Sunday, July 20, 2008
Part C 2007
Training Team: Khang Wen, Bing Yeow, Zhong Hong, Jonathan
“Most senior training part”, This was the phrase that we used to hear over and over again. Indeed, the NCOs had high expectations for us the moment they took over, first of which was to perform well during NDP as the Guard-of-Honour. I was shocked when Bing Yeow used the **** word during our first debrief, as I had thought that it was quite inappropriate. Nevertheless, we trained hard for drills and I managed to get into GOH contingent. I am glad to say that we performed well as GOH, (video can be found here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qZSUqS_7S1g). Ran back to the donation board where we got zhammed last year, but received a pleasant surprise instead. Our training team bought us a chocolate cake, with a written note inside. Can’t remember what was in it though. Could not really enjoy ourselves though, when we saw the rest of our platoonmates in the supporting contingent running past us to MSCP where they were punished by Yi Ming for putting up a below par performance.
FHAG cake.
Orienteering Competition selection soon followed, and we had to run 6.6km in long 4. Honestly this was the longest distance I have ever ran in one go at that time. Tried my best though and managed to get around 38mins. The team was chosen shortly after the test, Weilong, Yisheng, Ferris, Daryll and Houshun. Houshun volunteered to be the reserve a few days before the competition. Come to think of it, OC selection process was quite easy and straightforward then compared to my training team when we had to choose the OC team. They eventually got route C Champions, resulting in a 2-year streak for HCINCC.
IMT, got marksman narrowly again, 17/20 out of the 16/20 criteria. Renjie got perfect score! Was chosen for IMT competition this time round, together with Ren Jie, Jonj, Yu Xuan and Aden.The extra trainings were hiong, do all sorts of weird exercises aimed to train our arm and back muscles. Proned in PE shirt for quite long also. One of the trainings, our NCOs managed to help us to practise hands-on shooting at the air rifle range. The guy over there meng niao us, say we no arm strength to cock the rifle. We simply ignored him coz we knew better =). Aden managed to hit the bullseye.
The day of the competition arrived. HQ's efficency was as usual, expectedly slow. They told us that this year there was going to be individual category, whereby the best 10 or 20 shooters would receive an award. Used the time to calm myself down and familarise myself with the shooting fundamentals and procedure. Was very nervous by the time I went into the dark shooting room, but somehow the feeling was gone once I took up prone position and held on to the rifle tightly. Jia Jun, our USM then, was standing behind me. I knew that I could not afford to disappoint. One by one, the targets went down. My confidence received a massive boost. Eventually, I managed to get a perfect score, 20/20. Was totally exhausted at the end of the 20 rounds, but happy nevertheless. Sometime later, HQ sent a 3rd place medal to our school, and Khang Wen played a prank by asking us who left the medal in bunk, lol. Probably did not get 1st place based on the grouping shots before the fig.12 shots.
The medal.
EOY camp, our last camp as cadets. RSM was Jian Hua. Also couldn't remember much about the camp, except that Jun Yan who was in my section was BOS for the first day and had to do leopard crawl in smart 4, resulting in him having rashes and had to report sick at night. Third day was an amazing race at pulau ubin. I still remembered that I chatted with Troy alot when we were trekking to pass time. At that time, I was unable to differentiate between Troy and Chong Yee, and between Yu Jie and Zheng Xiang. Ok random. Did solonite at clock tower. There was a time when I was rubbing my eyes then at that time they switched off the lights and when I opened my eyes back it was suddenly very dark. Heart almost stopped beating. Was thinking about stuff to prevent myself from sleeping and found it ironic that I was in the middle of CLOCK tower but was unable to tell the time.
AI selection after camp. Was chosen together with Bertram, Aaron, Ferris and Sam's, out of which 4/5 would be in Part C training team. AI course was fun, get to play with real MK-IV rifles. The food there was nice too, had ice-cream as dessert after lunch. Master Zaini told us not to do advanced drills, and if NCOs ask us to do, we also cannot do. He then told us how his little finger got broken by a rifle and he could not play the guitar anymore. After AI course was orientation performance. Those who went for AI missed out on some trainings and had to catch up by memorising the drill list and practising by themselves. I practised the performance a few times at home with an umbrella before going to training the next day, but screwed up quite badly a few times, spoiling the performance. I had to admit that I did not put in much effort into catching up with the rest, and complacency got the better of me. Bing Yeow pulled me out and knocked me after one of the rehearsal and gave me a wake up call. I was grateful for that and tried my best for subsequent performances.
Chionged Drill, IFC and Trainfire mutuals and completed them before the start of the year. Shall not elaborate on how boring these presentations are. Went for this HQ test which was meant for the previous batch NCC ppl who did not manage to go spec course. Just before we left, it rained heavily and there was no bus for us, so we got drenched walking back to the bus stop. Nevertheless, we got a valuable hands-on experience on these tests.
