♥ Friday, July 9, 2010
HI P6. I WILL MISS YOU ♥
♥-ing P6
9:14:00 PM
♥ Wednesday, February 17, 2010
hello ixora!
few weeks ago we had our year one welcome party!
Welcome to P6 ixora!!!
Gwyneth, Rhonda, Yeok Min and Shi Hui.
welcome into the spirit of guiding and hope you guys enjoyed the mini bbq session :D
here are some of the pictures!
enjoy! :D
thinkings' day on 22 feb! dun forget to make you presents :D
and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to those who had their birthday last week!
which includes:
1) Rhonda
2) Jia Yi
3) Sally
4) Zhen Ling
5) Chunyen
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
oh and happy CNY too!
enjoy all the angbaos and $$ :D
♥-ing P6
6:56:00 PM
♥ Monday, November 23, 2009
hey people(:
im here posting abt atc(:
well, it was quite a different experience I had when I was in year 1. Being the ones leading the patrol, we had to know clearly what to do, know our facts and all, give proper instructions to our juniors to make sure everyone had something to do, ensuring that we could finish on time, etc. This was really different compared when I was just a sec 1, going for ATC for the first time. There were seniors who you could ask, seniors who you could rely on when things went wrong, seniors who could give you instructions of exactly what to do.
I was really afraid for ATC, that everything would screw up. Though it was not perfect, but I am sure I have learnt a lot a lot a lot from this camp.
DAY 1:
Things started out really slowly for camp development, and we were all taking our own sweet time. It wasn't like how ATC was, and should be. We were unsure of how to pitch a tent, especially when I was the one who went for the course, but yet could not tell my patrol mates how to pitch it. I should have revised my tent-pitching notes. I was also not very clear on how our proposals were like, and when we tied our structures, there were many problems. For example, for our baggage rack, it was extremely unstable and we did not measure the length properly, resulting in us to retie our baggage rack once more. For camp development, we should have done manpower allocation properly to ensure that everyone has something to do, and not slacking at the side.
During "treasure hunt", we went around as a patrol to hunt for items, but we did not involve every single patrol member, and things were going quite slowly. Our patrol spirit was also quite low.
After that was night games. My patrol, especially me, were all freaking out and we were all very scared. So we huddled together and walked very slowly. However, things still got kupped and what more, we were really scared and screamed at certain times. We should take better care of our things and also take care of our patrol mates.
DAY 2:
The next day, we started off with morning pt. We should all have pia-ed more for it as it was only early in the morning, and we had just rested for so long. However, we did not give in our very best and took our own sweet time and all. After breakfast, we mass changed into guides uniform where we guoshi-ed terribly. We must ensure that we can mas change quickly into our guides uniform fast, and not take our own sweet time. After that, we had flag raising. As I was the PL for the day, and being in P6(atc patrol-cool yeah?), I had to march the horseshoe shape. It was rather screwed up and really scary, because if I marched wrongly, everything would go crazy. After flag raising was inspection. I think it was really bad for my patrol as we did not even finish laying our all our items, and things were very messy with gaps in between the layouts, ponchos not straight, plastic bags lying around everywhere, and our things not even standardised. Moreover, our layout was different from other patrols. I think I did not give clear instructions to everyone as only a few sec ones who were laying their things next to me were quite standardised according to the layout. However, the rest of the patrol were not clear what to layout next, and everyone was confused. I must give clearer instructions to everyone and definitely have to improve on my sense of urgency. During the inspection, we could have improved on our patrol spirit and also our physical as well.
After inspection was outdoor cooking. I was helping out with the fire(amazing huh.) and we took quite a long time to light. Our fire kept on dying again and again even after it seemed rather stable. Thus, we cooked our food very late and almost could not finish in time. However, the food all tasted really yummy;D
Then it was OJ, which turned out quite bad. Things were kupped, patrol spirit was really low, and only one or two people were cheering. We did not bring some of the necessary materials to put into the peibei, did not give clear instructions to our juniors, did not study our notes properly, and at times, our juniors even taught us how to do things. We were really quite a dissapointment, and we should have prepared ourselves better for the camp. There was really a lot of improvement to make.
