Four days out.

So Field Camp was over last week for us.
Shagged.
Physically much more tiring than the BMT one I would say,
even though the duration was shorter.
Just running and walking up and down eveywhere doing fire movements etc for the whole of three days two nights.
Plus tons of digging to do, in the dark if it's not bad enough.

Booked out on the Fri right after we got back from Lorong Asrama
and booked back in again on Sunday early morning for my COS duty.
At least I got to rest up quite a bit during my duty.
Then the whole of this week is just... normal boring life again.
Strength trainings, some UO, boring stuff etc.
And navigation lessons, finally.
Compass and pacing course wasn't really that helpful because tons of practice would be required before being able to pace properly in that kind of terrains.
I guess we'll just have to rely much more on the luck portion of navigation when we're out for navex then.
Just all these normal stuff throughout the week.
Plus a whole lot of random happenings like people DotAing in bunk which is plain crazy.

So now finally enjoying my long weekend which is going to stretch till Tues night.
Shiok ttm.
Even if I do not have any plans, being home is better than being there.
Okay but really sucks to not have much plans yet when I have so much time now compared to other weekends to go out to the civilian world.
Shall wait for my BMT friends to finally get out and maybe meet some of them.
Though I'd probably get meet only Chandan for this weekend.
Well next week will be a shorter one, but the next two weeks combined would seem like an extremely long one.
Navi practical test, UO camp, M203 and Matador fam shoot, then book out Sat evening haiz.
Book in Sunday, Section Live Firing (!!), and... other stuff which I'm not too sure of yet.
Hope that navex is not on that week though, it should be on the following week.
Which means that from then on there really isn't anything much left already.

Well shall stop here for now to get my dinner and watch some TV.










Byeall.

Defeats.

And it's already May of 2011.
Just so fast.

Today's quite a significant day I would say.
Osama bin Laden had finally been confirmed dead by US President Obama.
Although terrorism continues to strike but the defeat of Al-Qaeda leader Osama would definitely be a symbolic milestone in the world's continuous efforts to eliminate terrorism.

Coincidentally, May 2 also marks the final defeat of another terror, a fictional one though.
On 2 May 1998, the Battle of Hogwarts occurred and Lord Voldemort was finally killed in the battle along with many other wizards, good and bad.
Seems like 2 May is not just any ordinary date now.


This week gonna be outfield week for us.
Tomorrow's training outfield and then followed by a 3d2n field camp.
Hope that the weather would take care of us when we're outfield.
And lucky for the Polling Day, we would be able to book out this Friday.
'Cause the original training programme was to have field camp till Saturday.
Thanks whoever set the date for this.
But I'll still need to book in on Sunday early early morning for my COS duty.
Well at least I still get a day off to rest for a bit.

And finally the May batch of recruits are going to be enlisted.
That means goodbye to many of my friends for the next two weeks hahah.
Hope they will get to enjoy BMT because at least the training is still not as tough and it's probably gonna be the first time for many of them to stay with the same people everyday nine weeks straight.
Good luck to all my enlisting friends and take care people.

Gonna need to book in by 9.30pm tonight.
Probably shall try to reach by 9pm.
And if I take a 1hr45mins travelling time, it means that I'll have to leave house even before 7.30pm.
Wow. Wasting so much precious time just to get to PLC.
So probably I'll just watch a little TV, relax a bit, have dinner and get changed and ready to set off again.
May this week be fine for us, and also the OCS people who would still be looking forward to their first book out this Friday, and also the new recruits who look to experience a life they had never had before.









Byeall.

Long long week.

Just hours away from booking in, again.
But this time most probably gonna travel on my own,
since I've yet to find anyone to travel with as of now.
Transport is such a waste of money now zzZ.

And it's gonna be a long long week before we get to come back out again on Saturday.
Long long week man.
Not sure what we gonna have this week,
let's just hope that the training schedule isn't too packed and we'll get to have more rest time.
Should be doing SAW live firing tomorrow though,
and I guess there will be quite a number of people who will all be as screwed as me.
I certainly don't want to misfire and get into trouble in this early stage of my SCS life.

