Friday, November 09, 2007

ok shall blog about today's hike! overall, i think it ran rather smoothly and was quite zai la, although we may have some screw-ups in the morning but it was just a minor one. Wanted to say that leonard, yong jie and kian boon had done a fabulous job planning this hike! i am gonna learn from your mistakes and improve in my camp. you all are zai kay! haha :D

okay, today morning was really cool. had breakfast with ken, yong jie and kian boon again! sorry for being late again :P went to school and prepare some stuffs and we were all ready for the hike. after reaching pulau ubin, leonard broke them up into their groups. so junwei and i were with sebastian group- Energy.

everything started rather smoothly and the hike began. during the hiking itself, saw lots of stuffs and even got to see my sec 2s' leadership skills. firstly, i would have to say that sebastian had really done a marvelous job leading them. he was like very quiet in the beginning but after some time, i can see him leading his people. his planning was not that bad too, he managed to get his route planned quite well.

next, ryan. his map-reading is good and he managed to bring his group to all the checkpoints without back-tracking. funny part was he said something like 'what the...' when we gave them a drill. correct me if i am wrong. overall, i think the way he led people was quite autocratic. but not bad, it was a nice try anyway.

as for other members, sec 2 was quite okay. but sec 1s! haiz. there were these 2 sec 1 which keep lagging behind and me and junwei had to keep shouting at them to ask them cover up the gaps. also, i don't like them grumbling. just for their information, this hike isn't a leisure hike.

however, i think the overall performance for the group was not bad. this just that they lack of communication and teamwork. so this group won the special task and got the fastest group award. good enough la. although they didn't win the overall best group award but i think it was a good attempt since their points were just a bit below the first group. GOOD ONE, ENERGY!

after coming back to changi jetty, got debrief and learnt some of the mistakes we had made. went to squad dinner after that and we talked lots of crap. haha :D i think i like my squad more and more nowadays and i think i know them a lot better this few weeks. cool huh. especially, rui jie, jackson, sebastian, leh chuan and xavier. hahaha :)

on our way home, talked to rui jie and ya, he was quite open to me. hope he will change for the better and be a better leader in the future. and we were thinking about this question: 'what to do to make those slacking people who do not even care to improve, to stop pulling the squad down?' after such a long ride in the bus, we still haven't gotten an answer yet.

anyway, ken, yong jie, kian boon, bryan and i went back the store to put the logistics and went back home after talking some crap. xD

that's all for the day. tomorrow will be terence's birthday chalet! COOL! :D

Posted by One Ice at 11:12 PM