For anyone who looks at the title, everyone believes or will immediately think that a NPCC cadet's life is nothing more than drills, physical training and punishments. You're dead wrong.
We actually play games and more bonding sessions. We also practice doing drills until we get that 1 solid bang instead of the bang that sounds like a firecracker. Our seniors normally are very harsh on us but as members of UG and more importantly, NPCC, i believe that it's their job to instill discipline in us. We cannot be boorish to our seniors, or anyone who rightly deserves our respect. Puerile behaviour is also not acceptable. Without discipline, the foundation of us will just literally collapse. By achieving a solid bang, we are able to co-operate with one another and understand each others' strong and weak points and learn from them. Punishment for whatever reason is doing a set number of pushups, a hackneyed form of punishment used by Uniform Groups and training for sport CCAs.
Today for my own training as a sec 2 cadet, we 1st had to do a parade which included saying the NPCC pledge, where i could clearly see some cadets in my level being quite insipid about it. We were forced to remember it by heart, and i found this very superfluous as we could just repeat after the commanding officer. After that we did drills with red cross. Not together, but we could see each others' drills. It was obvious to us that red cross's drills were extremely coordinated. Compared to ours, which sounded like fire crackers, theirs had reached a really high standard. Surprisingly, our drills became comparable if not better than them after our senior said " We'll be ending our drill training in 5min". All our drills immediately became very synchronized. The seniors were very amazed and proud of our drills but we continued doing drills for another 30minutes. The senior had lied to us! However with this lie, our drills had significantly improved.
After our drills we changed and played a round of soccer against the newly joined sec 1s. Some of our teammates disdained the sec 1s and thought we would surely win, and we were proven wrong. We formed 3 teams and played 9 versus 9. Despite some of them being quite big in size, they were surprisingly agile and dexterous. Sadly, my team lost 2 - 0. 1 point was scored when the goalkeeper wasn't looking. The 2nd point was scored when the ball hit our senior in the stomach and he gave 1 point to the sec 1s as penalty. This taught us never to underestimate our opponent.
Immediately after debriefing, we were allowed to go home. It was a very tiring but satisfying training.
My name tag and badge.
NPCC has given me a chance to live a different life from what i'm used to. My normal life is normally carefree and blithe, but life as a NPCC cadet is strict and harsh. NPCC is still fun and i don't regret joining it, although i didn't have much of a choice as Mr Chan didn't let me join badminton when i got into both badminton and NPCC as i appealed for CCA twice. Joining such a CCA also let me meet many different people with different personalities. There are those who were very reticent, and those who love talking, like me. Today's training also taught me how important teamwork is. If we don't have teamwork, our drills would never be co-ordinated.
With this fun day of training, i can't wait for the next one! Although the part where the seniors lied wasn't very fun...
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