3 weeks. tts how long ive nt touched my com. zzz. thx to home renovations and field camp. but its great to be back. =D

alright lets get down to business.

6/1/2007 - long week ahead

later i'll be having ST so have a bit of admin time for now. range was crap. missed the target like mad. 62 shots only 4 hit. damn pro xia. cant see the stupid target. whats more my specs was fogged up, only 6 ppl shooting with me, pc in a fiery mood, all the ingredients for getting screwed at shooting. at least i wasnt scolded by the pc for having shit accuracy. ah guess i'll jus have to work harder.

7/1/2007 - wish upon a shooting star
during RO, a shooting star (presumably) was spotted flying across the sky. my first sighting of a shooting star. how beautiful, intriguing. well im nt superstitious, but i guess i'll need all the luck i need for tml's imt test. with my kind of shooting accuracy (almost 0%), i'll need a miracle to occur for me to pass tml's test. =( so pls pls pls pls let me pass. only my 2nd shoot and its the test. WTH man.

well today was quite slack actually. only AGR and 2.4km run. the rest of the day was admin time or meal time. zzz. at least a gd chance to rest and prepare for the tough training this wk. but im lucky cos the other platoons all had extra pt. =) love my sergeants for tt. but sometimes they can be such an ass. love-hate relationship in a diff sort of way maybe. eg, today i was putting the bunk keys back into the platoon office. i was placing the door keys onto the hook with the door slightly ajar. then one of the sergeants jumped out and boo-ed me. had a slight fright frm tt. haha. but tt sergeant is only attached to mohawk for now. once leopard has intake, it'll be bye bye. haiz. he's the nicest sergeant ive ever seen actually.

sergeant ruthra also likes to joke around but he'll screw you pretty badly if he's pissed.

too much admin time also causes you to go mad. my bunkmate, yi yi, koped a guitar and started playing songs for the section to sing. went damn high after singing all kinds of songs. =) even went busking to the other sections to try and earn some food. LOL =) but didnt get anything tho. really miss kbox.

haiz. jus let me pass my imt test.

10/1/2007 - on guard
stuck at a remote location on tekong, exact location probably nt allowed to say. guess i'll nt say where, but if you guys do guard duty on tekong, u shld noe where. ok cut the crap. the past few days was a bit hectic. route march in fbo which earned us a few push-ups at the end of the 4km march for poor singing. -,-"" then there's all the pt, like 5bx, agr, st, etc etc. yest's agr was cancelled due to cat1 but it was replaced with a "relaxing yet quite strenuous exercise" as quoted frm the CDO on tt day. and i counted how many push-ups we did and various exercises. 75 counts of 4 of jumping jacks, approx 100+ push-ups of various kinds (spider, diamond and standard) 25 counts of 4 of chicken backside (sounds ez but wait till u try it) 30C4 crunches 20C4 mod crunches. I bet i lost close to 400 ml of water on tt exercise. sianz. totally shacked after all tt shyt. whats more more leopard is right beside us, and looking at what they are doing in prep for the jan intake, i can only grind my teeth and envy those lucky ba***** who end up there. if you wanna noe why, ask me personally. i maybe investigated for saying wrong things. =S

15/1/2007 - anniversary
exactly 1 month ago, i enlisted. but now i guess im an old hand as compared to those noobs who enlisted a few days ago. i realise tt i didnt talk abt imt test. turned out quite ok i guess. passed it. well i'll fast forward to last thurs and fri. had individual field craft lessons at the field near the soc ground. had the camo lesson. sgt ruthra got us to paint our faces and required us to put on grass and the plants. had to prone in the mud so tt sgt ruthra can try to spot us. haha at the end there was even a mud bath. LOL got all muddy and all. quite fun actually, but a nightmare to clean up later. on fri we did the "moving from cover to cover" lesson. the gods decided to gift us with loads of rain during the lesson and the officers refused to cut the lesson as cat1 was nt called. turned into a luo4 tang1 ji1 real quick. another nightmare to clean up. =s cant imagine going through field camp with all the mud and all. pls dont rain during field camp ok? =( oh ya im having field camp real soon. this sun actually. actually when i checked the schedule, most of the shit will end at abt 4 weeks frm now. after tt will be mainly pt and admin time. so i'll wish for the next 4 weeks to fly past so tt i'll be a happier man. but first field camp. the most "jia-lat" part of bmt i think. wish tt i wont have to do too much shit during field camp. but i guess its wishful thinking =( hope i'll be a meaningful and memorable exp. haha. the bmtc vision.

yea well hh and cr are at leopard next door. abel at pegasus. ziyang and brian at viper. weekiat at hawk. so i guess i'll be able to see hh and cr everyday during admin time. haha =D but leopard arh... damn lucky man. hell and heaven is literally separated by a lift and a staircase. zzz

