TK CAMPCRAFT COMPETITION 2008.

Here is the result!

Results: Boys 5th Position, Girls Champions.

Boys
1 Victoria School (Team 1)
2 New Town Secondary School
3 Maris Stella High School (Team 1)
4 North Vista Secondary School
5 Tanjong Katong Secondary School
6 Yusof Ishak Secondary School
7 Marsiling Secondary School
8 Catholic High School (Team 2)
9 Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School
10 Jurong West Secondary School

Girls
1 Tanjong Katong Secondary School
2 Nanyang Girls High School (Team 1)
3 Marsiling Secondary School
4 Jurong West Secondary School
5 North Vista Secondary School
6 Cedar Girls' Secondary School (Team 1)
7 Crescent Girls' School (Team 1)
8 Zhonghua Secondary School
9 Orchid Park Secondary School
10 Yusof Ishak Secondary School

Well, this makes us the 1st ever mixed school to win the girls' champion and also the 1st ever mixed school to win both the boys' champion and girls champion in the whole of NPCC Inter-Unit Campcraft Competition History (1985 - 2008).

WHEEESS! Got this information from Sir Jonathan's blog by accident.

We did it! WE DID IT! omg.. the thought of "we did it" made me feel so......... undescribable...


Well, from the previous posts, I said that I wish I could change those faces to the faces of my fellow teammates... I think we don't need to change. We created more glory! Here it is, our new faces, new HOT RED STRIKING CAMPCRAFT SHIRTS, with our BELOVED TROPHIES and TK FLAG!

I am so proud to be in the team... AFter 7 months of tough trainings... we made it.. can you believe it? From the time I started practising for flagpole, I once thought, " how could it be possible? " .." no way......" here it is! Cynthia and I made our best flagpole ever with our school flag raising up high in glory!

Above are our trophies! The last one was mine. Third was Audy's. The third one seemed to be taller than the last one! aarrggh.........

I took this photo from one of the instructors' blogs.. They looked so funny! I don't know which part... but its soo.... HAHA!




on friday night, we all went out to Kallang KFC to eat... we waited at the bus stop for 16 fto go back to school for 20minutes!

There we were.. cheering during our training... together as ONE.

There again, but in another location, on the competition ground, we were still cheering as a TEAM, with our striking red campcraft shirts...

Honestly, I was really nervous when the competition was about to start. My legs actually shaked! I kept telling myself not to because I needed to move fast! NO SHAKING! then... it stopped. haha.

All I could think was to do well. It was our last chance to perform, to show how much worth our trainings had been, to make a difference for ourselves...

Many of us got hurt (slight injury) but that was nothing compared to what we could get at the end of the competition. =)

Finally, they were going to announce our results...

Honestly, we were really sad when the guys' result was announced. Many of us cried... They deserved more than this. Nonetheless, we all stood up and cheered for them no matter what they got, for we knew they had done their best for the competition!


Next came the tension and apprehension for the result to be announced for US girls...

I couldn't help myself but to break down and cry when they were about to announce the top3 for girls.. I told myself that we must get Champion.. somehow.. At least, get one champion.. Since the last batch had gotten one champion.. We mustn't break the link... I didn't want to disappoint the many people who had such high hopes on us....

We grabbed each other hands, tight.. Everybody was hoping so desperately ...

Then.. they announced for girls campcraft competition 2008, the champion is TANJONG KATONG SECONDARY SCHOOL! we all jumped for joy and cried like ghosts..... Our faces were so red..

Then everything was so confusing. We hold on to each other and cheered.

" CHAMPION OIE.... CHAMPION OIEE......~"

suddenly, the guys came to us, surrounded us and ALL OF US cheered together. OH MY GOODNESS, that was the loudest cheer ever! I couldn't even hear my own voice.. I couldn't really shout loud.. I think everyone was looking at us!

After we took photo... The main trophy was so old and heavy! It has been passed down to the champions for years. Now our name will be craved on that damn trophy! whahahaa..

TADAH!

After that, we all kept taking photos of ourselves. WE went back to school and had a 10th year anniversary celebration for our school campcraft teams.. CAmpcraft teams from 2000 year till this year had come for the celebration. We had buffet. We also watched a video..

Here is Sir Kelvyn, cutting the cake for us. the cake was so yummy and BIG!!!

After that, we kept taking pictures. I was kinda pissed because on that SPECIAL day, I had extra pimples popped up on my face, which was VERY irritating..Why must I take so many pictures when my face was so freaking ****. =.=

I was also kinda pissed with our DEAR Joan who kept telling me that she had many of my UNGLAM pictures.. zzz and she refused to send to me!

Haha! Anyway here is a photo of a LOVELY couple. LOL! Fatin and Sir ZongYao! Anyway it's kinda sad that the girl is so cute but the guy is..... *cough cough* LOL! *shines shines ting ting*

Aiya.. there is a lot of pictures.. I am still waiting for the rest to upload their photos into the computer...... I want them ALL!

