6 Weeks to POP

Halfway into BMT...

Life's been ok so far. But after this week I think it's time to cheong again... I'm finding time to recover and balancing with excelling in my BMT...

SIT test coming up tml... 12km route march, whole day of lessons, night missions, slping in basha and no bath for at least 3 days again... Oh yea, there's OC night as well but I don't think the platoon has any plans yet...

Last week was very very short. Booked in on Wed, NO ACTIVITIES!!! The whole bunch of us slacking and havin fun.

Next day morning woke up for breakfast, drew arms and head back for slp until lunch!!!! So slack. After lunch was my favourite training - IMT, individual marksman training. Air Con room, electronic rifle. Sort of like playing game. Fun!

Following day was kinda same as well. Except that instead of slacking in the morning we slacked in the noon.

The worst thing of the week hit me very very sudden. Guard Duty... I had to "volunteer" for guard duty because I lost my rifle during field camp. That means no booking out on sat afternoon... Sadded...

Guard Duty was fun, but damn tiring. Especially the last shift... Duty for 2hrs, rest for 4hrs. Prowling, sentry, prowling, prowling... Nobody will invade Tekong larh!!! Still, SAF 8th core value will be applied here... hehe... Go figure.

So my last duty was 6am to 8am... That leaves me with no time to slp. Rushed back to coy line for bath, packed clothes, rush back to TFT, book out 8:45 fast craft... Ah... 1st time I miss the fast craft. hehe. Even the air at TFT smelt better after that 45mins. LOL

No time for fun & games, thx daddy for picking me up. Came home, ate, slp. Wake up to get ready for book in again. Haiz... Life in the army.... -_-''

Do uphold me in your prayers! I need alot of physical strength. Senior Tech appeals to me more and more each day... I really question if it's God's will. okie, gotta bath and book in le. :(

Where's my fairytale?

Quite awhile didn't blog le...
It's time to mark things down...

I guess it's time to start considering which direction I'm heading to. The beginning of my very own fairytale & I've to work hard for an happy ending...

Before all that I've been resting for 5 days! Almost 1 work week from Tekong. Woot!
But all good things must end & I'm gonna book in later on...

Today
So I've just came back from Army Market at beach road. Bought my stuffs that I've lost in Field Camp, finally sewed the name tags on my 2 smart 4s. Burger King for lunch. Guess that's pretty much what I've did for today...

Yesterday
Woke up early like around 10am. Played Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. Stucked at the tank level... I'm not a tankie! hahas. Played FIFA 07. So fun. I love FIFA more each year. Went outing wit Eilleen, Sheena & Thong... Eileen's cousins were sooo noisy. Hahas. Fun. We went Party World. Finally got to see this Jay, get a taste of how he sings... Excellent. hahas. Cao recruit sing song having fun~ LOL

2 Days ago
Section outing!!! Woke up, prep up, head down to cineleisure! Met the guys there, ate our lunch and went to E2Max for DoTA & CS. After that we went to Meridian for Pool, the environment not bad. Cost alittle too ex... But alright ba, coz it's in town. Went home had dinner.

Sunday
Went service. Headaching like crazy... Halfway went toilet to splash water on myself... But I couldn't take it anymore so drove home to slp. After woke up body full of sweat. Feeling alot better. Ate dinner den slp again... Whaha pigz out.

Sat
Played DoTA online. Kena owned :( Played alot of FIFA 07, slpt den wake and slpt again... Beng they all just ended Youth Camp meeting. Met up wit them went straight to J8, eat Cartel. Oreo Milkshake is DAMN NICE!!! Go walk walk... So sianz. No mj to play, nth nice to do, end up shopping for clothes. Giodano Dry Fit polo T only $10 each! So nice... When home play abit of DoTA...

Bookout day!
Went to BK Yishun 10 eat lunch. Wanted to look for Life Bookshop at Northpoint but close down liao, was told that it was long ago... -_-'' Reached home about 4:30pm... Took a nap, played some games. Went out for massage... Section mates sabo me oredered "special" service for me... OH MY GOSH!!! Wad the heck... Reject and reject... end up everyone had a great laugh.... Went CCK to eat supper...

Whew! This 5 days really did accomplished quite alot. But lack of a little MJ and soccer. If not it'll be really great! It's ok, next time around :) 6th Dec will come real soon :) I'm lovin it~ SAF will give me a nice Xmas present - my posting results.

