Unhappy birthday

Spec Course reflection

I came to spec course with the ‘2SG can liao’ attitude. However, after I see the standard of other schools, just getting 2SG is no kicks. I decided to aim for OOC (Overall Outstanding Cadet). It was a very achievable goal. The other schools came very unprepared, some didn’t even know what topic they doing for mutual! I worked hard for OOC.

Blinded by this dream, I became very sad when I was not even short listed for OOC.

Now, as I reflect, I feel that there must be some quality that I lack, the quality that differentiate between an OOC and nothing. Is it the gift of speech? Is it the nerve to try, to dare? Or is it a combination of everything? I must improve to be the best among equals.

I will not be stuck in the past. Merely attempting to make all Part Cs get 2SG is the past. Now i have a new dream, it is to make all of them OOCs. My next move is to prepare them for spec course next year, make sure that they excel. This year RGS got almost everything. They all pioneers some more. Losing to them is unbearable.

Aim: all awards given to Cat High for next year spec course.

Before that I must find out what is the quality I lack to teach my Part Cs. I will turn this dream into reality.

spec course

Here is what I know about spec course… I gather this information by going through posts on spec course.

Day 1: It will most probably be revision for the 1^st part of the day. However, I think that there will be GSK test in the night.

Day 2: All the tests will be completed in day2. For the test, must be as detailed as possible. Also, the OOCs will be short listed on that day. The short listed OOCs will spent the night drilling, doing PT and getting interviewed. The first question for interview is “you have 30 seconds to introduce yourself”.

Day 3: Award giving and photo taking… I think

That’s all that I know. If you know anything else it will be great if you mention it, so that we can be more prepared. All this is what I think will happen during spec course. It may not be true.

AKE?

Haiz, dam sad sia

Cannot go for AKE anymore… the story goes like this…

We are 14th when we go there, 2nd when we came back. There were 40 people in MKE.

After MKE, the CLT say me and Jared qualify for AKE. However, I voiced out that AKE clash with spec course. Then the CLT ask me if I choose spec course or AKE. Of course spec course lah, spec course more important.

The sir gave us the MKE badge and tells us we can come for AKE if we change our mind.

I then send the email to one of the AKE organizers to ask for special arrangements for me and Jared, if we can leave 1 day earlier. After that he called me. The conversation goes like this:

Sir: Hello are you WX
ME: Yes

Sir: Did you receive MKE badge?
Me: Yes, actually we qualify for AKE. When we voiced this matter out during MKE. The sir ask us of we choose AKE or spec course. I choose spec course cos it is more important. The sir then gave us the MKE badge and tells us we can still come for AKE if we change our mind.

Sir: WHAT? The sir tell you that you can come for AKE? What is that sir name?
Me: I dunno

Sir: Is he Chinese or Malay?
Me: Chinese

Sir: You guys trust your CLTs too much. The CLT lie to you. I cannot let you go for AKE cos you took the MKE badge. If you need time to consider, you can dun take the badge, go home and think first. Anytime can come down and take if you want the MKE badge. Sorry you cannot go for AKE.
Me: Ok (Feeling dam sad)

I feel dam sad sia, cannot go for AKE. Only 3 air cadets qualify, minus me and Jared, only one air cadet going.

Haiz… must get 2SG for spec course.

PS: My English dam bad, got a lot of mistakes.

Did God create evil?

Summerised version

A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that exists?"

A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"

"God created everything?" The professor asked.

"Yes sir, he certainly did," the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created evil. And, since evil exists, & according to the principle that our works define who we are, then we can assume God is evil."

The student became quiet & did not respond to the professor's hypothetical definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the religious faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand & said, "May I ask you a question, professor?"

"Of course," replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"

The other students snickered at the young man's question. The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat.
Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, & heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460F) is the total absence of heat; & all matter becomes inert & incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."

The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied , "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors & study the various wave lengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness & illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is?
You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct?
Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor,”Sir, does evil exist?"

Now uncertain, the professor responded, ”Of course, as I have already said. We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime & violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.

To this the student replied, ”Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness & cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God.
God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness
That comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

Annual Camp Reflection

This year annual camp was a failure

We lost a key. After the camp, we spend one hour to find it. We split in to groups to search for the key around the school. In the end, we found the key in one of our friend’s pocket. I can tell that sir was very pissed.

It was a very meaningful experience. We lost the key, due to our lack of teamwork, lack of civilization, lack of responsibility. We spent the next hour to find the key, only to find it in our friend’s pocket.

This made me realize that while we are busy with our life, without organization, we tend to miss out simple key points that will lead to complete failure to our activities. These key points are actually very simple and close to us, just that we are so busy that we miss them.

This annual camp was a failure, but failure is the key to success.