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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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