::Had band camp for the past 4 days, from Friday to Monday..
Friday:
School as usual for the first half of the day.. Some brought their stuff to school, coz they didn't want to go back to take.. I live so near, go back and take not a problem.. The last school day of term 1 ended at 12.30pm.. after our assembly.. had band practice till about 6.. then had a break for people to take their stuffs.. reported back by 8pm... then had more band practice.. think me make lotsa improvements during the day long practice.. bathing and dinner should have been done during the 2 hour break.. had a short movie screening, then it was sleeping time... the ex-co slept at the gallery area there.. the NPCC people were there too..
Saturday:
Supposed to go for Sports Day today... but had the SAFRA Scrabble competition at the same time.. so while the band went to the stadium, me and gerald went to toa payoh.. wouldn't say it was a grueling competition.. "C" Division anyway, for all those not ranked in the SA... some first time playing.. first round was according to alphabetical order.. so played against a gal named Jean.. Jason and Jan also playing at the same table as me... too bad Northland Sec wasn't participating.. or else it would be a rematch with Jill... waited a long time for them to start.. the room so small, yet so many people inside.. close to 200..
Ended by 5+... played with 2 gals, 2 guys... Jean, Dave Yuen, Yiying and Joel Koh from my school.. won the gals, lost to the guys... always been like this in every competition I participate in... so during team events, if we're playing against mixed school, then I would choose to play against a gal... then I would always put a Bingo every match.. put Lenders, Roasted, Declare and Dieters for the 4 games respectively.. I don't actually fish for the bingos.. they just come to me.. the match with Dave crazy one.. the first turn he put a Bingo, Damager then my next turn I put Roasted... was neck to neck until the ending part of the game.. the OX, XI with X on the triple letter square was where he began to pull away from me.. the spread wasn't too bad.. 77 points behind.. was waiting for a i for Quails.. Q on the triple letter and S on the double word.. easily 60+ points and thats not even a bingo word... but couldn't get that I.. anyway, I met some new friends during the competition..
Missed first half of band camp for that competition... by the time we got back to school was already 6+.. whole of sat no band practice.. games and activities.. had them to prepare for talent-time.. but had to postpone to sun cause the teachers weren't all here...
Sunday:
Telematch today... prepared the telematch props.. the balloons, strings etc.. Had footdrill in the morning first... Me and Wen Shao took the upper sec squad.. Most of the parts me taking.. lunch then telematch... fun in the sun... haha, was rather hot.. at least they had water from bursting the water balloons to cool them off... bathed then had band practice... not much practices during this camp... mostly is bond-building activites... talent time was the most memorable event in the camp for me... could see that the groups put in alot of effort in the skits.. could see the teamwork in the groups.. promotion ceremony after that... sec 2-4 were in their uniforms.. marched to the library there... almost every one was promoted... with the sad case of me.. the teachers say only can have one staff... then I already 1st, then cannot promote... still don't understand their logic.. even within the same rank, there's an order right? like Band Major bigger than Drum Major bigger than Deputy Band Major... but no-matter what... still would push hard for that gold medal... thats my goal..
Monday:
last day of camp... broke camp at 11.30am... had a meeting with the teachers till 12.30pm.. then had to rush back to change... had to go to NTU for the Fuel Cells Prize Presentation thing... met Lian Jie, then took a cab there.. during the 30+min cab ride there.. we both were like falling asleep.. reached there exactly at 2pm.. registered and went to the auditorium... 3rd prize was River Valley.. 2nd was Serangoon.. was nervous by then... I got a feeling we could win with our instructional VCD.. then 1st was Nan Chaui.. the ones we worked with during the assembling process... still dunno their names... then they showed a movie clip... our VCD... ok.. at least our efforts were recognized... but still don't have that framed up fuel cell we made.. the Dr Fannon even said that if there was a 4th prize, we would get it... argh!!!! the VCD was mostly me, the packaging was mostly LJ... should have gotten that acrylic box... but our teacher absent on that day.. so could make the box.. anyway we did very last min work... 1 week before the submission date.. then lian jie got a camp before the date, so I had to go all the way down to NTU to submit the project... there goes our patent and world-wide production of our kit... very frustrated over these 2 days... went back immediately slept.. was dozing off in the train already..::

.:JeReMyChAn blogged on 11:04 pm:.
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