Monday, February 28, 2005

Back from Brunei....

Came back to Singapore on Wed's mornin.. but have to book-in to my new camp on that same nite... haiz.. not enough rest sia..

Went brunei for 10 days for training... a really good experience to me as this is the first time that I train oversea... enjoy my time there.. especially when we go for our 4 days jungle trekking... climbed countless hills and knolls plus 1 mountain... drank the streams and river water... slp in the open with rain over u... saw lots of insects that u dun get to see in Singapore... and 1 of the highlight is have to swim across a river with all our gears, and we swim twice... 1st is for the familiarisation, cos 1st time mar.. 2nd time is after our 4 days of jungle trekking... so shag sia... keeps thinking that there are crocs in the river to make myselft swim faster, but seriously i think there are crocs in the water lor, else they won't have to create some explosion in the water b4 we are allow to swim across the river...

back in singapore, went to my new camp... got culture shock when I reached there... the same feeling when I first went to Alpha in OCS... but this time round, it is more regiment and strict on drills and focus more on standardisation among everyone.... and this is the first time that I see all of my instructors, up to my CO.. are of the same pattern... 1st nite, my friend kena 3 xtras liao... so fast leh.. can't believe sia...
haiz.. tonite got to book-in again... have to get used to life in there fast.. if not I think I will suffer a lot sia...

Monday, February 14, 2005

Eventful week!!!

book-in on saturday nite.. cos we have platoon live firing on sun... sianz arh... sunday kanna burn again... know my posting on friday's nite... I am posted to Nee Soon Camp, School Of Combat Engineers... will be spending the nxt 5 and a half months there...

Sunday, have our platoon live firing from morning till monday's morning... did 4 rounds of live firing... the first round was very tiring and tough.... damn shag sia... maybe becos get into the rhythm yet... got to run up a steep slope for 3 times, crawl up a knoll tat is 60 degree in angle... sianz arh... so hard to crawl sia.. the whole knoll is full of big and small rocks... almost faint sia.. the first round started in the middle of afternn, the hottest part of the day... after the first round finished, almost cannot stand and breathe properly sia... after tat, had our lunch, no appetite sia... after the first round, the following rounds got better and better... maybe becos all of us are into the tempo liao...

Monday, not much of events... only manage to slp for 3 and a half hours... slpt at 3am and woke up at 6.30am... haiz.. our WSM wake the whole wing up... say want to have our parade rehearsal now... dunno wat tat guy think sia.. the rehearsal suppose to be at 7.15am... but he wake everyone up so early.. all of us are lack of slp... after the rehearsal, I went for my support arm kitting... got a bag of stuffs... inside got so many things sia... after tat, went to rest for a short while then go for lunch liao... after lunch, still got another briefing... cos we are going brunei right after CNY... then after tat briefing, got our Wing internal briefing, so called end of term conclusion... then at nite, we still got our 24km route march... luckily, they gave us 2 hrs of slp b4 the walk... if not, everyone risk will be too high and put "no go" liao... our route march starts at 10.30pm... which is half and hour late... but manage to catch up with the others bit by bit... practically, we are doing fast march for the whole 24km... hahaa.. the others are having slow walk..

Tuesday, the route march finished at 6am... then we still have to walk up the elephant hill for our 3rd bar presentation... by that time, all of us are damn shag liao... struggling to keep awake... can't believe tat I can slp while standing up sia... hahaa... but when it was time for us to put on our new ambulet, everyone is super awake liao... 1 steps closer to commission... the last white bar tat we will receive in OCS.. after the presentation, still have to walk back to our camp, which is abt 3km away... had a small celebration back in camp, everyone spray water, 100plus, champage, and watever we can find on each other... hahaa... quite happy sia... but in the end, all good things have to end... all of us can't bear to leave each other... the bond tat we have create... all of us are like 1 big family.. going thru the hard time and good times together... after tat, went back home after de-kitting... meet Ms Chee, and all brothers at Causeway point for lunch.. but siang, hao and jeremy have to go cos they got things on and they have been there since morning... then me, hongching, hanwee and yongtian take over the 2nd part... at nite, went to my uncle's house for reunion dinner... all of them are so shock to see me sia... hahaa.. becos I changed a lot liao mar... all cannot recognise me liao.. after tat, met siang, hongching, hao, hanwee and jeremy go river hongbao... go there count-down... hahaa...

Wednesday, CNY!!!! Wake up at 8+am... start work at 10am... total, went to abt 5 houses in the first day.. not a bad start... income wise, still ok lar...

Thursday, went to work again... this time with my father side, went "ba nian" with my cousin, uncles and aunties... hmm, total went to abt 5 houses with my cousins, after tat went to my mum's side one.. abt 2 houses... after tat, went home liao lor...

friday, boring sia.. got to go back camp in the morning.. 8+am reach camp.. got to pack our stuffs for brunei... 1+pm then book out... got a hard time packing the bag... so many things to put, but so little space... but still manage to squeeze abt 30kg of stuffs into the bag... at nite, went to UK funfair, played the skyfire... not tat scary lar... but still manage to feel the blood rushing to the brain... the only thing not used to abt the ride is when it went the reverse way... hahaa... wanted to play other things, but all quite ex sia... some are $15 per ride.. so ex and I dun think it is tat scary lor.. I think I save money go genting play better... hmm.. after tat, went hougang KBox to meet siang, hao, ziwei, jeremy and hanwee... go there, first thing is make me drink a mug of beer liao... so fast sia.. then still got 1 jug for me... nightmare to me sia.. cos I dun drink that much alcohol one... hahaa... then we went for supper....

saturday, bascially is quite boring lor... stayed at home for the first half of the day... then went to meet friend for dinner and movie..

Sunday, sianz.. sianz.. sianz.. going off tonite... from my clock, left 2 hrs of stay at home.. then have to go liao... sunday, very routine lor.. went grandma's place then come back liao... now at home waiting for the time to come for me to go... haiz.. going to miss a lot of ppl... but, hahaa.. 10 days only.. very fast one lar... Cya guys 2 weeks later... I'll be back for more!!!!