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Friday, July 27, 2007
Blogger is beginning to hate me... On my own computer I can't see any post after the "back from medicamp" one unless I click on the July archives... Wonder why, ah well.
Aside from becoming a Christian, the two most significant things which have happened to me is
a) Joining St. John. Shaped my career choice, shaped the way I think, act, treat people and etc.
b) Entering OCS. Since everything which I thought ideal was embodied in the Officer's Creed pretty much.
So. My duty is to lead, to excel and to overcome. I lead my men by example, I answer for their training morale and discipline. I must excel in everything I do, I serve with pride, honour and integrity. I will overcome adversity with courage, fortitude and determination.
Unfortunately, the problem which I had been bashing through was akin to having to stop an armoured spearhead with a rifle. I mean, there's no one to lead, cos people aren't coming without excuses, I can't answer for the morale of those I'm supposed to lead cos I don't know how I'm supposed to solve my problem, which does not seem to be resolving despite all the courage, fortitude, determination, SMSes, emails or what not.
Having people acting... in a way which I thought was completely unfounded was the last straw I guess. Coupled with a lack of sleep in the past few days.
But let me confirm. I am not obsessed about this thing which I'm supposed to do... I mean, I'd much rather sleep late, go fencing, play Red Alert 2 and sort out all my documents for registration rather than travel halfway across Singapore. And I'd MUCH rather play badminton and stuff. Maybe you can call it a sense of duty. If no one gets it done then who will? And its the principle of the thing, not just because my backside is on the line.
This is a point of time when everything I've experienced in the above two fields will come in handy, but will also cause a heck of a lot of frustration why others can't do the same.
Oh well whatever. At least some people still help, and for that I'm exceedingly thankful =)
Aside from becoming a Christian, the two most significant things which have happened to me is
a) Joining St. John. Shaped my career choice, shaped the way I think, act, treat people and etc.
b) Entering OCS. Since everything which I thought ideal was embodied in the Officer's Creed pretty much.
So. My duty is to lead, to excel and to overcome. I lead my men by example, I answer for their training morale and discipline. I must excel in everything I do, I serve with pride, honour and integrity. I will overcome adversity with courage, fortitude and determination.
Unfortunately, the problem which I had been bashing through was akin to having to stop an armoured spearhead with a rifle. I mean, there's no one to lead, cos people aren't coming without excuses, I can't answer for the morale of those I'm supposed to lead cos I don't know how I'm supposed to solve my problem, which does not seem to be resolving despite all the courage, fortitude, determination, SMSes, emails or what not.
Having people acting... in a way which I thought was completely unfounded was the last straw I guess. Coupled with a lack of sleep in the past few days.
But let me confirm. I am not obsessed about this thing which I'm supposed to do... I mean, I'd much rather sleep late, go fencing, play Red Alert 2 and sort out all my documents for registration rather than travel halfway across Singapore. And I'd MUCH rather play badminton and stuff. Maybe you can call it a sense of duty. If no one gets it done then who will? And its the principle of the thing, not just because my backside is on the line.
This is a point of time when everything I've experienced in the above two fields will come in handy, but will also cause a heck of a lot of frustration why others can't do the same.
Oh well whatever. At least some people still help, and for that I'm exceedingly thankful =)
~JcZw~ at 8:47 pm
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
In the last two days, my bucket has accompanied me to the most incongruous places...
The UHWC, where the nurse giving me the Hep B booster gave me the "it won't hurt so much, you won't throw up" look... (That said, that injection was one of those when I forgot to relax my arm muscle, and it was the most painful one I've had since Pr. 6)
The MRT, from Buona Vista to Kembangan
The pasa malam at Bedok, thanks Jiayi for helping me carry... (Pushing through the crowd plus one-times bucket, red)
Parkway Parade
Parkway Parade's toilet (when people see you disappearing into a cubicle [in fact, for a reason no more unusual than changing into a more formal pair of pants] with a bucket, they assume the worst).
Well I may have had a decent chance at making a fashion statement "Carry BUCKETS instead of BAGS!" and all, but no thanks.
Anyway, rag's getting on nicely, though we could do with a few more people... Still, its quite fun (and today some of us were quite high also ahaha), and one doesn't have to think too much... Applied for tertiary EZ-link card too...
Oh well shall stop for here... More OG stuff and fencing tomorrow! Shall be conked out in 24 hours time...
The UHWC, where the nurse giving me the Hep B booster gave me the "it won't hurt so much, you won't throw up" look... (That said, that injection was one of those when I forgot to relax my arm muscle, and it was the most painful one I've had since Pr. 6)
The MRT, from Buona Vista to Kembangan
The pasa malam at Bedok, thanks Jiayi for helping me carry... (Pushing through the crowd plus one-times bucket, red)
Parkway Parade
Parkway Parade's toilet (when people see you disappearing into a cubicle [in fact, for a reason no more unusual than changing into a more formal pair of pants] with a bucket, they assume the worst).
Well I may have had a decent chance at making a fashion statement "Carry BUCKETS instead of BAGS!" and all, but no thanks.
Anyway, rag's getting on nicely, though we could do with a few more people... Still, its quite fun (and today some of us were quite high also ahaha), and one doesn't have to think too much... Applied for tertiary EZ-link card too...
Oh well shall stop for here... More OG stuff and fencing tomorrow! Shall be conked out in 24 hours time...
~JcZw~ at 9:41 pm
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Decisionss....
What to do during university? I mean, CCA.... Well, certainly there's VCF, but anything else? A few people asked me if I'm going to continue fencing... I'm definitely going to continue fencing, but whether its with NUS, KEVII or just FM remains to be seen... I mean, NUS and KEVII does foil, which I did for a good long while, but am not remarkably good at it... There came a time when I just became a little tooo epee =D though I retained some foil moves much to the disgust of my fellow epeeists...
Disgust, of course, cos it gave me an equal probability of hitting the front or flicking to the back during a match =DD More than one poor fellow out there has a bruise on his posterior from tangling CQC with the short fencer from VJ hoho...
Though I don't pretend to be an expert on CQC... I know at least 2 more epeeist who are MUCH faster than me, don't talk about the foilists also...
Ok digression... Anyway I'm not good with foil, and foil comps land on sundays when I have church =/ But maybe I'll just join recreationally?
Foil
Epee
Elegance versus practicality... The dream which I had long ago of joining the fencing national team is still there, but has become a slightly more secondary concern, what with a heck of a lot of medical studies in front of me... And its much harder (I think) to join the foil team than the epee team...
Of course, I should consider other CCAs, but its a little hard starting something from scratch... And again, my committment to AHSJAB (wow, looks like I'm NEVER going to forget about St. John!!!!)... I guess, anyway, since they gave me the extra crab I ought to be doing something =D Ok just joking...
Everything's hotting up everywhere... Fencing, St. John and uni. Looks like I'm going to be hard pressed to learn how to drive haha...
Meanwhile, I think for the moment I'm too lazy to EO the things marked TBEO in the last post... Just take it from me that it was very fun =D I'll probably recount them in some other post, like I've done for JC life...
Ok shall shove off back to... pre-school slacking pretty much... And looking forward to Rag Day prep, since its as much a family tradition for me as a job =D
What to do during university? I mean, CCA.... Well, certainly there's VCF, but anything else? A few people asked me if I'm going to continue fencing... I'm definitely going to continue fencing, but whether its with NUS, KEVII or just FM remains to be seen... I mean, NUS and KEVII does foil, which I did for a good long while, but am not remarkably good at it... There came a time when I just became a little tooo epee =D though I retained some foil moves much to the disgust of my fellow epeeists...
