Footdrill

Hello People!

After 1 1/2 years since the last footdrill in our Sec2 July, our footdrill session has finally come!
What an ~Exhilarating~, **Exciting** and ^^Captivating^^ activity footdrill session is! A time of our lives! I just can't emphasize how fun it was! Certainly the time of our lives!!

Ok for those who don't really understand sarcasm, footdrill is boring. But it is something that we HAVE to do, because of all those "cool, hip, and trendy" Muster Parades which have come our way. Meanwhile for your information, the SU did pioneering.

So, before we did our footdrill, we did our stylo-milo Muster Parade. We did a dry run which lasted until somewhere at 4.15pm. Then the proper thing ended at 4.30pm.

Then, we were given a leisure time of 7 minutes to change up to PE from Scout Uniform. I am not being sarcastic here as 7 minutes is much more than what we are usually given. I even got some spare time to patronise the water-cooler =D

The goal of the footdrill can be easily explained by the simple diagram below:

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(Rojak) to (some impressive army)


So, we practised our footdrill with Wayne, Chuyong and Zhixuan as timers. We practised a lot of commands, which I don't know how to spell nor pronounce. We learned sedia senangdiri, moving left right front back by 1/2/3 steps, size up commands, marching, turning right, left, and 180 degrees static footdrill. Although this was to us challenging, I tell you that the other uniformed groups with the exception of 01 (us) and 02 scouts, do more advanced footdrill EVERY session. We do it like once a year =D

After the end of footdrill, we didn't exactly achieve our goals of being some impressive army. But all the stamping of feet and marching on the spot allowed us to priviledged access to various facilities with this label :

Yea, our legs tanhuan-ed. Anyway, frankly, we felt that our footdrill improved quite a lot after all the hard work, but there is certainly room for improvement. I mean if those NCC cadets still have room for improvement, and they spend at least 2 hours a week on footdrill for EVERY week in their year, you get what I mean. But since the focus of scouting isn't on impressive footdrill, so I doubt anyone would really care about it. I think that those 5-10m high structures we build totally prawns footdrill. Everyone agree?

Ok, tata for now. Please blog actively and don't let the blog die out!

Muster Parade Rehearsal

Just today, we had another activity.


We continued on with our footdrill practice for the muster parade that will be held every fortnight in school.

(These guys learnt footdrill from us)

Muster parade is basically an fortnightly activity where students from all six uniform groups in RI gather together to do a short fifteen minutes ceremonial parade. The objectives of this parade is to foster a camaraderie and interaction between the officers and cadets of different uniform groups and to standardize a common muster parade procedure for all Raffles Institution Uniform Groups in future.

The activity started off with attendance taking, with the ventures having to do thirty seven push ups despite our count of "zero" latecomers, as well as the fact everyone handed in the parent's letter.
This guy must be from a Scout Group with a lot of latecomers

We later proceeded on with our activity proper. Initially we did combined muster parade rehearsal with the other batches, however, halfway through the the rehearsal, amidst the horse kicking, repeated "semula"s as well redoing of the whole procedure.

Our favorite Group Council decided that our footdrill is... cmi, and thus we were split into our batches for a crash course on footdrill.

For the next one hour, we did basic footdrill commands, and later proceeded on wioth muster parade rehearsal as a batch.

The activity then ended off at 4.30 pm after a final rehearsal with the Scout Unit.


Please don't mind my grammar. ;D
Pictures and captions by Yanwei =D

Pole Management & VEXCO meeting

Yesterday, Sarun continued on his QM regime and began working on the poles at Braddell Westlake Secondary School. We re-painted all the poles and re-marked their heights, since their colour was fading and the height measurements were mostly grossly inaccurate.

5 hours under the hot sun and we were rewarded with an arsenal of much better-looking poles which are now more organised and easier to pick out. Of course, that wasn't the only reward -- the entire troupe was presented with 8 bottles of soft drinks. =)

Following the activity the members of the VEXCO could only take a breather before proceeding on with the meeting at 2:50. It would be the first VEXCO meeting for the year where many issues were to be discussed in depth, and as a mark of how seriously we took the meeting, we all reported for the meeting in full scout uniform.

As expected, the meeting ran over time with many new issues brought up. Since the blog is open to the public, details and minutes of the meeting will not be posted here. However, all can be said is that we had a very fruitful meeting which lasted for about 2 and a half hours. =)

After Jeremy declared the meeting close at 5:35 thereabouts, the ventures went off for soccer, albeit having already spent so much energy for the day.

It seems Chu Yong is really an energizer bunny. >_>

Not Another QM Session....

Act started off with footdrill, and then there was the batch project meeting. I had managed to pon two PT sessions – today’s, and Monday’s (cos I was doing QM stuff =D). Well is my fitness good? The answers to such questions are rather obvious rite…
So anywaes, that morning I saw an ad for Men’s Health magazine in the papers – it had the following subtitles: Get back in Shape, a flat tummy by Feb, use food to fight fat etc. Well, the Man looks Nearly As Good As Me..
Hahas… I could use those tips =)

Anywaes, we had foot drill out in the raffles square which was really hot. Most of the Sec 2s were fidgeting(n some sec 3s n 4s) – I tink we might need really serious foot drill sessions like that in SUTC. Foot drill is not easy but if every other cca can execute it perfectly n win competitions, I think we cn too… But I lyk the part when we demonstrated our sizing up n all… the ‘bang!’ was good – loud n mostly together. But the disappointing part was the marching – it was rather screwed up….

Batch proj meeting was cool(the air-con temp was jus rite)… but quite boring…cos we kept going over the same thing again n again….

We should build ourselves another den or pole shed; I noe of a construction company that wouldn’t mind employing us…. Or we could go learn building at the college behind my house (batch proj anyone?)……


Oh n I appeal to you who read this to donate board games, carom seeds, balls, n anything that we can play wif to the den =D lets make the den a wonderful place to be at….



P.S. I can’t wait to roast frogs n eat them…