CI Course - RC1 (1st to 5th of D08)

BAck from RC1.
Quite a huge sum of information bombarded at us and a lot of intake.
One question that was posted which I remembered most was
"Why am I in this course?"
I wrote down a couple of things:

- Well, firstly, Mdm Wong encouraged me to, my mom said it's a good opportunity to learn and get to know how others work.
- to better my leadership skills during execution?
- to better interact with people around me which I seldom am good at
- strengthen my unit's cadets
- come out of my comfortable zone, which is just to do the back work instead of really speaking up
- think flexibly
- be a good testimony or role model
- LEARN as much, SHARE as much, BRING BACK as much, CONTRIBUTE as much

I realised that there is a reason for every decision made by NPCC and it is reasonable. Like why are the lashings or knots tied in a certain manner, why things are carried out in this order. In NPCC, everything is done in such an orderly manner and I like it.

Then, it's like I have to ask myself "Am I going through motion?"
I have yet to answer that.


Debriefing is something I am not sure how to go about doing. Here I learn that we should catogorise our debriefings. (eg. Posture, professionalism, preperation, partnership, classroom management, how to summarise a lesson, how to clarify when wrong things are being taught, etc.. so much more.)

I remembered volunteering to check the uniform for the girls and when briefing them on their mistakes, I can't organise the pointers in my head and it was so messy, I need to write it down to brief. It was kind of heart-thumping.

Teaching of knots was easy as it was more flexible than during drills.
I got a feeling I am not going to do so well for my first assessement on radio com and footdrills because I didn't manage to study.




On 4th December 2008, THE GREATEST MISTAKE I SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE.
It was the simplest thing I should have done - pin up my fringe.
Great, because of this, I got shouted right at my face. I remembered when I was collecting the attendance list from other squads. I was thinking to go to ma'am first of to get my clip. I made a wrong choice. Anyway, it's over! -.-


Through this first 5 days, I met DELTA! Marvelous bunch of people.

We have our very own notebooks!
(Faiz the genius! haha~)

Spending most of the time eating with them and being the outstanding ones almost everytime in HTA. We had quite some time finding a place in Long John Silver on 5th DEC and I saw AKID working there.

A lot of jokes,
a lot of crap,
which made my life there more joyous and interesting.
Stressed at first, but less stress when Delta occupied my life. =D

01-Dec-08 to 05-Dec-08