Don't know what else I can do till I book in.
The feeling of sianness is already surrounding me like always.
Shall just take my time to chill but be ready to get out because I won't want to be late,
and going there early always gives me much more time to prepare and settle down.
Let's pray that tomorrow and the rest of the week gonna be good to us, and to all you guys out there.








Byeall.

Today I don't feel like doing anything...

Hey guys.

So it's been a week into my SCS course at Pasir Laba Camp which is far far away in Joo Koon.
Well all I can say that is I really miss BMT times a lot a lot.
My section mates, the way Viper do things, our commanders and all that.
Guess that we're just too used to it and the change is too fast for me to adapt to.
Most people still find SCS a good place though.
Probably because of the slacker regimentation.
Well for me I'd rather have a more strict environment but training's not as tough.
Because from what I see, our schedule are packed like crazy and we're definitely going to suffer during training.
Learning how to operate so many things in just two days is certainly not gonna help.
We'll have our SAW live firing on Monday if I'm not wrong and half the things I learnt last week are already all gone from my brain.
And then there's Pro Term, or ASLC as some call it.
Well I just hope to get sent to other vocations, preferably support units man.
Army life's making me sick and I just don't feel like 'chionging' anymore.
Well maybe at moments I do because I don't want to get screwed and by doing so we would probably get to rest more.
But I just don't see any need for me to fight to be the best or top few or whatsoever anymore.
Even people at OCS are feeling the toughness, or rather they're feeling really homesick because there are two more weeks before they get to come out.
And it's only going to get worse from now on.
Sometimes I really wonder how would life be like without NS,
and when I think back about my life I led as a civilian, things really seem unreal and it's like I've been living a dream for the past 18years of my life.
I'm sure these 2 years gonna be the ones which felt like a dream after I ORD and get back to studying life.
But as of now, I really really just hope to be able to get this whole thing done and over with as soon as possible...

That aside, this weekend had been fine.
Long weekend due to Good Friday.
Thank goodness.
Although it's been screwed by people who I can't communicate with.
Maybe it's my fault, maybe it's theirs.
Whatever it is, I just hope that people should understand that it's only normal to acknowledge a message or reply to questions if you do not want the other party to have a wrong assumption about your thoughts.
And things shouldn't be left till last minute unless there's really no choice.
An early message does certainly help a lot in doing many things.
And yes these do piss me off so well perhaps I should just live a hermit life every bookout because I can't possibly get pissed off by myself as much as I did by others.

On a brighter note, I finally caught Source Code today with PLC07 minus Chandan who went for his Innotrek outing.
Can't blame him as the timing was changed just yesterday.
Who to blame?
Well well well.
The point is I get to watch Source Code and I'm just happy with that.
Then again I guess I'll still catch it alone even without anyone.

So went out yesterday with RenWei and Terry.
Somehow just the two of them when it was supposed to be a dinner with 6.
Just somehow.
Supposed to watch Source Code and somehow ended up not watching anything.
Still caught it today with the rest anyway.
Morning went to NAS to find out that Scout meeting's cancelled and NAS was locked anyway.
So got kinda frustrated from getting locked out and waking up early in the morning for nothing.
Basketball was already cancelled because of literally everyone having some cock up and now that.
Well went to Tmart to take a look at the newly renovated Kopitiam and for Terry to have his breakfast.
After that we just played ball at carpark court till we both had to go.
Went home, bathed, ate a little and watched Spongebob before heading out to meet the rest.
First time since forever in going to Jansen's '4r2 outing'.
Well it was kinda stupid that we travel to Bukit Timah for lunch.
Okay it's really stupid.
But oh well since I don't really have anything to do and like what SuTing said, it's not always that we get to meet each other and the chances are only going to get less and less.
Somehow ended up cabbing back with CJ in order to catch the movie.
That's about it for this weekend so far.

Always feel like I should pack my bag the night before booking in but never truly did it.
I shall try doing it later, or at least majority of the stuff I need to pack so that I can really take a rest and not think about army until booking in time tomorrow.
Still don't know how am I supposed to go there myself.
After entering NS I just feel like cabbing whenever I need to go out.
Of course I don't do that all the time but having to go Joo Koon and back every week is just extremely tempting for me to cab.
Gotta find more people to share the fare with though.

