Well Well... I'm back from PLTC! WOOHHOO! PLTC '09 at west coast park. What is unforgettable is not the camp itself, but my team. Oh they're really awsome! :D We have a stalker-Alvin. First day I met him, he know me very well even though I've not introduce to him yet. He knows my blog, my friends like Shengyang, and my other friend's blog. He sure knows me! Then we have a lover-Jiahao and Henghui. Actually it all started when we're attending a lesson that is so boring that we started plucking grass. We all know the henghui is allergic to grass so Jiahao started plucking grass and throw at henghui, and she also started throwing back. Then i say fighting is a way to show love, cause after fighting there'll surely be love. Then throughout the camp all of us keep saying that both like each other which in fact was just a joke. lol.
Day 1Gathered at west coast park at 7.30 am. Camp Chief is Desmond. Well as expected, the camp is totally the same style as the councilor's style of camp. Well it's not too hard anyway. So we hike to our campsite, a place far far away from Macdonald. Overall the campsite is not bad. We have a pond nearby, far away from the main playground in west coast park, quite quiet. The only thing is that we're very near the containers working area. The machine is working 24 hours non-stop, it's so noisy. lols. So first we had our first lesson-orienteering. The lesson is very boring. So Nigel, Derek and I play with sticks fallen from the tress and insects that passed by. After that we had our second lesson-Planning a scout meeting. Well the lesson is also boring. So the three of us keep joking around and throw sticks into each of our clothes. heheh ^^ After that we have another lesson on leadership. Well this lesson is by adrian and I've heard his lesson alot of times already. So I went dozing off while Nigel played with me. When I was sleeping, Nigel took my hand and the pen that I'm holding onto and drew on my book. He drew a face plus "I am weijun, I am awake." lol this is so funny and I didn't realised this. Then our patrol challenge. I got so wet by Mingtat. We're blindfoldered and had to pass cups of water front to back, back to front. I don't want others to get wet, so i pour away the water before passing on. Mintat then asked why all the cups don't have water and i think he found out that it was me that pour away the water. So he go pour water on me. Well its fun anyway. Then next lesson is Patrol system by a leader from hongkah sec. He is Simply boring, including the lesson too. And anyway we're sitting on the grass. So I started plucking grass and and bury my whole book with grass. It's totally covered with grass. LOL it's so fun. The Jiahaoa and henghui is plucking grass and throwing at each other. Then i say they will blossom love soon because all shows also shows a couple fighting and at the end become lovers. This became our joke in my team. Then night fall and we pitch our tent in the dark. This is totally cool. lol :D Then lights out! we have 5 person squeezing in a tent. Me, Nigel, Derek, Keefe, benedict were in one. Then Keefe spammed the whole tent with deodorant. wow nice smelling. lol. The whole night i can't sleep because of the machine working nearby. So i woke at around 2 and went to the toilet with mintat. 2 am and i saw a old man jogging. This is the power of the youth! WOOHOO! :D
Day 2Rise and shine? Not quite. We're suppose to wake at 7am. But at around 6am+ it started raining. So we were woken up and had to carry all our things and bags and hike to the underpass. We have nothing to do there. Eugene then asked us to sew our PLTC badge onto our uniform. I took the whole of 1 hour to sew it on. Well it's nicely sew on i would say! Yay me! Then exactly at 7am the rain stopped and we carried all our bags back to the campsite. Then our PT continued. Then lesson 3, role of a PL. Well this lesson is boring too. I doze off yeah. After lunch is lesson by patrol 5, first aid! This is the best lesson I've ever attended. Very fun. At a point, Keefe and derek wanted to demostrate a carrying method. Keefe carried derek like how a couple, the men will carry the female when married. Then Keefe carried derek this way, but then keefe slipped and fell on his butt, while derek fell on him. Everyone laughed. Then everyone says that this is not a good thing to do during first aid, but a good thing to do when married! Then our lesson - tracking and trapping. Such a pitty. What a interesting topic yet everyone says its boring. Well i guess all i have to say is that they're too used to be in singapore. Well If i was given a chance, I would surely go overseas and meet the scouts overseas. Then I'll camp with them for a week or so and get to enjoy what they would usually do in a camp! I'm sure this is very fun. Then I would also want to go for a survival in a 3 men team. Preferbly in a forest. yeah! Next is campfire. Well it's boring. A campfire with no fire and all we had is singing songs then end. Nothing much actually. Then after that we had our SOLO night, in a 2 men team! I was teamed with Zifan from Fuhua sec. Our solo night is actually observation post. This means that we have to stay covered while looking out, something like centry duty. Our location was a place where there's a low lying tree growing outwards. Then all we can do is to lie down, or else we'll be seen. We cannot be seen or we'll become prisoners of war where we'll be forced to do stupid things. Well the whole place was ant infested. We have no choice but to lie among them. At first, we got so itchy that we keep scratching ourselves. Meanwhile, we were recording things that happened within our observation area. Throughout the whole night, only a group of people walk by, then nothing else. So at around 3am, both of us fell asleep until 6 am. A rover from yuanching woke us up and asked us to go back cause the whole thing ended. Yeah! we managed to get through the whole night with ants and not getting caught, while sleeping throughout. lols :D
Day 3PT was conducted by adrian. We have our 15mins run at our own pace. All of us started running and at lap 2, it's me and daniel taking the lead. Both of us keep over-taking each other. Then soon after a while, I ran totally ahead and I'm in the lead! When i came back at the starting point, we're still left with 5 mins. So I ran another lap myself. When I came back to the starting point, almost everyone was there already. Well I'm so happy that I managed to run 3 laps! (: Then Lesson 4-K.O.M. Well I think it's still ok cause this guy who conducted this lesson is totally cool. He's way different from the rest of the campstaffs and so relaxed. After that is lesson by patrol 7-camp craft. Well not that boring cause there's no theory lesson and all is hands-on. Then after the lesson, we have our area cleaning. My patrol was cleaning the toilet. We treat this cleaning into a game. We collected water in a bucket and see who can make the dirt in the holes. Each person only have a turn. lol we're also splashing water all around! Then camp break! Woohoo!
I would say, this camp is still ok, well at least I'm in a pretty much interesting patrol. Throughout the whole camp, my patrol keep talking about obsene things in malay. Well i only understand what they're talking about after they translated to me. lol.
-Nigel -Weijun -Jiahao -Alvin -Henghui -Junaini -Noraini
-Patrol 6!
