Saturday, June 10, 2006
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Thursday, June 08, 2006
about 365 days ago, our former CL said this:
hey
for those readers of this blog here is kailing!
i am here to thank everyone who came for the 3
days 2 nights camp
and congrats to the best sec 1,2,3 and best
patrol.
for the campfire
although u people had slow reaction n staff but i
guess the campfire was alright afterallfor me,i feel that the campfire was a success
already.
becoz when i look back n see how we progressed
from nothing to this major (X50) production, it is
amazing.[not with a lot of help]
The schools came n everything was fine.
although there were disappointments here n dere,
but hey!
this campfire is definitely better den 2 yrs ago
that one! (acc to ms teo jin ling and guiders and
seniors, and i agree with them)
no point looking at the downside of everything
kae?
for the understudies,
u all were very supporting towards the PLs esp in
times when the thing looks like it is so not gonna
work.{ backdrop,firepit}Good Work!
i mean i have a lot of things to say,but i cant
really express it in words and writing larx.
now that it's been close to a year, i shall also say my piece:
okay. firstly i hope you all, the entire coy will read this and know that the plc is very thankful for everyone's hard work and support. it's going to be a year since we stepped up as plc. and of course, we're going to step down very soon. i mean it's inevitable. as our former guider, mrs pat ho-tan once said this "people come, people go." so yea. i think it's been a very fulfilling year for the plc to work with the coy although there were many disappointing times. however, there were also times when we had fun as a coy.
we played games. we did intensive footdrill. we had pep talks and scoldings. we had camp prep. and finally we had our first ever campfire in the new school. this is hij 1st coy. okay, maybe i shouldn't be in a very reflective mood now. yeps. lets fast forward to 060606!! what a jinxed number. hahaha. but at least this day did not stop us from having our campfire.
so i guess the campfire was more or less very successful. it was the night when all the components merge as one after working so hard so several months. it was certainly magnificent although the weather was not very promising. yeps, hahaha. but i thought it was really nice to see the coy coming together as one at the 5 0'clock hour when the rain finally stopped. even ms lakshmi went "alleluia!" HAHAHAHA! okay. you could see everyone working frantically at the last minute.
backdrop people were putting up the backdrop. firepit people, or firepitters, as kailing would like to put it this way, could finally remove those ponchos and groundsheets and start stacking up our precious firewoods which we had been soaking them with kerosene ever since we were born. :D structure people could finally come out of the shelters and work on the structure. item and some other people could finally wipe the stage. others were also bringing the chairs out to the parade square. the deejays also arrived with their sound system, equipment, etc. the scene just gives you the campfire feel. and most importantly, the ij spirit. :D
so, the campfire finally commenced. the backdrop looked extremely fabulous. so sixties. haha. structure was cool too. with the gate and sherry and xiuhui as the guards. haha. souvenirs and awards were great. cute radios and the pearl necklaces. overall deco also did us proud with the thingy on the chairs. the item was totally entertaining! the emcees did a fantastic job too. yeps. their outfits were very sixties! refreshments were scrumptious, as sam would like to put it this way as well. and as for firepit, kudos to all who breathed in the smell of the kerosene for the past few months. hahaha. and thankfully, we didn't cause the parade square to become chao tah.
so all in all, i think we did well as coy. although there are also rooms for improvements.
to the seniors: thanks for taking your time off to come for the campfire despite having your common tests. thanks to all the seniors who came to help us. thanks to all who have left their home comforts so as to spend a night or two with us. and finally thanks to all who have given us their support, encouragement, guidance and assistance to make this campfire a success. :D
firepit would also like to thank:
God for blessing us with a cooling weather before the campfire.
vanesa lim for lending us her fan. :D
the item people who helped us even though they have already showered. :D
uncle rahman and the aunties for lending us their trolleys although very unfortunately, we spoilt the big one. (looks at gwen)
all those who have assisted firepit.
dove patrol.
okay. i think this is probably my longest entry in this hq blog. may the high quality spirit continue to live on! congrats and well done to everyone! may we also continue to bring guides and ij to greater heights. oh yes, before i forget, we would also like to thank our dearest guest-of-honour, mrs tan for gracing the event!
060606 is probably one of the best days in guides and i'm sure it has certainly brought everyone lots of fond memories of the campfire. memories which we will remember for life.
to yupei: i am still waiting for the pictures.
-yinting :D
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Friday, May 19, 2006
31/05/067.55 - 11.55 am02/06/067.55 - 5.30 pmhij 1st coy's annual campfire:05/06/06 - 07/06/07
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Thursday, May 11, 2006
GUIDES WHO SIGNED UP FOR THE CRIME PREVENTION COURSE, PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THE FOLLOWING: CRIME PREVENTION EXHIBITION (AT TOA PAYOH NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE POST)DATE: 18 MAY 2006TIME: 14 OO H
ATTIRE: SCHOOL UNIFORM
PLEASE MEET MS LAKSHMI IN THE SCHOOL CANTEEN AND REMEMBER TO BRING ALONG THE 2 BOOKLETS WITH YOU.
