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.

A systematic approach.

It's been a long long three weeks since I last blogged.

Very very long indeed.

So much had happened that I don't even bother remembering what exactly happened.

UIP is finally coming to an end with a week left.

This is however just the beginning as we will finally be heading to our own company

in preparation for PTP which commences on 8th December.

Been eating a lot for the past week.

First Pizza Hut on Tues night in 'celebration of Deepavali'.

Then Swensen's on the next day for lunch and KFC for dinner.

Had Macs for dinner on Friday night and then pizza again last night.

Super fulfilling week for my stomach it seems,

but not so much for myself who was trying to improve my fitness.

Been heading to the cinemas a lot a lot this year too,

especially ever since I enlisted.

Possibly more so than the total number of times I've entered the cinema before this year.

And with the end of year coming, more films will be released

and possibly I'll continue watching one movie almost every week.

Went to play ball this morning.

Been quite a while since everyone played together.

Quite a long while.

Shall be looking forward to the next time we all get to play ball together again.

Wondering if I'll be going the TJ alumni reunion thingy next week though.

Well at least we'll get a 3days weekend break after the next five days.

These five days are still gonna be quite shit though.

Two days of PT commander training.

Wow.

And then the Skills of Arms test on Tues.

It's just totally insane.

I don't know who is going to get the top three,

but I know it's certainly not me so I don't see a reason to even try hard.

I think I still won't be the last even if I slack throughout the whole thing though.

Shall see how it goes then.

Hopefully for the whole of this week we'll have the nights to ourselves.

Then I can rest up enough or enjoy myself with the TV or whatever.

Few more hours to booking in again.

I just hope life doesn't change too much after this week.

Well even if it's for the better, too fast a change is never good.

NAS had a pre NPC camp over the weekends.

Went back to take a look after I booked out on Fri with RW,

and then back again yesterday with our three batches of scouts and all the leaders.

Well can't do no shit since we're in army....

But the situation seems really worrying.

One more year.

Then I'll finally get to enjoy my freedom again.

At least for eight months.

Then it's school life yet again, the feeling of going school is already so distant to me.

All this should just end soon.

Byeall.

Training never ends.

Just realized that I forgotten to put a title on the previous post.

Well not that it matters a lot anyway...

Wasn't able to watch a movie at home this week,

but well at least I still caught one in the cinema with suting gy chandan pan kenny last night.

Went to Chomp Chomp for dinner and cam back to tmall for Real Steel.

First time bringing my friends there, been a long time since I went there too.

Damn long time.

Real Steel was alright, wasn't as bad as I though it would be.

Was wondering why so many people were interested in the show,

while it just looks like a typical robot fighting action effects kinda show without much of a story.

At least it had some sort of a meaningful story line behind it,

but it seems like the others were a lil disappointed by the movie.

Well this is perceptions, like I always said.

Different people have different standards and point of views at different things.

And while some talk as if their mighty opinions are the only and truly right and correct one in the world,

and how much that had pissed me off in several occasions,

I can only show my understanding of perceptions and how it works,

forgiving those who don't understand that they are not the only world living on this damned world.

Well that was like a recurring topic in my blog I think,

too bad that there are just some things people have to be reminded of,

and I myself like to remind myself of.

To be honest I am quite stubborn on certain views of mine on things too,

and well that's just me so I'll just have to continue seeing the world in my own way,

and people around me have to just bear with me.

Went to play ball this morning.

Seems like my knees won't fully recover, at least for now,

but won't hurt to the extent which immobilizes me too.

Shall see what might happen next first.

Other than that there's nothing much.

Past week went away slightly faster than the previous one,

but was still somewhat shit.

We only got saved when we were told that we would be going for IPSC from Thurs to next Thurs.

And the camp is truly a heaven.

Sigh.

Now I can really conclude that we are seriously at the worst possible place.

And why must it be me?

I don't know man maybe life's just not fair at all.

Seeing all my section mates leaving me for every other vocations with me alone staying as infantry,

then now a few even getting admin jobs and service medic while I'm in unit.

If that's not call extreme lack of luck then I don't know what is.

Suck thumb is the only thing I can think of.

And after this week we will be sent back to hell hole once more...

Shall end the post here for now and possibly prepare a lil for tomorrow.

Nothing much to pack though.

And I should really start training more and more to keep fit.

Can't gain too much weight if not they will all turn to fats,

gotta gain as much muscles as possible first man.

And I was really getting weaker everywhere since Taiwan and shingles.

Aside from my stamina, hopefully I'll be able to train up the rest

to a certain standard before the end of this year.

On a side note, Bruce Lee is really a crazy guy.

The amount of training he does to attain his level of fitness is insane.

And the speed of his kicks is just..... incredible.

Not like I gonna train to be like him,

'cause having the strength of a giant yet the physique of a normal person sounds good enough.

Starting to gain weight again with not even two weeks in the new camp.

Another conclusion made: food in PLC cookhouse 3 is really the worst possible food you can get anywhere.

Gotta not gain so much weight before I train myself up first.

Still, I won't stop eating supper.

Weird that eating supper daily/regularly doesn't make me fat though.

But well can't sleep on an empty stomach, not much choice there right.

Shall wait for my supper to come back now. (:

Byeall.

So it's Sunday again.
The day we all hate.

And the past week felt just so damn long.
Perhaps comparable to the two weeks during BMT.
Just somehow, it felt damn long.
But here I am finally at home again, typing in front of my com at just before 3am.

