third cons post hehe its been so long

anyways heres a quick announcement : army market cheapest legit 100% nylon sock is $2.50 (crocodile brand) bc apparently they dont sell the $2 one anymore cos no one buy ( i am sadzz) and also partly due to inflation ye so if yall buying socks pls consult me first later u end up buying the $3 one which doesnt rly look nice cos the lines are different and i feel that it is unlegit hue and we should save money !! crocodile one aunty say its good and anyways judging from the fact that most of us only wear once a week donneed get so expensive ones okay

kid 

Excited!

So yesterday I spent alot of time thinking about NP and all, and suddenly today I felt very excited for tomorrow! I actually was neutral and had no strong feelings towards tomorrow but I suddenly feel excited haha maybe because it marks and end to our hell week maybe after tmr i would have cleared 4 gas and one test :) maybe because npap preview is on Saturday but I think mainly BC tmr is gg to be fun like drills session and evac!!!!!! We haven't had chances to do evac for so long and I'm so happy we get to do it :D


-kiddo

Hallo Hestia!

I am very happy to see that so many of you have been updating this blog :) like do u know last time i always post consecutive posts bc nobody ever updates ahaaha and now i rarely post but its still constantly updated so im happy for yall!!!!!

pretty sure we all admit that school is super stress rn so many gas and pts and tests zzzz ahem math and mother tongue zz

and interviews and understudies and taking over zz

i cannot imagine when maams pop we all all probably cry haha idek how we are gg to do this what if we cry in the middle of pop parade

we need quality time with ma'ams!!

sorry for the negative vibes heh lets kacha all the negative vibes and turn them into kachang puteh pun abit fail HAHA do yall geddit

and do yall know why we can kacha them ???

cos we got black belt. NPCC BLACK BELT. haha throwback to clc that was my proudest camp moment when i said that i felt so proud

and tb to the joy of getting back our life that is the best thing in camp : the joy of getting back your life!


jiayou press on continue to publish onto the hestia press aka blog ahaah sorry


- kid :D




p.s. walrus emoji makes a come back :3 for those who read my old walrus post do yall geddit haha and this tooo @.@ and if u dont geddit its okay just know that this :3 looks like a walrus right so cute
PLS DONT SCROLL BACK AND READ I WARN U ALR BETTER WATCH OUT AHEM COUGH

jk ahahaha BUT REALLY THO.  *cool emoji*

taking over?

heLo hestia!

three more parades with ma'ams, less than a month left with them - before we eventually take over.

ohman it feel so surreal wtheck it feels like it was just yesterday when zephyr ma'ams pop-ed and astraia ma'ams are going to pop in three weeks ohno 😩

i think we can all agree that we don't want to see astraia ma'ams pop because they are such a big part of our np journey and they've helped us grow so much i really can't bear to see them leave 😞

but looking forward, we all have to work together and look past our differences in the future ok! we can do this hestia, i believe in us 👌💪

many hugs
you know who

Taking over soon!

HI HESTIA
Tbvh, I am really really really not looking forward to ma'ams POPing and us having to take over. I am not trying to be pessimistic or anything but being independent with the whole unit relying on us is just scary. The worst part is, we will soon be separated into our departments and we won't really get a chance to like interact very often???idk. I don't know how ma'ams managed everything but one thing is for sure, they really really helped us a lot. Plus we really bonded with them much more after CC com omg that was like one of the highlights of my year so far, even though we did not really live up to our and their expectations but the experience was super good. I am really going to miss all this and having ma'ams to keep our trust in:( We are like the leaders of the unit now omgggg. I don't mind getting scolded by ma'ams but the thought of us not having CLs to guide us just freaks me out even more. Before, when we made a mistake, ma'ams will scold us, at most knock us down but now if our attitude is not good it will affect the whole unit! Anyways there is like 1 year left out of our 3.5 years in NP what:( TIME FLIES and its like all the memorable and fun things are getting over so fast and all the annoying and frustrating things like studies just seem to drag on and on and on..... OK I just wanted to let my feelings out and now i shall go chiong my GA.... BYE GUYS and don't be upset by this post okay PERSEVERE BECAUSE HESTIA IS THE BEST OK BYE JIAYOU AND DONT BE SCARED FOR UNDERSTUDIES OKAY BE CONFIDENT DONT BE SAD OR SCARED OR ANYTHING OKAY we are all there for each other

https://youtu.be/bwB9EMpW8eY
I am super addicted to this song and its like super nice and inspirational and motivating OK so watch it when you have time:):)

byeeeeee

Shoots

OMG UNDERSTUDIES TMR N I'M SO NOT PREPARED. SO SCREWED!!!!