Campfire was next. It was really fun, but many of us took this time to rest and did not participate in the campfire. We had to rely on our seniors to make the campfire "high". The songleaders had practised so hard for the campfire, and we should have at least bothered to participate, and not treat it like a show.
We had supper which we had a barbeque, and we bonded with our patrols. (:
DAY 3:
Morning evacuation. I woke up after hearing the 5 whistles and called everyone in the tent to jihe. However, we only cared about our own tent, and forgot about the others in the second tent. Also, we were one of the first patrols, but yet we did not go and call the other patrols to jihe.
We carried our belongings to Olave hall to jihe, but yet left nobody behind to take care of the items. This resulted in many items being kupped and all. We should have allocated manpower properly, and ensured that everyone takes something so that nothing gets left behind. We chai-ed our structures, but we were taking too much time, and we had to have time extension again and again and again.
We had PT, where everyone tried to pia their hardest. It was really tiring, but everyone was putting in all that we could, and cheering for one another.
We cleared up everything and striked our tents, and then mystery games.
We found out how bad seniors we have been, how unprepared we have been for the camp, and how much better the camp should have been. We had disappointed our seniors, we had disappointed ourselves. We have to pull up our socks, to pia harder, to give our best. For we will be the ones leading next year. We must be prepared for it, and our current standard was nowhere good enough for that.
Company games was extremely fun, and we all had an extremely good time(:
Debrief back at school, my patrol got 6th. But positions don't matter, most importantly we had learnt from it. I had learnt a lot from atc, and emerged stronger from atc. I am definitely going to brush up my skills, and learn to speak up more and give clearer instructions to the juniors. In future jihes, I am going to pia even harder, and go above my limits, and challenge myself to do even better.
P6SUPER-ME<3
P6 IXORA<3
42NDBATCH<3
GUIDES<3
-CHUNYEN<333
(hahaha! no lahh..)
♥-ing P6
11:53:00 PM
♥ Sunday, November 22, 2009
Hellos! :D
The long-awaited annual training camp's finally over! Best thing of all, we survived. -claps and cheers-
DAY 1;
Jihe-d in the foyer at 7.30am, then boarded the bus to Camp Christine. Frankly, my first impression of the camp was that it's located at some deserted part of Singapore with a lot of cemetries surrounding it :P
After a long ride, we finally arrived at our destination. Firstly we had Camp D, which was to pitch our tents and kitchen shelters. Initially, we all moved really slowly, there was no sense of urgency and were super blur about what to do. Guess we hadn't adapted to the ATC-mindset yet. Personally I think we really could have improved by taking care of our stuff, ling-ing more cheers and taking more initiative to ask the year twos what to do.. since we had no experience whatsoever in pitching tents =X (now we do!)
Then, after lunch, we continued with Camp D Part Two. Had to build our kitchen shelter, shoe rack, baggage rack, fire altar, kitchen dresser, dustbin etc. We improved slightly, and managed to complete our task quite fast. Started raining after that, and we had patrol corner :)
At night we had treasure hunt, which I prefer to call PT in disguise :P Had to pump for a list of items which we had to find. After 10 minutes, we had to pump once for every item on the list not found. After 20 minutes, we had to pump twice for every item on the list not found and so on.. Most patrols ended up drawing stuff i think?
Then after bathing we had night games, which was pretty cool lah haha. It was really a one-of-a-kind experience! We were supposed to go around to different stations and try to figure out the hidden story behind it. This part of the camp indeed bonded us together as a patrol, as we really had to take care of our patrol mates and our stuff so that they would not get kupped. The seniors' actings were pretty convincing too, I must say :D
We then had supper and went to sleep in the lodges because our tents were wet.
