`Final Memoirs~

21 noviembre 2007

Mundane Wednesday

Dang, my first real enjoyment of the holidays has come, and yea, its BORING. Woke up. Ate a 'cheese dog'. Drank a cup of coffee. Played Drift n burn 365 on Shockwave, and prepared to go for tuition.

On my way back home, played arcade with the company again. I finally defeated Keisuke Takahasi, and i also defeated Iketani, next will be Nakazato of the Myogi Night Kids.

Met my mum, bought groceries, dinner, and dat's abt all....

Cheese DOG:

Nice right? Sausage wrapped with cheese, pretty nice.

[P]rince [P]ickles has been doodling again at 8:06 p. m.``
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20 noviembre 2007

Farewell 'Party'

Attention Attention.

Members of PB please take note.

13th Dec, Thursday
Farewell 'PaRty' for IP-goers.
1 day activity.
Programmed Activities :

Afternoon - Movie
Late Afternoon - Bowling (tentative)
Evening - Night Safari.

Meals will be settle on our own in between activities.
Projected cost: $37 per head.

Cost breakdown

Movie: $8
Bowling: $7
Night Safari: $22

Please drop me an email if u r interested. We are waiting...

[P]rince [P]ickles has been doodling again at 3:48 p. m.``
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19 noviembre 2007

Shooting Competition

The day of reckoning is over. Our last chance to prove ourselves as part Bs is over. Hopefully we are able to take home an award or 2...

Well as usual, woke up at 9am in the morning... Ok straight to the point.
Set off for Khatib Mrt at 11.
Waited very very very very long for Rong Xuan to arrive.
Had to call Mr Goh a few times.
he told us to wait till 12.30, if he doesn't arrive by then, bye RX.
he arrived right after i put down the phone.
Poor Yu Cheng has to be a reserve again.
Took the second shuttle bus to Nee Soon Camp.
Registered our names, went into the waiting room..
IT WAS FULL OF PEOPLE
Tall, short, fat, thin, practically all the people you might see in the world.
After a super boring briefing, a long wait awaited us....
After the wait, finally it was our turn to shoot. Nervous-ness.
I was shivering, both cos it was cold and i was nervous.
After assisting the previous detail, it was our turn to shoot.
Zeroing was ok. Was boosted with high morale.
Delibrate. dammit, i think i missed one shot there, fell on the margin.
Snap. Lost 2 shots dere. fell on the margin again. I M UNLUCKY.
Rx got 14.
Kenneth got 15.
I got 17.
Gabriel got 19.
Congrats Gabriel, welcome to the league of marksmen.
Dam emo after realising our scores. So we sat down there and emo.
ok probably only i emo-ing.
from b4 to after the competition, the kenneth and rx like no reaction de
b4 competition totally not nervous
after competition get so lousy score still so happy.
our school score: 65/80 (its not school placing)
And a super 'small' yellow bus came to take us back to school.
Had macs with Yu Cheng and Kenneth.
Played PlayStation at the Sony store again.
Home Sweet Home.
hmm, and hope elephant's mum gets well soon...

Signing off.
-Pickles.

[P]rince [P]ickles has been doodling again at 7:17 p. m.``
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17 noviembre 2007

Archery

Woke up early today, went to school, took a bus down to NorthBrooks Secondary School for archery

We assembled our bow wore our arm guard assembled the bow stand, den we went of to shoot... very very very atrocious shooting from our grp, very atrocious...'lost' the competition...

After Archery course, me Wei kit yu cheng and Darren go j8 eat... i changed into home clothes alr... Den i and wei kit eat the buddy meal...lols. Den we went to play the PlayStation at the Sony concept store..Play liao den we go arcade....Some very very funny things happen. i kena own by the machine. Then after some things happen, den we left to play the PlayStation again. After that i returned home to blog.

Here are the photos...

Bow and arrows

Target Board

Gar Wye...

SM warren laoba (teammember)

Wei Kit (teammember)

Donson

jacob

Joel

SM Warren Laoba

Sgt wei shan..his archery is..OMG IMBA!

Joel

Wei Kit

[P]rince [P]ickles has been doodling again at 3:40 p. m.``
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16 noviembre 2007

PB camp.

