Post By Year 3:

Hey guides :)

Atc 09 has ended, and all the sec3s hope all the trainees have learned something valuable and will apply them in future jihes.

On day 1, we hear many sec1s being excited about the camp on the bus, perhaps thinking about how fun it will be. We hear sec2s worrying about the activities, camp development, manpower allocation etc. while us the sec3s, were just worrying about how smoothly this camp will go. When we reach camp Christine, everyone seemed quite blur and there was no sense of urgency.

Then, there was camp D which played a great part in helping sec2s to step out and learn to lead and give instructions. For tent pitching, some patrols needed the help of uncle salim while others were clear of what to do. This clearly indicated who read the notes and listened during the camp pitching course before atc and who didn’t. For those who did not, we hope you guys can remember what was shown and if you need notes, you can ask the sec3s for them. Do take note that all tents are supposed to face the company flagpole too, in neat semi-circular rows. Also, 照顾 everything. During camp D, the year 3s managed to kup alot of things, including 2 flagpoles and many other stuff like baisheng. Everything is important, TAKE CARE OF THEM.

The kitchen tents were done fast, which were good. However, they were quite saggy, which was obvious when it rained during outdoor cooking and the sec3s could sweep water down from the canvas sheet. The gadgets and flagpole were done quickly too, and your lashes have all improved greatly from before. The lashes are tight and quite neat. Good job :)

At night was treasure hunt cum PT, and it was good seeing all of you pia-ing even though you are tired. Some of the patrols are creative enough to draw out some of the items they cannot find, and we gave marks for that. However, not everything can be drawn out or else we only need 15 mins for the whole treasure hunt!

Then, it was bath, reflection, and campfire prep time. After that, it was night games. It is heartwarming to see patrol members taking good care of each other and their belongings. This is always the part which bonds the patrols closely together, mostly because they have no choice and they have to take care of those who are scared. The aim of our night games is to test for your observance skills and take care of each other, the latter which you trainees have achieved. As an actress for one of the stations, I tried kupping patrol members and ponchos but to no avail, so good job on that :)

On day 2, first was flag raising ceremony. Trainees do note that when you march, your hands are supposed to be clenched and legs should be 90 degrees. When in hanta kaki (marching on the spot), hands should be locked at the side and fists continue being clenched, legs always at 90 degree angles. From what we observed, most of you simply stamped on the ground as if stepping on ants, barely even lifting up your legs.

After that was inspection. My patrol is in charge of grading your tents and gadgets. Most tent doors are not rolled up properly and some tents are facing the wrong direction. However, most of the gadgets tied are tight and neat. Please also remember all shengweis must be tucked in! Also, take note of your attire and punch more holes in your belt if it is too loose, or your guides blouse keeps coming out when you pump.

After that was outdoor cooking. Some patrols kitchen dresser was too small and could not hold a lot of items, so next time open the tripod bigger and use longer mu to maximize space under the kitchen tent. The desserts were very tasty and appealing too, good job :)

After outdoor cooking and lunch was OJ. For my first aid station, it was not very well done. Maybe because none of the trainees went for the first aid course so you guys are not sure about doing CPR and bandaging an amputated hand, but skills like what to do for a leg fracture should be quite basic, yet none of the patrols could accurately bandage the casualty’s leg. However, I could hear you guys training while travelling even though my station is at the end of the road. Keep the patrol spirit high!

After OJ was flag lowering. For mass changing into guides u, 14mins were needed for quan tuan to jihe back, which is very bad. The time needed for mass change is 8 mins, max. Do improve on that, all of you can do it :) after that was dinner and campfire. By then, everyone was exhausted and morale was low throughout campfire. We hope you guys can be more enthusiastic, since campfire is supposedly the ‘slackest’ moment of the camp! Good job Songleaders, for practicing almost every day before ATC and giving it your best.

Day 3, we had night evacuation. Some patrols were alert and woke up their patrols when they hear the whistle while some continued sleeping until sec3s shook your tents. When you were told to chai your gadgets and bring all the mu to Olave hall, many of the patrol members stayed up there to chai some of your gadgets, leaving only one or two people to carry everything up or chai the remaining gadgets. This kind of attitude is selfish, and very saddening. We know that the distance between your tents and Olave hall is big, but what about your patrol members stuck at the tents struggling to carry everything up? Or those who simply don’t have enough manpower to chai the remaining gadgets?

Every time you think of your own benefit and try to push chor jobs to others, the more your patrol mates have to carry the burden for you. If everyone gives it all, you guys can and will make it within the time limit. One for all and all for one- we hope all trainees can learn from this mistake and never commit it again.

Then, there was barang pt. we know how shag it is for everyone, but that does not mean you can walk at the back when everyone is running in front of you. For the circuits, many of you need to improve on your pumpings, some also need to learn how to pump properly. Always remember, lock your elbows at your sides, knees together, go all the way down, and the rest is just practice. It is also at this stage when so many of you fell out. Are you really injured, or are you tired? Do you really cannot continue anymore, or do you just think so?

