I was just browsing through my photo album when I stumbled across this picture.

Somehow, I was drowned with sentimental feelings and thoughts... that I almost felt a tear rolling down my eyes.

There in the picture, contain the whole, lest one, Team of Instructors of the unit...from the first member, till the latest one...not to forget our OC who's been around longer than any of the Team members.

Seeing the Team made me recall the times when we sat down together and squeezed our brains on how we can help the unit. How we, albeit volunteers, are spending a lot/majority of our time meeting up and trying to come up with some action plans. That was about 5 years ago. Circumstances has it that things won't advance as fast as we planned.

And within that picture, I believe lies a few more who might be in the Team in the years to come.

I was smiling to myself when I see the faces of my cadets in the picture and recalling how they looked like now. For the current sec 4s, looking at the picture brought back the kind of NCO life they had experienced for that one year. And to me, it is a wonderful to imagine how those smiling faces in the row behind the Team have done what they did...and doing what they might.

The larger bunch at the back are the sec 2s, currently sec 3s. Can you see how 'cute' they were last time? Haha! I was laughing at myself when I try to match their faces with how they look like now. Can you imagine how much potential that bunch have? Well, I believe there's a tremendous amount of potential they possess. But then again, potential energy will always remain a potential energy...unless a net force is able to unleash it. I am still, however, encouraged to see some of them in the process of developing into competent NCOs at the moment. Keep it up, guys!

A picture can speak a thousand words. And I feel it is very important to be keeping albums of pictures as we live through our lives. They form the pictorial memory lane which in the near future, let you look back and relive those experiences.

Having said that, thank you to those in the above-mentioned, for making my NPCC journey, a more memorable one.