G double O D J O B goodjob!

Hey all! Had west division camp today and its probably one of the happiest day of my guiding life. :P

So we sent in 2 competition teams, wide games and photography. And pioneering and art and craft as participation games.

But it happened that it rained 2 time today. At the wrong time and kaixin's right eye twitched to it. Scary or what! :P

Xuehui, Dilys, Liting and I were in the photography competition, so we had to go around taking photos that links to the theme ALL SMILES and GUIDES IN ACTION.

Took about like 200+ photos and had a hard time deciding with 16 photos we should submit.

Yeah, and idk if it's a good or bad thing, but photography's result is the last to be announced. So all of us were like pinching each other's shirts and being all nervous cos unlike the past few years, if we do not max out our competition points today, there won't be a second chance :/

Bronze was not us. ):
Then silver was not us too. And we were beginning to feel that its going to be the end of the world. Even dilys was like: I dont think we can make it.

But then, AHAHHHAHAAHHAAHAHA god knows how pro we are and gave us first! :D
Its been a long time since guides have ever won a 1st prize in west div and Im so proud that our current batch is able to add a new shiny gold trophy to the TABLE OF GLORY HAHAHAH.

Okay too high. Just have that sense of accomplishment that we're not letting our seniors down. And they don't have to worry about us :)

And for the year2s who took part in the wide games, nevermind if you've never won anything, we saw that you girls made the effort to memorise the flora knowledge for the competition. And I guess that's pretty much enough.

So after west div, all 11 year3s went to pepper lunch for dinner and chatted from like 5.30 - 8.30. LOL. 3h of quality time is enjoying life!
Love it.

Competition points down,
and we know there's so much more to go.
But who cares?
Its RVGG.
LOL XD

Patrol Leader's Training Camp :)

Hello! Yeah, as the title suggests, Im going to blog about PLTC.
So, PLTC is mainly just about teaching us how to be a good PL in future, and most of the sessions took place in the olave hall. Just like a typical classroom setting.
Boring. But the trainers put in effort to make it interesting even though the lesson itself was dry.
And we had like 5 meals per day, which explains the 1kg I gained from the camp. Although it seems like I was the only one eating most of the elevenses and tea break cookies.
Sorted ourselves into patrols, which I am in BANANA. Yeah, easy to guess that its yellow house. :P It was super epic when our PL said BANANA AT EASE. I swear it was so damn hard to control my laughter. And I like my patrol so much cos they're really super helpful patrol mates and an awesome patrol leader. XD Kinda miss doing activities with them. As for the leadership lessons, we think that our school is walking somehow a different direction from the guides hq. And maybe that's the reason why we are lagging one year behind from other schools. So we were thinking that probably after handover, we can really make ourselves clear about the different testwork and stuffs that we're going to do, and most importantly let our juniors have fun and up their standards in the process too. :)
So, first night, kaixin weixuan qijia and I went to clean the toilet and also emptied all the garbage bags in camp christine. Then we sneaked into olave hall to grab our supper and started chatting under the moonlight. pretty max :)
Next day was still as dry, but we were looking forward to PGA's campfire (President guide award). So we realised that traditional campfire has no emcees or blasting music, but it was sing-along and dancing throughout.
So the PLTC guides pulled off a dance using dj's got us falling in love again. Super hiphop-ish, and we managed to learn it in an hour. And half of the PLTC people had to sing to the song. LOL at their singing :P but overall its cool.
The PGA guides really lived up to their name. We were amazed at how that one PG could control 150 audience in 2h. We heard that they had a wet weather plan in the olave hall, so after dismissal, weixuan and I went to olave hall to check out their indoor plan. That PG was still there clearing up the stuffs and taught us about using pressure lamp, translucent coloured papers and wires to make a fake campfire. and it'll look real and stable.
So second night the 4 of us were chatting at night again, and we really think the PG taught us quite a few good stuffs. Now, campfire in the hall won't be impossible and it could be as enjoyable as it is in the outdoors.
And, we felt that it is very wasted for our level guides to not be able to take part in PG just because we were unsure of the criteria for a PG. (we actually have to finish our gold badge before attempting PG.) And after seeing how the PGs conducted their campfire, I really could say that most of the guides in our level have the same standard as them, or even better.
Anyways, PLTC really had the 4 of us inspired with new ideas to improve the current batch of guides and I hope that after handover, all these ideas will be implemented and we'll handover to the juniors without feeling guilty that we did not put in our very best <3

Guides room revamp (Y)

Hello! So I woke up at 6.30 today and totally rushed for all the mrts and buses, just to reached school at 8. Punctual ftw :D
So today we were going to clean up the guides room and check the logistics for west div day.
But we decided to just revamp the whole guides room and add some new and pretty touches to the guides room to make it even more spacious than it is before.
So after moving everything, EVERYTHING, (Omg, you should see how all the stuffs in the guides room can actually fill up the entire corridor), we moved all the furnitures that blocked the board behind. Then we swept and mopped the whole room, while the rest arranged the gadget poles, clean up the canvas tents and decorate the guides room board.
Oh! We found some ancient guides stuffs left behind like fireplans and photo albums. Reminds me of the days where we can have real campfires, and not some weird one in the hall with colour papers as flames.
So after all the hard work, the guides room is SPARKLING AND PRETTY.
And we were super accomplished after the whole revamp. :D
Went to have pepper lunch with guides and slept the whole bus ride back home.
It's PLTC tomorrow and Im sure I'll have loads of fun with Weixuan, Kaixin and Qijia :D

