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Hello Everyone! How are all of you? Well, this is my first post. I still cannot forget the National Day celebrations that was held in our school on 7th August. It was one of the most fun days I had in weeks. I think that the Racial Harmony Celebrations were quite enjoyable, before the lessons commenced. I mean before 8.45. I was involved in the National Day Celebrations. You might ask how.

Well, I was a Guard-of-Honour in the National Day Parade in our school. Three other NCC boys in my class were also Guards-of-Honour. All of us had to go for NDP training a few days and a week before the parade. Actually the training was quite fun even though there was a lot of running involved. All of us had to arrive to school by 6.50. But we arrived in school before that. Then, we fell in our respective uniformed groups and checked our uniforms. After that, we were given white gloves to wear. During the rehearsals, I got good gloves to wear. But ,amazingly, on the day of the National day celebrations, I got a spoiled pair of gloves. So, I went back to find a better pair of gloves in that box filled with gloves. A few of my schoolmates were doing the same. But, we did not get good pairs of gloves. Then, we fell in as a whole squad and did some commands. Our commander told one person from each class to help his/her classmates to report present to the class form teacher. For our class,3/9, Khairul went to report our presence to our form teacher.

All the students came back and fell in. We then marched, to the front of all the students, who were staring down at us. We executed a few commands and after getting a cheerful applause from the "audience", we marched back to the quadrangle where we were given "100PLUS" as rewards for our hard work. We then did a "water parade" with the "100PLUS" by shouting out "Yaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmm Seng!!!!!!!" I was glad that we finished the parade successfully. Then, I went and changed to my red shirt and went to class where I was greeted with a "Hello, Nithiyah!" by the whole class the moment I stepped into the classroom. The other three NCC boys had arrived before me and were still in their NCC uniform.

All of them were singing National Day songs when I arrived. I joined in and my classmates even "remixed" the "What Do You See?" song. We all sang the songs happily. The class whiteboard was decorated with things in red and white and things relating to Singapore. We took photos and did the "Kallang Wave" together, by holding each others' hands. There was even a Michael Jackson song, suddenly playing out of Mr. Radha's laptop. It was called "Smooth Criminal". Some of my classmates started dancing and doing the famous Michael Jackson moves. I did not know that some of my friends were that good in doing Jackson's dance moves.

Then, we were all called out to the corridors to hear the principal's speech. Then, while some of us went into the class,the others stood at the corridor and did a "Kallang Wave". We were released and it was time for us to go home. I could not believe that the day has ended. It was a very fun day. I want another fun day like that.