Not much longer.

30th November 2011.

And we're already entering the last month of year 2011.
How fast is that.

Same feeling every year.

Same thoughts.

But at the same time so many things had changed in the past year.

Training last Friday was alright.

Watched Puss in Boots last week too.

Chandan finally went to Brunei to find Andrew Sir.

Block leave ended with me not doing anything much constructive.

Only booked in yesterday afternoon to prepare for guard duty at night.

Was so 'warmly welcomed' by everyone who had not seen me for more than a week already.

Shagged out after guard duty, then booked out today afternoon again for training.

Did okay for training though, back to averaging around 528.

Should I say that I'm consistent or what?

But the time I dropped to 519, I shot 518 three times in a row before improving again.

And even though the total score seems consistent,

there had been many screwed ups in my series.

I can shoot 87, 88 etc for one competition,

then when I try again I might go up to 92 but also with series as low as 84.

Shot 93 for a series for the first time today.

Twice.

And also shot 84, 85, 86 for three of the series.

Doesn't make sense that you can shoot so much worse for one series when you just finished shooting so well for another one right?

Well things just happens and it's all in ourselves to control them actually.

Shooting is a sport I can say that I'm interested in,

but I can't think of any traits within me which fits it at all.

With low amount of patience and pure laziness,

I think shooting almost totally contradict with me as a person.

Experience tells me though, that, if you really do want to do well at something,

or desire a certain thing that much, you will somehow be motivated enough to work hard for it.

Work freaking hard for it.

If that does not happen it just means that you are not wanting it strong enough.

If that happens, I don't think there's any obstacles that can stop you in your way anymore.

If you truly want something, go work for it.

Not many training sessions left actually.

And considering the fact that we won't get to shoot for two weeks before the competition,

we can already see how screwed up it is gonna be.

And we still haven't seen the official rules for this competition yet.

Got a certain weird format for this shoot.

And with our men enlisting next Thursday, I don't even know if I can participate in any of the December training sessions.

Hope our CSM is nice enough though.

He should be.

Right?

Shall try to rest up tonight since there's a full day of training tomorrow.

Gotta try to maintain my consistency and

at the same time correct all my mistakes in order to improve further.

Other than that, it's another off day on Fri and I'll only be booking in again on Mon morning.

Guard duty again next Tues and also another training.

Haven't spoke to CSM about December training but then again

that's because I haven't actually seen him for so long already.

Well let's just take one step at a time.

We are all in one way or another all worried about next Thursday anyway.

But then again, what can we do?


Shall just try to settle myself down in my new bunk quickly first.

My bunk which I'll be staying for the next one year until I ORD.

And other than these, with one month left in 2011,

I hope that everyone else and I would be able to complete what we set out to accomplish at the start of the year.

Your New Year Resolutions or any wishes remaining to be fulfilled.

Good luck people and let's look forward to the much feared year 2012 soon.

Byeall.

Holiday-like.

Been around two weeks already.

The first two weeks after UIP finally ended for us.
The first two weeks we spent at our very own company where we will stay for our next one year or so.

So I'm in Bravo Coy now, Platoon 5.

Quite a bit happened in the past two weeks,

then again it seemed like it's just 14days and all of that just occurred not long ago.

Anyway the weekend after UIP ended was a long weekend.

So on the following week, I went for training on Tues instead of booking in.

Due to Bravo having TBTL on Wed morning at Changi,

I went home straight after that and traveled to Changi on Wed for TBTL.

It's another night at home followed by one more day of training.

And then it's finally book-in time for me to spend my first night at Bravo.

After another full day of area cleaning and stuff,

we had our first guard duty.

The following week was quite a long one,

considering the fact that we are doing the same thing every day -- AREA CLEANING.

And also beautifying our coy line....

Supposed to have home visit programme on Thurs, but it was cancelled.

So all of us went for 3rd Div Sports Day on Thurs then booked out from there.

Went for training again on Fri, sorta deproved that day somehow.

And I'll be having training for the next three days,

hopefully can pull my score up to average around 9.0 and that'll be good enough I guess.

Had guard duty again on Sun.

Fortunately it rained for quite a while in the afternoon so I get to skip one shift or prowling.

The rain evolved into a storm and got quite scary though.

Came back home on Mon morning shagged out and slept for at least 5hours.

Did nothing much for the past two days.

And when I think about the training for next three days,

I realize the block leave can end before I even know it....

Shall try to do what I need to do and what I want to do by then.

The good thing is that I still don't have to book in until the week the men enlist,

except that there's guard duty next Tues for me again.

Shall end here and rest soon.

Tomorrow's another full day of training for me to shoot.

Byeall.

After which...

Must try to make myself blog no matter how lazy I am.

So yesterday was Hari Raya Haji, and thus here I am still at home at this time.

Ohh and tomorrow morning it's not book in to Amoy Quee,

it's finally back to shooting at SAFRA Yishun.

Quite glad that I'm able to shoot again after so so so long.

I'm probably almost as bad as I just started air pistol though,

after such a long period of time not training on it.

Hope that I'll still be able to remember what coach taught us in that one year or so then,

because even with such a little amount of experience,

I actually quite like air pistol as a sport.

The past week was finally the last week of UIP.

Had our Skills at Arms challenge on Tuesday.

And our section won the best in Skills at Arms!

I think I didn't do much at all but well that's all part of the plans man,

perhaps if I was the one taking one of the IBOS test we wouldn't have won it already hahah.

Well and that marks the end of all the training we had throughout UIP,

and also the last few days spent together as a section.

6 of us all went Bravo though, and glad to say that I'm one of them.

Went back to TJ to play ball for quite a while on Sat.

Alumni gathering seems like a fail but well,

I guess it's more for those who had graduated ages ago before my batch.

So for them it's probably a good time to get together again in the school they left long ago.

Other than these, nothing much really.

Went to Thomas' house on Fri straight after bookout for BBQ and chilling out.

Super super big and nice house.

Had a great time with my UIP platoon 3 mates,

with Jotham getting extremely drunk and hilarious after drinking just a lil bit.

First time seeing someone getting so drunk though.

Shall start packing on my stuff soon.

It's really getting quite late already and I probably should

settle my stuff to bring soon and get to bed.

Byeall.