Sunday, April 03, 2005

so it's finally over. POP has come & gone. 4 yrs of sweat, tears & blood.

yesterday began rather well. woke up too early for my liking. but reached sch in a really gd mood. we turned e room upside down for e final time. filmed down all sorts of things. sang wj's song... haha... then all went to change to full-u... damn shiok, wear ssgt & 1st class. we winded tt moron up by posing in front of him & wj's cam, all e while saying "united ssgt". then it rained. so all sat inside. & waited. practised a bit. then finally, aft a long while, e rain cleared. so we had a few run-thrus, be4 e very last parade. e parade felt unique. it's a feeling tt can't be replicated. i'm sure i'll nv 4get tt feeling. a sort of adrenline rush. woo~! it was a great parade, although we all made mistakes we all shld not haf. congrats wj & jaime. BUC for 2004-05!
aft tt, we put away e rifles. went for lunch. chiong e hall. then we all had a tok wif humji & ivan.
then e concert. quite interesting really, all e speeches, cept 4 tt moron. helluva long speech, more lyk a sermon. couldn't stand it. nearly fell asleep. e performances were ok oso. my only grouse was... WHEN on earth did i become macho man?! so anyway. 2405.. u guys did a great job. thx for making it great.
towards e end, e tears flowed. faizal, qazim, & e girls cried. huiyu cried. some of e guys were close to crying too. it was kinda emotional... e atmosphere. so e passing of e key was done in tears. lotsa hugging & all.
then e debrief. e sec 2s. they haf a grown alot. i tink i've mentioned it be4. but they really haf. so e last debrief. really special. hope they go on fighting, don't gif up & show e world jus a gd a squad they r.
aft tt went seoul garden, of coz aft going home to shower 1st. had a great meal, maybe too much meat, i'm kinda of sick of it now. had a really great time. hope we can do this more often.

4 yrs of slogging it out. 4 yrs as buddies. 2304, u guys rock!

i heard the crickets at 11:22 am

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