Lots of shit

Hello. This is the massively long update for the events of the past four hectic weeks.

Firstly was overnight. Nothing much to say except that it was quite stressful planning out all the things like cooking race and our BLOODY AWESOME damn fail skit. As I'm typing this a month later I can't exactly remember the exact details of what happened. For the sec 3s/PLs/random people it started at about 1pm where we had to build the flag staff. But since we were slacking and taking our time we eventually finished it at about 3pm+. We didn't have the experience of building a quick flagstaff, which was to our disadvantage during SUTC.

Once horseshoe was blown we had the usual things like tent pitching etc. Then we had cooking race, where since I'm absolutely bloody hopeless whenever it comes to food and everything I touch ends up poisoning people, I went to wash the chicken. After getting over the initial reaction (you know, the reaction when you stick your hands into a raw cold fatty disgusting squishy chicken), it became slightly entertaining as I tried to high five everyone I saw.

So it started raining like mad and we all migrated over to the gym hall atrium to cook. Rain + soil + grass = mud, and during PL call the last person there would have to down 10 in the previous equation mentioned. Unfortunately due to the J1s lacking control over their new-found power to down people, they eventually made us all down in the grass through their cunning ways. They SMSed us, "PL Call". And then they started blowing the whistle. So since we were all late we downed a total of like 30 in the mud. Those who got wet started to pull those who weren't into the mud, so we all ended up wet, dirty and stinky. My patrol's food actually tasted pretty decent, but then I only tried the chicken.

After cooking race was the campfire. Boring as hell, but its the first time 01 was having this segment in overnight so initial quirks were to be expected. Once again they exercised their power with the whistle and had random calls. And pumping. Owl's skit naturally placed me in the lead role as super-cow, and I think every patrol's skit was something similarly stupid (lol alliteration). After that was Fright Night. I will not elaborate.

The next day I can't really remember what we had. Most likely we had stuff like station games and shit, but it was quite insignificant. In the afternoon we had footdrill practice, especially for the sec 1s to get ready for the investiture that night. Investiture was predictably boring as usual, but it was amusing to watch the sec 1s mess up their foot drills.

Overnight was quite a new experience especially as a PL, since there was hell a lot of stuff to coordinate and plan beforehand. Hopefully I'll be able to cope with AC, which would be pretty damn sucky if I already find Overnight that difficult.

The two (??? I think so) weeks following that was spent working on pre-hike log for First Class. I was paired up with Terence so at least I had a decent partner, unlike some people whom I do not care to mention at this point (:

First class itself was pretty sucky, our route was bloody foam. And I have finally appreciated how much doing route map sucks. Nothing much to say, except that pitching bashas at night was damn screwed up due to mis-alignment and everything. But staying up and doing sentry and cooking noodles was fun :D

The three days after First Class was spent rushing out hike log. Damn sian. I chionged checkpoint maps all the way till early Tuesday morning, about 1-2am. On Tuesday I stayed back after school in the den till 6pm to finish off route maps. Then that night I stayed up till 4am to wait for Terence's part and put together everything. On wednesday we rushed to printing shop during lunch to print and bind everything. After act that day the J1s told us that they were giving everyone a universal extension. FML

So since we had finished our hike log (ONLY PATROL TO DO SO LOL IMBA) we didn't have much to worry about. I ended up helping a certain someone to finish his hike log since his partner isn't exactly the most competent of people. But meh, I'm a nice guy :D

Then the week after that was Job Week. I cannot even begin to describe the immensity of the turd this year's jobweek sucked. I got $x on the first day. I got $x + $40 on the second, where the additional $40 was due to my parents taking pity on me. But yeah, it sucked. Especially the first day, where I thought that all the people living in newly developed areas like Punggol would be nice people. But nooooo, they're mostly complete assholes. As though they think that I can't tell when they look through the peephole but still don't open the door since the ray of light coming through the peephole disappears when someone looks through. Incoherent gibberish trolololol.

But meh, it sucked.

After that was SUTC, where I was elevated to the honorary position of SS I/C, aka cheeboh. For the uneducated, cheebohs pump a lot. Enough said.

But SUTC was pretty fun. Well, not on the first day where us SS got completely owned by the J1s for general incompetency, such as our flagstaff up 20 minutes late, flag prematurely opening, facing wrong way, dragging down trainees with slow timings, 4 minute improper inspection. Over the course of the three days we slowly improved damn a lot, such that at the end of the camp 9 SS were able to suan the trainees with 1min40sec inspection (: Sense of accomplishment ftw.

But SS was pretty fun, the pressure and the stress of trainees were virtually non-existent, except during Night Call. Although according to SS J1 ICs they were impressed with our imba nightcall :D

Quite a lot of funny stuff happened along the way, such as Mus cramping his back when pelvic thrusting cans of longan syrup. Once again my memory is failing me even though the camp was just two days ago.

Right before the final horseshoe us awesome SS managed to do 100 pushups in a row as a batch :D Then after that we were all foaming during final clearing. But the experience was worth it. I think our batch is pretty damn awesome (:

After four weeks I'm starting to fall sick from all the past events. Bloody tired. And I lost all my comp skills after spending so much time away from games :(