二十六日六月二００六年　：　月よ日

I’m sure everyone can read the title since it’s not in Japanese haha. One of the rare titles now a days that is not in Japanese eh? Haha, well I am trying to brush up on my Japanese these holidays, and well, the easiest way to learn is by using it.

Anyway back to the title. The title is usaha camp because I just came back from one. It was a three-day camp in school, from the 23rd to the 25th of June. Almost all of you who had been active in your uniformed bodies and gone for camps surely know that, the word sleep is not associated with the word camp. Haha, but as a scouter haha, I had the privilege of coming home to have a shower and sleep in my nice soft bed before going back to school.

Well, this camp was better than the first camp, cause well I was not the camp adviser this round, so I had more freedom, and well actually the last camp would have been okay for me if it wasn’t for Tuck Loong/ TL, who kept asking me to do this and that. And well, it was like an almost one man show… So, anyway this round, TL planned everything la, so the camp adviser just had to make sure that there was security/night guard, food and equipment. Haha so it was quite simple for Kuan Fei to handle la. Poor Kuan Fei only found out about the camp 3 days before the camp, haha, I think being camp adviser is crazy la haha, only knowing about the camp a few days in advance, haha…

But anyway that is not the highlight of this post. The highlight is that I got to jump of the school building!!

Haha, no la I got to do abseiling!! Haha, the last time I abseiled as a scout, I was in form 4, I think, and that was once only. Then after that when I was in SAM I went rock climbing at the Summit. And after that, I never indulged in such activities anymore. So all in all I have only abseiled twice before the camp ahahaha…

But on Friday night, or more like Saturday morning at about 2 or was it 3 am? Haha I was abseiling down the school wall. 3 storey’s high. Cause we abseiled from the top floor. Anyway, my first time abseiling after so many years haha, there was a bit of fear, cause well, I haven’t done this activity for like such a long time, but I knew myself, after the first time I will be ok, it was just a matter of getting used to it again, haha, and anyway I wasn’t as afraid as I was the 1st time I abseiled in form 4.

(Because Ai kun and I were abseiling, haha we missed our transport home hahah TL was supposed to send us home, but he forgot about us, cause he didn’t see us as we were abseiling in block C haha, luckily Horng Yang was there to send us home haha, and apparently he missed out a bit on his football match haha… but it was still kind of him to send us home :p)

I still remembered, in form 4, I was the second one to go down, and cause I had this fear of heights, (and actually still do, but it’s not that bad anymore haha) I made Jin Ping go late for work cause I couldn’t let go of the ledge haha. Now, that I think of it, it’s funny, but during that time it was no joke, I was really damn scared, but anyway it was my first step to overcoming my fear haha.

I think that if Jin Ping still remembers my abseiling he would have been surprised if he saw me during this camp haha. So, nothing much on the first day, just walking down the wall, and watching Horn Yang, practically jumping down the wall. Gila man, he jumped from the top floor till the first floor, chun la, but to me its still dangerous haha, and anyway it was fun la.

Oh Ai kun also abseiled down also, hehe, fun right? Anyway another fun aspect of the camp was that, I got to learn new stuff, and relearn old stuff, and best of all, got to see my old seniors and chat. Horng Yang was one of them, the other one was Keng Im. Hehe, last time when we were still scouts I was quite close to her. So it was nice seeing her again, and though I was busy, I still managed to have some time to chat with her.

And well, I got to know Kuan Fei better, I think I knew him when we were still scouts, but I don’t know how old he is, so I’m not sure, but I have like this memory that I met a Mark somewhere haha, but actually his surname is Mak, haha don’t know la. I bet he also don’t remember, or I remembered wrongly la. Haha.

Anyway, that is the fun aspect of scouting, getting to know other scouts and scouters and making more friends. I dare say that I am quite friendly with some of the scouts. Hehe. Talking and joking la. I like socialising with people hehe.

Anyway oh ya, after doing abseiling, for lethargic old me, my right hand started to shake ler haha, after abseiling I went home to sleep, with leg pain and hand pains, and after about less than 3hours sleep I was back in school, in time for flag break, haha, that time, my leg was shaking la, and arm shaking cause of the muscle strain, haha, and when I first stepped into the school I was like, ok la go and watch flag break, from a far so that I can sit down, haha mana tau I had to give out badges, and giving out badges and all was with the right hand, which was the one with the muscle pain and it was the one shaking away ahhaha… to me it was amusing la, haha siew yen pass me the badges also haha, I had to quickly transfer to my more stable left hand haha. Imagine hold badge also cannot, teruk man. Shows how much I exercise haha.

Anyway, after giving out the badges, then laze around for a bit, cause the scouts were attending a lecture, then we started the test stations. My station was the orang-orang kenamaan station, haha I think it’s the hardest test, cause I hardly got anyone, and I had to catch people haha, and when I did, I had a lot of fun haha, call me sadist, but once they entered my station, they had to at least attempt to take the test for me, or if they wanted to leave they had to do ten push ups for me. I noticed something about the new juniors i.e. those that just passed their tenderfoot, that they are not willing to do push ups, if it was I; I would have just done it and got lost haha.

Well anyway the new batch are all like sissy wimps like that. When they marched up to receive their tenderfoot that time, it was totally horrible man. I was like god… really no comment. And a lot of other things la, asking them to do this and that was like a real pain.. Over protected kids already. Anyway, another thing was that I noticed that the marching standard for the troop has really fallen, I saw the seniors marching and I was like, are these people seniors? I mean there were some good ones, but most of them were crap!

