Friday, April 07, 2006

Haha.. I'm back blogging.. A lot of things happening for the last few days.. In fact since Wednesday.. Haha..

Since I'm already working in my sec school, occasionally I would help out in NCC matters and trainings. So since today there is an Annual Sports Day, there would be a parade and so the helpful me went to check out how my guys were doing on Wednesday when there was a rehearsal scheduled by Scouts. So everyone was there, NCC, NPCC, SJAB, Scouts, BB, GB, GG (Yea, my school have that much uniformed groups! 7/8 uniformed groups at national level) in the school field, formed up. All of them were waiting for instructions from Scouts who would be the in-charge of the Sports Day parade.

So the happily me was there interacting with my cadets teaching them how to do flag drills and then 'BOOM'!!! Nono, there wasn't any terrorists attacks, but the Scouts teacher came to myself and the cadets, asking if NCC could take over for the execution of the parade. So of course such a big decision cannot be made by me alone so I asked Mr Leong to talked to my CO. Meanwhile we just 'helped out' with the planning, getting the procedures done and settled, and the parade formed up. It's almost like we were taking over right? Thankfully I manage to get Chuwen and her SJAB to help out, so things weren't that bad. Haha..

On one side there were complains from band asking when could the rehearsal start, and the other hand got to settle the GOH, ICs, Flag party etc... Stress man and my CO came to tell me saying we could go ahead as long as we don't embarrass ourselves. -.-""

The whole contrary is that the event would be 2 days away then, and that day was the first rehearsal for the parade. And no proper planning was done and suddenly you got to take over to plan and rehearse for a parade that's less than 2 days away!

Well, that day manage to get 3/4 a rehearsal done because of the weather with a lot of delays settling administration part and felt bad coz myself and Chuwen only went back to office like 2 hours after we came out. Haha...

Then it's ok, but realised that the flag bearers didn't really know how to do flag drill so had to arrange a last minute practice session for the flag party on Thursday. Personally I had a lot of fun doing it and a lot of jokes here and there la... Realised too that teaching other uniformed groups drills isn't easy... Too many complications like you cannot treat them like cadets since there are leaders of their UG and the way you present yourself is real important (as an officer of NCC). And INSTRUCTIONS must be given clearly.

Someday I must develop a hierarchy system for inter-CCA communications including band.. Communicating can be real hard coz to them they only take instructions from their officers and not from other CCAs, and commanding the respect right from first contact or impression can be super hard too. That was the challenge I had... (one more thing, they don't know who I am and I just pop out of nowhere giving instrctions, Haha...)

Anyway, on Friday which is today, had a busy morning rushing to complete the logistics checks and all, like the state flag and school flag... And other work assignments too. In any case, we (my cadets and I) reached Serangoon Stadium at around 12pm. After which once settled down, Shuqian and I quickly got the CCAs to move, and it's really asking them to move. (You can shout all you want and they don't care. I wonder how did Ricky manage to do it when I was still a cadet)
Got the supporting contingent to form up, gave briefing to the I/Cs and got the GOH formed up too. Then came the hardest part, the flag party!! They carry a responsibility of representing the best of what their UG can offer and it's very much important to train them well. Thanks to Chuwen I managed to get 1 other cadet (Ting Ting) to be the school flag bearer. The state flag would then be held by On Zen. A lot of problems start to surface while doing the rehearsals and today was really hectic as you have a tight schedule with the band along with communication probs, and getting the peeps to familiarise themselves with the entire procedure despite the briefings done beforehand.

Done a lot of major adjustments too and finally by the 2nd official rehearsal we had today, we managed to get 90% of the entire parade look nice. Had personal training with the flag party and they were a fun batch to be with. (wanted to take pictures but was too busy and I forgot!!) [I just realised the GB flag bearer looks like Shirley.. haha] Finally... Came the actual parade with everyone formed up. *Whew*

Then the Guest-of-Honour who arrived with the Principal, had the salute done and then the inspection and later the march pass which was a bit messy with the supporting contingent but can't blame them totally given the last minute arrangements and lack of training together. And I had done something embarrassing, which I'm not going to say it down here...

And here I am... Slacking in the office and typing this post since I'm not exactly interested to stay on for the rest of the runs. Just simply not interested and the entire parade was truly draining to my body, which I don't know why. (I don't see RSM that tired while planning for parades lor..)

Anyway it was a job well done to you guys especially the flag bearers!! (Love you guys so much!) And special thanks for the additional help like Chuwen, Shuqian, Jan, Ben, Yannlin (Is that how it's spelt?) and Madaline (from band).

Actually I'm quite thankful for this whole event because through this, I get closer interaction with the students and other UGs, which is a good experience I must say.

Well, with this episode over, comes church and CGM over the weekend!!

it got me home
3:44:00 PM

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