Disgust, of course, cos it gave me an equal probability of hitting the front or flicking to the back during a match =DD More than one poor fellow out there has a bruise on his posterior from tangling CQC with the short fencer from VJ hoho...
Though I don't pretend to be an expert on CQC... I know at least 2 more epeeist who are MUCH faster than me, don't talk about the foilists also...
Ok digression... Anyway I'm not good with foil, and foil comps land on sundays when I have church =/ But maybe I'll just join recreationally?
Foil
Epee
Elegance versus practicality... The dream which I had long ago of joining the fencing national team is still there, but has become a slightly more secondary concern, what with a heck of a lot of medical studies in front of me... And its much harder (I think) to join the foil team than the epee team...
Of course, I should consider other CCAs, but its a little hard starting something from scratch... And again, my committment to AHSJAB (wow, looks like I'm NEVER going to forget about St. John!!!!)... I guess, anyway, since they gave me the extra crab I ought to be doing something =D Ok just joking...
Everything's hotting up everywhere... Fencing, St. John and uni. Looks like I'm going to be hard pressed to learn how to drive haha...
Meanwhile, I think for the moment I'm too lazy to EO the things marked TBEO in the last post... Just take it from me that it was very fun =D I'll probably recount them in some other post, like I've done for JC life...
Ok shall shove off back to... pre-school slacking pretty much... And looking forward to Rag Day prep, since its as much a family tradition for me as a job =D
~JcZw~ at 4:03 pm
Friday, July 20, 2007
Am back from Medicamp!!
Though I think I slept less in Medicamp than I did for Section Field Camp in OCS, but unlike the latter case, I'm still quite high heheh so shall do a short update here.
Like all uni camps (or so I heard from my friends), it was DARN fun! Haha... My OG was really really good. I mean, its like Merlin in SJ HP 2002, Rodeo in VJ orientation - the very zai OG which is always very enthu, has a lot of great cheers, and wins a lot =D AND of course, had a very good bunch of people and OGLs =) Its the kinda group which, in the above mentioned House Programmes or orientations, I always wished I was part of. And then, for yet another time, it was dream to reality =)
Though it started out slowly lar.. My group, aside from another guy Moses from TJC, the rest were from RJ and HCI, so for the first few hours, the only really common ground I had was to talk to the other guys about army, which wears a bit thin after a while, and also when people started talking bout this teacher, that student or etc which I knew nuts about. But thank God that Jason Pek from KHS and fencing (albeit RJ fencing, but nevertheless, a fencer =D), as well as Alfred from Bronco was there so could talk to them also haha...
Oh n Edwin, an OGL who was from AHS (NCC) as well as TJC. Who took me under the proverbial wing as a AHS senior was well as fellow uniform group member haha... We could talk about stuff like AHS, the old principals, National Day Celebrations in school n etc.
But anyway, for all that, we quickly made friends lar... Its not to say I got left out or anything =) The OG's still a GREAT OG (otherwise, I wouldn't be darn high and writing a post at 12.46 in the morning...)
Highlights include (TBEO = to be elaborated on [maybe])
1. Amazing race on the first day, TBEO
2. Falling sick during amazing race, which left me with sore throat till the second last day, a running nose which was darn irritating, intermittent stomach aches, cough. Was quite irritated and worried cos I thought I was blowing a lot of chances of making friends cos during the games, like when they ask for volunteers n stuff, I would sometimes think, "sian *sniff* no mood *sniff cough*" etcetc both physically and mentally =( By the end of third day I had the squeaky voice which so many people like to hear haha... Still, the
3. Games were quite fun! Though some were certainly quite compromising as all uni camps are bound to be, but there was nothing too gross. Talk about bonding!! Haha... and all the cheering n stuff! TBEO
4. Fright night being cancelled before my group could run the gauntlet due to some reasons from higher authorities. Pity. Heard its a defining moment. But I guess the organizers had their reasons.
5. The food competition which was so funny and was also very fun to prepare (though it never occured to me that one of the rooms had a sticking lock like my room at home used to, and so shut and locked the door when the keys were inside...) I laughed so hard I nearly died heh at some of the performances =D TBEO
6. The bus incident on the fourth day which I shan't talk about
7. BBQ and Finale Night! Mass dance n all (so impressed that they actually came out with a mass dance. Its something which really gets people high. From Whiney whiney to now. Its really all the same thing and the same purpose =D) TBEO
8. Being Rag IC for Rag day. Yikes. I hope I don't foul up seriously. And hope I can juggle my time. My parents were happy but also warned me to remember to study. And intend to work my visual memory again to remember all the mandibles, clavicles, mastoids, adenoids, the -iums, -itises, -iuses and all that stuff. First Rag meeting tomorrow
9. Realising that my visual memory came from way back. Can still remember Jason's homephone number purely cos his number makes the fingers travel in a unique pattern =))
Well, getting tired already and its 1.30 am now. Goodnight and cheerio!
Though I think I slept less in Medicamp than I did for Section Field Camp in OCS, but unlike the latter case, I'm still quite high heheh so shall do a short update here.
Like all uni camps (or so I heard from my friends), it was DARN fun! Haha... My OG was really really good. I mean, its like Merlin in SJ HP 2002, Rodeo in VJ orientation - the very zai OG which is always very enthu, has a lot of great cheers, and wins a lot =D AND of course, had a very good bunch of people and OGLs =) Its the kinda group which, in the above mentioned House Programmes or orientations, I always wished I was part of. And then, for yet another time, it was dream to reality =)
Though it started out slowly lar.. My group, aside from another guy Moses from TJC, the rest were from RJ and HCI, so for the first few hours, the only really common ground I had was to talk to the other guys about army, which wears a bit thin after a while, and also when people started talking bout this teacher, that student or etc which I knew nuts about. But thank God that Jason Pek from KHS and fencing (albeit RJ fencing, but nevertheless, a fencer =D), as well as Alfred from Bronco was there so could talk to them also haha...
Oh n Edwin, an OGL who was from AHS (NCC) as well as TJC. Who took me under the proverbial wing as a AHS senior was well as fellow uniform group member haha... We could talk about stuff like AHS, the old principals, National Day Celebrations in school n etc.
But anyway, for all that, we quickly made friends lar... Its not to say I got left out or anything =) The OG's still a GREAT OG (otherwise, I wouldn't be darn high and writing a post at 12.46 in the morning...)
Highlights include (TBEO = to be elaborated on [maybe])
1. Amazing race on the first day, TBEO
2. Falling sick during amazing race, which left me with sore throat till the second last day, a running nose which was darn irritating, intermittent stomach aches, cough. Was quite irritated and worried cos I thought I was blowing a lot of chances of making friends cos during the games, like when they ask for volunteers n stuff, I would sometimes think, "sian *sniff* no mood *sniff cough*" etcetc both physically and mentally =( By the end of third day I had the squeaky voice which so many people like to hear haha... Still, the
3. Games were quite fun! Though some were certainly quite compromising as all uni camps are bound to be, but there was nothing too gross. Talk about bonding!! Haha... and all the cheering n stuff! TBEO
4. Fright night being cancelled before my group could run the gauntlet due to some reasons from higher authorities. Pity. Heard its a defining moment. But I guess the organizers had their reasons.
