LiFe oF gUohU|...cHp 103
wooh... i'm back to bloggging... finally huh? the last entry was like dating 30th may... tt's a week? waahha...
hmm... okie... i'm finally back from atc... from last fri till sunday... tt should be from 3rd to 5th june... yeap...
i'm sad to say that it wasn't one of my best atc ever... learnt a lot of lessons thru it though...
( okie.. atc means adventure training camp, for those dudes who dun understand wad i m saying)
okie... after my gruesome lectures on thurs and fri, i went over to ubin on friday evening with harry, jon and zhiwei... crossed over to ubin after booking the whole bumboat for SGD$24...
*using npcc claim form.. wahahah
trekked to ubin, lamed to ubin with usual stories sharing...
however, i'm sad to see the whole camp strolling along upon reaching campsite, nt a good sight to me though.. formed cchsm instructor's cliche when reached campsite... wahahaha... camp rule says tt campers shld mixed ard with other sch's camper at camp... we are doing ironic stuffs like tt...
went over to bahru campsite for mealtime inspection to make sure everyone cook food to eat...
den did a teambuilding game session with a rather enthusiastic group... though after a little pep talking... den debriefed them for the games... and chatted...
went over to noordin campsite after tt for a mass debrief...
den came back to bahru campsite for a little sentry duty before hitting the bed for a 2hr slp...
den woke up to help out for the PT... which apparently upsetted me coz
1) MANY instructors did not wake up for their duties... leaving only a minimum me, jon, crystal and azrin.. and daniel was the pti... ( which i m sad to say, was covering me for pti's role)
2) i had collected enuf casulties to form a squad.. ( tt makes ard 40 plus) most of them were the good actors...i am amazed.
as jiamay had saied, they all have a serious problem...
after which i changed into my super short short for kayaking activity.... i was the lifeguard there...
the first activity cycle was okie.. james, my powerboat man was a humourous person and i enjoyed our session on the boat... this guy was a cadet inspector in 1991 and is currently a "long kang" diver with the singapore navy...
but our motor went dead in ard 200m away from shore and we had to paddle back... sian0.5...wahahah...
had laksa for lunch, courtesy of desmond's cooking...
did kayaking and exchange shift with jon for the second session... was supposed to have a single sitter to myself but ended up playing partner to angeline for the session coz she had no partner... aniwae, i presume i did most of the paddling..and hope she had fun with me ard... whaahah..
conduct kayaking theory with hong kai and jon for the 3rd session before helping kiwi sir for the last grp... ended up helping to launch kayaks and entertain campers when i wanted to be out at sea... grrhhh.... some person stole my kayak.. grrh...
aniwae, i was hitted many times by the camper's kayaks... when they were coming back to shore... this excludes my groin my their oncoming kayaks... tt was OUCHS man...
well.... my day time activity ended like tt... though the campers spent a loong time being punished after lunch... NOTE AFTER lunch!!! i dun see justice and common sense in this... well.. ...
okie... took a bathe with jon after tt and went over to the campfire... which again, pissed me off..
1) many instructors disappear during the campfire... coz they feel tt the campfire was nt a very good one... well, i duno y they dun respect the camper at all... afterall. a campfire is for the campers to show appreciation to the instructors... and we cannot even stay for it? wad negative things does it show? wad mindset are they setting? *shrugs*
2) I HATE CIs whos used the word CI for a whole cause and generalizing CIs in the same league as themselves... esp when they are LOBO... for eg" let's do it the CI's way? when it is her/his owen wishful thinking"
3) the camper's performance are well.. too profound for my mentality to understand, but well, i appreciate wad have they all done for us...
4) the campfire was supposed to be a BATCH event by the D04s, my junior batch of CI, however, i only see partial people doing it... and others merely soaked in the activity and critisize it...
went over to bahru with jon to collect logistic for our initiative games session...
but it was cancelled...
was damn pissed abt it k...
afterall, it was nt our fault tt the session was cancelled... though we agreed to it being cancelled... well, at least i din say anything...
it is okie for the proposals that i have done is not being carried out...
it is okie that they even asked us to add in additional games juz in case there is a lack of time...
but somehow, they cancel our time slot becoz of lack of time...
and tt is nt the point.. they cancel out at least 2.5hrs of activity... wad have this got to show? improper time management?
den over to bahru after the whole thing... and back to noordin only to find tt debrief was over... discussed stuffs with the cchsm instructors...
went back to bahru campsite only to find mr lee doing sentry duty... which is way out of his jobscope... and other instructors juz carry on to slp juz becoz it is not their duty... tt is so arhhhgg...
wanted to help mr lee do sentry but he drove me to bed every hr when i tried to do so... till 4.30am when he finally agreed to let me helped out...
btw, mr lee is juz so nice... he is the only Teacher Officer that is so welfaring the camper... i mean he actually cleaned the floor using tissue paper so that the campers can slp in a better environment?
well, had PT again in the morning at 6.15am... apparently , the campers gotten punished again for being selfish and not waking up on time... but i am so upset.. coz wad rights do we have to do tt when INSTRUCTORS cannot wake up for their duty?
i have always empthasize we as instructors should not ask our campers to do things that we cannot do... i believe tt is when we earn our respects...
so the peeps din wake up as usual... pt casualty were cut down to a minimum.. tt is good...
and i am sooo inpressed by this st pat's guy who simply refused to fall out even though he was in great pain... all coz of a promise he made to the other instructor tt he will nt fall out as tt instructor had allow his grp to participate in an activity which his group was supposed to be barred coz of punishment...
after which, had area cleaning... broke camp, hiked out to jetty, back to cchs, lunch and meeting at singpost before heading home to slp from 1830 to 0600 for sch...
which den leave me with not so wonderful memories for this atc...
1) all the cliches of instructors... from cchy...completely antisocial... i dun mean boonsiong, andrew, yuan ze... they are nice ppl to talk to... (exclusive of campers)...
2) the absurd punishment of camper... some ppl were like punishing camper for pleasure sake...
3) the unity of instructors like other atc... sad case
4) attitude of campers...
well... as karen said, we suddenly feel so protective of OUR cadets at atc... esp when they are tortured...
grrhhh... i'm glad they are back to civilisation...
