♥ Friday, August 13, 2010
[[RVNP Sec01 'o8]] journeys♥
An image floats out from my vault of memories.It is one day before NPAP training, at the canteen.Sir Qin Hui, part of their squad, was celebrating Staff Clarine's birthday.The number of people singing the birthday song were few, but it was nice to see that...After two years...They were still mentally... The EXTREMISTS.In part, perhaps.But at least, the bonds for some of them...Held.The passing of time is uncontrollable,But "hearts are the same as time, their distance increases as they are taken further apart."When we eventually part ways,will this 3, 4 years of experience count for nothing?Like all this...Never happened?The squad blog of the EXTREMISTS... last post, 24 August 2008.The squad blog of Sec3'08... last post, 23 October 2009.The squad blog of thebangbangsquad... last post, 24 June 2010.Not even past ROD.They don't seem to have gone on even one year more than their ROD year.Squadmates...Personally, I'm afraid that the distance between us will increase as time passes,and one day, we'll pass each other,shoulders almost touching,and saying nothing,eyes cast downwards.No acknowledgement,no smiles,no waves,nothing.Seriously, that idea is really very scary.Will our bonds hold? Will it truly last?Today's "revision date" at NP room wasn't a total success.Only a handful came:Pei Hao, Yang Sheng, Amanda, Foong Hui, Kristine, Sylvia, Michelle, Chloe, Freda and I.Sure, it wasn't obligatory.Yes, in the end I don't think we really increased our chances of acing Promos.But to have but less than a third of our squad...It's saddening.I was thinking of suggesting squad outing, actually.Especially seeing the pictures of Staff Ong Min that batch being posted on Facebook. On the recent squad outing.I was thinking, since we didn't spend any time with our Sec 1 squad ICs, Sec 2 squad ICs, and our ROD-ing Sec 3 squad ICs, perhaps we could invite them to our squad outing.Since it'd be awkward to have all 3 batches of ICs together, perhaps we can plan 3 squad outings!Idealistic. I know.But after seeing how many were here today (or yesterday, by now),I think this thought can be discarded down the drain.If we are going to have only about 10 people turn up for the squad outing,can we still call it a squad outing?For heavens' sake, our squad has a total strength of 32, minus-ing I-Lin and Michael.To just have 10 people and call it a squad outing, that's pathetic.Squadmates.Seriously.We've never had a squad outing, have we?We've thought about, but never actually done a squad tee, squad jacket, squad wristband, squad whatever, have we?Last year to bond.Can we get these things going?1. Squad outing.2. Squad identity. In the form of wristband, tee, jacket, whatever.3. Posting on squad blog.People, please don't be thinking, "Let the usual people post."They'll feel lonely, you know.We even stinge on the tagging part,not even giving the basic acknowledgement that the post was read.I looked back at the archives of our squad blog,and realised that we used to have multiple posts about the same act.And now...I dunno.We can see for ourselves.Squadmates."NCO-ship will either break or bond a squad."We say bond, bond, bond.But are their any visible testimonies to show that we have bonded?I'm not attacking anyone in my post.I've no right to begrudge you the liberty of revising for promo in the comfort of your house.I'm just saying...Can we all please just put in abit more effort to keep our squad Hotshots a squad?"A squad is not made up of individuals."But the individuals can put in effort collectively to make it a squad.Squadmates,pleasepleasepleaseput in the effortto be mentally and physicallyHotshots.I, for one, do not want to look back at the end of our NCO-ship, and realise that for the past year, we did nothing,but drift."All for One, One for All."--Jing Yee
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8/13/2010 11:28:00 PM
