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Alrightly, back from ANCO camp yesterday. This year I went as NCO to help up! NO LONGER A TRAINEE! It rocks being a NCO too. Now I shall blog from the view of a NCO.
DAY 1 [15/6/07]We as NCOs had to fall in 1 hour earlier than the trainees. Checked into our '5* hotel' and got ready to 'welcome' the cadets. They had bag check and all the admin stuff and the camp begun. Day 1 wasn't really much at all. Lectures for them.
Ooo yeah. Elliot and I got to do the FIRST flag lowering! I think Poh Boon Sir nearly wanted to kill me for asking him so many question about the flag lowering. SORRY!
Next, my platoon, platoon 1 was in charge of the team building game. I went around to check it out before settling at Game 1 - Trust Fall. Wai Yinn's instruction was clear, "It's called trust fall because you trust your members and you fall". Haha. Poncho was definately not a good idea as after a few tries, the layers of ponchos were torn to beyond salvage. Hence, they used the gymnastics' mat instead.
At 9.45pm, everyone was called to fall in back. Supper, then we NCOs had meeting until 1+. We had the toliet too ourselves! Not exactly 'ourselves' though, Xiao Qiangs (not Wei Qiang Sir! I'm refering to the cockroach.) were there and Rach had to trapped them with the dustbin. You go girl!
Day 2 [16/6/07]Oh yeah, Day 2 was probably the most hiong day.
Morning, the Cook House cheif chef had his learning point on Compassion. Everyone was made Blind Mute and Crippled, except for the Section and Meal I/C for that day! Wai Yinn was super cute when he multi-tasked and feed 3 people at one time! Sorry to Jian Nan. I was practically forcing the bread into his mouth. But he was so guai! He just sat there and choke the food down his throat. Sorry! And Oh ya! I drank 2 cups of tea for that morning! ^^
Afterwards, we had an urban hike! Platoon 1 and 3 merged to form Group 1! Covered probably 18 clicks? I really regret not helping the officers by stepping out more often, rather than standing within Platoon 1 only. Had a mini break at the Punggol jetty and carried on back to Holy Inncocent High. Finally reached back HIHS! We were the first group to arrived! Yipee! Had time to discussed about campfire. Afterwards, the cadets proceeded for their communication skills lecture while the rest of the section NCOs had a talk with Mdm Yu Lin. She rocks man, taught us motivated us to push the cadets. Slacking time's over mates.
Night activity was cool! Although there was some interruptions during the activity, it still rocks! Haha. I only joined in one of the games because Elliot and I were doing the cadets' DA (DailyAssessment) and Sir Jia Hong was telling us all the juiciest gossips! WAHAHA.
Hiking Group 1 had to stay back and sign extra because they left the FA kit and Stretcher and didn't stay close with each other. As usual, we had NCOs+ Officers meeting until the wee hours.
Day 3 [17/6/07]Wow. The officers actually gave us until 8am to sleep! Yipee. I guess Day 3 was the easiest day for all Section NCOs. We just let all our "babies" go for MOI and OOA presentation while we went to SPACE and slack! I can't believe Lin Qian And Glenn could actually take out their hwk and do! Mdm Mah, don't say I neglect you. I took math notes to camp! Woo Hoo. Read a lil before all of us cannot ta han and started crapping! We actually prepared a skit for the cadets to let them see how they actually behaved! LOL. Let me summarise the skit:
1) Everyone did not know how to right dress and do pumping.
2) Where's your apple? All points to adam's apple.
Where's your banana? Male: Looks down. Female: Looks at male *ahem*.
Siu Ying, "But I dun have banana!"
3) Everyone saw NCO and keeps looking for their wrist band, frantically.
4) Shouts Fall-in as "Bor-ing"!
5) Officer shouts, "Drag somemore!" Then cadets really dragged even more.
6) Daryl's Ha-choo incident!
Wahaha. We also had a cool cheer by Reuben.
Afterwards, Sir Jia Hong gave Elliot and I instructions to change into our new camp shirt (proudly designed by MAY MAY) and help our section with their skit! Brian, thanks a lot for bringing the TEDDY!
This year's campfire was slightly very different compared to last year. YUP. I've got to say that Brian should be awarded the Best Vocalist. LOL. TooCW, you better watch out too! I didn't know that his acting skills have reached to this level! LMAO.
After that they had this Beauty Pageant. Platoon 1 managed to "hire" models Reuben and Aiden.
It was freaking funny! Reuben and Aiden Sir both dressed until so sexy, balloon boobs, and mini mini skirts! Other teams included Sir Hakim and De Xian who had excess boobies. Wei Xiang Sir and Glenn had the most realistic boobies! MAN! But in the end Platoon 1 was crown Beauty Queens! Woo Hoo.
As usual we had NCOs + Officers meeting at Operation Rm after sending the cadets to sleep. It was especially long that night as there was lots to settle and I didn't bathe after that! To make up for my slackiness! HEHE. Sorry Lin Qian who had to bear with my smelliness.
Day 4 [18/6/07]
It was finally the last day! We had fire drill at approx 4.30am. No one actually came into our bunks and called us up, but most of us were alert enough to hear their echos. The male NCOs, on the other hand, was not as alert. They were happily dozing in their bunks! In the end Sok Ting and myself went up to wake them up. After stand by bunk check, which lasted less than a hour, they were made to sleep again.
Had area cleaning, as usual. I was put in charge of the flexi 2 (lecture room) and everyone managed to clean the school by 1030! Good job everyone!
Passing Out Ceremony was next. P1 Best Trainee went to EDMUND! Congrats! P2 was AMELIA! P3 was Wan Ting and P4 was Ting Xing! P4 gotten best platoon, sabotaged by Elliot and I. Then when Glenn represented his Platoon to take the award, he said, "I hate you guys!". SUPER FARNY! We didn't take it to heart of course.
For the rest of the trainees, all of you really did a good job and even if you guys didn't get best trainee or anything. For some reason my platoon probably had the lowest passing rate. BUT BUT BUT they so did not deserved to fail, I guess it's the before camp preparation? Don't give up still, because this is just the beginning!
Our last lunch for this camp rocks my socks! They had this goody called the E' Clare and it's like super nice. It's like there's chocolate outside and inside it's really cooling cream. The Section NCOs started to Yam Seng with the E'Clare followed by the officers who grabbed their packet food and went, "YAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM KAH-MENG!" LMAO!
There was debrief by CCO Jane, I meant Wei Wen. He said if the course could guess correctly which section had the best proposal for the Zone Telematch, he would release them immediately. To my surprise, the course chose Section 1! LOL. Thank you for all your support ah, but sorry it was Section 7!
Took lots of photos after that. With officers and platooneys. =D
After Besurai, it was officially end of ANCO!
P.S: To all NCOs, we must so organise a get-together and study group and call ourselves: MugNCOs.
PP.S: I'm from Kranji HIGH. LOL!
P.P.P.S: Please inform me if I've left out anything significant. Memory getting rusty after the 13hrs of sleep.
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