5. The food competition which was so funny and was also very fun to prepare (though it never occured to me that one of the rooms had a sticking lock like my room at home used to, and so shut and locked the door when the keys were inside...) I laughed so hard I nearly died heh at some of the performances =D TBEO
6. The bus incident on the fourth day which I shan't talk about
7. BBQ and Finale Night! Mass dance n all (so impressed that they actually came out with a mass dance. Its something which really gets people high. From Whiney whiney to now. Its really all the same thing and the same purpose =D) TBEO
8. Being Rag IC for Rag day. Yikes. I hope I don't foul up seriously. And hope I can juggle my time. My parents were happy but also warned me to remember to study. And intend to work my visual memory again to remember all the mandibles, clavicles, mastoids, adenoids, the -iums, -itises, -iuses and all that stuff. First Rag meeting tomorrow
9. Realising that my visual memory came from way back. Can still remember Jason's homephone number purely cos his number makes the fingers travel in a unique pattern =))
Well, getting tired already and its 1.30 am now. Goodnight and cheerio!
~JcZw~ at 12:46 am
Monday, July 16, 2007
NC (both instructors and members), it was only a week, but its been an honour =)
Hahah not that long ago Yiyang was training me as a blur, weak and squeaky-voiced cadet and now both of us are senior NCOs... And even not that long ago I was watching Soo Yee and Xuan Ming training their AC team, including Boon Kai (and Boon Kai's beret =D), not seldom tearing their hair out at their sometimes outrageous antics. Time flies man...
Am off to Medicamp. First event of the new school term hoho..
~JcZw~ at 12:09 am
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Felt very weird looking at my platoon's pictures from Brunei yesterday... its like, I'm not there not cos I wasn't in the picture but because I'm not even in the organization... And feeling a little detached is weird cos I thought I'd be jumping up and down happily that I'm out of army. I guess only uniform group people will know this kinda feeling.
I've got a black beret, but don't belong to armour heh.
Will be going to camp tomorrow but then again its not an army camp either haha.... Hopefully Medicamp won't be as tiring as Platoon Field Camp haha... At very least, at least we wouldn't have to put on camo =Pp
But am still bringing some relics from OCS days... Fork spoon and cup still labelled with red insulating tape, slippers still inside the ziploc bags, some socks, admin shorts, cos I don't have enough black shorts (cos my brother's using them for PE). Contemplated bringing my water bottle but I think it will cause an uproar...
Will be back on thursday afternoon and will probably conk out till friday. Then it'll be back to NUS for collection of Hep B results. Well, have nothing much to say... But thanks Liling, Joel and Jon Boon(s) for collectively inviting / escorting / guiding / entertaining me to / at the function yesterday =)
Life is like a package of cheese ball packets which have been left uneaten for too long. You never know which one has lao hong-ed until you eat it.
I've got a black beret, but don't belong to armour heh.
Will be going to camp tomorrow but then again its not an army camp either haha.... Hopefully Medicamp won't be as tiring as Platoon Field Camp haha... At very least, at least we wouldn't have to put on camo =Pp
But am still bringing some relics from OCS days... Fork spoon and cup still labelled with red insulating tape, slippers still inside the ziploc bags, some socks, admin shorts, cos I don't have enough black shorts (cos my brother's using them for PE). Contemplated bringing my water bottle but I think it will cause an uproar...
Will be back on thursday afternoon and will probably conk out till friday. Then it'll be back to NUS for collection of Hep B results. Well, have nothing much to say... But thanks Liling, Joel and Jon Boon(s) for collectively inviting / escorting / guiding / entertaining me to / at the function yesterday =)
Life is like a package of cheese ball packets which have been left uneaten for too long. You never know which one has lao hong-ed until you eat it.
~JcZw~ at 3:36 pm
Thursday, July 12, 2007
In all things medical, especially for doctors, is the phrase "First do no harm", or Primum non nocere in Latin. It means, sort of, that a doctor never does anything to harm the patient intentionally. Its something which we, or maybe just I, hold true as a first aider as well.
I remember telling my team once when I was an NCO that "everytime you make contact with a casualty, you risk injuring him more. The fact that you're a first aider lessens, but does not eliminate that chance". After all, you might displace a casualty's fractured shin even more when you're tying a figure-of-8 if you don't support the thing properly.
Maybe its a phrase which holds true not only in the physical treatment of a casualty, but in the handling of a person, or a group of people's situation. Or the way you talk to or advice someone. For the past week, after coming out from NS, after carrying on with fencing and St. John, I've had this feeling of "if I had done X instead of Y, then Z wouldn't have happened and group A of people wouldn't be feeling the way they're feeling". That's what my heart tells me. My head tells me that logically, there's no way you can make any drastic changes or improvements in, what, barely more than one week?
Or the feeling of "if I had said P, then the person wouldn't be feeling Q" and stuff, but "I don't know whether saying P is really making the person feel Q or whether its making the person feel R" and blahblah nuts I'm beginning to ramble.
Nuts being sensing instead of being intuitive. People think with their heads and hearts. I'm sometimes forced to follow gut feeling. And is it comfortable know that I'm following the instincts generated by a nervous impulse from my colon?
Oh heck. Don't know why I'm writing this either. Think sometimes, like always, I think too much. But compensating for a lack of intuition by thinking too much... well that just doesn't equate..
But anyway, it was nice to relieve some old and precious memories with Y. Li Ting today =) Ah sec 4 end year... a painful yet a very wonderful part of my life =)
I remember telling my team once when I was an NCO that "everytime you make contact with a casualty, you risk injuring him more. The fact that you're a first aider lessens, but does not eliminate that chance". After all, you might displace a casualty's fractured shin even more when you're tying a figure-of-8 if you don't support the thing properly.
Maybe its a phrase which holds true not only in the physical treatment of a casualty, but in the handling of a person, or a group of people's situation. Or the way you talk to or advice someone. For the past week, after coming out from NS, after carrying on with fencing and St. John, I've had this feeling of "if I had done X instead of Y, then Z wouldn't have happened and group A of people wouldn't be feeling the way they're feeling". That's what my heart tells me. My head tells me that logically, there's no way you can make any drastic changes or improvements in, what, barely more than one week?
Or the feeling of "if I had said P, then the person wouldn't be feeling Q" and stuff, but "I don't know whether saying P is really making the person feel Q or whether its making the person feel R" and blahblah nuts I'm beginning to ramble.
Nuts being sensing instead of being intuitive. People think with their heads and hearts. I'm sometimes forced to follow gut feeling. And is it comfortable know that I'm following the instincts generated by a nervous impulse from my colon?
Oh heck. Don't know why I'm writing this either. Think sometimes, like always, I think too much. But compensating for a lack of intuition by thinking too much... well that just doesn't equate..
But anyway, it was nice to relieve some old and precious memories with Y. Li Ting today =) Ah sec 4 end year... a painful yet a very wonderful part of my life =)
~JcZw~ at 10:54 pm
Ok Warning: This is gonna be another St. John-ified post...
Went to NUS for health screening today... They conclude that I don't have diabetes or blood in the urine or whatever, but Hep B screening will take a week so I'll be waiting till after Medi Camp.
But when I was called to be examined by the doctor, the doctor-in-question's name was "Dr Patrick Tan". And Lo and Behold! It was our Zone 2 surgeon! yikes!
First indication was when, instead of calling him "doctor", I called him "sir" haha...
Then mid way through the examination I confirmed he was who I thought he was cos I asked him "Sir, are you from SJAB". And he said something like, "Yes, wait! Anglican High! You're from Anglican High St. John!" quite cool.
He was very pleased that I could remember him training us in 2004 for N-comp, as well as going back in 2006 as a senior instructor, when he showed us all the magic tricks n stuff with his cards.
Anyway yea... it was a very pleasant encounter. Maybe next time somehow I'll go find him if I want to know how to go back to St. John as a volunteer doctor?
Next, went to AHS for some drill stuff. I-am-seriously-losing-my-grip of yelling at people... Not that I used to yell at people, cos as I mentioned, its a darn waste of time. But I hope I don't become too slack also... So far I think its cos my tolerance level is such that no one has made me want to blow my top yet.
