Father’s Day

I’ll post more pictures of drill camp soon. But this is something i’ll like to share…

It was Father’s Day during LDC1 and Drill camp.  We were to break camp in the evening, that means not too much time to spend with Dad, the officers wanted to break camp earlier, so that all of you could spend the special day with Dad. However, we had to stick to the original programme and hence left it as it is.

Well, Sir did remind you to wish your dad a Happy Father’s Day. Did you? I guess some of you do have a great relationship with your dad, but perhaps some of you may not share that same bond with your father. Perhaps for some of you, Dad was never in existence, for some of you, Dad was special, but he has left you. Well, we do have our fair share of relationships, good or bad. But whatever the case, family is something we cannot choose. We cannot choose the kind of parents or siblings we want, like the way we choose our friends, however, we can choose the way we treat them.

Well, I never shared a close relationship with my dad. There are many characteristics of him which I dislike. Though I know Dad does love me, perhaps in a way he never showed or did not know how to portray, but it was hard to comprehend and communicate with him. I often thought to myself, if i had my own kids, I’ll never want to be the parents, at least my dad was to me. Perhaps I did not understand him or perhaps he didn’t try hard enough. Sometimes it is hard to love him the way I should. I’m not perfect, and I’m struggling in every aspect to relate and respect the earthly father God has given me.

But whatever I did not find in him, I found in God. Through Jesus, we have access to the holy God whom we could relate to Him as Father.

The bible records for us in Galations 3,

⁶Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” ⁷So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.”

Well, who is God to you? Is He just someone we go to when we need help or meet a big problem or crisis? To me, He’s God, Master and the perfect father I never had, but now possess forever. He is my King.

Who is God? God is King.

The final result… Well done boys!!!

Our Sec 1 Drill Com champion… guess who?….

Well, under Sir Kian Peng, no mercy…  the boys are visibly terrified.. haha.. well, no sweat boys, there’s still Drill Camp Stage 2

The result.. Part 1

After two days of drill camp, interested to know how our boys fare? Drill down competition Part One….

Preview of Drill Camp….

Here’s a preview of how our boys are being tortured… hahaa..

Enrolment Service 2009

This year enrolment service was held in Woodlands Sec, our h0meground. After so much rehearsal in the morning, and our boys are excited being the GOH..

It’s sad that due to bad weather, we shift it indoors…

Our flag bearer

Vikiram our GOH commander

Puthran, my PC reporting to GOH, Mrs Tay Poh Imm (who is my primary school teacher!!!)

Inspection of GOH

Colours party

Presentation of Graduation Certs to our graduating boys..

Thank you for journeying with us all these years in BB, hope to see you all back as primers, then officers….

love you all….

Jega.. intelligent boy..

Chin Siong, sweet boy… will miss ya

Yan Cheng… hope u start to eat lots…

Maynard... seen you grown so much over the years... more matured now, glad to journey with you...

Si Jie, one bright and matured boy...

Dennis... will miss his nonsense and crap

Timothy... my logistics boy

Vikiram... been through with you since u were in Sec 2... loved ur optimism, character, eagerness and hardworking atittude, you'll go far

Jian Gang... saw more eye-power action as a primer.. keep it up! Capable boy!

Qi Hong... missed you all the years... glad you are back as primer.. u're one sweet boy!

Jie Jia.. it's always raining.. hahaha.. he's so tall, his pants are always too short!!

We had the school band to play for us.. nice

They sure are proud!!! =P

Don't these two look like brothers!! So alike rite.. haha.. these two boys are fairly dear to me... proud to have been thru BB with them so far... glad to be able to see you both grow thru all these years.. will miss you, Vikiram!!

Navindran always calls me his mother... darn! haha.. if so, then i have two lovely boys here!! =P

My graduating boys....

Now you know our boys are never serious.. this is a SERIOUS POSE SHOT...

So typical of us!!!

66th BB Coy!!

