| Arghhh finally holidaes for this week but 5days wasted on my camp O.o Let me write about my camp and what happen that time =.= which makes me so worse up! 9March 2007 Arghh finally the end of school term 1 before my holidaes but still =.=, i have NCC(National Cadet Corp) Annual camp starting from tomorow so i have to stay overnight at school... Before that, as i am in charge of RP( Ration party), which is the cook for the camp, I have to wait for the gas tank to come at 3pm. And of course the gas tank is used for cooking =.=. O well after that, i went home. Upon reaching home, i put down my bag and pack up my camp stuffs till around 4pm i went back to school for preparations. As the camp preparations will start at 6.15pm, i played basketball first before that. At around 6.45pm as my officer was late, he briefed us about many things and also there were only 10 out of 25 of the NCOS which means people in charge of each section of the platoon. O well nvm lets carry on. Firstly, we did a checkup on broken stuffs in classrooms just in case we got complained if we break anything. Next moving on to the canteen where the RP will set up their kitchen and also tables and chairs for cadets to dine in. After that, The RP gang set off to the supermarket! To buy food and rations for the camp! It was around 8pm and we buy many things. Total we had four trolleys full of things and we rushed back to school like Initial D style. It was around 9.30pm when we reached school. Suddenly, we found out that the chickens are not halal ( halal food means the food can be eaten by muslims which does not have pork or lard ) so we rushed back immediately. Luckily we reached the supermarket at 9.45pm when the supermarket will close at 10pm. Yet, we realised there was not much halal chickens left so they told us to come back tomorow to get it so in the end we went back, with no chickens. So after that, the RP start their final discussions about the food we going to cook tomorow. Wah... We discuss for a very long time till 3am before we were told to sleep. So we all went back to sleep. Zzzz so tired. 10 March 2007 I woke up at around 6am so i went to have a bath and brush my teeth, before going to the canteen to start my work. I went to wash the utensils near the drain. At around 7.30am, the camp started. While waiting for the chickens to come, we cut the long beans for lunch. As I felt stressed up, I cut with huge power on the long beans and loud banging could be heard from anyone in the canteen. Around 9.30am, the cutting was finished and I was told to buy two choppers outside. So i went out to buy. Finishing my job, i came back to school at 10am. Soon the chickens came at 10.30am, the chicken was cut and put in the pots before putting it in the freezer for dinner. I can see that the chickens are difficult to be cut so I really appreciate the people who cut the chicken with their appreciated efforts. Clearing up the place, at the same time, we prepared the first lunch, fried noodles with fishcake. It was 12pm+ and we managed to finish cooking. After giving out the food, we realised we were left with alot of noodles. In the end, we tried our best to finish it but in vain, we have to throw it away as we cannot finish it nor keep it. After the mess in the kitchen is cleared up by my cadets who are on cookhouse duty, we rested awhile till 2pm before starting to cook dinner. Now my job is to cook rice O.o I was like the only person cooking the rice that time and my fingers were all in pain due to the fact that after cooking the rice, I have to put the rice into a large container where i have to hold on to the hot pot which was burning my fragile fingers. In the end, finally I had some help and we all worked together to cook the rice. At the same time, the onions and garlics were cut as well including the cabbage. So at around 5pm, the rice was done. And I went to take a rest while the rest do their jobs for frying the chicken and vegetables. Soon, I went to see the secondary 3 cadets doing their physical exercise. As i felt that i wanted to exercise, I requested to take their job and was granted the chance. So i brought them for a run. In the end, they were all panting and some cannot take it. Hahas, I guessed thats where my terror started. So i went to take a rest till 7pm where dinner shall start. It was fried chicken rice with cabbage and long beans. Zzz... I was wondering why my thigh started to feel painful so i guessed i must have walked too much so I went on to rest a while before supper starts. Red bean soup was finished cooking by 10.30pm and it was given out. So after that around 12am, it was my turn to stay in the canteen with someone to take care of the RP stuffs. I wanted to stay awake but in the end was told to sleep. 