(Contrary to popular belief, there HAS been at least a second time when I have yelled at a group of people besides Boon Kai's stunt with his beret and the toilet bowl of the Sec. 3 block..)
But usually only three things can hit my buttons.
1. Insubordination
2. Basic mistakes which can cost a casualty his life during training
3. AWOL-ing (which, thankfully, does not happen so much nowadays)
Of course, stuff like repeating the same mistakes, blur-ing during footdrill and stuff don't trigger me off so much, but time after time again can get a little tiresome as well. Oh well... Anyway by nature I'm not a very fierce person, which is why I'm supposed to be a very unique OC.. Not that I didn't maintain discipline, but I did so in a very unorthodox way? Plus the fact that I had Soo Yee to help me =D
Anyway pushed off to a very very tiring fencing training... And for the first time some girls stayed back for free fencing... And moreover, discovered that there are more St. John people than I thought in fencing! Me, ZiXian, Sun, Moses, and the treasurer Ren Ying. This proves my point that SJers tend to join martial arts in JC, having their instinct to kill and maim suppressed for too long =D Soo Yee, Evelyn, Joanne and Xuan Cheng being further cases in point.
Well shall stop here. Must settle tuition loan tomorrow.
And, welcome back from Brunei, to my platoon mates, plus my very tall fencing sparring partner haha =D
Went to NUS for health screening today... They conclude that I don't have diabetes or blood in the urine or whatever, but Hep B screening will take a week so I'll be waiting till after Medi Camp.
But when I was called to be examined by the doctor, the doctor-in-question's name was "Dr Patrick Tan". And Lo and Behold! It was our Zone 2 surgeon! yikes!
First indication was when, instead of calling him "doctor", I called him "sir" haha...
Then mid way through the examination I confirmed he was who I thought he was cos I asked him "Sir, are you from SJAB". And he said something like, "Yes, wait! Anglican High! You're from Anglican High St. John!" quite cool.
He was very pleased that I could remember him training us in 2004 for N-comp, as well as going back in 2006 as a senior instructor, when he showed us all the magic tricks n stuff with his cards.
Anyway yea... it was a very pleasant encounter. Maybe next time somehow I'll go find him if I want to know how to go back to St. John as a volunteer doctor?
Next, went to AHS for some drill stuff. I-am-seriously-losing-my-grip of yelling at people... Not that I used to yell at people, cos as I mentioned, its a darn waste of time. But I hope I don't become too slack also... So far I think its cos my tolerance level is such that no one has made me want to blow my top yet.
(Contrary to popular belief, there HAS been at least a second time when I have yelled at a group of people besides Boon Kai's stunt with his beret and the toilet bowl of the Sec. 3 block..)
But usually only three things can hit my buttons.
1. Insubordination
2. Basic mistakes which can cost a casualty his life during training
3. AWOL-ing (which, thankfully, does not happen so much nowadays)
Of course, stuff like repeating the same mistakes, blur-ing during footdrill and stuff don't trigger me off so much, but time after time again can get a little tiresome as well. Oh well... Anyway by nature I'm not a very fierce person, which is why I'm supposed to be a very unique OC.. Not that I didn't maintain discipline, but I did so in a very unorthodox way? Plus the fact that I had Soo Yee to help me =D
Anyway pushed off to a very very tiring fencing training... And for the first time some girls stayed back for free fencing... And moreover, discovered that there are more St. John people than I thought in fencing! Me, ZiXian, Sun, Moses, and the treasurer Ren Ying. This proves my point that SJers tend to join martial arts in JC, having their instinct to kill and maim suppressed for too long =D Soo Yee, Evelyn, Joanne and Xuan Cheng being further cases in point.
Well shall stop here. Must settle tuition loan tomorrow.
And, welcome back from Brunei, to my platoon mates, plus my very tall fencing sparring partner haha =D
~JcZw~ at 12:22 am
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
9th July 2007 was pretty insignificant in comparison to say, last year (when we were hopping about in an irritating drizzle at GuangYang Primary School trying to get to Bishan MRT on foot), cos most of it was spent sleeping. Slept at 1 am, woke at 1 pm (half a day gone already!!!) to find many many messages on my phone haha... oh and one birthday card.
Wait when I say insignificant doesn't mean its not important (I'll only get to turn 19 once!) but, in the sense that nothing extraordinary happened haha
Thanks a lot a lot to those who remembered!
At my birth time (6.04 pm, which makes me younger than a lot of 9/7 babies) I was watching Battlestar Galactica heh... That was prior to a very very nice dinner and cake courtesy of my grandmother =)
Can't help but think, if I hadn't disrupted from army, I would probably be celebrating my birthday in Brunei o_0
But anyway yea... Significant moment of the day? I confirmed my declination of the SAF Medical Scholarship.... Hope it was a right decision, but I felt that I wanted to be more of a practical rather than planning doctor? Sigh of course, I'll be passing up a lot of money, which would be useful to have around...
But Yiyang has presented me with a third alternative if I want an "exotic job": I can be a civilian doctor then go volunteer at St. John or something haha... Well I don't really know how the system works, but then I'll just see how it goes. As mentioned, I wish I could just stay and teach my juniors first aid and fencing for the rest of my life...
Well... of presents, I don't expect much. The National Comp results will keep me happy for a long long long time! But my parents are going to give me a new epee blade too since I'm going back to fencing already (starting from last week in fact).
Hmmm ok then, shall push off for now!
Wait when I say insignificant doesn't mean its not important (I'll only get to turn 19 once!) but, in the sense that nothing extraordinary happened haha
Thanks a lot a lot to those who remembered!
At my birth time (6.04 pm, which makes me younger than a lot of 9/7 babies) I was watching Battlestar Galactica heh... That was prior to a very very nice dinner and cake courtesy of my grandmother =)
Can't help but think, if I hadn't disrupted from army, I would probably be celebrating my birthday in Brunei o_0
But anyway yea... Significant moment of the day? I confirmed my declination of the SAF Medical Scholarship.... Hope it was a right decision, but I felt that I wanted to be more of a practical rather than planning doctor? Sigh of course, I'll be passing up a lot of money, which would be useful to have around...
But Yiyang has presented me with a third alternative if I want an "exotic job": I can be a civilian doctor then go volunteer at St. John or something haha... Well I don't really know how the system works, but then I'll just see how it goes. As mentioned, I wish I could just stay and teach my juniors first aid and fencing for the rest of my life...
Well... of presents, I don't expect much. The National Comp results will keep me happy for a long long long time! But my parents are going to give me a new epee blade too since I'm going back to fencing already (starting from last week in fact).
Hmmm ok then, shall push off for now!
~JcZw~ at 12:29 am
Monday, July 09, 2007
Heh... so thick-skinned... I had only come out for one and a half weeks, trained a couple of teams a couple (or triple) of times, and still turned out at N-comp as a NC instructor (albeit one who had appeared only very very recently), or rather, a NC shoe-polisher cum walking wikipedia.
House visiting was quite fun heh. Frankly, I never knew that Squad 4 '08 was such a hyperactive batch until these few weeks (I probably knew subconsciously but I hadn't seen it myself haha)... Somehow Wanling and Adeline's dogs both made beelines for me. According to the owners, it was because I smelt of cat o_0 But did some shoe polishing, a lot of recruiting for senior comm heheh, and a lot remeniscicing (spelling's probably wrong) about our past competitions hoho.. Darn fun... I haven't had so much fun in St. John since sec. 4 haha (though I think it could be cos it was relative to army =D)
Having slept an average of 3 1/3 hours over the past three days, I SLEPT THROUGH MY ALARM for the first time since before army started!! Cycled to AHS kicking myself for doing so and arrived but a half hour before departure... Haha I think it was really sweet (what a weird word for a guy to use) of the division to write all the cards to the different teams.. Watched the usual controlled scramble to gel nursings' hair, change out and etc...