Lastly, we went to pack up our campcraft equipments and stored them back to NPCC room. Sadly, Benny and I were the last two persons to get to see how our training area would be like before we brought down and cleared up everything.... honestly, I was so... sad..

Well, to think that this patch of grassland is never to be occupied by us, by our campcraft stuff... no one is going to be there.. doing crampcraft..

Here it is, a place full of unforgettable memories of us....

And ... no more Countdown..

Enough of pictures and some serious post here......

I just sent my teammates a long crappy letter... So glad to hear that Joan and Gwen teared. hahahahaa... Well, I guess its the memories that made us cry.. Its the process.. We have made this far.. we had gone through so many ordeals, we have created so many troubles and had hurt so many people... we fought.. we argued.. we cried for what what had become and got scolded so terribly...we made so many instructors cry.. There was once a time I thought we really SUCKED till there was no redemption could be made..

However, getting both girls and guys team into the finals had indeed made things better.. At least, we didn't break the TK campcraft legacy.. Though we might not be able to redeem what we had done, but getting girls Champion and guys Top 5.. I hope its something which can make everybody feel better....

For the guys, they had really done well! they were all so serious... I was really impressed.. I think they deserved more. Well, it shows that they could be serious, as well as playful. It was so freaking funny to see them Roll-Out of the pitch during training when they did the trial! Haha.

For the girls, we had really done our best.. So much of anxiety. I could tell many of us couldn't sleep at all on Friday night. I jumped up at 1am and I thought it was about to wake up already untill I saw the time shown on my watch... well, all we could think was SAturday... we have no regrets now.. after all our hardwork.. The trophy, though it may cost no more than 5 bucks, but who cares? Its the name of achivement that we want. Its the proof that we want that recognise us as the CHAMPION! =)

well, now campcraft is gone. I can feel that many of us feel so empty and lost... Like what Siddiq stated in his post. I cried again when I read it.. Its gonna be so weird. I feel so empty in the heart, so lost and aimless... What am I going to do during the time we I was supposed to have trainings? Now I have to concentrate on my studies... 3 more weeks before MYE. I can't do so badly anymore... I just hope that studies can distract me from missing campcraft so much..

I guess winners will always feel empty after they got what they want... The only thing that can make them not to feel empty, is to set for another goal. Now my goal will be results for O level.

Go jinyi!

Lastly, I want to thank the many instructors and supporters I had for this year campcraft competition.

For my friends and family, especially Cheuling, Aisyah, yiyan and a lot more... Thanks for your support!

For my teacher in-charge, Miss Nani.. big thank for her. I feel that she had suffered a lot from us. Yet she s always so supportive, taking care of us like her children.

For Sir Kelvyn, you have inspired so many of us. I think both teams were really inspired by you, somehow. You have motivated us so much and given us so many instructions and advices.. honestly, without you, we couldn't have gone this far. Many teammates have agreed with this too. Its touched to know that you were willing to sacrifice your time for us, for our batch. well.. Its so rare to see someone who is so committed and full of goals. There was a time I felt so lost but seeing you so full of aims and goals, I thought I should set my own goals too... You really made me want to be someone like you.

Maam Hazi, Sir Zong Yao, Sir Jonathan, Maam Joanne, as well as other instructors ,

Well, a BIG BIG thank for you all, for sacrificing so much of your precious time to train us.. For having so much patience and words of advices for us... We wouldn't have made it if not for you guys pushing us onwards..

Maam Hazi, you have always been so patient to train us and teach us. From the day which you gave a heartfelt speech to all of us and you teared in disappointment, I knew we couldn't do anything to make you feel better other than to get into Finals for you!

Sir Jonathan, thanks for your concern and advices! Though you only started to train us for the last few months, but you worked so hard for us and came to train us almost every training...

Sir Zongyao, well, thank you for being so naggy like an Old Auntie. Sometimes you're really irritating, in a way, but on the other hand, it also shows that you're one of the best instructors! Sometimes, I feel that my "nagginess" to my members was inherited from you. they always said that. But still, you're the best at nagging and your sarcastic remarks. It kinda pissed me off to have you repeating about the problem of halyard and raising of flag for about ... 6times?? and many other things which were repeated so many times.. Honestly, 3 times will do. I am not retard. I can remember.. -.- Whatever it is, it shows that you care a lot for us!

I couldn't believe my eyes to see that you actually teared at the staircase when we were about to go for our final competition... as well as Maam Hazi.. That was really something that touched all of us... and ... we made it to Championship!!!!!!!

Lastly, I will miss campcraft. I will miss everybody. The tears that we shed, the blood and sweat that we had, are not wasted after all! Its all worth it..... I just wish to have more.... I don't want it to be out of my life.......

TK CAMPCRAFT ROCKS! WE ARE NUMBER 1 AND WE WILL ALWAYS BE NUMBER 1!