AS Prep

Hi. I'll try to update this blog more frequently.

Anyway tomorrow is AS prep. For the sec 1s who don't know, it's ANNUAL SHOW prep and basically AS is the 01 version of the campfires you keep hearing about and which I have asked you countless times to go for but only Darren went (albeit for a sucky one ): IM SORRY).

Anyway 01's AS is usually pretty awesome (no pressure or anything yenter), but the reason it is so is because of the hard work and effort from everyone. If you want 01's AS to be a success, put in the effort in the few preps before the actual event the results will be plain to see (:

Here's the details for tomorrow's act.

Date: 28th March 2011
Time: 3.45pm - 6.45pm
Venue: Gym Hall Atrium
Reporting attire: PE attire
Things to bring: Stationery, excitement!

 Take note of the word in bold.

On a side note, we are almost done with our plogs :D I'll send you a copy of it once I have compiled and received the plogs from everyone. The people who still have not submitted are:

1) Weng Kay (NO VALID REASON)
2) Paul (did the wrong plog, Andrew say your thanks)

I hope that all of you realise that Plogs are a patrol effort and should not be just left to one person to solo everything. In the end, all of you are responsible for what we produce. Especially for Weng Kay, since the plog for batch project planning was allocated at the start of the year, so there should be no excuses.

On a side-r note, GO FOR CAMPFIRES. Its a really good chance to just relax and have fun with your batch/01 mates, and there's always something to laugh about even though the campfire might suck

The two upcoming campfires are: St. Margs (this Friday, 1/4/2011) and St. Andrews (9/4/2011)
In my personal experience St. Andrews campfires are generally of a higher standard so try to go for that one. The pressure of having to go for three campfires a year or having three people per patrol to attend each campfire shouldn't actually be the compelling reason for going for campfires. Encourage your batchmates to go as well so you can just chillax for about two hours or so and have fun (: Really hope that more of you will have greater enthusiasm for these kind of things.

If this lack of attendance for campfires persists, I'll draw up an attendance roster and I really don't want to have to do that.

Thanks,
Colin.

PLOGS

Hello

Absolutely completely sincere apologies for the lack of updates. I know SOME of you have been complaining about the current state of this blog (unconscious....SRITs anyone?). I won't offer any excuses so don't expect any, but its actually due to....

a) My sprained eyebrow
b) My broken nose hair
c) My injured toenail
d) This tiny mosquito bite on my arm that's restricting my movement

Yeah so I hope you understand now why I have been unable to update this blog. Anyway to alleviate this hopeless situation I have used my superior, in-depth understanding of the workings of blogspot.com to add your dear APL, Nigel, under contributors (thanks mus) so that this blog will not die as quickly.

Anyway the main point of this post is for Plogs.

In the previous blogpost (26 Feb IIRC SORRY FOR ONE MONTH DEATH) I listed out the plogs that each of you guys have to do and complete and submit to me by a certain date which I cannot remember at this point since RIBoarding internet just died (2125, 21^st March 2011). Anyway, out of all the plogs I assigned, less than half were completed.
I know sometimes that writing and crapping so much plogs can be damn sian, but think of it as a memory of the times you spent with your patrol, with your batch, with 01. This year won’t last forever, and you should treasure the memories you have. Next year you will have a new PL and APL, new sec 1s. This makes every year unique and therefore each memory becomes unique. Treat it as a diary, and at the end of the year when the entire year’s plogs have been collected, take a look through and feel the nostalgia.

With the emo part out of the way, here’s the new list of plogs. I seriously expect everything to be in by this Saturday, latest. Absolute latest. Send them in to me ASAP. And as before, if you think you have a lot of plogs to do, consider me, your PL, aka the Cow. I assigned myself a total of 6 plogs so far. If I can complete them, there isn’t any excuse for you being unable to complete yours, especially for the earlier plogs I already assigned a month ago. 

1. RT Briefing - done
2. RT prep - done
3. RT - done
4. Batch Project Planning  WENGKAY
5. Proficiency Badge Planning - done
6. Test your Limits - done
7. Goal Setting Act COLIN
8. Upgrade Works TIMOTHY
9. Pass it on - done
10. PL Planned act - done
11. QM session WENGKAY
12. Fouble JOHN
13. Structure Games NIGEL
14. Induction NICHOLAS
15. Orientation (Rise of the SU) COLIN
16. Overnight Briefing - done
17. VPA 1 - done
18. Overnight Day 1 NIGEL
19. Overnight Day 2 PAUL
20. Job week briefing (part 5) NICHOLAS
21. SUTC Prep 1 TIMOTHY
22. SUTC Prep 2 TIAN YI
23. SUTC Prep 3 COLIN
24. Job week Day 1 NIGEL
25. Job week Day 2 DARREN
26. SUTC Day 1 PAUL
27. SUTC Day 2 ANDREW
28. SUTC Day 3 COLIN

So yeah, this is your list of plogs. Remember that the minimum word count is:

1. 1000 for normal activities
2. 1200 for Saturday Activities
3. 2000 for a full day of camp (for SUTC, this means day 1 & 2)
4. 1500 for every half day of camp (for Overnight it refers to both days)

Remember to send the plogs to me, plasrifle@hotmail.com, which is this professional sounding email I have. Deadline is Saturday at the ABSOLUTE LATEST.

Thank you.