NCO camp

finally back home...
after denying my readers posts for so long, its time to reward them with a nice long one =)

today marked the end of the nco camp that we the sec4s were organising.
its difficult to express this kind of things in one word, so why dont i just bring you through the activities. yea

btw obviously i wont go through every single activity ya. sure sian diao, some of the activities not much point to mention.

bag check. usual 10sec thing, meant for some impossibilities to NOT happen -.- ok maybe it can. just dump everything out. but where got people pack liddat one...
and obviously sec3s got pumped for it. heres a picture, not sure why i even took it though. could be my sadistic nature kicking in or something =p



and this is just a random picture of them standing in line with all their stuff. its actually taken on day 2, but nvm.



so i was group IC for group 2. okay lets test my memory now, my grp consists of joshua suwe (swee, nice surname XD), sufyan, aloysius, wei loong and jeson! haha tyty. they're an average bunch, not those uber rowdy ones like...nvm. at least they're friendly enough. not sure if they remembered my name though, but if they were reading this they would probably at least know la.

there was the group base/cheer session...their cheer was dam cliche, adapted (so claimed) from a common cheer but i dont blame them. lack of creativity was a bit sad though.

then standy universe! our batch's nco camp standy universe was uber hiong la. theirs was...far from ours. no HO/CIs to screw them perhaps, so it wasnt that bad. their uniform standard is....also not very good >< sec3 le leh...

rifle drills. shude made me take the newbies (i meant campcraft team ppl), which i initially didnt want, but it was ok. ppl like teng chuan and dhivian are very...energetic, though. what was done? teach/make them do rifle drills, duh. realised i started losing some of my voice at this point. could be because of the bloody "cough drops" i took earlier that morning. anyway it wasnt very nice la. couldnt command properly liao, had to ask the rest to take over.

and now....
skip skip skip fast forward to the immunity challenge: bishan mini hike. now this is cool (or should i say cold). gave us around 20mins to go to our location and BACK to the JB classroom. holy crap, sec3s sure can run. hiong all the way sia. i mean like really all the way.
by this time i had already lost much of my voice, damit. needed to ask jieliang to accompany me, or i wouldve had great difficulty communicating at all.
so my group hiong all the way to scouts association and back. WITHOUT RAIN COVER. not much anyway. so when we got back we were 落汤鸡s, literally. soaked from top to bottom. well, at least we got first ^^ not like some other groups who were also soaked but werent first.
best part is, my handphone got screwed. main buttons not responding. at first i was like omg ggxx, but i remembered reading some random stuff from my friends blog before about being able to get the water in the phone to evaporate by leaving it to dry. so thats what i did, luckily the phone restored itself at like 9+/10 in the night. phew.

war games.
the game was kind of screwed zz. i mean theres only so few sec3s, and they are supposed to be doing stations for at least half of the game as well, so alot of
sec4s are like unnecessary -.-
anyway i thought that the clue was dam dam nice. i mean, there was U2, and five clues that form the word "xiang" if intepreted correctly. its supposed to help you identify the boss (weixiang), and there could be 3 possiblities actually. me and yak could've been possible targets too. if you dont get it heres how it goes; W can be broken up (symmetrically i think) into 2 "U" like shapes right? but for my name and yak's (which happens to be the same =D), U2 could mean a "U" and an "N". wow nice isnt it? but somehow they only thought of weixiang >.< huhu, so sad.

then there was a group debrief, and then lights out. rounds up day 1 more or less.

yes and my voice at the end of day 1 is still pretty much screwed/negligible. bloody sore throat, haiz.

moving on to day 2.
not much exciting things here at the start though. although the sec3s did get screwed for losing their rifles in the night. typical

i was supposed to be conducting this uniform ettiquete/MOI lecture for sec3s later on, but due to my horrible lack of voice i had to ask shude/alasdair to take over. nooo, i wanted to make it dam interesting la. damn.
MOI practice session was obviously an um, important session. alot of the sec3s dont know the right way to go about teaching drills, and some of them were just plain fooling around, like a certain shaun lim ren hua? =/ seems it will be necessary for them to have more MOI prac during normal trainings...but thats another thing altogether.

a random picture of the MOI session, which was a BIT messy/disorganised...=X



by the way the guy standing there with his back turned and his arms on his hips is the OTHER shaun in the sec3 squad. the 2 shauns are the most famous cadets in their squad, which is nice.

almost forgot, there was a standby universe after lunch. at first i was like just looking down at them assemble from above outside our ops control room, then was 2 lone(ly) rifles at the corner. hehe went with shude to snag them up. sec3s complained to us about stuff like "was watching them from a distance", so we cant take them. they dont understand what is "keep it by your SIDE 24/7" do they. tsk tsk.

sec3 parade. actually sec4s dont play much of a part in this la, but we were expected to just watch. anyway, the badge is real cool (sec4s get one too yays), but im lazy to put up a photo. think jianxiong's blog has a picture of it though, if u'd really like to see it u can go there, but i'll probably put it on my bag or something after this =)

dinner had pizza, albeit one slice >< sian
then final group debrief. think it went alright la, but i was just thinking about something; ppl always seem to refuse to say anything when they appear to have alot to say, but say alot when ppl do not ask them to say. like the case of sec3s. they didnt have much to comment on, which is...weird. ah never mind. and i think i sounded pretty weird when conducting the debrief. hopefully they dont think im dam screwed or something =/

lights out time!! yesterday night was super shuang. guowei wanted to go out for dinner (as pizza isnt the most filling thing on earth, esp. not 1 slice), so i borrowed his laptop. to watch yugioh on youtube XD at first only me and yak watching, then ppl started coming back and there was like 10ppl watching the thing LOL. and they decided to put it on the screen for ease of watching. heres some pics:



nice?


practically the whole room was watching, lol...but i like.
dont u think this convinces you that yugioh is an awesome show/anime. despite people saying its a dam lame show about some card game and all. those very people are watching the show man. yesh that rocks.

hmm and at last my voice improved abit, but still not 100% well.

actually there was also the night hike, but owing to my yet unrecovered sore throat i decided (sadly) to give it a miss =(((( heard it was quite nice, they emo-ed at the sunrise or something. if u want pictures of it u could try going to lincoln ang's blog, he would probably post up something like this.

thus ends the nco camp 08...there isnt really much to say, being the one organising and not on the recieving end, but i suppose i didnt regret spending 2.5 days of my extremely short marchh olidays to go for this camp. its these kind of things that reignite the passion for npcc that i have.

lastly i just want to mention, since wei loong brought up a point about going online to search for blog entries about NCO camp and so on, perhaps a few of the npcc sec3s (perhaps those in group 2) have found their way here to my blog! o.O if they do feel free to say hi and tag, but pls pls identify yourself with your name class register no. etc...haha no la. just a name will do, i should be able to recall your names anyway. however i really dont want some guy named as "sec3" saying "hi sir wassup" or something..its spastic and if i find out who you are you are so dead. ok i was joking.


now its back to a considerable amount of homework. damn. academics suck eh, but i'll try to update this blog, hopefully for as long as theres no mountain of homework before me.
bye people.