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[070606] So, when are you going in?

Pleasantly pleased with the 3B01 gathering turnout today... expected the usual gang for gatherings to turn up but saw Celine, Qiu Mei, Amy and even Zhong Cheng! The largest class gathering to date with mut, gracie, hz, yok, bc, big grace, ph, px, sh and me rounding up the entire gathering.. 14 pax in total!! wow... shld get grace to organise more gatherings... must be her 'charm' that got so many of us down today.. lol

Had dinner at billy's bombers... heh.. Seafood combo dinner set... cream of chicken soup, milk shake and a scoop of Ben & Jerry's ice cream... darn full after eating.. as usual all the talk centered around updating one another on what's been happening since school ended... as the title of the post suggested...

"So, when are you going in?"

The above question turned out to be the most frequently asked amongst ourselves by both the guys and gals and i was asked no less than 8 times tonight with the first asked less than 2 minutes after i met up with the group... the honour of asking me the question first fell to Miss Celine Goh... lol... turns out alot of them are going overseas for their studies soon... Joanne, Gracie, Big Grace, Mut... and quite alot of them are slated to start their uni studies in NTU soon... wish u guys bountiful academic successes!

Gracie's going to Russia for holidays soon... such a distant and foreign place.. Russia!? I mean, they speak Russian for crying out loud!! (obviously, they speak Russian... it would be scary if the Russians spoke hokkien.. lol) but i mean, Russia's like not really tourist friendly is it? maybe i've read too many cold war novels... too much distrust towards the Russians.. and Roman Abrahimovic certainly didnt do any good to the Russians' image...

Lost and found is going to Shanghai the day after with her couz and friend i think... 3 gals in a foreign land but supposedly one of the gals stay there so i guess it'll be fun... reminds me of Shanghai Tan the chinese movie... Ye shanghai, Ye shanghai *chuckles* seems everyone is going overseas on a holiday... i also wanna go... sighz... when will my turn come... when are the producers over at moving visuals gonna call us up to finalise our travel details? hmmm... i wonder.... will we be conned out of our trip? But more likely my next 'overseas' trip is over the sea to Pulau Tekong for my 3 months all expenses paid trip under MINDEF's National Service tour package...

Valedictorian, (an anglicized derivation from the Latin vale dicere 'to say farewell') is given to the top graduate of the graduating class of an educational institution. The title comes from the valedictorian's traditional role as the last speaker at the graduation ceremony. The Valedictory Speech - The graduation speech is a closing or farewell statement, address or oration delivered at a graduation ceremony. It is an oration or address spoken at commencement in American high schools, colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class.
The mode of discourse is generally inspirational and persuasive. The many aims of this address is to thank, to inspire, to affect, and above all to say farewell to high school, college, or the seminary.

Hmm... still pondering over what to say for my Valedictorian speech come Area2's ROD parade... to thank, to inspire, to affect, and above all to say farewell seems like alot of stuff to be cramped into a single speech... i vaguely remember my CI course's Valedictorian speech erm.. more of a graduating speech i guess since R wasnt officially a valedictorian of our batch... but she was known as one of the more outspoken trainees i think... i think i have my first part of my speech prepared... tell me what do you all think... *ah-hem* *clears throat*

"Good evening, Officers, fellow CIs, cadets, ladies and gentlemen..."

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