BORING......
That will be the reply you will get if u ask most of the participants.....But honestly...If i would be in their shoes i would probably find the camp boring too....its like I mean all lectures and very little play...but i hope they would understand...as LLTC B is an extra camp that is especially run for the benefit of those who cant attend LLTC A due to whatever reasons be it personal or because of Sports season....the original is a 5 day camp and now it is shortened to a 3 day camp so due to the time constraint and evrything else...the fun had to make way for the serious right...I mean afterall it is a leadership training camp right? i would rather benefit as much as i can from a leadership training camp rather than to have lots of fun but learn minimal from it...
But if u ask the same question to the Facils I believe the reply would be
ROX....
It really feels as though it was a OT(Organising Team) camp...everyone in the OT which also includes all the facils enjoyed it totally....despite all the stress and work to be done...
Anyway for us facils the camp started a day before the actual day which is the prep day....It was thursday some of the SJI ppl had their last paper Geog paper I which i dont have...so i met some of the facils + a few others like Leslie and Qingwei to go play pool at paradigm...it was officially my 1st time playing pool....and i think i played ok...so we were so into it that we played longer than we are supposed to...XD Just before we were leaving something cropped up...hwa xiong lost his wallet...so we wasted time finding his wallet...we combed the very small area for a wallet but to no avail.....poor hwa xiong...he suspects that it is a malay guy that picked up his wallet as when they were playing a malay worker was suspiciously hanging around near their table...But we had no evidence and have no choice but to leave it as it is...If i was hwa xiong i would probably go straight home as i probably have no mood to go for camp....but he didnt...so claps***
After that we went to have lunch at BK at plaza sing then we catch a bus to st.pats...We arrived late(expected) probably the latest...so anyway we lazed around at the sofa before getting down to serious work....
Slacking
So we set up the secreteriat shop(a.k.a seX shop) and did all the name tags all that stuff....printing,cutting,laminating,punching holes.....I finally got my facil tag...a coloured one...much nicer....XD We ended quite late around 9+ then a few of us( Mathias,Hwa xiong,Jared, Lennon & I) went over to gabriel house to stay over....had supper(maybe dinner) then went to swim (as usual)....all the others got out of the pool soon after they went in...Lousy...cant blame them though they are not experienced like me lennon and gabriel...veterans liao...lol...out of the blue...we started "men's talk"...lol...i m sure u dont wanna know what we talked about...XD So after that we bathe and had supper(again) before going to sleep finally at around 3am.
We woke up 2 hrs later...lol...and left for SJI...we reached damn early...the school was like empty and the staffroom was EMPTY so we went to the void deck area outside the staffroom at 2nd floor wanting to scare vehicles coming in....so whenever a vehicle came into sight.. we will all stand in a single file and waved slowly....as it was quite dark and very early and no one expected ppl to be there...we managed to scare a few ppl....teachers included(martina chan,nevina ho and a few others)....LOL...So the camp began....registration and icebreakers bla bla...had nothing to do cause i m not a group facil so basically slacked around...
Facils being briefed.... Issuing out of name tags..... Registration in progress....
Icebreakers in progress....
Then it was time for WALK THE TALK...This year's LLTC B participants sure were lucky...its the first time ever that LLTC B has WALK THE TALK...so this time round the participants had to walk from SJI all the way to St. Pats with their LUGGAGES....lol...they have to make their own way there by foot no tpt allowed...Me The makan king(basically overall in charge of food) together with all the main secreteriat were ferried by car to St. Pats as we had to be there earlier to prepare and organise everything beforehand....But gabriel me and lennon had the privilege to grace a van....Daniel's Chua mini van....we took the back(goes without saying) and guess what...it comes with a couch...lol...one man though...and gabriel's backside graced it...so that leave me and lennon with the floor?? of the van...and guessed what we played dai di in the van on the way to St. pats...haha..damn shiok...lol...the others had to WALK under the HOT sun....while we were PLAYING dai dee on an AIR CON Van...Here are some pics on their WALK THE TALK....
So it was finally time for me to do some things...It was lunch time and being the Makan King and Queen(me and gabriel)(just to clarify i m the King XD) it was time for us to do our duty...Lunch was not so much a problem as everything was prepacked....one thing though its bento style...the covers were so "tight" that it came off with the slightest touch....and the food wasnt great at all....many were hungry and wanted more but there werent enough to go for second so poor thing...after cleaning up we had basically nothing to do until Dinner time...lol...so thats like 5 hours to burn....so we went to the seX shop to WASTE time with lennon, kenny and others....
It was then dinner time....once again time to work...so we(gab and I) arrived at the canteen to JAGA the food as well as to distribute the food....this time round it was buffet style..the one u get with all the food in large metal containers heated with a flame beneath it....we got some help from the rest of the facils....so according to instructions passed down, we served the food in big plates for each group to eat in communal style where they will take their own food from it...but it was a really really bad idea....as the greedy ones who got access to the food first took alot leaving very little for the others behind...so many were left hungry...so many came to ask for second helpings but there were so little to go around plus the facils and teachers themselves hadnt eaten...and they most probably also dont have enough....this is the time when i start to feel the stress...the participants keep coming up and it was very frustrating...and we ourselves hadnt eaten too and we had to run around ensuring everything's ok and briefing the duty group bla bla...so it was terrible...After that was slack time again...hanged out at seX shop(again) until OT meeting at night which is like 12 am...yes midnight....the meeting was quite good as it provides a time and platform to discuss the problems we encounter throughout the whole day...I brought up the issue regarding dinner and i suggested that the partcipants come up individually
and the facils would scoop the food onto their plate....in that way everybody would get a fairer share of food...and less would feel hungry....
So that night we had the whole parmenie to ourselves...with AIRCON....wahahahahaha...and showers with cubicles and heater....what more we werent rush to finish our bath....that means we could take a long time scrubbing every single part of our body and being me....I took full advantage of it...
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