Kevin's first time hands-on, making cement

It is Kevin O'Connor's first time.

To welcome Kevin into the Tau Omicron Eta (TOH) fraternity, Tom and Norm decided to 'haze' Kevin. An initiation process into TOH fraternity.

It's not really hazing. It's teaching with a bit of 'bullying'. A bonding process.

So these are screenshots of Kevin's first time using some elbow grease. Mixing cement and patching holes.

Kevin: Okay. We gonna clean it up and wait for the truck to come.

Tom: What truck?

Kevin: Uh, the cement truck.

Tom: No, no, we're gonna mix this one by ourselves by hands. 

Kevin: By hand?

Norm: Eh, Kevin learning how to mix concrete is the first thing you learn in the building process

Here, Tom showed his gas powered mixer.

Tom giving Kevin pop quiz on what to put in the mixture

Kevin: Stones, water and cement powder

Tom: What about the sand?

Kevin starts shovelling in some sand, gravels and cement while Tom and Norm put their belts down.

Tom and Norm leaving Kevin with the job alone.

Norm and Tom relaxing under the shady trees while Kevin keeps on shovelling in the materials

Tom tells Kevin to add in a bucketful of water into the cement mixer. Kevin with his annoyed face.

Poor Kevin!

The finished product. Well not really. Kevin need to patch in some holes

Norm telling Kevin that the drier the mixture, the stronger it is. That's where I got confused. Are American cement different from ours. Here, cement are mixed until it's mud-like consistency. I knew that American prefer drier cement. My father gave me a book on masonry when I was 16. It's published by American. But I never saw cement that dry in construction sites here.

After patching the hole, Kevin signed the wet cement. 

Kevin: Tommy, you think it'd be rude if I took credit for the entire patch?

Tommy: Don't tell me you sign that thing. 

Kevin: Eh?

Tommy: That's the most amateur thing you do the whole day.

Kevin: Hey, he who mixes it, sign it.

Tommy: Sigh!

Norm only smiled and shook his head

Kevin redo the hole, removing his John Hancock.

A work well done. 

Watching this season, Kevin's first season gave me an insight on how clumsy, gullible and naive Kevin was. But after more than a decade with the team, he is getting better. Keep up the good work guys. And I wish I could watch more of your projects in the future (as a team of course)

p/s: what can I say. I am TOH's fanboy. Dedicated my free time watching and writing a (ok some) blog on TOH.