Whew, coming close to 2 months since I last updated my blog. After this post, all moggaots and worms will be exterminated, lol.
2 weeks ago, on the last day of school for term 1, 10th March, was the first day of my BB's training camp. It was held at the BB HQ. Rights, enough of unnecessary introduction. I met up with 2 other friends and an officer and we flagged a cab down to HQ. Hehe, we were the earliest there and we switched on the aircons and stuffs to get things ready when the rest arrive. At about 3pm, a few other officers arrived together with the Junior BB Boys(those in elementary school). In total there were about 26 or slightly more Junior Boys if I'm not wrong. We spent quite some time at the start on administration, such as taking attendance, consent forms and camp fees. Haiz, the Juniors are 'renowned' for being too playful and active, and to sum them all up, they're MONSTERS! Well, some are well-behaved, but some are MONSTERS! We're going to have a hard time ahead, which we have. The officers have to constantly remind them to shut up before they kept quiet, only to resume awhile later. Hehe, anyway whenever they misbehave or refused to listen to instructions, the officers played a game with them. And the game is....... Squats, LOL. Whatever, that's their problem, they deserved it, lol. Each chosen Senior(4 of them, including myself) were assigned to about 6-7 Juniors. Haiz, how unlucky was I to have gotten some kind of rebellious and idiotic indian guys, well just 2 of them. I so felt like, don't know what I might do to them anyway. We brought them to the respective dormitaries to put their stuffs. Thereafter we proceeded for dinner, to everyone's delight. Forgot what the dishes were, all I can remember was that everyone enjoyed the sumptuous meal. Following after it was some lesson on history of BB for the Juniors, and we Seniors(those from junior high school) sat at the back and listened as well, recaping the knowledge. Haha, Godfrey was the 'teacher' for the lesson and was quite 'entertaining'. LOL, remembered the moment where he didn't realise that he was holding a permanent marker in his hand and scribbled all over the board with information. When he tried to erase but to no avail, the Juniors laughed like some crazy monkeys being set free after years of being caged, lol. You can imagine how Godfrey shouted at them, and the Juniors played the game with Godfrey. Haha, a few Seniors have to help out in removing the permanent ink, but at the end of the day, their efforts weren't fruitful and a considerable amount of ink remained visible on the board. Well, don't know what happened to it after that, didn't really bother about it. After the lesson, red bean soup was served as supper. Hmm, talking about the red bean soup, Zhe Liang and I stole a few sips of the soup beforehand while we were checking whether it's ready, lol. Zhe Liang was tempted to have more as the soup was quite sweet. Meh, but I was able to 'drag' him off before he finishes every drop of it, lol. That's about it for the first day, was quite relaxed as there weren't much activities.
Yawn, got to wake up at 7am on the second day, was still tired as I'm a late waker. As usual, some Juniors will be awake early in the morning, around 6.30am or so, making noise and playing around. This matter was raised later on by an officer and told the Juniors that he doesn't want them to repeat this again the next day. Lol, we had to do some stretching exercises and again, some of those kiddos tried to be funny. While we were doing exercises like ankle rotation, we got the Juniors to count up to 8. Some kept on counting to 9, only to get the whole lot of them repeat the particular exercise again. Can you imagine, taking 5 minutes just to do ankle rotation for example? Haha, one of the officer was tired of it and came up with an idea. Whenever someone counts excessively, the whole group owes him 10 squats. Was that effective, and everyone counted 'accurately' up to 8. At the end of it, we have breakfast. After breakfast, DRILL. We spent about 2-3 hours doing drill. Seniors and Juniors were taken by different officers and at different places. Finally for once, we Seniors were alone without the kiddos. Lol, there were funny moments even in our drill session as well. Our officer came up with a ruke for punishment. That is, for every same mistake repeated, number of pumpings will increase by 2. And also, if 3 or more are being punished for a mistake, the whole group of us will have to serve the 'sentence' as well. Haha, then once I was the joker who did my pumpings as if I'm doing the action of a worm. Lol, I made some stupid mistakes which costs my friends to be punished as well. Anyway, all of us found these incidents funny and no one really took them to heart. There were other funny stuffs which we did, but it's either I can't remember them or I don't know how to explain them in words. After drill, we were given the opportunity to have a bath, and a First Aid lesson followed after it. The topics were mainly choking, asthma, fractures, head injuries etc. We were taught on what to do when someone suffers from these, the symptoms etc, types of fractures etc. Stuffs like the Heimlich Manoeuvre(for choking) and CPR(Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) were also covered. Hehe, you Red Cross Girls reading this, even we guys learn First Aid, lol. We were given notes and some time to go through them to prepare for the test. Well, fortunately, one of our friend, Alvinjit, finished his Motivational Camp on that day and arrived at the campus when we were about to start the First Aid lesson, so our officer changed the test date to the next day. After First Aid lesson, we had another lesson on Adventure. We have to learn stuffs like map reading, parts of a compass, the 3 Norths(for your information, True North, Magnetic North, Grid North), the 10 Country Codes and some others. Fortunately