Friday, August 28, 2009

my 21st birthday had finally come & now i am older by 1 year. on the actual day, we were having live firing on SAR21. everyone passed ofcouse & i did my own practice shot & it turn out not hard. SAR21 is a weapon easy to handle.

i took 21st August off & went to ck to see them train. i can see their improvement. they are still as friend & funny as always. really wished the days when me & yu went ck every friday for our training. every friday was our best day in every week.

saturday i went back to camp for the company & platoon photo taking. was actually quite silly to stay back until so late for it. went child hood friend's home for a birthday party. i was told it was some other uncle's birthday & i trust mine mom. i remember asking her if they are going to celebrate mine as well but she keep saying no one has that in mind.

upon reaching there everyone was really acting well. even my mom bought a wine over to act as a gift. the preparation & the hiding was well planned. in the end when they call for the cake cutting session, i was pulled in & it turn out to have my name on the cake after all. how could they ignore my 21st birthday.

was very happy & surprise & got alot of cake on my face & my shirt. lucky my mom managed to wash my shirt. was a really great day. that day was also Man utd VS Wigan. Man utd was playing so badly in the first half but they geared up in the second half & scored 5 goals. was a great match (from the second half onwards) to watch.

i forgot which date but yu, jinhao, yu's sis, yu's sis's friend & wei also bought a cake for me. we went to jurong SAFRA club to play the kids indoor playground. i remember going to that sort of playgrounds with my child hood friend when we were still young. that day we were standing outside & yet yu keep saying we shouldn't go in first. at first i didn't know what he was up to but a trip to the toilet, i saw yu's sis & her friend lightning up the candles. in the end it was as what i saw, a little cake but i am really thankful. we had a very fun day.

it had been a very long time i had cake for birthday. thought i don't mind not having one, but i am really thankful they took my birthday as an important issue. yu, huat, jq & dy even got me a hard disk which turns out to be very useful now that my laptop is running out of space.

thanks everyone again. thanks aunt chris for preparing that surprise party. thanks yu for that day of fun. thanks all my friends for the text messages. my mom said that once you reach 21, the years will carry on. very fast you will be 22, 23 & so on. guess we just have to treasure everyday. that's for now, bye

11:19 PM...Peace

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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Time flies. 09th July 2009, was was the day i celebrated my 1 year army life. it wasn`t much of a celebration, i just ate bread & talk alot of cock with my bunk mates. life in 41 SAR is getting better now that the recruits are in. they look damn blur on the enlistment day (although they still look very blur now) but now they are slowly but surely learning things.

their PTP period is over & is now going through BMT but in this period, 1 of them kana H1N1. now must take note of their well being le. they seem very easy to get fever now. hope everything goes away soon.

nothing big happen actually so also nothing much to post about. i believed in fate since young but now when i think back, i think its really just my own thoughts. most probably the things i thought will happen will never happen. guess i just have to accept the fact & just carry on my life. thats for now, bye

5:19 AM...Peace

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

FINALLY!!! i have finally finish my 22 weeks of AISL (armour infantry section leader) course & am now a 3rd Sergeant NS man. went through alot of training, events, live firing, arms cleaning etc.

fired the 25mm brushmaster canon. although its not a big canon, its still quite powerful if aim correctly. fired 7.62mm GPMG & COAX machine guns. very inaccurate but i guess machine guns wasnt meant to be accurate in the first place. fired the 0.5 inch heavy machine gun. i really dislike that gun as it is much harder to aim & shoot at targets. fired 40mm AGL. much more accurate than the 0.5 inch HMG & is very powerful.

drove the BX 2MT AFV & was really a fun experience. clean the arms unit all my fingers became black in colour was something i will never forget. enduring the cold weather in overseas was hell for us all.

maintain a silver for IPPT, pass SOC in 9.56min (ATI standard) & gain some weight due to the good food of the cook house. cant say too much about the oversea training but i guess that part i will never forget.

seems very long but now i cannot really remember what really happen in this 22 weeks. i remember alot of late night arms cleaning. preparing of the vehicle by putting all the OVM items in their places. cleaning of the vehicle was very dirty & wet. alot of test on all the weapons, driving, signal set, turret control, TSR for weapons, driving, turret & the vehicle in general.

alot of things i already forgot, how to put the signal set etc. going to 41 SAR camp which is a 10min distance away from yew tee MRT. can reach home very fast every book out. going to take a whole new batch of recruits which will slowly become our man under our teachings. cant wait for my ORD date to come.

guess this marks the end of my trainee life in NS & the real test will being very soon. taking man isnt as easy but i guess as long as i dont torment them for my own entertainment, i should be fine. i really think with the experience of taking class in taekwondo, i wont have much of a problem in taking those man.

thats for now, bye

10:16 PM...Peace

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Friday, November 14, 2008

wow. finally 8 weeks of BSLC has finished. this 8 weeks is still alright, not as hard as people made it sound like. but this 8 weeks my knee pain came again & again. went through SAW live firing (misfire), IPPT still maintain silver, fail SOC (retest that day was on status so never take).
missed section live firing (on status), miss IMT (on status), field camp & grand slam some exercise i never took part (because of the knee pain).

yesterday night around 9pm we started our 28km route march. it was hell. i kept thinking of falling out. but in the end, i ate sweets & drink water through out the whole march & i managed to complete it & earn my corporal rank. enjoyed this 8 weeks of BSLC. kana posted to armour infantry. going to be hard but i will try my best to complete that 21 week course.

this 8 weeks really taught me alot of things. i foudn out all the SGT are very nice people. even my sect commd is also very nice. i got a grade of B- & a position of 5th in the platoon. i just think its not fair. this 8 weeks i didn't do much & yet i still got top 5. i was LPS on grand slam 1st day. i personally think i did not so bad, atleast the timing of the sections moving for mission & the harbouring was done nicely. hope my new unit will be as fun as well.

thats for now. bye

11:39 PM...Peace

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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Finally posting again. I have finally pass through 9 weeks of BMTC Tekong live. There is so much i wanna say about it but there is also so much things which i cannot really write down.

