Story on PLTC!!
Life, boring.Yay! Completed PLTC successfully. People, its time to share information with you all. For this purpose I will gratefully 'borrow' the format from Jia Wen, who also went through his own cca's camp or something.
Day 1First day, all the sec 2 scouts from our school went to school, to whip the lashings properly as we needed 4 each. (Later, the lashings were used for building a sea craft.) After that, we got out of school to find a taxi to take us to Sarimbun scout camp site. However, there were 12 scouts from our school, which means we split up into 3 groups of 4. My group with Taylor, Shin Zheng and Eng Kiat, initially spotted a taxi, which we wanted to get into in. Then Jun Gang said, "If we want to take taxi, find 3 taxis then everyone go together." End up, he snatched our taxi away. Caused us to fall in late. However, surprisingly, my group wasn't punished. First, they gave us a briefing, at the MPH (a site for us to gather in wet weather or fall in). After that, we went to build our tents and kitchen shed. After about 2-3 hours, we finally completed it. Then, we had to cook for ourselves for lunch. Bother. So we cooked and voila! Not bad for first-timers like us. 7 patrol boys in each patrol, with 2 BPGHS scouts as 12 scouts out of 42 scouts, where there were 6 patrols. I was in patrol 2, the patrol leader as they arranged it. I was supposed to have a change of duty the next 2 days, but anyway since no one wanted I still was stuck as PL. Anyway, we cooked till about 2-3pm and ate. Forgot, since we had no watch with us. We ate and cleaned up. After that, we went to the session room 'A' for the rovers and ventures to teach us about how to plan programmes for our units meeting if we were to become a patrol leader. We had to discuss and explain our schedule and problems that we would solve. For my patrol, we were praised good, obviously because we had teamwork. Serious.
After that, we prepared to cook for dinner again, wow this time, we had curry chicken! I wanted to cook it with soya sauce, and we did with a little bit, and we all agreed that the whole camp would have diarrhoea today, but it didnt happen for our patrol and I don't know about the other patrols. Anyway, after we finished cooking, (mind you, it tasted great) we noticed that it was raining the whole day, (and for the whole 3 days if to mention) and we had to wash up (btw, we knocked it down LOTS of times because we had to wait for people who were slow). So we went, some people went to the middle, where there were taps to bathe. (not me obviously), they stripped till naked or some left their underwear on and sprayed themselves. So after we finished bathing, we had to clean our utensils fast, but there was no detergent. Then if I remembered correctly, we had a briefing on what is (PIC- Patrol in Council, which is discussing the programmes of the unit with your patrol, and PLC (Patrol Leader's Council, where more bigshots come in to share the feedback and try to improve.) After that was over, I cant remember much of what happened, but I think we went to have supper or something. Anyway Day 1 was rather eventless and peaceful.
Day 2Woke up at 5.30, packed our bags properly ,realized our insect repellent was not enough, we had a lot of mosquito bites on us, washed up, brushed teeth, and chatted for a while before falling in at the MPH for the morning PT. It was for half an hour, and it sure woke us up. Anyway, we then prepared to have breakfast. The ingredients were bread ,butter and milo. We boiled water to make milo, and our patrol, being the craziest, fried bread with the butter. I didnt taste it personally, but I think it tastes nices? =/ . Then we had the morning camp inspection if I remembered correctly (anyone correct me if I'm wrong). It was actually a rehearsal then to the final test. After that, the course director, Kenny Leong, asked for 2 volunteers from each patrol to be the 12 boys manning over the activities from 2 - 5pm that day. (The volunteers were mostly from BPGHS, including me, however some other BPGHS members slacked, actually I volunteered 9 out of 10 times, anyone correct me if I am wrong about the activities.) He said, "if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. " He said that was one of the challenges that we had to go through as a whole camp and should have teamwork. We were supposed to build a raft, to mark the success of that challenge. Some of the committee members were games IC's, to watch over the patrols to be united to play the games. The games were to 'raise funds' for the material costs for the raft. If you won a game, you would have earned 'money'. Anyway, we had lunch after that meeting, and then we were supposed to have SRIT (Self-Reliance And Initiative Test, which means obstacle courses and such. But it was raining the whole day, so they called it off.) Then we had the mass games. It proved to be successful because of our plan. 8 scouts from any patrol were to use the raft and transport themselves to another point in a lake. I and Taylor participated and we successfuly did it. Yay! For the 8 scouts, we had to bathe. Then, we had to think of a campfire cheer, a patrol name and a patrol performance for the campfire after dinner.