First week at 2SIR wasn't exactly the best place I could had spent my last week at,
but apparently it's not like any of us had a choice.
Then again I really wonder if someone made it damn clear that they don't want to be there, what would they do?
Keeping someone who does not desire to be there will not exactly make the situation any better right.
Well I am not that someone who can voice out for sure 120% I do not want to be there though...
At least on paper now it seems that life would still be fine as the schedule currently still seems empty enough.
Training the men from Dec to Jun then training WITH them from then onwards,
along with a bunch of other random stuff to take care of.
Doesn't sound exactly that bad right...
At least better than going for countless exercise, local or overseas,
getting yourself shagged out every now and then.

Anyway still have a full month of UIP to go.
We will still be treated like recruits until this ends I guess.
Though I certainly hope that they stop doing this by this week.


The past week also felt so long perhaps because of thousand of thoughts going through my head every single day.
Thinking so much about how I should live my life the way I want it,
and then wondering what defines that, in which way do I want to live,
and then thinking how, why, questions just don't stop appearing,
and answers don't seem to exist at all.

I guess making a difference in your own life, is just as hard as making a difference in the world.
And if either one appears to be easy for you, it just mean that you had probably found the answer you had been looking for, and you had found yourself.

Suddenly wondered about what I gonna study in Uni too.
For now of course I'm still interested in Psychology.
Very interested indeed.
But then again, I'll never know what's best for me because there really isn't something call 'best'.
Still two more chances to apply, I'll just see how it goes for me till then and hopefully by then I'll be able to pick a course which appeals to me the most.


Finally watched 恋爱通告 by 王力宏, which was out for more than a year already.
Think I will continue watching one movie which I've missed in the past for every book-out.
Really nice show and perhaps I can start to think what show I should watch for next week already.
But before that, I think I'll need some rest now and hope I'll be able to do whatever I want and need to tomorrow, before booking in again at night.
The camp's really not much closer and the time needed to travel is quite long too.

Good luck to the commandos going to Brunei.
And to myself, the knee better not hurt much again and I'll probably report sick only after UIP since everything in UIP is important and I already failed to report sick twice or thrice.
Well but if it's really bad I not gonna freakin' do nothing about it, it's just that at least it doesn't hurt now when I'm not running or exerting force on my knee.

Rest well people.
We've got another tough week ahead.











Byeall.

When September ends.

And it's already the last week of September 2011.
Stepping into the third last month of the year,
I had finally graduated as a Third Sergeant on 23rd Sept '11 with my friends,
be it those from Foundation who I finally met after they got posted out,
or those who chiong sua-ed with me for the past three months in Pro Term and in Taiwan.

Officially a Third Sergeant now.

Got posted to 2SIR while most of the rest will be going to BMTC.
Some will be staying as Faculty Team, some got better postings such as admin spec, NCC, and some who are worse will be trainees again as they get posted to recce battalion.
Well this kinda sucks as I am never someone who likes changes.
Especially drastic changes in short period of time.
Not that I cannot adapt, but that I prefer not to do so in a new environment.

Still unknown of what challenges wait ahead of me,
but nothing I can do as we are all required to report to our new camps on Monday.
No choice now, just suck thumb.
That's just another valuable but retarded lesson learnt by many of us in army.

And for the next fourteen months,
somehow I think they will just past by quickly.
Perhaps even faster than the last eight months.
One third through my NS life,
and it's just a year and two months left.
I will just wait and see what can I make out of that fourteen months remaining.
But I just know that by 9 Dec '12, I will be free again and
I be I won't need half as long the time to adapt to life as a civilian again
compared to the time I usually take to adapt to different army life.

Still a long long way to go.
But at least we had come so far already.

Good luck to my friends, for the memories, the friendship, the fun joy laughter and everything you guys had brought to me for the past eight months.
Probably won't have much chances to see any of you from now on, but I believe that we will all do well.

BMT friends are the first we meet in army, and people say that after much training and stuff, the friends you made in the short 9 weeks might just soon be forgotten.
But from BMT to SCS Foundation, I think I might have just come across a few friends who I'll always remember in my heart.

Still a long long way to go.
But I'll try my best to hang in there until the end.









Byeall.

Shingles shinglez.

Haven't blog for more than a week already.
Something more like ever since I fell sick.

Reported sick for the first time last Monday in the morning,
and realized that I'm having shingles,
which most of you probably don't know about it so you can Wikipedia it.
Kinda cool though, didn't even know it existed too
and all the symptoms and stuff in Wikipedia are so accurate hahah.
So I got a 10days MC and went back to pack my stuff.
Tons and tons of stuff to pack since by the time I'm back in camp,
CAT would have started already.
And that would be this Wednesday.
Will only be booking in at night though since the MC last till Wednesday.

So I have just been resting at home literally for the past week.
Like only going out during the weekends.
Can't even go play ball yesterday....
Well hope that we'll still be able to play ball almost every weekend from now on,
since I would've recovered by this weekend.
Some of them are now in Pro Term though,
and after next week I don't even know where I gonna end up yet.
Hopefully Tekong though, that'll be the best place to be to me.

Will get back here the next time.
Seriously nothing much interesting to blog about since I've pretty much spent almost all my time at home.
Finally met up with Chandan and they all for movie yesterday though.
Hopefully will have time to meet up with people I've almost lost contact with,
and also hope for the annual 2r6o6 chalet to miraculously happen this year.







Byeall.