Let's not forget the interviews. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! ok I need sleep to calm down

eyy just a short post before i continue mugging!

hello hestia!

i've been listening to sO many covers (of english songs only sorry kpop and jpop people) ahaha and some of them are rly quite good (in my opinion which is mostly wrong)

here are a few of the 472772 songs ahaha hope you like them too :)

cool kids/riptide - less is more, the queenand king
chains, drag me down (acoustic mashup) - megan davies
little talks - julia sheer and jon d
hello - gardiner sisters
royals - jasmine thompson

im not sure if they can be found online but you should be able to find them on spotify too! :)

have fun on the last day of hols ok! term 2 is going to be hell but we can do it 💪💪 jiayou! 💞💯

:(

i just read your k9 unit reflections yall sent to ma'ams bcos i was sending smth to ma'ams

and now im SADZZZ

why why why the dogs whywhy why i have been waiting for that 1000 years alr why why why why why why why


why am i forever missing np events because of np events :(

kan cheong hurhur

our nicknames tho ahaha

i admit im vv kan cheong hurhur (only when it concerns np zz)

otherwise im slow poke heck care whatever

those in my class have to suffer the horror of me chasing all of u for np stuff zz when we still have 30 more mins and i tell yall we are late hurhur

BUT its good to be early okay we should always fall in earlier

kinda nervous for understudies bc my patience .001

and interviews omgosh its not during parade you are gonna be all alone

i have i dont say anything wrong :( cancer is in the shit talking squad guys

jiayoi


i need to send ma'ams my collated excel now zzz

quite proud of it .. threw in all my super detective stalking skills to find out who went what

which includes digging out our fetuses muaeheeeheheeheeheeheeheehee


bye bye

-the small child who needs looking after

which means please someone come interview with me

Confused

I'm srsly confused bout my squad. U guys r so cute but we srsly weird. But o wells u r my bestest ppl. Moving on to the real confusion.

SOMEONE PLS TELL ME WHAT TO DO FOR THE INTERVIEWS. Actually, this is not a good place. Someone pls find me. I need to talk bout sth n hear opinions. Cuz I really don't noe what to think n do. I hate being in the middle of stuff. Dumb brain for loving the middle. Okay so pls find k @Hestia I need ur help!!! Lik huge help to make decisions

sarang

no not the return of superman one

hello its been awhile since ive posted and only 3 months into 2016 and we alr have more posts than the whole of 2015
ok anw abit late la but gOODJOB for clc!! and campfire!! (tbh i still have random flashbacks of me screwing up HAHA) but honestly im vv proud of us :-))

also i was reading our recent posts and omg my squad damn funny but who made the squad names y only khin and xindy get good nicknames (user-friendly is btr violent okAY)
((ps we r apparently v zai HAHAHAHAHA)) ok la quite zai

time passes rlly quickly and we r alr at the understudies and interview stage omytian

JIAYOU
JIAYOI EVERYONE!!!!

SARANG SARANG
💖

(update: i reread the squad names thing again and 1 khin is both kind hearted and kia si 2 rachel is retarded twice 3 wheres farzanah)

??? Xeno WHAT ??

Xenodochial is an adjective describing something – such as a person, place or software application -- that is friendly to strangers. “Xenos” is a Greek word for “strangers;" according to the Oxford English Dictionary,xenodochial means "hospitable."

In agile software development any project manager or architect must be xenodochial to be able to deal fairly and reasonably with many different stakeholders and customers. New developers and clients may be incorporated into a project, putting a high premium on the manager's ability to be friendly towards strangers. In a broader context, a xenodochial style of project management is crucial to deal effectively and appropriately with people from different cultural backgrounds and perspectives.

