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Friday, January 26, 2007
Hoho am finally back from BMTC... Its been a super long two weeks while I was inside, but now that I look back it appears quite fast...
Field Camp is next week, so I'll have to book in tomorrow at 6.25 pm with a lot of stuff... And prepare to get really dirty in the next week. No doubt it will feel the same... Though reading through what we're going to do I feel the same already...
Anyway I'll get plenty of time to complain about army to various people, so I shall talk about the positive part =)
The people in my section are pretty good... A number of them also come from uniform groups and so also appreciate the need of speed haha... So far we've cooperated pretty well cleaning the bunk and blah, as well as chasing each other out of the bunk whenever we need to fall in... Also slowly getting to know the people in the platoon better and better, so usually its easy to strike up conversations with most people.
The weather can be quite hot (which makes life quite painful when we have to wear our combat vest and helmet plus long 4) but it also means our clothes dry quite fast haha... My section has the added advantage of being right on top of an aircon compressor which send up jets of hot air... So out thick number 4 can dry overnight if there's no rain!!
The sunrises n sunsets are really pretty... If the weather was cooler, it would be like Australia in fact... And we also can see the planes taking off from changi airport into the sun... Somehow it just makes me feel a little happier haha...
Thank God for reminding me of his presence from time to time.. and that I can still find time to read the Bible at night =) That alone should be able to keep me sane...
Have done interesting stuff also... The kinda things which I used to think about doing when I was younger... just that then, I didn't know that equipment weighed so much...
Live firing... Field signals.... taking cover etc etc..
Oh well... anyway am very very tired... so my post should be quite incoherent... Shall push off now... Goodnight!
Field Camp is next week, so I'll have to book in tomorrow at 6.25 pm with a lot of stuff... And prepare to get really dirty in the next week. No doubt it will feel the same... Though reading through what we're going to do I feel the same already...
Anyway I'll get plenty of time to complain about army to various people, so I shall talk about the positive part =)
The people in my section are pretty good... A number of them also come from uniform groups and so also appreciate the need of speed haha... So far we've cooperated pretty well cleaning the bunk and blah, as well as chasing each other out of the bunk whenever we need to fall in... Also slowly getting to know the people in the platoon better and better, so usually its easy to strike up conversations with most people.
The weather can be quite hot (which makes life quite painful when we have to wear our combat vest and helmet plus long 4) but it also means our clothes dry quite fast haha... My section has the added advantage of being right on top of an aircon compressor which send up jets of hot air... So out thick number 4 can dry overnight if there's no rain!!
The sunrises n sunsets are really pretty... If the weather was cooler, it would be like Australia in fact... And we also can see the planes taking off from changi airport into the sun... Somehow it just makes me feel a little happier haha...
Thank God for reminding me of his presence from time to time.. and that I can still find time to read the Bible at night =) That alone should be able to keep me sane...
Have done interesting stuff also... The kinda things which I used to think about doing when I was younger... just that then, I didn't know that equipment weighed so much...
Live firing... Field signals.... taking cover etc etc..
Oh well... anyway am very very tired... so my post should be quite incoherent... Shall push off now... Goodnight!
~JcZw~ at 10:14 pm
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Well, this is it I guess.
Am enlisting at 0800 hrs (that's 8 a.m. f.y.i. if you don't know) to Basic Military Training Center 1 tomorrow, 12th January 2007. That's super early lar, but I guess its as good a time as any to get used to the "wake up at 5.30 am" schedule.
Think just my parents n aunt will accompany me haha...
Don't really know what to think or what to say, but I should be appreciating this moment since, how many times does a person get to enlist in the army? haha... guess I shall be remembering this for the rest of my life anyway...
So according to outside sources, my company shall be Bronco, Hawk, Falcon or Jaguar, three of which are more welfare and one of which is relatively shiong...
