Our second rehearsal - Friday.
Surprisingly, this training was lesstaxing than the Wednesday one.
We were comparatively more well-versed with our drills and the parade procedures. I remembered that Wednesday was an utter mess.
There is less to talk about. We were in our full school uniform. Ah yes! We needed to have our formation signs on for the training. Aware that I didn't have any, due to earlier screw-ups, delays, procrastinations, and utter ignorance, I had to buy them on the day itself during lunch-time, and had already prepared my sewing 'apparatus' - the needle and the thread. I then started sowing the signs on. They were supposed tobe three fingers down our chevron. I sewed the formation sign up quickly, fortunately with the help of Cheng Yao and Darrel. They helped me to pack my stuff, hold my uniform, tie the thread onto the needle, etc. Anyway, I managed to get them up before training. My seniors were surprised. But it turned out that one of my formation signs came loose and I had to do some patchwork upon return, with the professional, experienced aid of my mum, of course.
The drills were the same as those of Wednesday, obviously, but at least we performed them with considerably better synchronization and 'smoothness'. We marched better, we did everything better.
In the end, I didn't feel as tired as I did on Wednesday. I was entirely, wholly mobile the next day.
That's all(there's really not much to write about) for the training on Friday.
Thanks. And thanks especially to Cheng Yao and Darrel for their help with the formation sign.
Anyway, my officers commended that my beret was too big, and I had to buy a new one at Beach Road (the area around Kampong Glam CC), store 02-68. The new beret was size 7 1/4. As it was new, I had to bring it to school everyday to season it (by sitting on it during lessons. Luckily I didn't fart) Here's a picture of me 'drowning in my beret':
Cheers,
Zhu Cheng
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