Still, there was a kinda funny feeling when I left the teams on the bus to go to church. How many times had I experienced, or watched people experience this moment of competition day? As Junwei-sir had described when I was in sec. 2, it was "off to the battlefield", departure from the AA, from the point of no return and all that cliche rot.. For one moment, I wished that I had a second shot at going for N-comp myself hahaha =Pp I only can remember Gina and Siew Min waved and Wang Miao tossed a seated salute with his left hand which I returned, but I think some of the NAs did too, out of the corner of my eye...
Rejoined the division just before 1 pm after church. Missed NC's categories (darn!), but watched AC pull off a very slick long case, which one of my FAC friends, who was part of the crowd, described as "one of the better ones, if not the best". MingLe was absolutely superb at taking over and controlling the situation after Keith went down haha...
Then it was fighting fatigue until the results came out (Bixia kept jabbing my knee and applying pressure to my peripheral nerves to keep me awake). Then the amazing occured.
I watched with exhiliaration as NC swept best footdrill (so my assessment that their drill was "not bad" turned out to be right!), best homenursing, best first aid, best leader (HuiLing pulled it off!!!) and overall champion.
It was no surprise when AC got best in long case, but my heart stopped when they ALSO won champion that my mouth went slack for a second before I could start cheering hehe.
Similarly, a third thrill of adrenaline sent a kinda shiver (a good kinda shiver) down my spine, when W. Li Ting got best leader for a second year running! Apparently girls aren't that good shoe polishers but are daaarrrrnnn good leaders haha (ok joking =Pp), and her team finally found their elusive National Competition Overall Champion too!
AA found itself in a similar situation to my team in '04. Best in footdrill and TOC (my team didn't even get best in TOC!), but not ranked among the top three. Yet, it was a credible performance and also one which they can be proud of too =)
4 paragraphs cannot do justice to the emotions and joys of watching my juniors dancing around hugging each other, some crying tears of happiness. For myself, this was something different - the ghosts of 2004 had gone and I watched Crystal happily exclaim her relief and contentment of the result, for the first time in three years, without feeling any pangs of regret or sadness (Later on, it was also the first time I could talk about 2004 to my juniors [AC and NC specifically] without any bitterness). We sang the school song (I sang a mix of the old and new ones) and expended our tiny repertoire of cheers haha...
Wei Lun called shortly after and we had a long long conversation about competitions, and all our memories, as well as a bit of army stuff haha.... But it was enough to blow my battery to half charge hoho... But his feelings were about the same as mine: Amazement, jubilation, congratulations and all
Also met many of my FAC friends.... Qiao Ping, Pearl Ning, Chee Hoe and JianLi notably at the N-comp. The second- and latter-mentioned both sent their congratulations to my cadets as well! (Very sporting of them!)
Had celebratory dinner in Bishan, talked to my juniors in turn, and then played Captains' Toilet Roll (that's captain's ball using a toilet roll). I'm a lousy catcher heh much to Adeline's disgust before pushing off with my juniors home via MRT
But I cannot stress how great today felt!
It was a great end to one of the happiest SJ weeks of my life! Like watching these once-again fully committed teams coming to school complete with casualties, first aid kits and an attitude of wanting to learn finally earning their just desserts.
It was a day of re-achieving a record three championships never attained since 1998.
It was a day of catharsis for myself, that AHS had finally reached back to where it should have been and always should be.
It was a day when I completely threw out any inkling of a decision to leave the division for good (so made since W. Li Ting's batch was the last one which had been under my direct command), and reconfirmed my decision to continue with St. John for at least one more year! Such has been the honour of training such outstanding juniors (true, they may have recovered late, but better late than never)
It was the end of a week where I had established new friendships with juniors I had never really talked to until one fine day, in the middle of social night, Yiyang had messaged me to recall me to AHSJAB =)
Watching Crystal and Y. Li Ting dancing around in happiness, Gina running around taking pictures, W Li Ting and team posing with their trophies, Kok Keng and team shaking their heads in amazement with smiles on their faces, the Squad 2s and 3s jumping up and down screaming their jubilation, everyone indulging in a good old game of Captains' Ball (or toilet roll)... It was a scenario I had always pictured having, but never witnessed in real life.
A person could never have hoped for a better group of friends, or a better birthday present from his division =))
Will put up pictures if any in the near future. But for now, cheerio and sweet dreams. And well done! AHSJAB!
House visiting was quite fun heh. Frankly, I never knew that Squad 4 '08 was such a hyperactive batch until these few weeks (I probably knew subconsciously but I hadn't seen it myself haha)... Somehow Wanling and Adeline's dogs both made beelines for me. According to the owners, it was because I smelt of cat o_0 But did some shoe polishing, a lot of recruiting for senior comm heheh, and a lot remeniscicing (spelling's probably wrong) about our past competitions hoho.. Darn fun... I haven't had so much fun in St. John since sec. 4 haha (though I think it could be cos it was relative to army =D)
Having slept an average of 3 1/3 hours over the past three days, I SLEPT THROUGH MY ALARM for the first time since before army started!! Cycled to AHS kicking myself for doing so and arrived but a half hour before departure... Haha I think it was really sweet (what a weird word for a guy to use) of the division to write all the cards to the different teams.. Watched the usual controlled scramble to gel nursings' hair, change out and etc...
Still, there was a kinda funny feeling when I left the teams on the bus to go to church. How many times had I experienced, or watched people experience this moment of competition day? As Junwei-sir had described when I was in sec. 2, it was "off to the battlefield", departure from the AA, from the point of no return and all that cliche rot.. For one moment, I wished that I had a second shot at going for N-comp myself hahaha =Pp I only can remember Gina and Siew Min waved and Wang Miao tossed a seated salute with his left hand which I returned, but I think some of the NAs did too, out of the corner of my eye...
Rejoined the division just before 1 pm after church. Missed NC's categories (darn!), but watched AC pull off a very slick long case, which one of my FAC friends, who was part of the crowd, described as "one of the better ones, if not the best". MingLe was absolutely superb at taking over and controlling the situation after Keith went down haha...
Then it was fighting fatigue until the results came out (Bixia kept jabbing my knee and applying pressure to my peripheral nerves to keep me awake). Then the amazing occured.
I watched with exhiliaration as NC swept best footdrill (so my assessment that their drill was "not bad" turned out to be right!), best homenursing, best first aid, best leader (HuiLing pulled it off!!!) and overall champion.
It was no surprise when AC got best in long case, but my heart stopped when they ALSO won champion that my mouth went slack for a second before I could start cheering hehe.
Similarly, a third thrill of adrenaline sent a kinda shiver (a good kinda shiver) down my spine, when W. Li Ting got best leader for a second year running! Apparently girls aren't that good shoe polishers but are daaarrrrnnn good leaders haha (ok joking =Pp), and her team finally found their elusive National Competition Overall Champion too!
AA found itself in a similar situation to my team in '04. Best in footdrill and TOC (my team didn't even get best in TOC!), but not ranked among the top three. Yet, it was a credible performance and also one which they can be proud of too =)
4 paragraphs cannot do justice to the emotions and joys of watching my juniors dancing around hugging each other, some crying tears of happiness. For myself, this was something different - the ghosts of 2004 had gone and I watched Crystal happily exclaim her relief and contentment of the result, for the first time in three years, without feeling any pangs of regret or sadness (Later on, it was also the first time I could talk about 2004 to my juniors [AC and NC specifically] without any bitterness). We sang the school song (I sang a mix of the old and new ones) and expended our tiny repertoire of cheers haha...
