On 11th of February, 3 of my squad mates and I with Mr. Peh went patrolling around the neighbourhood. At 2.50pm, we fall-in near the general office in our full-u. After Mr. Peh and the policeman had reached we headed off. The other policeman will be joining us half-way during our patrolling as he had something to handle first.
During the patrolling, we learnt how to suspect underage smoking and we need to write down their names, IC, contact numbers and their house address. We asked the officer the purposes of jotting it down and he explained that, for instance, they may need it to check if the people are wanted or if they run away from home, they will be able to check it. Not long after, another police officer came to join us.
After that, we all had a question and answer sections with the policemen held outside the general office. We asked questions like what are the most common crimes and how to see if one is on drugs. The policemen explained to us how to identify someone who is on drugs, as the person will be slow in his or her movements and his or her eyes will be red.
The most common crime is shop theft.
We were also told that if we are suspecting someone, we need to be alert, observant and fast. The punishment for first time underage smokers is a fine of $30 with counselling while the second time will be a fine of $300 with counselling.
The policemen also told us to spread to our friends about not bringing too much valuables to school as this will result in more crimes and us becoming the victims and to secure our own valuables. Through this patrolling experience, my squad mates and I had learnt a number of new things and I think all of us had a better understanding of the job of patrolling as a police officer. This patrolling is very enriching and enjoyable.
Corporal Gina Peh
; 1:41 AM
Determination Above All;
On 13th February, Friday, we went to give out brochures about first aid. We assembled outside the foyer at 1.30p.m. and had a briefing on what we have to do by Miss Iswari. We were given a stack of brochure and were instructed to distribute at block 105. The brochure provides us information on what we have to do if any emergency happens such as cuts and other injuries, where you can get first aid from and how we can contact the head of Red Cross Foundation. After the briefing, we headed off to block 105. We started out by distributing it at the highest floor, 13, and half way through the block, we met the Red Cross members, Dhacha and Wei Kit. We did the last few storeys and at last we managed to complete the whole block. While Dhacha and Wei Kit assembled at block 106, we went back to school and reported for training. It was a great experience for us! :)
Lance Corporal Li Cheng and Hany
Sunday, February 22, 2009 ; 6:25 PM
Determination Above All;
At first, I had no idea what we were going to do for Chingay. We were looking forward to Chingay. During the workshop, the girl guides were not active at first because we were quite tired. But after that we enjoyed ourselves as we saw the NPCC having fun.
On the first day of Chingay, Friday, I was curious as to how Chingay looked like. We were grouped, and the three of us, Mythili, Amalia and I, were left out during the Chingay parade because all the other motivators were adults. Fortunately, a group of teachers from other schools dragged us in to join the fun.
On the second day, they re-grouped us and we had a lot of fun together. The parade started a bit earlier than the day before. But, unfortunately we had to go back early.
We really looked forward if there is another chance to let us join the Chingay parade. We really enjoyed ourselves and knew each other better.
