ND Parade

NDP upcoming. I'm in GOH as usual. Guns and gloves. Of course wooden rifle. Held in school. No biggy. Gonna get done and over with quickly. Not exactly sure when but I'll post up pictures of it as soon as it is done. I'll continue updating this with whatever trainings I got...

Anyway, I missed the last training, on Friday, 30/7. Had a dental appointment at NUH. Took too long, had to tell them I couldn't come. No problem since it was not NDP training... But I'll try not to miss such things if possible.

Bah! Why today!

*sob* *sob*... Had to fall out during the NDP parade rehearsal. It is for the school one. I do not know why, but for the whole day, the world seems to be spinning faster than usual or something. Felt super dizzy. When the rehearsal started, I had one hell of a terrible headache. Had to fall out and take a break. When I thought I was better, I joined them. However, I felt worse than before. Nearly puked too... Had to fall out again. Feel so sorry I dissappointed my friends....

Anyway, after a really long break, and drinking a whole load of water, I got better. By then, the rehearsal was done with. So I just joined them for drill training. Still had a headache and felt a little dizzy.

Still having a little headache. My throat is sore and my body hurts like hell too. Damn, I really need to get well faster...

UDI / DI

UDI: Unit Drill Instructor DI: Drill Instructor
UDI is supposed to be better. Anyways, that would be the post I'm aiming for. Last Friday, we gave out slips to the juniors to vote for whom to be UDI and DI. We also voted. 2 choices each. I really want to be UDI or DI, I believe I can do it too, so I voted myself and someone else.

Hope the results can come out soon. By the way, another two of my friends were promoted to 1st sergeant. Both were ASM, planning and discipline. Got into like a ritual of throwing them into the pond if anyone gets promoted. Sadly, this would be the last. Teacher disapprove... But we had fun. Most of my batch, including me, have went through that. Real fun but messy... hehe

Some pics:

Ok....

So today we had PT(physical training). Really fun. For a long time, I haven't exercised as much as to make my limbs shiver after the training. They were pratically jelly-like. However, I recovered quickly and continued on with the games.

Pretty much, I was assigned to Grp 1. After the company warm-ups and a few push-ups, sit-ups and jmping-jacks, we went on to do a few stations. This were to train up the sec 1 and 2 for their upcoming NAPFA. My group went for push-ups > suicide run (I have no idea why its called that... just much more challenging than the shuttle run station in NAPFA) > Pull-ups (up, hold 5s. down, hold 20s, up, hold 5s than done...) Did 10 incline pull-ups after that.

Games were really fun. Exhausted, but regained my energy quickly. Played handball cause I wasn't one of those soccer maniacs but wasn't really enthusiastic about it. Then, poison ball. My fave. Sit in a circle a throw balls at the people in the middle. Last man standing cum one-way dodgeball kind of thing. I just love dodging. I surpised myself with my exceptional performance in the last game I played. Really fun throwing balls at people too.

Master parade, AAR(after action review or something like that) for specialists(I'm in), then go home... Yeah pretty fun PT. In fact, one of the best I've done in a long time.

NCC Day!

1st July NCC Day! Actually nothing much happened... pretty similar to the last 3 years. Wore no.3 to school. Basically uniform with badges. Raining like last year so everybody had to stand while my CCA teacher-in-charge made the speech.

Most of us got picked on by teachers. As usual, they like to pick on you cause you're standing out. Lessons continued as per normal. No big deal. Pretty mundane school life. Well, that's what ya get for going to school...

Whee!

Today's training before school reopens, went pretty well in my opinion. Well, of course! My batch took over for the first time. Actually I felt pretty neutral about it during training. Like, oh, teach those guys something... take some responsibility... show some leadership et cetera. For some reason, when i decided to post this, it's like a spark and then I got all excited. Weird eh?

Anyway, today's training was suppose to get us back into training mood before school starts. My batch taught the juniors some IFC. 2 of the 4 components.

(skip this para if you're not interested in the IFC details)
IFC stands for individual field craft. the 4 components are field signals, movement by day, judging distances and target indication. We taught them field signals and movement by day. Field signals taught were fall in, space out, scout, slow down, 2x up, take cover, ally, foe, etc. Movement by day taught were high crawl (baby crawl), low crawl (leopard crawl), worm crawl (although not sure whether still in syllabus), roll, monkey dash (also not sure whether still in syllabus), high alert, normal alert (I was taught this as low, but sb just went for spec course and said they taught him that so what the hell...), and low alert.

After training, talked with the seniors about the posts stuff etc. Went to MacDonalds for lunch with my friends after that.

Going back to school for CCA soon...

School is about to reopen and I have yet to complete my holiday assignments. In addition, this LAMS website is spoilt. First, there was the overcrowding site error. Now, it is on maintainance! I'll never complete the work posted there... Not like I actually finished my Chinese holiday assignment that was handed out... Although I'm sure I can finish it by the end of the holidays...

Oops... That should be placed on my other blog shouldn't it....

Anyway... Back to the matter... Will have to get back to school for NCC on the 25th... Friday, 1pm. Full no. 4. Hmm.... Wonder what's gonna happen now that my batch just took over. Looks like things will get interesting there...