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Farewell 2007

Friday, December 14, 2007

Heya, i m just back from NYGG Farewell 2007 :) Let's start from the start shall we...

bright and early in the morning.... at some ungodly hour like 6.50 am, I reached school for Cooks badge. I m in the tofu group. Things went on quite peacefully when I was cutting the veggies and stuff. All was fine.... UNTIL the cooking came. We were pretty slow when cutting I guess, so we did not have a lot of time left for the cooking. I was frying the tofu cubes.... but they refused to turn brownish. Baddies. So, Claire took over after a while and I went to cook the veggies, mushroom and sauce. It was pretty stressful ok.... we did not have much time and the tofu cubes were still not done. In the end we decided just to have white tofu. Our quantity was to little though. The chicken rice ball group were also having a hard time. They did not have enough ingredients and the rice was taking a long time to cook. In the end they had to go to the supermarket to get more ingredients. Those in the apple pie group did pretty well and the pies were ready. As the chicken rice ball group needed more time and the tofu group also had some stuff left and needed to help them all of us besides huijun and i did not go for the rehearsal for the handover ceremony. Both of us had to go as we were going to be patrol seconds next yr and needed to be clear of the procedure

The rehearsal went on quite fine even though I had to give timing when we were marching and all that. We were suppose to have a 10 min water break, but since those in Cooks still needed more time, they decided to start half and hour later. Meanwhile, all of the sec 2s, including those in Hostess went up to help. Finally, the food was ready.

On to the actual ceremony. It was pretty much the same as the rehearsal, just that this time we saluted colours and incoming PLs, PSs, CLs and ACLs received the ribbons that will be sewn on the epaulette. I received mine from Ms Chen and did the guides handshake. Now i'll have one ribbon on each side. During the ceremony I also noticed the PGA, Gold Badge and another badge i m not too sure what it's called on Calean's and Gao Min's uniform. That's uber cool :) They are so pro la!

After the ceremony, we went to the canteen for lunch. The hostess people gave all of us and identity card that has a picture and particulars of a famous person. THey also named the canteen famous land. haha. I received Arron from Farenheit and some people were like crazy over him. Before this, I did'nt even know who he was. haha. Some people received characters like Mojo Jojo, Romeo, Ariel, etc. Haha. Ms Teng received Susan from Narnia. She would's let anyone see it at first. Everyone was pretty chatty about their new "identity". Back to hostess. They served the food we cooked. oya, our dishes were Newton's apple pie, Qu Yuan's Chicken Rice Ball and Gandhi's Tofu. The rice was kinda uncooked though... owells, we tried.

After lunch was patrol corner, when we gave presents to our Sec 4s. My patrol's gift was a box containing pom pom balls, sweets and a ferris wheel photo frame. Hope Calean and Hui Min like it. They both received a box each. Calean also gave as a box containing sweets and a letter. Hui Min also gave us a letter :) Then, Peiling and I presented them our gift to them which were 2 jars containing glow stars, "kisses" chocolates and a note. Then, we also took lots of pictures and I went around giving presents to Valerie and Gao Min, and also gave chocolate to some others. The sec 2 batch also tried to record "permission to fall in mdm...(pause) we love you calean/meiting!" using a recording bear for each of them. Our batch is quite "attached" to the both of them as they were our footdrill commanders and they really had a lot of patience with us.

Up next was the party. We quickly changed into our costumes for our perfomance and went to the conference room. The sec 3s already decorated it. They started off with a catwalk by the Sec 4s. It was really fun. haha. Gao Min and Calean were the Men in Black, while Shuli was Jay Chou and Renice was Jolin Tsai. The rest of the sec 4s also took on costumes of characters like Dracula and the powerpuff girls. Next was the items by the sec 1s, followed by the sec 2s. Ours was a musical about Dos and Don'ts of NYGG... Fairytale style. It was rather funny and I was Ariel. Apparently Ariel was sleeping in a tent when it started to rain, flooding it. Then, I had to lie on my stomach and pretend to swim while the rest sang "out in the rain... out in the rain" to the tune of Out in the Sea. Next was a montage by the sec 3s. It was really nice to see what the sec 4s did when they were in sec 1, all the way to sec 4. We saw them being the "victims" of sabotage... to being the organisers of the camp. THe sec 3s also danced and sang for their item, so did the sec 4s. Their dance was really fun and they also threw us sweets. Next was a song session when everyone just sat in a circle to sing. We sang about friendship and about leaving. We all shared this special moment whereby we were connected by the songs like peng2 you3 and wo3 ke3 yi3, etc. Finally, the hugging session came. We started to hug all our seniors and even our batchmates. I hugged Calean first, then Hui Min, Renice, Gao min and shuli. By then I have already started crying. I just felt like crying ok.... and I was the first one. My tears just flowed freely. The sec 4s I hugged were like... "don't cry..." , including calean while she patted my shoulder and hugged me the second time. The sec 3 also said I'll still see them sometimes when they come back. I know all that... but I still cried. Few minutes later more sec 2s started to cry, many others were teary-eyed. I was like crying and crying... not the sad cry though. I was still smiling and I wasnt wailing.... just that kind of smiley face with tears flowing down. It just dawned on me that I have already spent 2 years with them... having them teach me new skills and guide me along the way... and I won't be seeing them much from now onwards. I cried that sort of I'll-miss-you-all cry mixed with a lil sadness and gratitude. i've never noticed how attached to them I've become after these 2 years... until I really realised they will be leaving for JC. It was tears mixed with smiles. I also chionged down to get the recording bears for calean and meiting that i left in the canteen. When I got back with meiting, ms teng was halfway through her sorta speech for us. Luckily I managed to listen to her... it was really meaningful. When she was done, our batch gave calean and meiting the bears. They were really happy... haha. Calean also jested that Gao Min was jealous... haha. We're all really thankful to the sec 4s...... and said dunno how many "we love you"s. At the end, we addressed our sec 4s, including the former CLs and ACLs as "seniors" for the first time, and not "sec 4s" anymore. We also greeted the new Company Leaders and Asst Company leaders as CLs and ACLs for the first time. The sec 1s greeted us Sec 2s for the first time. It felt like having and ending meshed together with a new beginning. It felt kinda weird cos we usually addressed the former NY guides in JC as "seniors". I'm also so used to addressing Calean and Gaomin "CLs", Shuli and Renice "ACLs". But the sec 2 sorta half screamed and squealed when we heard the sec 1s greet us cos we onli needed to greet se 3s and above. We all moved up a level after the handover ceremony I guess.

The party was not the end for us sec 2s (plus some sec 3s) though.... we had to clean up the kitchen and canteen. We took forever to scrub the pots with chao-ta rice and stoves and ended pretty late. Some sec 3s stayed with us all the way to help too. I think it is this type of care and commitment the upper-sec guides have for us that made us bonded as a company. Unknowingly, we have experienced 2 years of effort put in by our sec 3s and 4s. Though they might be strict with us sometimes... we still can feel all that they have done for us...even if we might not realise it immediately. All this while, they having been giving and giving, while we received. I remember being quite afraid of Gao Min at first when I was in Sec 1... but she's actually really nice. I really feel all of our sec 4s are really nice actually. Soon, our batch will go on to sec 3, going through the learning journey our seniors have gone through and receiving more responsibilities including guiding our juniors. Let's try our best and not disappoint them kks? :) Jia You!

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