ranks and pbb brooch

whew today was one long day... it was promotion adn dedication service at ACJC! haha... well basically raq, sun, julie and me were supposed to meet at tampines to buy ms gan her birthday present. it was a cross! hee... anyway, julie couldn't make it as she had to pack for the overnight stay at ms gan's place... and i was kinda late. but got reason one. haha, cause the night before i had pattern pattern burned 3 fingers, so couldn't polish boots, hurt like mad. so this morning i was to polish my boots but didn't realise it would take so long. in the end, i polished like a bit only? yeah.. so i met raq and sun around 10.45, half hour after meeting time. heh sorry... sun told me that mount zion was like second last floor of century square, but when i went there, i couldn't find anythign? realised shop was closed. so nvm, we just bought it from life book shop. saw ben tan there... haha.. he was goign for the band graduation thing i think...

well anyway, after that we headed for the coffee shop near faith's place. ate erm, nasi lemak.. quite nice leh.. but was darn full after that. met up with sam, adu and julie there. wah after that arh, mad rush okay! went to school and started changing into uniform like crazy... haha... oh then we boarded the bus that would take us to ACJC. that was the start of my horrible day. i got scolded about my total defence badge and kidna disappointed ms gan and ms lee. sorry. you see, raq, julie adn me had formally received our td gold badge but sun, sam and aud had not. so we were plannign to wear our silver one instead so as not to let the others feel left out. in the end, they had brought their gold badge, while the rest were given theirs on the bus. i did not have mine, so ms gan was pretty mad at me. sigh.. felt like crying... ms lee said i had to run 10 rounds for punishment. sigh... well we gave ms gan her present on the bus anyway, and she cried! she actually cried okay... felt like crying myself.. i think she was touched... hee..! =)

okay then we arrived. we were ushered into our seats... haha then we waited quite long. sm gan was in the colour party! haha, no wonder we had to go at like 1.30 while the service itself starts at 3pm. well anyway, saw jami in her white officer's unufirn! haha, quite funny... she looked cute though.. loved her click clock shoes... was kinda waiting for her to fall but nah, nt so mean. okay we waited and waited, and waited... sigh... saw my food com 1 group members! wahahaha hee! =)

FINALLY it started, and it was message after message. by then the girls were all feeling quite tired... julie aud and me were in one row, sun and sam behind us. raq was collecting ranks for the sergeants. (congrats by the way) aud julie and me were nearly falling asleep, but whatever did get into our heads, it was truly inspirational. =) well the long awaited moment arrived. promotion time! avril collected the corporal ranks, raq the sergeant ranks, and for the ssgt, it was individual collection. we were cheering for the sergeants like crazy, but they didn't seem too excited about our pbb or ssgt. it's okay though, cause i guess they were tired. long weekend after all. no congratulations and stuff but again, it's okay.. positive thinking! =) it would have been nice for a loud crazy cheering... but ah well, they do need their energy. haha, scarly i was deaf but hardly like it. anyway, after that was PBB brooch. the mam asked me why my hand was so cold and commented that our company had so many badges! haha hee.. so proud of the girls! =) it was so cold and nerve wreaking at that moment that i truly needed to pee so badly. haha. oh ya, and i was selected to present the guest-of-honour her token of appreciation, which was like a HUGE bouquet of flowers! haha and when i mean huge, i mean GIGANTIC! and the mam told me, where's your face, i can't see your smile... i was like heh sorry, the flowers are quite large... had a bit of trouble carrying them too.

okay i was quite happy then cause everyone was in quite a high hyper mood, BUT i kenw my face was like super super horrendously BLACK after the service. when the sec 3s went for ndp, and i saw pearlyn without her hair net, i was told with much CONVICTION by EVERY sec 3 ndp girl that "the other girls dont need to wear leh, it's OKAY, ms angeline didn't say anything. pearlyn has not been wearing it for quite some time so it's OKAY." and the careless thing i did was not to double check with ms gan, since i thought pris was handing it. and today? i saw peralyn wearing hair net, so innocently i asked her "why are you wearing one?" and she like gave me this innocent face too and said "can don't wear meh?" i should have said "YOU tell ME!" but i was so angry i faced the wall. was kind of punishing myself i guess cause everythign was rushign through my head, like discipline adn hwo i wasn't a good example to the juniors if i myself had to do pinishment later (run 10 rounds). thanks carmen and avril for making me feel better... i felt like a total failure and was angry at the whole world at that point of time... =)

oh then on the way home, had motion sickness... bleh... i never was good on buses.. sigh head was totally spinning... then ms gan wanted to pin the brooch on for us but erm, in my confusion i gave her the plastic instead... heh... she wanted to pin the palstic on me!!!

well all in all, a tiring but rewarding day yeah? have fun at the happy happy carnival girls! be happy! SMILE! it increases your face value.. hee