Now I feel a spark of pride everytime I walk past the guides room.
OUR ROOM IS FINALLY NEATER THAN THE SCOUTS. HAH. BEAT THAT

Take a chance, fly away

I love the piano cover of What are words~
Okay anyways, went for dental appointment at paragon this morning.
Perfect teeth ftw! :)
Then had spagetti for lunch and went to meet up with serve cambodia team for a movie.
I actually told them the timing for vivo GVgoldclass. :P
Din know the difference then until Jonathan told me it means we have to pay 38 bucks for a seat (ps, not seat, bed.)
So embarrassing!

So we went to Lot1 for movie. Watched the 2.40 slot of Super 8.
Siwai Liting and I were freaked out by the crazy loud noises and you should totally see the mess of popcorns and nacho cheese spilt on my seat when the lights are on.
:P

Chatted a bit with Liting and Siwai then went back home.
Shall continue practising violin.
And, tomorrow, Im going to do chem assignment.
Okay, one step at a time :D

Outings, outings and more outings~

Yesterday was liting's birthday, so I shall wish her a big fat HAPPY BIRTHDAY here hahahaa.
Went to kaixin's aunt condo for bbq with the guides and all 13 of us turned up. :D
Ordered in the bbq stuffs and started on our evil plan :D
So first, we tried to outcast liting and asked everyone to dao her :P
Then Kaixin and I pretended to fight and quarrel to make the atmosphere super tense.
Yeah, and as expected, there were a lot of NGs LOL.
Then at night everyone suddenly disappeared with liting alone at the bbq like a loner :D
And tada! We came in with the birthday cake and her birthday necklace.
That silly girl was so touched she cried hahahahhaa,
nicole's acting ftw! <3

Then we start throwing people into the pool until the security guard had to come chase us out of the pool.

Oh and not to forget, the new guides level tee we got today! So everyone changed out into our level tee.
Its light pink dry fit and has weixuan's awesome design on it. Totally love it :D

So I left the bbq at 10pm and went to bugis to meet my family for supper :D
Reached home at around 12 :P

And today, went out with peiern to orchard for window shopping.
But I can't resist orchard stuffs so I decided to buy this red and sparkling scarf from ruby :D It was on sale so~
And then went to far east and spotted a lot, A LOT of nice stuffs. Must ask my mum to bring me there next time :P
Then chatted a lot and went back home at around 6.
Okay, time to have my dinner then practise violin.

p/s: peiern taught me how to practise my vibrato so that it would sound much much much better! :D

p/p/s: I desperately need a phone date today. okay. shall call people :D

Last act of term 2 :)

Hello! Totally camwhored and jumpshot with Kaixin after the last act of term two.
Last time we get to play and slack so hard. Okay, maybe not for the slack part. Before handover, and everything will just come in like tsunami ):
Some cute jumpshots below! :D
Kaixin and her creativity!
and proudly jumped by me and kx! :P
tada

Serve Cambodia 2011, a whole new experience

Okay I suck at arranging pictures so I shall not. Gonna talk about the Serve Cambodia trip today. Im tired of making reflections cos throughout the trip, the teachers made us write a 2 page long without line spacing reflection. Within 30min. Its like writing a full fledged essay. In a shorter period of time. But that time, it was like peanuts to us cos the ideas and reflection just flowed in like nobody's business. :) Guess there were too much to reflect on.

So, Kolap 4 orphanage showed me how carefree the cambodian orphans are. While we are mugging our head off for exams and tests, they are playing water soccer, running under the rain naked. Its so ironic for us to pity them, cos I actually envy their freedom. And some kids there have really awesome talents I bet no one outside the orphanage will ever get to see.

Dam danced super awesome!
Nary is by far the prettiest girl I've seen in cambodia :)
Bunrong is the sweetest kid and a great eyecandy.
Rin is the most cheerful kid and super cute too!
Pisey can do stunts on her bicycle (Y)
Ny has awesome photography skills
And last but not least, mango can dance to lucifer :D

So for us, we helped out in making cupboards, cleaning up their dorms, catch mice, planted a mini garden outside, and had an enrichment day specially to celebrate their children's day. And the serve cambodia team has officially turned into a bunch of saikang warriors. :D not to mention the taupok session everyone (okay except the girls) received at night. And the fun dinner sessions where yewteck can eat 10 servings of rice. :D
Plus the endless gossips coming from the guys and midnight room visits to eat cup noodles. All those were great memories and I think our impression of scouts changed for the better :) Oh and the great mentors we had throughout the trip. Grateful much.

Going for serve cambodia team outing on saturday and I can't wait to see everyone :)
Last but not least, to all those who came back with diarrhea, get well soon! <3

p/s: yr3gg! lets go to cambodia again if there's a second chance :)

if you think you are too small to make a difference, you've never been in bed with a mosquito