Just back from PB camp, it was quite slack, very fun. Let me elaborate in the form of a timeline.

day 1.

Morning.

Straight after tuition at woodlands, i rushed down to bishan to attend the PB camp. When i arrived they were playing captains ball. After helping my team score 2 more points, we return to our bunks, and prepared for lunch and the skit later on in the night during the campfire.

My team members are :

Bryan
Brandon
Darren
Dong Hong
Gabriel
Caleb
Kenneth

Afternoon.

Lunch was a meal of rice, and... and....imitation crab claws, and lemon chicken. And the drink was pink guava....I ate till my tummy exploded. Then one of the Excos said that Sgt Major Warren (who is also a prefect) looks like me....or shld i say, i look like sgt major Warren, they say we look like 父子...then we decided to play along...so i call him, Warren papa, and he call my yong liang erzi...lol..dam funny.ya and i played Sgt major warren's NFS carbon on his handphone and beat the game dunno how many times, now we are on the quest to completely tune all the cars in the game.....we completed the Audi quattroporte and we almost finished the Mitsubishi evo....After lunch was supposed to be some lecture la, but in the end we watch some movie.... Then the Sec 2s were told to create this election campaign the poster and banner....so we decided to draw a picture of a model student, of course, who other then phan nop can be a better model...so i drew a cartoon boy with the picture of phan nop in my head...after everything i made everyone sign on the piece of mahjong paper and i gave it to phan nop as a gift...lol so he will remember us even when he go to m'sia...back to the campaign...i was the 'head prefect', Swee yan and Jun yao will be the 'vice-heads' Jason and Jia wei are the 'exec members' ya...dat's all...for now....

Evening

Dinner, we had PIZZA...too bad no picture off pizzas, they all kope finish all liao..sacrifice one of my pizza for a hungry sec 1...sacrifice is always necessary..haix...We had chips too...and lots of soft drinks...and ice...ya. After dinner.... SCAVENGER HUNT.

For scavenger hunt, we given a sheet of paper with clues, den e supposed to find all the letters, den form something dat has something to do with leaders...tata...Den halfway thru, i kena kidnapped....den i go out of sch go help mr teo..haha, den after that slack in SL room, drink pepsi, play com with phan nop, den we read ghost sotries, den after that something scary happened then we totally freaked out la...lol

Campfire.

My grp did the Elmo dance or sumthing, den a lto of ghost stories told, a very small fire, and very tired members of PB..haha... After campfire, bathe, then i and caleb first shift of guard duty, make sure all of them sleep....Mr teo give us lightstick play...lol....

Walk and walk..until can fall aslp...finally our 1 hr shift over then i 一觉到天亮....

Day 2.

Morning.

Morning wake up le, go down for PT...haha i lead PT!!!!...Warren laoba was like saying:' those want high post in their cca de, very big ambition one, come out here lead pt'...lol..cos i got very very very big ambition in NCC air..i first to volunteer lolz.

First was warm-up..

Second was a very fun run lead by me....i run so super slow alr then they cannot catch up....very good...

third we go fitness corner climb wall!!! my favourite station at the fitness corner. so i say everyone must climb if they want breakfast.....slowly but surely we all went over the wall...ya..haha.

Breakfast we had burger and ICE MILO!!! enjoyable breakfast, continued with NFS...lol.

Then we went back bunk. change, prepare for wet activities..the wet activities wasn't very enjoyable..but ok....

Bathe...

LUNCH.

Rice. Sweet & sour pork. Cereal Prawn. Fruit Punch

ate until full, drink until full, what more to know...after lunch., some lecture, then we went thru next year's duties, took dam long...5+, break camp..FINALLY!!...sian so late no more arcade liao..lol....

ok that's all, here are the pictures...

Our Election Mascot

Our election mascot again

Jun yao, the vice-head

Jia Wei, exec member, secretary

Timothy, a sec 3 helping us.

Swee yan, vice head.(a lot of us say he looks like a girl..)

SM Warren.

Me, Swee yan and Jason. (left to right)

Me and Jun yao. (left to right)

The poster...

Catholic High Democratic Party

The CHDP hierarchy.

Jia Hao, a real sec 3 exco..sleeping during a mass lecture..

