ok so we have lost. 4th place. that is a record man.

ok sarcasm aside, i feel that we really put in a lot of effort. i cant argue that we have been disadvantaged a lot, even though we went thru a long case immediately followed by a short case. well if you think that is bad, how bout eventual winners nanhua? they were like stoning in waiting room for 2 hours then chiong thru everything in an hour or so. isnt that worse?

and i am really sorry for screwing up when it came to the crunch. shall elaborate later.

we stoned in the waiting room like AC4(NH) for 1 hour 20 min or so. started with Foot drill. i must admit that nanhua ppl were really friendly to us, sharing with us pratas and 100 plus given by their sirs and wishing us good luck whenever we went for an activity. well i screwed up in the very first thing of the first activity. anyone who was watching the drill would have noticed our awkward position. well had to march into the parking lot and back. we battled under the ridiculously hot sun and we performed our best drill ever. countless 1 bangs, brilliant timing etc. and i screwed up again. i gave the command for hormat kekiri and i forgot about it and continued marching. i only realised at the timing 3 4 5 down that i needed to hormat. then i saw cheeshuan walk away in frustration. then timyu saved the occasion by his swift recovery from his wrong timing. good job .luckily we got 42 for FD.

then had TOC. best show ever! and wonderful i forgot to tell the team to wear gloves. anyway the coordination was at its best. the judge even commented it was quite good except it needed polishing and cutting down on not so important stuff. lol "you have just saved the casualty's life". we manouvered the obstacles expertly and i must say we did very well. we could have gotten higher, but i screwed up quite a few parts which could well overcome the 14 deficit to 3rd place. such as the strecher was too close to ambulance, resulting in trolley not having enough space.

anyway after this two , we were confident of at least a prize or even first. we agreed unanimously as long as we dun screw up, we could at least realise our expectations of second or third. I was even thinking of maybe a surprise first.

then went for long case. I was probably too nervous and forgot all about the safety actions for the car accident. then tying the make shift collar, the judge went to say "you are suffocating the casualty." wat the. then he told us to focus on sao chuan after he say the other casualty was evacuated by the ambulance. then he rejected most of my confirmations of symptoms. such as for skull fracture: lack of symmetry in the face, bruising behind the ears, blood in whites of eye; for pelvic fracture: deformity. and for shock: rapid shallow breathing, weak thready pulse. he kept saying breathing is normal and pulse is normal. then he told us to do a log roll and we did well. his comments were positive such as "quite good, except u need to be faster in your treatment. and keep it up" how does this translate to the second poorest score for long case amongst all AC? and mind you it is not we got told to stop. i summarised with approximately 4 minutes left, showing we had finished our tasks. i am utterly disappointed with this score.

then after we packed up for long case. some judge tell me go straight to short case. i was like wtf? where got straight away go another case. then it was drowning casualty. timyu got a bit stunned when i said the casualty was unconscious and drowning. and we treated the casualties' correctly, with the CPR and the bandaging of the casualty's injuries. except for hypoglycemia where there is no glucose gel or chocolate bar around. all the judge said was "quite good. and you just need to take note that the most important thing to pass to paramedics is not the casualty report or valuables. it is that the casualty needs a glucose drip. keep up the good work." well somehow for this we got 63, tied last with 3 other teams. i am convinced we dont deserve this score.

overall we got 4th place, behind NH ,XM and AI. i am utterly shocked when i saw the AA score when they lost by a point. I was appalled when i saw we fell to fourth just in front of henderson. despair gripped us disbelievingly.

we felt that we had put in our best. this was probably our best fd , best toc and certainly best cases we had done. i just cannot accept we got such low scores for cases.

however it is worth noting we have come a long way. we never had a full team during the holidays and we switched members many times. we switched positions several times too with i think each member in the team taking up 2 positions before settling down. we worked hard, we came down for training regularly. I think this is a very good experience for us and though we are down and out, we will ensure we shall bounce back and show other schools why they should always fear hwachong.

anyway i should thank the ncos for coming down regularly and training us, particularly cheeshuan for coming almost all the time. thanks!