Thursday, October 23, 2008,
5:54 AM
Catholic High NCC (air) Unit's Challenge Quest team 2008 has achieved SILVER in the competition under Air district! Congrats and well done, 2SG Weixuan (IC), SSG Huiyang, CPL Vincent and LCP Benedict! You guys owned =)
Last day of school. Started horrid, I knew what was to happen. The first period was Mr Tan having the sex talk as planned. I was only half listening, it wasn't much of a concern then, I'm alone anyway =X I left the class at 0900 with Rui Jie and Jeremy to meet...her..once more to confirm our choices as to stay or leave our classes. I was firm - stay. Good. No issue. Time to leave you. I don't have to see you anymore.
I left the room, recess was super early at 0915 today. However, it was not for us. Brandon, Weikit, and I had to meet Mr Goh. Confidential.
After recess, I sat, feeling horrid, knowing what was to come. Contact Time. Mr Tan walked in, with the usual stack of green books. I took mine, and he handed me my CCA report and Overall Year Holistic Results. My CCA slip really looks good, alot of entries this year, and I see the words 'Participant of National Camp' =D
But what's the point if my Overall Year report is horrid? It's true, I'd go nowhere with my CCA slip if my results is this crappy. I failed Phy. I failed Chem. I failed HCL. The highest grade is a B3. I utterly broke my promise =X I improved my L1R5 by 2 to 24, still ain't hitting my goal. But I did improve Amath by a whooping 12.5 marks. That's a start.
Just a hurdle in my way. Now the next one is overcoming my dad, then recovering from this temporary setback.
I really wasn't in the mood, but I was even more saddened. Mr Suah and Mrs Long would be leaving next year, Mr Suah to take care of his newborn, Mrs Long moving to SCGS D: I signed their card, and we took a class picture. Thanks ZongDa for forcing me to smile =X I'd really miss them both, they were really great teachers committed to pulling our grades up, staying back afternoon after afternoon, evening by evening, just to do more and more chinese and math. Sigh..
I really had no mood for the Science Centre excursion to the Omnitheatre. Many people really cheered me up then =D And we watched a documentary on rivers. Geog knowledge flooded (pun not intended) into my mind during the screening, it was actually rather interesting. The kayaking scenes were awesome, they were like 4-5 star skills being performed on those rapids!
With only popcorn as lunch, I rushed to the classroom and down to the store as soon as we got back, dumped everything, and ran to the bus-stop. Next stop: NCC HQ.
I ran, I stepped in a pothole, I ran some more until I was sweating like nuts at the entrance of HQ. Quickly moving to the Learning Corner, I met up with Mr Goh and surrendered my handphone to him, then he let me sprint to the MPH just in time to meet the CAT HIGH AIR CHALLENGE QUEST TEAM =D right before their first event.
Man, they were all geared up. First station: PUSH UPS. Everyone did theirs well, max score is 50 pushups within the 1 minute. Weixuan, our PTI, completed with time to spare o.o the other two juniors did rather well with 45+ recorded, but something unfortunate happened on Huiyang's end: apparently his assistant was bluring out and only recorded 23/50 of his pushups! MAN. so unfair to him, but we can make it up =)
Second station: SIT-UPS. Man, this, in my opinion, is the toughest to get 50 in 1 minute. I watched them all do, our team, as expected, scored fantastically well =D PTI: Full score. Everyone esle got high 40s =) Mr Goh and I were discussing about using technique in doing the sit-ups fast, wow I didn't know so much mechanics can be involved in such a simple activity XD
Station three: 1 KM RUN AND OBSTACLE COURSE. I went to the front line to cheer on the team starting out, and guess who I saw? HAIQALLL. NAT CAMP TENT MATE =D He finished all his events, and we chatted and wished one another good luck =D Ahh. My team shot off, and I went over to the place where I can view the obstacle course.
Woah. Vincent is the lightning. He was shooting ahead of the team and got there in like, 3+ minutes. Cat High cleared the obstacles with no kick, except I saw Huiyang slowing. Turns out his pants were dropping XD but Vincent excelled particularly in this event, since running is is best physical activity o.o then the team CHOINGED to the end point, and it was all done!
We hung around with the Cat High Land unit. With the one intention to only come here and cheer on my team, I ended up meeting so many people =D I spotted alot of Alpha guys and we were waving and smiling at one another. I met Jefferson, we were ex-schoolmates. More and more senior spec friends later at the award ceremony with David and Kevin and the rest of ACS(I) air XD I met XueFeng from Beatty air and she was taking part! Ahah I was really impressed at her will during the obstacle course. I talked to Major Gary Pek before his run, he said: "Let's have Air own this competition =D"
The CLT run was fun, I saw Sir Idham and Sir Fan Hao running, both of them dang fit =D Major Gary was also doing very well, for someone his age and being able to clear the obstacle course is a great thing =D
After more talking and people calling me old, we waited till the prize presentation finally started. I was really really hoping we could bring something back XD I shouted YYYYEEEESSSS when Cat High Air's name was mentioned in the list of award winners ^^ As mentioned above, we got our 2nd in Air district, Cat High Land got their Gold in their Central district =D We did our little "CAT HIGH" shout together later =)
All that training our team went through really paid off. I'm really really glad and proud of them ^^ Special thanks to Wei Xuan for his smart training and bringing his team to glory.
East district won the overall champion. I watched Sir Fan Hao go nuts with the Challenge Shield XD
Talking about medals, I finally received my 3rd place medal for Cat High Sports Night (like, 6 months ago) in the 4 X 360m relay. Sweet. Sure took it's time to get to me.
Oh, something random. A Sir approached me at HQ and asked "Cat High arh?" Ahaha we talked abit and turns out he was the USM of Cat High Land unit 1998. Sweet. We're a decade apart but still connected by NCC XD
Happy Mole Day. If you still remember what Mr Tan said, it's Oct the 23rd *gasp*
Balthus
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