okay. i know is not the best time to blog now. wonder why did i stay up so late. well, who knows? maybe some will draw some conclusions, some will simply just don't bother. i don't know.
sidetrack a bit. just want to say that today (11th june) when i took my house the feeder bus to interchange, i saw one girl wearing this year's cat high sec 3 camp shirt?! o.O since when our sec 3 have girls ah? well maybe... some may know, just another councillor. he's so famous. okay never mind.
well, just finished reading john lau's latest blog post on our 4 years of CHS NCC Air. well in fact when he told me he was typing all that, i was waiting for it actually. i just still remember how i wish i had not came into cat high at all. how i used to say, if not for NCC Air, i would have ask to be transferred long ago. yes. till now, that very sentence still applies. but as it goes on, there are other pull factors as well that made me remained in cat high. maybe one reason was that i was too lazy to transfer? xP as for other reasons maybe i left till the day i graduate then say.
okay back to the point. i guess i'm one of the few (or i may be the only one, being real optimistic here) that actually selected NCC Air as my CCA, not randomly. i was looking for a UG to join and choose NCC Air since the uniform looks nicer. Haha.
still remember vaguely i was posted into alpha platoon along with then IC Guilbert. well i only actually remember him vividly. why? cause he was damn funny during the platoon ice-breakers (i suppose), doing all the pole dancing and stuff. then we really got to interact. that's the reason why i suggested to have a platoon cohesion for this year's annual camp. how well it worked? i am absolutely oblivious cause i was having my SS mass lecture when the even took place.
back to senior Guilbert. we had games like soccer then, and scouts had their towers up on the track. he was the one who ran right into a collision with the poles. scouts' towers are strong. why? the tower didn't even move but he ended up with a big blue black. LOL.
another incident mentioned by john lau which i wish to correct a little. he said, " Then just a few trainings before POP, Senior Joseph did not know what to do during a section of one training. Thus, he recommended games. Yet, Sir Qin Xue disapproved. He just pumped Senior. 50. At that time, it was a lot in our opinions. We could barely do 5, much less 50. "
well. i had a vivid memory on that. it was actually Sir Qin Xue wanted us to improve on our drills. he didn't told us. so he let us sit at the grandstand there to slack. then came Sir Qin Xue out from the fall in area and straight to him. he blasted off at him for letting us to slack and left him waiting so long at the fall in area. he just knocked senior joseph down 50. and we went in to fall in area. drills, of course.
senior came in with a smile and said no kicks. we were all like waa. now for me 50 of course is no kicks, but then, 50 was an astronomical amount. i think by that, he had all, or maybe most of kept in awe for him. he didn't need to let us slack, but he did, and he got pumped instead.
talking about sir qin xue reminded me about the time he came when we were testing out the sizes of no. 4; boots, top, bottom and so on. the noise we created were as if we were in a wet market. so sir qin xue shouted company diam! well, at the time i obviously had absolutely zero knowledge of what diam is. so i choose to put down the no. 4 boots i'm holding and i got scolded by him, "diam can put down boots arh!" oh yea. not forgetting the 50 pumpings we had as 见面礼 from him in our 1st annual camp.
i think i briefly talked about sir qin xue in the post after this year's POP, 11th april's post. our first annual camp. i could only remember the PT part of it. totally tough. with our 1st ever hell night that was really hell compared to the hell night we gave as NCOs, and PT the last morning even after the hell night. that was the first time i fall out i think. it was raining still. 20 men flight became 6 men i think. my stomach empty. i sound so like a pig. =X
oh yea. senior Benjamin. our Part Bs'06 UDI. he was a great UDI. somehow my fellow NCOs '07-'08 said i'm some sort like him. he's just great. his studies were well. he got into RJC right? yet his ability to take us as a UDI was simply marvelous. i think most of us totally respect him. it would be great if i can be like him. studies should be no way yet. Haha.
he selected me for school's NDP'06. being how short i was then, it seems rather weird marching in the contingent with the other tall NCOs then. i couldn't remember who else was selected as well. at that time our school basically had no tennis court yet. had no band as well, cause they went for some competition. but no 1 cock up, not like last year when i wasn't in. =P that was when i learnt all the chim drills.
that's more or less in sec 1 only. seriously, there's just too many to type. too many memories. great ones. our part was not bonded very well as 1. but communication was well, that's why the camps we held were smooth sailing. we complained together, suffer together, and walk through all the times together. i just hope that standards can be maintained. every parade, none of us fall out at all. what's so hard about standing there? try NCC Day Parade. thanks to that Guest of Honour's speech, my M16 became my only support to sleep. Haha. that's sidetracking a bit.
after thinking so much, how i miss the days where after every training we would stick at student lounge. yea. me, you zhe and jonathan. then it was a more or less straight KO as soon as we reach home. seriously i prefer to get tired that way. find it more fulfilling then studying till damn tired. what's with all the 'results most important' mindset anyway? will it ever be the same? =X
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