Sunday, October 30, 2005
OMG! its already sunday. damm time sure flies. Ok first and for most. i wanna wish one of my bros happy birthday! Alvin Chan!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Hope u had enjoyed yourself with your bunk mates earlier! ANyway i was out with denise for dinner earlier, FROG LEG at Geylang! What can be better than that man? hahah! didnt really do much after that besides looking at some dogs somewhere in seranganoon before i sent her home. THen after that i managed to catch a movie with nick, DOOM. Ok.. the movie.. was alright la. dont expect too much from the storyline but i guess its a pretty ok show for a mountain turtle like me now.
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around the world in 80 days
[2:36 AM]
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Hey all! hows has the past week been? Well for me, i was living in fear everyday as we were told that only 3 of us passed the test . Ok for those who funked it right, that equates with 1 confinement and obviously we do not want confinements right? so yeah. Then basically for the whole week, it was just doing the same old thing over and over again. How boring can that be. I'm really starting to feel that i'm getting more stupid for the following reasons,
1) There's no opporunity for us to even read the newspaper unless we are willing to sariface our mere 7 hrs of slp. So we arent even updated with the latest news happening around regionally and globally.
2) Then there's the issue of reading our own books... and like the same reason above, do we even have the time to do so? The weekends u might say? Hmm.. but i'm not as silly as to give up my precious weekend time for reading books.. omG thats nuts.
3) WE only follow orders.
4) We still only follow orders
Sigh... army is boring. Ok i'm just lamenting. Anyway, there's the 2 public holidays that i'm looking forward to. Hopefully we do not get any stupid confinements along the nxt 3 day alt week. Oh.. the most used threat against in camp is always confinement this , confinement that. Sigh.
Then last night after bookout i was able to make it down to SP. haha. I sure look KUKU playing squash in my long4 last night. lol. But it was fun la. Then today , training was alright la. Did some booast drive with marcus. Not too bad i must say.. hmm i mean his drive, for booast there's still lots of room for improvement. Then today i played with joshua a best of 3 game. and guess what ? i actually lost! haha the last set was at a score of 10-9. Man i'm shagged. Then Edmund came down! Omg! it has been ages since i've seen this bro of mine. hahaha. Ha speaking of edmund, it really reminds me of times i had in SAS, together with Joseph, Mark, Marcus, Timo, Sasi, Edmund, Yongqi, Brendan, Yonghui. Haha.. those were the times man. Haha can also remember during our trainings at yck, we would always take short breaks to peek at IJTP tennis girls training. Boy do i miss those times! TImes in SP as well, all the joke , laugher and crazy training that zaniel puts us through. ha. Ok i guess i'm just suffering from the " i hate ns too much and just wanna get out of there" syndrome. haha. ok gtg man
around the world in 80 days
[4:43 PM]
Saturday, October 22, 2005
GOod MorniNg everybody! Hows the day starting out? Gd i hope =).
It was just a mere 9 hours ago since i booked out of camp and with less than 6 hours of sleep i'm up waiting to go for squash. hahaha. The past week of training for me was rather slack as there were only 3 night trainings and with thursday having a 2.5hr admin break time for the whole platoon. OmG. it was the first time that i had actually got the oppornunity to read newspaper and do whatever i want to do. ok now for the major events that happened during the week
1) Learning a new weapon. THE SAW ( Section Assult Weapon ) But i would rather call it the Super Ancient Weapon. Alright, i'm not too sure if i'm allowed to disclose details on that weapon so i shall keep it short. Anyway its really a very sucky weapon and guess what? its actually made in Singapore. Wow.. so much for manufacturing standards.
2) Test. Omg.. Surprise test was given to us just before book out. Ok we were actually given 2 weeks to study it but last night , our platoon commander had actually told us that it would be given nxt week and out of a sudden , our sergeant just went " hey u guys betta take this time and study cause u are having your test tonight" -___- Then during the test, my sergeants were looking through my paper after i end it up but they all gave me the confirmed confinement look. Then after that Coporal John was looking through it in detail and after that he gave me the thumbs up. Hmm.. i really hope that i do pass that test if not there goes my training on saturday.