[P]rince [P]ickles has been doodling again at 7:42 p. m.``
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11 noviembre 2007

Camps

I finally returned in one piece after enduring through 2 camps in a row, the first being OAL camp, the latter being my 4th NCC Part B Leadership Camp. Let me talk about the former first.

By 7, all the OALs - to - be have already assembled in the school premises. Our OAL journey started with a brief ice-breaker, then we started planning our hike, from Catholic High to our final destination, Changi Coast Adventure Camp. I was in the same group as Johnervan. What we dreaded most happened, our teacher-in-charge was Mr Goh Kee Yong. i wun elaborate about the bad things that happened once we set off, the main point is, it took us about 3 hours to walk from the school to raffles institution, and we played a lot of scissors paper stones, and flipping coins. After numerous ordeals, we arrived at the Singapore post building to have our lunch. i ate with the guys from my class at the food court at the basement. After lunch, we dropped by Fairprice to do some shopping, we bought mentos. glucose is very very important...

We assembled again, and continued our hike, all was smooth till we hit east coast park. Mr goh announce that our team member has become a 'casualty', therefore someone has to carry him, so i did. and i carried him from the start of east coast park, to the end of the park, with short breaks in between. it was a very very tiring experience...later on, more casualties were declared and the going got tougher, but also, we, the tough, got going.

A twist of fate made all our casualties ok and we ran off straight to CCAC, we arrived there at 8pm. it took us 12 hours to get there, we were the last grp to arrive.

The activities at the OAL camp the next day was fun, we did kayaking, we kayaked on the open seas, endured the cold, got our paddles stolen, paddled with our hands etc. in short, it was sadistic, yet enjoyable experience. the next day was belay school, and before we knew it, our camp was over.

Now for the Leadership camp...

All carrying haversacks, we the part bs assembled in school. Our leadership camp started with a short brief, the camp oic and 2ic for that day was announced, i was Alpha platoon's platoon IC. the camp oic was thor, n 2ic was jared. After attendance taking, a bag check was conducted, all excess items were confiscated, uniform check, i had one problem with my uniform...a loose thread...dammit.

Our punishment? 2 rounds arnd the track in 6 mins, with our belongings. As we ran, things from bags started falling out, there was a big mess, however we stuck as a team, even though we did not meet the time limit, i feel that we tried out best and we had done a good job help one another. After placing our belongings in our bunks, we had our IFC mutuals. we were thought the knowledge, and we were to teach our own platoons on IFC, in our IFC mutual test. I got second...for my IFC test.

Lunch was field cooking, as usual. After lunch, we went to the rifle range, do some air rifle stuff, did some trainfire stuff, yea. lol. then did some arm drills wif our dummy m-16s... very soon, dinner was ready, cheer session after dinner, then came the night.

Dat night we had sentry duty. it was a very exciting experience..i and benedict totally pwned. lol. owend the NCOs la, lol really owned sgt min ron...muahaha. we tot we wun become PoWs...however, a dreamy samuel cost my 'life'. i became a PoW, spent the rest of the night at the PoW camp.

Next morning, bfast, unit hierarchy, learn how to plan camp, den lunch, after dat was the medic stuff, fell aslp, rested (NCos let us rest.. :p so nice) taught air syllabus, learn abt this guy called Bernoulli.. den came some drills, pumping, drills, went out to buy dinner, came back, dinner, GSk lecture, cadets' night, supper n debrief.

Today, PT in the morning, GSK test, i got second, a talk on leadership, clean up de bunk, cleared our pumping wif a very fun chain pumping exercise...BREAK CAMP!

Then when i came home, i thought about wat sir anthony said, well, now, getting CSM doesn't really matter anymore although i want it, what matters is the soul, if i were to only get a spec, then i will show the world what this spec can do.

[P]rince [P]ickles has been doodling again at 6:18 p. m.``
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03 noviembre 2007

Forgotten

It all started out as a normal day, until my parents decided to take me out for dinner, they even agreed to bring me to the arcade to play with me after dinner, from that moment i knew it was to good to be true, because previously, they promised the same thing, however they forgotten.

