Last Words

Hey Mr Lay,

You''re not the only one here... you've got me.


And this goes out to all Wentures.. a dedication from the deepest of hearts saying I wish we had more time together.

Here's - Right Here Waiting by Nathan

Oceans apart day after day
And I slowly go insane
I hear your voice on the line
But it doesn't stop the pain

If I see you next to never
How can we say forever

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

I took for granted, all the times
That I though would last somehow
I hear the laughter, I taste the tears
But I can't get near you now

Oh, can't you see it baby
You've got me goin' CrAzY

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

I wonder how we can survive
This romance
But in the end if I'm with you
I'll take the chance

Oh, can't you see it baby
You've got me goin' crazy

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

Clearly I'm the only one updating.

Yes, I'm very very bored.

I could be doing my GP newspaper thing right now, or I could be blogging on a blog that 3 people read.

Yo Yandao, Haoqin (?).

Duh I'll blog.

Half a year has passed.

We've split up, gone our separate ways.

Some of use end up in suckier classes than others, but that's just a way of life, isn't it?

Well, I do hope that we can still remain, and always will remain, Wentures of 08.

Is Watchmen R21? I wanna watch.

Camperama

So we pitched tents, and unpicthed them, played cards and watched M18 movies. Camperama was fun til the rains came. Our A-frame tent collapsed, the kitchen tent collpased and all the dome tents were flooded. it kinda dampened our mood (hahaha), but the campfire warmed the atmosphere (hahaha).

the afternoon it rained, one of the organisers volunteered to drive us out to get lunch. her name escapes me, though i remember her high boots that made her seem even shortter than she was. so shide, kelvin and I go to get lunch, and we came back with 19 packets of chicken rice for 10 people. i was on a diet so i ate only one pack. which was quite alrite considering i had a little something when we went to get lunch. well some other ppl also had a little something but he still had his two packets. i am in awe of tt.

oh the best part was the campfire and movies. they caterers had gotten some huge roasted lamb which was just so yummy... mm... there wasn't much left for us for dinner though, but then there was extra satay n someone had to finish it.... =)

then during the campfire, kelvin set his sights on some RP girl... hahas. and guess what? ram was toking abt the same girl too. well we can guess how it ended. heartbreak kid. n there was the friendship dance, chu yong kept dancing with me for some reason. i was about to move on to do the dance with some RP girl, yes kelvin's target. but chu yong kept pullin me back. some bonds just can't be broken. so i danced with some kid who was reali cute - adorable.

they screened enchanted which is seriously sooooo sooooo romantic... wow. n who else would be near kelvin during tt movie, the RP girl. what a coincidence! thn i went down to the beach to snooze with lsd. he found it cold so we came back to watch Ah Long Pte Ltd. NO SUBTITLES!!! =( i pulled up three chairs n slept only to wake up jus when 300 was starting..

the movie was in its full uncensored uncut glory. n 5yr old kids were watching it!!! wth. only abt 13yrs underaged. somebomb!! so heads were rolling, blood spraying and clothes being torn off. luckily we had mervin to shield us from those horrid scenes. the heads rolling part was too much for me n i wonder hw the 5yr old kids could watch it...

the next day, we were on our way back in the truck and someone whipped out his phone and takes pics:

so kelvin tries to look cute. what a hottie!
come to think of it he looks more pathetic than hot or cute in the 2nd one. kinda lyk a fugitive on a truck desperately asking u to keep silent or else he'd be dead. - hehes.

then i try, unfortunately, some ppl dun reali have to look cute to be liked. sadly i am one of them.
and then dehong tries. hehe shide your finger is a little too high up man. he kinda looks lyk the troll frm enchanted. but u can't deny that he is P.H.A.T - pretty hot and tough...

Venture CIP

We sprayed, wiped, dusted, pasted, lifted, ate, slept and played. Venture CIP. whee...

the first day was slack. re-labelling of tables n chairs, n thn slacking in the canteen, before pouncing on the bee hoon tt De hong bought.

well then someone found a secret corner in the Hideout. and it became the place to be. until... the big shiddy fell asleep there....

We disinfected and wiped somemore on the second day. the best part is tt now i noe tt young kids will not get hand foot and mouth disease beacuse of the wiping n cleaning that we have done. you never noe how an act so small and seemingly meaningless, can mean so much to the person sitting at that chair n touhcing everything that he can reach.

He can now touch in confidence. Knowing that every wall, chair, table leg, shelf and door knob he touches is a clean one. Making it rather touching to do CIP.

So then hao qin, kelvin, de hong, shide, ram and i went to play squash. and well kelvin was trying to steal a glance at shide. how naughty! well in the 8 matches i played against koala i won 5. hehes. well i guess squash just is my thing.

And then the third day. i think im the only one other than hao qin to go on all three days) well i had nth to do, n shide said tt i could go to his house only if i went for CIP. so we counted tables on the rooftop, and toked abt koala's affairs. thn we felt guilty of slacking n proceeded down to the Hideout to slack.

so thn someone had a bright idea in the little secret corner. he wanted to see what would happen if he were to paste tape on my leg and rip it off - how much hair would come off?

yea so tt's wat happened - no i am not hairless now, though i have to admit that the experience was rather pleasing.

well tt's wat happened over the last three days... whee...

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.

01 Annual Show'08

Oceans 1 has finally drawn to an end!

