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Post POP Blues.
Omg, I cried soooo much! I first started crying when Seriphos got first for ALC. I cried during dry run, due to much influence from my squadmates. And of course, I cried during the parade, which I managed to restrict my tears till the "pandan kehadapan pandan" command, so that my parents wouldn't see me cry. I cried during Social Night. I almost cried after watching Cindy's video (because of the message at the end), Xun Lin's talk and letter, and while browsing through the notes from our dear instructors in our personalised files. Cannot cry already! I'd cry so much for that day if I cry anymore it'd be pretty embarassing. I cried during Mdm Xin Ying and Mdm Huiru's talk today too. I even cried when we said our last words to the Standard Ones during photo taking. Arrgh. But I can't help it! :( I'm pretty emo, huh?
It's a cannot-bear-to-leave sort of feeling. I remember the times when all of us were so tired of SJ and wished for POP to come, but now that it's over, everything's different. Rarh, time passes scarily fast. It seems like yesterday when we've been through Standard One camp, JNCO training camp and SNCO training camp. Looking at those old photos made me realise how much I'd changed and grew up since I was a Standard One. All these which I have SJ to thank for.
POP was really well-planned, thanks to the dear Standard Threes. I love the gift for dinner! A wine glass with an icecream stick with my name on it, a minature bouquet of fake flowers, an empty scroll and a piece of ferrero rocher. Talking about chocolates, Eli's handmade heart shape chocolates were good! Ooh, and not forgetting Yi'an's self-baked chocolate muffins and chocolate chip cookies! Back to topic, I liked the social night theme too! Magic. The door gift was a wand made out of a black straw with aluminium foil, but it was very exquisite and nicely made I think! Love the lights too. It's great being a passed-out Standard Four for social night! 'Cos you're like the star of the event. Our performance, should be pretty successful I hope? Well, all of us practised pretty hard for it, within such a short time. :D
I love Seriphos! Although we may be a softer house with no long loud original cheers like Hera, we have short and sweet ones, which reflect the simplicity in us. Seri is a really warm house, we treat one another with sincerity and lots of love! :D The chocolate cake during yesterday's POP dinner was a big surprise for us Std 4s, it was what we had planned for the previous batch of Std 4s! You never know, this could be a Seri tradition in time to come. The notes which the Seri Juniors gave us were really sweet and perhaps funny too, but they touched me, and made me tear. We were seriously a black horse for ALC, we never expected to win and lead by 5 points. Although we really wanted to get first this time and win Jenova by 1/2 mark(they won us by 1 last year), it came as a surprise. Now, Seri's really slow when it comes to winning competitions, and apparently I was surprisingly more alert than all of them for once when they announced the winning house for the mascot competition. They announced the winner, I exclaimed "Oh my god!" while my whole house remained silent, and I almost thought I heard wrongly. It took them one second to start cheering for joy. I remember how I held my head down and tried concentrating not to hope so much for Seri to get first when the winning houses for second place was announced, and now it was my turn to stone for one second and look up when everyone else was cheering.
I love the Standard Ones! We've only taken them for a short 4 months, but I feel really attached to them. Seeing them "flood Dunman" in front of us pains me, which could be why I cried so badly in front of them today. This bunch of kids taught me alot as an instructor. I will really miss them. Just thinking of the fact that I won't be taking them for routine trainings anymore makes me want to cry in front of my computer. But I won't, of course. We did circuit pumping with them to end off our last proper time together. The standard ones gave us a jar of seashells each, handpicked and polished with names written on them. They picked 330 pretty shells for us at Pasir Ris Park, a place where it is so difficult to hunt for decent seashells! I shall treasure all the gifts which I've received for POP carefully. Oh, and the seniors gave us a piece of UNDERWEAR each for their gift! :D Now that's really cute.
Now it's time for all of us Standard Fours to move on. Being in St John was a wonderful experience for me, and it'd left me with lots of memorable memories, and great squadmates. As much as I love my cadets and squadmates, I can't bring myself to continue this journey as a senior. It's time for me to try something new, and pursue my interests in Year 5. Let's just hope that all of us would still be as close even though we cannot come together for trainings/ SJ events anymore. Forward without Fear, Together as One!
Okay, enough emo-talk for now. I shall think of more (if I can) and blog another day. Byebye! :)
Blogging with lots of love, SSGT Mah Ke Yun Elaine.