19/1/2007 - soon
hmm field camp starting on sun and its fri. kinda worried actually. hope it doesnt rain la. really hope, even if the hope is fat. =( yea well. time for an update i guess. tues's live range was quite fun, tho its dangerous and long. wnet there early in the morning, left at 11 plus at night. madness xia. had a nightmare cleaning the rifle too. worse was i didnt get marksman. =( sux la my nite shoot. missed lots of shots. but the very least was a pass. next day was admin time as platoon 3&4 went for range. thurs went by real quick. had a 6km route march in fbo. damn tiring xia. got a big blister in the process. had to report sick today as a result for tt and a bad tekong cough. hope i wont have to do re-field camp for sickness man. tt totally sux. got 3 days excuse footwear and 2 days attend b.

yupz tts where i last wrote in my diary. yea well. field camp. heres some of the things u do everyday.

1)Camo on everyday. Gd luck to ur face
2)Eat combat rations. Nt as bad as some ppl make it out to be
3)5BX. duh
4)Pray it doesnt rain. and pray REAL hard
5)Guard your rifle at all costs. sergeants love to steal it.
6)Train hard, get pumped, all in a day's work

and heres some of the things u do for field camp.

1)build baasha (small tent) and dig drainage system at 1st campsite
2)learn fire movement drills (how to engage enemy when contacted)
3)fire p-blanks
4)8km route march
5)dig shellscrape (mini-trench) and slp in it at ur 2nd campsite
6)leopard crawl under live machinegun fire. woo scary.

yupz. the first 2 nites at the 1st campsite was great. no rain. tho it was really hot in the day. tekong weather is crazy la. sometimes damn hot, sometimes damn cold. then when we shifted campsite, u learn tt mosquitoes on tekong are saf-commando trained. hold still for 1 sec and u see a mosquito alr landed and having a feast. =S but a small advice is use the SAF repellant. damn strong and effective. it works. the next 3 nites were damn cold. rained for every night. zzz. yea well. no choice but to try and slp i guess.

yes its finally all OVER!! ive effectively passed my bmt alr, having finished 2 of the 3 impt criteria for passing bmt. range and field camp. woohoo! jus need to get 85% attendance now. =) oh yes minhao enlisted a few days ago! taurus coy. yea well. another warren coy. zzz. nvm.

survivor - field camp
been there, done that

10 more weeks to go. guess i'll jus start with a diary entry i wrote in tekong.

3/1/2007 - planes

if you noe ur geography well, tekong is north of changi airport. thus you frequently will see planes taking off. kind of have a yearning for home whenever i see the planes. 很想远走高飞. but i guess its my duty to be here, as the csm once said. being song ic makes u think abt some of the songs we sing. one goes,

"have you ever wondered?
why must we serve?
becos we love our land
and we want it to be free, to be free YAH!"

well its the kind of feeling when you walk amongst civilians, esp when in uniform. i envy their peace, their innocence, their freedom. hell, civilians have a more carefree life, no sergeants and sirs barking, no stand by bed to worry abt. but well, sometimes the csm's words come into my mind when i think of such thoughts.

"its your duty to be here as your father was here. your forefathers fought to create whatever we have now, so it is your duty to protect, nurture and improve what we have now" ok maybe i dramatised it a bit but tts the gist of it. which i somewhat acknowledge. so those girls out there who shun the army (unlike xinhui haha), rmb the men in arms who train to protect you all =p

ok you must be wondering why im so free today. well becos we're efficient today. did everything in time and thus we have abt 2 hrs of admin time. so this entry. crap my bunkmates turned off the light. gotta continue by using my torch. =) yea well today was kinda slack, no thx to my sickness. but i'll backtrack to last night.

pc whacked us last night as somebody was still brushing teeth after lights off. dragged everyone out of their beds to pump us. but happy to say now im back to my past fitness lvl of abt 30 pushups in 1 go. well today i fell sick thx to 5BX and run. after running felt giddy and vomitted all the water i drank for water parade. reported sick later. but the weird thing is tt the med centre had some glitch causing everyone to have to wait 4eva for their status slip. =( went there at 8 am. only got my slip at 1.30pm missed the arcade. =( going to fail my shooting like tt man...

ah booking out tml. i guess i'll r&r at home. but for now, time to slp. =)

well r&r my foot. my hse in tatters thx to renovation work, com going cranky at times, and a long list of things to buy for army. zzzz. effectively no bookout. the sms frm nana abt the interjc pageant only made the feeling worst as i cant bkout this weekend. zzz. guess i'll only be out in 1 weeks time. haiz. holiday camp tekong is coming to an end as when YOU GUYS come in, i'll be starting bmt with u all. then it'll be downhill frm there.

cant wait for POP.

survivor - pulau tekong
its just beginning