Today i finally discovered the ancient mystery in my corps liao! Wat is it...please read on...

This morning while the cadets are practicing their drills at the parade sq, i was in the SJ room with a fren toking abt some things, then i noticed the old trophies dated to the 80's. So i asked my fren is it possible to "re-colour" the trophies as they are part of our competition history, and also bcos they are still " fully intact" unlike some others trophies. After that i opened up the cupboards where we place the rest of the trophies (including those present times) and i was checking thru the old ones seeing which could also be "re-colour", then i saw a souvenir plate with inscriptions of chinese on it, so i try my language skills on reading the inscriptions.

The inscriptions translated as: "St John Ambulance Brigade, Tanglin Divison 15th anniversary celebrations" and also "donated and presented by Mr..." and it was dated "1980, Sep 7th".

After reading out, i was very delighted to know this infomation cos i always wanted to know when was St John Tanglin established. I started tracing back 15 years from 1980, and i found out that it was the year 1965, which means we are of the same "age" as S'pore and also that we are "41 years old" this year.

Actually i should have found out earlier cos the souvenir plate i've seen it before, but i din carefully read out the chinese wordings on it. Haiz...wat was sad is that if i've found out earlier we could celebrate our 40th anniversary last year, but bcos of this i've decided that we should be kept known of our history in the future. Maybe we can take a yearly foto of the corps, with our members lined up to form the year of the Corps's anniversary, and this year would be 41st.

Anyway after discovering this, it gives mi the feeling that i wanna celebrate the Corps's 50th anniversary which also marks the Golden Jubilee of the Corps. For extra, i know that the Brigade Regulations states that Corps that has been in continuous existence for 50 years can be awarded the "Jubilee Certificate". When that day comes, maybe we can gather all the ex-members together and celebrate this joyous event, so 9 more years people to 50...haha!

I also asked my fren in the room whether we should make another souveiner plate for the celebrations of the 41st anniversary of the Corps, together with some other ex-members of the corps. Anyway...Hapi 41st bday to Tanglin Corps this year!