Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Veloci-T!
Hi, I'm back from my half completed camp of Veloci-T. Its basically a 5 day camp, in both Singapore and Malaysia where the teachers and instructors hold activities and teach us leadership skills, but I came back today, the 3rd day. So let me just write about my experience for the 3 days only... Sianz la, never go Mawaii....
First day, it was rather boring since it rained almost the whole day but never mind. I came to school at 7.30am and around 8.30am, we finished our registration and the other administrative stuff. Thereafter, we went into our own groups and had a bonding game, or somewhat. My facils were Ryan, Yi Jun and one more who I do not know the name... Well, apparently, my group played UNO, and I dun tink its possible to play a 15 ppl game... lol. Anyways, around 10am or something, we had our first activity, which was lead by TRYBE ppl, and our instructor was Nicholas. He taught us abt modelling the way, being role models and everything, etc. Then was lunch and after that was another TRYBE session about public speaking, by Dexter. Around 2pm, we took our bus and went off to our campsite, directly opposite NSRCC. And Haziq asked if I brought my golf clubs... =.= Once we reached there, we put down our bags and everything and went to our assigned bunks. Bartley Sec was there too but it was their last day, so a few groups had to squeeze into one bunks. Thanks to the bloody rain, all of our activities were shelved, so we only went for Belay School, which was about safety, how to wear harnesses, etc, and nothing else. But the teachers soon allowed us to try the indoor rock wall. Thereafter was dinner and we had an indoor activity session, aka leadership workshops, after that. At around 10pm was finally supper and debrief, and we all slept at 12am.
Second day, now this was better. Woke up at :-
1) 3am
2) 5am
3) 5.30am
4) 6.15am
Due to the bloody stupid aeroplanes which passes by our campsite like every 10 mins... Had our morning PT at 7am till 8am, then breakfast and finally the start of our activities. We first had the CRC, challenge rope course, but I did not manage to do it since we had lack of time, only did the belaying. Its so fun to the the 2 guys up there leaning against each other, trembling like free .>.< too =]. Thereafter was lunch and another activities for the next 4 hours. We did Challenge Pole first, which we had so much fun. We had to climb up a 10m pole and be steady, then jump off and hang on to a trapeze. Our group completed it in 45 mins, the second best timing. Thereafter was the fun part, Kayaking!! We first had our swim test which ppl chiong and kick the sea water into my face. The water stinged my eyes, but i got over it. Paired up with momo then went out into the sea. Did many activities like playing catching (its difficult!!) and even standing up on our kayaks. The fun part was when a senior had to run through our linked kayaks form one end to the other and into his boat. Obviously we saboed him and made him fall into the sea, losing his specs too =] We're evil leaders. Finally after a few more rounds of fun, we went back to shore and had our shower and dinner. Finally was the night activities!! There were mainly 3 parts of the night activities, but the best part was the Laser Tag!! Its basically a real life Counter Terrorist, and my group was most of the time CT force. The aim of the terrorist force was to plant the bomb and let it go off in 5 mins, while the aim of CT was to deactivate the bomb before it goes off. At the start of the match, my group ran ahead 5m, then stopped and discussed. Lol. Then we split into 3 groups and thats when the friendly firing started... LOL. I even died without knowing what hit me... Thus in 3 mins since the game started, I died and went to our "base" where I saw the pro Mr Siow spamming sniping behind a pillar. Ownage. Hahas, but the game ended really fast, and we lost obviously. However, as we had a lot of excess time, we played for 3 more rounds. There was an instance when my team had a few survivors left, including me and I was separated from my team. Then I saw all of them camping in a bunk discussing, so I ran towards them. How did I know that when I entered the bunk, they fired at me, from 3 hp to 1 hp.... zzzz. But then I saw a sniper from the opposite bunk and tried to shoot him, failed duh. And died. Eventually, my team came up with a plan, but the bomb went off with its 5 min timer... Lol, epic fail... Hahahas, then was supper and debrief. Slept at around 12 .30 am
Third Day, cleaning up nothing much to elaborate...
And I got into History elective next year!!!!! Wooohoooo!!! Now, good luck for the remaining Veloci-T partcipants.. Haf fun....