DAY 2;
Jihe-d at 7am and had morning PT. Had to run for 10 minutes continuously, as a company. It was really tiring but seeing everyone else cheering and pia-ing gave me the motivation to continue pia-ing :)
Then we had breakfast and were given 7 minutes (i think?) to mass change into our guides uniform. And sadly we guoshi-ed by quite alot. I think we really have to improve on that.. Since our seniors can do it within 5 minutes, I think we should too. After that had flag raising and inspection. Here, not only did we learn from all our mistakes, we also learnt the importance of cheering constantly to encourage our patrolmates to continue pia-ing through all the punishments and stuff. After inspection was outdoor cooking. We were given a variety of food to cook for our lunch and it turned out pretty yummy i suppose. Afterall we cooked it ourselves! :D
Then we had OJ.. We could have improved by reading our notes, baoshi-ed more, cheered more and pia-ed more. It IS what guides have been training us for, isn't it? Im thankful for the seniors who lead us through the entire thing despite our lack of skills.
We had dinner, bathed, then had campfire. Many of us were already very tired by then, and did not really participate actively during the campfire. Still, a round of applause to the songleaders who practised hard in order to make the campfire a success! :)
Had a mini barbeque after the campfire, which was pretty cool too haha. After clearing up, we slept in our tents.
DAY 3;
Started off with the predicted night evacuation. Carried all our belongings to Olave Hall, and chai-ed all our structures. I think we could have improved by fen pei ren shou-ing better, and taken the initiative to help other patrols.
Had morning PT after that. Running with our heavy bags and doing circuits was indeed very exhausting. However, cheering and pia-ing as a whole worked miracles and helped us survive through PT.
Had breakfast, then mystery games. For the year ones, first we played telephone line, which was to line up and either ding leg raise/ girls style pumping position/zhan ma while passing a message about guides from one end to the other. The objective of the game was for us to remember the messages and apply them in every jihe. After that we did wheelbarrow, crabwalk and ranger jump. This was followed by a company game by which we all had to lie face down while our seniors and jie-mates rolled over us. Seriously, it was funnnnnnn! :D
Striked tents, then had lunch and company games.
For the first company game we had to do shilianpai in front of our patrol mates then use our mouths to sift through flour to find a gummy. Then we had to answer a math question and do 5 star jumps before the next person could continue. Hahaha it was interesting!
Then we had this dog and bone cum blow wind blow game. The forfeits included dancing, doing a commercial for guides, etc. There was one which asked them to sing a guides song in an extremely high-pitched voice. Everyone burst out laughing hehe.
Finally it was the end of ATC. Returned to school, had debrief and prize presentation.
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Well, it doesnt really matter who got first and who got last actually. I really saw myself improve throughout the whole camp, gaining lots of new knowledge, taking more initiative. I'm sure everyone did too. This camp allowed me to go beyond my personal best, and taught me the importance of cheering, pia-ing, taking care of our things/patrolmates etc. Much as gruelling as it was, it indeed taught me things that will last me through my next few years of guides.
The most inspiring quote I heard during ATC'09 : All the things that you don't do, others have to do it for you.
And so, we should just pia and give the best in everything that we do, and not try to slack and push the job to others :)
-Nicole
♥-ing P6
2:37:00 PM
♥ Tuesday, October 13, 2009
♥-ing P6
5:03:00 PM
♥ Monday, September 7, 2009
heys!
If you haven't heard, sally and I are really proud of yall for saturday's jihe, keep it up! :D
well but of course there is still room for improvement, so here are some things to take note.
Firstly for Camp D, there should be more of a sense of urgency, even though the time given is like 1 hour plus.
It seems long, but actually there are quite some things that need to be completed.
the Camp D PL has to be the one who checks whether the structures/gadgets are straight, and tell the rest how amendments are to be made.
if anyone got nothing to do or finished their task, take initiative and ask the PL what to do, but PL also gotta allocate manpower properly.
yup as yall pointed out, constant baoshi, cos when the baoshi is constant, we will be reminded of the time, and will be pushed to work faster.
