farewell 2007...

The Co-aSSes and I...
Awards and Uniform and I...

The Sec 4s... My Sub-coy... So small (the pic, not the sub-coy)

Farewell was on Friday. The fun lasted till Saturday morning.

The weather didn't co-operate, it rained. No parade, I'm sure the only person who was happy was Marshall. He was suppose to be the parade commander but parade got cancelled and a relatively informal one was held in the audit.

When kids complain asking why they only get to stay in Full-Uniform for an hour, you know something is just wrong. Maybe it's just because it's the last time they will probably ever wear it. For the Founders' Men, there is still the Founders' Awards Presentation. So they draged the time they were in uniform by taking some photos.

The kids went to play some game. The officers took some time to decide who to promote and take over the company. It was fruitful. Decisions were hard.

Last minute Farewell "gifts" for my portfolios. Er... written on empty CDs. I am making the real gift now. If people form the CO-aSSes portfolio are reading this, you probably get them when you meet me for lunch. So dinner. Soggy fish and chips. At least the fellowship was good.

Then devotion and special event. Wenjie gave his testimony which was not really that touching. Haha. Then he got the entire batch to go up and sing the Budgie Song. Er... it's just weird lah. I think Miss Lily did a great job. She made sashes for all the Sec 4s and awarded them each a positive sounding award. Then the Sec 4s also got this really weird pen. It has a compass on one side and a thermometer on the other. So when you are lost, you can try to find your directions and tell the temperature AND in extreme situations, you can even write a last message on some rock somewhere. (in case really lost) There was promotion too, and finally, the new company leaders were announced.

Then all the younger kids went home. And the Sec 4s started to play soccer while the AQ people went to bed after an inspiring video of past year AQs. Played soccer till 2ish. The AQ people woke up at 3ish. Wave goodbye to them, wished them good luck. Macs arrived. Ate till 5ish, okie, I didn't eat. Talked to some of them. Went up to the room to try to sleep. Eric came in with some kids to play Fatal Frame. They screamed. Act like nothing happened, continued to sleep. Lijia called me at six to ask me to open the gate. I reached the gate, the Auntie came so I didn't need to open it anymore. Bad timing. Went back up to the room, watched them play Winning11 till seven thirty. Finally got them to break "camp". Nat and some of the rest stayed behind to play soccer again. Whatever, went home at 8. Haha.

Haha. That's all folks. The end of an era. This was indeed a good batch. Whenever you have people stepping up to do things, and these aren't the appointed leaders mind you. You know that they are special. It was a fun ride.