N Sunday, April 08, 2007
was chatting with yiyang just now about the zone competition that happened yesterday.. as u all noe, i was in st john as my cca in my sec sch.. i tried to be one of the alumni after i graduated, but i guess i was too busy, thus i told them i give up.. tt was like at least 4 years ago.. the batch of us then moved to do our own stuff.. like me, who served in the army, armed with the background of being in a uniformed group.. jac, for some reason, was a model in maxim and a biker chick.. charlene is studying medicine.. edmund, or affectionately known as eng hwee, is now a diver, and god knows where he is right now.. the list goes on..
back to topic.. it has been years ever since i tried to train people and imparting knowledge in first aid.. if u asked me to go and render first aid now, i probably just shrug my shoulders and say i give up.. the only reason why i was concerned about my ex-cca is that i have lost touch with what i have, which is about 5 years ago.. then, the standard of first aid has dropped and it was a case for concern.. there were several reasons to the drop.. one of it was that there was a lack of committment from the people who are being trained.. the other one was that there was not enough seniors who are willing to come back and train those kids.. another was that there wasn't a good culture in enabling people to punish their juniors without any restrain.. whatever the case, solutions are being carried out.. changing the culture, making people more committed, recruitment drive better, so on and so forth..
people like us who just come back from serving ns are all unwilling to train the kids already.. it is so time consuming and there isn't any tangible rewards.. when i was told of the zone competition i was more curious about the result than anything else.. the school won all 4 categories with some pts to spare.. what shocked me is that yiyang told me that the comp has increased the standard, which means to say that either the other schools had decreased in their standard as well, or we have really improved, which is a big surprise to me..
whatever it is, i feel that kudos to yiyang and bixia who are willing to sacrifice their time to help out and change the degenerating culture of our school's sj.. however, i am not willing to do such a sacrifice.. i had enough of those activities that ends up with no rewards..
the 4 years i had an impact on me and i was grateful to the experience that i gained.. i learn the regimentation a uniform group brings and the flexibility of organising an event or an activity, and combine the 2 of them together.. which is of good use now to me.. but, if u ask me if i had fun, then i can safely reply a big no to u.. i like the competition part as i believe i am a competitive guy, but those games and organising of camps, i guess i had enough of those nightmares..
tts all from me today.. ciaoz..
' the world continues to spin' , 11:00 pm