In user interface design, xenodochial is somewhat synonymous with the term “user-friendly.” Public terminals, kiosks and websites should convey information quickly and easily, with a minimal number of clicks or screens and be accessible to users regardless of ability level. Icons and universal symbols are both often used in well-designed interfaces, especially those that may deliver services or information to international travelers.

Operating systems like Unix that depend upon a user's foreknowledge of text commands can be fairly said not to be xenodochial. Linux distributions with a graphical user interface (GUI), by way of contrast, make that open source operating system considerably more xenodochial.

Credits to http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/xenodochial 

...................

Congrats Xindy, you're user-friendly :)

SQUAD NAMES ONCE MORE

Warning *All names are made up for fun and isn't a testimony to our actual awesome selves* 

Valerie the Vicious
Angelina the Arrogant
Isha the Idiotic
Victoria the Violent
Kar Wai the Ki siao
Sheemyi the Stupid
Jannah the Jealous
Rachel the Retarded
Khin the Kia Si
Poorva the Pathetic
Pei Xuan the Pitiful
Kimbery the Kia Su
Karina the Kan cheong

Xin Yi the xenodochial

Rachel the Retarded 
Khin the kind-hearted

Distracting

Hi Hestia,

I don't feel like doing homework these days at all i want the hols to go on forever.

SIGH.

I am so sad BTW, i am bored at the same time so I am reading the classic book the journey to the center of the earth. It is quite interesting and kills time. I spent 3 hours at the library yesterday and didn't do my homework at all and just read a lot of books. I was starving for books literally.

I was searching about undergraduate courses --> V irreverent but I wanted to know the pre-requisites.

I searched for NUS then Harvard, Cambridge Princeton and back to NUS because the other universities seemed impossible  so i went back to NUS to realize that I needed to first do my homework to get the pre-requisites.

I lost my motivation again because I saw the blogger and wanted to post something new.

MY LIFE IS SO DISTRACTING!! HAHHA!

Yours (incredible) squadmate,
Isha

march holidays ahahah more like studyin@homedays

hello hestia!

haven't posted in a long time ahahah

also who was the one who posted five puns in a row wyd don't try to take my position ok ahAHAHAH jk

this is quite late but good job for clc! i'm really proud of every single one of you ok my heart is bursting with pride ｡◕ ‿ ◕｡

march hols have been quite hectic ahahah saturday-monday clc, wednesday npap, thursday went aLL the way to choa chu kang to collect goh uniform and finally friday yes time to mug homework and gas!1!1! we'll be understudies during the next few parades (quite nervous ahahha) and have inTERVIEWS (even more nervours ohman) and then ma'ams will pop :((

i just started homework today ahaha help sorry im supposed to be studying instead of typing this now

ok have fun for the last three days of hols ok please
sleep well
and eat well
and watch lots of drama or whatever you watch to destress

term 2 will be hell but it's okay we're all in this together fml i keep thinking of hsm every time i see this ahaHAAHA did you hear about hsm4 wtheck my otp is not going to be in the new installment together and wtheck it has been 10 years since the first movie this is a trainwreck wtheck

ok baSICALLY jiayou hestia we can do this! fighting (◕‿◕✿)

also

look at this elephant shrew

i cried for 10mins pls prepare yourself

thank



many loves
your fav meme trash ;)

Someone gimme insipration

As u can see from the title, I really don't NOE what to say. All I NOE is tt hw back n life has been a lie in camp Cuz once I got out, I see hw n projects. But before that, I SEE MY HEAVENLY BED!!!! I hibernated for once in my life!!! WHOOOO proud. But I'm stuck polishing boots for tmr n M sleepy. N I see my pile of hw  n don't wanna touch it... argh life is hard when u r a student but worse when u r an adult. I THINK I'M IN A FREAKING MOVIE OR BOOK. CUZ THIS CAN B REALITY OR A DREAM. NOTHING FEELS REAL. OK NITEZ CLC IS STILL HAVING A TOLL ON ME. MY BRAIN IS STILL FRIED N MUSHY but u miss camp. The good old days where hw is not in front of u. Lolziez

P.s. PLS VOTE FOR RACHIE FOR HPC THX CUZ SHE IS RLY GOOD AND THE BESTEST LEADER N SQUADMATE EVER!!!! SHE V SACRIFICIAL K N ALWAYS ENCOURAGING