Was promoted to CPL after the EOY camp as the basic criteria was to pass PT test excluding 2.4 because khang wen did not want to kill us during camp. As I passed the 2 components, I was promoted. The rest who were not promoted had to pass all 3 components to get their rank after camp. Even so, I was determined to pass all 3 components of PT test so that I could justify my rank. Kept training up my 2.4 after school together with some of my platoonmates. My timing improved from above 12 mins to below 11.30min, which was the criteria for 2.4, and I finally managed to pass the PT tests.
Immersion trainings followed suit, I was with weijing in one and with yisheng in another, training part B and part A respectively. For part B we did orienteering and for part A it was drills. During the drill session with part A, I was shocked to see Shaun's face turn so red, and I thought he had a heatstroke, until someone told me that his face is always so red during drills.
NCC day, was in charge together with Aaron. Most of the choreographing was done by Aaron though. During one of the trainings at HQ, the people who were doing saturn tosses kept dropping rifle, and some other school people looking by were laughing. Ting Feng went to confront them and ask them to come out and show. Haha pro man. The white shirt with the red cross at the back, Ting Feng said that it was to cross out the mouths of those people who critisise us. The performance went moderately well at the end, considering that the lighting conditions were extremely bad. This experience was very beneficial to me, as I generally has a bad temper and will get frustrated easily, but I quickly found out this weakness from my platoonmates and tried to work on them before our NCOship started.
Mid-Year camp was reduced to a full day training. According to Khang Wen, we did rather well. Spec course next. Was in alpha 3 together with weilong, jonj, jaron, renjie and yitkhai. I remembered that Jonj tried to talk to some RV girls but got daoed by them. Dam funny. One of the days I casually asked my PC if I could be section IC, but Weilong was IC the day before and the Sir said it would seem that he was biased towards HCI if he chose me. Eventually, when the PC had to nominate 3 ppl for Best Cadet interview, our PC chose Weilong, me and jonj. Talk about biasness. There were 2 rounds of interviews. Me and Jonj went for the 2nd one and eventually Jonj got chosen as the BC for our section. We got 5 awards in total, good achievement. Passed out with 2SG rank.
Posting. Actually I had thought that I would be PDS 2IC. Apparently the NCOs thought so too, as during the interview they asked me questions related to the post. Due to unforseen circumstances though, I was given part C APS instead. Zhi Yi thought that I would be unhappy with the post, and came to talk to me after posting, but in fact I was fine with it. Since I am given this post, might as well make the best out of it. With this mindset, I entered the last phase of my NCC career.
Picture of us during Part C
We did it, together.*
12:08 AM
Training Team: Khang Wen, Bing Yeow, Zhong Hong, Jonathan
“Most senior training part”, This was the phrase that we used to hear over and over again. Indeed, the NCOs had high expectations for us the moment they took over, first of which was to perform well during NDP as the Guard-of-Honour. I was shocked when Bing Yeow used the **** word during our first debrief, as I had thought that it was quite inappropriate. Nevertheless, we trained hard for drills and I managed to get into GOH contingent. I am glad to say that we performed well as GOH, (video can be found here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qZSUqS_7S1g). Ran back to the donation board where we got zhammed last year, but received a pleasant surprise instead. Our training team bought us a chocolate cake, with a written note inside. Can’t remember what was in it though. Could not really enjoy ourselves though, when we saw the rest of our platoonmates in the supporting contingent running past us to MSCP where they were punished by Yi Ming for putting up a below par performance.
FHAG cake.
Orienteering Competition selection soon followed, and we had to run 6.6km in long 4. Honestly this was the longest distance I have ever ran in one go at that time. Tried my best though and managed to get around 38mins. The team was chosen shortly after the test, Weilong, Yisheng, Ferris, Daryll and Houshun. Houshun volunteered to be the reserve a few days before the competition. Come to think of it, OC selection process was quite easy and straightforward then compared to my training team when we had to choose the OC team. They eventually got route C Champions, resulting in a 2-year streak for HCINCC.
IMT, got marksman narrowly again, 17/20 out of the 16/20 criteria. Renjie got perfect score! Was chosen for IMT competition this time round, together with Ren Jie, Jonj, Yu Xuan and Aden.The extra trainings were hiong, do all sorts of weird exercises aimed to train our arm and back muscles. Proned in PE shirt for quite long also. One of the trainings, our NCOs managed to help us to practise hands-on shooting at the air rifle range. The guy over there meng niao us, say we no arm strength to cock the rifle. We simply ignored him coz we knew better =). Aden managed to hit the bullseye.