I really hope I'll qualify for OCS, then I'll be given the pilot/C3/fighter contract to sign. If not I'll take up the Senior Tech's contract... Hmm... My fairytale in the making... I wan a happy ending :)

7 Days field camp...

2 weeks in tekong... This 2 weeks had been real hell...

1st up was knowing that we will be confined due to field camp. Next was knowing we had field camp... Double whammy... T_T

The 1st week without field camp was chicken feet... UGH! I fail my IPPT by 39 seconds!!! If i've not walked that 2 rounds I'll get silver at least -_-''

Day before field camp was hectic... Rush to pack everything... Thank God for wet tissues and tights! :) Anti Abrasion and pimples prevention =D

Day 1
8KM route march with FULL BATTLE ORDER to campsite 1, the trek was soooo dusty that everyone started coughing away... As we walked reached the campsite, 1/2 the company was dragging their feet along... Hot sun, heavy packs lousy road.

Our backs were wet and our body smelled... 1st thing to do wasn't rest. It was to build our bashas... On the sandy and uneven grass patch... I wanted to die when I saw wad I would be sleeping on... Dinner was combat ration. It was 1st time experience for me & I had a very very good pack - Baked Pasta with Black Pepper Chicken, it even has desert! Green Bean with Coconut milk! So nice.

OC stood infront of all of us and said "Something is wrong with the company..." Then, it was makeup time! All of us were to put on our campflouge >_<' We camped there laid down some rules - Noise and light discipline, no talking or using of torchlight at night. We had guard duty as well...

The highlight of the day was powder bathing. All of us were to strip to our underwear... Open th prickly heat and start pouring as if it was water instead of powder. Then we had to make sure every part of our body is powdered... my gosh... now we know where to haze comes from... 200 over people powder bathing at the same time... imagine the amount of dust from the powder.

It was fun though. We threw powder at each other. The feeling was kinda icky coz sweat, dirt all over but coz of the prickly heat we felt very cold...

That's pretty much wad we did for day 1

Day 2
Woke up as early as 0530hrs, 5BX and we had a few lessons... It's very stupid that we have to have lessons in the middle of the forest just to waste away 1 day...

Combat ration for lunch, it sucked coz it was braised chicken with mushroom rice...

We were applying all our lessons. Fire movement, fire command etc. The funnest was Arti-drill... When someone shout "INCOMING!" all have to run and duck, covering ur weapon. Then as the arti is lifted we all make a run-for shouting "Arti-arti" all e way til we reach camp. Heat rash started to develop... no bath throughout... Ouch man..

Dinner was better as we were allowed to cook maggie mee. Hahas. I actually cooked milo for the section. Then I did heat up my pasta with surimi combat ration - very very nice :)

We had to powder bath again... so sianz... so dirty...

Last day staying in the rubber plantation, tml we'll all trek to oil palm...

Day 3
When we reached our new campsite it started to rain. We had to rush to build a basha for the whole section. Everyone was lost as to how we shld build a big one. So I just tried to take the lead. I know some of them appreciated my lead but there were some that think I was acting garang. Nvm, at least SGT saw my leadership skills...

As night comes it rained even harder. some of our trash were left out of e basha. About 3 or 4 am I felt something going thru our trash. Then it came to my feet, sniffed my boots. Stepped on my legs. Immediately I know it was a wild boar!!! A baby one. I tried to trap it under my legs so that ppl can see. But I end up kicking it away. Haha, so funny.

Day 4
We broke down the basha, took a 500m walk to a malay school for our technical break. Which means to say no training, no combat rations, no need to dig hole to shit! Hahas. Then the surprise came, they had shower points there! We could take a shower!!! Shiok!

We had fresh rations delievered to us. It felt great coz it's piping hot. We had an ice cold orange for desert as well! Yum.

This time there was no powder bath! Sleep was jus as terrible, instead of sleeping on sand, mud and rain, we slept on hard and sandy concreate floor.

Day 5
Early morning wake up, packed our stuff, head back to oil palm plantation. This time we pitched our regular 2 men basha.

We had our fire movement test. We used blanks in our M16, so fun to fire rifle. I think my group was great. We were like the most alert in our section. 2 of us aspire to go OCS but my buddy just wans a simple NS.