For outdoor cooking, I was there only for a short period of time so can't say much also :X
just that yall need to choose your kindlings wisely, your thin twigs should be no more than the thickness of a pencil so that they catch fire more easily.
The thick twigs are to sustain the fire.
So basically let the fire light up the mumahuang first, then when the fire is more stable yall can start to add in thin twigs, then can add in thick twigs.
For OJ I was at the minesweeper station so I can't really say much about how yall did for the whole OJ, but can tell your spirit was quite high, cos I could hear yall cheering constantly when yall were at the red tile area.
which is good, cos cheering constanly will remind us that everyone's doing this together, and it will boost our morale, also make us forget the tiredness we feel from running/ding-ing.
but something for yall to take note is not to spend too long discussing after an instruction is given.
if yall have any questions about the instruction, ask the seniors(:
it is important for the PL to be decisive and ensure that time spent on discussion is minimised and yet productive.
and also to be more firm, like when progress is really slow, yall gotta push your members on, but not neccesarily shouting at them.
so year2s jiayous hope to see an improvement the next time yall lead the patrol(:
then I also heard some year1s starting to ling cheer now and then, which is good cos it is an improvement from last time, so I hope that soon, ALL of the year1s will be ling-ing cheers constantly and not just the same few people(:
but overall I can see that you guys are putting in effort to improve so jiayous!
ATC is like in 2 months!
anyways, just wanna say that you guys are maturing, really.
yall are having more initiative, cheering more.
remember when yall came in during your first jihe in yr1, yall dao-ed the seniors?
like dont dare to talk.
haha my batch also oops :X
don't know about the previous batches in yr1 though.
btw some other patrol seniors applaud yall for your high spirit too, keep it up!
can see that yall are acting out some of the things we told yall during the 'patrol evaluation' that monday morning.
like the 5-second rule.
when yall are comfortable with it we can change it back to the 3-second rule, which was originally what it was supposed to be when I was in yr1.
2 more things I challenge you guys to do:
1) let's be the seemingly shortest patrol during company jihe-ing.
that is, to kao long such that we look as if we're the shortest patrol :D
without the yr3s reminding yall to kao long.
2) ling songs during company jihe-ing without the yr3s prompting :D
initiative(:
IXORA.
Initiative. X-cellence. Open. Realisation. Appreciation.
Initiative to help others.
X-cellence (excellence), to strive for the best always and give your all.
Open, to be open to new ideas, that means being creative and not sticking to the standard way of doing things.
Realisation. Know your mistakes made and learn from them in future.
Appreciation, be grateful to the people who have helped, are helping, and are gonna help, cos they make the workload easier for you so that things can be done more efficiently.
(:
okays anyway here are some announcements:
1) Some of the year2s have expressed their desire to learn how to do minesweeper, fireman's ladder and shengqiao, so I was thinking we could do it for a monday patrol activity after the eoys.
But most probably we'll be combining with another patrol.
any objections from p6?
2) The seniors who have passed down are interested in p6 having a 6-generation patrol outing/patrol chalet during the dec hols. haha sounds quite fun right? :D yall can give suggestions like where we can go or what we can do?
If we total up the 6 generations, there should be about 22 people, including those who transferred patrol/school.
for now, jiayous in mugging for eoys! :D
with loves,
cherisse
♥-ing P6
8:56:00 AM
♥ Sunday, September 6, 2009
Hiyo peeps.
I am going to talk about yesterday’s jihe, what we learned and what improvements that we could have for the next jihe. My first posting, so bear with me.
On the whole, yesterday was rather less tiring, as compared to other jihes, I had been worried, that it will be a very long and hard day. But I believe that we learned a lot and had fun.
First, we had Camp D, which is Camp Development. We were to set up the xiao dui qi first. Sadly, we were slow and did not do a good job. We took too long, they say that the flag was supposed to be up in ten minutes, but we took more than 15 minutes.
