~JcZw

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