Friday, June 19, 2009
finally... my SNCO course tat lasts for five days has ended...i will try to share as much info to u as possible...
first day: we (myself, aziq, hakim, andy) went to the HTA ( Home Team Academy ) in the morning, woke up at 5am everyday and slp at around 10pm at nite...we report at the drill shed in the HTA, the place whr our muster parades (the parade in the beginning/ending of the day when the individual platoon ICs report the total strengthin the platoon) take place every morning. after tat, they split us into 4 platoons , SNCO (Sierra, November, Charlie, Oscar), i am in the Charlie platoon. we then went for lecture at the Lecture Theatre (LT in short). for the first day,we only had lecture.
Second day: same thing but we reported to the LT cos thr is a Civil Defence (CD in short) knowledge course/test held first thing in the morning. the course includes lecture for around 3-4hrs and a test tat lasts 1hr. for the second half of the day, we had footdrill training (those sedia, senang diri, marching, etc...) as we got footdrill test on thurday. we did footdrill from aroung 2pm to 5pm ( maybe ltr than tat ) and went bck to the LT for the debrief and then went home.
Third day: the day whr we also had lecture on leadership qualities, we ( or rather, i ) learnt alot frm the lecturer, LTA Hozefa ( a senior officer of HQ NCDCC ). he always does a very good lecture, frm his lecture, we ( i ) learnt lots and lots of mindsets, thinking, character of a good SNCO/leader. he says " if ur actions inspires people to think more, learn more, do more and become more...u are a leader. " and " never say u dun have enuf time, although time flies, but u are the pilot. " tis is 2 of the few inspiring phrases that he told the whole course ( whole course refers to all the people attending the course ). i felt tat frm tis 2 phrases, we already are inspired by him...after tat, as usual we had our debrief and went home after the muster parade.
forth day: we did footdrills tests and alos MOI (Methods Of Instruction, a test whr we are assessed according to how well we teach a class ) tests. for the first half of the day, i did footdrill tests then the second half of the day i did my MOI test. overall, i m quite satisfied with my performance, although i think i m only on average, but at least i noe i tried my best. after tat we had debiref and muster parade and then went home after tat.
Fifth day: tis day finall had came, the day we are going to pass out... in the morning as usual we report to the drill shed and then marched to the auditorium for our SBLA ( Scenario Based Learning Assessment ) briefing, it will be the last excercise we have in the course. we have to pretend tat thr is a disaster in HTA and we will go around and apply our CD skills to rescue and carry out operations, they named tis operation as " Ops Kilat ". it was fun, we are able to apply our CD skills tat we learnt in classroom into real situations. after tat we went for luch then went to change into another set of uniform for the later Passing-Out Ceremony ( POC in short ) de rehearsal... the ceremony starts at 430pm and ended at 530pm, we are to invite our family or frens of a limited number of 2 person to attend the ceremony. we got our certs and my platoon ( Charlie ) won the Best Platoon Award !!! everyone was crazy, screaming and shouting our lungs out and had our platoon cheer. everything ends in a very good tone, but veryone looks reluctant to part as we really built up friendship between our platoon mates and our instructors. eventually, we parted with the greatest smile...
tis are the words tat the SNCOs said during the course debrief abt the course:
- Exhiarating
- Exciting
- Inspirational
- Persistence ( i said tis XD )
- Discipline
- Tough
- Creative
- Leadership
- Kilat-ness
- Eye-opening
- Tiring
- Meaningful ( i wanted to say tis at first )
- Motivating
- Challenging
- Encouraging
- Friendship
- Alertness-building
- Confidence-building
- Life-changing
- Punctuality
- Endurace
- Bonding
i achieve something : " The course might had seem ended, but its the beginning of myself to lead better. "
i will lyk to thank very much, all the instructors, officers that guided my way thru the course and to my new journey of leadership, with tis, thank you :)...i love u dear <3
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