30 minutes later, i was on the bus. I kept worrying that I will be late cos I did not have a watch to confirm.
When I reached the church, I sensed that something was wrong. IT was silent. There was no noise, no movement, no one. I went to the parish office to inquire. I met father Gerard and realize that I was supposed to go to Sembawang challenge camp directly! Almost died. I took a cab there. It exhausted all my funds. I was almost late.
What a nice warm up before the camp.
After registration, they divide us into groups. They screwed it up a little. My name was called twice, in two different groups. In the end, I was pushed into pineapple’s group cos they have a lesser amount of people.
After that, they show us an ‘Oscar’ winning video. Here are my comments for that video and the rest of the videos that are shown in the camp. I think that thy put in a lot of effort in making the videos. The content was good.
However, technically, it is not so good. They made two unforgivable mistakes which is commonly made in many home made videos.
1) Poor audio. They should record the video and sound separately.
2) Very weird, MOVING, camera angles. It made the video very messy. Good neat videos are filled with fixed, still camera angles. Moving camera angles should not be attempted unless the camera can be moved in a uniform speed.
The ice breakers was interesting, I think that my group is good. There was a bit of communication between group members. I will rate them 3/5. It was OK while we were working on the task. It was fun when we opened numbers to decide who to do stuff. But outside that, it was crap. The girls talk among themselves and the guys were stoning. We only communicated while working on a task.
During bedtime, it was not easy to sleep. I did not sleep as early as I seem. Actually, I was only pretending to be asleep when they turned the fan to their side cos I hate the cold. I want to sleep so I had to focus on something. I was deciding which world I should go to. (The main worlds in my mind are: Philosophy world, Science world, Manga world, Crush world and reality) I decided that I shall venture into the crush world tonight. Hmm… What will happen if she is in my group? I pondered as I slowly melt into dreamland.
The morning PT was pathetic. My arms are really itchy, I want to do push ups. I want to run. Ahh!!! I was ready to show my power but they give us such a pathetic PT. Dam them.
The sessions after that were really interesting. The session Mr. Apple took was fun. It was about doing something (Anything) to kill time. It is fun.
The most interesting session was Father Gerard’s Session about Sin, Life, Death and the apocalypse. I was really interested as they are the main topics in my philosophy world. I paid attention to this session.
Writing warm fuzzies was OK, except the special one for Ms Mangosteen. I had a headache while thinking. Should I even write at all? What should I write? Then, I remembered a certain recount Mr. Apple told us. It was about him and his wife. I decided to use a certain phrase in that recount to my advantage.
That night we had reconciliation. It was the best reconciliation I ever had. I spent all the time reflecting carefully. I even confessed my darkest sins. I felt really great after saying them out loud. It was really good.
During bedtime, I ventured into philosophy world. What are elements are greater than death? (God, life, love, happiness, memory, love…) However, thinking of those require a lot of RAM, I will not be able to sleep if I kept thinking of those stuff. In the end, I slept thinking which world should I switch to.
I woke up at 6+, close to 7am. I decided that I should not sleep anymore as I should have sometime to warm up before they wake everybody up. So I set on my bed for a long long time. After that I went to wash up. I expect everyone to wake up when I returned. However, I came back and still find everyone sleeping. So I sat on my bed and think of possibilities (obviously something is wrong), reflect on the past few days, spin my pen, worrying what will happen after Ms Mangosteen read the special fuzzy…
They finally decided to wake everyone up at 9.00am. This means I sat on my bed for two hours! I found out that wake us up so late cos a tragedy happened last night while I was sleeping. Many people woke up but I was sleeping like a pig, thus I do not know anything until then.
After that we prayed for the people who are hurt in the tragedy and wrote get well cards.
The collection of warm fuzzies was interesting. I have a nice number of warm fuzzies. I wanted to vanish on the spot when I saw Ms Mangosteen reading her warm fuzzies. I think I am pathetic. AHHH!
After that we had mass.
The end.
I think this post is rather brief. If i go into details, it will be x2 this length
Monday, November 24, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
30 minutes
In roughly 30 mins, it is my confirmation camp! Dam excited.
I decided to bring my sleeping bag for this camp, even though they stated that it is not necessary cos we are sleeping in bunks and i will look stupid with a sleeping bag. However, i think that it will be really cold at night, from past experiences, cos i am sleeping with crazy people whose life ambition is to sleep in north pole. Thus a sleeping bag will make a good blanket.
