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Thursday, July 10, 2008, 8:53 PM
A post after a long long time
The last week was just fantastic! =] Well lets start with what happened a week ago barz..
Fri- 4/7
It was the start of the Leadership Training Camp (LTC) on friday. Lessons for the day were replaced with PW discussion to take place. For us participants, we left the school around 11am and headed towards Changi Coast Adventure Coast (CCAC). Memories at CCAC were still freshly intact upon reaching the camp site. It has been almost 2 years since I last step foot in the campsite. I was greeted by the familiar loud roar caused
by the planes which flew by the campsite. The campsite was still as well maintained as I last stepped foot into the camp!
Alright I'll skip all the boring parts like "checking into" our bunks and having lunch but I just have to make note that this camp really provides one of the most balanced meals as compared to any other camps I have been! Well first up after lunch was the enchanted maze which consisted the land expedition and also sea expedition. All groups in slytherpufff were to split into 2 groups in the smaller groups, one group to head out in dragonboats for the sea ex while the other head out on foot for land ex and head towards a switchover point.
For my smaller group, we did the sea expedition first. After getting all the dragonboats into the sea, all three sub sea ex groups set off. We were not taught how to paddle nor given any specific instruction. CHAOS. Well yea that's the word which lasted for the first 10 minutes or so, where co-ordination from the front to the back of the dragonboat was totally unsynchronized. The worst thing was the girl sitting in front of me kept feeding me the nasty salty sea water with her paddle =.=" My eyes were hurting quite a bit from the salt water but nevertheless it was a smoother ride after we got a rhythm of commands.
After the salty sea came the time for the switch over. Gosh this has had to be the painest part. There was so much sand in my shoe and I suffered two abrasions, one on each ankle. On the other hand the land ex was fun! We started with a quick game of quidditch which was cleverly made up to suit that of the game played in HP. After that we had to go solve the list of riddles given to us to find clues which may not have been found by the first group. Alright the first clue led us to 2 prefects, one was my groups prefect aka "niang". And OMG the task they gave us was super frustrating! We had to count the number of palm trees in a given area. We combined efforts with another group to count the number of trees but somehow counting trees are not as easy as one thinks! We got the wrong number of trees on both tries, the first try overshooting way above the number of trees in the area while the second guess 4 more than the correct number.(no idea how the extra trees came about)
The next few clues led us to quite a few locations, but we couldn't find any new pieces of the triwizard cup which was super disappointing since the other teams were able to find their pieces in the same area.
We were late to return back to camp and got a earful from the prefects.. well after that day we were never late again =) After dinner there was waltz training. Totally similar to the waltz part in the mass dance. We learned how to do the wisp and sweep =x It was quite hard at first part got the hang of it after a while. After which we had a long free time where we could take a shower and stuff and have supper before the night session of Defense against the dark arts.
The first night was horrible. I woke up almost at every half an hour interval due to the passing planes.. what a pain!
 (First night I think ._.)
The second day was lots of high ropes. Too cut the long story short, I attempted the the challenge pole and the stroll across the log. The challenge pole was the one where one has to jump of the top of the pole and catch a pull up bar look a like ._. Man bad memories swamped to me when I attempted this. The number of times I had failed this was really eating into me. However my attempt was successful! =] 3 cheers!
On the other hand, the stroll across the log when seriously wrong. Totally couldn't balance and I didn't want to rely on the safety rope for balance. I fell not long after I started, but managed to hug the log. Tried to get back on the top of the log-( pic below )
 I couldn't get back on , so I hugged the log to the start and started again, but fell again soon after. As I wanted to complete this so badly, instead of balancing on it, I just monkey across the log with my arms. I kinda regret it now that I didn't manage to complete the convention way but I guess there will always be another chance for me down the road to challenge this station again!
Well after this station it started to pour. =( We ended up doing crazy stuff in the canteen. Well I can't remember the order of what happened anymore T-T... But yea there was a short period of time when the sky lightened up. During that time we attempted the erm... cant remember the name but yea we had to jump from a log and catch a hanging bar of sorts lol. I was first and yea somehow I managed to grab hold of the bar =]>
3rd Day & 4th Day Kayaking
We had kayaking on the 3rd day. Oooo I love the water! It's super dirty though but the waves are fun! Well I already got my one star license so this was quite a refresher course. I really looove capsizing.. or maybe it's because the instructor just needed people who aren't afraid of capsizing to be practice victims for the other students to rescue =.=" Well the T-X rescue was different from what I learnt at Kallang. This was a 1-1 rescue while the latter a 2-1 rescue. The 2 seater kayak was awesome too. It was open decked ._. super cool coz u could rescue yourself if u capsize lol.
 
Well the campfire was fun too. Had social dance and mass dance >-<>e end poor Jonathan to care of it. We were like going yuck yuck yuck!
We had a photo taking ceremony and stuff. And then headed home. Almost everyone knocked out on the bus. Ok tts all!~
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Thursday, July 10, 2008, 8:53 PM
A post after a long long time
The last week was just fantastic! =] Well lets start with what happened a week ago barz..