11March 2007 Arghh, couldnt sleep well as I slept on the bench. So I was having backache and also headache when I woke up. There, i saw my officer preparing tea. Zzz... felt so sian so decided to went for a bath and brush my teeth before helping out in the cookhouse. It was bread with jam and kaya with tea for breakfast. Zzz.. I could still feel the pain in my thigh yet I have to persevere. At around 9am, I was told to lead my platoon for games with them around the school. First game was touch rugby. It was fun and high as I ran like mad and also stopping the opponent from scoring any points. End score( 3-0) With me scoring two points. At the last moment, I wasnt trying to dive into the scoring line but suddenly I slipped and fell. Though I have injuries on my kneecap and elbow, yet it was not painful. So I carried on. After rugby, it was basketball. Hahas so fun, as I was the tallest, every ball I got, I could just put the ball into the basket. So in the end, the score was ( 5-2 ) With me scoring 3 balls. Last game was soccer. Though that game was challenging as my opposition were cadets who can play soccer well. In the end though with the skiful officer in my team, yet my team lose ( 7-9) With me scoring 3 goals. So it was around 12pm and lunch was fried rice. It was nice and though there was a trouble, which we didnt cook enough food but salvage the situation by a margin. After the lunch, though the RP has less people as everyone were going for outings outside school, I was told to follow my platoon for the trek to the hill. It was tiring and I could feel my leg in pain still. Though the outing was so far so good, I could see that everyone were tired. Anyway, upon reaching school at around 6.30pm, though I was tired and in pain, I still went to the cookhouse to tidy up some places and I saw only a few around in the canteen as some of them went to sent packed dinner to the cadets who are still in the outing. That day's dinner was chicken rice with cabbage. As there were not enough rice, the NCOS have to eat chickens only which seems like chicken chop to me though. After that, I went to rest. Supper was barley. Before that at around 9.30pm, my platoon was punished badly by the officers as they were not performing their standard well. As a person, I felt sympathy but as their Nco, as their performance are bad, I feel that they must be punished. At around 10pm the punishment ended. So we let them take a break before falling in back. Soon they went for supper and I went back to the cookhouse. After clearing up the cookhouse, as I wanted to cook more barley for my NCOs so I went to cook it until 2am then i went to rest. Suddenly, I heard the sound of sparks, then i saw smoke coming out from beneath my barley under the stove! So I went over immediately and saw newspaper under the stove burning!!!! So I immediately took water and put out the fire. IT took me long before the fire could be extinguished. So i immediately told my officer about it and it was lata found out that the gas stove leaked. Luckily we still had one more stove. Yet, that time I thought my barley caused the fire O.o. Then was told to went back to sleep. Zzz and one more thing, I was told to be relieved of my duty as a cook =.= with two other people due to our hard works appreciated and they wanted the rest to do the work as they didnt wan us to do all the work without resting. Yet, I still decided to continue helping unless they asked me to go away. 12March 2007 Zzz.. I realised something. I woke up late today!!! I woke up at 7am in the morning so i immediately went to the cook house. Phew, lucky breakfast was biscuits and tea. Zzz at least I manage to be the IC for the breakfast, role is to tell the cadets what to do during meals. Then I didnt went for the outing lata in the afternoon as I felt that my legs couldnt walk anymore. Then back to the job where I was told to cook rice. Suddenly, when I wanted to stand from my seat, suddenly, I couldnt move. So my officer asked me what happened and i told him. So after his analysis, he told me I had hamstring strain as I overworked my legs too much so he went to take a cream that can relax my tensed muscles and applied on my hamstring. So he told me to rest on the bench after that. I could feel the heat and pressure from my muscles as I rested. After that, 2hours lata, I felt better thanks to him, and finish up my work before going medic bunk to rest. There were some people talking away chit- chating so i joined in =D Taught them some things also LOL. O well, went for dinner which was steamed chicken with black pepper sauce with french fries and vegetables Hahas the black pepper sauce was so spicy that every cadet were all drinking water madly. After that was the perfomance by the cadets. It was ok and there was speech made by our commanding officer. After that it was movie. During that time, my NCOs interact with each other about the problems they have and the disagreements and soon, we understand each other well. After that, supper was tea with biscuits again. hais... cannot help it. O well at around 1.30am was meeting. Though we were all tired we managed to stay awake. After that at around 2am i went to help out in the cookhouse to cook Roti jala. Yawn... at around 3am, I was told to go back to the operations room where we had our meeting just nw. And actualli, I suddenly felt asleep on the table. ZZz 13March 2007 Finally, the last day of camp, AHHHH!! It was 7am!! I am late, I became worried about the food in the cookhouse so i went to medic bunk first then I found out that the food was all done and prepared. Phew, stayed in the medic bunk for awhile and after that went to change into my uniform for my footdrill competition. Zzz though we NCOs lost due to the fact that we didnt have time to train and also we lost our skill, yet we lost with honour. Anyway, after that the camp ended with the dismissal parade. But one more thing, we have to clear up everyday before we go and by the time it was 3.30pm and after that with my headache i went home immediately and sleep. ZZZ total i tink i only slept for 16hours |