Will be back on sunday
I decided to bring my sleeping bag for this camp, even though they stated that it is not necessary cos we are sleeping in bunks and i will look stupid with a sleeping bag. However, i think that it will be really cold at night, from past experiences, cos i am sleeping with crazy people whose life ambition is to sleep in north pole. Thus a sleeping bag will make a good blanket.
Will be back on sunday
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
WX proudly presents...
Finally finished it! Aiming to replace the current brotherhood video. Did it quite fast, only spent about 10 hours on it.(Below average) Will only continue working on it once i get a new set of footage. If anyone got any useful videos and would like to help, please send it to me.
Constructive comments are welcomed. Comments about quality are not constructive and will be ignored.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Library CIP
I have been doing CIP in AMK library. Last Thursday was the last day. I did 3 hrs everyday, for 10 days. Thus, I would have gained 30 hrs of CIP. Besides that, I also have a great time. It was a very interesting experience.
I did shelving for the first 3 days. Although it was boring, but I kinda miss it. I have to arrange books in alphabetical order, neatly on the shelves. I think it was very beneficial. If I were to do shelving for 10 days straight, I should be able to recite all the alphabets in reverse order.
However, on the fourth day, there was a change of staff. The new batch of staff has enough people to do shelving, so the CIP students do not do shelving anymore. Instead of shelving, they made me promote the email notification service instead. It was quite interesting; I met some people from school. However, the fun did not last, it gets boring very quickly. I soon find myself glancing at my watch very 5 mins.
On the eightieth day, they felt that very little people come to the library on weekends, so they gave me a new job. They made me scan through children books and discard books that were old or torn. It was more interesting. At least I get to read some fairytale when no one was looking.
The ninth day was the most interesting. When I was scanning through the books, one library staff suddenly yelled, ‘lets play donkey’. So, they all went into a room and played donkey. From the laughter emitting from the room, I can infer that they were having a great time. I was quite shocked when I see this happening. I didn’t know it was so fun working.
After they were done with the game, they came out of the room discussing on how the forfeit was too light and what should the forfeit be the next time they play. The new forfeit is that the loser must wear a hat saying ‘I am the donkey’ as long as he is in the office. LOL
However, someone change the topic halfway. They went on to discuss about a serious subject, politics, in a not so serious manner. They discuss about how politicians whack their opponents with microphones. LOL. It was very nice; there was a lot of fun and laughter on that day.
I did shelving for the first 3 days. Although it was boring, but I kinda miss it. I have to arrange books in alphabetical order, neatly on the shelves. I think it was very beneficial. If I were to do shelving for 10 days straight, I should be able to recite all the alphabets in reverse order.
However, on the fourth day, there was a change of staff. The new batch of staff has enough people to do shelving, so the CIP students do not do shelving anymore. Instead of shelving, they made me promote the email notification service instead. It was quite interesting; I met some people from school. However, the fun did not last, it gets boring very quickly. I soon find myself glancing at my watch very 5 mins.
On the eightieth day, they felt that very little people come to the library on weekends, so they gave me a new job. They made me scan through children books and discard books that were old or torn. It was more interesting. At least I get to read some fairytale when no one was looking.
The ninth day was the most interesting. When I was scanning through the books, one library staff suddenly yelled, ‘lets play donkey’. So, they all went into a room and played donkey. From the laughter emitting from the room, I can infer that they were having a great time. I was quite shocked when I see this happening. I didn’t know it was so fun working.
After they were done with the game, they came out of the room discussing on how the forfeit was too light and what should the forfeit be the next time they play. The new forfeit is that the loser must wear a hat saying ‘I am the donkey’ as long as he is in the office. LOL
However, someone change the topic halfway. They went on to discuss about a serious subject, politics, in a not so serious manner. They discuss about how politicians whack their opponents with microphones. LOL. It was very nice; there was a lot of fun and laughter on that day.
Friday, November 14, 2008
biking in the rain
Today is my second session of biking in the holidays. It was an interesting experience. I intend to cycle to kebun baru pri school (Catholic High School Primary’s former campus). I did not manage to reach there the previous time cos I got lost and went to AMK secondary school than to pierce instead.
I started to make my way there after two rounds of warm up in Bishan park. However it rained very heavily when I was half way there. I decided it was too heavy and I cannot carry on my journey. So, I decided to cycle in a random void deck to hide from the rain.
Cycling in the void deck made me realized that it is more courageous, more exciting to cycle in the rain compared to hiding in a void deck, Anyone can hide, the strong are those that dare to face challenges instead of hiding from it. I decided to cycle home in the rain.
I cycled very slowly, not because I am afraid that I will fall, but because I cherish the moment. I want to remember how the rain pound against my face, how the rain tastes like water, how my wet shirt sticks on my skin.
