Saturday, July 24, 2010 9:13 PM
Message from Jia-er ma'am:
hello year1s!
Didn't really have time to say much on stage yesterday.
Anyway, firstly, thank you all very much for being such a cute and wonderful squad, you guys really made me enjoy the last half of my NCO life and look forward to coming for trainings as an NCO. I'll miss being your squad NCO (: I'm glad to see how much you guys have grown since that very first day when we met the whole group of you. Still, I hope you'll remember everything we've told you, from not dragging your feet to waiting for your squad, not cutting squad, not fidgeting in your squad, having a sense of urgency etc. All the stuff on basic discipline. Remind one another! Remember, one for all, all for one, you guys are one squad so help each other out alright! (Bok Leong please go teach your squad how to fall in properly, with the marching part. LOL.)
I don't know if you guys went to compare the messages on your cards but if you did then you'll realise that for most of you I told you to speak up more. Your squad has a lot of potential and many of you are very enthusiastic when it comes to outside trainings but during trainings all these people seldom speak up ): Usually I'll only see Bi Yun or Tang Shi or Fiona volunteering to answer questions or some of the same few people reporting to bags room (which by the way, isn't a very big accomplishment so please volunteer when asked to answer questions). Be more confident okay! Most of you probably have the correct answers but don't say anything. Say something! You won't be scolded for giving the wrong answer (unless it's really too ridiculous/obvious/something you are supposed to know).
And also please stop pushing everything to Jiashin okay. She will suffer. Squad leader isn't an excuse for her to do everything. (and usually as you progress, it won't matter whether you're squad leader or not, everything is up to your own performance. The squad leaders etc were chosen to facilitate communication between the squad and the year1squad ns. Which means that by now more of you should be helping to do the admin stuff like collecting forms.)
Now that we've passed out, while I hope that you'll remember us, you'll welcome your new squad NCOs too. (and please refer to them as sirs and ma'ams not just simply Hazel/Jing Yu/ Kai Xiang/Wei Xiang ._.) Don't try to compare us with them and our training methods, because it'll be different. They'll be stricter than we've been, since you've already been in NP for half a year and should therefore know more already. Keep up the positive attitude you guys have shown us so far alright! You'll become seniors in half a year, and I'm sure you'll all be wonderful seniors (:
I think one of my few regrets is that we didn't get the chance to conduct uniform check for your squad. (you'll get the joke once you've had your first U-check. If you really don't then you can ask me again :o)
And thank you for the very touching speech yesterday! (:
(okay this is getting way too long)
加油 and all the best! Boomz squad ftw :D
♥, your Jia-er ma'am (:
PS. in your subsequent POPs please give your presents to your squad Ns on the day itself leh. Otherwise it'll look like you didn't give your squad Ns anything :x