It always feel damn good for the Sec 4 and the CIs alike
The Sec 4 GOH batch getting ready to march in
With the drums at hand
They will always shout the loudest "SIR!" then
Proudest moment in their entire career
The marching and the drills will always be ending with a solid "bang"
Best!
*thumbs up*
The OC giving the opening speech
And SI Jia Yi handing over the NCOs Flag
This is a new tradition
And I like it a lot
Signalling the end of their NCO time and being relieved of their duties
3 ranks to 2 ranks to get ready to get their plaques
I got my plaque too!
It's RED and comes with the solid casing
Of course with the words to represent my service rendered
Proud of myself too
Wilson says can stick at the BMT bunk locker for the SGT to see
HAHA!
Officer-material
Crap man! Teaching is getting to him seriously
帅!
帅again!
POP lo!
Hahaha! I got to throw my cap too!
Shiokness lah!
And they do a cheer for the one last time
So after all their personal group hugs and whatsoever
I got them together to take a group photo with them
Since they are with me as I graduated
See them since they are Sec 1
Lots of thick and thin and whatever together
Can say they still make me proud
Every batch of course has black sheep
Which batch doesnt?
But its the fact that I see them grow up
Makes it even better!
The shot with the plaques
And the other shot without the plaque
See how they are standing....
Sheng Yuan giving the signal for....
TAU POK!
Hello I'm the one being tau-poked ok?
It was painful
Horrible
Terrible
Crazy
Messy
And is considered murder
Check out the number of layers!
5!
They executed what they call is the "TAKEDOWN" move
OMG!
Literally take me down to the solid ground
No chance
And daylight suddenly turns into darkness
Blindness sets in and fear takes over
Cannot breathe totally
My facial expression is not of joy definitely
All my veins were popping out
And they crushed me sideways
My birdie hurts (unfortunately I have to say)
Can feel the 5th layer just did a dive on top
The pressure came down harder
Ouch!
But the main thing is we had fun lah
No one was killed!
So it's ok to me!
Hahaha. Good experience!
=)
Not so lucky for Wilson
He just had to speak
And ppl came crushing down
The Sec 4 batch is a mountain of human bodies
Go crushing on anyone
Took a final group pic
And a unit photo as well
Looks damn good!
=)
And yes
"Keep On Rolling!!!"
*thumps chest*
Sums up how the whole day went
Very very well
Smooth and no trouble
They got high
We laughed and smiled and take photos
Left a great deal of memories behind
And that's just good enough
=)
So lets take a walk down memory lane
Through 8 years of service, fun, sweat, blood(?) and tears(?)
This gotta be the sole mission when I sign for the CI course
UOPA Gold Award
Not many schools got it
My batch threw it away
Now, as a CI, I got it back with my unit
And that, is an achievement which I'm so proud of
*beams*
All the planning, all the rushing down from NP to XMS
All the proposal writing, all the on/off-the-field action
And etc etc etc
Finally goes down to getting back the pride and honour
And it's so worth all the hard work when I knew we got it
Credits to the whole unit
And of course, I felt that I stuck through the hardest time
And we all did
And so we emerged once again
Victorious
That's very important to me
Who can forget all the bumboat rides to/fro Pulau Ubin?
The cool wind and the icy salt water
Splashing around
Anticipating fun/horror all on the same ride
And the dreaded place to Mount Doom
For the cadets lah!
Sec 2 was a nightmare
Never did more push-ups as a Sec 2 then
With mud and whatever crap
I thought our limit was stretched to the MAX with the torture
Hahaha. But as Instructors is bunk sweet bunk!
Different experience altogether
=p
And all the survival lessons
To light up fires
Have smoke and etc
And the all-time favourite of "I Ask My Love"
Everyone in NPCC should know
THAT is tradition at the very best
Guys and girls are getting shy and still entertaining to the audience
Bravo seriously
All the orientation games
To identify leaders
To bond groups of strangers and shy kids
To solve issues together
And the campcraft skills lesson
To put them into use at....
Tent-pitching and...
(Ling Wei still the Boss at such stuff)
Flagstaff
The times spend to discuss and make group flags during camps
Plus cheers and songs and etc
The wet and dirty activities
And the ration cooking
(See Chrislyn always helping out the juniors!)
Useful 1st-aid lessons
Group night trekking
Our yet another favourite of candle-light soccer
It's my favourite camp games
Whereby violence comes into play at times when chaos happens
But its also whereby all have fun
Leaders are born and identified etc
Do I even need to say about the campfires?
All the campfires are a blast
And how many times we burn ourselves
Just to make sure everything turns out wells
Still can rmb me and Thongs took a pic as the handle caught fire!
Then everyone ran in all different directions!
Hahaha. Best!
And what's Uniform Groups without the push-ups?
Feel the group burn in your palms
Its a sensational feeling
In the bad way of course
And the briefing/debriefing sessions
Learnt to talk well in front of big groups of ppl too
Gave me the confidence to speak up
And not just "ermm, haw, eee, errrr, ohhhh, yaaaa"
So all the memories come back to best part of my squadmates
Check out the baby fat!
And all the crazy ppl squeezing in the AVA room
And getting crazy again in non-uniform times
Narrowly losing out in the Air-Rifles shooting competition
Not bad I made the squad leh!
Haha. Heng got 1 bull's-eye to up my score during selection
And our best friend during the 60th anniversary
Did I say I think we are the best?
Like the very very best?