3) Made Det Commander again yesterday. Sigh.. It was pushing in the gun time and the Coporals were like " Who would like to voluneer for Det Com?" Obviously nobody wanted to be Det commander as it was a very stressful role. THen Coporal Kai Quan was like " U do know that if i were to choose,who i'm going to choose right" And that ans was Jackson. Omg no way! Then while he was saying that, Coporal John was looking at me with that grin. And that was because the last time i was made Det Com, i had managed to align the gun with 2 trys which was a pretty gd attempt i must say. So anyway there was i being DEt com. So there we went, pushing the gun forwards first for the distance and also space. Then after settling that it was alright, i commandered it to move backwards into the hanger. Damm, we missed the turning point because i wasnt really loud enough and that the guys didnt echo out my commmand. Now then i realise how impt echoing is. But it was too late, the gun was totally out. Then Pc came down and was noticing how we were doing our job and stuff. So i tried aligning the gun with the limited space infront of the hanger and it was hopeless. Too little space for rectifying such a huge error. So i took up Sergeant Jack's advice of pushing back the gun to its original position. ok while that was going on, we had also pumped about 40 times and pushed the PSU in and out of the hanger as we couldnt meet the timing given to us. Sigh then the biggest and most stressful threat came, " IF u guys cant push the gun out within the nxt 20 mins, you will push out another gun!" Omg that was the worst thing that could happen and that was also the start of all the mishaps. First was Terence who fell while pushing the PSU in the hanger and he was one of the strongest guys around, then came Rong Quan who fell as we were told to run to the PSU as fast as possible if not we'll have to knock it down. SO 2 fitting fit guys were out. Ok let me give u guys some numbers first, for the gun side, we only have about 10 fighting fit guys and now 2 guys were out right, so it leaves with only 8 out of the eight, you need 7 to push and command the gun so we are left with 1 right? and the last one was already left to rest as he had a hand cramp. I was like so feeling so stressed and guilty as i feel that it was my fault for not aligning the gun properly hence dragging the time. Then at 18mins plus, the sergeant made the call to change one pusher. Terence voluneered but no way was i going to let him push as he had already injured himself so he replaced me as Det commander while i became the pusher. By the time he had taken over, i had already aligned the gun so it was actually up to the pushers to push in the gun. Rather the gun was aligned pretty early but we just cant push it in. So yeah the 3 pushers at that time was , Ding wei, Chinaman and myself. I was really damm pissed at myself as i had felt it was my fault for the 2 injured guys and all the punishment that was melted to us so when we were given the command to push the gun, i just gave it all . And the best part, the gun went in on our first try! And also for the first time, with only 3 men. As normally they would give us the 4th pusher to help us push it in. Ok we are weak but what do u expect pushing a 6.5ton vehicle? I was so happy that i nearly cried. Sigh. Sigh sigh sigh. Though we had managed to push in the gun but i'm still very demoralised and no longer believe that i'm a good det com. sucks man being the det com.
Oh! one gd thing about yesterday was the supper that i had with Fu yong at geylang. Frog leg was gd man!! =)
Alright i guess thats enough of the story, its already 850am and i guess i have to get already as i'm fetching , yongqi, yonghui and yimin to go to training.
around the world in 80 days
[8:20 AM]
Sunday, October 16, 2005
Yesterday after squash, i was at the austrailian university open house. And i've got to know that i could actually get 2 years of exemption for most of the schools providing the aeronautical engineering course that i'm looking forward to. I think the best for me right now would be RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) as i'm able to do a double degree. Aerospace Engineering and Business Management. I've also enquired regarding doing my PPL over there as well, and the advisor from RMIT was saying that , they would not allow me to do a double course while i'm there but i can always take it as a sideline, something like a cca? University of New South Wales seems pretty good too and it seems to be more accredited compared to RMIT. But for UNSW, i'm not too sure if i can do my PPL over there as i have yet to enquire about any flight schs in the vincinity. Does anybody have any idea over which is a better sch, RMIT or UNSW? sigh.. this is a problem. And right now i'm already re considering going over as i'm not able to bear leaving my friends behind.
Anyway after the university thing, i was at kallang with huiwen, weisan, yimin and nailin. They were actually there with the purpose of buying rackets whereas for me, i had wanted to try the new O3 series of prince rackets. So anyway both Huiwen and Nailin bought the TT VIPER which is a very gd racket. It has both the power of Dominant and the control of Soveriegn. So talk abt a deadly combination and you'll get TT Viper! hahah! As for the O3 series.. well, i gotta admit they are both very powerful rackets, excellent for hard hitters but i feel that they lack feeling in them. But of cos thats my opinion of them.