Ainnal, Girl Guides
Thursday, February 5, 2009 ; 8:31 PM
Determination Above All;
On 30 January '09, after school we had our lunch and fall in outside NPCC room. We had been looking forward to this day and it finally came. Today is the first day of the Chingay events and all were very excited as some of us had never been so close to the Chingay performances before. Once the attendance was taken, we changed into our required attire and waited for the bus which would take us to City Hall area. We were all served with burgers and bread to fill our stomach and once after, we gathered with our respective group mates where we practiced our Chingay cheers. Soon after, we had our puppet gloves on and were welcoming the guests. It was fun and interesting to be a motivator. Some people smiles back to us, some did not. We used the puppets to show some funny actions. It caught a lot of small childrens’ attention. (: Sometimes we were thristy, we went to drink some water. Very soon the night fall, there were fireworks showing that the events had started Time for us to rest and watch the Chingay performance. There were different types of races and countries performance. First one, I saw is a lion I think it is representing Singapore. The lion look nice & awesome. After that I cannot remember clearly which came first, but I knew there was a particular dragon called joss stick dragon I think. And I saw Japanese performance, very nice and I saw some woman playing the drums on a lorry? We were so excited when we saw a artist named "Yao Yi Shan" she wore the Japanese costume very pretty. We also saw Korea performance I like those people who playing the drum with their hats got a long string turning, very unique which only can seen in Korea. Then we gained a lot of experience about this program. After we went back to our school, we had a short debrief session by our OC Ms Seow. She brief us about what need to bring for second day of Chingay and comment on our performance of being motivators on that day on what we need to improve. After that, we had ended our first day of being motivators in Chingay. (:
On 31 January '09, very fast the second day of Chingay. (: We fall in at 2.30pm in school and changed into our Chingay shirt and wore our lanyard. Before boarding the bus, we had got our puppets and start to head to City Hall which is our meeting point. When we reached there, we sat down and got our dinner and later spilt to our different groups. I went to my respective group with my friends. We were singing some cheers and had some chat again. Time passes fast, already 5plus going to be 6 we went to our in charge place. We do the same thing as usual we did yesterday. This time we were more hyper than yesterday, went shouting the cheers out of our lungs. When night fall, we were on the puppet's light. It look very nice in the night. Very soon, we had done our jobs. We quickly grab some bites and watch the same performance as yesterday. Then went back to the meeting point and take a group photo. We boarded the bus and reached school much earlier than yesterday. We thanked Ms Seow and Ms Noreen for giving us this chance to take part in much a big event we had ever took part in and we gain a lot of experience from here.
Private Yi Ning
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 ; 8:39 PM
Determination Above All;
On the 31st of January, we had our second day of the Chingay parade 2009. We fall-in at 2.30pm in school and changed into our Chingay T-shirt and worn our lanyard. Before we boarded the bus, we had also collected our puppets and then given some briefing and then we started to head towards the meeting point.
After we had reached, we do the same thing as we did on yesterday which was to split into the different groups and today the weather was great as it was very cooling and it wasn’t raining. So we were deployed shortly after that. Today there are some changes in the groupings. The first day we had T1-T8 for our M3 but today there were only T1-T6 as some of our groups combined to form larger groups.
So there were newcomers too for today which came from ITE and they joined T1-T4 as T5-T6 had a lot of manpower already. So we had some games before the parade started so as to help each other know more about all of us, so after the game we had our dinner and then around 7.15pm we were deployed to our stations as the audience were already filling up the seats.
We then cheered in front of the audience as the pre-parade performance was on-going, and after that the parade had been commenced so we also cheered our lungs out for today. So the procedure was the same for today, and since we already had the experience from the first day, we were more careful on not repeating the mistakes that we made during the first day and improve on our attitudes towards the audience.
So after doing our jobs, we fall-in back at the first meeting point and then we took a big family photo! And then we boarded the bus and headed back to the school. After reaching the school, our OC Ms Seow and our TO Ms Noreen thank us for being so positive and so sporty for this event and our leaders had also given positive feedbacks of our performance and we too thanked our OC and TO for giving us this opportunity to gain more experience in this event, and with that we had ended our Chingay 2009 motivator duties!
LCP Fincent Tan
; 8:33 PM
Determination Above All;
On the 30th of January, we the NPCC from Serangoon Garden Secondary School are the motivator of the Chingay 2009. On the first day, we fall-in at 1.45 pm as we had our traditional Lau Yusheng for our unit because of the Chinese Lunar New Year, followed on our CLs distributed our Chingay T-shirts, lanyard and the puppets to us. We then quickly changed and boarded the bus as we were a little bit behind time.
When we reached the meeting point, the volunteer there helped us to settle down and then we waited for the PA Mr Raymond to give his instruction. After that, we were split into M1-M5 as we had to refresh our memory on those cheer that we had learned before. My group was M3 and we had been rearranged into smaller groups from T1-T8, so I was in group T3 for M3 and our group M3 had to take care of the whole area 4 of the Marina Bay side as other groups had been deployed to the city hall side from area 1-3.