Even then, the flags were not aligned and some patrols did not chou properly, leaving the flagpole rather loose. The year threes and the year two PLs had to pump for that. I feel rather guilty. We will have to improve on that, be faster and listen to our PLs. Also, not to focus too much on small details and neglect the bigger picture. From what Miss Ngau told us, I realize that there is a whole well of life lessons that we can learn from all these activities alone, just depend on how we see it and how deep we dig.
Then, we were given an hour to build a kitchen shelter, a fire outer, and a dustbin. However, some of the patrols had to correct their xiao dui qi first, including P6. We went back correct all the wrongs that the seniors pointed out. The others were building the kitchen shelter. It was a big structure, with one dark blue spur, two red spurs and four green spurs tied together to form a house shape. At first, they laid the canvas on the ground, and then placed the dark blue spur across it. I was wondering how they could have gotten it up; the dark blue spur was the heaviest of the lot. But evidently, they did. It really had a house shape, it looks big and four patrols can cook under it. At that time, I was at the flagpole. Then I went over to help with the dustbin. The dustbin was actually an inverted tripod stand. It was ingenious, I think, cause they said it was a new idea. However, after we tied the whole thing and tried to turn to upside down, it looks unbalanced and was not very stable. In doing all these, we were going to overshoot the time yet again. We jihe-ed and the seniors said they will help finish the kitchen shelter and we were to do our fire outer. It turned out that we were missing one mu. The seniors once again helped and supplied us with one. We started to build, but had no mallet, so we borrowed from other patrols. Due to lack of time again, we did not measure properly, the poles were not of uniform length. In a rush, we started tying, almost tying wrongly. The whole thing was a little unbalanced.
After that, we jihe-ed. Again, we were reprimanded due to lack of urgency, no constant bao shi and cheering. Too manyof us were focusing on the dustbin and there were not enough people to help with the kitchen shelter. We could have done better and fen pei ren shou better.
After Camp D is outdoor cooking. We were cooking chicken curry. Many of us do not know how to cook. We took a table and laid our food. The year twos was starting the fire, the year ones looked and tried to help. When the food came, we started to prepare. Few have peeled potatoes with a knife before, or opened a can using a manual can opener. We wasted some of the potatoes when peeling. Also, nobody wanted to cut the onion, so Rou Ling had to, and also the chicken. The eggs were scary; there were some things and shells that we scoped out. Finally, the ingredients were finished. The fire was hard work. One person was cooking, the rest had to constantly feed the fire and blow it. The year ones tried, but the smoke was painful and our breaths were not long enough. The teachers also come to help us and make sure we were not spoiling our food. When everything was over, we sat down and eat. It curry was cook by us, and it taste great. Though I think none of us knew how to cook, it still was quite a success.
Then, it was OJ. We had to change into our OJ kit. Given six minutes but took almost fifteen. One of our problems was that all of the staircases were locked; there was only one spiral staircase that we could use. Some of us forgot, and were very late. Changing to OJ kit was easy, just pull on slacks, buckle the belts and put on the scarf. I hope that we will not be so late again and take so much time.
First was the traditional games station. We built a roman chariot and fan five rounds with it. We cheered, and bao shi-ed but walked more than run. We had time left and were given bonus questions. The next was trekking signs and ye li xing jun. Our communication was not very good. Finally, we went to the minesweeper’s station. Our morale was high, we had cheering and bao shi-ing.
When we were done, we ran back to the general science lab to jihe.
We were the first two patrols. We rested and talked. Everyone was surprised by how fast time passed. For me, I had thought that more than two hours of OJ is long, but all the stations passed quickly. Then, there was debrief, and we got third!!
In a nutshell, we have to improve on our time management, chou-ing, fen pei ren shou-ing and bao shi-ing. Yesterday was fun and a step nearer to ATC. We should also not forget to look at the big picture and not just want to get things done.
We should always give our 100%, then turn to seniors for help.
Jiayous,
Cheers,
Jia Yi ;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D
♥-ing P6
6:00:00 PM