After the test, we had again maggie time. Hahas. This time I just heat up my ration. Don't wanna eat maggie anymore. Lazy to take out my mess tins. After dinner was stand-to again... Power bath, Then sleep...

Day 6
Woke up, break basha. We are going to head to our last campsite - the reclaimed land. The journey was spectacular. We walked passed an empty field full of lalangs. Beautiful. There was a bridge which brings us over a very beautiful river with very clear waters. It sort of gave us a morale boost.

As we walk into the jungle, i started to lag behind... Coz I couldn't take the weight anymore... SGT asked me to fall out. Shoved me up the rover... When we reached the campsite, everyone just took out their water bottles and drank up. I was brought to the medic tent. Had to shove myself 4 bottles of water. Eat 2 fruit bars... Almost wanted to vomit... Actually I vomitted 2 times... The medic put me on drip...

He tried my left hand, couldn't find e vein, the right hand also can't find. End up he was so frustrated he plucked out the tube and asked me to suck the IV drip pack...

Sent back to dig trench... Halfway through, OC told me. "I tot u were sick? Don't dig." He asked my buddy to make sure I don't dig.. Ugh... Though I don't have to dig but I miss the fun... I had to sit there watching my section mate working hard as I can do nth...

The trench was for us to sleep in. Since I do not have a trench I had to slp in a basha. Haha. Not bad la. At least I have a little more comfort. This time there wasn a powder bath! Hahas.

During the night, my rifle was being stunned by my SGT... That cost me 1 weekend confinement... :( super sianz... Ugh...

Day 7
Our final day. Morale was high... We packed our stuff early, cover all our trenches. 5bx, breakfast etc.

Hike to old SISPEC for our last event of the camp. The BIC. Battle Inoculation Course... Rifle in hand, stay low all the time... We crawled through the 80m course... Leopard crawl, back crawl... Ugh... so so so tiring... It looked very very near... But crawling was really tiring and slow. GPMG firing live rounds above our heads... As we slid into the last trench, took out our granade, throw at the target. Rush at it and hit it sooooooo hard... It felt shiok... All our anger and frustration, tiredness and discomfort ended that moment...

That was our last event to mark the end of field camp 2006 for Falcon company... We sat the tonner back to our company line and from there it was admin time for us. :)

This 7 days had been tough.... No hp, no comforts, nobody to understand except your buddy beside you. It really made me appreciate my home, my house more. The washing machine is such a great invention... TV, computers etc. are just luxuries...

For the 1st time in 7 days after I on my hp I can't stop smiling. I read all e messages, I felt very very happy to be back to civilization... I'm very happy that i've such wonderful frens. Field camp has a better effect than Church camp I think... I thank God for everything. Really wonderful that God has save us and allowed us alot of comfort. :)

1 month has passed...

Ok, it's really bad...

1 month, not much progress... 2 months + 1 week to go, next week will be my field camp. No booking out.

Never did I expected that we'd become like this... Never...

LTC David Lim stepped down, LTC Loong takes over for BMTC Sch 1. There was a COC parade & I'm in it! Initially when they were choosing I prayed really hard that I won't get selected. But yea, drill was my strong point so wad the heck...

Irritating when you know you have to rehearse and rehearse in the hot hot sun yet your bunk mates who are weaker in drill have to "bo bian" stay in their bunk to do "area cleaning"... BUT! The good news came when we went to our 1st Grenade Assualt Course.

OC: "All COC personnels fall in... After this, you fellows will go for a canteen break..."
We: "Yeah!!!!!!! Thank you SIR!!!"
OC: "I know it's unfair for you guys who are good in drill to practise for so hard yet your weaker bunk mates can stay in their bunk enjoying their long admin time... But, I got my limitations... One of these days you will book out 1 day early...."
We: "WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!"

Hahas. How fun...
Oh yea, I passed my air force interview. I really had to thank God for that. It was damn scary... Very very very very scary. There's nothing you can hide from them. They have ALL your records, what you've done, how well you did from PSLE to Diploma, what CCA, religion etc.

Really thank God, I chosed to place God 1st & indeed He delievered me.
"So if God calls you to go to Africa would you throw away your chance to be in the air force?"
"If you are serving your contract midway and God tells you this is not your calling?"

Well, God's 1st. But since I've decided, I'll honor my contract and leave after that... I just hope it's God's will.