checked SS, English and Chemistry. I did well for SS and Chemistry, average for English.

I feel that SS script check was the most boring. From the SS script check, I made an amazing discovery. I realized that sour lime is crazy! I am glad that I have grape and not lime. Lime felt that a lot of time will be wasted if we are not seated in index number. In the end, we wasted more time because crazy lime arranged us until we are seating according to index number. Also, I found out that crazy lime scold very well. It spent 20 mins for the 1st question, 50% of that time was wasted in scolding, even though it was considered acceptable for most fruits.

NOTE: I set a virus that activates if lime tries to access my blog and read this post. It will definitely crash her computer and any one who read it if it is activated.

I enjoyed English the most. Pineapple, mango and jackfruit, presented their stuff and put their point across very well. I really liked the part where they go through some funny mistakes we made while writing compositions. It was really fun.

I am very satisfied with my Chemistry results. Although I did not make it in to the hall of fame, I got a respectable score. I am two marks away from entering the hall of fame. Instead of feeling sad, I feel quite relived. I thought I got much worse.

The Challenge Quest training was interesting. I did not do any planning beforehand; I think it was smooth although it was short. Horny Johnny could not make it cos he has Chinese remedial, so I have to train watermelon and banana alone. We did 110 sit ups, 80 push ups (watermelon’s arm was still aching) and 5 rounds. The most challenging was the 5 rounds around the track, I nearly died! Lucky I said 5 rounds, I would have died if I said anymore. We came back, as a whole, with a respectable timing of 9min 17.58 sec. Generally, I think that the training was short but sweet.

I CANNOT WAIT FOR CHALLENGE QUEST… TO SHOW MY POWER

Note: All the names are not real, to protect myself from getting into trouble.

Exams are over...

… but I can confused. By right, I should be happy. Am I happy?

I am happy because exams are over. I can finally take a short break from mugging. I feel like a bird that is finally set free, free to do all the things that I like. I got dam a lot of free time, no need to go to school for two days! I can finally do the things I want to do before the exams.

However, I am not really happy. I feel kinda lost. Everything happened too fast. I had intensive mugging for about 8 days straight, cannot relax, almost all my time is invested on studies. Then, all of a sudden, I am free to do anything I want… too free, so free that I do not know what to do with all the excess time. There is so much time and so little to do.

So I sat down and think. What should I do with all this excess time? I kinda lost interest in computer games already. I dislike going out too often. I don’t want to waste my time. I don’t want to study. I don’t know what to do.

I manage to produce this list after thinking for some time.

1) Research on Challenge Quest
2) Train more, do 200+100+100 push ups every day. (Cannot wait to show my power during Challenge Quest)
3) Start working on first aid slides for leadership camp. (Waste time now for more time later)
4) Sign up for CIP to do during holidays. (Later fully booked, cannot do CIP)
5) Work on an AMV (Always wanted to make a good one but no time)
6) Read more mangas
7) Exercise more
8) Plan for my next PT and the PT after that and the PT after that… (Must try to make it more interesting)
9) Post more

After I think about it, there are a lot of things I need to do!

brief review

Here is a brief review on what happened this week…

Monday and Tuesday was hell, but Thursday and Friday is heaven. It keeps getting easier and easier… perhaps I am getting used to the intensive mugging and nervousness.

In my opinion, the most challenging paper was physics, it was the most difficult physics paper I ever did. Personally, I like physics very much, but I dun think I will do well for this paper. I will be very happy if I get an A2.

The most memorable paper I did was social studies. This is what happen after the paper...

Invigilator: The second last guy on the last row, the one wearing a black jacket, see me later for talking to the people on your right.

She made 3 mistakes. First, that guy was at least 7 seats from the last guy, dunno how she count. Second, there was no one on his right. Third, it is column, not row. We gave her a magnificent round of applause for her mastery in maths.

I feel that the easiest paper was Amaths. Those who think that Amaths was very hard, good luck. A lot of people, including me, felt that Amaths was easy. When I finished, I still have about an hour left. I think that I have a dam high chance of 90+/100 for Amths.

In conclusion...Haiz, I cannot wait for exams to be over… just 4 more days…


Quote of the week: ‘WIN THE WAR’