After tuition, i rushed back home, on my way back, i was imagining abt the whale of a time me and my dad would have at the arcade. The dinner was pretty enjoyable, however we never went down to the arcade. it happened the same previously, they forgot. As the minutes passed by about 8, i thought we might go, however when we were still walking around Thomson plaza at 9, i knew they clearly forgotten about their promise to me, again.

It's not that i'm not happy they did not bring me to the arcade, but if they could not fulfil the promise, dun promise, its not hard to say no.

they hardly spare time for me, never. i hope for them to bring me to a local theme park, but that never happens, the best i can expect from them is only a meal. what's more, they dun spare time for me, that's fine, they dun let me spend time with frens either, i have already said the excuse my mum dun let me go, so many times i myself feel embarrassed, however, that's the truth, my mum nvr allows me, till now, i nvr caught a movie with a fren. well, maybe i've got no frens, no frens at all...

[P]rince [P]ickles has been doodling again at 10:07 p. m.``
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Yesterday.

Haha. Had a good time yesterday. Woke up at 6 to prepare for training. Had a quick breakfast of pastry then put on my No.3 uniform before heading down to school.

Again, people had to be late. Then our opening parade commenced. We were later briefed by Sgt Major Warren on our Sec 3 camp details. Later on we proceeded with drills, yeah, dun remind me of that long hentataki drill. lol. After berhenti. Sgt Min Ron called for the shooting com ppl to go shooting le...wow...time really does pass fast, when u r doing the hentataki drill...

Then we were off to Safra. arrived there punctually. Yea Safra Yishun has not changed much, the GMTS room is crappy, yes crappy. The sand bag was sand wrapped in a trash bag then put into a gunny sack, although crappy it is certainly an improvement from foam and pillows. Yea, my sandbag later was badly screwed and decided to shoot unsupported all the way. Believe it or not, i shoot unsupported better then supported...probably cos of the sand bag....Yea we all didn't shoot really well, the safra system is screwed. And it went into instructor control so many times i can't count. And i just found out, instructor control can be disabled when u go to the main screen and setting up the weapon config again, however, the computer is lagging so much, restarting would be a better choice. Oh, and i later stupidly believe the NCOs instruction to print..when i hit print...it went into instructor console...damnit.

went back home, changed clothes went back to sch, waited very very very very very very very very long for staff Sp and Sgt major warren to be ready and found out there was a whole grp of NCOs joining us for lunch..=) Then after a super duper long lunch, Sgt major, staff Sp and me and Darren and Gary ll went to arcade..yea...i luv inital d although i m not good at it. Yea i spent i think 7 bucks. I also played daytona wif Sgt major warren.. =D. Pretty fun, won staff Sp/Darren but lost Sgt major warren, hmm he is really..a very good...demolition derby driver? lol. Yea that's abt all other then staring at ppl playing intial d, small kids can be uber pro at it, so dun be impatient and challenge a small kid...

That's bout all...yea..bye

[P]rince [P]ickles has been doodling again at 8:46 a. m.``
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01 noviembre 2007

'Thank You's

Wanted to post this up a long time ago...but decided to stop emo-ing first. Well i want to thank Mr Goh, Mr Tan, Staff Daniel, Staff John and many otehr people that supported the Orienteering team. Although we didn't win, but still, i would like to thank them.

Thank Mr Goh for getting us an instructor and keeping faith in our batch despite our many disappointments, Mr Tan, for being our instructor, without him, i guess we might have got lost in Amoy Quee camp, Staff Daniel for training us up in preparation for our Orienteering Competition, making our Orienteering Experience an enjoyable one, and last but not least Staff John for being understanding and letting us go without question for our orienteering training without question everytime halfway through PDS. Sadly, i also had to disappoint Staff Sui Peng for doing badly in my PDS test.

Anyway, even though we lost this competition, i guess it was a well-fought war, blame it on our lack of experience, blame it on the terrain, blame it on the time, blame it on our complacency, but i know we tried our best.

Now, I guess i should focus on my shooting competition, hope i can bring back at least an award to make the NCOs, especially Staff John, make Mr Goh, Mr Teo and Mrs Chua proud of our Part B batch. Let's hope we make them proud this time, let me not screw this one up. Wish me luck...pls...by tagging.

[P]rince [P]ickles has been doodling again at 9:16 p. m.``
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