Need to buy a bag so that I can book out with it.
But for now I'll just use my school bag I guess.
And then now I need a pair of sports shoes because mine's like freakin' cui already.
When would I find time to buy stuff man.
And I really feel like I should stop spending so much because even though I only get to spend once per week, I felt like I'm spending way more than before.
And by just earning $500/month I don't think that sounds sensible.
Well shall think about what to do with this when I'm free.

Shall stop here for now and continue the next time I have a chance too.
Well at least I feel closer to civilian life now, being able to surf the net given that I have the time when I'm in camp.









Byeall.

Times ten. Or more than that.

So I got into SCS. Since by the end of BMT I'm already quite unsure if I really want OCS, compared to as when I just got enlisted, I had no preference and was just looking to get into command school before I checked my posting, be it OCS or SCS. However, if you ask me what I really wish for as my vocation, maybe I'll say MP or RP or some other slack vocations which I had not yet discovered. Hahah. Well maybe not really, but I'm already kinda sick of how the army works and sees little reason in continuing to serve.... There's so little things to look forward to too. Maybe just the jungle navigation in Lower Mandai which Andrew Sir brought us to before and finally becoming a Third Sergeant after our 6months long training course. Not sure if it's possible, it should be, so I hope to get sent back to BMTC as a instructor sergeant there rather than to be sent to unit after my training. Being sent to unit and being with your men certainly sounds fun. The bonding got to be real tight after spending time together for another year or so. But then again training the new recruits and helping to groom future soldiers sound nice too. After seeing how much our sergeants and sirs did for us, I feel that it would be really cool to become like one of them someday and train the next batch of recruits. What's more is that it's likely that I'll take the poly batch which includes many of my friends next year if I happen to get sent to BMTC lol. So I'd only finished packing just now. Don't really have much time to relax after packing already. Should've done it yesterday but was out till quite late and after dinner and such I didn't really have the time and energy to pack my stuff. Packing really sucks man. Since years ago, always packing for camps and etc, the feeling never failed to bring my mood to the lowest. The thought of spending days out of my house, consequences of not remembering to bring a certain stuff or making some mistakes, and more negative thoughts just always dampens my mood. And tomorrow's different. It's not just booking in. And if I can't even get over the feeling of booking in, this is just much worse. It's like enlistment all over again. More troublesome due to the need to bring everything in by ourselves. And further. Much much more further. The need to settle down again. The need to re-adapt. The need to make new friends. The need to learn the new system. And I definitely hope that I'll go to a welfare company this time. Screw whatever benefits going to a hiong company may have. Welfare for the win. Okay maybe not too welfare, just average. But I feel physically damn weak now. Hope that I'll be able to take the physical trainings there. Embrace change. I'm personally not a guy who likes changes. Change is inevitable. Change is a part of life. Change is everywhere. And the only thing that doesn't change is change itself. That's why understanding how something work and being able to actually work it out is two different things. Time for me to adapt to new environment again. Well one more thing is that having the ability to adapt and wanting to adapt is two different things too. And hating to adapt to changes doesn't mean you do not possess the ability to do so. Would like to type some more but there's this problem of serious time constraint. I'm already giving up my time on the Arsenal Liverpool match just to be here. And I'm not even on Tumblr yet. I just hope that tomorrow won't be tough because I need to time to settle down and more importantly, I need the time to rest because I don't think I can survive sleeping late and waking up this early again after not doing it for a week or so. Good luck to everyone reporting to their new camps tomorrow and cherish your time outside for those not yet enlisted. All the best for everyone else be it studying, going to your third year poly or working and any other things in your life. Byeall.

What am I supposed to do.

Not yet blogged about life after POP.
So I shall do it now.

After the Graduation Parade, took some photos, met up with my parents then came back to Tampines.
Ate at the round market, weird place to eat after POP but well, whatever.
Then went home and rest... okay didn't really rest, use computer for a while and then went out again at 2pm.
Supposed to meet at 2pm for a movie with Jiahao CK Engleong at 2.10pm and of course we didn't make it 'cause everyone's late and we didn't buy the tickets beforehand.
Checked out the showtimes at Century Square and turns out that it doesn't even show 'Limitless'.
Ended up rushing to Ehub to catch the 3.15pm show.
We even got delayed again on the bus from Pasir Ris Interchange to Ehub for some reason.
Somehow it just seems like everything's against us watching the movie -.-
Well but in the end we still caught it.
Not a bad show. Cool idea and all, but the story could be better I think.
I missed like 10minutes in the middle of the movie though.
Fell asleep zzz. That's how tired I was. Having only slept 2hours after marching for 7hours and 24km through Singapore from Changi to Marina Bay.