Wei Lun called shortly after and we had a long long conversation about competitions, and all our memories, as well as a bit of army stuff haha.... But it was enough to blow my battery to half charge hoho... But his feelings were about the same as mine: Amazement, jubilation, congratulations and all
Also met many of my FAC friends.... Qiao Ping, Pearl Ning, Chee Hoe and JianLi notably at the N-comp. The second- and latter-mentioned both sent their congratulations to my cadets as well! (Very sporting of them!)
Had celebratory dinner in Bishan, talked to my juniors in turn, and then played Captains' Toilet Roll (that's captain's ball using a toilet roll). I'm a lousy catcher heh much to Adeline's disgust before pushing off with my juniors home via MRT
But I cannot stress how great today felt!
It was a great end to one of the happiest SJ weeks of my life! Like watching these once-again fully committed teams coming to school complete with casualties, first aid kits and an attitude of wanting to learn finally earning their just desserts.
It was a day of re-achieving a record three championships never attained since 1998.
It was a day of catharsis for myself, that AHS had finally reached back to where it should have been and always should be.
It was a day when I completely threw out any inkling of a decision to leave the division for good (so made since W. Li Ting's batch was the last one which had been under my direct command), and reconfirmed my decision to continue with St. John for at least one more year! Such has been the honour of training such outstanding juniors (true, they may have recovered late, but better late than never)
It was the end of a week where I had established new friendships with juniors I had never really talked to until one fine day, in the middle of social night, Yiyang had messaged me to recall me to AHSJAB =)
Watching Crystal and Y. Li Ting dancing around in happiness, Gina running around taking pictures, W Li Ting and team posing with their trophies, Kok Keng and team shaking their heads in amazement with smiles on their faces, the Squad 2s and 3s jumping up and down screaming their jubilation, everyone indulging in a good old game of Captains' Ball (or toilet roll)... It was a scenario I had always pictured having, but never witnessed in real life.
A person could never have hoped for a better group of friends, or a better birthday present from his division =))
Will put up pictures if any in the near future. But for now, cheerio and sweet dreams. And well done! AHSJAB!
~JcZw~ at 12:00 am
Friday, July 06, 2007
Heheh had a THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE (if very tiring day) day today...
Woke up super early to go with my brother to VJ, before catching a lift to Dover MRT on the way to my father's work place so that I could get to Boon Lay, SAFTI MI, and finally collect my field pack.
Met my platoon commander there too. He reminds me of Captain Willis in the book "The Hill", about Hill 875 (I think) in the Vietnam War, both in terms of leadership as well as size haha... Quite cool... like having a platoon commander in the book coming to life actually...
Got home, had lunch, blew up three enemy bases in Red Alert 2 (Fantastic using 36 Harriers hoho), then rushed off to St. John
Actually, for all the tedium, St. John was pretty fun today... It was kinda a break teaching the little sec 1s footdrill... Instead of all the tension of competition and all? Though I can't say the footdrill standard's as good as it used to be, but at least can see that they're trying (dunno whether cos they're motivated or cos they're scared of me haha).
Then rushed off to fencing at VJ, did footwork outside the PT, where the floor's darn slippery... And Jon Boon and I were suaning each other about the other party's height, or rather, the lack of it, throughout the whole thing.. But he was bouncing around with so much energy and I was like dying haha.... Well... in the army they said there was "combat fitness" and "physical fitness". Now may I add that there also appears to be "fencing fitness"... Anyway on wednesday, there were 3 girls and 8 guys, then today there was 3 guys and 6 girls so I STILL don't know the new configuration of the fencing team!
Then rushed BACK to AHS (My total transportation bill of the day was like $6 man!!!!) to do somemore training until 8 plus plus...
Well all in all, today was kinda "meet the juniors day, and teach them stuff also", which was something I was very happy doing haha.... Since got to know quite a lot of new people. Hopefully still will be able to help out in the future...
Oh yar! And I have one junior in fencing who's younger sister is my junior in AHSJAB! How cool is that!
Woke up super early to go with my brother to VJ, before catching a lift to Dover MRT on the way to my father's work place so that I could get to Boon Lay, SAFTI MI, and finally collect my field pack.
Met my platoon commander there too. He reminds me of Captain Willis in the book "The Hill", about Hill 875 (I think) in the Vietnam War, both in terms of leadership as well as size haha... Quite cool... like having a platoon commander in the book coming to life actually...
Got home, had lunch, blew up three enemy bases in Red Alert 2 (Fantastic using 36 Harriers hoho), then rushed off to St. John
Actually, for all the tedium, St. John was pretty fun today... It was kinda a break teaching the little sec 1s footdrill... Instead of all the tension of competition and all? Though I can't say the footdrill standard's as good as it used to be, but at least can see that they're trying (dunno whether cos they're motivated or cos they're scared of me haha).
Then rushed off to fencing at VJ, did footwork outside the PT, where the floor's darn slippery... And Jon Boon and I were suaning each other about the other party's height, or rather, the lack of it, throughout the whole thing.. But he was bouncing around with so much energy and I was like dying haha.... Well... in the army they said there was "combat fitness" and "physical fitness". Now may I add that there also appears to be "fencing fitness"... Anyway on wednesday, there were 3 girls and 8 guys, then today there was 3 guys and 6 girls so I STILL don't know the new configuration of the fencing team!
Then rushed BACK to AHS (My total transportation bill of the day was like $6 man!!!!) to do somemore training until 8 plus plus...
Well all in all, today was kinda "meet the juniors day, and teach them stuff also", which was something I was very happy doing haha.... Since got to know quite a lot of new people. Hopefully still will be able to help out in the future...
Oh yar! And I have one junior in fencing who's younger sister is my junior in AHSJAB! How cool is that!
~JcZw~ at 9:50 pm
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Its been an interesting few days...
Been posted to train the Nursing Cadet team for N-comp in their last week (assignment by Yiyang within 24 hours of getting my pink IC back!), but don't think I really have time to make an impact =/ Hmmm trained NA as well when NC was doing home nursing. So had some fun working with the NA juniors, whom I last trained in.... oh I think it was year 1 or something? haha... Long long long time... Then had my first St. John dinner for a very long time as well, eating ba chor mee at block 85... Haha but as I mentioned, my perception of "good footdrill" has been dulled by the army; all drill is good compared to the SAF! (well, outside the provost PDS)
Fencing with VJ yesterday! Nice to fence with Jon Boon again especially... Everyone's improved and I'm so rusty haha... But still managed to do one close quarter flick on a fleche-ing Jon Boon which I'm highly satisfied with haha... The Year 1s were also pretty friendly... We were all on first name terms by the time the session dismissed... Hopefully, HOPEFULLY some will be committed enough to be as crazy as Maurice, me and Co. and stay back to fence everyone and anyone haha... Oh yea... there are enough girls to make up a girls' team as well now! Boon has invited me to come n do PT with them tomorrow which I probably will...
And finally, went out with Enjie today! What started out as an invitation to "catch up over dinner" eventually led to us watching Die Hard 4 (which we laughed a lot at several parts, the movie was soooooo improbable! But that was what made it fun to watch hahah)... We learnt that:
a) Male caucasian bodies and
b) Female asian bodies
seem impervious to fire, cold, impact, sharp objects, cars travelling at high speed, falls from height and what not... in such a movie... Man... I wouldn't think too much for the Bruce Willis' survival in real life =D
but, as I said, that's what made it fun to watch... Just sit back and don't even need to think...
