Tuesday, September 8, 2009

ALRIGHT ~ just came back from camp .The camp started 3 days ago and EX 1,2,3 are all participating as i have already completed EX 3 , i help out as an NCO with the sec ones to guard their safety and see their performance , teamwork and leadership skills and i was not suppose to help them in any form in their walk , the first day was alright , simple everything ... i was placed in team 4 ,The next day , the walk with them started off at bishan MRT station , then to some industrial park a few hundred meters away , the piece of paper with the next MGR (magnetic grid reference) took some time for my team to find , as what they plot was a cremation (burning of the dead) place ... and they wasted time there searching for the paper there , in the end they found the paper taped 150m away from them , as the other teams gathered there -_-'' well , the next Mgr was the interesting one (and also the serious one) . upper thompson rd , the roads which have alot small monkeys , heard that even if they are small they are all very strong (OCT Fabian ) , so we went there and althought there are not alot monkeys , and all looked suprising cute and harmless , but the safety of the sec1 boys are in my hands ... and some even want to beat the monkey (they didnt) the road was surrounded by trees and it was rather a long stretch (for the Ex1) , all made it out safely through the CP (checkpoint) , and the next check point was in somewhere around sembawang HDB (forgot the blk number) THAT was the longest checkpoint distance in the EX1as they went from thompson to sembawang ... we spent much time finding for it as it is in the HDB in the end have to call for tips from other team (shhh~ ally ~) then we meet and waited at the CP as CLT Yip Han says the safety vehicle will be here in 30 minutes as they brought water for us ... actually our team is so in need of water ,before that we already filled our bottles with water from the nearby kopitiam ... then the next Mgr was from sembawang to some places else (forgot the place) but got alot terrace houses then we meet the other group there in the CP then after that we walked to some HDB again , but this time we saw the Golden Dragon Van parked outside , so we know its somewhere there , then after that ,the ulu-iest road (for EX1) which was the terraces houses to the final destination (Sembawang Park) the road was quiet and the team just kept very quiet and walked many old houses and abandoned around ... we went the final CP at 9 pm , very entertaining trip and i love it as its urban ~ 1st Tiek's group , 2nd Kiat's group , 3rd Kun's group , 4th Teo's group , this walk is not a race , as we start off at different timing and its the sec ones who did the plotting and leading ... Vincent , Andrew , Shi Wei and Chi Seng ... vincent and andrew plays during the walk and sprints away from the team during the walk just for fun , until they were called back by me . Shi Wei and chi seng potential leaders , and good topo-ers ... the team tend to be serious only when they are tired , and they tend not to stick or communicate with each other well , unless i start a topic ...sec 1's Team walking speed ,1m/s- 1.5m/s (strolling speed) ... EX3 of sec3s 2009, 3.5 -4.5 m/s (jogging speed) ... well u know smth really pathetic ? The sec ones pitch a tent in 1 hour and are not perfect tents ~ well after some time in the park (final destination) the EX3 group came , sec 3s , CSM , kian nam and basil ... all injuries on their legs , they kena barbed by barbed wires durng the trip ... so poor thing ... then when the NCOs waiting for their dinner at 2+ am , go 2 ppl sleepwalk , Sec3 : Basil , walks from bench to bench while asleep , the other Sec 1: (dunno name)stood up and smashed his own basha tent and when CLT wen yang asked him 'where is your tent ?' , the sec1 boy points to the sea ... and while waiting for the food to come , the primers and officers 'celebrated' birthday for CLT wen yang , got cake and champagne , we did not eat the cake , but drank the champagne ( i dun think its alcoholic ) ... then at the morning of the next day , there is 2 tents near the sec1s boys tent which one is 2 male and 2 female in their 20s and another is a 30+ couple in the tent , then both tents produces some funny sounds (think) in their tents one at night and the other in the day ... then then NCOs kept laughing and wanted to disturb them by adding more sounds (marcus) ... ... well who cares ?!?!? I love expeditions !!! God answered our prayers of a fine weather ... there's alot alot to write and once again i did not write everything down , just the points ... MY PROJECTOR GOT DAI JI , CAN SWITCH ON , BULB DOES NOT LIGHT UP !!!