P.p.s. U PPL MUST LISTEN TO HER PEP TALK!! IT GIVES ME GOOSE BUMPS JUZ READING IT. DON'T EVEN TALK BOUT LISTENING MANZ. TT ONE WILL GIVE U MOTIVATION DE.

hip hip hooray

three cheers and three cheers and three cheers for hestia! hip hip hooray! hip hip hooray!

we did it guys!!! good job for getting through all those shits together

altho im really sad for not being there and doing stuffs

but good job yall! yall were great i hope of of us get our desired positions and depts okay no matter how impossible it seems  :'(

we must not separate!

tmr is k9 unit visit and im not gg because stuck in npap :( tell them theres this kid who dreams to be a dog handler in their unit okay and tell me what happened

npap is hell our water breaks are so limited i dieded so many times arms and all feel like dying
worst of all im stuck next to a person who always instructs me i got so annoyed
and third rank omgosh why cant i be first rank :( third rank cant see anything lor i feel unsafe not looking at the commanding trainers and hearing problems zzz and now im in hestias last rank sigh

BUT tomorrow we are most probably gonna use the cedar FLAG!!! so i must perseveere and hold it there bc nothing should happen to the flag and it must be high up there!

jiayou to us all

btw vote rachel for hpc (quotes my extended abbrievation pun in the whatsapp group go read bc lame101)


- kid who is secretly a propagandalist for rachie

POST CLC DEPRESSION

Post clc depression actually exists.
I miss ma'ams. I miss the CIs.  Yes I miss them, even though camp was TOUGH cuz of them it's cuz they want us tk improve so WE UNDERSTAND MA'AMS. If you are reading this Ma'ams, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US DURING CAMP MA'AMS.
ok nxt it's VAL TAN'S BDAE GUYZZZ.  happy occasions after camp yay. Btw I have always thought that reflections are a waste of time cuz its basically us pouring our thoughts that are alr in our head in print.  But it's more than that okays. It make us think more like legit. I'm doin clc reflections now dats y the sudden approval of reflection. BUT WE HAVE GOT TEN THRU CLC N LIKE EVRYBODY KNOWS WE KNOW OUR WEAKNESSES VV WELL NOW.  so the nxt step now is to get rid of those weaknessessss tgt. SO JIAYOUU HESTIA
P.s we don't have 1 year left. We have forever as long as cedar np exists
P.p.s SO SORRY IF I WAS MEAN/ANGST TO ANYBODYY(it autocorrect itself to "any bobby" wth) DURING CAMP OGAY SOZZZ
P.P.p.s I welcome myself into the world of leisure by watching these extremely nice ppl kim jiwon is (i dun wanna say the word)

We made it

Hi Hestia,

so we finally made it through CLC! Are all of you sleeping???? HAHA I'm aching all over and I just woke up from sleeping and decided to post something. Ok so, after two years of dreading it, awaiting it with bated breaths and fearing what would come during it, CLC is finally over. I have to say that though it was *tough* (HAHAHA), it was quite fun and I have never felt closer to any of y'all than during these past three days, and I actually found it more fun than AC (when we weren't dying).

So I suppose I just want to say thank you for always being there for me, and for each other. Though we all may have our differences and we get irritated with one another very frequently, whenever someone needs help and support, we are always there for each other. 
Unwaveringly, unstoppably, unconditionally. 

That being said, I think there are some underlying conflicts beneath that love we have for one another, and during CLC, the cracks and conflicts sometimes got the better of us. I think we really need to open up more to one another and have a confession session or something (like what ma'ams suggested). We have to clear away the barriers we still have separating one another before we can truly take over the unit.

But I'm very proud of Hestia for pulling through and I hope we can all remain as perseverant and strong-willed and tough as we had been during CLC and do our best to live up to ma'ams expectations.

Moving on to other stuff, I think the few most important things we really have to improve on are our communication, planning, attitude and hard skills. During CLC, our communication was really bad at first, and though we are slowly improving on that, we have to put in more effort in this area and always remember to answer and acknowledge whoever asks questions or give opinions. We have to learn to shut up sometimes and listen to someone else (I'm guilty of this too haha). 