Oh while the guys were trying out their rackets and talking abt the feeling of the rackets, it kinda struck me that a relationship is just like buying a racket. One has to first test the racket, to know how it feels and only buying it after deciding that thats the kind of feel that he/she is looking for. Isnt a relationship so simliar? First ya gotta get to know the person well, to know if he/she is the kind of person u are looking for and once the feeling is right, try to go for it? haha. ShrugZ i'm just talking nonsense i guess. I kinda feel as if i have forgotten how it is to like a person, how it is to truely love a person anymore. Well i guess that is also a good thing cos at least nobody would be hurt. The best to just be myself, there's no need for pretence or whatsoever.
On a more serious note regarding squash. If i'm not mistaken, the inter club games will commence somewhere in march hence for us, nobel. Training will begin in the month of november so as to cater for the As and Os students that we have. So i hope everybody who's reading this right now, would do a kind favour to themselves by at least keeping themselves physically fit as the training would not start off on a soft note. Physical training will just part and parcel of every training and expect yourself to travel quite a fair bit both at the start and towards the end of the training period as we'll be travelling around for friendlies. I want us to win, i dont want to see us at the bottom of the list again. Lets show Au Yeong that we can do something on our own. Lets show him what we are made of. Be it whether if we were from Saint Andrews or not. Now that we are in Nobel, we are all Nobel! and as Nobel we'll win! =) Lol. i think i'm going crazy.
On a more personal level, to someone who feels strangled with my presence around and that it would be rude to reject training. Then lets put it this way, u are the one who are making yourself feel that way, not me not the other members. You have no obligations or whatsoever to be trained by me or Joseph if he is there to help out. Let the truth be left untold, if u feel that i'm that bad of a coach please feel free to find somebody else to help you out.
-For Nobel and ourselves! Gamabatte!!-
-Learning to do what i want to do, to say what i want to say, to stand up for what i feel is right-
-Not giving up over some setbacks as the road is still far and enduring.-
around the world in 80 days
[1:42 PM]
Anyway for all you nobel guys out there, there are some things that u need to know.
1) Get as many nobel players as possible for nxt sat training as we will be training with YJC, along with joseph and myself coaching. But as for me, thats provided i dont get confined though.
2) Please sleep well. For the SP squashers , i know that u guys would have training at the night before so do sleep well cos the training will be alittle physical and i wouldnt want you guys to not able endure the training because of the lack of sleep.
3) Dont drink and eat too much before training.
4) Training will be from 10am-2pm so do arrange your time properly.
5) Everybody is expected to bring at least one squash ball each.
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Yup. those are the things expected for the nxt training on saturday. But if i were to be able to book out on that day, i would wanna spend the day watching movies man! i've missed out on so many gd movies already! And nick!! when is my fishing trip la u lazy arse! lol .
around the world in 80 days
[2:28 AM]
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Today is saturday once again. Nothing really much to add as training has always been the same, pushing the 6.5 ton gun in and out of the hanger. NS really makes us stupid. All week long , we are just listening to orders, waiting for something to happen. The only time that we had actually had to use our brain power was when we had to study for a test. And the test was also about the gun. Omg, how braindead i am. I had actually wanted to bring books in to read, sadly i dont even have the time to make phone calls. Sadness. Sigh. I would really want to have a positive outlook on army life but this is really getting alittle too much.
Anyway like i have mentioned earlier, today is SATURDAY so here are my plans!
Plans for the day:
1) Squash
2) Going down to orchard hotel for the Austrailian Universities Exhibition
3) Kallang?
4) Going for my mum's birthday dinner.
-brain-dead-
around the world in 80 days
[8:15 AM]
Sunday, October 09, 2005
Hey! Its sunday already and i'm booking in again. Man, and i thought i would not be experiencing this feeling once i'm out of tekong but oh well its the army. Last night was pretty happening for me. Although the section outing was not sucessful as alot of the guys are unable to make it but Alvin and I still managed to catch a movie late in the night. Imagine watching a movie at 0225hrs. Omg.. its so tiring! Alvin actually fell asleep halfway through the movie.haha The 40 yr old virgin is a pretty ok show i guesS? but perhaps not worth the $$ as a weekend movie though. Wedding crashers was alot better!
Btw i gotta thank Denise for the weekly stonning cum talk cock session! And last night's was nice too! Perhaps we should go there for the stonning session more often? lol.
