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NDP Night

Thursday, August 10, 2006

NDP Night
Wow, finally, it's over. After 4 months of training, SOKA training is over and we have performed our best this night. Ahmad, my senior, said it was brilliant and well done. I don't know what the others will say...

A few tears came down my cheeks after the performance because during the circle formation, some lights were on already. I felt this performance was not like the others we've done, and this is NDP, man! How could we afford to make mistakes? Jefferson, a guy in my group, told me it means I really felt for this NDP and that's good. He also said that to be a great performance, we must give our 100% effort, feel for this event and really have the spirit to chant so as to excert ourselves. And if it really happens that someone turned on the wrong light, the guy would not regret it because he did what he really could. After reading this, I agreed with him.(Thank you, Jefferson.)

I realised and learnt a lot of things from this NDP. My mother always watch the NDP and say that SOKA has the best performance every year. To me it was okay only and I thought "Aiya, take part for what sia? Only do these actions everytime." But after taking part in it, I realised that it is totally different and I agree with my mother. She was right, though SOKA did not achieve 100%, but it is the teamwork, hard work and great effort that counts. I've learnt that Teamwork is very important and that individual work and effort must be be shown to be a great performance. Though there were times when we did wrong things, we must remind and encourage ourselves and peers to do the right things.

I'm ending here as it's getting late.

To all my group members, "XIN KU NI MEN LE! XIE XIE NI MEN DE ZHI CHI!"
Good night

UPDATE: My cousin's photos of NDP has been posted on the internet http://loony21.blogs.friendster.com/photos/ndp_2006/index.html
2ND UPDATE: My friend, Benson, has uploaded more photos on the internet http://sg.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/redhotdeli82/my_photos
3RD UPDATE: I have saved some pictures from the URL given above: http://www.flickr.com/photos/97481429@N00/sets/72157594234038116/show/