Our planning for campfire was quite bad. I think many of us assumed that someone else knew something, so we didn't bother checking, and in the end the whole squad wasn't sure. We pulled through this time and CF was a success because of our combined efforts, but we may not be so lucky next time and we should learn to go though everything and think through every step carefully one by one and what possible problems there could be and clarify when in doubt. However, it was our first CF, so I suppose that it wasn't that bad for or first one because all of us were quite clueless? And thanks to everyone for putting so much effort, from decorating, to dancing, to acting, to cheering.

We also have to improve on our attitude and give our best every time. As what ma'am said don't give your half effort the first time round and end up having to do it another time. Do it once, do it well.

Finally, we really have to improve our drills Hestia. We should think of something to quickly improve our standard!

Ok I'm ending this soon, and I'm sure many of you won't read this long and ama ass post HAHA. But thank you Hestia, for everything and let's continue to work hard so that

Cedar NP will continue to shine bright with the legacy that we leave behind

Heroes Always Get Remembered But Legends Never Die

Hestia, MANSAE!

:)

HELLO GUYS IF YOU WANT TO CHEER UP YOU CAN READ THIS :):)

1. what happens when chemists die? We BARIUM
2. Why do people from Rome like Lady Gaga? Because they are BAD ROMANS
3. Why did the people panic at the disco? Because the bachelor died.
4. Simba was walking too slowly so i told him to Musfasa.
5. Yesterday a book fell on my head. I've just got my-shelf to blame.
Ok i will stop now I am sorry if i ruined your day i just couldn't contain myself HAHAHAHA

we are nearing clc!

hello hestia!

exactly one week from now, we'd be in clc... time passes really quickly!

we're gonna be really busy in week 10 ya! oac from monday-wednesday and clc from saturday-monday phew! jiayous ok! we can do it together yeah we're all in this together cue hsm ahahah but really i think we'll really bond after clc ok!

it's very important to stay healthy and be sure that you stay on task so we can get through this week well okay!

also i'd just like to bring up somethings i've wanted to say for a while ahahaha maybe i'm just too sensitive? but spending 99% of my time on tumblr has really taught me about things i never would've learnt without it ahahah so
1. please please please don't use 'gay' as an insult i know maybe yall think it's funny but i really don't think it is and more and more people around me are using it (not pinpointing anyone ok!) and i always cringe because 'gay' is a gender identity and i don't think it's wise to use it as an adjective to describe inanimate objects and/or people as an insult ya!
2. please also don't use 'depressed' as an adjective to describe your feelings ok! depression is a mental disorder and i don't think this word should be thrown around or used lightly ya! depression should not be taken lightly, and no one ever wants to be depressed. maybe it's a poor grade on your math test, or an argument with a loved one, but depression is a persistent feeling of sadness which constantly affects your daily activities. similar to the previous point, i think no one except those who are depressed should be allowed to use this word ya!

that's all ahaha if it goes against of views (or maybe even offends you?) then it's alright you don't have to remember or agree with it because it's just my opinion ok!

also again jiayou and press on for the next week ok! and good luck to our oac noms (sheemyi, peixuan, farzanah and jannah)!

many many hugs and kisses
your favourite pepe :)

Up set

Sorry for breaking the positive posts. Upset rn because upset aksjdjdhgd


Why npap. 

JIAYOU

HELLO HESTIA!
This is probably one of the few extremely stressful and difficult times of the year where we have to deal with so many things-OAC, CLC, projects, tests, homework etc. But being angst and stressed out is not going to help us AT ALL, so whats the point?? Close your eyes, take a deep breath and think about all the things you have been through. There have been many tough times in the past but we survived right? So why not this time? We might have our own  goals and we might not even achieve them, but we can't get everything we want right? If you go for one, you might miss out on another one. Nobody is perfect, nobody has everything they want but people still stay happy because they are able to find happiness in everything that they do! If you are doing math homework, think about how much positive effort you are putting in by using your brain cells and challenging the process! See? There is always something positive to think about, no matter how frustrating the task you are doing is.(yes, I mean that math is frustrating) Now just put everything down, smile to yourself and give yourself a confident pat on your shoulder. You will live through this.