It was an interesting experience. I love interesting experiences.
I started to make my way there after two rounds of warm up in Bishan park. However it rained very heavily when I was half way there. I decided it was too heavy and I cannot carry on my journey. So, I decided to cycle in a random void deck to hide from the rain.
Cycling in the void deck made me realized that it is more courageous, more exciting to cycle in the rain compared to hiding in a void deck, Anyone can hide, the strong are those that dare to face challenges instead of hiding from it. I decided to cycle home in the rain.
I cycled very slowly, not because I am afraid that I will fall, but because I cherish the moment. I want to remember how the rain pound against my face, how the rain tastes like water, how my wet shirt sticks on my skin.
It was an interesting experience. I love interesting experiences.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Toys Buffet
I went for the Toys Buffet CIP, not because I need CIP hours, but cos I am inspired by the manga Aishiteruze Baby. After reading that manga, I feel that taking care of kids is really fun, so I signed up for this CIP.
This event did not go as I fantasized. It was crowded, chaotic and badly planned. There were a lot of people, about 130+ sec2s, 90 more people from other schools and only 2 SEC3s, me and toufu. There were people that did all the work and people that did nothing at all. The slackers have hours of free time. ( I saw some ACS people playing bridge) The enthusiastic did not even have proper lunch. There is also a serious lack of communication. Many child ambassadors do not even know when is each shift coming or leaving.
Despite all the negative points, I enjoyed it. It was fun.
I was hoping to be a child ambassador so that I can interact with kids. However, I landed in a ‘Special Special Force’. If they had been honest, it would have been called Sai-Kang Group. They made us shift about 100 crates of drinks from the storeroom, to the stage, to the back stage and then to the canteen. After that, we have almost nothing to do. However, even though there were about 100 child ambassadors, 50 of them were slacking. Thus there was a shortage of manpower. So we were told to become child ambassadors and take care of kids. YAY!
Toufu left at 4pm. So I became the only sec3 there. Sucks to be me.
It ended at about 5.30pm. After that was cleaning up time. I stacked chairs, packed leftover toys and picked up rubbish. I was the only sec3 there so I have a give-me-something-to-do-and-I-will-do-it attitude as I do not want to be left out. After we cleaned the place, we helped the primary school teachers to arrange 300 chairs cos they have a mammoth activity, called primary 1 registration. In the end, I went home at about 7.30pm although the event ended at 5.30pm.
Note: Do not get the wrong idea. The way I write seem like I regretted participating. However, the truth is, I enjoyed it. I liked it. I do not regret attending it. It was a meaningful experience. It was fun. It was a good deed.
This event did not go as I fantasized. It was crowded, chaotic and badly planned. There were a lot of people, about 130+ sec2s, 90 more people from other schools and only 2 SEC3s, me and toufu. There were people that did all the work and people that did nothing at all. The slackers have hours of free time. ( I saw some ACS people playing bridge) The enthusiastic did not even have proper lunch. There is also a serious lack of communication. Many child ambassadors do not even know when is each shift coming or leaving.
Despite all the negative points, I enjoyed it. It was fun.
I was hoping to be a child ambassador so that I can interact with kids. However, I landed in a ‘Special Special Force’. If they had been honest, it would have been called Sai-Kang Group. They made us shift about 100 crates of drinks from the storeroom, to the stage, to the back stage and then to the canteen. After that, we have almost nothing to do. However, even though there were about 100 child ambassadors, 50 of them were slacking. Thus there was a shortage of manpower. So we were told to become child ambassadors and take care of kids. YAY!
Toufu left at 4pm. So I became the only sec3 there. Sucks to be me.
It ended at about 5.30pm. After that was cleaning up time. I stacked chairs, packed leftover toys and picked up rubbish. I was the only sec3 there so I have a give-me-something-to-do-and-I-will-do-it attitude as I do not want to be left out. After we cleaned the place, we helped the primary school teachers to arrange 300 chairs cos they have a mammoth activity, called primary 1 registration. In the end, I went home at about 7.30pm although the event ended at 5.30pm.
Note: Do not get the wrong idea. The way I write seem like I regretted participating. However, the truth is, I enjoyed it. I liked it. I do not regret attending it. It was a meaningful experience. It was fun. It was a good deed.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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.
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
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.
- 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.
- As they move to the pri school side, there will be an attack. One person will die at this stage.
- 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.
- As they move to the chapel, there will be an attack. 1 person will die at this stage.
- 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.
- The final place, the D and T toilet. Benedict and Ernest will attack them. They are not supposed to survive the previous stage.
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
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