Anyway just f.y.i. again, I only can afford my phone to be on in a short window of maybe 15 minutes a day, or 15 minutes per three days cos the battery is so weak and I'm not allowed to charge it. So guess my phone will be off after 8 a.m. tomorrow and will come on between 9.30 to 10.30 for a 15 minute interval each night subsequently.
Though, of course, I flatter myself to think that anyone would actually contact me haha... Still, by all means. I would welcome the break in monotony. Just don't expect to be replied so fast.
Well there ain't much else to say... bag is packed, SIM card is in my old Nokia 2100, am wearing my thick black-framed army specs, last meal is eaten, last sleep awaits me, so goodnight, and may the joy of the Lord be our strength.
See you all on 27th January! and Happy birthday Derek =)
Am enlisting at 0800 hrs (that's 8 a.m. f.y.i. if you don't know) to Basic Military Training Center 1 tomorrow, 12th January 2007. That's super early lar, but I guess its as good a time as any to get used to the "wake up at 5.30 am" schedule.
Think just my parents n aunt will accompany me haha...
Don't really know what to think or what to say, but I should be appreciating this moment since, how many times does a person get to enlist in the army? haha... guess I shall be remembering this for the rest of my life anyway...
So according to outside sources, my company shall be Bronco, Hawk, Falcon or Jaguar, three of which are more welfare and one of which is relatively shiong...
Anyway just f.y.i. again, I only can afford my phone to be on in a short window of maybe 15 minutes a day, or 15 minutes per three days cos the battery is so weak and I'm not allowed to charge it. So guess my phone will be off after 8 a.m. tomorrow and will come on between 9.30 to 10.30 for a 15 minute interval each night subsequently.
Though, of course, I flatter myself to think that anyone would actually contact me haha... Still, by all means. I would welcome the break in monotony. Just don't expect to be replied so fast.
Well there ain't much else to say... bag is packed, SIM card is in my old Nokia 2100, am wearing my thick black-framed army specs, last meal is eaten, last sleep awaits me, so goodnight, and may the joy of the Lord be our strength.
See you all on 27th January! and Happy birthday Derek =)
~JcZw~ at 11:06 pm
Monday, January 08, 2007
Went to the sports doctor today for attachment, as well as checking out my right knee which has been giving very incapacitating pain during my runs... So where previously I could have done say 7 km, let alone 2.4 km without problem, my endurance is noe about... 300 meters? Apparently its cos
1. My left foot is flatter than my right, so my body places more weight on the right foot to compensate
2. My right foot rotates slightly outward when I walk i.e. it points right while my left foot points straight. So my muscles in effect are not moving in the same line as the joint.
Which means my knee cap and femur (thighbone) have been banging against each other when I run which is what was causing the severe pain... So now taking some medicine which is supposed to reduce inflammation...
Thank God it was not a meniscus or ACL problem though...
Still this explains why I'm fine when I'm fencing (cos during fencing my right foot always points perfectly forward), walking (cos the muscle is not being stretched so much) or even mass dancing (cos during like up-down-kick-down I have to land with my foot pointed forward in order to maintain my balance) BUT NOT RUNNING!!!
Hope it clears up by Friday...
Anyway today bore a very strong resembelance (or was it resemblance?) to 24th January 2005.... Started out with doing first aid duty at East Coast with my juniors... treated a number of nasty lacerations... Honestly... people who play tug-of-war should bring their own plasters man haha...
Oh this year there was really good weather at sea regatta =)
Ended with mass dance around the fountain at suntec, although this time I had an additional strained knee, was wearing shorts instead of pants, and we were standing about 30 meters to the right of where we stood that night. Like that night I was standing between a classmate and a very noisy OGL...
