Venture Camp

Hey, 01-2005 let's look forward to Venture Camp.



Please make sure you have everything ready, rations, inventory, water, attire, survival kit etc etc.

Venture Camp Preparation

Hi ventures, please be reminded that there would be venture camp preparation from one thirty to six thirty tomorrow at gym hall atrium or scout den. (just call any other venture if you cannot find them.)



For those who wishes to buy things from army market, please pass the list of items to be bought and $$$$ to Hao Qin.

Revival

Thought that I would revive the to-do list in this blog.

Survival Course

Found this picture off Google.

Survival Course

Stolen from Yanwei's blog since he is too busy (lazy) to do a post for this.

Survival course went pretty much OK, just that I still doubt that I can survive after getting booted out of a plane with a parachute at 20000 ft into the great jungles of amazon. (Provided that operating the parachute is as easy as just pulling that one and only strap)

Reached Woodlands Ring Pri Sch at 10.25am, 35 minutes early. If you would like to phrase it in a nice way, I am being punctual, but if you like to phrase it in a nastier way I am an idiot who doesn't know how to gauge how long I take to walk 1km. (20 minutes off target since I wanted to reach there 15 min early)

Survival lecture was in the scouts den which was air-conditioned. I sat right in the face of the air-con so I was freezing, while the rest of the scouts at the back were complaining of the heat.Went for lunch, had to eat at a hawker centre precisely on the MRN/MGR given to us by Kumaran. Navigated there using a topo map. Quite lame but thats a little bit of training.

Went to some jungle near Republic Polytechnic to get started on the practical part. We had to walk past some clearing near the lodges of the foreign workers working at a construction site, and guess what we saw.

Condom packets.
Condom packets.
And more condom packets.
Refer to Yanwei's blog for picture as he is too busy (lazy) to upload it again.

Then we took a 10 minute hike into the depths of the jungle. Walking over stuff like garbage, vines, mud (yes, a lot) and rotten tree roots which look ok but crumble into termites + rotten stuff when you step on them.

Anyway we started on our shelter building. We were split into 5 teams of 6. We had to build the shelters with whatever natural resources we could find. And at the end, there would be a test on the waterproofity/waterproofness of the shelters.

Came the "inspection" of the shelters, so we had to get the largest member (Shide) of the team to hide inside the shelter and Kumaran would pour water on the shelter to see if it is waterproof. Ours was the least waterproof because its not really our fault: All other groups had some form of plants with large leaves near them, ours had small and narrow leaves. So during the inspection:

**Kumaran pours a little water here**

Shide: "Oh Crap."

**Kumaran pours a little water there**

Shide: "Oh Crap."

**Kumaran pours a little water at yet another spot**

Shide: "Ohhh Crap."

Quite failure arh. But not really our fault anyway. Shide, you should have just endured the water for the sake of our pride xD

Other shelters were ok I think, most comfy-looking was Chuyong's shelter.

Then we cleared up and went home =)

Rockclimbing

Well, rockclimbing. A deeply interesting activity, one would think. And yes, yes it was, but not for the normal reasons.

The day started off brilliantly with us meeting at Yishun MRT. Jeremy led us to the SAFRA Club but decided upon leaving the MRT that we were walking too slow and made me and haoqin follow him at a punishing pace. 5 minutes later he tried to cross the road, decided not to, then backed up to cross the road again, so the batch managed to catch up. Nub.

Wayne takes damn long to eat a bun.

Eventually we reached the SAFRA Club and were all bowled over by the 25 metre rockwall. That's really really high. Kumaran eventually appearedand told us we were doing the 15 metre wall and taught us about harness-wearing and indemnity forms and blahdeblahdeblah. You know, uninteresting things like that. Let's go to the interesting part.

Since the J1s were there too they were going to be the belayers. Well, I know you aren't interested in how Kelvin Koa screamed so loudly when he was at the fourth panel, or how Dehong refused to come down from the top of the rockwall 'cos he was scared, or how Kumaran owned everyone, or how I didn't manage to get to the top of the easiest wall, right? Nobody likes things like that.

Yanwei called Kumaran "Mr. Kumaran", so Kumaran asked "What's my name?" Yanwei said "Kumaran". So Kumaran said "ok, good" then Yanwei called him Mr Kumaran again. Damn dots.

Also, GC and Ventures had races to the top of the rockwalls. Chuyong owned everyone, Nubby Neo lost to Wee Kien. Also Ram lost to Kelvin, then said Kelvin had asked him to wait for him. Oh, sure thing, mate.

At the final horseshoe, Kumaran told us to go for batch dinner. Jeremy said "Maybe", then when Kumaran left he said no.

Jeremy you uncaring slut. Not going for batch dinner. Not like I went, but the point is Jeremy's a slut.

Prince of Tennis Eps 11/12

Practice makes perfect, and like any other sport, tennis was no different. This Tuesday, the ventures headed down to my house there the tennis court. There were only a few of us, as SOME of us didn't want to go. Anyway, the fewer the better. Only Ram and I were in the beginner group. The rest had progressed on. Anyway, since there were too few people there, the coach asked us to challenge some old RJC students. Having seen them play from the other side of the court, I felt it wouldn't be THAT hard. Anyway, half an hour later, I was proved right. It wasn't that hard, and was a close fight. We lost 6-1. It was not my fault. Ram was trying to do his triple counters. I suggest he try aim the racket at the ball first.

After that, I went back to learn some moves from our coach, some slice thingy. No difference also, I didn't learn anything. After that the coach went off to slack off and drink coffee. Shi De, Kelvin, Wee Kien and I played doubles. Kelvin quite good. Fourth best of the game. Shi De also challenge me to singles game. Won 2-1. Wasn't really trying, but had to give impression to him that he was improving. :) . Just joking. Also had a doubles game teamed with ivan against shi de and kelvin. As kelvin would be proud to announce to every one who would listen, the game lasted all the way until 6-6, and tie-breaker they were leading 5-1. Kelvin, don't say i didn't give you b'day present ah. but then later no more time so had to call that match a draw.

Yup, that's about all for this tuesday's tennis, and the 11th out of our 12th lesson. Yah, and for those who havn't paid the fees for tennis, and that's you, nathan. pls bring your money next week. We still owe him $345.