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(Thursday, 7 June 2007-)
+6/07/2007 05:05:00 pm]*

Title: our amoeba days-

hey
i just feel so sorry that i can't get an entry about our production fully before going to ltc. but i'll do it for ltc now, so that there'll be no more regrets in future. hope you won't mind...

day one.

yup, they said that it's gonna be soft skills. no wonder so boring in the talk when the melvin guy was going on and on in the auditorium. slept for some parts. hehe, without being caught. but really, the environment was so perfect that almost everyone was semi-sleeping, if not in dreamland.

then when we were asked to do a short portray of ways to communicate, i did the most horrible things. trash act. and when asked why i did that, did the worst thing for a leader to commit.. ASSUME. yup, he told us earlier not to, apparently i was dozing... haha :)

okay, it was too harsh. the instructor had sufficient material to talk about such that it divided some of the 'aiya, no big deal stuff la...' things into the stuff that have been happening in drama.

oh!! and also, our group was the only one to go do forfeits whenever any of our group members had to go up front. or rather, we did all of them. and we so rocked 'cause the girls suggested them!! and btw, there're only four of them!! haha

just when i was thinking of how i'd be suffering for a few more hours of dry talk, there's the activities. yeah, killed my boredom. haha!! :D

was a real idiot at first station. wanted to help by calling all the rest to move to the cave for it. but was soo blur. the rest were already waiting for me when i rushed to that stupid place... sigh. anyway, it was the skipping as a group game. tough part is, ten people and ten times continuously. but we managed to conquer the other team by miles. whoosh!!

then because we could only find all the other stations besides the first, they were real easy to get to. hahaha :D and we reached before the rest. all the time. yeah!!

second, the hoops game while the rest lifted a bucket of water with their feet. real dumb. the first shot in they'll have to remove their shoes, next'll wear them back, third'll end the game. so complex!! but best part is that, i wasn't looking out for my team mates whether they have done with their part. perhaps should have asked them to confirm like what i did before my third shot. argh, whatever.

another was jacob's ladder. used three metallic poles to transfer three blind-folded people through a distance. gab n i were like the damn pro type where we held our rod while grabbing the girls' elbows. they grabbed our shoulders for suppport, which really made them looked like blind crabs. haha, but they seriously trusted us and moved with ease.

the rest can't remember. but all i remember was the last station. the blind leading the blind. damn pathetic. we're all blind-folded and had to be holding each other throughout the audi extension. led by gab, we went by the audi door... anyway, tiffanie was complaining about my sweat from behind... didn't reali end. but when i was real bored of having such quiet time where all of us dunno what to do, i started to massage for clarisse. well, great that drama people could teach me smth like this a week ago. banged lots of places during the journey. too scared... haha :)

that early night at 7 pm, during debrief before showertime, mr wong was at the foyer, telling us about our problems in the stations. good thing, but things turned bad when i found that i was so irritating in some of the stations. just then, i was energised when she was on her phone and getting out of school. if i wasn't in that situation, i'd've just called her name. but no!! wrong time!! anyway, a slight glance was enough to spot her. and also, i think it was quite obvious that i was trying to sit higher just to see her better. some of the guys might have noticed me being wierdfor then. haha :)

that night had a lecture talk. super sianzz. women everest team talk. haha, i'm even taking slight naps while typing this out...

day two

macritchie park day. am super duper proud of ourselves to be the only team to see the park ranger nagging to us for the WARGH GAME.

some parts of the heated argument was the permit thingy, the fear of getting the infra-red rays from our guns might burn the trees and then cause forest fire to the entire national park. then the animals will just have no home to stay in and the naturally reserved piece of land there will simply be destroyed. and also that our noise level might be a source of noise pollution where the cute little creatures will be irritated by us. how shallow that guy is. how pitiful.

there was an alumni who was following us as the attackers group. he defended us fantastically well but old bloody jackass was so ruuuude that he wasn't giving any respect to any of us at all!! kept on bugging on the points, "you don't have a permit..." if possible, i'll just go forward to give him one tight slap. irritating piece of trash. another one will be for scolding natasha (-oh, she's our student facil...). oh, he said smth like this, "i'm not talking to you, can you please... how can you be so rude...?". wth. what's more? he was pointing to her and giving her that act-strong face. thank goodness she could manage herself. i couldn't. seriously.