This camp is planned to push all of you above your limits, and most of you did. We really hope everyone of you understand the attitude guides should have, to pia dao di and never give up. For those who gave everything for this camp, we are really proud of you guys. After that was breakfast, area cleaning, mystery games, striking of tents and debrief in school.

Overall, it does not matter which patrol got first, which got last. Those are only numbers and scores which doesn’t last forever. What lasts forever is the attitude and bonding you have with guides. What is the most important is what you guys have learnt. From this ATC, we can see all your change in attitudes, moving faster, cheering more, being more responsible and mature. For this, all the sec3s are very happy and warmed. We hope all of you can continue loving guides the way we do. Even if we are far from perfect, that’s okay so long we are willing to improve. :)

With much love, sec3s.

Post By a Year 2:

Hello Guides :)

After days and days of camp prep., we had our pre-camp inspection on 6 Nov. ATC came soon after and it was just over on 11 Nov in mere 3 days and 2 nights. I believe all of us have benefited and learnt a lot from this camp.

It was a whole new experience for the sec 2s even though we had gone through ATC before, as it was our turn to lead our respective patrols. Giving clear instructions so that the other members will know what to do, making sure everyone's okay, allocating manpower for tasks to be completed in a fast and good manner, etc. - they were still quite new to us. Some of us may not be confident enough to speak up, but we all had our opportunities during this camp to try. Let's all remember what the seniors told us and jiayou for what lies ahead in the future!

Some parts of the camp went on very slowly and the morale was quite low. We should all improve on our sense of urgency too and run at all times, because if we do not run, then some other people will have to run for us! We are all working together, as a patrol, as a jie, as a company, so we should all run together! :) When you start feeling tired, thinking of others who are still pia-ing. They are tired too, but they still carried on trying and not give up.

Also, we should constantly baoshi so that everyone knows how much time is left to complete the task(s) assigned. Whenever we are done with our parts, we should take more initiative to help the others out so that everyone can finish the tasks on time! (Remember to kao long and dui jiao during jihe too!)

This camp has been a good learning experience. We have been pointed out to our mistakes and improvements have to be made. After having benefited from the camp, everyone has emerged stronger, so jiayou and let's pia harder for our future jihe-s! :)

Post By Year 1:

Hi (: We returned from ATC on Wednesday, and though we were really tired it was definitely worth it.

Day 1

We did camp D for most of the day. Our speed was really slow as we were very blur, with this being our first time at camp. We had to wait for seniors to tell us what to do before we did it and we did not take the initiative to ask them what to do. We didn’t ling cheer much and our patrol spirit was quite low. We bonded over lunch and got to know each other better.

After lunch, we improved somewhat but we knew there was still much room for improvement. By the end of the day, our camp site was set up. After dinner, we had treasure hunt, where we had to go around Camp Christine looking for items on the list but had to do punishment for every item not found. Though it was tiring, it was actually quite fun as we had to find creative methods to find the things on the list.

We bathed, and then had night games. My patrol became much closer over night games, where we had to work together and look after each other so that we would not get kupped, and could figure out the story. We had supper then slept in the lodge because the tents were wet.

Day 2

We woke up then did morning PT. We started off by running for 10 minutes. Through this activity, we realized the importance of cheering and pia-ing. When we cheered, we could forget our tiredness and just keep pushing on.

We had breakfast after PT, followed by flag raising then inspection. We took quite a long time to lay out our things and had to ask for time extension. We had outdoor cooking for lunch, and we were given campbells soup, instant noodles, vegetables and a watermelon. It took us quite long to get the fire going but the end product was still very yummy!

Then, we had OJ. For OJ, I felt that we could have done much better, pia-ed more, studied notes better and cheered more. Nevertheless, I’m grateful to our seniors for doing so much to lead us despite us lacking skills.

We had dinner then bathed, followed by campfire! Campfire was really fun, and the songleaders did a lot to make the programme as fun as possible. Also, the items put up by each patrol were really entertaining. Overall, I had a great time at campfire!

Then, we had barbeque for supper, where we were given fishballs, sausages and some other foods to cook. We slept in our tents after that

Day 3

We had night evacuation at 5 plus in the morning. Though we had expected it and were more or less prepared, we still took a long time to jihe and had to pump for chaosshi-ing. Then, we chai-ed our structures and had morning PT. The first part was to run 4 rounds with all our belongings. Once again, we learnt how important it is to keep cheering and never give up. PT may be tough but cheering can work miracles. After running, we did circuits.

We striked camp after that. Then, we had mystery games! For us year 1s, we played ‘telephone line’ first, where we had to ding different positions while passing messages like ‘hands behind your back when you jihe and put all belongings behind you’.

Next, we did several physical exercises, like crabwalk and ranger jump. Though it was quite tiring, under the year 4’s encouragement and cheering each other on, we managed to get through it. For the last mystery game, the whole company lay on the ground and rolled over each other. To me, that game was the most enjoyable as it was really fun. Then, we had company games, which was the most enjoyable part of camp because we were given the chance to bond as a whole company, from year 1s to 3s. After that, we returned back to school for camp debrief.