Hey Nick!!! I want to fish! Faster go plan out your time so that i know when we can fish! And also do keep me updated on the vertical marathon thingy k?
around the world in 80 days
[1:56 PM]
Saturday, October 08, 2005
Hey i'm finally back from the first hell week of ADA's ADWO's training. Training there is by far the worst i have experienced. Can u imagine that only 3 men, are used to push a weapon system weighing 6.5 tonS? Oh yes, that is what is happening behind the walls of the base everyday. We had just started pushing the gun system out of the hanger on thursday. Started at around 1plus since then on, we had just been pushing and pushing and pushing the huge monster out of a slight depression or something. By the time we had actually ended the day it was already like 2330? Oh my god, i was so tired that i had to use my helmet and my head to push the system cos my arms were too exhausted. Not to mention that we had pull up regimes both during lunch and dinner. 2 sets of 12pushups along with 2 sets of 20 pushups. Ok. 20 pushups are nothing but not when u are doing it as a group and the everybody is just too tired to keep their "butts up". Admin time there is also minimal. 30-45mins everday will be given. But within that time frame, we are supposed to finish eating our supper, bath and writing our journals. Basically thats the only things we could do within such a time frame. I couldnt even talk to my parents for the whole week. A little too much there dont u think? Sigh what to expect? We are supposedly the commandoes of the air force. On the brighter side of life, perhaps i could make it to sentosa after the course with a better body frame? hahaha.
Oh although training there is tough, guess what? i had actually put on weight! 1kg. hahaha. Anyway i couldnt make it for the squash training today cos the commanders seemed too preoccupied during the morning and had pushed the pushing activites in the afternoon and that delayed everything. Booked out at 945. Wth. how to actually get to sp in time. Sian. Cant they actually give us early book out as an incentive? Perhaps the only incentive that we get everyday is to know that there's always good supper waiting for us. Hahah, this is one thing i must admit that the air force is really gd at. Seriously until now, i still cant believe the fact that for nightsnacks, everybody is given 3 different types. For example, last night we had, banana cake, vanila cream bun and 4 slices of bread with cheese. Goodness right? On the first day, we actually had cup noodles and i was totally stunned. haha.
One thing to add about my platoon. On the first day of enlistment, we had a total strength of 31 fighting fit guys and now guess what? We are left with a mere force of 17 fighting fit guys with a total of 13 guys on status and 1 OOC as he is leaving for the pilot vocation. Great isnt it?
Section outing also happens to be cancelled as there were no replies back from the guys. haha that i must admit is pretty demoralising considering that i had really wished to meet up with the guys. oh well. what to do.
-Missing the times in Ninja-
-Wishing to play squash with the team-
-Demoralised and drained-
around the world in 80 days
[2:24 AM]
Sunday, October 02, 2005
Haha i believe that its already alittle too early to plan this out, considering that i do not know what time i'm booking out on friday. But who careS?! At least i have something to anticipate about. ahahaha
Friday - Squashing in Sp with the guys. But that is of course provided that i can book out in time to reach home, take the car and rush down to school.
Saturday - Squashing in the morning in SP with the Nobel team. Joshua, Marcus, Yongqi and Denise was right, i should start training them for the up coming IVP. So most likely i'm starting my training regime with them on sat but without the physical training as thats reserved till the whole team is back and ready to roll. Oh just a thought, in order to maintain the physical fitness of the team after competition, i was considering having one long distance run every month. The venue of the run changes every month because i feel that its boring to keep running the same place all the time hence we will move to someone's place with the person guiding us on the route to run. THis will be an endurance run hence i think it should be around 45mins of non stop jogging? shrugZ. This is just an idea but will see how on it.
Saturday - haha sorry i've kinda side tracked on the saturday event earlier. Hahah, in the night i'm hoping that the ninja4section2 outing would be sucessful and btw, i'm looking forward to the treats that my OCS friends are going to give. hahah! Most likely we'll be in town having supper ( i think swensons are the only thing thats open till so late and is in town.. so yeah) then followed by a movie? ShrugZ we'll see as how things goes perhaps?
