On the morning of 8th Feb 2009, the peace and tranquility of Punggol Park is shattered when members of the North East Youth Executive Committees and TRG gathered for a morning of fun and team bonding.
As this is a gathering of leaders, we at TRG is naturally a bit nervous, not to mention a bit tired as we didn't really have a good night sleep the night b4 (but that's another story). Luckily when it comes to fun and team bonding, everyone speaks the same language.
We begin the day with a short game of speed tag in a small little arena full of trees, that served to allow the warriors to familiarise themselves with the operation of the Phoenix Shotguns and Guardian Rifles. As there are 4 teams, some of the warriors will have to wait for their turn.
Luckily TRG is well prepared for this eventuality; we have prepared several team work games that will foster team spirit and cooperativeness. The first game that we played is 'Poker Sequence'.
This game requires the whole team to give instructions to only one person who had to hit the poker cards in sequence whithin a given time limit. Any mistakes, the whole team will have to start over. Naturally, there are a lot of furstrations, but being leaders, the players all raise to the occasions and aced the game.
Alas, the few rounds of Lazer Battles proved to be too tiring for most of the warriors, and many of them opt to take a break in between the Lazer Battle games.
After all 4 teams have cut their teeth and claws in the warm up matches, now its time to do it for real. The arena is expanded to almost 3 times the size, with a healthy mix of foliage, buildings and trees, that provided the ideal environment for stealthy flanking maneuvers and counter-attacks. It is indeed heartening to see all the warriors communicating and co-operating with one another when this is the first time many of them met. It also helps greatly that taking into consideration of the results that they have obtained during the warm up matches, different teams discussed and came up with different strategies; some opting to 'volunteer' some of their members to be the commandos and vanguards, rushing in to draw the enemies fire, while the rest stay behind to pick off the enemies one by one. Some teams also performed intricate maneuvers to encircle their enemies.
All in all, everyone enjoyed themselves and a lot of them expressed that they will come back to fight it out again on the BattleGround.
So, NE YEC Warriors, See You On The Battle Ground ! Be Prepared To Engage !
(Note: you can see more photos taken that day at the right side slideshow)