the test on Adventure was on the next day as well, allowing us more time to study. Then, we were to distribute the BB Uniforms to the new Juniors who don't have a set, as well as making sure that those who have missing Uniform parts. Nothing much to say here, so let's move on to dinner. Likewise, everyone was looking forward to dinner. Talking about meal time, what I dislike is that the kiddos are picky about their food. There was once lady's fingers(a type of vegetable) were selected as a dish, and most of them didn't want to eat it, rather they want more of chicken wings and other fine food. Humph, why can't they learn to eat what's given to them. If I see them throwing vegetables into the bins, I'll throw them in as well, lol. After dinner, I forgot what we did. This is what happens when I have short-term memory, and because of these missing details, my post comes out shorter than what I could have produced. Oh yeah, all I could remember was that we spent a little time rehearsing for the next day's Enrolment Service. And thereafter we have our supper once again. Lol, same thing happened as previous, Zhe Liang got me to accompany him to taste the soup beforehand. For this supper, we have green been soup, lol. Wonder if tomorrow's supper will be rainbow bean soup, haha. The green bean soup was as sweet as the previous day's red bean soup, resulting in some of us ending up helping ourselves to as much as more than 5 bowls. Time was given after supper to wash up. By the way, some mosquito coils were placed in the toilet as when they're burnt, the smoke produced will help to ward off mosquitos. Well, some ignorant kiddos went to informed the officers saying that someone was smoking in the toilet, lol. We Seniors have to help any kiddos who need help pinning their cap badge etc too. At around 11pm, we made sure the kiddos were in bed. We Seniors always get to sleep later than them, hehe. Well, partly because we have short meetings with the officers at the end of the day. When it's time to sleep, some of my friends will be talking to their girlfriends, ancestors or whoever. My phone had free incoming call, so lent it to Zhe Liang to talk to his girlfriend, I think, just an assumption. Meh, I studied for the upcoming tests the next day and dropped to sleep halfway.
Rise and Shine! The most important event for us, Enrolment Service, will take place in a few hours time. We got up as per normal, wash up, have breakfast, and then changed into our Full Uniform. Soon we were on our way to Wesley Methodist Church. Once there, we entered the sanctuary, and each group occupied 2 rows. We waited for the 82nd Company to take their place, and the Service started not long after they settled down. While we sang the first hymth, the Colour Party marched the BB Flag in. After that, the pastor went ahead with his preachings. Some, or maybe most, Boys were 'praying' throughout(you know what I mean), lol. Strangely, the preaching ended sooner than I expected. From the sanctuary, we proceeded to the Plaza. The 82nd Coy, 6th Girls' Brigade Coy(also from GYSS) and we BB 3rd Coy have to fall in to await the Guest of Honour, someone from the Girls' Brigade. After they arrived, the Guest of Honour gave a speech, followed by prize presentation. Shall not go into detail for this. A wide array of dishes were waiting for us to savour, which we proceeded to attacking them after we fall out from the contingent. After having our fill, well not really as we weren't given ample time stuff ourselves with as much food as possible, all of us took a few shots together(3rd and 82nd Coy + GB 6th Coy). This marked the end of the Enrolment Service and we headed back to the bus which brought us back to the campus. The Juniors have their own programmes while we Seniors have our own. We were given a little more time to do some final revisions before taking the Adventure test. Lol, then I had a fantastic stomachache and stayed in the toilet for like 15-20 minutes enjoying the solitude, lol. When I came out, I saw the group of Seniors getting 'punished' by an officer. The Seniors have to finish a big cup of water in 7 seconds, otherwise they will have to refill their cups and attempt the 'feat' until they're successful. Lol, when I joined them they said they have already finished a few cups. Well, the officer thought I was sick and exempted me from the 'torture', but I was alright and so I joined them for the last round. 3 of the Seniors tried to trick the officer by poking a hole below the plastic cup to allow water to drip. Haha, they were caught when our officer caught one of them and realised a few others holding the base of the cup as if to block the dripping of the water from the officer. All 3 were punished by remaining in pumping position and doing 40 pumpings I think. Lol, all of them have to visit the toilet after the punishment as they took in too much water. Back in a room where we were to take the Adventure test in, I found out the reason why they were punished. When one of the officers asked them whether they'd like to have water parade, Alvinjit replied 'Steady'. LOL, and that was the consequence for it. After our Adventure test, we were given some time to study for the First Aid test. For the First Aid test, we sort of cheated a little, and our officer gave us some of the answers, lol. After the test, it was around 6pm and we prepared the stuffs we need for the upcoming barbeque(yes, barbeque, isn't it cool?). While the Juniors played some games, we prepared the food so that the Juniors can feast after their games. Some parents were invited too and we served them food and drinks. Well, I guess everyone enjoyed the barbeque. Basically the barbeque is all about eating, so I've got nothing much to say other than that. Later in the night, I will be breaking camp as for next day I will be having Chemistry lesson. My father came to fetched me home at 11pm+ and home sweet home, for me, hehe.