Sunday - Book in day. Sigh.. oh sunday morning i have something on. CHurch. haha but i'm not really too sure on what to do in the afternOon though. Guys anybody got any bright ideas?
around the world in 80 days
[5:48 PM]
Hey i'm not too sure if you guys are experiencing the same problem but the new entry page of blogspot seems to be problematic doesnt it? Ok perhaps its just my pc? ShrugZ. Anyway just for the record, i booked out on tuesday night. The reason? Instructors of 160 Squardon Flight A1 were all on deployment hence our PC Capt Lance felt that there was no reason to confine us in camp as we wont be learning anything anyway. So far, i have only seen 2 commanders. One would be Captain Lance and the other 3rd Sergeant Jack. Ok both are nice but somehow i missed the commanders of Ninja coy back in Bmtc2. Some how my new commanders lack that chrisma and fun-loving nature of my previous commmanders. Life in ADA, i guess its so so, but somehow i feel that we are treated almost like recruits. So much for my friends telling me abt how slack their respective units are, ours are like so strict, so on the ball. Certain interesting things to note, my bunk has one of the best view in camp i believe, because it has a swimming pool infront of us while HDB flats on our right and HT's condo to the back(can u believe it?).And another thing, the moment i had passed out from BMT, i thought that the bunks could go no higher than the fifth floor but guess what? i'm now living on the 6th. Congrats right? Now i know why ADA is able to be the leading unit in the Air Force 10km run, making the record of completing it within 32mins. Crazy! As for the fellow privates along with me? So far so gd, i've made 3 pretty gd friends, namely, Fu Yong, Mel and Kim Wah. Jokers. By the way, i do not have any more leaves available to me as ADA has already used them up while letting us book out on those 3 days. So much for being happy to be out.
Anyway i had really enjoyed myself for the past few days. On tues after i booked out, i immediately rushed down to Mek's place for her bday celebration, though i must admit that it was pretty simple but i believe that it was the thought that counts =) Oh, Peishan, Yimin ,Alvin and Nick were there and i must say its been a pretty long time since i last saw PS and Yimin and of cos they still look the same. hahaha. I'm glad that they had enjoyed the cheese cake and i've also learnt of a better way of eating the cake thanks to them too! lol.
Wednesday.. Honestly i do not have much recollection on what had happened on that day, but as far as i can remember, i was out buying stuffs from the army market and toa payoh. Basically just travelling all over the place. TiriNg.
Thursday.. What was memorable was squashing with Denise and gang but besides that too, i cant really remember. haha sorry i'm getting old.
Friday.. Craziness! The day started out with me picking Peishan up to go down to kallang to try out the new rackets , which we did of course and OMG! The new TT Viper is gd, better than my sovereign but not as gd as my Dominant. There were also other rackets but i guess the next one that was pretty impressive would be the Head Liquid Metal 160. Heavy but i kinda like the feel of it. Its very similar to the response that i get from Prince rackets. Anyway after that , it was picking up of Nick and going down to SP for squash . I've managed to call Joe and Joseph from Tchs to come. And boy did they give me a good fight, hmm not that i won them or anything but it just feels so gd. I believe on fri i had a total of 16 sets. And now, my whole body is aching. Its worse than BMT man. After the squashing session was dinner! I was so so so famished and we went down to Bukit Timah Market for dinner, it was not too bad i must say.. then after that i fetched both nick and yimin home. We stayed at yimin's void deck for nearly an hour i think, just stonning and talking. Hahaha. I think i have just found a new hobby, stonning while chatting.
Sat. Squashing at SP once again. This time with the NOBEL pple. Had a game with Aidan which was supposed to be a showdown. haha, at first i was pretty worried about losing to him as that would make him the best in the club and right now, i dont think its the right time for him to be big headed, not as if he hasnt have enough attitude problems as it is.So basically it was squash squash squash followed by showered, lunch and then ice cream at PS. Rum and Raisin is gd!! Following that was home but with Denise that is. Ha.. no wrong ideas k.SHe had to go to Scouts HQ for some award presentation , hence inorder to be in the neatest uniform, the best way is to iron it before going there. haha. After that was dinner at home, followed by dinner part 2 with her in Geylang. Then we went exploring geylang in the car, looking at all those pros and lechers. Then we headed down towards kallang indoor stadium where we walked around and just stoned and talked.haha. See what i told you? Thats my new interest. Stonning and Talking. haha. Oh, actually there was supposed to be a fishing session now but nick didnt felt like it hence it was cancelled.
PS: I do not want to be the last club for the nxt season of interclub. WE WILL WIN!
Motivation is the fundamental of getting things done even when the going gets tough.
around the world in 80 days
[1:25 AM]
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