Ixora, shine beyond the stars

♥ 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

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