Time flies… It’s been 3 years with 66th and I truly loved every minute of it!! It’s never too tough to love all of you. Whether you are big, small, black, white, tall, short, handsome, pimply, loved all of you… I grew a lot just being with you all, learning what it means for God to love me and all of you. God is definitely working in your lives and i’m glad.

Looking through the pictures and each one of you as I upload these pictures, I am again reminded of the times spent with all of you.  I cherish my time here.. I do not know how long the Lord will keep me here, but I am blessed to journey with all of you.

I’m happy that God gave me a chance to love, serve and minister and in the process, be loved, served and ministered. Thank you, Lord!

Woodlands Secondary Speech Day 2009

Boy, am I honoured but more priviledged than honoured to be invited for Woodlands Speech Day awards…I am very proud of our boys. These achievements are non-BB related, but a great way to encourage our deserving boys…

I’M TRULY AND TERRIBLY PROUD OF YOU!! Well Done Boys!!

GURU!!! It runs in the family.... his sister basically topped almost in all subjects in her level too!!!

Wisdom and Truth Awards sponsored by ARPC, for the most improved student in Woodlands Sec

My slacker top boy.. what an irony... but I'm very proud of you, Eye-power =)

More so, thank you Woodlands Sec, especially the teachers for nominating Sir Pan Yong, Sir Kian Peng and myself to be awarded the Friends of Woodlands Sec Award…

I’m sharing this award with all other officers who have toiled all these years with us.

This rightly belongs to all of you, Sir Chee Leong, Mdm Eva, Sir Govin, Mdm Betty, Mdm Irene Sir Harry,

Sir Eric, Sir Yongwei… and others who have worked hard..

It’s a great privilege… though I feel I do not deserve the award, but its God’s blessing in sustaining us as officers to serve our boys in this manner, to love them and care for them… thank you Father for your assurance provided through the institution under your charge…

Car Wash 2009

Dear everyone,

I am so sorry… it has been very long since i’ve updated.. sigh.. it’s really sad. I missed a lot of events with all of you and have limited pictures. However, i’ll try to upload as much as I can..

First up, Car wash for BB Week!! We did well for BB week again! Well done boys…

Here are the pictures from Sir Chee Leong.

Starting work...

We work hard okie?

This is clearly skiving... no.. boys.. don't tell me you are working hard.. haha

Taxis.. always our customers...

Sir Harry... a rare sight, becuse he is always behind the camera!!!

My 2009 best recruit wiping...

OMG!!! I cannot believe we did this AGAIN!!!the kesevan pose! He is sure legendary...

Hmmm... waiting? Acting busy?

"Digging up the dirt.. if i can find" Gabriel

My new privates.. doing very well...

Officers.. finally, Sir Chee Leong in the pictures... =)

Primers.. nice to see them coming..Praise God

66th in Operation

BBAQ 2009 – New Accomplishment! A new milestone for 66th~!

Dear boys,

We rejoice and thank God for the wonderful achievements of our AQ boys 2009. This year, we trained hard for months, our boys came regularly and worked hard in their training. And we made it! Though only one team participated this year, it was indeed history!

For the 2nd time, we managed to complete the race, not only that, our boys finished it REAL early! The race started at 6am and they were at the end point by 2.15 or so, clocking about 7 plus hours. Well done!!! We applaud the good work!! So proud of you!

First time in history, I was not at end point earlier to receive our boys, what a waste!!! =( In fact, they called me to tell me the good news! haha.. Well, they had lots of energy after to talk… seems like they could go for another round..

And so… here’s what happened after the race..

Macs Treat.. for long race without much food...

Looks like all the seoul garden was digested before the race began

They had so much energy.. i think they ate more than 5 cows… the input was definitely more than output.

And guess what? They wanted more.. the first thing they asked for was pizza… sigh..  =P

So determined to get their pizzas that they were willing waiting for me.. hahaa.. not that they loved me a lot.. but they loved the pizza that was to come…

And so, here we are.. at Pizza Hut!