On Sunday, 19th March, the last day of our 1 week holiday, we have our BB Week, in which we will be in Wesley Methodist Church going around asking for donations. Hmm, it seems like the Juniors are always collecting more than the Seniors. Most likely the church members prefer their cute faces and thus donated to them. Well, at the end of the day, the donations collected by all of us will go to the Company's funds, so it doesn't matter at all who receives more. My donation consists of only $2 and $10, which is uncanny.
The above paragraphs gave accounts of what took place for our training camp and a very brief one for BB Week. Apart from these, I had to go back to school on Monday(13th) for Chemistry and on Thursday for F&N, and not forgetting the big pile of homework given to us. Well, I won't go into go into detail for Chemistry and F&N as it's quite late at this point of time. Goodness!!! 2.59am in the morning! Better get over this quick and go to bed or else I'll end up as a panda in school. Been spending about 3 hours+ on this post, but I'm satisfied with it though, after almost 2 months of 'isolation'. Haiz, could have been playing 'Initial D : Street Stage' on my PSP for the past 3 hours. In the end, I just listened to my songs in it while typing throughout. Alright now, got to end this here. Hope you guys have a fun time reading the entire post, lol. Don't force yourself to finish reading everything if you can't handle the 'stress', haha. Rights, end of story. So long, and goodnight.
Tuesday, 21/3/06, 3.10am
2 weeks ago, on the last day of school for term 1, 10th March, was the first day of my BB's training camp. It was held at the BB HQ. Rights, enough of unnecessary introduction. I met up with 2 other friends and an officer and we flagged a cab down to HQ. Hehe, we were the earliest there and we switched on the aircons and stuffs to get things ready when the rest arrive. At about 3pm, a few other officers arrived together with the Junior BB Boys(those in elementary school). In total there were about 26 or slightly more Junior Boys if I'm not wrong. We spent quite some time at the start on administration, such as taking attendance, consent forms and camp fees. Haiz, the Juniors are 'renowned' for being too playful and active, and to sum them all up, they're MONSTERS! Well, some are well-behaved, but some are MONSTERS! We're going to have a hard time ahead, which we have. The officers have to constantly remind them to shut up before they kept quiet, only to resume awhile later. Hehe, anyway whenever they misbehave or refused to listen to instructions, the officers played a game with them. And the game is....... Squats, LOL. Whatever, that's their problem, they deserved it, lol. Each chosen Senior(4 of them, including myself) were assigned to about 6-7 Juniors. Haiz, how unlucky was I to have gotten some kind of rebellious and idiotic indian guys, well just 2 of them. I so felt like, don't know what I might do to them anyway. We brought them to the respective dormitaries to put their stuffs. Thereafter we proceeded for dinner, to everyone's delight. Forgot what the dishes were, all I can remember was that everyone enjoyed the sumptuous meal. Following after it was some lesson on history of BB for the Juniors, and we Seniors(those from junior high school) sat at the back and listened as well, recaping the knowledge. Haha, Godfrey was the 'teacher' for the lesson and was quite 'entertaining'. LOL, remembered the moment where he didn't realise that he was holding a permanent marker in his hand and scribbled all over the board with information. When he tried to erase but to no avail, the Juniors laughed like some crazy monkeys being set free after years of being caged, lol. You can imagine how Godfrey shouted at them, and the Juniors played the game with Godfrey. Haha, a few Seniors have to help out in removing the permanent ink, but at the end of the day, their efforts weren't fruitful and a considerable amount of ink remained visible on the board. Well, don't know what happened to it after that, didn't really bother about it. After the lesson, red bean soup was served as supper. Hmm, talking about the red bean soup, Zhe Liang and I stole a few sips of the soup beforehand while we were checking whether it's ready, lol. Zhe Liang was tempted to have more as the soup was quite sweet. Meh, but I was able to 'drag' him off before he finishes every drop of it, lol. That's about it for the first day, was quite relaxed as there weren't much activities.