Anyway, back to the test stations haha, in the beginning there was no one at my station, then suddenly so many people, I guess I was too lenient or something I tell you, there were too many that I couldn’t handle already after that, and I was like working overtime haha. Until I ate lunch late and all during the camp…

After that it was nothing much, teaching them how to tie knots, which I can’t remember, haha and all. Then the next test taking sessions I was free, so I was giving a maju standard test, and finishing up my earlier tests. Haha, free time also still busy. But there was still some fun, and I helped Ai kun a bit with her station, cause she had too many scouts asking her to take the test haha, first aid practical test, very simple only ma. Haha. And I tortured the same people that I did in the morning test taking session ahha. Ok la I’m not a sadist la hahah, joke a bit around with them la.

Then after that, had to teach them marching, walau eh, this TL change the marching commands, not all la, and some of them I forgot already, and I had to learn them all like 5 minutes before I taught… alamak… so I was a bit confused, haha Kuan Fei who was teaching the same thing also kind of confused haha, so I think we taught a few wrong things here and there haha. But oh well, haha, they will forget it anyway, keke..

Marching for them started at 1230am on Sunday morning, till 2am, so I didn’t have time to go abseiling, and just went home after the meeting to determine, which scouter was doing what test.

I took the mengibarkan bendera test station for Sunday, haha, supposedly I am quite sure footed in that area, but other than how to put up and fold the flag, the rest I forgot already haha. So sort of like simply give la haha. So Weng Fatt was helping me out la. Haha the morning test on how to set up the halangan komando I wasn’t there, cause I was still at home sleeping haha, anyway my test session was at 10am so I came for my session only la haha.

So for the flag session, it was ok. At first Weng Fatt and I had not many scouts to deal with, but suddenly only there were too many, and they kept coming in, in intervals, so it was kind of hard to teach, we only had 5 flags and 3 flagpoles, and we were giving tests, so imagine, we were swamped, the other stations had only like 3 or 2 people, so it was like insanity at my station haha. After the test it was lunch, and cleaning up, so again I was a tad free, but I had to finish up the lose ends for the tests that I was giving the day before.

And well, from then on I was quite free la. So it was ok la. After finishing up my tests, I saw the seniors playing abseiling again haha, so definitely I was in, but being the only scouter, and since Ai kun was not free, like not fun la to be the only scouter even though I was quite friendly with the seniors. So I managed to catch hold of Vincent to teman me haha, I was like telling Ai kun, “I am going to play abseiling”, then Vincent behind me was saying, “I am going to teman her to play abseiling”, haha.

This round abseiling, I tried jumping, cause well walking down only like no suspense anymore. (like yee jin said, I should try a 10 storey wall already cause 3 storeys are for amateurs haha..) That was when I realized a slight problem. Haha, although my conscious mind is unafraid of heights, well that height of 3 storeys, anymore, the subconscious mind is still afraid. So when I let go of the rope, I will automatically and subconsciously lock myself again. Resulting in me banging the wall and having bruises now haha.

So being the stubborn one that I am, I kept on trying and trying, willing my subconscious mind to let go of the rope, I succeeded a bit in my last try haha, so I guess more practise will do it, but when am I abseiling again? Haha, don’t know la keke.. Oh the last abseiling session the one I did on Sunday TL took some pictures haha, so I can post those pictures when I get them la haha..

When no body was abseiling that time, this Vincent the nutty case that he was and well I could say, still is haha, climbed up the wall back to the 3rd storey with no safety, real nuts la that fella, than Thiam Beng also tried but he didn’t climb all the way, he said he was too short to reach the ledge haha. I was helping I think seiw yen adjust her harness when I suddenly saw someone pop up over the ledge, I was like gila man, haha but these people have no fear of heights, quite good la, I would say, cause like let’s say there is an emergency, these people can escape if they are trapped. People who are scared of heights may very well just die trapped. So that’s one reason why we should always try to overcome our fears, especially those that are important in saving lives.

Anyway, back to the camp… Over all the camp was quite ok la, fun in a way, and a lot of blood vomiting over the new members, this people, for heaven’s sake, the whistle for falling in has already been blown, and you know what, they were still standing around… I was like… shouting at them, what were they still doing there, go fall in, and they started to leisurely walk… walau eh I was like run la, late already still walk, really this people, horrible man… anyway one of the few things hahah

Another thing was when Ai kun was giving a lecture on 1st aid haha, Fung Chuan helped out with the lifting the patient part haha, quite funny la that one, the volunteer was like “enough, enough let me me go” hahah he got lifted this way and that, haha fireman’s lift la, cradle lift la all sorts la.. haha

So, that’s all for the camp la, will post pictures when I can haha, my right hand is shaking again, due to yesterday’s abseiling haha, so I guess that I will go rest haha… enough typing? Aahha, abseiling is quite fun, and actually although I didn’t have much sleep in the past 3days I still could go online when I came home haha… jumping down gives more blood to the brain? Hahah joking haha

Ok, till next time, haha I really need to get the picture of me hanging in mid air by yee ern, from TL hahah…

Ja ne, a lot of laughing in this post right, hehe, the other day, huey commented saying that her blog is always angry posts, gene’s is always depressing and mine is always happy, haha.. I didn’t realize that haha, maybe meng should get a blog also, and have a theme to it also kekeke… :p

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