The day's not ended yet.
It's not long long day after all.
Went to BK to talk cock after the show.
And we just sat there.... right in front of the counter, without buying a single thing... till 7pm.
JH left for Ranon's house and EL went home I think.
He promised his mum to go home early or something like that if I'm not wrong hahah.
Well anyway after that, CK's supposed to meet Qihao they all basically their clique for dinner at Downtown.
Okay, they're supposed to meet him, since we were already at Downtown.
I was supposed to meet Chandan they all at 201.
So I just kept CK company until I think I need to leave.
Well, ended up I never needed to leave.
Thanks to the fact that I was lazy to go back and it seems so convenience to just get everyone to Downtown.
So Huihui came along and the rest were late and we just continue sitting there and chat.
Finally the rest came, with GY, and JJ reached already too.
Somehow we were still there waiting for something which I don't know is what.
After that CK they all went to Ehub for dinner and Chandan and RW came too.
Had dinner at BK and realized Terry was out there somewhere from Kallang to Bishan.
Discussed about the possibility of watching movie but guess we were too late in making our decision and Terry was too late in fufiling his promise of coming over.
Yea he finally cabbed over at 10pm and that was the last shows before midnight movies and Chandan didn't like the idea of not having a public transport home after a show.
But RW was despo for a movie or something and bowling is a no go after we realized there's 22groups of people queueing up.
Ended up at the arcade and played for a while before leaving for home at 11plus.
Speaking of which, I didn't pay any of them for the arcade.

So that was the end of a long day.
Then came Sunday.
Went to Fengshan CC after a last minute call by Denie to ball. Didn't play too much as it was damn crowded and the feeling of playing ball is still kinda foreign to me for some reason.
Left there at 6plus and then I messaged Suting if he wanted to dine out.
So we called up CJ and Brendon but Brendon's not free and unfortunately CJ just bought his dinner.
He still came though, after eating at home.
Called Pan to join us too when we were at 201.
And to our amazement he agreed on the spot. Really first time seeing him does that hahah.
So I ended up spending 13bucks on my dinner.
In a coffeshop.
$5.80 on some Japanese codfish rice, $4 on Chicken Rice, $1 for Milo and $2 for dessert.
Aren't I good at spending. And eating.
Chatted for quite a while before heading home.

Then came Monday.
Went out for movie again, this time with Suting they all.
Supposed to have more people coming.
But somehow there was just six of us.
Watched Hall Pass in the end since there wasn't any good movies at that time and we believed a comedy should be good.
Well sorta wasted my money and time...
Walked home after that from TMall.

Then came Tuesday.
Went to play ball with mostly people from 23/09 in the morning at Kemb CC.
Had some good matches and a final freakin' intense one under the burning hot sun.
Felt damn tired and super hungry by the time we decided to go for lunch.
Went to eat at Bedok Point Kungfu Paradise, ate there the last time with Kenneo and it wasn't too bad so we decided to go for it again.
Finished lunch and reached home at around 3plus and finally rest my tired legs.

Then came Wednesday.
The 4 of us were supposed to meet at Chandan's house to play Fifa on his PS3.
Ended up only Terry and me went.
Of course didn't have as much fun as we would had if GY and JJ came too.
Then went for lunch at around 2pm I believe, at 201.
Wasn't that hungry at that time. And weather was freakin' hot.
After that went straight to NAS to see the Scout meeting, which was DPC training so there was only the DPC people there.
Benedict's supposed to conduct First Aid theory lesson.
So we waited for meeting to start, rested a while etc.
Then just sat there, talked a little and observed them throughout the meeting.
Condor went up to take over the theory part for a while because he thinks Benedict too noob.
Shared some stories of his own, and yes I can tell that going to SO MANY camps really helped to make you a better speaker talker and whatever now.
Well but NS is coming for you too so guess helping the unit can be put on hold until we are more free.
Went home after meeting. Nothing much after that.