The day of the competition arrived. HQ's efficency was as usual, expectedly slow. They told us that this year there was going to be individual category, whereby the best 10 or 20 shooters would receive an award. Used the time to calm myself down and familarise myself with the shooting fundamentals and procedure. Was very nervous by the time I went into the dark shooting room, but somehow the feeling was gone once I took up prone position and held on to the rifle tightly. Jia Jun, our USM then, was standing behind me. I knew that I could not afford to disappoint. One by one, the targets went down. My confidence received a massive boost. Eventually, I managed to get a perfect score, 20/20. Was totally exhausted at the end of the 20 rounds, but happy nevertheless. Sometime later, HQ sent a 3rd place medal to our school, and Khang Wen played a prank by asking us who left the medal in bunk, lol. Probably did not get 1st place based on the grouping shots before the fig.12 shots.
The medal.
EOY camp, our last camp as cadets. RSM was Jian Hua. Also couldn't remember much about the camp, except that Jun Yan who was in my section was BOS for the first day and had to do leopard crawl in smart 4, resulting in him having rashes and had to report sick at night. Third day was an amazing race at pulau ubin. I still remembered that I chatted with Troy alot when we were trekking to pass time. At that time, I was unable to differentiate between Troy and Chong Yee, and between Yu Jie and Zheng Xiang. Ok random. Did solonite at clock tower. There was a time when I was rubbing my eyes then at that time they switched off the lights and when I opened my eyes back it was suddenly very dark. Heart almost stopped beating. Was thinking about stuff to prevent myself from sleeping and found it ironic that I was in the middle of CLOCK tower but was unable to tell the time.
AI selection after camp. Was chosen together with Bertram, Aaron, Ferris and Sam
Chionged Drill, IFC and Trainfire mutuals and completed them before the start of the year. Shall not elaborate on how boring these presentations are. Went for this HQ test which was meant for the previous batch NCC ppl who did not manage to go spec course. Just before we left, it rained heavily and there was no bus for us, so we got drenched walking back to the bus stop. Nevertheless, we got a valuable hands-on experience on these tests.
Was promoted to CPL after the EOY camp as the basic criteria was to pass PT test excluding 2.4 because khang wen did not want to kill us during camp. As I passed the 2 components, I was promoted. The rest who were not promoted had to pass all 3 components to get their rank after camp. Even so, I was determined to pass all 3 components of PT test so that I could justify my rank. Kept training up my 2.4 after school together with some of my platoonmates. My timing improved from above 12 mins to below 11.30min, which was the criteria for 2.4, and I finally managed to pass the PT tests.
Immersion trainings followed suit, I was with weijing in one and with yisheng in another, training part B and part A respectively. For part B we did orienteering and for part A it was drills. During the drill session with part A, I was shocked to see Shaun's face turn so red, and I thought he had a heatstroke, until someone told me that his face is always so red during drills.
NCC day, was in charge together with Aaron. Most of the choreographing was done by Aaron though. During one of the trainings at HQ, the people who were doing saturn tosses kept dropping rifle, and some other school people looking by were laughing. Ting Feng went to confront them and ask them to come out and show. Haha pro man. The white shirt with the red cross at the back, Ting Feng said that it was to cross out the mouths of those people who critisise us. The performance went moderately well at the end, considering that the lighting conditions were extremely bad. This experience was very beneficial to me, as I generally has a bad temper and will get frustrated easily, but I quickly found out this weakness from my platoonmates and tried to work on them before our NCOship started.
Mid-Year camp was reduced to a full day training. According to Khang Wen, we did rather well. Spec course next. Was in alpha 3 together with weilong, jonj, jaron, renjie and yitkhai. I remembered that Jonj tried to talk to some RV girls but got daoed by them. Dam funny. One of the days I casually asked my PC if I could be section IC, but Weilong was IC the day before and the Sir said it would seem that he was biased towards HCI if he chose me. Eventually, when the PC had to nominate 3 ppl for Best Cadet interview, our PC chose Weilong, me and jonj. Talk about biasness. There were 2 rounds of interviews. Me and Jonj went for the 2nd one and eventually Jonj got chosen as the BC for our section. We got 5 awards in total, good achievement. Passed out with 2SG rank.
Posting. Actually I had thought that I would be PDS 2IC. Apparently the NCOs thought so too, as during the interview they asked me questions related to the post. Due to unforseen circumstances though, I was given part C APS instead. Zhi Yi thought that I would be unhappy with the post, and came to talk to me after posting, but in fact I was fine with it. Since I am given this post, might as well make the best out of it. With this mindset, I entered the last phase of my NCC career.
Picture of us during Part C
We did it, together.*
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