GET TO KNOW THE MEMBERS OF THE KADET BOMBA'S MARCHING TEAM

One of the seniors who had helped to take photographs during the marching competition had snapped individual photos of the team members. I tried to create some sort of a chart using EXCEL and I succeed.

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Thanks to the photographer and I am sure a few people will get extremely jealous as they did not have this kind of thing when they were a part of the team.

MARCHING COMPETITION (BOYS' GO CATEGORY} DISTRICT LEVEL 2012

The marching competition for government organization boys' category was held today at the same venue, SMK Taman Impian Emas. Fortunately, only six schools took part so everything could be done in just a short time.

the preparation stage

uniform inspection

SMKTUN's Kadet Bomba in action

the prize giving ceremony

We were the (first) runner up again and we had to admit the winner was better than us, especially with all the glaring mistakes that the team made during the performance.

lunch time

the District Education Officer, school's senior assistants, judges and auditors, and all the participants

Congratulations to all the Kadet Bomba boys for winning the second place and I know you had worked real hard for this. I was happy that we still managed to send a team for the district level, and hopefully the tradition will continue on. Thanks to all the seniors for the endless support given, especially for training the group. There were people who went to the extent of skipping class from college and not going to work just to be together with the team. The parents had also given us the support and this year, there were parents who volunteered to cook for us for the training and the competition day, and I considered myself really lucky this year.

Even though the competition was already over, we should start training the juniors to prepare for next year's platoon. It is not as easy as you people out there think to put 30 over people together as a team. It requires determination and patience, a lot of them the whole season through.

ONE DAY BEFORE COMPETITION DAY

FIRST of all, thank god for the public holiday today and for postponing the date of the marching competition to tomorrow. This had given us more time to train and to prepare ourselves better with the uniforms. Basically, these are the things we did as early as 7:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

getting physical

marching according to the routine repeatedly

tea break

polishing boots

spraying the buckles and all the metal pieces on the belts

All the best of luck to all the Kadet Bomba marching team members. You have all worked very hard for this competition, so go out there to impress and don't forget to count your steps for the formation.

MARCHING COMPETITION (GIRLS' GO CATEGORY} DISTRICT LEVEL 2012

Today was the second day judging the marching competition. Sitting under the hot sun for hours had already given me some tan and there was still one more day to go.




Today's category was for girls' government organization (GO) held in SMK Taman Impian Emas but SMKTUN did not take part this time. Luckily there were only 10 schools participating (the original number was 16) so everything ended quite early.

with an ex-SMKTUN's teacher, Encik Saiful Azizi, the PK HEM of SMK Taman Impian Emas

By the way, CONGRATULATIONS to the school's Boys Scouts and girls' St. John's Ambulance for emerging the first runner up and champion in their respective categories today and yesterday. This in a way has created some sort of pressure to the Kadet Bomba boys who will be taking part in the competition this Thursday.

SPOT THE ERROR 24

found on a weighing machine

THE FIRST OFFICIAL MEETING FOR KADET BOMBA 2012

One of the challenges of having too many students in a school is that there are too many things to do, but too little time and too limited a space. Finally, the first official meeting for Kadet Bomba was carried out today. As usual, the first thing to do was to introduce the Kadet Bomba song to the new ones and to refresh the minds of the senior members. And they must be a able to memorize the song before the session ended. And it was a success. They learned real fast when it came to singing.

I am hoping for a more active participation from the members and to keep the group alive for many more generations to come.

PRIMARY SCHOOLS' DISTRICT CHESS COMPETITION 2012

The 2-day competition for the primary school finally finished today at the same venue. The committee had now to organize both the primary and secondary levels.

the young chess players

the officers' counter always busy with activities

waiting for the prize-giving ceremony

with my new friend, Adam, the smallest and youngest participant - still in year one

another ex-student and ex-SMKTUN's chess player cum a-teacher-from-another-school

Thank you Allah for giving me the strength not to shout, or scold people, or strangle these little kids to death. They had a lot of energy to run everywhere non-stop from morning until afternoon. I definitely cannot teach in a primary school.