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Dearest Sec 3s 2009,

"You can count the number of seeds in an apple but you cant count the number of apples in a seed"
This quote talks about the potential of leaders, and to make it applicable to you all: leaders of the unit. Allow me to first explain the quote and later make it applicable to your own situation now.
There is a fixed number of seeds in an apple from the start when the apple grows and no matter what we do or what we want to do, we cannot change the fact that the apple has that amount of seeds, no more and no less. The potential of the apple in this case is set and known. Yet, on the other hand, we would all not know how many apples a seed can give when it grows from a seedling into a tree and then starts to bear fruits. The potential of the seed now is yet unknown.

To bring it closer, we have that fixed number of seeds, we have that fixed number of s3s in our unit. We cannot have 30 on this day and 35 the next, we cannot change the number of seeds and it is fixed. But we cannot count or predict how many apples these seeds will sow, grow and bear when they finally turn into trees and in turn start bearing apples and seeds again. Your numbers are known, but your potential is yet known, how many lives of cadets you all are going to affect, how many lives your are going to change and how many of the cadets who will look back appreciating it in future is unknown. Each of us as seeds can bear different numbers of apples in that short NCO/officer life. Numbers may be small but potential yet limitless. It doesn't really matter if I have the more seeds the better, but the better the seeds better. How many people you all have now I am able to count, but how many s1, s2 or future s3 cadets that your will learn to inspire, teach well, raised up to be good leaders, I will never know now. Each of you now have the chance to choose what kind of seeds you all want to be before you step on to be the trees of the unit, sheltering and educating your cadets. I want you all to reach out, extend your wings and max out your full potential in yourselves as leaders. I want you all to spread your fires of passion to your juniors, to share your knowledge and similarly bring out the potential in your cadets.

I wished I could have a manual of how to be effective and efficient NCOs, then people could learn easily. But there are some things/skills in our lives that cant be memorized, learnt from cookbooks or experiments. and I guess the whole feeling of NCO-ship is one of them. If officers have that special "Textbook to Great NCOs", we wouldn't be racking our brains every year, teaching s3s how to be good NCOs. I cannot tell you how your NCO life will be, because how yours would be would be different from your seniors and each different in our own way. I had 28 seeds, you have 30, I had only 10 girls in my squad, you have 11 guys. The differences are a lot and our NCO-ship lives will differ just because we are facing different cadets and we have different people. You have seen 3 batches of NCOs before you, what you can do is learn from those you think good and avoid those you think are not. Develop your potential to the maximum and always remember this few pointers: 1) an NCO with knowledge but no personality is like a nut without a shell. 2) an NCO with personality but no knowledge on the subject is like a jar without jam. It is time to develop your hard knowledge as well as your soft skills. Learning is very important, and continue doing so for everything. Learn and remember every thing that your officers would teach. They will guide you definitely on this path towards NCO-ship. How difficult or simple the path would be depends on the hardwork you put in before embarking on this journey. You are given now times to try, times to fall while learning at the same time, make full use of everything. Life will be tough ahead I do not disagree but embrace it. I believe that with 30 minds, 30 people's will to change things and 30 rvnp cadets' passion will make difficult things simple. I may not be going down to the unit that often anymore to see how 30 of you all will affect the change in your cadets in future, how things would be and how your NCO-life would be, but I will keep believing that there will be some people like me believing that things will always turn for the better and there will be people after me who will be willing and wanting to affect the change, to make the unit a better one. Again, I wish you all the best in your journey in rvnp, always do your best, always believing and always striving and maybe after a few years, you would be the seniors not sick of coming down every ITC, ROD and activities. Keep the rvnp family spirit going. (:

Warmest Regards,
Eric
RVNPS103

The above is an email Sir sent to explain the quote he told us. (:

Sqdmates, I am sincerely sorry (and feeling totally regretful) that I didn't do pt and drill with yall. That feeling sucks and I am sure you all enjoyed everything tremondously. (I am feeling damn jealous now okay. -.-)

However, in the midst of enjoying all the fun, we must still remember the responsibilities we are going to have in future. As we enjoy everything, we must learn too. I may be a wet blanket now but I am sure all of us have the same aim and goal to be good ncos in the future and as well as to bring rvnp to greater heights.

Let's work hard together sqdmates! :D Enjoy the times we have now and in future! Treasure them and hold on together as ONE SQD.

We are a sqd and not only 30 individuals. I remember someone mentioned it before but I forgotten who was it. ><

I am sure we can do it cause I believe and I hope you all will too.(:

JingXian! :D

P.S / WE ROCK IN DURING THE PERFORMANCE! & GREAT JOB ESPECIALLY THE GUYS & ZHILIANG! :D LOL.

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