Commissioning!

COMMISSIONED LIAO LO! ^_^ Finally the day has arrived, and gone..lol

Weather was not perfect to start off..started pouring @ ard 1.30pm...Yea...raining cats and dogs, literally >.< Cat I was declared...meaning, all activities to be stopped! And the sky was all gloomy and such...no sun to be seen...anywhere! Sheesh. All of us were so low morale all of sudden, 'cos of the weather. It was perfect, sunny in the morning! Good weather, good cloud cover, but not grey clouds to cover the entire sky...but all changed in a matter of hours. The winds blew the grey clouds towards SAFTI...and later the parade square...

We all still continued with the preparations etc...but still the weather was damn bad. Jun Hao came along to talk to us, 'cos he's involved in the parade as usherer. Had to redo the nominal roll signature (Plus some *ahem**ahem*) and got wet..lol. But wad the heck. The time is near....

Got checked by SSM SOL, and 2WO Seet and Staff Hari. As soon as the rain stopped a bit, we all started to march off towards the Warriors' Hall, to prepare for the weapons inspection and warm-up conducted by Parade 2IC, Edmund Joseph TwoHill. Parade Commander was my friend, Ghim Song! Cut my finger...but all right, cos I stopped the bleeding in time ^^" But seems like my hormat not tt good today...ack.

Rain still fell as time drew near, and the parade was (definitely) delayed...then we formed up and go ready to march to the FUP near the Parade Square. When we reached there, the rain stopped! Clouds moved off and there was a window of opportunity! w00t! :) So the parade carried on without a hitch! Got to see CPT Yong, CPT Lee, CPT Jason Ong, CPT Jason Chia and 2LT John! Well, real glad to see them! But also a little nervous, so many flashes of lights and many many ppl, clapping at our every movement (initially).

But as the parade went on, they also quite sian *lol* cos of the numerous times they had to stand up and sit down (everytime we do hormat they hafta stand up haha!). Everything went on fine, with no rain, clear skies... But when the President talked to us, we looked up and saw the grey clouds approaching...an ominous sign...o.0' We all were muttering, "Hurry Up! Rain coming liao!" Indeed, a slight drizzle came (nothing much la! We kenna even heavier b4 during rehearsals) and we were praying it would go off b4 we go in to let our parents to put on our ampulets.

When we did the slow march, the rain sorta stopped, so we were quite eager to quickly get onto the parade square. The band marched off, and we started to feel the first bits of rain...not good sign we all thought. But, to our delight, we managed to be given the all-clear to move to the parade square! Elated we are! Definitely! :) No drizzle would ever stop us from this moment! So when the band came in slowly, we were all quite worried, and someone in front told them to scurry off quick 'cos we're marching in! lol! *Sheesh*

And everything else....juz falls into place :) The throwing of the peak cap (Shown in friendster) was done! And we all hugged and jumped like nothing...finally! ^^"

Dinner was @ DHA for me and my parents, my bro, Patrick and grandmother all went to the Gym for the buffet dinner. Sitting @ the prizewinners' table (no. 24) was a Lt. Col Eddy from the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) and his wife, another PSC scholar in MINDEF, and a pastor. Together was Bryan and his girlfriend (soon to be married!), who was the other SOM. Actually thought our CO SOL LTC Billy Yap would join us at our table....but it seemed not. 7 dishes, with the Yu Sheng for starters, followed by Shark's Fin, Fried Butter Prawns with Pineapple, Pepper Chicken, Fried Noodles and desert was Chin Chow Longan. (Heard tt some of those normal square tables had the desert served b4 the noodles came ^^") The Chinese Orchestra Ensemble from MDC provided much of the music to entertain us.

Reached home...at 11pm...

Current Mood: Elated

Current Music: Sun Yan Zi - Tian Hei Hei o.0'