Female NAFPA test is only conducted every 3rd Wednesday of the month @ Toa Payoh Stadium, which is pretty inflexible especially if the candidates are already currently working.
Background: from Primary school to JC's NAFPA, I've gotten GOLD every year without much trouble. Not boasting or anything but I really did not have to put in any extra effort other than the normal PE lessons.. My best timing for 2.4km run was 12mins.
So naturally, I would think that for this NAFPA test I would able to ACE it right? WRONG!
Without those school PE lessons (in university as well as my past 1 year of working life), it really does make such a big difference in my fitness level. For the last 1 year, I've been sitting down everyday at work, going home late for dinner, sleeping in on weekends. As a result I put on a whopping 7 kg since I started work. I felt like I was doing NAFPA with a mini field pack.. Needless to say results were as follows: (LEFT SIDE)
It's a BIG wake up call. Since the results, I've been TRYING to go for jogs after work once a week. Hopefully it will slowly tune my up fitness and shed those pounds.
Oh, another thing to note was, surprisingly a PASS for NAFPA would suffice instead of SILVER, so I've "cleared" NAFPA test now and waiting for the C3 interview which I'm told would be sometime in April 2015 (last stage!)
Well I'm really counting down the days to my interview and apparently on the same day I will know if I made it or not. Yes those jitters are coming but I trust God that He will decide if this is the vocation for me. Finally, after all theses years of waiting, (since sec/JC time), I'm finally at the interview stage. At least the next time I go for an open house, I can tell myself that I tried and there's no regrets anymore.
I'm pretty stoked I'm finally chasing my dreams!