vp tan was humbly accepting what that basket said. in the end our group really gave three cheers to him. he deserved it. especially when he was protecting natasha real tight and got louder than that idiot at times. he's just our hero.

it felt damn good when debbie was hiding someone and shouted softly "he's damn rude!!" seriously, cheers when i was staring his face turning to from power to fear. yay!!

we reached this stage 'cause we're by-passing ranger station and there's an old fat ugly gross bitch stopped us from there. eventually we had to retreat by getting back to the jelutong station. =.='''

basically for the war game, we're so busy firing each other at practice that no one could connect us with our scouters. and also, the walkies and handphones weren't working.

anyway... supposedly, debbie was real good at finding her way through the enemy. she and wei xiang were just like a tired father and an energetic girl when we shooters caught up with them one hour later. hahaha :D. no wonder she had all the praise at night... great job!!

next was the station games. misty valley was a game where our group had to divide into two. both teams start from the two sides and the objective was that to take the flag from the centre and transfer it back.

for our side, i camped at the ammunition area and fire the ping-pong balls (take it as bombs) while gab just moved real swiftly and grabbed the flag so quickly. owned. haha, sound so violent.. (: for myself, i killed three people, yay!! but really, thanks to clarisse's fantastic way of telling gab on the steps to move and of course, tiffanie who was using some chinese and directed me so well that i literally aimed so well... haha:D.

at the last of the five rounds, maximilian took over me. low morale 'cause i was killed. useless terence... anyway, i saw a whole new world to the game. debbie was crazy to throw all her bombs all at one shot and managed to kill some!! whoa! haha :) but max is definitely better. he was supposed to aim at debbie but one dumb alumni game master was right between the two and it smashed on his head. BANG!! incredible!!

next game. vicious peak was my fav. it was a game where our sherpas, gab and martini, will have to lead at most two people with every movement along the seven storey wooden tower at jelutong station. first instruction was damn simple "start guiding your people up now." no obstacle at all, yet we so dumbly try to de-code what ms april chok was telling us. hahaha, think too much!! :D. no wonder she's like why you all not going huh?? sounded like we're retards like that.

i went up with the girls first, thinking that i might cause lesser trouble by staying away. then someone actually counted the number of levels we took and started singing:

seven on the seven floor
tu da... tu da...
seven on the seven floor
tu da tu da hey
tu da tu da hey, tu da tu da hey...
seven on the seven floor
tu da tu da hey... HEY!!

after that there was a dance to that spastic song. i joined in. haha :D

going up was easy. just carry martini up was like no kick for gab... but coming down was like the worse-case scenario. our strong people, max n gab, were to be named as injured people. the rule was that the injured people cannot touch any part of the building... anyway, i went down to the sixth floor first. then i carried gab by lifting at the armpits with my forearms.

then it's quite obvious that i'm so weak to carry gab all the way in which i kinda wanted a little rest at the next level. so i suggested this stupid idea of sitting down on a bench while gab rest on my lap. he stretched his legs to tiff's feet, so his whole body was straight. next was that someone who was taking max decided to join in the fun by laying him on gabriel. max was on his calf. awful position... then someone shouted this, 'threesome!!' hahaha :D laughing all the way. until one brilliant chap found out a way to step on shoes while walking, we stayed in this position for a real long time. we somehow made it when tiff was busy replacing shoes to make a path for gab while i tried to support him. phew! after such a long joke. haha :D

took a long time, but we still managed to complete the station fast. so we all went up to the top of the building when wx's cam crew were nearby. we cam-whored!! always fun to do such things. haha :)

that night, truth or dare game. everyone did at least one, i suppose. for mine, nah, it's not impt... but the funny parts were when gab was DARN good at pole-dancing. then debbie and andrew krygs were grinding mark v. apparently, she's fake, but he's horny!! haha :D they just rocked the whole quadrangle. btw, charles can reali provide us with some sick dare ideas. sji, perhaps.. hahaha :D

day three

shines place. tested our strength.

