9 more days to get our 3rd bar....

This week basically not much programs... monday's highlight is the ICCT... learn basic locks... had a good time but at the same time got quite some pain... tuesday, had our Navigation exercise again.. this time is at Mandai... can see woodland, and we are veri near to the zoo... the day navigation was quite eventful, firstly, our first checkpoint was a big cock-up... the MGR given was wrong, and we were searching at the top of the knoll for a checkpoint tat was not there for an hour plus... the actual MGR was abt 300m away, which was quite a big error... and the main thing is, it was at the foot of the knoll... at nite had our nite navigation, which was quite easy, able to finish in an hour...
wednesday, if I was not wrong, we had SOC... basically, only those who failed will take the test again.. I was a pacer for tat day, I pace my friend, and in the end, his timing was 8min55sec.. which was a good result as his previous timing was 10mins...
thursday had our 16km route march.. our minimium timing to meet is 4hrs 45mins.. the standard timing is 4km an hr.... the time we took to finish was 3hrs 19mins... tat was fast, and all of us was wondering if we had broke the record of OCS for the fastest time to finish 16km... basically we are fast marching...
friday had our ICCT again.. this time is Intermediate Locks... quite fun also... then we book out at nite... shiok sia.. nxt week we will know our posting liao... dunno will stay or post out... stay in infantry got good and bad.. good is may have the chance to post to HQ to do admin work... bad is that we have to go thru ALPHA convertion course, which I think will be very tough... and one important thing, I dun like to chiong in Infantry.. I want to go Signal... but the competition is very tough, only 1 platoon size will go... which we had to fight for among 3 wings... 300 ppl fight for 30 seats... wow.. hard sia...

Slack week....

This week, hmm.. not much adventurous things... Monday mostly is lesson all the way... POI lessons... Protection of Installation... learned how to protect installation in Singapore, definition of POI and why do we have POI... from the lesson, I learn that POI has only started after Sep 11 attack that happen in USA... so the government set up POI to protect important installations, e.g. Jurong Island, all ministries and heritage installations... after having lesson from morning till afternn, we had SOC in the evening... chiam sia.. failed the SOC... stuck at 1 obstacle... luckily I passed the SOC b4 I go field camp, cos now I think I will have a hard time passing it...

then on tues, we had a navigation exercise at lower mandai.. I start from Bukit timah reserve, then we have to find our checkpoints... walked from bukit timah to macritchie back to bukit timah then back to macritchie again. so troublesome sia... this exercise quite adventurous cos for my first checkpoint, my group 2 hrs juz to find it, it was hiding somewhere in the vegetation along a stream and we had to walk in the forest to look for it.. can't use the track as it was in the middle of nowhere... my group managed to complete the exercise in time and came in 3rd or 4th.... that's a big consolation to us...

wed was quite a slack day, had MOI in the morning, had to do a 5mins presentation to my section and section instructor... I talked on "Weapons of mass destruction"... hmm, got a few good comments, e.g my instructor said it was an interesting topic... haiz.. nxt week got to give 20 mins presentation, muz find more info for the topic liao...

thurs, nothing much lor.. morning helped to set up the "Warriors Hall" which will be use this coming sunday... then bascially is area cleaning all the way, and had our 4km Full battle order route march from 11am... under hot sun and was doing fast march... the spirits of everyone was quite high as we are booking out after the route march... finished the route march in 32 mins... which was quite a achievement to us, but to our Wing Commander, we did not meet his target of 30mins... nvm, we had more route marches in the coming weeks.. 4 more to go under the damn hot sun...

Today book out in the afternn, but the bad thing is have to book in on sat's nite... sianz arh.. cos we have to help out in the commission parade on sunday, and no cadets are allow to book in on sunday as the president of Singapore is coming to SAFTI... prepare to have lots of security in place.. sianz sianz sianz...

Finally finished all the 3 field camps for Service term 2....

Halo... shiok and happy sia.. finished all the 3 tough field camps... 3 weeks of continous field camps... the first one is quite a dramatic one as we were being call-back on Sunday's afternn and move out for Tekong on tat nite... then having to brave through the days of lack of slp and cold of the nite, as it was raining and we did not bring our cortex jacket... then we came back on thursday and able to book-out for the weekend... then on the following week, we went for field camps at tekong again.. move out on wed's morning, and back in camp the nxt week wed's nite... 8 days of continuous field camp was a tough and demanding one... the first 4 days is all able platoon attack, learned and do all the attack drills in the day and nite.. then never slp much as we have to do guard duty at nite to prevent intruders... the last 4 days are defence field camp.. this was one of the toughest as we are to dig trenches, shellscape, command post, MG post and ovbservation post... shellscape is quite easy to dig, spend abt an hour plus.. then we dig our fire trench in buddy level... spend the whole nite digging and dig for 2 days... as it is required to reach our chest level when we stand in there... and basically the whole ground is full of rocks as wat the road name has said for itself "Rocky Hill".... for this field camps, we slp not more than an hour a day.. some of us managed to slp more... finally got to book out... spent the weekend eating... hahaa... miss all the good that the civilian world offers... I had enough of combat rations and food provided by the SFI and NTUC... hmm.. ok lar.. I think I shall end here.. go to play game.. never touch it for 2 wks liao... itching hand liao.. hahaa...

Going back to camp soon... 10days field camp...

hmm.. going back to camp at 5pm... sianz arh... going tekong for field camp on wed.. last day of the field camp still have to do 16km(most likely 24km) route march when we reach Singapore... going to a damn tough month... wat a great start to a new yr... as wat a friend of mine has said, look at the bright side, think positive... I will give it a try, treat it like a outward bound camp... hahaa.. go tekong play catching... hope I can come back in 1 good piece and not with limping legs or wat... hahaa..
hmm, sat and sun is quite boring, not much actions going on... sat went army market to stock up stuffs for field camp, then went home play game liao.. then evening went to cousin's house for a small gathering among all the cousins... then went to temple for awhile after tat went to meet chensiang and the others for supper... Sun.. as usual, went to grandma's place... play with my baby cousin.. 2 months old, very cute and adorable... hahaa.. then now back at home, preparing to go back camp.. tired sia... maybe catch some slp b4 going back... dunno wat is install for us tonite...

Happy New Year!!!

hmm.. today is 1st Jan 2005 liao.. so fast sia... this yr 21 yrs old... another door to more responsibilities & become more mature... now I am a bit closer to my Commission Day... hahaa... commission on 23rd of July, 2005... last nite went orchard w/ the other brothers(siang, hao, sheng)... haiz.. walk here and there.. so congested sia... upon touch down at somerset, went to cinileisure to look for them... then we walk to PS to check out the time slot for "Kung Fu"... haiz.. no available seats in PS.. so we went arcade play for awhile... hahaa.. I lucky sia... got to play a game w/o having to pay.. cos got a family playing the ... dunno wat it is called.. the one tat can have 4 players, shooting game.. played until my hand pain sia.. got to kill tat stupid Commander.. and this game reminds me of my Patrol field camp... so many missions and sub-task... then siang went to look for FengMing... hahaa, she look the same since secondary sch.. then we walk back to cinileisure for "Kung Fu"... after the movie, went to Hilton to look for Jeremy.. after reaching there, I stayed for awhile then go home liao... they stay there to wait for him...