Then came Thursday, today.
Finally staying at home for the entire day for the first time after my POP.
Felt good, nice, got some time to really rest up.
Well sleeping for almost 12hours definitely got me rested enough.
I thought 9hours was good but I ended up sleeping extra 3hours 'cause I was alone and I didn't know how much time have past after I woke up the first time at 11am zzzz.
So didn't do anything much either.
Basically it's just using computer 'cause apparently the TV shows kinda suck now.
And there won't be much movies showing even though the weekends are coming.
Mediacorp. Tsk.
Too bad I have no cable TV and your whatever crap shit.
Then again I won't get to enjoy TV much since from few days later onwards life's gonna get effed up again.

No plans yet for tomorrow except a possible dinner with Chandan they all.
Then balling on Sat and perhaps a class gathering at Vivo.
Will get to know our posting on tomorrow, earliest 10am.
And to be honest the only thing I hope for the most now is going into SCS.
I hope I didn't do so badly to get sent to a unit and I don't exactly see myself doing good enough to go to OCS.
And I definitely still can't see myself strong enough to survive OCS either.
Maybe I'll make through it, well, I probably will, but it's only been 9weeks and it's making me sick and tired enough already.
And I don't think my BMT was that bad either.
Well maybe I just want to make life easy for myself, as usual, taking the easy way out and not trying to go for the best and such.
I just hope the remaining days of my NS life will go like a breeze and then it's back to being a student again.
And I see nothing wrong in taking psychology if that's really what I want now.
Anyway there's two more years for me to think it through and people have to start thinking before talking.

Shall end the post here for now.
Maybe will blog again tomorrow or what, some time before reporting to my new unit.
Maybe tomorrow be a good day for me, and for you guys.
Have a good night.









Byeall.

Short short break.

POP LO!!

Finally after our 24km route march followed by our Graduation Parade at Marina Bay, we are officially out of Tekong and completed our BMT.
And BMT is just the very very first phase of our NS life.
Wow.
What a long long way to go man.

Somehow blogger's screwed up and doesn't automatically go into the next line even when I typed it that way here.
And now I'll need to see < br> everywhere.
That's just do good at making me shorten my post.
And nothing else.

Hope I'll fully make use of this block leave and get rested up well.
And I hope even harder that I get sent to somewhere nice.
If by chance I can't even get to command school, then at least to some good units please.
If not then SISPEC seems like the best way to go.
Can't really see myself going to OCS now even though till the last days of BMT I was still half sure that I wanted OCS.

Well I'll just take whatever comes then.
It's not like any of us have a choice anyway.

Gonna sleep soon because tomorrow's another early day.
Goodnight guys and it's really nice to be able to sleep at home on a Monday night.
You all just won't be able to appreciate it unless you're in the army.







Byeall.

One more week.

Finally received the letter too on Thursday.
The letter of acceptance by NUS into FASS.

Finally got my IPPT Gold.
Barely made it with a timing of 9:42 for 2.4km.
But I made it. Finally.

So the past week seemed to be going quite well for me.
Things are fine and sun shine high in the clear blue sky.
And now it's already just exactly one week left to POP.

Time to leave Tekong and all my section, platoon mates and Viper Company 01/11 batch.
And then it's just the beginning to another stage of my NS life which is far from over.
Sigh. Far from over.
That's the worst part.

While the girls our age are half a year from living their student life in Uni,
we're stuck right here with more than two years to go before getting to study again.

Haven't gone out since booking out and don't think I would get to do that.
It's like 24 more hours to book in again.
Well I gonna have a week of free time to go wherever I want,
so let's just hope this week passes by quickly too.
Just gonna slack and rest and relax at home for now then....

Few more days to another year to add on to my age.
And I gonna spend the days leading up to it,
and the days following it in camp.
In camp doing Graduation Parade rehearsal, over and over and over and over again.
How much much more retarded can it get.
Sigh.
Well just gonna celebrate it in advance with me family today,
not like people usually celebrate it for me anyway.
Just that the thought of a whole week of GP rehearsal with my birthday in is really really boring.

Well we're all growing up now.
Last year of being a teenager.
All so fast.








Byeall.