Yes it has been a while since I've updated this blog... Busy screaming at noobs who cannot listen to instructions in WoW. I dare say it's worst than scolding errant cadets. Well lemme recount some of the events since a 1 year break from this.
1. There was CC Com 08 which ended a week before my birthday and I forgot to check my email and do an AAR for it. Clocked close to 100hrs for HQ service, so any CIs wan share share can ask me, more than enough!
2. Then there was my birthday which celebrates an accident 18 years ago.
3. Oh yes and there was mid-years with a D U U U 4H2s score.... And I had to tank through a 'tea' session with my doug THE BROTHER.......
4. Shooting CCA went well, national team 2nd, s-zone team 2nd and indiv 3rd, came in behind my teammate by 1 pt. That guy seriously has an arrogance that even my team captain cannot tolerate.... Goodluck to my juniors stuck with him.
5. And then there's ROD, the most looked-foward to day and saddest day too. The incoming NCOs really screwed it up this time round. OC didn't present the gifts. Super-long delay, which ate up all the time for Eric's slideshow. Goes to show how much the organisers really appreciate the works of the Officers and TOs.
6. ROD was followed by YhSC hehe. Like ATC, 3D2N at my house studying and relaxing a bit before the final spurt to our prelims. To those who are having their prelims today till next week, all the best! Have confidence, eat right, sleep early, don't do last minute cramming or you'll forget more than you will learn.
Ok that sorta sums it all up and we have caught up with the present. And about ROD and the 'study camp', I still remember that conversation I had with Kee Ann during our CIBTC, about trying to bring up their drill standards so that we can introduce a precision/fancy drill team. Sadly, things didn't go as well as it should with cadets resisting our motivation. Even with the immortals trying to use positive motivation, the cadet's interest level is just so low. It has improved but still not enough. I can't say how disappointed I am in them. I remember myself going through all those shit with my squad and enjoyed them. My class tutor told us today that the friends we make in JC will last a long time. I think the friends that I made from RVNP will last even longer. I just regret not having spent more time with my juniors during my NCO term, they seem quite a merry bunch too.
The study camp was pretty fun and effective too, thanks guys, I finally learnt that a normal distribution is anything but normal, and basically cleared all my doubts over maths. Haha and Eric left early on Sunday morning; we studied at the poolside and, ahem, studied many other things too (score=6.5 to 7). Oh yea and we watched NDP together and spotted Sir Alex and possibly Chun Wee too! And that's the long weekend I had.
Today during SD programme we had those touchy feely feedback session where we write about one another. So many people wrote about how I was very helpful and also so very very lame =D. Well I don't really remember much about helping others, perhaps it really is natural... There were also comments on how i can tell a joke, lame or not, with a straight face. It takes practice, much practice! There were some people who chose to not write anything because they simply did not like my temperament. Well all I can say is that I forgive you, isn't that what your religion taught you to do? I've never directed my ire towards my friends in full blast. I can be a very very nasty person, but always in defence of my friends. And this is why I always come out with all the lame stuff, if not I would have been consumed long ago by my darker half. I know I cannot please everyone I meet, so there, a minor deviation in statistics.
Oh yes there is that testimonial that I must write....