 Currently 16 going 17 July 11th, 1992 TPJCian Ex-Queenstownian Ex-Fairsian Elemental Muse
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9:47 PM  Behind every good things, there's a bad side to it. Just like the saying, "Roses have Thorns".February 21st, Thursday. WHAT A DAY TO REMEMBER. Why must everything just go against everyone?! Portable-Flagstaff not being able to stand properly, Class Decoration going haywire, Family car down and not repaired.. Is it because the Feng1 Shui3 today is just not as good? Or is it because it's just a day of bad-luck. OR IS IT OUR FAULT THAT IT'S LIKE THAT?! All in all, Everything's just so SUCK-ED UP today. Today started off like any other day. Waking up slightly later then 6am, went to school, got stucked with additional mathematics, tired of Civil and Moral Education, and got miraculously interested in Chemistry. Maybe it's fated to turned out like this. Everything around me just went haywire. The scouts all are gathered at the school's porch at 1530 immediately after their respective remedials WITHOUT Lunch. Mr 'L' and Mr 'C', two of the scout teachers came to me. L, "Can I see all the CLs and ACLs for a short while?" Me, "Of course you can!" L, "Now i will distribute the work." Me, "There's no need to do that, Ms 'W' done it all...." L, "Okay then so be it." Me, "BUT I WANNA READ THE SCRIPT!!!" L, "Nope we'll follow as plan." Me,"..." L, "Now for this year we must keep the flagstaff's design simple." Me, "oh no." L, "I will talk to Mr 'C' about it..." C, "Yeah we'll execute the nice one After P.R.I.M.E." Me, "WHAT?!" C, "Yeah. Your design is complicated!" Me, "NO?! It's just 3 pieces fitted together!" C, "Miracles don't happen in our troop. Not all's as talented as you okay." Me, "But but, PRIME will only be over 2 YEARS AFTER I GRAUDATE!!" C, "You will come back as ventures right?" L, "yeah, the troop will need people like you to survive." Me, "..." (roll eyes) Me to myself, "I WANT MY LIFE!" The scouts are supposed to construct 2 portable flagstaff in the school's parade square. Given the parade square's space constrain because of the renovation of the school (P.R.I.M.E.), we must restrict the base area of our 2 flagstaffs to be 1.5m by 1.5m instead of the usual 4m by 4m, supporting one 4.5m flagstaff. And since the design is allowed to be fancy, I came out with this "Inverted flagstaff" design for founder's day, and that I'm 200% sure of whether it will work since our troop had tried it once before on the "inverted-tripod" design. .jpg) Inverted-Tripod Design .jpg) Proposed Founder's day Flagstaff I worked out the proportion to be alright and that the mounding would be able to support the suspending-flagstaff to stand on it's own without much problem. And I submitted the design to the teachers for approval on Monday before Assembly. Little did I know something will really go wrong. Upper Secondary's Sports Heats came really sudden on Wednesday. Benjamin and I too has Music lessons so we proposed a rehearsal on Tuesday and were turned down by the Guides' teacher in-charge ON TUESDAY ITSELF. I can do nothing, but to accept their decision. I always hear this every training i go, "One must listen to their leader to get things done and not by insisting on one's idea.". So I kept really quiet. Wondering what to do, if anything will go wrong, and hoping that they won't alarm me with last minute arrangements (that's what they are famous for). And that's what they did. The teachers gathered and spoke to us after we took the poles and got ready our equipments to construct the flagstaffs at 1600hours. They changed the design at the last minute with the excuse of "time and space constrains". I've no idea why but i knew it all along that that thing WON'T STAND. I persuaded them to allow us to carry on my design since it's simple and easy, and they just insised rigidly on their "OLD design". Oh well. WHY CAN'T THEY PUT THEIR EXCUSES IN THEIR OWN DESIGN AND THINK AGAIN?! It stood. However, they are not up to standards. Reconstructions and Humiliation came and go. I have nothing to say except that it wasn't my idea for this to happen. The proposed "Suspended Flagstaff" design now Amazingly turned into a "FLOATING-BASE STRUCTURE". .jpg) THEIR "IMPRESSIVE" Structure's Base. One of my partner told me to climb that structure like how we did in "Sour-grapes" Scout Competition in order to retie the fallened Clove Hitch. *WOW! What a nice idea.* With nothing else in mind except to end this early, I did. It worked! The guideline didn't slipped off in the end and we earned yet another humiliation from Mr 'H', one of the NCC teachers. Quote Mr 'H', " You scouts behaves like girls! SO GAY!" Deep in my heart, I'd really like to run up to the second floor and give that barstard a tight slap and reply, "SO ARE YOUR NCCs, eg: ZEUS!" I DON'T NEED SUCH A COMMENT. But I kept silent and carried on with my job upon recalling on the lecture of Forgiveness during CME before that. +-+Copy.jpg) Mr 'H' and his 2 other colleagues talking about the Scouts. Left school at 1900 with "F U Queenstown!" ever repeating in my mind. Met Jiu Ying and Mun Yee on the way back. They too had problems with the class decorations. I had no idea what exactly happened, so i will just hope that it'll still be as presentable as before alright. Reached home and found out that the Family's car too are facing some mechanical problems too. I've long placed all the humliation today aside upon the thought of the ending day. =) And so is it the right thing to do? No comments yet! =P What a day! Thursday, February 21, 2008ISA TSD Practical MYE Assessment'o9 TPJChoir
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