Things i enjoy in NS

- Field Camp (my section commander is very relax on us, & we didn't really got punish alot)
- Section mates (we really are a section full of slackers, people say what we do what)
- Last 2 weeks (we only did IPPT, SOC & games day, i always sleep & my section mate always know what i will do when there is admin time)
- Live Firing (only chance you can shoot live rounds out of a rifle is during NS)
- Grenade (same reason as live range)

Things i do not enjoy in NS

- Route march (i hate it so much)
- Punished for other people's mistake (i do not mind being punish for platoon mate's mistake, but kana punish for other platoon's punish is just not that fair)
- Waking up early (thats why i always sleep in my free time)

Results

IPPT
- Sit up : 42 (5 points)
- Chin up : 8 (3 points)
- Standing board jump : 225 (3 points)
- Shuttle run : 9.9 sec (5 points)
- 2.4km run : 10.55 min (3 points)
Over all : silver

SOC
Pass

Swimming
Cat B : fail

Live Range
25/32 : no marksman, just pass

Field Craft
106(+-)/130(+-) : passed (cannot really remeber my score & the total score)

When i am doing all the training, i will be like "Why the hell am i here". When i finish everything le, i will be like "Haha, those times were funny". I guess i won't forget my days in BMTC. Now i have to wait for my posting. I really hope i can get posted to Police. If i really do, i will sign on, i think. Really happy that i have 11 days of leave. Will use this days to good use. Thats for now. Bye.

6:34 PM...Peace

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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Wow. Time pass like nobody's business. Very fast, tomorrow, 9th July 2008, i will be enlisted to National Services. Alot of people asked me hows it feel. I only reply them happy. To say the true, we canot escape from NS, thats why i rather go in with a happy mood. Can learn life skills, new things. Whole new chapter of my life. Go in there train to be a man.

Quite alright this few days. Saturday was Concord's grading. Their standards did improve, but not very much. Still, an improvement is an improvement. Good work to those students & the black belts. Sunday was another grading day. I don't think it was alright. Although i guess CK de students should be all fine. Hope every students can perform better next grading ba.

Went dinner with daughter jenny, went out with god mom, went to mom jenny's place to meet my child hood friends, later going dinner with yu, hao, zibing & wei, watched movie with huat & jq yesterday night, sms-ed tiffary, jocelyn & lao ma zi le. So ya, basically i informed everyone who knows that i existed le. I will be going NS to learn, suffer, train & enjoy myself de.

I truely hope everything will be fine for everyone i knew. Heard tiffary is going into NUS for nursing course. I am SO proud of her. Nursing is such a meaningful job as she can save people's lifes. TKD de stuff i passed to jinhao & derrick le. I hope our club can hold on to our numbers, standards & morale. I hope life can be easiler for my mom.

Always hope for so many things, guess i AM greedy after all.

Alright people, i will post when am free & when thats some big happenings ba. Take care all.

Thats for now... bye

1:11 AM...Peace

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Sunday, May 18, 2008

I suddenly got the feeling of writing a post... Actually there isn't anything special happened but i just wanna write up a post... Passed my 1st Dan grading some time ago, so i guess i am a 2nd Dan black belt holder... have to keep on training, can't stop here... working at SCS now. intro jos & alvin teh to work at SCS as well... going to NS with the 9th july batch... a whole new chapter of my life is unfolding with the coming of NS...

21st May will be my NYP graduation ceremony... after 3 years i am finally going to graduate from that school le... going to miss alot of things... the classmates & friends i hang out with, the great & wonderful teachers, the weird & funny teachers as well, the classes & lessons i took, the carteen food, the project rooms we used to rush our projects in, all the funny things we said & the time we played poker card outside the admin office... never going to forget that incident...

i also gone through some sweet & painful moments at NYP... started with mandy during year 2 sem 1... 3 weeks & its gone... that time i still don't have any exp & i guess i really wasn't a very nice boyfriend... rushing project & also maybe she was still young ba... after some time, sort of found mei qin a very nice girl... she is still a nice girl now, just that i wasn't nice enough for her... at that moment we had feelings for each other ba... watch a movie together once, chat on msn & sms about anything we can chat about... those good times happened when i was in FYPJ & attachment period... things didn't work out into the end & i guess its me again...

but NYP really was a nice exp for me ba... never going to forget this 3 years... got afew disney songs & all of them are very beautiful... Whole New World from Aladdin, Beauty & the Beast from beauty & the beast, Go the Distance from Hercules & some other but this 3 is my favourites... found myself to be like the beast... except i not sure if i had a prince-side of me... going to find my beauty someday...

getting prepare to go into NS le... going to work until the end of june... hope after NS, i will still have contact with sinyu, sek huat, all of my child hood friends & my NYP classmates ba... thats for now... b

11:22 AM...Peace

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