On Friday we celebrated the G1 Family Day. It was quite a fun-filled event... with activities like Paintball, Bionix (a type of armoured vehicle) rides, etc.
Paintball was the first event for me, and I took a lift on Bernard's car along with Nick and JY to Amoy Quee camp. There was protective gear available for us, so it was quite safe. I had quite some difficulty aiming, and actually got a headshot (the impact just came and, splat!).
Later we went to SISPEC Pasir Laba (where we're supposed to stay for the night). I was informed that the songs which I chose for the Karaoke Competition were not available (?!!!), so I had to go choose other songs. I then took a look at the song selection and... withdrew from the competition. There was simply no song that I'd really love to sing. So there's no point singing just for the sake of it. CPC already has one representative other than me, so it didn't really matter.
The bunks were nice (I heard that they're newly constructed) and spacious. The shower cubicles had racks to put your soap or shampoo on, unlike BMTC where such racks were lacking. After playing Space Munchkins (Chiang Wee brought it), which is a card game where you engage space monsters and encounter scenarios which are mostly spoofs of well-known epic space tales like Star Wars (just imagine... there's a scenario called "I am your father"... and of the wide range of sidekicks you can have there's a "Big Hairy Alien" who, "coincidentally", carries a crossbow!)
Dinner was Gu-rei-to! I mean, how bad can a steamboat session get? With catered food available, as well as the sumptuous steamboat spread, I really enjoyed myself during the dinner.
Following that we went to the Mess to watch a presentation of videos done by various units in G1 Army to commemorate their anniversaries. For CPC it was the 40th anniversary (Wow!) and HRSC was probably the youngest unit of age 1. The videos were generally well done, especially the one by CPC, done by Yichuan, Kelvin and Bernard!
The karaoke competition that followed... I was surfing the Net in the Mess, haha. Heard them sing, and some of them were not bad. The prizes included things like DVD player and earphones!
Continued surfing the Net during the subsequent Free-for-all karaoke session. Played darts with my colleagues, and surfed the Net again. Did sing a few songs here and there, but I didn't have much mood.
They organised a trip to the Jurong Fishery Port but I didn't go, as I wanted to just have a sleep. It's been a long time since I slept under bunk ceiling fan, with my head and feet in the "upside down" position relative to the bed, just like my BMT days.
*Alarm ringed at 5:55 a.m.*
Turned it off.
Woke up at about 6:45 a.m., relieved that we didn't really have to wake up at 6 a.m. like I thought I heard last night.
Went down for a Kickboxing exercise which got me quite shagged.
Washed up and had a Bee-hoon plus Soon-kueh breakfast. Had tea (with creamer) and coffee (I took it before realising there's no more creamer, so I had to swallow that bitter liquid which, after adding 2 packets of sugar, didn't taste like coffee anymore). Saw this worm dangling from a spider web under the table, spotted by Chor Bin. Tried to save it but it was already dead.
Bade farewell to SISPEC and set off for the Singapore Discovery Centre for a guided trip there. Watched a movie entitled "Wired to Win" (co-sponsored by National Science Foundation which coincidentially gives the abbrieviation "NSF") that gives an account of how the brain works and changes under conditioning.
Once again I came to a conclusion that we must have been created by a God. The argument that such elaborate systems in humans, animals and plants simply occur by chance is unbelievable to me.
Next we were introduced to a series of stations where we can participate in games and learn, hopefully, about nation-building. After trying them out, all I can say is that they're generally for kids.
But then again, isn't this Family Day after all?
One station that particularly turned me off was that... that quiz for entrepreneurs thing. True, it's purpose was to teach kids about values in entrepreneurship, but the very idea that there're right and wrong answers to questions about your personal values regarding work and business simply did not fit the picture. I may be a bit biased here because I was personally told by the game that one of my inclinations regarding the issue in the question was wrong.
But... the right-&-wrong thing just didn't fit the word "Entrepreneurship". "You feel me?"
P.S. Finished watching the Gal Circle drama yesterday. A generally likeable drama. Couldn't really imagine, though, what it must have been like to have an ex-Gal Cowgirl brandishing a lasso in Shibyya for 3 years.