Fri- 4/7
It was the start of the Leadership Training Camp (LTC) on friday. Lessons for the day were replaced with PW discussion to take place. For us participants, we left the school around 11am and headed towards Changi Coast Adventure Coast (CCAC). Memories at CCAC were still freshly intact upon reaching the camp site. It has been almost 2 years since I last step foot in the campsite. I was greeted by the familiar loud roar caused by the planes which flew by the campsite. The campsite was still as well maintained as I last stepped foot into the camp!
Alright I'll skip all the boring parts like "checking into" our bunks and having lunch but I just have to make note that this camp really provides one of the most balanced meals as compared to any other camps I have been! Well first up after lunch was the enchanted maze which consisted the land expedition and also sea expedition. All groups in slytherpufff were to split into 2 groups in the smaller groups, one group to head out in dragonboats for the sea ex while the other head out on foot for land ex and head towards a switchover point.
For my smaller group, we did the sea expedition first. After getting all the dragonboats into the sea, all three sub sea ex groups set off. We were not taught how to paddle nor given any specific instruction. CHAOS. Well yea that's the word which lasted for the first 10 minutes or so, where co-ordination from the front to the back of the dragonboat was totally unsynchronized. The worst thing was the girl sitting in front of me kept feeding me the nasty salty sea water with her paddle =.=" My eyes were hurting quite a bit from the salt water but nevertheless it was a smoother ride after we got a rhythm of commands.
After the salty sea came the time for the switch over. Gosh this has had to be the painest part. There was so much sand in my shoe and I suffered two abrasions, one on each ankle. On the other hand the land ex was fun! We started with a quick game of quidditch which was cleverly made up to suit that of the game played in HP. After that we had to go solve the list of riddles given to us to find clues which may not have been found by the first group. Alright the first clue led us to 2 prefects, one was my groups prefect aka "niang". And OMG the task they gave us was super frustrating! We had to count the number of palm trees in a given area. We combined efforts with another group to count the number of trees but somehow counting trees are not as easy as one thinks! We got the wrong number of trees on both tries, the first try overshooting way above the number of trees in the area while the second guess 4 more than the correct number.(no idea how the extra trees came about)
The next few clues led us to quite a few locations, but we couldn't find any new pieces of the triwizard cup which was super disappointing since the other teams were able to find their pieces in the same area.
We were late to return back to camp and got a earful from the prefects.. well after that day we were never late again =) After dinner there was waltz training. Totally similar to the waltz part in the mass dance. We learned how to do the wisp and sweep =x It was quite hard at first part got the hang of it after a while. After which we had a long free time where we could take a shower and stuff and have supper before the night session of Defense against the dark arts.
The first night was horrible. I woke up almost at every half an hour interval due to the passing planes.. what a pain!
(First night I think ._.) The second day was lots of high ropes. Too cut the long story short, I attempted the the challenge pole and the stroll across the log. The challenge pole was the one where one has to jump of the top of the pole and catch a pull up bar look a like ._. Man bad memories swamped to me when I attempted this. The number of times I had failed this was really eating into me. However my attempt was successful! =] 3 cheers!
On the other hand, the stroll across the log when seriously wrong. Totally couldn't balance and I didn't want to rely on the safety rope for balance. I fell not long after I started, but managed to hug the log. Tried to get back on the top of the log-( pic below )
I couldn't get back on , so I hugged the log to the start and started again, but fell again soon after. As I wanted to complete this so badly, instead of balancing on it, I just monkey across the log with my arms. I kinda regret it now that I didn't manage to complete the convention way but I guess there will always be another chance for me down the road to challenge this station again!Well after this station it started to pour. =( We ended up doing crazy stuff in the canteen. Well I can't remember the order of what happened anymore T-T... But yea there was a short period of time when the sky lightened up. During that time we attempted the erm... cant remember the name but yea we had to jump from a log and catch a hanging bar of sorts lol. I was first and yea somehow I managed to grab hold of the bar =]>
3rd Day & 4th Day Kayaking
We had kayaking on the 3rd day. Oooo I love the water! It's super dirty though but the waves are fun! Well I already got my one star license so this was quite a refresher course. I really looove capsizing.. or maybe it's because the instructor just needed people who aren't afraid of capsizing to be practice victims for the other students to rescue =.=" Well the T-X rescue was different from what I learnt at Kallang. This was a 1-1 rescue while the latter a 2-1 rescue. The 2 seater kayak was awesome too. It was open decked ._. super cool coz u could rescue yourself if u capsize lol.
Well the campfire was fun too. Had social dance and mass dance >-<>e end poor Jonathan to care of it. We were like going yuck yuck yuck!
We had a photo taking ceremony and stuff. And then headed home. Almost everyone knocked out on the bus. Ok tts all!~
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(First night I think ._.)
I couldn't get back on , so I hugged the log to the start and started again, but fell again soon after. As I wanted to complete this so badly, instead of balancing on it, I just monkey across the log with my arms. I kinda regret it now that I didn't manage to complete the convention way but I guess there will always be another chance for me down the road to challenge this station again!
