Maybe white is a bit glaring. I'll darken it to grey.
Sadly NUSH is sometimes ACS.
But before I state why, I'll inform you, the readers on a crisis happening in my house, I am out of underwear. I brought all to Spec Course and now they're all in the washing machine. Underwear deprivation, that's what it's called, parents only buy new clothes for new year, never new underwear. To all you parents out there, start buying underwear for children, underwear are the only article of clothing that still remain "the in thing", "cool & trendy", they will never be "out of style" or " lame and uncool".
The last time i checked, we had a Student Leader Investiture not a Council Investiture, there was a part where council was practically up there spouting bullshit completely unrelated to the other student leaders. And the most horrible part was when there was some kind of nonsensical charade where year 6 councilors were appreciated and given gifts from younger councilors. I've been controlling myself since then but its time to say it, if there's anyone who truly deserves to be on that stage getting appreciated for siphoning much life and soul to the school, it's Nat. But obviously he wasn't there, and guess why? Cos he's no longer a councilor. I should hold a ceremony sometime, where year 6 student leaders who truly deserve appreciation get gifts. Oh and the weird brick and mess design completely sucked, the bricks weren't red and the graffiti design, sorry that'll be insulting, it wasn't even graffiti or a design, the gradient sucked and what poor colour choice. Obviously there are many students capable of a much better design, but council giving up the honour?! Hell would freeze over.
Oh and I think that Clara Kong has an attitude problem. That's my opinion, whether anyone likes it or not. Honestly, she came up to our table, and engaged in a conversation with Wen Xiang about the english test later on that day, I just finished the health screening and was singing a song from finding nemo, with the word swimming changed to walking in the context of being on land. So I mused "just keep walking, walking, walking", shaking my head like dory did, I wasn't even looking at her, I didn't even know her, there's wasn't even any connection to her as she was clearly not walking.
To demonstrate this point, I'll give an example, Stuart's shooting hoops, and I shout to him to just keep bathing or eating or sleeping or some other verb in the continuous form. Stupid right? The phrase "just keep x", where x is a verb in the continuous form and not a girl, means for one to continue doing x, where continue implies that one was already doing x in the first place. The irony of it all? She teaches english.
Anyway, she asked me what I was doing, so I told her the truth and said singing a song from finding nemo. Then she went,"don't try to disrespect me!" or something along those lines followed by,"I can easily find out which class you're from". Seriously, I didn't get the point of the later part of the sentence, I don't recall ever having the assumption or idea for that matter that she couldn't find which class I'm from, so I guess it must have been a form of intimidation, not remotely frightening though. So she leaves and suddenly returns later to ask me for my class. A simple value, respect taught to me by other teachers and my parents came into application here. I could easily have said,"If my class was so easy to find out, why didn't you do it, instead of having to ask me?" but obviously I didn't. However, there was good from what happened, I guess Clara Kong did help my english skills after all, judging from proper paragraphing and grammar in the above paragraphs, or is it just cos I'm so freakin' awesome. Hmm..
Obviously, a CCA fully populated by men does much better in outside competitions and courses as from the results from the Specialist Course Phase 1. With only 10 men as compared to other schools with upto 30 men, NUSH took home 6 out of 11 awards. Here are the results:
GSK top scorer - Zach
Trainfire top scorer - BJ
Alpha Platoon 3 best cadet - Bern
Bravo Platoon 1 best cadet - Me
Bravo Platoon 2 best cadet - Ryan
Alpha Company best cadet - Zach
I guess we did a great job, Mr. Tham seems really glad for us. Anyway, there are 3 outcomes from the course:
Failed - Senior Corporal - In other words no promotion.
Pass - 3rd Sergeant - You did well enough.
Owned - 2nd Sergeant - You did damn freakin' well.
So we obviously had no failures, and had 4 2nd Sergeants, Bern, PHS, Zach and I. Pity, Ryan didn't get it too. Either way this proves that I'm better than PHS and Ryan, cos I got 2nd Sergeant and Ryan didn't and I got an award but PHS didn't. Haha(: Mr. Tham seems really happy for us, and I think we're all very hyper to completely thrash Mr. Tham's expectations(: I think that all the nominees for best cadets or company best were very stressed when the CLTs, Cadet Lieutenants or Cheap Labour Team, told 3 from each platoon to fall out then informing us that we failed and are thus senior corporals, however it was a borderline fail and we would retake a mutual test, meaning we had to conduct a lesson, and only if we did well would we be promoted to 3rd Sergeant. So we had to revise all our mutual topics cos the CLTs told us the topic would be given on the spot. Soon 2 of my platoon mates and I went into an auditorium where 4 CLTs sat, then they interviewed us, asking us why do we deserve a second chance, what's the difference between a 2nd Sergeant and a 3rdSergeant and other highly stressful questions. Then we were sent out to revise again, while CLTs said stuff like,"it's too late" or "should have put in more effort earlier". Afterwards the 9 borderline failures from the 3 Bravo Platoons came back into the auditorium for the mutual test, saw Han Siang with blotchy red eyes and Ryan with a stunned look. So a volunteer was asked to start the mutual and noone dared to so the brave Stanley went forward to ask for the impromptu topic, and I was given the topic,"Which one of you will be best cadet".
EVERYONE WAS SO STUNNED!! And Han Siang started crying tears of relief and joy and so did some other cadets, Ryan and I were speechlessly stunned. So anyway, Han Siang didn't get it, some malay guy who I had as a platoon mate in Camp FEAST did. Below is a nice little arrangement for my accomplishment?
I know it's nice(: Oh view it in negative, it's quite cool. So from top to bottom:
Top: Specialist Shirt
Middle Left: Bravo Platoon 1 Best Cadet Award
Middle Right: Army Bottle
Bottom Left: Beret with Singapore Crest
Bottom Right: 2nd Sergeant rank(:
This just in, I dropped my handphone into the toilet bowl today before my swim training; it's kinda screwed so don't expect any pictures for awhile till I get my new phone.
Damn.. Got headache.. Going for a nap now, bye.