Saturday was POP. Alot of stuff happened that day...

I kinda chionged over to school and attempted to dry my wet hair in the train, ended up having it a bit damp but otherwise ok. met kaiseng and daniel on the way there.

When we got there we found out from a certain senior that the std 1s were in the semicircle area near 4f. Got there and helped Christine polish boots abit (to no avail really, later still as dull as ever till she added her instant wax or something). Then later the some of the 'sgts' ( yiren, manjia n me, I was 'sgt zhi ying') started arguing about something in scene three of our skit that was basically about some stuff in our sj life, namely: first training, flag day, first marching/boots session and SJ day. Result : we only got to do one rehearsal in more than an hour before sgt elizabeth comes along and tells us to fall in soon.

We have first parade then go to LT 2 for some kind of talk by one of the sirs (who throws this dice thing around the room to determinewho answers some qns) then go off to clean our bunks and everyone else's(alot of which have ants)

We change to our 'full uni' ,aka. a rojak of boots, black socks, name tag, standardised hairband (girls/nursings), PE attire and sch skirt/shorts. Then go off to the hall to learn the keluar baris drill (we were supposed to learn the sizing drill too but no time) and after about half an hour or so (i think) we have to go for parade rehearsal. There were two rehearsals, some of us did one of the drills that we didn't need to do wrongly and during the second one somebody fell out cuz they decided to skip lunch or something. (When we showed the keluar baris drill to sir Tien Leng and sgt Yu Jia they were quite impressed, apparently)The real thing was, omg. The song they played while the std4s marched out was so damn sad and their movements (the slow march, which was extra sad) were so coordinated even without timer. Wow. I think alot of ppl cried, especially the emo ppl and definitely the std4s (almost all the std4 squad nursings cried and I think some of the ambulances looked like they were going to too). Some of the sgts got promoed. Among the smc 1 (sgts yu jia, man ching, daphne, ya hui, hua xin, hui wen and zhi ying), sgt daphne became staff daphne and sgts ya hui and zhi ying became ma'ams ya hui and zhi ying. (it's so wierd to call them that...)

Then we had our 8 dollar dinner which was kinda miserable, with very little food (mind you, I'm the kinda person who normally doesn't get hungry very easily). After that was social nite, during which we had lots of weird performances from the std1s to 4s plus from the seniors (jc1). The std1 (ie. us) did some stuff about our sj life(as i mentioned), (i was 'sgt zhi ying') n got lots of reponse, sort of. The std4s went 'ooh' whenever one of the 'sgts' introduced themselves to the 'std1s', especially when yiren said he was sgt man ching. Later the std 2 went 'orh horr' when charlotte ('sgt hui wen') scolded the 'std 1s for not knowing how to fall in properly. Seriously. The std 2s did a dance, the std3s did some powerpoint thing about the angkor watt trip and a dance, the std 4s did 4 dances, something about a guy (sgt wei song) and two girls (sgt ya hui and elvina(is that how you spell it?)), the seniors sang a couple of songs. The std 4's was the nicest, i think. (why we de only squad dat nvr dance....)

Then they were supposed to play this video for the std4s but ther were some problems so we went to our bunks to have some time with our smc1 instructors. We exchanged presents (they loved our bandages!yay!) and made alot of dumb jokes. haha. They gave us some nice stuff, a felt mini-t-shirt, a letter and a box (sort of) of choc cookies. Each letter had different bits written by different sgts(except sgt yu jia, i wonder why....). The box of cookies appeared to be a sucess, since everyone except sgt man ching who was finally tempted by sgt yu jia waving one in his face, after which he decided to snatch one from the box after a slight struggle, during which the std 4s fooled around while the std 1s watched in amusement. There were lots of jokes about how the std 4 were portrayed in our skit:

-sgt yu jia:i don't run like this, I run like this!!! now everyone knows i run like this! (then the other sgts appluad us on how well we portrayed her)
-sgt zhi ying: why am i so fierce?! ('oh because one training you are fierce, one training you are nice' quoted from yiren)
-sgt hui wen(in response to the above): oh, so you mean i'm always fierce?! humph.

Then they started talking about us...

sgt yu jia: i think you guys are very cute leh. i mean hor, normally ppl greet automatically, but when you guys greet you lyk got 4 steps: first you gather your whole squad, then you discuss who to greet(um...?!), then you greet, then you praise yourselves, lyk: oh, we greeted, yay!

Er...nothing to say. Later on...

sgt yu jia: man ching, your turn
sgt man ching: er, nothing much to say leh...
sgt yu jia: ok, i let you say last, but den you must say at least 100 sentences!
sgt man ching:er.....

the std 4s continue talking(ignoring sgt mc), then when it's sgt man ching's turn, the video thing suddenly decides to work. The video showed pics of the std 4s life n message from the std 1s and 2s and their seniors. (everyone thought the std4s were so cute when they were in std 1!!) after the video...

everyone: (sgt) man ching,ur turn now!!!
sgt man ching: er...nothing much to say leh...
sgt yu jia: ok, i help u all translate ah, what he wants to say is that he really really loves you; 100 times! *grins cheekily*
sgt an ching starts talking.

POP 2007 was funny yet sad...it was the std1's 1st POP(no one in our squad cried la, not emo enough, later go home den wanna cry)