For the record, that night we were standing just inside the wet zone of the fountain n so were skidding about during whineywhiney... But it appears that mass dance is carved into muscle memory... its the same thing that makes my arms want to do the tribal dance thing when we play "Chng Chng Chng" in church ahaha
Met Christian, probably the only person outside my CCAs / junior class whom I can possibly call my "junior"... Used to be a Scout in AHS to whom I taught first aid, and probably the most hardworking one too.. the only one from his batch who wouldn't smirk at our lessons and who asked intelligent questions... Good for him (and his friend from AHS GB) getting into VJ!
On a more anti-climatic note... This is possibly the last time I would take part in a VJ event, and probably the last time my class meets before we go our proverbial separate ways.
The people
The fountain.. Does the picture look a wee bit funny? =) Anyway with my brother now in VJ (at least under PAE), its nice to rave about VJ to someone else haha...
Don't know how to say this but I can't imagine such a change as going into the army, even though the number of days to enlistment could be counted by a three-year-old kid... 12 years oriented towards going somewhere to study... and suddenly you're going somewhere for 22 months learning to... errr... kill people?
Guess I'm just worried bout the mental part.... About meeting new people, and about hmmm fighting negative influences... Any idealistic JC guy who's just graduated can be determined to not be influenced to, drink, curse, swear etc, but somehow these influences seem uneeringly strong in NS... Hope God will protect us from stuff like that...
Maybe just scared of change?
Well on the MRT I was doing some thinking especially after I finished reading my book... We're not considered VJ students anymore, though we may wear the uniform, may come back from time to time and all.... Yes, we're alumni but that's not the same thing... We're never going to have to worry bout stuff like whether Marine Vista is jammed in the morning, or if we owe money to the class fund, or if the concourse has been occupied by another class, if the western stall auntie is out of chicken chop or if we're going to have to run extra rounds during PE (ok the latter never really worried me last time)
Maybe as an ORD celebration in 2009, I shall go to suntec with anyone else crazy enough to go with me and see if I can remember my mass dances =)
But alumni or student, I thank God for sending the people He did in my JC life, especially my classmates and CCA friends as iterated a few posts back... For better or worst, think interacting (or abrading) with various people have made JC life an experience to die for...
Anyway its 4 days to go... Will change the main picture before I leave... Until then, guess I'll take it a little at a time... Heyho for January 27th!
1. My left foot is flatter than my right, so my body places more weight on the right foot to compensate
2. My right foot rotates slightly outward when I walk i.e. it points right while my left foot points straight. So my muscles in effect are not moving in the same line as the joint.
Which means my knee cap and femur (thighbone) have been banging against each other when I run which is what was causing the severe pain... So now taking some medicine which is supposed to reduce inflammation...
Thank God it was not a meniscus or ACL problem though...
Still this explains why I'm fine when I'm fencing (cos during fencing my right foot always points perfectly forward), walking (cos the muscle is not being stretched so much) or even mass dancing (cos during like up-down-kick-down I have to land with my foot pointed forward in order to maintain my balance) BUT NOT RUNNING!!!
Hope it clears up by Friday...
Anyway today bore a very strong resembelance (or was it resemblance?) to 24th January 2005.... Started out with doing first aid duty at East Coast with my juniors... treated a number of nasty lacerations... Honestly... people who play tug-of-war should bring their own plasters man haha...
Oh this year there was really good weather at sea regatta =)
Ended with mass dance around the fountain at suntec, although this time I had an additional strained knee, was wearing shorts instead of pants, and we were standing about 30 meters to the right of where we stood that night. Like that night I was standing between a classmate and a very noisy OGL...
For the record, that night we were standing just inside the wet zone of the fountain n so were skidding about during whineywhiney... But it appears that mass dance is carved into muscle memory... its the same thing that makes my arms want to do the tribal dance thing when we play "Chng Chng Chng" in church ahaha
Met Christian, probably the only person outside my CCAs / junior class whom I can possibly call my "junior"... Used to be a Scout in AHS to whom I taught first aid, and probably the most hardworking one too.. the only one from his batch who wouldn't smirk at our lessons and who asked intelligent questions... Good for him (and his friend from AHS GB) getting into VJ!
