Sunday, April 20, 2008
SJAB: Zone Competition Results
smileyboi @ 10:23 AM
Dear SJAB Cadets and NCOs,
It is with a heavy heart that I announce to you that Hwa Chong Institution is out of the Nat Comp for this year. We fought hard, and gave Nan Hua only a waferthin margin of victory, but in the crucial section, we have lost. Yet with our heads held high, unbowed in defeat, we proudly leave, knowing we too have conquered, and our consciences are clear.
In the words of the President from the movie Independence Day, paraphrasing Dylan Thomas, 'We will not go quietly into the night, we will not vanish without a fight!'
And yes, we did not go quietly, we did not go without giving a fight, a hard one. We fought Nan Hua tooth and nail to the end, though we were weighed and found wanting by just that little bit.
To those who came to watch and support us in our moment of glory and defeat, I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for being there with us.
To those who could not come but sent your good wishes and support, they were felt to the heart by all of us. Our thanks, also.
To those who trained our boys, putting in evening after evening of mind-gruelling work to build up our case and footdrill standards, SSG Kuan Yue, SSG Glen, SSG Ding Jie, SSG Xian Bin, SSG Wei Jie, SSG Yu Fan, our seniors Eugene and Si Jie (and many more), now students of HCJC, the past competition team members who came to spar with our team to hone them, I thank you all very much; the sacrifices we made, only we can know.
And of course, most importantly, to the Zone Comp boys themselves, Chee Shuan, Kwang Yu, Xian Ning, Daniel, Cheng Can, Wei Dong, Kenneth, Luk Yean, Wei Chieh and Cheng En, you have fought hard to get where you did, carved out a page of history for yourselves. It was not easy to march there in that carpark, before dog and cars, but march there you did, and gave of your best. And let none say that you have been found lacking.
I leave you now with some lines from Dylan Thomas' 'Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night'. It is with such fighting spirit that we leave the Zone Comp, and with such fighting spirit shall further teams take up our yellow and red flag and bring them to the nationals in future seasons.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
The rest is silence.
Regards,
XXX
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