Had dinner... walked around... learnt that being an MP is like *whoa* (can't say here, might get hauled in by ISA, but bear in mind these are the thoughts of a [senior] officer cadet)... But some of the stuff he learns is quite interesting! Oh most importantly we talked a lot.... Of course, a lot bout army, but also our class, how we missed VJ, even how we missed mugging hahaa.. (Yes! We miss mugging!)... But anyway, many thanks Enjie for saving my eyes from playing too much Red Alert 2...
Added later by edit: We also noticed, ok, I also noticed that there were a lot of RJ-ACJC groups of people walking around... Like, through the outing I think I saw at least 4 groups of people, both boys and girls, consisting of a mix from these two JCs... Its like it was RJ-go-out-with-ACJC day or something... On the other hand, it could be the same group, or fragments of the same group which I kept seeing... though I doubt they could cover ground as fast as us haha...
Also saw a group of students come clattering into the cinema rather noisily a few minutes after the movie started... Though instead of being annoyed, Enjie laughed softly and said something about how much they were like what our class used to be =D
Well anyway gotta go... Have found a marvellous new channel on TV to watch... Called the History Channel (something like Discovery or National Geographic), it has many great documentaries... There's one now about snipers which is super interesting hehe... Cheers!
Been posted to train the Nursing Cadet team for N-comp in their last week (assignment by Yiyang within 24 hours of getting my pink IC back!), but don't think I really have time to make an impact =/ Hmmm trained NA as well when NC was doing home nursing. So had some fun working with the NA juniors, whom I last trained in.... oh I think it was year 1 or something? haha... Long long long time... Then had my first St. John dinner for a very long time as well, eating ba chor mee at block 85... Haha but as I mentioned, my perception of "good footdrill" has been dulled by the army; all drill is good compared to the SAF! (well, outside the provost PDS)
Fencing with VJ yesterday! Nice to fence with Jon Boon again especially... Everyone's improved and I'm so rusty haha... But still managed to do one close quarter flick on a fleche-ing Jon Boon which I'm highly satisfied with haha... The Year 1s were also pretty friendly... We were all on first name terms by the time the session dismissed... Hopefully, HOPEFULLY some will be committed enough to be as crazy as Maurice, me and Co. and stay back to fence everyone and anyone haha... Oh yea... there are enough girls to make up a girls' team as well now! Boon has invited me to come n do PT with them tomorrow which I probably will...
And finally, went out with Enjie today! What started out as an invitation to "catch up over dinner" eventually led to us watching Die Hard 4 (which we laughed a lot at several parts, the movie was soooooo improbable! But that was what made it fun to watch hahah)... We learnt that:
a) Male caucasian bodies and
b) Female asian bodies
seem impervious to fire, cold, impact, sharp objects, cars travelling at high speed, falls from height and what not... in such a movie... Man... I wouldn't think too much for the Bruce Willis' survival in real life =D
but, as I said, that's what made it fun to watch... Just sit back and don't even need to think...
Had dinner... walked around... learnt that being an MP is like *whoa* (can't say here, might get hauled in by ISA, but bear in mind these are the thoughts of a [senior] officer cadet)... But some of the stuff he learns is quite interesting! Oh most importantly we talked a lot.... Of course, a lot bout army, but also our class, how we missed VJ, even how we missed mugging hahaa.. (Yes! We miss mugging!)... But anyway, many thanks Enjie for saving my eyes from playing too much Red Alert 2...
Added later by edit: We also noticed, ok, I also noticed that there were a lot of RJ-ACJC groups of people walking around... Like, through the outing I think I saw at least 4 groups of people, both boys and girls, consisting of a mix from these two JCs... Its like it was RJ-go-out-with-ACJC day or something... On the other hand, it could be the same group, or fragments of the same group which I kept seeing... though I doubt they could cover ground as fast as us haha...
Also saw a group of students come clattering into the cinema rather noisily a few minutes after the movie started... Though instead of being annoyed, Enjie laughed softly and said something about how much they were like what our class used to be =D
Well anyway gotta go... Have found a marvellous new channel on TV to watch... Called the History Channel (something like Discovery or National Geographic), it has many great documentaries... There's one now about snipers which is super interesting hehe... Cheers!
~JcZw~ at 11:11 pm
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Heh just read FM's website... Didn't know that VJ Fencing got third for team event in Under 17 =)
Sigh but the news I get from reading or hearing bout VJ's fencing team just depresses me sometimes. With the departure of my batch and Mrs Chan-the-principal who was just beginning to support us a bit, everything's gone back to worst that square 1... Now my juniors can't even register for some competitions under VJ's name cos ahem the teachers-in-charge cannot go down to support. Like what???
I mean, so what if we're jumping into competitions over our head? We were the only JC who's present members registered for FSI and willingly fenced a team from the Indian Army at SMU last year and lost 35-45 but it was still a marvellously fun experience hahah.. You won't get better by just fencing people from other JCs!! Just like all the best crossers, water polo players and soccer players also come from say, the junior national teams and blahblah cos they get much better exposure outside!
Not that it was fun getting our collective backside kicked by fencers from Thailand, Korea (heheh kim chi style!), Malaysia, Kuwait and etcetc, but its an experience! At very least it shows you where you stand and how much more you have to go (you can't win A-division and be happy with merely that!)
Sigh... but the abandonement of a CCA (or "abandonment", to be more politically correct) by the teacher seems to be near fatal doesn't it? I for myself don't know what's going wrong. When we left VJ I thought things were pretty good already... Maurice, Daniel and I seemed to have put on a credible show, we had sweated and bled (the bloodstains on the inside of my tracks haven't gone away and neither have the scars on my knees) for what we were rewarded with as much as any other CCA.
Yet during competitions VJ STILL gets out-cheered by any other institution, whether JC, ITE or university, and VJ NEVER EVER gets out-cheered!!
And no, leadership by the student leader can only go so far. All the commitment in the world won't get you anywhere when you're not recognized by the school, or your own teacher-in-charge.
And I can write this with a clear conscience cos I'm no longer a student heheh.
So there you go. As the cliche goes, I though we could "leave a lasting legacy", but apparently, when forces unravel and cover up your legacy as fast as you make it, everything's for naught.
Sigh but the news I get from reading or hearing bout VJ's fencing team just depresses me sometimes. With the departure of my batch and Mrs Chan-the-principal who was just beginning to support us a bit, everything's gone back to worst that square 1... Now my juniors can't even register for some competitions under VJ's name cos ahem the teachers-in-charge cannot go down to support. Like what???
I mean, so what if we're jumping into competitions over our head? We were the only JC who's present members registered for FSI and willingly fenced a team from the Indian Army at SMU last year and lost 35-45 but it was still a marvellously fun experience hahah.. You won't get better by just fencing people from other JCs!! Just like all the best crossers, water polo players and soccer players also come from say, the junior national teams and blahblah cos they get much better exposure outside!
Not that it was fun getting our collective backside kicked by fencers from Thailand, Korea (heheh kim chi style!), Malaysia, Kuwait and etcetc, but its an experience! At very least it shows you where you stand and how much more you have to go (you can't win A-division and be happy with merely that!)
Sigh... but the abandonement of a CCA (or "abandonment", to be more politically correct) by the teacher seems to be near fatal doesn't it? I for myself don't know what's going wrong. When we left VJ I thought things were pretty good already... Maurice, Daniel and I seemed to have put on a credible show, we had sweated and bled (the bloodstains on the inside of my tracks haven't gone away and neither have the scars on my knees) for what we were rewarded with as much as any other CCA.
Yet during competitions VJ STILL gets out-cheered by any other institution, whether JC, ITE or university, and VJ NEVER EVER gets out-cheered!!