grouped with tiff and siming at negotiation course. hanged on ropes. me being so wierd, can convince people to get across obstacles, but became so nervy when it's my turn. haha. first level was ok. but second was the one where sm dropped out. tiff and i left together. moved to the centre pillar (-there're five of them, we started from the sides) and when she moved so far ahead, she landed on the middle platform first. by the time she proceeded off to holding the bottle, i was left stranded with that harry instructor guy. he said i there's no time and must go on a different route from her. wth. but i had to move anyway, so not so scared. but that fella, he's shaking the bloody rope that kept my heart pounding... but thanks to tiff and the rest, she's always trying to convince me that it's gonna be easy task... all the girls were just awesome... but... i bet she's still angry at me ps-ing her then..sorry!! haha :D

did double footline next. oh, it's something where all three rope-walkers will have nothing to hold onto. only stepping on the zig-zag steps stuck to two ropes. they gotta be belayed by their belayers. then there's a rope manager. haha, all the names sounded so pro... 'cause i tried all three roles!! haha :D

by the time i was going up, martini and clarisse had left to prepare for temasek seminar... anyway, i was leading the other two. all i could remember was tiff, 'cause she's the only one there who was trying to talk to me and just distract me from being scared. sry to the other one behind her!! i forgot ya!! but the funny part is that, everyone was just calling me to let go of the safety rope. i hecked-care and shouted back at them... haha :) sounded so rebellious for once... but we managed to finish it somehow... and i learnt to balance by stepping the inner side of the two ropes. only at the final part of the distance. wow, how late!!

felt real sianz when all my energy was used in the high elements earlier. while waiting for the other group, almost all of us were stoning - either staring into blank space or throwing stones; gab's throwing them onto mandy and debbie's thighs, just waiting to hear smth like 'fat thighs'... tiff was so randomly tossing the stones from the ground onto me. sigh, i was half sleeping then and can't reali b bothered...

next was the single footline. we only had vertical hanging ropes to hold and one rope to step on. this time round, last of the three. real scary to see my feet shaking, anw, i kept holding onto the safety rope such that everyone on the ground was shouting for me to let go, again... ok, i did for at most 1 second. haha:D i think much lesser. but during the times when i was trying to calm myself down, i realised how beautiful the scenery of being higher than anyone else was sooo cool!!... and when everyone were trying to cheer me on, there's just a wierd feeling that i can manage it... but anyway, i only learnt how to balance myself when at midway; can only hold the rope by pulling down, not slanted. no wonder i was imbalanced all the time. haha :D

for some strange reason, whenever i'm not on the ropes, i've got this excited feeling that i wanna try onto them. but the moment i step on them, i turned scared. then everytime forced my whole group to end up being the slowest to complete the task... haha :)

for the high elements, tiff and tash were injured. i mean, there're splinters beneath their nails. tiff's one was really bad. totally inside her right index finger. ouch. tears flowed like the sweat we've been producing for the entire camp. tash was pale. good thing that they're treated. but wished i could've shared their burden. 'cause i kept thinking on how pain they might be feeling, yet could do nth.

then there was lunch. no one had the appetite. the (-too) sweet drink was horrible. but thank goodness there was lemon lime drink in the drinks stall that was like the best i've ever drank...

second half was boring. low elements. team building stuff. the things worth remembering was this station. narrow passage game. it's when there's a casualty and the entire team had to use a stretcher and ferry this person through an obstacle course. but this time round, everyone was to stand on wooden stools that were on the stone floor. we're also to imagine that we cannot touch the killer 'piranhas' there. it's damn tough that in the end, everyone 'died' and cheated while ferrying this casualty from group 8. hey, she's got this nice smile... but erm, it's not a time to digress... anyway, the stupid thing was that, the game master said the casualty more impt than the rest... yaya, whatever =.='''...

another game was the high wall. gab was damn fast to think of just pushing each of the guys up while lifting the girls up with them stepping their arms. wow!! no wonder we're just so fast to complete our station.. and so much slack time... haha :) the best thing was that the sc group used it after we intro-ed it to them!! gab rocked our team... haha :D

but the funniest part of all was the game master's english. he told us to 'chain' our leader. erm, it's 'change'. then randomly, i just said smth similar to what chao hao always say about the singlish... haha, it's darn funny when all of us were in stoning mood. :D

went off that shines place the first. and went to the bathroom the first. gab cheong-ed to get the keys real quickly. saddest thing was, we were called to the quadrangle before dinner.

guess what? punishment. mr raju, that camp commander (-that's what they called), listed all our mistakes during the camp for every group and named all we had to do. it's damn retarded. oh, this was what he told us:

your group was segregated as seen from the past few days where some of the talkative ones and the quiet ones were far apart. at macritchie, the talkative ones were way ahead, leaving their teammates behind. names included... (-i just hate name-calling... so i'll leave it blank!!). your job. take thirty mugs from the canteen, fill them with water and run the track once, then go past the gallery. time limit, fifteen minutes.

