just a little something that needs to be said.
What about now?
Trial Specialist Course is over and I'm too sure about all the others but I'm pretty happy with my results, honestly. Without any serious preparations and frantic mugging, this is where I stand. So yes.
But I'm not here to boast or anything. (I'll rather do that in person. 8D)
What I'm here is to deliver some points for reflection because I'm seriously affected by our performance thus far. I'm not the only one but I'm definitely one of the few who cares more. So, I just wanna ask tell you all what I think and you can make what you want of it.
If you have any displeasure, please feel free to express it to my face. I won't treat you any differently. Serious.
Okay. Here goes nothing.
Firstly, attitude and standard for recent trainings as well as trail spec course.
From our former glory full attendance days to
now, our attitude has totally down graded. How many of us now dread training? How many of us dig up any possible excuse to leave early or pon? Just ask yourself that first.
Next, who still reminisces the days where Senior Ding yi, Mayee and Fion took us? Of course, I'm one of them, there's nothing wrong with that. However, comparing now to then is extremely unfair to the NCOs now, especially Staff Eunice, Sgt Mengting and Sgt Yanlin(g).
Thinking that "Last time training so fun, then now like
that" is not going to help. In addition to the fact that there are different people in charge, it is also notable to mention that
we are already Part Cs. We don't have two more years, we only have two more months.
I myself believe that SM Rachel and Staff Eunice have their reasons to be overly harsh with us. Just how many people in the platoon can produce bangs that are
both 90 degrees and
loud? How many people can
hold pumping position without dropping for more than
3 minutes? The count is less than my five fingers. Just reflect on your own performance and standard.
(Don't worry, I'm not saying I can do those. -.- I'm just as bad as most of you are. Like only Wan Ling can do it? Maybe Lijie and Wan Ping? The bangs ah. The pumping is... EVERYONE, mostly.)
And also, what happened in the bunk cleaning for class 106. Do you girls honestly have to do what you did? Seriously, what are you wearing? What was that time for?
Was that really
necessary?
Take a good look at your Trial Specialist Course results.
Were these what you were expecting?
Did you even expect anything?
For those who go, "Never mind, I'll try harder for spec course and IMPRESS," I applaud you, go ahead and do your best. I wish you all the best. Carry on with that mindset and you won't go wrong. It's those who don't care that I'm worried about.
"Ai ya, fail then fail only. Spec course only lah. Not as if it will affect my life."
That's where you are wrong.
How can you define a person? That is one unanswerable question, subjected to different answers from different views. If I know your face and name, does that mean I know you? If I know what kind of a person you are, does that mean I know you?
For me, you define a person by how she
reacts, how she
thinks, what she
does, how she
is, things like that.
CCA might not be a very important section of your school life for some, and for most, it's actually not a very big part of your life, compared to events next time like working in a job, having a family, you know.
I agree, you know, maybe in the next few years, NCC will be nothing but a good memory. Unless I become a ma'am... but that's another story.
My point is, although it is not important, how you
treat it is another thing.
If you have a serious attitude and treat everything in your life equally, high chance is that you'll end up being pretty successful in life next time. I'm not kidding.
On the other hand, those who neglect little things here and there might be the ones who suffer next time. Not to mention those who dismiss things that are not important to you. Such an uncaring attitude is undeserving of any rewards.
Your boss will the one screaming your head off next time instead of Staff Eunice and SM Rachel.
The cycle will never stop.
I'm not saying you have to love NCC but at least put in some visible effort.
I don't have to say anything about the top 5 including Sue Lynn already. It's enough to tell by looking.
However, I would like to comment on two people, Tay Jia Hui and Crystal Low.
From the very start up to now, I have
never ever heard Tay Jia Hui
complaining about anything. Seriously. She doesn't go, "OH MY GOD, NCC! LOVES." but she doesn't go "Ugh. If I knew this (scolding, killer pt, WHATEVER) was going to happen, I wouldn't have came."
Maybe she thought it in her head (though she doesn't look the kind. -.-), it's commendable she doesn't say it out and just takes it as it is. She may not be the best in drills or what but at least she puts in an effort to try and I really love that.
Thank you, Tay Jia Hui.
TELL ME WHO DIDN'T LIKE CRYSTAL LOW'S IC-ING?! Haha. That woman was epic, okay. She'll definitely make one hell of an APS! Crystal always looks so sian and blur but she has proven to us that
she can do it when she wants to!
Her drills may not be perfect but at least her voice was loud. Haha. Yay, Crystal~ I love her IC-ing!
Thank you, Crystal Low.
That was rather random, all in all.
Haha. I would also like to thank Shannon and Jian Le for taking the initiative to be timers at times, you guys were pretty loud. :D Jian Le- try to watch your tone a little, it's a bit sharp, high pitched (?) at times.
Also, to other timers like Fanglin dear, please do try to be louder! Just pretend you're shouting at some really irritating person (for example, ME) and just vomit out the timings! :)
To the others, try to take the initiative more and just try your best! In the next few trainings, just hurry and buck up, if you wait till spec course, you'll get screwed when you screw. So yeah, best to start now and screw now and THEN correct yourself now, yeah?
On last thing to add- going to Specialist Course is actually something pretty big because we're going as NAN HUA HIGH SCHOOL NCC GIRLS CADETS and of course, STAFF EUNICE'S CADETS.
So you know who you'll be disgracing if we stay at this standard.
Try your best, request help if needed, just keep a positive mindset about NCC.
I love you all people because you are my precious platoon mates.
So please, buck up, tweak your attitude, up your drill standard and we're good to go!
Ending off with a quote from the
infamous MA'AM CORRINE.
"We apologize our better is better than your better."
