ORD gifts..yes including that giant quilt at the back from the part bs haha, thanks so much guys =) but the gifts are only the tip of the iceberg, shall post about the random stuff first so that I can focus on ORD later on.

Was doing the action plan for our NDP Carnival and there was this column for people involved. I was thinking of how I should refer to the residents who are setting up stalls for the flea market, and kah how and I concluded that they shall be called fleas o.o no offence


Then there's this pretty amusing message by our principal

Dear Students,

I enjoy reading your inputs on the Ren Ci case. Most, if not all, of you think that Ming Yi is guilty. However some of you felt that his contributions to Ren Ci should be considered when punishment is meted out. Hence there are people who suggested that he should be sentenced to only 48 hours of community work. Many students are quite harsh, one suggested 20 years’ jail plus 30 strokes.

In any case, we will wait for the court to make the necessary decision. Once the sentence is announced, I’ll see whose prediction is the most accurate. I’ll give him a prize. If more than one person predicted correctly, I’ll see whose reasons are the closest to that given by the judge.

Meanwhile pls follow the case closely and wait for the judgment. Most importantly you must remember if you are entrusted to look after a large sum of money in the future, pls don’t abuse your authority.

Thank you.

Hon

Prize..

Anyway get well soon troy, your unconclusive but almost confirmed result that you have h1n1 means that ng peng and I are at risk too. And somehow we can't picture you being sad, especially when your sms to me said "Lol. I'm sad):" I hope I don't have h1n1, can't afford to miss lessons this week, spa, spa, english common test, chinese test.

I seem to have momentarily lost my motivation after a sudden realisation of all the things I need to get done, and maybe because of ord too. Hopefully it'll be back by the end of the post.

Back to ord. Started with the usual u check, and then photo taking at the terraces. Ended of my commanding days with the sizing drills, and it felt quite good saying it for the last time. Then there was lag time before the actual passing out parade.

As the emcees read their speeches, parts of my ncc career flashed in my head, like when you're gonna die? Okay lousy analogy, so cliched. When kenneth tong sedia-ed and turned to face us, somehow it felt like the end was so near and yet it was inching slowly and painfully. Part Ds sedia, kekenan lurus, pandang kehadapan pandang. Before the besurai I actually closed my eyes and took one deep breath. They say with each end comes a new beginning, but the end happened, and it wasn't easy, but it ended.

On a lighter note, I got a double promotion by accident. 2sg seems to be the last real rank, but I think it's cpl for me. Speaking of ranks, I couldn't help but remember how disappointed I was during end of year camp in part a when I wasn't promoted to lcp. But ever since then, shyh horng, yu jie and I were promoted together for subsequent ranks, lcp, cpl and 2sg when we were in the same spec course platoon.

I didn't mind getting soaked for water bombs lol. And there were the hoardes of part bs and a certain pds head that loved to aim at my head whenever I stoned at the taps to fill the bags up. But it was fun nevertheless, haha.

ORD is definitely a day of lasts, but even before the day itself I started doing many things for the last time. Last time ironing my no.4, last time folding my sleeves, last time starching my collar and epaulettes, last time pinning my badges, last time polishing my boots, but then again non of that could compare to my last time falling in with my part and the last time I would take the part bs. May not have seemed so, but there was definitely that sense of.."ownership".

Just a few tributes for now. First is to my training team of course. Thanks for being such a great training team. Be it good or bad, happy or sad, some things just don't have to be said. We did what we did, the outcome wasn't fully in our control. Whether there was anything more or less that we should have done doesn't really matter anymore, just hope that the impact was beneficial. It was no mean feat, we knew that from the start, I knew that even before I knew about my post, but we took the challenge, no one can fault us there.

To yongle, it has been great working with you, hcincc pds wouldn't be what it is today without you. Your crap jokes never fail to entertain me especially when we were having meetings. There were the ideas that we knew were good and then those whacky do to try ideas that turned out to be good too. And then there were all those shitty incidents that mostly involved uniforms, namely suren and our latest drawing of no.3, but we got past that too =) lol still remember that visit to tranny land to get the lanyards, and that thick skinned suren who wanted the new ones after kp-ing us. Thanks for being so tolerant too..definitely gonna miss working with you.

To gordon and shyh horng, thanks for being there and listening to what I had to say, especially during one of the toughest times when almost everything had changed.

Of course, to my part, part a 06, b 07, c 08, d 09, thanks for being such great platoonmates. We may be in ncc no more, but the identity that is unique to us will always remain.

All our ex ncos, without you guys we wouldn't be where we are today either. Yu han, andrew, ding jie, shu liang, yi ming, karlton, jian hua, choon chuan, kah loke, pao pao, bertram, aaron, jun kiat, ferris.

Lastly, to part b'09, as I've said before, I didn't care if what I did made you guys hate me as long as it helped you guys to improve and bond with one another. Many times, you guys were the motivation as well. Happy times, sad times, memories and lessons nevertheless. Ncos are, in a way, teachers as well. In the midst of teaching you guys, I've definitely learned a lot. Thanks for the lessons, the experience, and of course, the unforgettable memories. Jiayou part bs, the title of most senior training part comes with heavy responsibilities, and I know that you guys can live up to it, just do it.

Talking to gordon, joash, kah how and jing kai after ord, I remembered a chinese li jie wen da passage after listening to what gordon had to say. There was this boy who liked butterflies a lot, he spent ages trying to catch one and failed numerous times, but when he finally caught one he was very happy. He held onto it, hoping to observe it more closely, but it just kept struggling. Thinking that it would tire off eventually, allowing him to take a closer look, he refused to let it go. Eventually, he realised that the butterfly would continue struggling until it died. He released it in the end, and it was then that he realised how beautiful it was, when it was free. Though we have to let go of some things, it may disappear physically, but it doesn't mean that it'll be out of our lives completely.

For honour and glory.

mkIV music pds

For bo wei, ming jie, kai cong, zhi heng, david, keith, cheok hon, hubert, jun ming, aloysius, bradford, zach, jeffrey, norman, xuan lian, ewald, wei en, isaac, samuel, leslie, mervyn, benjamin, ulric.

For daniel, bertrand, chong yee, jing yao, zheng xiang, kenji, yang cheng, gordon, joash, jit woon, yu jie, marcus, troy, jing kai, solomon, shyh horng, yongle, nicholas, jia han, kenneth, wei cher, jordy, kah how, kai en, zhi hao, trevor.

HCINCC

darren
After all I've held on to,
This is my goodbye to you