Thank you all Ventures who have put in the best of your efforts into making the show such a great success!

The venture dance, a new initiative by a group of venture dancers, was also a great success despite the fact they had very little time to master a completely unfamiliar dance (one month only, in fact), and their performance was also flawlessly great, with the x-factor and everything in the right place =D

This is the link to the amazing performance! -> http://youtube.com/watch?v=yhs78R2-wX8

On a seperate note, there will be no activity for the next week as a break for everyone. However, there will still be muster parade on wednesday, so everyone please remember to bring your scout (venture) uniform! Thanks!

01 Annual Show 2008

Three more days to our very own Annual Show!


Ocean's One.





To any scouts or guides who randomly stumble upon this blog, please support us! :D

Hello!

Due to the fact that nearly everyone are in different committees and AS preps are rather repetitive, the venture unit will not be blogging about AS preps to save the reader and the blogger of recounting the same story over and over again =D

Tennis on Tuesday

whee.. tennis was fun... whee... after my countless hours of playing tennis on monday and tuesday afternoon, I am now able to do the backhand(most of the time). I have noticed that it goes generally in the right direction, now i just gotta make sure that it lands inside the blue/green box...

well we had a new 'coach' or replacement this time - some guy from NUS i think. and he was lyk saying nice stuff when we(the slightly less talented group) and then we started to compare who got more claps on the racket, well dones etc.

Shide got the first Clap on Racket, and then he got promoted to the 'oh-so-slighty more talented' group... no big deal... hahas a pun... - according to some lit teacher puns are the lowest form of comedy, but it still makes me laugh =D...

Hairsh received the most number of clap's on racket, followed closely by hao qin, but then harish was also the 'most stable player' he had a perfect score(all three shots being inside) at least twice! i never knew his true potential...

i got two "well done"s and a "keep-it-up".. YAY!!! I feel so moralised... - tis is not me being sarcastic.... well im looking forward to next tuesday whee... c ya.....

yippee.

On 28th March, 01 Venture Unit 2008 attended a batch project meeting with a grand total of eight people.

AS Prep 2!

Woohoo!

Let us all welcome the 2 preparatory session of Annual Show!

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And there goes the enthusiasm =/

Anyway the highlights are highlighted:
1) We pumped 45 for latecomers. (Did I say there were 15 people late? Oh yea I think I just did).
2) I am in banner / gateway committee!
4) There were only 3 people in my committee, but luckily we managed to pull Jojo over to come own us with his talents. (:

Basically, we had to finalise the colour scheme, plan out the amount of colours we need, outline the banners and most importantly buy the paint. The planning took quite a bit because it seems that everyone was really really unresponsive.

Jeremy: So we use metallic for the sword?
Others: Yes
Jeremy: We use black for the handle?
Others: *nods*
Jeremy: We use bronze for the shoulderpads, I think it looks nice.
Others: *nods*
Jeremy: Wait I think use yellow bah so it contrasts the shield.
Others: Okay.
Jeremy: So what do you all think?
Others: Yes.

This went on for 30 minutes before I gave up and left them to do it themselves.
Jojo brought along his laptop so we could really see the colour schemes for ourselves. I think the finalised version looks brillant and I am sure it will look good after it is done. =P

So Sherman went to buy the paint after the amount of finalised and we got to work on the backdrop designs.
SPOILER: it looks really nice.

The real thing? You will see it soon, on the day itself. XD

So that's that for Annual Camp preparatory session 2.
Sweet, short, sucky. (refering to the post itself I mean)

Term 2 Week 1 tennis

Yeah, I know. Pretty late isn't it.

Anyway, as always the tennis lesson began as per normal. Apparently the Prince of Tennis anime had just ended with some guy doing some sort of Samurai shot to win the championship, cutting the ball in half.

Uh huh.

Is that even legal?

Well, much of the batch do watch it, so I'm not going to say how retarded it is here on the Venture Blog.

Anyway, the n00b class learnt all about volleying and hitting the ball before the bounce. I can safely say that that's the one thing Kelvin can own me at for tennis, because I sucked at that. Like, totally.

The real fun was during King of the Court. I paired up with Kelvin for the Golden Pair outfit, and soon enough (considering Kelvin's K-factor, 5-blue-note racket)we found ourselves on the King side. We were playing Chee Yeow and Yandao (you know who you are) and Chee Yeow decided to volley at the net. So I went up too, volleyed a bit and shot right to the side of the court for pure win.

Yeah, I'm never gonna let you forget it.

Later on Chee Yeow abandoned our game to play with Ram, so I pangsehed Kelvin to go with Yandao. Really funny. Then Kelvin started playing with Chester. We only played once, where he shot the serve into the net. Yeah, pretty awesome.

Hey, this tennis game's actually pretty fun.

On Wednesday, 19th of March, it all began...

With PT, where we had fun running up and down the SRB for at least 50 flight of stairs.

After that, we were split into our ANNUAL SHOW committees, and thereafter went off to do whatever their comittee was supposed to do. I was in Sec 4 dance, and under the supreme guidance of Chu the Dancer, we managed to successfully screw our minds up trying to learn 2 sets of 8 beats. In 1 hour.

There's no point coming up with a patrol-log-esque post for this activity, and so I'll leave it at that.


Trivia: Did you know all the digits in Yanzhi's home number is below 8? =)