Looking back, its safe to say that we’ve learnt a lot from ATC’09. We grew closer as a jie and really learnt to give your whole heart and soul for everything. Though it was grueling, im thankful that we pia-ed to the end and kept going, and I really learnt a lot from ATC.

Hello guides, hope that all of you are resting well after ATC.
Here are some photos which the year 3s took! :)

Love guides :D

Hello guides, hope that all of you have been resting well since friday :)

Tmr's ATC already, hope that all of you are prepared for it.
Remember to read your notes and sleep early tonight.

Jiayou! Yall can do it!

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Hey guides,

Friday was pre-camp inspection. We were given 20 mins to layout our stuffs in the classrooms. All of us were at a loss of what to do and we had to ask for a time extention of 5 mins. We were slow in laying out our stuffs and most of us were unsure of where to put them. Everybody was busy running to other classrooms, checking on how other patrols layout there stuffs. It was very disorganized. Year 2s did not allocate the Year 1s what to do and they were all confused too. When the time was up, some of the guides were still late for jihe. Therefore, we had to do some pumpings.

After pumping, the seniors break us off and inspection begins. 6 groups of patrol consellors entered our classrooms one after another for inspection, checking our mealbags, shorts, plastic bags, identities, peibei, first aid kit and styrofoam boxes. For my patrol, we were unable to explain the reasons for using a paticular colour/material and our moral was quite low. We failed to standardise amongst other patrols and some things were not labeled or included where stated in the packlist. We had our attire checked too. Most of our attire were still not up to standard. For example, low socks, long fingernails, shirt not tucked in and messy hair. Therefore, we were punished for all these. We had to do starjumps, pumpings, jumping jacks, sit-ups, run rounds and burpees. Our stamina was quite bad as some fall out along the way. We have to improve on that because ATC is around the corner. After inspection, we were given 5 mins to pack and clear up. Most of the guides were punctual for jihe.

Overall, we need to have a sense of urgency and take note of our attire during guides. Similarly, we have to brush up on our skills and cheer more to keep the patrol's spirit high(:

Jiayou all for atc!

Hi guides,

we had jihe on friday for pre-camp inspection. Each of the atc patrols occupied one room at the junior high block, level 3 and layed out the tables for our inspection. We then layed out our styrofoam boxes, peibei, patrols shorts, banner, flag, mealbags and identities for inspection.

Then, our year3 counsellors from each patrol came to check on various parts of our camp items.

For my patrol, our counsellors checked our first aid kit and peibei. Like many other patrols, we did not include an item list in the first aid box, which was very important. We now remember not to make the same mistake.

The next few groups of counsellors checked on our standardization of patrol shorts, identities and mealbags, as well as our banner and flag. Parts we did well in were creativity and use of colours. Our seniors also commented that our items were rather standardized with a few exceptions. However, our banner and flag were not completely water-proof and we were unsure of the meanings of our items. Thus, we still have much room for improvement.

After that, the counsellors also tested us on patrol songs and cheers, and the standardization of inspection layout. The layout was in general, neat, but the standardization with other patrols was not as good. We year 2s should have checked with other patrols more to confirm the layout of the items.

After every inspection by the counsellors, we had to complete our punishment which included pumpings, jumping jacks, running, etc. We kept our patrol spirit strong and cheered one another on. However, many of us need to improve on our stamina and pumpings standard.

Atc is on monday, jiayou to everyone!

Love guides :)

Hello guides!

There was skills training on Friday. We were given half an hour to build four kitchen shelters in total. However, we did not complete it in time and had to ask for a total of 25 minutes time extension. This was rather inacceptable as a kitchen shelter does not require so much time to be completed. Hence, we had to pump for it. As this was the first few jihes after our long break for EOY, many people were unable to pump standard and this was rather disappointing.

Next, we practiced to start the fire with the yuanzilu and yuanzila. We were given 2 eggs per patrol and told to boil them in the mess tins. We had some trouble lighting up the fire at first as many matches were wet but we finally managed to get the fire up when we got the new matches. After our eggs were cooked, we had to clear up and dao the kitchen tent.

We then had PT after cleaning up. We moved around the school in 2 patrols going to each station. We were also told to take good care of our eggs as the patrol which has both eggs intact at the end of PT gets a prize. The first station that my patrol went to was where we had to flip the UNO cards until we found a pair that matched. Meanwhile, we had to ding in boy’s style while one person goes up to flip at one time, for 10 minutes. As we did not have PT for a long time, many people were unable to ding standard for more than a few minutes. After 5 minutes, we changed to leg raise.

At our second station, we had to form words using alphabets from A-F and doing pumping accordingly, 1 for A, 2 for B and so on. At the same time 2 people from each patrol had to wheelbarrow back and forth.

Our last station was at the track. We were required to run non-stop for 10 minutes around the track at our own pace, then do 25 sit ups.

After PT, we had debrief where we learnt where we could improve, especially for ATC which is just round the corner. Drinks were given to all the patrols as a great improvement could be seen from the start of jihe and also to encourage all of us to work harder :)

Jiayou to all for ATC!

Love guides :)