Friday, October 28, 2005
CCAs
I can say to myself that I done alot of rubbish and achievements for this year's ccas.
NPCC: This is my most beloved cca amongst all. I dare to say this because of the person npcc has taught me to be. It has given me the opportunities to take up leadership roles and practice good organisational skills. It has taught me the values that one needs to succeed in life. It has led me to meet many great people whom I can learn from and emulate positively. It has made me feel the patriotism towards my country and a sense of loyalty to the corps. This year I had been made the squad IC for the middle part of the year. I really enjoyed being the IC as I had chances to do things I thought I never would done in my life. I got a chance to command a squad, got a chance to direct my squadmates effectively, learned the importance of responsibility of being the IC, like passing down messages to inform people of training times and such. But then again, sometimes, I had really been too much. At certain periods I just lost control of my emotions and let them run wild, so in the end I vented it on my squad. I am so sorry for all the things I had done, I shouldn't have let my emotions get the better of me.
PDS: This small division of the cca had brought to me much excitement, yet much disappointmet and hatred. I had started this affair through joining the ncc-npcc combined speech day pds. It was my first exposure to what precision drill squad was about. I learned the ncc pds stunts, practised their way of training, and fostered friendly ties with them through these trainings. The performance during speech day was a success and we were all really happy, we were united as one team. It was really a memorable event for me. However, this relation didn't last. And really sad and unfortunate to say,I think I was the one who started the bad blood between the two ccas. It all over a small spinning rifle issue that sparked off a horrendous chain of events that followed. We couldn't meet eye to eye with each other and we couldn't agree to each other's terms. I know, I shouldn't have cause all this hatred between each other. I know there are others who challenged ncc over the spinning but it was mainly because I instigated them to do it. I am not being proud about being involved in sparking off this event, but I am instead very remorseful right now. I had done alot of thinking about it and realised that we shouldn't be fighting, after all, npcc was in fact a division broken off from ncc in the past, so in a way we are related, we even have the "cadet corps" behind our names. How did it ever come to this? I am sorry to jia jian for showing him attitude, and sorry for suaning the ncc pds. I am not being sarcastic, it is sincere. We will continue to perform, but i swear it will be in our own styles.
CHESS CLUB: The cca that involves using alot of brain power. I have been in the club since last year and I support it. Nothing much of interest has happened throughout this year for the club, except for the fact that the girl's team had emerged national champions. I feel really proud for the club. I know that at some point of time I had disappointed ms koh and the others for not turning up for trainings but I really cannot go. This is not my first cca and there is no priority to attend while the first cca is in session, so I'm really sorry. I also know that some of my competition results disappointed ms koh as well. I can tell, even if she doesn't say it out. I know that I should have trained more, especially when the coach was here, but I have to set my priorities, sorry!
AIR PISTOL: This is the latest cca that I had joined in this year. In fact, I didn't have much of a heart to join in the first place. When they called for people to go for the tryout shoot, I was half-heartedly dragged along to go. When we went down we had a first hand experience of handling a live sports pistol. I had not expected to be picked out to join the team. I can tell you that it was really an honour to be part of one of the newest ccas in the schools. Only me, jia hui, and jessie from np had managed to get into air pistol, so we told ourselves that we must definitely get marksman for np when the time comes. Training is really not what you think it is, just shooting and reloading, shooting and reloading... It starts off with arm training, where you train with the poles tied with water bottles. It is really very energy consuming but helps to stabilise our arms. Then we go off for dry-fire practices with either the empty pistols or water bottles. Only then do we start our live shoots. It is not so easy as just aiming and pulling the trigger. You have to really aim and control you hand, your stance, your breathing, your muscle strain and lots more. So I can say that the cca has also taught me to be persereverant and disciplined, it also introduced to me the art of true patience and endurance.
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