Family Outing

I just realized how little time I had been spending with my sons. Feeling a little bit guilty as I had not taken their photos for a long long time! I brought them to the Singapore Expo and Pasir Ris - I must say they enjoyed themselves.

Red Cross Camp

I felt so exhausted - completely drained. However I must say I am proud of the Camp Exco - from planning the activities to carrying them out. The cadets were also most cooperative. I hope they had all learnt from the camp and I can really see the development of our student leaders.

The only setbacks were that we could not have the outdoor cooking session due to the downpour. Some of the girls fell ill on the very first night - but I must applaud that they fought on and survived the camp.

I fell sick on the second night and thank God Mrs Lai took over with the instructors Mariana and Sharlyn. I went home and returned in the early morning.

I have applied to join the future schools and will be going for the interview on the 6th December. It will be a good chance for me to develop my interest in IT but I am going to miss the Red Cross if I do leave the school. However, they will stay on in my heart and I will always feel close to them.

Every Second Counts Competition

Sharing another piece of good news - one of our Red Cross teams won the 2nd prize in the 'Every Second Counts" competition organised by the School of Health Sciences, Ngee Ann Polytechnic on 7th Nov.

A total of 235 students from 16 schools and 25 teams from various Uniform groups including NPCC, girl guides, St John Ambulance Brigade etc took part in the competition. In the earlier part of the event, the students were taught CPR, measuring blood pressure and feeding the patients etc.

I think all our cadets were happy that they had participated in the event as they had learnt something new. During the competition, one of our teams told me that they actually scored full marks for four components out of the five for the competition. However when they announced the results, the team did not win anything. I was a bit suspicious and asked the organiser whether I could look at the score - not because we are sore loser but I wanted a fair appraisal of their performance. Sure enough we noticed something was wrong with our total score. Mrs Lai actually detected that they entered the formula for the spreadsheet for our team wrongly and one component was not added at all. The organiser held a meeting and rechecked the marks - confirming that our team actually scored the second highest and our team should be awarded the 2nd prize. I am glad they rectified the mistake quickly and sent the trophies to our school. As mentioned many times, I have always been proud of our Red Cross Cadets and strongly believe in their ability to excel!

You can click on this link to see some of the photos taken: http://adobe.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=16n5tjhb.jwhlvtr&Uy=8pkj11&Ux=0