Being in the winning team, I am pretty proud of my friends and leaders. But In order for us to win, alot of preparations has to be done and months of sacrifice has to be shown.
Our preparations began around February. We had our first training session and second training session. This session is to train us on how to build a gadget and the basic skills of being a scout. From there, Mr. Raymond pick up a few potential people and start forming us into teams. The official teams suppose to go form was 3 teams. Camlion, Camelot, and Avalon. But unfortunately the Avalon team has to back up because it consist of mostly form 3. The reason was simple: exam year and hence they could not join MBS.
The original date for mbs was suppose to be at june/july, but it was delayed by the organizers. The Chamelot petrol leader has no choice but to back up. Mush dismay when we know we were short of one member, so unfortunately the original Camelion petrol has no choice but to split out, giving a couple of them to Chamelot and one of them become their petrol member. Our Petrol Leader fear we would not win as our petrol was pretty weak and many newcomers inside, but we have no choice but to sacrifice a few members to them.
As approaching july, we have a two week holiday. My original plan was to stay at home to relax and do some revision, but instead my plan backfire when we were called back to train for mbs. Half of my holiday were taken out by endless training and preparations. We were given great pressure by our pears, each afraid we could not win. But lo and behold! With the sufficient amount of training and screwing up by Mr Raymond, we were getting faster and better in what we do. Things become much better for us.
But we have another problem, The official date for mbs is on the 22nd and 23nd of August. One of our strongest member and our leader has a music examination on that day. We were so worry we could not complete our gadget on time, and for week we talk about it and got worry of it. Another thing is we have a very weak teammate who does not know how to tie a knot tightly or or cook or even take care of fire. She is consider useless! We wish we could just kick her out, but unfortunatly we cant do so as we do not have the heart to do so. But on the other hand, we just wish we could! For some time we think about it and sigh.
On the day of mbs, the weather was not of our good days. It rain, and it stop, and in 10 min rain again. We hardly get to dry ourself with the sun and it rain. Not only that, there was a wind so strong till it actually chill us up. We were shivering when we stand up doing nothing. The only way to cool down ourself is through working despied the rain. The rain prooves an disadvantage to us. Our lashing become tight when its raining, and when the sun comes up it become loose! Argh. We work till 10pm at night and we were called to leave the campsite and come back the next day.
The next day was..cooking! Well time to prove what we can do! We cook 25 dishes in 2 and a half hours, while our petrol leader took the other projects over for inspection. The judges cant believe our leader that we can cook 25 dishes in 2 and a half hour, and the next thing we know, they came to our team fist to test our food! They were impressed with our decorations and food. They even praise us and were given the impression that Sri Pinang has good cook (our school won best cooking last year). They left us with satisfaction.
We were pretty much worried we lost, due to our over time of building gadget and so on, but hey! WE WON OVERALL!!! We were so proud and glad that we did not lose our face as a 18GTN scout member. We rush back to Mr. Raymond, and told the good news. Mr Raymond did not share our joy or so, but he told us the teuth of his health condition that he suffered all this time, and almost die. He was really proud of us, but he did not show his great high and mighty self like some other teacher. Instead he humble himself and told us, we won, but we should never give up, because our rival (st.xaviar and PFS) will catch up if we slack. His plans for us for more work, and train harder to beat them off.
A victory for us, a memoriable time together. I’ll never forget those happy moments, the feeling of winning the competition.
Small info.
Our school scout has won(overall champian) 6 out of the 12 MBS cooking competition over the years. This was our 3 year in a row winning mbs. and we are pround to keep the record of winning.
Memories of the time we had together
