This year, 2010, I had my second participation in Service Day. I should say it’s rather a different experience this time round as compared to previous time. When I was just a cadet quite new in the unit, I was quite anxious and nervous to carry out the Service Day as I wasn’t comfortable in speaking to the public. Meanwhile, this year, I am quite confident in carrying out the annually event aiming to spread crime prevention. The reason why I mentioned this year event is quite different is due to the fact that this time round, I am the one guiding the Secondary ones and twos to spread the message to the neighbourhood with confidence. Though some of them seem not confident enough, I encouraged them by giving them some advices. By looking at them spreading the message to the residents, it reminded me of my sec one’s life. Nevertheless, it is my responsibility in ensuring that confidence is built in my juniors as they will be the one who will take over my batch’s position soon.

Besides, other events that increased my interest in being my part of EVG NPCC unit is the bond among us. Whether is it within my batch or as a whole unit. Indeed, I am certainly proud for joining NPCC as my CCA. I had a lot of fun and my squad mates will always give me some words of encouragement to lift up my confidence whenever I’m down. I am certain that EVG NPCC will be the best unit if we still carry on with our tradition in lifting each other up when one is down. As that is what a team or should I say FAMILY are for!

It was a three day two night camp at Pulau Ubin. For me, this camp was like any other camp except the fact that we camped on an island and got to do more adventurous activities. The only down side of the camp was, like everyone said, getting bitten by insects. Is not that we dislike them a lot but they affected our concentration when doing a task as we have to scratch the affected area almost every 5mins. But that’s the negative part of all camps I guess, no matter where you camp. This camp has also helped me realize how important working as a team is. In some activities, we find ourselves cheering on our group mates and in others, being cheered on. Some activities also push our fears to the limit and require us to go beyond our fear to accomplish the task or activity at hand. Unfortunately for me, my fear of heights got the better of me and I couldn’t complete the task. That’s when your friends come into the picture and they try their best to cheer you up. That is why friendship is one of the values that I have understood from this camp. Another value learnt was respect. Respect can come in many forms- Respecting authority, respecting decisions made and even respecting yourself. However, we learnt that the hard way when we got yelled at, screamed at, on the morning of the last day. All of us got an earful from the CIs as we didn’t respect authority. Frankly speaking, I felt that it’s a bit unfair for those who did what was right to be scolded as well. Well maybe it’s because they want us to have the one for all and all for one spirit so I guess that’s the reason for their actions. During the whole length of the camp, everyone kind of missed each other as we were used to doing stuff as a squad. Overall, this is one of the camps that I feel has taught me a lot of values that will stay with me for the rest of my life.