Yawn, got to wake up at 7am on the second day, was still tired as I'm a late waker. As usual, some Juniors will be awake early in the morning, around 6.30am or so, making noise and playing around. This matter was raised later on by an officer and told the Juniors that he doesn't want them to repeat this again the next day. Lol, we had to do some stretching exercises and again, some of those kiddos tried to be funny. While we were doing exercises like ankle rotation, we got the Juniors to count up to 8. Some kept on counting to 9, only to get the whole lot of them repeat the particular exercise again. Can you imagine, taking 5 minutes just to do ankle rotation for example? Haha, one of the officer was tired of it and came up with an idea. Whenever someone counts excessively, the whole group owes him 10 squats. Was that effective, and everyone counted 'accurately' up to 8. At the end of it, we have breakfast. After breakfast, DRILL. We spent about 2-3 hours doing drill. Seniors and Juniors were taken by different officers and at different places. Finally for once, we Seniors were alone without the kiddos. Lol, there were funny moments even in our drill session as well. Our officer came up with a ruke for punishment. That is, for every same mistake repeated, number of pumpings will increase by 2. And also, if 3 or more are being punished for a mistake, the whole group of us will have to serve the 'sentence' as well. Haha, then once I was the joker who did my pumpings as if I'm doing the action of a worm. Lol, I made some stupid mistakes which costs my friends to be punished as well. Anyway, all of us found these incidents funny and no one really took them to heart. There were other funny stuffs which we did, but it's either I can't remember them or I don't know how to explain them in words. After drill, we were given the opportunity to have a bath, and a First Aid lesson followed after it. The topics were mainly choking, asthma, fractures, head injuries etc. We were taught on what to do when someone suffers from these, the symptoms etc, types of fractures etc. Stuffs like the Heimlich Manoeuvre(for choking) and CPR(Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) were also covered. Hehe, you Red Cross Girls reading this, even we guys learn First Aid, lol. We were given notes and some time to go through them to prepare for the test. Well, fortunately, one of our friend, Alvinjit, finished his Motivational Camp on that day and arrived at the campus when we were about to start the First Aid lesson, so our officer changed the test date to the next day. After First Aid lesson, we had another lesson on Adventure. We have to learn stuffs like map reading, parts of a compass, the 3 Norths(for your information, True North, Magnetic North, Grid North), the 10 Country Codes and some others. Fortunately the test on Adventure was on the next day as well, allowing us more time to study. Then, we were to distribute the BB Uniforms to the new Juniors who don't have a set, as well as making sure that those who have missing Uniform parts. Nothing much to say here, so let's move on to dinner. Likewise, everyone was looking forward to dinner. Talking about meal time, what I dislike is that the kiddos are picky about their food. There was once lady's fingers(a type of vegetable) were selected as a dish, and most of them didn't want to eat it, rather they want more of chicken wings and other fine food. Humph, why can't they learn to eat what's given to them. If I see them throwing vegetables into the bins, I'll throw them in as well, lol. After dinner, I forgot what we did. This is what happens when I have short-term memory, and because of these missing details, my post comes out shorter than what I could have produced. Oh yeah, all I could remember was that we spent a little time rehearsing for the next day's Enrolment Service. And thereafter we have our supper once again. Lol, same thing happened as previous, Zhe Liang got me to accompany him to taste the soup beforehand. For this supper, we have green been soup, lol. Wonder if tomorrow's supper will be rainbow bean soup, haha. The green bean soup was as sweet as the previous day's red bean soup, resulting in some of us ending up helping ourselves to as much as more than 5 bowls. Time was given after supper to wash up. By the way, some mosquito coils were placed in the toilet as when they're burnt, the smoke produced will help to ward off mosquitos. Well, some ignorant kiddos went to informed the officers saying that someone was smoking in the toilet, lol. We Seniors have to help any kiddos who need help pinning their cap badge etc too. At around 11pm, we made sure the kiddos were in bed. We Seniors always get to sleep later than them, hehe. Well, partly because we have short meetings with the officers at the end of the day. When it's time to sleep, some of my friends will be talking to their girlfriends, ancestors or whoever. My phone had free incoming call, so lent it to Zhe Liang to talk to his girlfriend, I think, just an assumption. Meh, I studied for the upcoming tests the next day and dropped to sleep halfway.
