Sunday, September 05, 2004

i'm so tired, i can sleep till the cows come home.

it was the scout's Famboree day, and as usual there were many activities lined up for every single scout in Singapore.

i was assigned to bring my boys to macrichie. from there, we would hike all the way to bishan park, which is around 3km away.

its really quite a challenging task to bring boys out as they would be all over the place, talking to you at the same time. they would argue with each other too~ i really had a difficult time trying to organise them, but i gave up in the end. decided to let them do what they want, as long as they are not in danger=P

when we finally reached bishan park, i headed to the rovers' booth, where we're selling drinks. got into action almost immediately, without much rest.

pauline, kenny and i carried a total of 6 cartons of canned drinks from a shop thats around 10 minutes away, and when we loaded all the drinks into the coolers, i was informed that we need to get more cartons of drinks as there wasn't enough to last.

so, binghui and i went to buy 9 cartons and it was really a struggle trying to carry them all over the stairs, overhead bridge and field. but, thank God some passerbys saw that we had difficulty, stopped and helped us carry a few cartons=D

sat down for 5 minutes, we got informed that there's insufficient cans again and ice too. so binghui and i ran in the opposite direction to cheers, to purchase ice, while yanhui, pauline and kenny went back to the shop and bought more canned drinks.

before binghui and i could return back to the stall, yanhui called and told us that he needs our help in carrying the canned drinks. so, after throwing the ice at the stall, we ran to the overhead bridge and carried the cartons of canned drinks for them~

by that time, i was already super exhausted. but little did i know that the worst has yet to come.

the GR boys pioneering structure ain't quite stable. so parry and i with 2 other GR scouts had to risk our lives and dismantle the structure. we had a very hard time dismantling as the structure was really unstable and things seemed to be falling apart.

if we were to remove a vital spar, it would mean the end of our lives. as simple as ABC.

there were moments when the structure shook and i was just holding onto a spar. but, thank God somehow we managed to pull down everything safely=)

then, the worst came. we had to load all the spars onto the lorry and there were hundreds of SUPER heavy spars waiting for us. well, when we were in our prime, it wasn't much a problem. but after carrying so much things earlier, my back was really hurting and my arms were aching.

no choice, still got to carry them.

finally everything got loaded onto the lorry and some of us sat at the back of the lorry~ best moments manz=)

unloaded all our stuffs at ZHSS with only 5 people. but thank God we did it pretty fast.

then, the FSS and ZHSS stuffs came. its a super huge lorry filled with hundreds more of spars. but this time, the ZHSS scouts were there too, so i didn't have to do much stuffs.

but after standing there and observing the way they did stuffs, i decided to give them a hand, before someone gets injured. can't believe that they were super lazy.

some of the spars were pretty light, but they just kept on passing down to the next person. if they were to carry it down themselves, it wouldn't have taken so much time and effort.

then, it was another uphill task to keep them all in the QM store.

after 1 whole day scouting, i inspected my injuries - i almost suffered 2 broken fingers, loads of nasty rope burns and internal bleeding on my arm. my back's still aching, so are my arms.

i love scouting manz. hAHaz=)

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