And no, leadership by the student leader can only go so far. All the commitment in the world won't get you anywhere when you're not recognized by the school, or your own teacher-in-charge.
And I can write this with a clear conscience cos I'm no longer a student heheh.
So there you go. As the cliche goes, I though we could "leave a lasting legacy", but apparently, when forces unravel and cover up your legacy as fast as you make it, everything's for naught.
~JcZw~ at 11:47 am
Monday, July 02, 2007
Am officially a civilian once again, complete with pink IC and all... Cost me almost $50 in taxi fares to make trips between SAFTI MI, Nee Soon Camp and CMPB to get everything settled, but thank goodness everything went smoothly...
Social night was the last event for Tango Wing... Met with my friends for perhaps the last time for quite a while... Its funny though... Army was something which I didn't completely like.. Though training was always fun if we weren't getting tekan-ed, I hated the feeling of always looking at your watch waiting for the next book in and what not... Yet, with my friends having departed to Brunei a couple of minutes ago, part of me feels like joining them, as I had when I first gotten my disruption notice.
So what does one say about those with which one would have fought if there had been a war?
Kenny: My buddy and a complete foil to my character (cheerful versus morose, calm versus gan jiong so on and so forth haha). Thanks so much for the last 14 weeks... I guess living with someone in the same room for so long does give a friendship like no other huh? Haha... The fastest runner in the wing, many were the times when he left me in the dust during IPPT training or endurance runs. How we would argue about what military symbol was what, whether Chinese or English songs were better. How I slammed the cover of the GPMG onto his thumb by accident and nearly caused a casualty haha... How we shivered together at night during Platoon field Camp, but always managed to share at least the same groundsheet or patch of ground. Hard to imagine life without such a buddy eh? haha... I could write a whole post bout my buddy (just as I could, probably, about my teammates from SJ), but not now..
Peng Fei: Who joined us after CLM. He replaced Bertram as Section Commander, but boy was he capable. Thank you for always coming to check that my LAW or radio set hadn't slipped my vertebrate and offering to carry stuff for me =) Just looking out for our welfare in general and always supplying your mess mug to drink from during field camps haha. It was always a comfort when he was in charge cos he just did things so well. He really deserved being second best cadet in the wing =)
Eric: Whom I initally thought was such a good boy haha especially with him being one year younger than us! And he turned out to be the one who would creep into my room at night to scare me, or to come and armlock my head when I was using my computer haha... Nevertheless, also a capable worker and a great comfort to have around when things got sticky. Will always remember his smoke grenade at section field camp...
Marvin: Who reminded me of Marvin the Paranoid Android in Hitchikers guide haha... Marvin and Eric always reminded me also of Hobbie Klivian and Wes Janson respectively from the star wars universe... Will always remember him coming to wake Kenny and I up at night during PFC much to our consternation haha
Ben Chen: Who looks so much like me, especially with camo and helmet on that everyone kept calling both of us wrongly haha... So hardworking and always putting the rest of us to shame haha... Will remember how he directed us to throw six smoke grenades up the hill... which promptly rolled back down and exploded in front of us =Pp
Zhenrong: Who liked to walk about in various states of undress back in wingline, but a reliable worker with such a great sense of humour which I'll miss... He and his imitation of Wing SM can kill literally! He n Daniel Hap kept us all awake during patrol field camp with their antics through the day! But a strong work ethic and being such a good leader meant that being third best in the wing's well deserved!
Of course, also miss Jeremy, Kanan and Hap who OOCed due to injury, as well as the SISPEC crossees who proved themselves in the mud and rain of PFC as well..
Like Zhenrong once mentioned, though I think he may not remember, "If there was a war I would have trusted all of your equally". We've done a lot together yes? CASEVAC, the field camps, the live-fires and all... Seeing each other go through gruelling leadership appointments and etc, all culminating and summarized in the course video shown on social night =)
Its time to prepare for orientation, university and so on... And the Chief of Medical Corps has asked me to reconsider my rejecting the scholarship.... He told us even more good things bout it, but I also know even more bad things bout it, so now i'm just even more confused!! ArghH!!
Welll the post is beginning to become a little disjointed now, so i'll stop here first... Regards!
Social night was the last event for Tango Wing... Met with my friends for perhaps the last time for quite a while... Its funny though... Army was something which I didn't completely like.. Though training was always fun if we weren't getting tekan-ed, I hated the feeling of always looking at your watch waiting for the next book in and what not... Yet, with my friends having departed to Brunei a couple of minutes ago, part of me feels like joining them, as I had when I first gotten my disruption notice.
So what does one say about those with which one would have fought if there had been a war?
Kenny: My buddy and a complete foil to my character (cheerful versus morose, calm versus gan jiong so on and so forth haha). Thanks so much for the last 14 weeks... I guess living with someone in the same room for so long does give a friendship like no other huh? Haha... The fastest runner in the wing, many were the times when he left me in the dust during IPPT training or endurance runs. How we would argue about what military symbol was what, whether Chinese or English songs were better. How I slammed the cover of the GPMG onto his thumb by accident and nearly caused a casualty haha... How we shivered together at night during Platoon field Camp, but always managed to share at least the same groundsheet or patch of ground. Hard to imagine life without such a buddy eh? haha... I could write a whole post bout my buddy (just as I could, probably, about my teammates from SJ), but not now..
Peng Fei: Who joined us after CLM. He replaced Bertram as Section Commander, but boy was he capable. Thank you for always coming to check that my LAW or radio set hadn't slipped my vertebrate and offering to carry stuff for me =) Just looking out for our welfare in general and always supplying your mess mug to drink from during field camps haha. It was always a comfort when he was in charge cos he just did things so well. He really deserved being second best cadet in the wing =)
Eric: Whom I initally thought was such a good boy haha especially with him being one year younger than us! And he turned out to be the one who would creep into my room at night to scare me, or to come and armlock my head when I was using my computer haha... Nevertheless, also a capable worker and a great comfort to have around when things got sticky. Will always remember his smoke grenade at section field camp...
Marvin: Who reminded me of Marvin the Paranoid Android in Hitchikers guide haha... Marvin and Eric always reminded me also of Hobbie Klivian and Wes Janson respectively from the star wars universe... Will always remember him coming to wake Kenny and I up at night during PFC much to our consternation haha
Ben Chen: Who looks so much like me, especially with camo and helmet on that everyone kept calling both of us wrongly haha... So hardworking and always putting the rest of us to shame haha... Will remember how he directed us to throw six smoke grenades up the hill... which promptly rolled back down and exploded in front of us =Pp
Zhenrong: Who liked to walk about in various states of undress back in wingline, but a reliable worker with such a great sense of humour which I'll miss... He and his imitation of Wing SM can kill literally! He n Daniel Hap kept us all awake during patrol field camp with their antics through the day! But a strong work ethic and being such a good leader meant that being third best in the wing's well deserved!
Of course, also miss Jeremy, Kanan and Hap who OOCed due to injury, as well as the SISPEC crossees who proved themselves in the mud and rain of PFC as well..
Like Zhenrong once mentioned, though I think he may not remember, "If there was a war I would have trusted all of your equally". We've done a lot together yes? CASEVAC, the field camps, the live-fires and all... Seeing each other go through gruelling leadership appointments and etc, all culminating and summarized in the course video shown on social night =)
Its time to prepare for orientation, university and so on... And the Chief of Medical Corps has asked me to reconsider my rejecting the scholarship.... He told us even more good things bout it, but I also know even more bad things bout it, so now i'm just even more confused!! ArghH!!
Welll the post is beginning to become a little disjointed now, so i'll stop here first... Regards!
~JcZw~ at 12:02 am