HELLOO GUYS!! whee i am finally back =) =) And YES! do u know what this means?? the fact that I'm here now blogging means .... I SURVIVED! Three cheers for meee.... yeaa it has been a long tiring three days, but for the sake of my readers who wanna know the teeny weeny details of the camp, here I go!!

Day 1 (Friday/ 6 April 2007)

We reported for camp at 3 pm sharp. The moment we arrived, we were asked to put our hands up and there was an immediate attire check.. a number of nominees got pulled out for their attire which is either inappropriate or untucked, and for that, we had to start the day with 20 push ups... Then we were told of the importance of attire etc. and they told us to break into girls and boys given a really limited number of time (10 seconds?) to grab our bags and move to one side for bag inspection.. Procedures, we had to put all our things out, and PUT THEM IN AN ORDERLY STANDARDIZED MANNER! meaning bottles to our left, toiletries to e right, clothes to the middle etc. and so many other stuff, so needless to say, OF COURSE we couldnt meet the task requirement, thats plain hard to do, and we were given another asked to do another 20 push ups!! then later on we had to fall in with the girls and were scolded for not asking permission, and after falling in, they told us our bunks and WE HAD TO RUN there... then we were scolded for being late, and another 20 push ups, and finally we had to ask for permission to enter bunks but the boys and girls werent uniform in asking, so another 15, that makes 75 and two hours just simply doing ALL THAT!

The rest of the day was spent playing games (Some games are not bad, ur usual games, while some games, arent really games and are more of PT.. haha.. So that wasnt that bad, and we werent scolded much, just again we were forced to do push ups during that duration for no sense of urgency...

We were then asked to report to the hall, where the DMs told us our mistakes for the day and punished us for all the mistakes that we made by doing crunches, jumping jacks, push ups etc. and after that they told us to go sleep... (thats at 12 am)

At 1.45 am sharp, there was LOTS of screaming and all, calling us to wake up, scolding us and telling us to report... wahh so can u imagine less than 2 hours of sleeP? well, it was the confidence walk test for all of us and we were directed to a room where we had to wait for our turn BUT couldnt sleep... We were then scolded for lack of speed and some had no whistles, so we had to do 60 push ups.. luckily we helped one another when some of us had no ponchos so the push ups were cancelled out... I had to wait 2 LONG HOURS without sleep for my turn, and it was hard and i kept almost dozing off if not for my partner who woke me up once just to save me from drifting to dreamland... hehe.. night walk was called the confidence walk, and i kinda enjoyed it so to speak.. we had to walk round the whole school following lightsticks to our route for different stations... thank god there were no 'fake ghosts' or anything.. in fact, through that walk i kinda felt a sense of belonging to the school! Yippie! it was fun exploring school at night, and I definitely dared to do it as usual, but if u asked me to do it at BP (BOTH CAMPUSES) noo i'll feel kinda scared doing it alone.. u know how creepy the BP site is (Both campuses) hehe... nanyang JC on the other hand is less dark and more open spaced soo yea... but anyway, the most of the walk was just a walk round the school, with the exception to the walk to the LT 4, the BIGGEST LT in nanyang JC!! the moment i walked in, darkness filled in and i was creeped out by the huge place with just my torch, but what was eerie about it was that some chinese music was being played, something lik e"Come back to me" or so.. it was an opera song, REALLY CREEPY!! and i hadda go behind the stage myself, and much to my horror there was this staircase i never knew existed which i climbed before I reached the top to see two guys asking me to choose between heaven and hell...

I thought it was kinda reverse psychology that people will choose hell, cause most likely hell will be the easier one, so i chose heaven, but no difference at all... just the cards we collected were different... that was abt the most climatic of the walk.. following that we played this memory game where two cards have to be opened and they had to have the same number, and we played it with 450 cards!!! we asked for 20 mins but mmm, couldnt finish it in an hour even... haha! Went back to sleep at 5.55 am

Day 2 (saturday / 7 April 2007)

Woke up at 6.25 am.. apparently half an hour of sleep... we were brought down to do PT, and also courage call where we had to shout out commands... our instructor punished those who didnt volunteer in the end, but thanks to the "One for all rule" all had to do the punishment, comprising of 20 push ups... After breakfast, we were told we were goinna play a game... sounds fun?? well,at least we thought so till we attempted the whole thing.. We had to complete 5 tasks within two hours and the tasks??

1) Its the A Levels and students want to take the exams. Rearrange the I-Space (A type of room) byshifting the tables and arranging 120 chairs and tables for the students...

We did this quite well, and were quite satisfied, till after the whole thing, it was annonounced there was a change in plan and that students had to take it somewhere else, so we had to re-stack the tables and chairs to their original state before carrying 125 chairs to the atrium ( area near parade square)

2) Its teachers day and you have to organize chairs for teachers to sit in the parade square.. Make sure seats are shaded, comfortable and teachers shd be able to receive presents form students easily..

We did this in 15 mins, and after arranging ALL the chairs, we were asked to stack them back in the end and bring them back to the I-Space ... WAH!

3) Countdown to new year in NYJC and you are required to hang the banners given a limited amount of resources...

Sounds kinda easy, till we realized the banner was torn and that we had to retrieve glue and stapler from the sirs and madams... they were quite mad we werent organized, so we were scolded at the end...

4) Logistics in councillors room need to be organized and we have to pack the ponchos, fold ground sheets as well as other stuff...

Nothing so challenging abt that, but packing the ponchos were quite hard, and we were scolded for not doing a good job at that..

Thats it,we didnt complete our 5th task due to lack of time, and we were asked to fall in time and again for almost 5 to 6 times before lunch! Tiring!!! After lunch, it was this spider web game before I left for my madrasah...

Day 3 ( Sunday/ 8 April)

I reported back to school being greeted with sour faces by the nominees and I understand they ahd to wake up in the middle of the night and were screamed at to do this thing called the inspection drill, where we had to separate our bottles, torches, toiletries. bags etc. to different areas and report to the stationmasters with ALL those items from each and every nominee and place them for mass inspection... Thing is, we were given 11 minutes and we had to complete 6 stations i think, all of the nominees taking a different station,and the hard thing was we had to ask for permission lots of times and safeguard all belongings cause the councillors can come by either to steal them or throw them in the air.. it was chaotic, and they did it for 3 hours, though they didnt complete it... it was really the worst of all exercises...

So i thought i missed the worst of it all, till they announced that we were doing it AGAIN for the day, and I participated in over 2 or 3 failed attempts and LOTS of scoldings and push ups in a period of 2 hours, not to mention the scoldings from the teachers, till we FINALLY managed at the 8th attempt inclusive of the previous night... wow now i felt how tiring it was to do such a thing!! IT was simply horrible to do so...

Hehe soo yea, thats great training for NS i guess... I missed out quite alot of details cause there's simply too many to remember and write down for if i did this entry will drag on even longer and longer .. and my brother is like asking for the com so yea must cut down...

Anyways, its been a great great experience nontheless, and though i felt it was beneficial for me, it falls under my "its-great-t0-experience-it-once-only" category... hehe! =) Before I leave, just to say, this camp was not all tekan however... we did have fun and laughter, and though this is honestly outweighted by ALL those punishments and frustrating moments, i just wanna say i enjoyed myself getting the feel of this camp...

Just some nice quotes I shall remember throughout

1) KNOCK IT DOWN NOW!!!

2) YOU THINK ITS FUNNY IS IT?

3) WHEN YOU ADDRESS US, YOU CALL US SIRS AND MADAMS DO U GET ME?

4) THIS IS NOT A LEISURE CAMP! WE ARE NOT HERE TO ENTERTAIN YOU!