Our deployment was slowed down as it was raining cats and dogs, so during the waiting period, we had our cheer and some games to help us bond within our groups. Then when the weather was better, we started to walk to our areas and upon reaching, we had been told that new members from other schools would be joining our groups, and their number was great so our leader told us that we would have to help them teach the newcomers the cheers as they are just simply the volunteer from some schools which do not had any idea on the cheers.
So the school which came was a school from the Tampines area, and they were also from NPCC. So we worked together with our group leaders to teach the newcomers about the cheers. After that, we were deployed to the different places in area 4 and then the parade had been commenced shortly after that, and during the parade we the motivator cheered and scream our lungs out as it was our duty to motivate the audience there. During around the item 9 we were asked to fall-in back at our first meeting point, so it was indeed a good experience that I had gained through this program. After we went back to our school, we had a short debrief session by our OC Ms Seow, she commented us for our hard work and then briefed us on the activity for tomorrow and with that, we had ended our first day as a motivator for Chingay 2009.
OTHER TEACHERS-
MR DAVID KWONG
MS RITA WONG
MRS CHEA YI SHAN
MR PEH CHIN KEONG
HONORARY OFFICER-
MR ANDY WONG
SENIOR CADET INSPECTORS-
CADET INSPECTORS-
MR WEI LONG (Ad Hoc)
MR ALVIN (Ad Hoc)
MR ALAN (Ad Hoc)
MS NADZIRAH (Sec4 In-Charge)
MR GORDON NG (Sec3 In-Charge)
MR ANG WEI XIANG (Sec3 In-Charge)
MS TAN WEI JING (Sec2 In-Charge)
MR CHUA WEI CHEN (Sec2 In-Charge)
MS TAY LI SHAN (Sec1 In-charge)
Unit Structure (NCOs)
-Head Of Training-
Kaviarasan
Pauline Koh
-Training Dept- SEC 1 CLs-
Bryan Chua
Ranjitha SEC 2 CLs-
Carson Tham
Leroy Ho
AREA 1
Christ Church Secondary School
Fuchun Secondary School
Marsiling Secondary School
Si Ling Secondary School Woodgrove Secondary School
Woodlands Ring Secondary School
Woodlands Secondary School
AREA 2
Chung Cheng High School (Yishun)
Naval Base Secondary School
North View Secondary School
Northbrooks Secondary School
Northland Secondary School Orchid Park Secondary School Yishun Secondary School
Yishun Town Secondary School
AREA 3
Ang Mo Kio Secondary School CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls' School
Chong Boon Secondary School
Deyi Secondary School
First Toa Payoh Secondary School
Mayflower Secondary School
Presbyterian High School
Yio Chu Kang Secondary School
AREA 4 Beatty Secondary School
Bishan Park Secondary School
Catholic High School
Guangyang Secondary School
Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School
Peirce Secondary School Raffles Institution
Whitley Secondary School
AREA 14
CHIJ St. Theresa's Convent
Crescent Girls’ School Gan Eng Seng School
Henderson Secondary School
Outram Secondary School
Queenstown Secondary School
AREA 16
Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) [Sea]
Clementi Town Secondary School
Clementi Woods Secondary School
Kent Ridge Secondary School
Nan Hua High School New Town Secondary School
River Valley High School
Tanglin Secondary School
AREA 17
Boon Lay Secondary School
Jurong Secondary School
Jurong West Secondary School
Juying Secondary School
Pioneer Secondary School
Westwood Secondary School
Yuan Ching Secondary School
Yuhua Secondary School
AREA 18
Bukit Batok Secondary School Bukit View Secondary School
Commonwealth Secondary School
Fuhua Secondary School
Hong Kah Secondary School
Hua Yi Secondary School Jurongville Secondary School
Shuqun Secondary School
AREA 20
Bukit Panjang Government High School Choa Chu Kang Secondary School
Kranji Secondary School
Regent Secondary School
Teck Whye Secondary School
Unity Secondary School
West Spring Secondary School
Zhenghua Secondary School