**PSS ARE TO REMIND THEIR PATROL MEMBERS.
haha. i doubt anyone will come here lah. but should someone drop by, please spread the message. thanks.
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Friday, March 24, 2006
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SHU YI AND YI FEN!!!!!!
Yep...It's the CL'S birthday today! And so is Yi Fen's! Ha ha...and the PLs even got a cake for dear Shu Yi...aww.....how sweet.. x)
Official meeting
Time: 2.30pm to 5.30pm
Ok, back to today's meeting. Well, before Guides officially started, we had to put up the flagpole. And we took about 20 mins to put up the flagpole, which is we know is a really long time, plus Kai Ling was there.... stress ah! We ended up making our new ca teacher wait under the hot sun..dressed in black!!! Anyway...we got off to a bad start because we overshot the starting time of our Guides meeting...and in the end, we fell in at 2.45. Yu Ling fell us in at the field and we had the usual spotcheck.
From there, we were given 4 minutes to change out. And we had to go to the toilet at Mother ST John block just to change! Oh dear, everyone was running like mad!!
When we changed into our PE attire, we ran back to the parade square and Jessica fell us into the horseshoe formation. The PLs were checking the condition of our Guides uniform which was hung on the metal railing beside the parade square. many people were scolded for not hanging their Guides uniform properly. And since they were unhappy with this, they made have a changing parade....it was quite a nightmare for some people, but if you're used to changing...then it isn't so bad after all. So anyway...that was our punishment for"disrespecting" our Guides uniform. We had to change in and out TWICE...not including the first change out we had.
And after that...it started to rain!!!
Since Ashleigh was the flagbearer, She had to change quik as lightning and quickly take down the flag.The rest of us helped to take down the flagpole.we quickly ran over to where we had hung out Guides uniform and brought it to the den, away from the rain.
We got to rest in the canteen for a short while, and we took this time to apologise to the new cca teacher for making her wait out iunder the hot sun. Then Jessica fell us in at the area near the St gabe's staircase and we continued doing footdrill. Then when it stopped raining , we moved on to the parade square...again... and...continued marching! This time Yu Pei fell us in. She asked us to bring our water bottles to the parade square, so now we all knew what was coming next....
SOME MORE F-o-o-t-d-r-i-l-l!!!! ahhhh!!!! So from 3 plus to 5 we had footdrill....it was really, very exhausting. And we asked for quite a few water breaks in- between , and our legs were totally numb from standing and marching. Meanwhile, Joanne and Runjin were asked to go and train the sec ones on footdrill commands.
Then Shu Yi came along, so we sang to her a birthday song.(: Finally, it was 5 plus, so as promised, we were allowed to play a game or two before fall out. So we played the game called "splat" and i won! yay! And then we played dog and bone...and my team won...yeah! haha..
After that we fell in and were given 4 mins to change. When we fell in in a horseshoe formation already, The PLs brought out Shu Yi's birthday cake and since che was hiding in the canteen, we sang her a birthday song again...really loudly!!! So this meeting ended on a happy note, and after this, we were dismissed.
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Date: 16 March 2006
Day:Thursday
Unofficial meeting
time: 7.55 to 12 pm ~DAY CAMP THREE ~ day camp three~
YES! Today's the last day of camp! I am so happy!!!! Do you know what's the best thing about these three day camps??? I'll tell you...there's NO FOOTDRILL!!! Oh yeah...haha..ok...getting down to today's camp. We did not start off the day well...not at all.
In the morning,Shu Yi fell us in.After we fell out,we had a talk about how badly we did during the past 2 day camps. Halfay through the scolding, we had to change location beacuse we were obstructing the pathway. Continuing with the lecture...baically...they scolded us for not echoing "fall in" loudly, for not greeting the teachers like they were totally invisible, why the attendance was just so horrible, so few people present..and many other bad points. Well....after the scolding we knew what to improve on and i guess the scolding left a big impression on all of us.
And after that, we had a water parade!!! We were all so bloated...so full...very full. Yup, after that we went back to our campfire components.For the overall deco people, there were only three people,so it was quite slack. Thay did some waxing thing, they had to paste the glittery circles onto larger circles using wax! Afetr a while, other PLs from other components came and thought it was quite fun , so they also started sticking too. They did this until 11.30 , before they started packing up.
And the firepit people continued soaking the firewood. And finally, the structure girls.... we tied a tripod and then opened it up.We also tied the stabilisers and the PLs then checked if it was tight, by stepping onto the stabilisers. I think it was okay. We also tied diagonals across the tripod by tying squarelash. After that , we took it dovn and untied all the knots. After that, we kept back all the poles to get ready for fall out.