Rise and Shine! The most important event for us, Enrolment Service, will take place in a few hours time. We got up as per normal, wash up, have breakfast, and then changed into our Full Uniform. Soon we were on our way to Wesley Methodist Church. Once there, we entered the sanctuary, and each group occupied 2 rows. We waited for the 82nd Company to take their place, and the Service started not long after they settled down. While we sang the first hymth, the Colour Party marched the BB Flag in. After that, the pastor went ahead with his preachings. Some, or maybe most, Boys were 'praying' throughout(you know what I mean), lol. Strangely, the preaching ended sooner than I expected. From the sanctuary, we proceeded to the Plaza. The 82nd Coy, 6th Girls' Brigade Coy(also from GYSS) and we BB 3rd Coy have to fall in to await the Guest of Honour, someone from the Girls' Brigade. After they arrived, the Guest of Honour gave a speech, followed by prize presentation. Shall not go into detail for this. A wide array of dishes were waiting for us to savour, which we proceeded to attacking them after we fall out from the contingent. After having our fill, well not really as we weren't given ample time stuff ourselves with as much food as possible, all of us took a few shots together(3rd and 82nd Coy + GB 6th Coy). This marked the end of the Enrolment Service and we headed back to the bus which brought us back to the campus. The Juniors have their own programmes while we Seniors have our own. We were given a little more time to do some final revisions before taking the Adventure test. Lol, then I had a fantastic stomachache and stayed in the toilet for like 15-20 minutes enjoying the solitude, lol. When I came out, I saw the group of Seniors getting 'punished' by an officer. The Seniors have to finish a big cup of water in 7 seconds, otherwise they will have to refill their cups and attempt the 'feat' until they're successful. Lol, when I joined them they said they have already finished a few cups. Well, the officer thought I was sick and exempted me from the 'torture', but I was alright and so I joined them for the last round. 3 of the Seniors tried to trick the officer by poking a hole below the plastic cup to allow water to drip. Haha, they were caught when our officer caught one of them and realised a few others holding the base of the cup as if to block the dripping of the water from the officer. All 3 were punished by remaining in pumping position and doing 40 pumpings I think. Lol, all of them have to visit the toilet after the punishment as they took in too much water. Back in a room where we were to take the Adventure test in, I found out the reason why they were punished. When one of the officers asked them whether they'd like to have water parade, Alvinjit replied 'Steady'. LOL, and that was the consequence for it. After our Adventure test, we were given some time to study for the First Aid test. For the First Aid test, we sort of cheated a little, and our officer gave us some of the answers, lol. After the test, it was around 6pm and we prepared the stuffs we need for the upcoming barbeque(yes, barbeque, isn't it cool?). While the Juniors played some games, we prepared the food so that the Juniors can feast after their games. Some parents were invited too and we served them food and drinks. Well, I guess everyone enjoyed the barbeque. Basically the barbeque is all about eating, so I've got nothing much to say other than that. Later in the night, I will be breaking camp as for next day I will be having Chemistry lesson. My father came to fetched me home at 11pm+ and home sweet home, for me, hehe.
On Sunday, 19th March, the last day of our 1 week holiday, we have our BB Week, in which we will be in Wesley Methodist Church going around asking for donations. Hmm, it seems like the Juniors are always collecting more than the Seniors. Most likely the church members prefer their cute faces and thus donated to them. Well, at the end of the day, the donations collected by all of us will go to the Company's funds, so it doesn't matter at all who receives more. My donation consists of only $2 and $10, which is uncanny.
The above paragraphs gave accounts of what took place for our training camp and a very brief one for BB Week. Apart from these, I had to go back to school on Monday(13th) for Chemistry and on Thursday for F&N, and not forgetting the big pile of homework given to us. Well, I won't go into go into detail for Chemistry and F&N as it's quite late at this point of time. Goodness!!! 2.59am in the morning! Better get over this quick and go to bed or else I'll end up as a panda in school. Been spending about 3 hours+ on this post, but I'm satisfied with it though, after almost 2 months of 'isolation'. Haiz, could have been playing 'Initial D : Street Stage' on my PSP for the past 3 hours. In the end, I just listened to my songs in it while typing throughout. Alright now, got to end this here. Hope you guys have a fun time reading the entire post, lol. Don't force yourself to finish reading everything if you can't handle the 'stress', haha. Rights, end of story. So long, and goodnight.
Tuesday, 21/3/06, 3.10am
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