Obviously we had to scrap the night patrol, which was another idea from the silly little enthu people. PT was hilarious, cuz Benedict Ng was leading it. He was quite mean to the yr 1s. Har har.
Knots and Lines was after breakfast. I was doing the teaching for this lesson, and had already heavily edited the terrible NCDCC powerpoint last night, removing the ugliness from it. I can't stand ugly slides. The whole lesson went okay, although there were a number of people who didn't really get it at first. Nicholas got Photobooth and my iSight running so I had something like a visualizer running. Thanks Nicholas!
The test was an utter disaster. Either I am a terrible tutor, or the yr 1s don't really care. If we take into account the 2 minute time limit for the 7 knots, basically everyone failed, except for a very small collection of people. There was this one person, William, whom I met at the NUH Surgical Division new year party. He took almost three times as long as the time limit, knew only 3 knots, took more than 3 tries to tie each one, and got none of the names or terminology correct. In short, failed. Actually, I more or less gave up halfway through, and just said something like "Forget it! You fail! Out! Get out! Send the next person in! Get Out!", to which another NCO called me mean. Can't remember who.
Later had to go retest people. Drill, drills and more drills for yr 1s. Another idea from the silly little enthu people. 7hr total of all three days. So mean. Yr 1s must be exhausted.
Later on at 1 we had to go for Alex Ng's little NEWater course, at the NEWater visitor center. Its apparently a bid to get bonus points for our unit. Been there already, so terribly boring. Goodness knows why in the world Alex Ng would, of all the days to choose, stuff it right in the middle of the camp. Lee Zheng saved us the trouble of leaving 2 NCOs behind, cuz he stayed behind to look after our stuff.
Frankly the NEWater center is terrible. I find that parts of their scientific data and taxonomy are not particularly accurate. Worse still, they have done nothing to remedy that horrible cheesy excuse for an intro video. Personally, I think they should fire the video host. That would be really "fantastic".
Even worse, Purple Tang got an SMS from Jeremy confirming what he had been told earlier. Turrance is not going to be our CT. Last minute change apparently. New CT is ms Fiona Ho, and bio will be Ms Choy. The ostrich ran away. I guess we traded a hilarious bio teacher for an extremely nice one. Dunno which is better. Oh, but Ms Candy Ong will be teacher our class for at least one of the maths, how nice!
Spent a lot of the time disturbing Tang.
Field cooking was another disaster, because one of the silly little enthu people tried to solo everything. This person had already been trying to solo everything, for everything. Joel Toi and me got pretty upset after he tried to commandeer drills and camp craft. Year 2s and 3 NCOs missed dinner, cuz there was really too many things to do, and the yr 1s were very slow.
Later on during more drills for yr 1s, we got chased away by Mr Gavin Ang. Apparently they were having con camp. Didn't know they stayed this late. Anyway, Andrew prepared dinner for the year 2s, so we didn't miss it after all. That was very nice of him.
Lee Zheng returned from the BB waterfight. Apparently he was being a moderator.
Just before bedtime everyone was polishing boots. Dunno why in the world Zhi En was being so enthu... Insisting of this and that. But I owe him one for helping me out there, cuz I am the opposite of enthu.
Ended up sleeping at 1 am again, because of Alex Ng, and his little movies and strange songs...
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