Sharing stories of the race.. hard work goes to everyone who made this possible

The boys LOST their BIKES again!!! We never learn from our mistakes, this happens every year…

The lesson that we should have learnt is to lock our bikes.

Thank God for the primers who were on standby and quickly rented the bikes and rode to them! We could have been half an hour earlier.

I told them, next year, I will tag our bikes with signs and pictures. stickers on Hello Kitty, Strawberry Shortcake, Powerpuff gals & Princess Diaries. I guarantee no one will touch the bikes, not only that, it will be the most prominent. hahhaaa..

Well, as we found out from Tian Sheng later, that the bikes were there, but some other teams sabotaged our team but placing their bigger sign over ours… sigh.. such a display of bad sportsmanship and sin! God forgive them!

Pizza Craze..

Enjoying the chezzy cheese pizza

Gluttons!!

Did you all realise that all the photos here are food-related?! No one will believe it’s actually AQ!!! hahaha.. Sadly, I do not have team shots.. and we are busy with eating, such a characterisitc of 66th Coy! (Or rather the 66th Club)

Well, they deserve it! With all the hard work, not just the team but the primers and some boys coming down to support our AQ team. Our primers not only solved our bike problem but ran with them to the ending point!!! I really saw team 66TH working together.

Of course, we do not forget our dearest captain, Sir Pan Yong without whom this will not be possible. Thank you for all the training for the boys for the past 3 months and all the hard work! Team, remember you owe Sir a big treat!!

Most importantly, we thank God for another victory won! A new milestone in our 66th history!

We’ll climb higher in 2010! AQ2010, here we come!

POP..

It was a new beginning for our recruits.. finally passing out to be privates… new format this year, besides passing out of our recruits, we gave out awards for best overall attendance(those who hit 100%) and we also organised the drill down competition for our senior boys..

I must say i’m really proud of you boys, after the quick rehearsal, i think you all did very well, you look neat, good, smart and nice!! Well done!!! Silent drill was done well too!

Nice...

Mr Gary Ong was here to lend his support and encourage our boys!!

Giving out the target badges

The drill down competitors

Looking smart.... focus!!!

Very quickly, we're down to our 3 finalists...

And 2 finalists....

They were focused and fought hard...

And looking very strong...

And finally our champion, Yu Wee!!! Our drill down champion, receiving his drill com badge from Elder Foo Man from church.

Our Drill Down Champion 2009

Recruit and Drill Camp 2009

We has a wonderful camp over the recent weekend….

Let’s see what the recruits were up to…

This was what we found when we checked their bags….

Interesting generation.. one who's scared of the dark?!!

Doesn't the school provide toilet paper? Or is it that you have no confidence in the food?

Piracy is BANNED?!

At the meals table....

Learning what is means to be a BB boy… impressed by the help our senior boys give to our younger boys… i think it’s just so wonderful… well done Senior Boys!!

Learning to fit the harversack...

Trying on the uniform

I'm not looking like NPCC...

At drill camp, we had a mock drill down competition….

Well, our AQ boys are training hard… in preparation for their 20 plus km walk, they were forced to carbo load….

It's tasty!! It's nice!! It's KFC!!!!!

Yeah!! We keep our spirits up!!!

Recruits games …. i wonder what did Dennis indoctrinated in our boys… i bet they need to detox their minds…

Blow wind blow?!

Forfeit... =P

Ben, studying hard even during games, otherwise Sir won't allow me to be on POP....

Man, chicken dance?!

The KANGAROO COURT- where you take revenge on your friends!!!

The corrupt lawyers

The court judges... the impartial ones..

The guest lawyer, defending his credentials..

Protecting himself...

The plantiffs

The court audience was entertained...

The accused

Executing the punishment...

Damning the lawyer.. hahaah

Not wearing enough is criminal

Airy fairy is good.... not wearing underwear is normal... my right!!