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Hey guys. I'm really glad to have gone through yltc'09 with all of you. The experience was really different as an instructor :) With every activity, every event, I never fail to take away life lessons from working with my batchmates and I'm glad this time around, it was no different.

I think other than the physical trainings and activities in OAC, everything else you learn can be summed up in cheesy, over used little one-liners. One for all and all for one. It's the journey not the outcome. Sacrifice for the group etc. etc. and sometimes it gets lame but...gosh I don't know how to put it without sounding even cheesier. If you don't experience it for yourself, you will never know the true meaning of these phrases no matter how often you use them.

Mmm...I remember I was extremely frazzled during nighthike because we didn't have much time to prepare or do a proper briefing for both seniors and juniors and when we went to put the lightsticks and clues shihuan zx and sean couldn't stop playing and wasting lightsticks -____-||| But later as I watched the juniors having fun in their own carefree manner, oblivious to the trials and tribulations behind the preparation of the activity (which included a theiving little boy and his mother :@), and the seniors playing around in their own retarded way, I realised that that's what it was supposed to be. It wasn't planned and executed to perfection but everyone was happy and having fun together and that was what it was supposed to be. Yup. That was my revelation. You can plan and plan and try your best and still not achieve what you set out to complete. But if you stop to smell the flowers, you might just discover something better. See, cheesy again. But that's what it meant to me and thank you WHOA and juniors for teaching me that :)

I can't speak for everyone, but from the few senior's (as in 33rd) blogs I've read and from my own experience, I guess some of us were trying to relive our own YL experience through the juniors. For me, every precamp, MROC, rollcall and dorm check was a desperate link back to YLTC'08 which was the single event that has made the biggest impact on my life so far. So I was horribly, horribly disappointed with the junior's performance yesterday and with the general atmosphere among the juniors at the end og YLTC yesterday. I'm sorry if I'm bringing the mood down and I really think we tried and did our best but I can't help but wonder if their lack of batch spirit has anything to do with us :(

I mean up till the end the batch would still have frontmen struggling with flags while trying to get tasks done while the rest of the batch continued on oblivious to their batchmates. And after talking to cherokees and a few apaches, the general consensus from them was that the final MROC was just another tekan session that was a little bit more hiong. I dunno. To me, MROC was THE turning point, the moment of complete and utter clarity that I need my batchmates. That I am nothing if not for them. I was crying and shaking so badly not so much from the pain but from the awareness of the extent of my own folly and selfishness. Maybe I was being too emotional. But I was hoping that the juniors would feel just a smidgen of that emotion and I'm not sure they did. And their cheering and singing was just passive, repetitive and forced.

Gah. I'm sorry I'm being so negative. Mood swing. I'm happy now :D

34th, I think we did so, so well for this event. This is where we started out as trainees and now, again, this is where we are today. We really are standing at the beginning with one another and there aren't many oportunities in life where you can say that. Thank you for you. You've made me a better person and even when I get back my Us for math and history blocks, I can say that you have taught me more than any book, any teacher, any formula can.

Forever 34th OAC.

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