Our patrol name was 'Yo, Baby'.
Our Cheer goes like this.
-Say yo!
-Say yo!
-Say yo baby yo baby yo baby yo!
-The countdown has just begun, 4,3,2,1.
-We, will win the war, we, will win the war, we, will win the war, one more time!
-We, will win the war, we, will win the war, we, will win the war, one last time!
-We, will win the war, we, will win the war, we, will win the war, sua!
Our cheer was the best i think. Anyway, we had dinner, it was different from lunch. (Our meals were great!) Then we had a campfire. It was the only time we could have fun and anyway, we slept after that.
Day 3- Our worst nightmareAt roughly about 1-2 am in the morning, we woke up by force, as the camp staff said there was an emergency fire drill. It was a rehearsal, a prelude to the horrible camp inspection (the real thing, as everyone knew). We had to unpack EVERYTHING IN OUR BULGING BAGS in 5 mins, and if we failed to by the number of seconds, each second is a push-up punishment! And after that punishment we had to pack everything we had unpacked into our bags again in 1 min! After being punished for about 20 times, and packing and unpacking, (we had to help other slow people to pack as if not we were punished, and for teamwork), we got our PLTC badges, because the inspection was a final challenge for us to prove our worth. After that, we were given 15 mins to sew on our badges. (fast, right?) Most of us sewed it on haphazardly because of the time factor and because most of us were inexperienced in sewing. So, we slept for about 1 hour plus to prepare for the next activity.
Area cleaning for about 2-3 hours, we had to strike the tents and kitchen sheds, wash the utensils cleanly (because they prepared the soap), wash the tents and kitchen sheds, dry them, and make sure that we returned the materials provided to us in proper condition. While the rest were washing the tents and kitchen sheds (the canvas is the one they were washing), I was forced to make sure that each of the patrol returned their 6 pegs, (without mud on it, they were to wash it in a muddy puddle and use their hands to scrape it off, which I helped one patrol do), make sure they each handed in 2 uprights (the support of the structure), a reach (correct me if I spell wrongly, but anyway it was put on the 2 uprights to form the structure's body.) 6 guidelines to be washed also. While I went after all the patrols like a loan shark, I finally completed it, then I proceeded to help the others. I washed the last tent with other people and we went to dry all of them. Then after that, it was prize presentation. Heheh. The best patrol went to Ke Han's and Taylor's patrol (dunno why, maybe because Ke Han was on good terms with the camp chief and that he was most voluntary and the SPL for the first day) , and because of the time factor, Mr Andrew Chua (our district commissioner, read out the first name of the certificates that he was to present to our schools representative for proof that we had completed the course. The guy who was the first name had to come out and collect it. End up, everyone said that it was Jun Gang for my school and he marched on like a dumbo while Mr Chua mentioned
my name.
MY NAME! He made a disgrace of himself while we proceeded on with flag lowering. After that, I went on the bus for a free ride to Lot 1 and ate at Mac there, (cos I missed being served soooo much!) And sorry to the people who were waiting for me to go to Lot 1 with them, I didn't know they were waiting for me. (Includes, Eng Kiat, Chun Kit, Kuan Yao, and Chin Wen. Sorry again!)
Well thats all. I'll rest today then.
m e & y o u {♥}
Posted @ 2:20 PM
