ATC 2007
Staff Sergeant Christine Tan reporting for duty!
Okay I'm going to blog pretty briefly for this camp. For more detailed posts you can refer to May (as a cadet) or Sze Him and Sok Ting's (as a senior NCO)
Now I'm going to narrate my adventures in this camp...
[Day 1: 16/11/07]
Surprisingly, I reached the school earlier than all of the Senior NCO and officers!
The rest of the day was like flooded with kerosene and sai kang. Carried heavy stuff, heavy bricks and reeked of kerosene. Initially, we thought that the firewood weren't well soaked with kerosene and was pretty afraid it won't burn well later. But it was hell wrong. As soon as the kerosene soaked ball came sliding down the firewood became an inferno! We had great fun watching all the skits and imitating the Mocca advertisement! Oh by the way, thank you TooCW and Yong Ting for inviting all of us to witness your magnificent wedding ah!
Went back home with Rashidah after campfire. Ya largely to bathe properly because of the really stinky kerosene and to keep the plugs and take my flip flop+ hiking bag.
[Day 2: 17/11/07]
Came back to camp by 7am.
Puala Ubin here we come!
I was paired with Rachel to 'take care' of Group 1 - the Beanbos! We took the doubles because Rachel did not have the license to ride a bicyle. But the thing was, I did not have the liscence to ride someone! LOL. So it's like we were bumping into people, losing our balance and the brakes were like so screwed up! So instead of looking after our assigned group, we were holding them back! I am so sorry! It got worst when both of us were happily "shooooooo-ing" down the steep slope and I couldn't control the brakes and we swerved to one side and crashed into the bushes on the side! Rachel said I flew out of the bike! My mistake turned out to do more harm to Rach than myself! I felt pretty ok when I was helped up by this NPCC girl. Other than slight concussion I pretty much couldn't feel any pain. On the other hand Rach was moaning with pain! I think she gotten like 7 contusions? Fortunately, we were able to get back on track soon. Oh Cookie Monster was there too! Fancy finding a Cookie Monster statue in Puala Ubin. Around 12++ we settled for a quick lunch. I would also like to take this oppotunity to compliment Group 1 for their great enthusiasm and the drive to complete the gruelling "marathon"! I guess that's the main reason why they emerged as the 1st team to complete this hike with an amazing timing of completing all 10 stations by 3.45pm!
It rained after lunch. It was then I felt a tingling pain on my fore arm. LOL. Didn't realised I had like many slashes on my arm, probably during the bad fall. Had a contusion on my knee as well. But heck, I used a huge plaster and just covered it up. The team refused to wear their ponchos as well! But it was damm shiok getting in touch with nature!
Sir Kenneth joined us at around the 8th station. Took over my job and rode Rachel! LOL. Then we went up to Chek Jawa. It was like super steep uphill and super steep downhill! Quite shiok la. Aisyah and Yan Rong saw a huge wild boar and Aisyah totally freaked out! I bought a can of Green Tea there to quench my thirst! YUM YUM. And oh! The last station, near the well, there was these 2
HAWT army boys under the tent who were like looking out for terrorist or something. Man. We wanted to take photo with them as part of the challenge. But they couldn't! What a pity! Arrived back at the BSB court and we taught Rachel how to ride a bicycle! Alamak! We should have taught her before we went for the hike! LOL.
Took the bus to Pasir Ris park! Wa Hoo! NIGHT WALK. Ok but it kinda a failure because none of the cadets were scared. Rashidah and I were fooling around with the glowing sticks la! Putting it on our eyes! FUNNY FUNNY. The OLD ONE was like a small boy playing with the glowing stick and dancing para para with it! LOL!!!!!!!!!! If only we managed to tape it! I'm sure you would laugh your ass out as well! Then we had a second round for those who weren't thrilled enough. This time, we took away all the glowing sticks! Yu Zheng was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute! When Sir CK (aka Charlie) went to scare him he was like, WA LAO! WA LAO! WA LAO! FISH! FISH! Sooooooooo cute right? Amelia screamed when Sir CS went to startled her! The rest of the brave soldier saw through our pranks again...
Reached school at around 10.30pm. Sok Ting, Wei Ting and Beatrice went back home. The rest of us were beat and turned it after bathing.
[LAST DAY: 18/11/07]
Fire Drill at 4.30am. 2nd fire drill at 5am. It's sick for the cadets I tell you. Changed into Full U and got ready for promotion ceremony. Yan Rong got punk during the promotion ceremony! I think she nearly broke into tears when her name was not called up during promotion. LMAO. We had a special breakfast as well, special takeaway! Nice. Sir Derrick was like chanting, "I want coffee. I want coffee. I want coffee." for the whole morning. LOL. Photocopied the test papers for the cadets etc. Then we took a long break at the canteen with Sir CK. Chatted like damn much la. By the time we ate, there weren't any rice left! (The cadets must be hungry!) It didn't really matter to me but I think Sir CK really needed the rice. So in order to make up for the rice, he ate 10 CHICKEN WINGS! In 1 meal! LOL. Oh I think I ate like 12 chicken wings in this entire camp. Ya, I think SJAB should organise a chicken wing eating competition! LOL.
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