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my life in the little red dot.2009-11-06
Civil Defence Course
On the 2/11/2009, I, together with 6 other platoon mates and 1 of my seniors, attended the Civil Defence Course conducted by the SCDF.
As I was not supposedly chosen to attend the course, I was a replacement for my friend, Ahmad Aqashah since he could not attend the course as he had to send his grandparents off to the airport. He called me just the day before the course, at 10 p.m! My father scolded me for wanting to attend the course which was informed at the last minute as I needed to go to school early in the morning to get my boots as I need my full no.4 uniform then proceed to Tampanies MRT Station. My father also scolded my friend for informing me at the very last minute.
The next day, I woke up very early, had my breakfast and went to school to get my boots. When I arrived at school, thank goodness the gate was opened! I went to the locker to get my boots and changed into full no.4 uniform. I then took bus no.31 to Tampanies MRT Station.
When I arrived there, I met up with them and went to took bus no.34 to that place.
When I arrived at the Tampanies 2nd SCDF HQ, the place is huge! We exchanged our student pass for the visitor pass and entered the lecture room.
Over there, the people there were very humourous. There were 4 or 5 of them. Their rank is either Private or Corporal, so they were not really firm and fierce. One of the staff looked like Obama! Everyone in there called him Obama. Another one has some problem with pronunciation, so we laughed when he mispronounced some words.
Firstly, they taught us how to lift an unconscious person up a stretcher. I laughed all the way but when it came to my turn, it was indeed harder than expected. There were many steps to lift a person up a stretcher. Our group made a total of 8 mistakes and had to do a forfeit of dancing.
After the tea break, we were taught about what to do during a fire and learnt some types of fire extinguishers. After that we went for our lunch.
For lunch, they had their own canteen on the third floor. I had rice with fried beef lungs which I missed from school. After about 30 minutes, we returned to the lecture room.
When we returned to the lecture room, we were taught about peace time emergencies such as natural disasters. After that we went to another room to take our test.
The test consisted of 15 questions, the passing mark is 11 in order to get the certificate and the badge. The test was okay for me with few tricky questions.
After the test we went back to the lecture room to fill up the evaluation form. Then we were told that we passed the test. We then got our certs and badges. But sadly, our senior was told that he was supposed to keep the certs and badges for us and gave it back during NCC training.
After the course, we got back our student pass and took the same bus back to Tampanies Bus Interchange and I took bus no.67 home.
To me, this was a slack course where you can easily earn a badge. 2 days from then would be my SANA Course.
To find out more about the course, go to www.scdf.gov.sg
Labels: 2009, badges, courses, NCC
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