Meanwhile, some girls were called by miss Tiru to help her find in the hall. they were to search for any trophies that were dated from the year 1950 to 2000. They did not come for the fall out as they were still in the hall helping out.
By this time, it was 11 plus going to 12 soon, and one of the PLs fell us in. After some announcements, we were dismissed.
Signing off,
Cheryl
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Date: 15 march 2006
Day:Wednesday
Unofficial meeting
Time:7.55 am to 5.30 pm
DAY CAMP TWO - day camp two - DAY CAMP TWO
Today,Shu Yi fell us in at 7.55 am. After that we went into our own campfire components.For overall deco people,they had to cut out large circles out of cardboard and put alot of glitter onto it. It was quite a boring job to some of them, having to stare at those glittery circles....and they kept on doing this until lunch time!
Meanwhile, the firepit people were busy soaking wood, as usual. Thay borrowed a trolley to put the firewood , it was btter than carrying it around! And they saoked,and soaked, and soaked all day long!
Not forgetting STRUCTURE!!! We also tied squarelashes to make a ladder and we also made 2 quadropods. At this time,many seniors came back for a visit. Charmaine,Erika,Gek Shan,Ethel.....and alot more. It wasn't all happy and sweet when we were tying all the different structures. One of the sec 2s got scolded by Erika for not watching the base when we were tying the quadropod, so though we made 2 quads, we could only open one. Awww....that girl almost cried... ) :
After that, all of us went to eat our lunch,which was provided. We had a meal of white rice with fish,vegetables and spring rolls...yum yum...! (: After we had a short rest, we went back to our campfire components, but this time, the overall deco came over to structure,after they had packed up their stuff in the canteen. The item girls also came over to structure.
Now almost everyone in guides was in the structure component and once there, they learnt how to tie a new knot, also called diagonal lashing. Everyone helped to open up the quadropod...Erika's way...haha...that is to pull open all four sides of the quad at the same time and then put it down on the ground at the same time. oh well....(: It took an eternity to get it up, but finally we managed to put it up. x) After that, we tied the stabilisers to the quad and the PLs checked our knots to see how tight it was. As some of the knots were loose, we had to retie them. So after we were done with tying all the structures, we could rest for awhile. Then we went back to close the quad with the help of Erika . when it was almost timeto go home, we kept all the poles back to the pole area, and after everything was done, Shu Yi fell us in, and it was HOME SWEET HOME!
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
okies! i know i'm the slowest ever at updating blogs...ok...so truth be told,i did
not go for the day camps....i was in la la land...haha..on holiday.(: So i took really long to glean all this information from various people. So here's the summary for the first guides Day camp.
DAY CAMP ONE// day campone// DAY CAMP ONE//
Date:14 March 2006
Day: Tuesday
Time: 7.55 to 5.30pm
Unofficial meeting
By the way, many of us did not come for the first two days of camp because of leadership camp.
So firstly,Shu Yi fell us in near the canteen. After we fell out,we went into our campfire components.The structure girls, had to tie about 2 quadropods. The PLs also tied the quadropod because they had nothing to do.(: Meanwhile the firepit people continued to soak wood, in the end some of them came over to structure to help us out. And what happened to our juniors???Oh yes, Joanne,Kai Shi,Amelia, ashleigh...and a few others taught a sec one girl,Denise how to tie the different types of knots. The rest of the sec ones were in other campfire components.We also opened both quadropods and then tied the stabilisers.The PLs then checked if it was stable and if the knots were tight.
We were all quite tired by now...half the day had passed. The worst thing was that we were not provided with lunch, so we were let off at around 12.20 to buy our own food...bleh.We were only given half an hour to eat our food and come back to school.When we came back to school, we fell in near the canteen.We were given a bit of time to unwind x) We had to fall in again because our echo wasn't loud enough...i guess...>< Then we went back to our campfire components.There were seniors who came back today,like Ethel,Kai Ling and Debra. Some of the sec 2s who had science camp also came back for the rest of the guides meeting.
Debra went to backdrop to help out. She was helping them paint the "swinging sixties" banner. After that,the structure girls untied the quadropods and put back the poles. The rest cleaned up the canteen and then we fell in at the parade square. After that,we were dismissed! Yeah! I'm done..haha!
Signing off here..Cheryl
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Bonjour mes copains!!! (hello my friends) ((:
Wahhhhh.....sry for taking so long to update the blog....Anyway...basically for the few meetings we had,
we taught the sec ones how to fall in and out. And then we discussed about what we were going to bring
for next week's Thinking Day celebration . And then and then and then...sorry...i forgot what i wanted
to say. x)
Oh yes....and then we also talked abit about our upcoming March camp!
Each patrol is supposed to create our very OWN flag..hahaha....It's sort of like our individual patrol identity..ya.. or something like that >.<>
had tp go practise. talking about that...today is total defence day ! I think the Red Cross + Girl Guides
marched very well .(:
hmmm....i think that's all....haha..ok...signing off now...
*~ Cheryl *~
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