Sunday, February 11, 2007
had really a super long and tiring weekend, starting from fri, ending yesterday at 11pm. boy, am i darn beat. founder's day parade rehearsal on fri, followed by campfire meeting and combined meeting discussion. after that, had to rush down to bishan park to help unload the spars for the pioneering comp on sat. and the bad news is? our location is located about 200m in the park, which means that we had to carry everything all the way from outside the park to our site. but we did well. 5 of us, finished carrying everything in about 20min.
sat morning, 7am, was back at bishan park again for the registration. went back to sch after that, and few hours later, was rushing back there again to bring water and lunch for them. simply a mad mad rush. hanged out there for about an hour before heading back to hall for a quick shower, and i mean QUICK. 2 minutes and i'm out. 10 minutes after i reached hall, i am out again. this time, having to head down to PA HQ for chingay 2007 full dress rehearsal and briefing. and talking about chingay 2007, singapore scouts association (SSA) will be involved. a contingent of 300 scouts (impressive right?) will be leading the parade. YES, scouts are leading the parade!! woo hoo.. so exciting.. the 1st contingent of 150 scouts will be escorting the president's float to the main VIP area before joining up with the other contingent of 150 scouts. after the president is seated, the entire contingent of 300 scouts will then start to lead the rest of the floats down orchard road!
impressive this may sound, i really hope hq will not screw up this event. there will be media coverage and the whole nation will be watching us live on tv on 24feb. yest's briefing and rehersal has been a huge terrible mess. its the full dress rehearsal yest and the scouts contingent had not even had a single full strength rehearsal yet. even the briefing details sent to us via email was screwed up. documents and maps were not attached. how do you expect all the teachers and leaders present to visualise and know the actual procedure. and hq has to have so many importand events all on the SAME day, pioneering competition, unit leaders' intro course and chingay full dress rehersal, just because the planners refused to give in to each other. so many schools are involved in the competition and are unable to attend. how is it possible to have a rehersal in this way? how to practice? all the other floats and dancers looked so grand yest in the full dress rehersal. we are the only one who are still trying to tie down details of what to do and helping to give suggestions, feedback and ideas of how to resolve all the difficulties we are having now. only around 30 cub scouts out of a full size of 200 were present yest. everybody else had already known what to do execept us. and we are LEADING the entire parade, not to mention being the presidential escorts. gosh.. we seriously need a full size rehearsal but there is no time. they even wanted the 23feb shop to be treated as the rehearsal. can you imagine it? my goodness. a contingent of 300 scouts, with only around 50 to 60 of them knowing what to do, going for the actual run on 23feb. how more absurd can this get? if this happens, scouts are going to be "famous". famous for screwing up chingay 2007, which i really hope it wont happen. sigh.. just have to pray for the best now i suppose. and that everything will run smoothly and scouts put up a good show.