HAHA!
One of the major highlight in my secondary school years
Wearing the U1 and being the Guard-of-Honour
Somemore being the contigent commander as the SI
Uppy up ups!
All the pride is glued onto our faces that night
And our last parade during the secondary years
帅!
帅!
Double 帅!
超帅!
Ownage 帅-ness!
I like this picture a lot
Cuz I look good in the uniform
Look slim and the uniform fits to a T
And leading my own Sec 4 GOH
I mean not forgetting them
All getting the plaques and certs
And all 90-45 that type of standards
Awesome!
The happiest time!
Very very very well-taken photo by Clarence
Never believe cakes are used for smashing other ppl's faces
Very wasteful
Someone smeared my rank
Kns~
Always have poor ppl suffering as well
And the peeps who I have come to know well
Hafeez
One of the funniest ppl I know
Very very very cute
Makes life such a joy to be around him
Mr Pah and Hazim
Mr Pah took care of me a lot
And I can never thank him enough
And Hazim, always so ON for whatever that came
Solid buddy
And my Ah Bangs with their demonic stance
Nasri rocks lah!
And this group of friends
Li Kuang, Arthur, Alex and Ko Xuan (Thongs)
They are this bunch of ppl who 挺 me all the way in Sec 3/4
ALL THE WAY you know?
Thats a statement itself
They understand the situation and got the job done
ASAP
Efficient and smooth
Thongs is one of my favourites
Give me the evil smile every now and then
Even now I meet him on the streets he does that!
Hahahaha!
Hong Qing and Me
My hardcore friend
He sms me that time in BMT
Says the drills cannot make it
Hahaha!
He's one of the experts among us
Dont play play
Jio him so hard to come out sia
He got plenty of happenings everytime
The cleaning aunties
NPPPG
Super closed-knitted group of girls
Still rmb the "Grandfather-Grandmother story"
We didnt see eye to eye with that issue
And of course got our own arguements and stuff
But all's well now
Thats the important thing ba
=)
Me and Dorcas
Ya ya ya
I know everyone is still laughing at me
Ok for memory sake ok?
She's pretty ok?
I like her last time lah!!!
Everyone knows it lo! So we are equal hor
No more last time issues
Hahaha!!!
But now she's in the UK
At Oxford
PSC scholar or something
Big bright future
Coming back be Minister
Good job lah!
My pretty Christina jeh (sister)
Check out Arthur and HQ behind aiming the cake
She's like totally a caring sis to me
Takes care of me from Sec 1 till I'm 20 years old now
Thats how good she is to me lah!
She went through so much in her life
Perosnal matters to academic matters (she gone through ITE to Poly)
And yet she still can help me out
So total respect to her
She's like the one who steps out and says
"Don't worry! I settle for you!"
See!
HO Collin Koh and Me
Another one of the man I respect most in my life
I still call him Sir now
And that itself says it all
So many things have changed
I realised I was so tanned last time
Like charcoal that kind
But it was a good time in secondary school
From the cock-cock PT kit boy
To the slim slim SGT in Sec 4
(Double promotion in that year!)
=)
Haha. This was taken in 4e4 by Simin / Ching Yee / Mei Xuan
Either one of them who sat in front
Hahaha. I thought it looks good lah!
I look...SLIM leh
But the face like overly small last time
Anw the 4e4 classroom rocks to the very Earth's core
Only 4e4 ppl understand
Still got the chicken on top leh
=D
To a shagged SI Lim
But it was a very interesting journey for me
Can I mention about the above pics ppl?
They are one hell of a bunch of ppl who I respect when young
Respect till now when I work with them
The dedication, knowledge, determination and all that
With the fun side as well
From Zhi Wen, Diana, Clarence and Jason the pioneers
They showed me what was the number 1 standard
To He Li, Eng Choon
They came and stablised the boat
To Liyana, Jasper, Samantha, Wilson, Desmond and Christina
Who showed care and concern for everyone
This is what makes us the Instructors a family
Still rmb the time He Li and Eng Choon came down
And we just chatted from 12am till 6am for morning PT
Taking 2 cartons of packet drinks
We just talked and talked and talked
All so alert and jovial
The camps, the dinners outside
The car-rides, the suaning actions
The drills, the scolding, the tekan-ing
The late nights, the MSN, the emails and proposals
Everything that can happen
We stuck through it
Together
All for one, one for all
Always like this, forever will be that
And all the Officers
Mr Pah MW, Mr Gabriel Tan, Mrs Winnie Thang, Mrs Lim Hui Hui
The new Officers
Ms Cindy Oh, Mr Tan TM, Mr Goh HF, Ms Rita Wong
Great experience to work with 2 groups of ppl
Old school and new modern
I learnt so much so much that it was a great decision to just...
give back to the unit
And that, Mrs Lim mentioned, is the correct way to repay
Show gratitude
Know where the water comes from 饮水思源
XMS believe in that
I believe in that too
After 8 years
I took and gave back
And its time to move on now
Credits to those who have a part in moulding me into such a person
NPCC, my squadmates, CIBTC J'07, Officers
The Instructors Family and every single cadet that I taught
From the top cadets to those who pon-tang too much
I'm such everyone has their own path to take
But my path in the unit has reached the end
So now I come to bid farewell, and thanks again
=)
"The ball is in your court now, show them what you have it takes
to succeed and better the previous batch!"
Mr Pah MW, OC of XMS@NPCC till 2006