On a more anti-climatic note... This is possibly the last time I would take part in a VJ event, and probably the last time my class meets before we go our proverbial separate ways.
The people
The fountain.. Does the picture look a wee bit funny? =) Anyway with my brother now in VJ (at least under PAE), its nice to rave about VJ to someone else haha...
Don't know how to say this but I can't imagine such a change as going into the army, even though the number of days to enlistment could be counted by a three-year-old kid... 12 years oriented towards going somewhere to study... and suddenly you're going somewhere for 22 months learning to... errr... kill people?
Guess I'm just worried bout the mental part.... About meeting new people, and about hmmm fighting negative influences... Any idealistic JC guy who's just graduated can be determined to not be influenced to, drink, curse, swear etc, but somehow these influences seem uneeringly strong in NS... Hope God will protect us from stuff like that...
Maybe just scared of change?
Well on the MRT I was doing some thinking especially after I finished reading my book... We're not considered VJ students anymore, though we may wear the uniform, may come back from time to time and all.... Yes, we're alumni but that's not the same thing... We're never going to have to worry bout stuff like whether Marine Vista is jammed in the morning, or if we owe money to the class fund, or if the concourse has been occupied by another class, if the western stall auntie is out of chicken chop or if we're going to have to run extra rounds during PE (ok the latter never really worried me last time)
Maybe as an ORD celebration in 2009, I shall go to suntec with anyone else crazy enough to go with me and see if I can remember my mass dances =)
But alumni or student, I thank God for sending the people He did in my JC life, especially my classmates and CCA friends as iterated a few posts back... For better or worst, think interacting (or abrading) with various people have made JC life an experience to die for...
Anyway its 4 days to go... Will change the main picture before I leave... Until then, guess I'll take it a little at a time... Heyho for January 27th!
~JcZw~ at 11:28 pm
Saturday, January 06, 2007
The past two days have been absolutely crazy haha... Though not as bad as Sec. 1 SJ camp when I couldn't laugh without getting a stomachache, as so suffered greatly whenever Jarrod cracked a lame joke haha...
Thursday was the mini-tournament at FM, through which somehow I got overall second out of 24 fencers, after being thrashed like siao by Benison... But somehow that night everyone was aiming for the section of my body which was uncovered by my plastron e.g. my collarbone, the top of my chest, my neck etc... AND hitting VERY hard... Not to mention some exceedingly gigantic people (even gigantic-er than Maurice) who kept going corps-en-corps ouch ouch... Should mention though, that if Maurice had been fencing that night, things may have turned out differently...
Still, as Coach said, it was a nice way to wrap up two years of fencing for VJ... Next wednesday should be my last day at FM for some time (cos on Thursday my aunt is coming down from Malaysia and I'll be sleeping my last long sleep anyway)... Whether I fence for VJ, FM, or at all in the future remains to be seen.
So anyway I collected five massive bruises on the right side of my chest, vaguely reminiscent of how everyone's chest looked like after taking ECG during the CMPB medical checkup...
Yesterday was even more fun... Went on a hike with ChuaH from Sengkang all the way to Bugis Junction, and past the houses of four classmates (including his own)... Haha actually with his good eyesight and my map-reading, it was a pretty good combination...
Anyway it was really enjoyable and we were talking all sorts of funny stuff.... Not to mention ChuaH was in a.. err... lemming mood... and I, as usual, was well capable of falling down steps while looking for landmarks haha...
Notable portions of the route include Christl's hill (which nearly stopped our hearts), Toa Payoh Rise (another hill which also nearly stopped our hearts) and the intersection of the PIE and CTE which forced us to take a long long detour... Oh, and all the overhead bridges haha...
So ta-da our route... Which is probably longer than 26.25 km cos it doesn't include slopes, cos crucial parts of the route are covered in cloud, and cos places like Compassvale aren't clearly defined on Google Earth... Thing is, army route march is nearly as long and with full batlle order to boot... So this should be relatively easy!