well, that was kinda kind to us already. running the track once and completing it in fifteen minutes. other groups had to do it like three times with benches or smth like that for twelve minutes... thanks teachers!!

anyway, the first dumb thing about this was, we don't even know where the **** the gallery is!! second, we just took any mug instead of taking those with handle!! third, we were taking our own sweet time trying to plan what type of cups to take. fourth, that's for me. i was wearing my fairy crew shirt!!

but there's one smart thing i did. it's being the time keeper. before mr raju started to give his final instructions, i started my stopwatch. then whenever they asked for time check, i just 報大數. it hurried them and eventually, thank goodness we did it way before time... we rocked!!

then when we got back to assemble at the quadrangle, mr raju told us this, smth that was so fantastic:

actually, what you all have done just now is not related to the mistakes you all commited. it's just to make you remember them...

@#$%^&*!! wth, it's really boiling, but somehow found it very funny... :D

oh, back to where i left off 3 paras ago... the council group (-12 methinks...) were being punished by an alumni. push-ups. michael da silva led the counting. seriously, my mind was blank and didn't know what was happening, until mark v suggested to debbie to do altogether. then they all just shouted to all to do this as one entire body. real massive THING. or at least, it moved my tired body from the ground. they're just influential... many people followed by encouraging the rest to carry on with this despite the pain. no pain no gain was what ian (-from rugby i guess...) said. and these words really made me do more than i could. close to hundred counts, considering that i'm damn weak... it made me feel the impossible. thank you all. and the most impt thing was that it made everyone feel the pressure of being a leader. if we can make it, we're on our way to success.

at night, personality lecture talk. first, mr pang was a real comedian.. gave a funny, gay talk and one which added thosands of ideas. enriching and entertaining. anyway, he was trying to erase the notion of the whatever (-copyrighted thingy) map created by mr tan from our minds (-btw, i reali hated the way he was boasting about his accuracy of the map during our war game's night debrief). and also to not to change the characters of us.

oh, there's smth i truly liked alot when debbie gave this comment 'the council people are living in the world of their own'. it's when jason was acting so exaggerately during his part to talk... haha :D

there's also a clip from 'men of honor', and that how leaders act according to situations. touching scene, 'cause i was thinking on the way i've been treating my log people; close. it's just being harsh. and i could just literally feel what they've been thinking whenever i raised my voice at them then. felt real sorry. which was why i teared and in order to keep it to myself, i was damn silent while debbie and clarisse were giving comments like ouch, how horrible!! and stuff like cursings... sigh, i guess i have to change my way of treating others in future. and... I DON'T DO IT FOR THE SAKE OF CCA VOTING.

anyway, we ended the night real late-past two. . i mean, our group, officially and legally. 'cause of the preparation of the skit. it's real stupid. we originally wanted to re-do the threesome stuff on the following day. but later when there's no values to be learnt, we changed to the single footline idea... but we're just so good that debbie could draft all the narration into smth understoodable. i wouldn't have done that. in the end, we had to be chased by ms april to bed.

then the student facils were forced to stay up late to patrol. but real lazy to catch us when max gab n i went out to the washroom. well, good for us!!

day four

got up damn early to discuss about the skit. 0630am. wth, only like four hours of sleep. but no PT!!! yay! all of us were like getting yawns when doing for the final rehearsal. haha :)

hurried like mad to breakfast, pack bag, listen to lecture and do the online evaluation. crazy life.

then at the closing ceremony. the other groups did real well about their skits. we too!! but i felt we're too cautious by just following the theme... anyway, lots of fun to see everyone to participate in it (-::winks:: i was in a good, high postion on the bench to see that...)

then things ended on a high when we all acted on stage as a group with lots of cheers and actions. it just gave us the power. and also, we held our hands together, side by side as we said the final blessing. meant alot to me, at least. and lastly, we gave three cheers to ltc.. spurred the entire school to join in...

a great feeling to have created this memory for the past few days. we'll definitely meet up someday... after our midyrs.

Labels: terence

yup, so that's what happened (:
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xxx typed*: blog

(Thursday, 7 June 2007-)
+6/07/2007 05:05:00 pm]*

Title: our amoeba days-

Labels: terence

yup, so that's what happened (:
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