Anyway reactions to our trip varied from "Got nothing better to do arh" to "Crazy people!" and now that I think about it, I agree with the latter response also... My right calf feels absolutely paralysed haha...
So less than a week to go now... time to go pack...
Thursday was the mini-tournament at FM, through which somehow I got overall second out of 24 fencers, after being thrashed like siao by Benison... But somehow that night everyone was aiming for the section of my body which was uncovered by my plastron e.g. my collarbone, the top of my chest, my neck etc... AND hitting VERY hard... Not to mention some exceedingly gigantic people (even gigantic-er than Maurice) who kept going corps-en-corps ouch ouch... Should mention though, that if Maurice had been fencing that night, things may have turned out differently...
Still, as Coach said, it was a nice way to wrap up two years of fencing for VJ... Next wednesday should be my last day at FM for some time (cos on Thursday my aunt is coming down from Malaysia and I'll be sleeping my last long sleep anyway)... Whether I fence for VJ, FM, or at all in the future remains to be seen.
So anyway I collected five massive bruises on the right side of my chest, vaguely reminiscent of how everyone's chest looked like after taking ECG during the CMPB medical checkup...
Yesterday was even more fun... Went on a hike with ChuaH from Sengkang all the way to Bugis Junction, and past the houses of four classmates (including his own)... Haha actually with his good eyesight and my map-reading, it was a pretty good combination...
Anyway it was really enjoyable and we were talking all sorts of funny stuff.... Not to mention ChuaH was in a.. err... lemming mood... and I, as usual, was well capable of falling down steps while looking for landmarks haha...
Notable portions of the route include Christl's hill (which nearly stopped our hearts), Toa Payoh Rise (another hill which also nearly stopped our hearts) and the intersection of the PIE and CTE which forced us to take a long long detour... Oh, and all the overhead bridges haha...
So ta-da our route... Which is probably longer than 26.25 km cos it doesn't include slopes, cos crucial parts of the route are covered in cloud, and cos places like Compassvale aren't clearly defined on Google Earth... Thing is, army route march is nearly as long and with full batlle order to boot... So this should be relatively easy!
Anyway reactions to our trip varied from "Got nothing better to do arh" to "Crazy people!" and now that I think about it, I agree with the latter response also... My right calf feels absolutely paralysed haha...
So less than a week to go now... time to go pack...
~JcZw~ at 12:22 pm
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Just came back from CCA walkabout... Not too bad.. over a hundred people signed up haha... but I wonder how many people will actually stay? Still, compared to our 60 in 2006, I guess its good... Oh then we were located opposite the guys' and girls' soccer booths which were supremely noisy heh...
Did a few demo bouts on this little piece of ground below PE dept which couldn't have been longer than two piste segments in FM.... Then whenever Maurice stretched out his hand I gleefully flicked it hahaha =Pp Man I wish I had carried this blade into A-division last year... But anyway now I've got my trophies, foil and sabre back... Plus my blue fencing bag.
Oh yar... did I mention it was very hot wearing 3 layers of stuff and walking around... and that there are so many girls this year (70% according to my juniors)... looks like VJ is turning into another AHS.... The small Y chromosome is becoming smaller.
Incidentally New Year's day was spent with a few of my classmates at ECP cycling (my household was generally too tired for Watchnight service plus getting caught in a one hour traffic jam to do any family activity). First time I've seen ECP so crowded.... Yea and all of us were quite lethargic too since we were all suffering from lack of sleep..
Anyway a few pictures from the past few days...
Orientation 2006 for St. John... It was quite good... This year the stretcher drill was nice to watch and rather cool too (so cool, in fact, that I forgot to take pictures... In any case my hands were covered with plasticine and all that stuff for casualty simulation anyway) haha... And surprisingly our drill is still not bad compared to other CCAs... Kudos to WLT for manouvering the contingent in the confined space ahaha... I remember suffocating myself trying to yell the commands quickly enough in '04
Jon Boon at Upper Pierce Reservoir during fencing camp, in the proverbial "cold grey light of dawn"... This is before we started getting sleepy, having slept for a maximum of 10 minutes the night before....
Ta-da.... The effects of a sleepless night... Only Jieshi, leaning on John (obviously asleep), was properly awake... Maurice (on the right) and ZhongQi (extreme left) were both trying to get me to stop my horrible singing which was keeping them awake ahaha... Jon Boon, leaning on Maurice and hidden in the picture, was semi-conscious listening to his handphone...
Two days later at bowling haha... It was quite funny to see all the pro fencers sending their balls into the gutter one after another =D. So above is Maurice, who was bowling for the first time (actually not to badly lar haha)
And Coach (who can hurl the ball like halfway down the alley before it touches the lane...)
Well shall stop for now then.
Anyway I'm left with one week and 16 hours before I'm due to enlist and I'm still stuck at 8 chin-ups max... Sighh...
Did a few demo bouts on this little piece of ground below PE dept which couldn't have been longer than two piste segments in FM.... Then whenever Maurice stretched out his hand I gleefully flicked it hahaha =Pp Man I wish I had carried this blade into A-division last year... But anyway now I've got my trophies, foil and sabre back... Plus my blue fencing bag.
Oh yar... did I mention it was very hot wearing 3 layers of stuff and walking around... and that there are so many girls this year (70% according to my juniors)... looks like VJ is turning into another AHS.... The small Y chromosome is becoming smaller.
Incidentally New Year's day was spent with a few of my classmates at ECP cycling (my household was generally too tired for Watchnight service plus getting caught in a one hour traffic jam to do any family activity). First time I've seen ECP so crowded.... Yea and all of us were quite lethargic too since we were all suffering from lack of sleep..
Anyway a few pictures from the past few days...
Orientation 2006 for St. John... It was quite good... This year the stretcher drill was nice to watch and rather cool too (so cool, in fact, that I forgot to take pictures... In any case my hands were covered with plasticine and all that stuff for casualty simulation anyway) haha... And surprisingly our drill is still not bad compared to other CCAs... Kudos to WLT for manouvering the contingent in the confined space ahaha... I remember suffocating myself trying to yell the commands quickly enough in '04
Jon Boon at Upper Pierce Reservoir during fencing camp, in the proverbial "cold grey light of dawn"... This is before we started getting sleepy, having slept for a maximum of 10 minutes the night before....
Ta-da.... The effects of a sleepless night... Only Jieshi, leaning on John (obviously asleep), was properly awake... Maurice (on the right) and ZhongQi (extreme left) were both trying to get me to stop my horrible singing which was keeping them awake ahaha... Jon Boon, leaning on Maurice and hidden in the picture, was semi-conscious listening to his handphone...
Two days later at bowling haha... It was quite funny to see all the pro fencers sending their balls into the gutter one after another =D. So above is Maurice, who was bowling for the first time (actually not to badly lar haha)
And Coach (who can hurl the ball like halfway down the alley before it touches the lane...)
Well shall stop for now then.
Anyway I'm left with one week and 16 hours before I'm due to enlist and I'm still stuck at 8 chin-ups max... Sighh...
~JcZw~ at 3:37 pm
Monday, January 01, 2007
Its 2007! Happy New Year to all readers!
Stitched together a little montage of all the significant groups which I belonged to during the last year.... From 05S15 (known to me forever as OSSIS also haha), foil fencing, where I was the one-man VJ team, to the epee team, and my first aid affiliations both to St. John as a SNCO as well as VJ First Aid.
Significantly absent is my church people, of which I have no photo which has everyone inside though...
Anyway... its been an eventful two JC years... Hmmm.... seems that I surfed through the happiness, the sadness, exhiliration, frustration, sweat, blood, and not a few tears at particularly frustrating points of time, on a combination of God and my own highly sanguine nature (which is also God-given)... So many things to be happy for...
Firstly this is the first year which I've really looked forward to going to church... Think I finally realised that at the end of the day, church is the place where people are truly themselves, and everyone is sincere and there are no backstabbings / politics etcetc, and of course, everyone is so for-God, like a common direction, PLUS one can really feel God speak to one and all and personally at that! So I've finally woken up that church is not a place to be dreaded =) but enjoyed... Hooray for church n for Youth Group and etc!
Also, received new revelations from God along the year... like how not to just trust in my own strengths, as I talked about today... Novices'... Chinese... All reminded me that no matter how much effort I put in, if my heart is not oriented towards God, anything can happen... Its not that God WANTS bad things to happen to me, but at the end of the day, things worked for the greater good (culminating in my realization)... Thank God also for all my Christian friends, who always help me remember to trust in him, who've prayed for me or other things =)
Then there's my class (darn I always can't write a good enough post to do justice to S15), but yea its been great knowing my classmates.... Really can't imagine life in another class! There is at least one significant memory which I can relate with every of my 27 classmates, be it conversations, places I have visited with them, feet on which I have stepped on, the way their eyes roll when I say something lame or walk into / trip over something hard =Pp heheh... I don't know how well I'll be able to keep up with them, but no doubt there will be at least some? I really hope so...
Not to forget our juniors, who also provided a lot of fun during JTS, and other outings... May they have a good 2007...
Am grateful that they put up with my sanguiness, whether I was at the utterly happy end of the scale (and telling excessive lame stuff) or the incredibly upset end (when I was very depressed and literally fighting against bursting into tears)
There's fencing.... And the aches and pains and whatnot that go along with it... The trainings, both individual and group... The debates, both serious and ridiculous haha which I've had with my teammates... And of course, the titles which they did so well to win this year, Daniel's astounding U17 feat, Maurice's morale-boosting Novices win, and the A-division thingy... How we always would complain when stepping out of FM... how we always got shocked by static when we touched Coach's old door...
Grateful to my exco, especially Victoria, who was a perfect foil (pardon the pun) to my very gan jiong nature haha... Grateful to my team for compensating for me being the shortest fencer, and for encouraging each other on during comps, for the recreational activities like our farewell party for the '04 batch during which we had a lot of fun and stuff...
There's St. John, which, though I couldn't really take part in due to Bio S, I was still able to help out from time to time... Had the honour of training AC and a bit of NA for competitions, and the pleasure of seeing them do well in at least Zone Comp...
There were my squadmates,both those that come back often, and those who don't, but even after not seeing each other for half a year, we instantly can start suaning each other at first sight (such is the level of familiarity).. Even though most of our first aid skills have rusted away, but still, such bonds forged er on the asphalt of the old parade square appear keep well
Finally there's FAC... Though we did not spend that much time together, we had a fair share of cooperation during various duties (Sigh I STILL wanted to run the X-country!) as well as during our photo quiz... Think in this case, it not only extends to Xuanyi, CheeHoe, Qiaoping, Jiayan and the rest, but also to Elaine and Poh Woon from TJ FAU with whom we worked a lot with as well... Think this was one of the smoothest inter-CCA leader relationships I've worked with... Shall always remember how Elaine "cut herself" and I "broke my arm" on the same afternoon haha in front of an LT of first aiders...
Its not that nothing unpleasant happened to me... For sure, there were some traumatic incidents which I do not care to rethink, but seems that at the end of the day, all I remember is the good stuff... Hopefully the two years in NS go as fast...
Meanwhile, there are 11 days left to get myself into a sembelance of fitness... Shall take this verse which Andrew gave today into the new year
"No, in all things we are more than conquerors though him who loved us" - Rom 8: 37
~JcZw~ at 2:13 am