very lethargic week sia. abit of intro first. my new camp is known as School of Ammunition, basically we learn all things ammo lar. currently on a 3 week course before i get posted to a new unit. first 4 days were spent doing nothing lar. but good thing was i have Platoon 4 pple with me in this course (6 of us from section 1!!!). felt damn sian when i reported on the first day lar, dun like wad im doing and i dun have frens there to talk to. but when i saw those guys. wah piang!!! immediately felt like the world is so much better lar. think im easily satisfied ba. only on fri were there lessons and there will be a test tml liao. damn fast sia, alot of things to memorise ah. felt like im back in school all over again. and i thought serving NS would mean no tests whatsoever.

alot of monkeys there also, everytime we sit in training shack can see them fighting or playing with each other. during lunch time especially, they will jus come crowding ard the cookhouse waiting for food. hahaha. typical monkey behaviours sia. but its cool to look at them have fun and not having a care in the world.

i badly needed to exercise since there are no PTs at my new camp so i went jogging with josh on fri night ard our neighbourhood. started at abt 9.15 and we ended at abt 10.30, den we went to do pull ups. hahaha, my pull ups still sucks sia. but it jus felt great to exercise after such a period of lethargic activity. athar after that with no food. nobody felt like eating sia so we jus had neslo and talked.

ytd went to play soccer with zelva and dinner with sylbest, jaz, colin, li lian, sara, eleanor and lee jing. had to leave soccer early cos i had to meet them for dinner, abit wasted lar cos i thought i was playing pretty well. but it was worth leaving early. jason did not turn up cos he was sick (hyperventilation, had to be placed on drip lor - reminds me of pam sia whenever she doesnt have enuff sleep). john didnt turn up too cos he was having dinner with karine. and we played zhong ji mi ma, it seems to be our favourite steamboat game sia. dunnoe y, everytime we eat steamboat, we would play this game and the one who kenna will have to eat the leftovers. best and ele owned the game sia, they kenna the most times. LOL!!

all of us left for tampines after dinner and best sent all the girls home (i walked lee jing home against her wishes. lol, but it was late ah and she insisted on walking alone and not taking best's transport.) went to TP bus stop to wait for best to pick me up after he sent everybody home. wah lao, TP at nite is chio sia. especially mushroom there. nv realised it while i was studying there lor. again i mus say, TP is the best Poly in Singapore not academics wise lar. but the impression and atmosphere it gives is uncomparable lor. from the super-hyper students to the desgin of the school. i think even the janitors are friendlier than the other polys lor. hahaha. im proud to be a graduate of TP =)

den we watched united vs reading. DRAW!! bloody hell. den colin told us that everytime we watch united's match at best's place, the results always dun go united's way sia. which was true lor. curse of sylbest's house?? =?

not a good day at all today(ytd cos its sat liao). and i normally love fridays since the weekends are nearing. but man do i hate this friday.

early morning, found out abt my posting. vocation is supplies assistant(ammo) which is the equivalent of STOREMAN!!! KNN!! i got so bloody depressed immediately lar. STOREMAN. WTF!!! not enuff PES E pple to be storeman meh??!! or even PES C9. anyhow, got my parents damn upset too lar cos they know i didnt get a vocation that i wan. sorry papa and mama. i didnt mean to upset u all, but i really dun wan to be a storeman. and to think there are actually pple who doesnt wan to go OCS!! let me go instead lar. i'll gladly take recruit's pay for 2 yrs if i can go OCS lor.

while on the bus to suntec to get my watch, the bangle that sharon got me from south africa broke!! WTF!! my "good luck charm" lar. its made of copper lar and it jus broke like nobody's business!! immediately knew today wasnt going to be my day liao. and true enough, the watch was sold out liao lar. immediately morale low sia. luckily i saw another watch that i kinda liked and my parents topped it with a new wallet for me. =) back to normal, cheerful, monkey me.

den my mama told me something which got me damn pissed off again lar. my cousin got into trouble again. 32yrs old, 1 bloody full cycle older than me and still dunnoe how to bloody hell think!! for the past 10yrs (no joke, the first time he got into trouble was when im in P4. exactly 10 yrs.) my uncle and auntie has been doing nothing but worrying abt him non-stop. even his own niece (my niece also lar, my fav niece by the way) can sense something is wrong lar and she is only 5!! nxt time i see him, i'll make sure i drill some sense into him lar. I SWEAR!! but i dun think he will take any of it in lor, could jus be wasting my time but its still worth a shot.

dinner with jia ning and pris nxt. apologies to them cos i wasnt really myself. anyhow, haven seen them in a long time liao, so it was great lar and i started to cheer up. a pity serene and fauzrin wasnt there. hearing abt jia ning's uni life was cool sia. got me wondering abt how i would handle the sort of pple she meets.

den athar with josh, saf and kim. the usual pple lar. reached there only got bad news again. SIAN. but its ok, doesnt really affect me. but still abit sian lar. den chee hao. hahaha, popeye joined us. my zhonghua basketball team, teammate. jersey number 4!! so in essence, jersey number 4, 12 and 15 (josh) were there. totally cheered up talking to them lor. the power of friends and family!! they are very important!! cherish them!! and thanx saf for getting me the chocolate. appreciate it alot.

off to sleep liao, soccer with zelva later. =)

passed out from BMT liao. finally im a PRIVATE!!! no longer a chao recruit!! yay!! other than that, miss BMT alot sia. espeically those peeps from Ulysses Platoon 4. all the CONFINE CONFINE and stone throwing while waiting for instructions. the fun we had. especially on the last nite, where me, ben and beng went to every bed to say good nite but got caught by 2IC and he thought we were having blanket party!! lol. had to explain to CSM the nxt day. kinda dumb though. alas, we will meet again lar. so no worries.

been rotting myself away these past few days, doing nothing and waking up at 12 noon. jaz and jason both went in liao. the last of my poly frens to go in. will see them in 2 weeks time (crosses finger and hope jason doesnt pang seh us. im organizing this time so he better not) =) Pam also flew off liao, this past monday. flight timing - 0800. check in time - 0600. hahaha, in the end. i slept only 2 hrs and woke up at 0445 to go and send Pam off. she'll be gone for 5 months sia, tough definitely but it'll be good training for her lar. later on, went back to TP. "helped" elene and xiu hui with their polyforum things. hahaha, i hope i was of help lar. all i did was talk cock but still reminded me of the days i spent in school working on projects sia. especially those Tourism projects which i love to do, didnt really like those Banking ones though. although i loved the calculations!!

ytd, went jogging with josh and kim. from my place to sharon's(she joined us at her place). thats like damn bloody far lar. Serangoon North to Seletar (Jalan Kayu if you are not familiar with Seletar) den jogged ard her estate. wah piang. that was xiong man. but it was good exercise lar considering the fact that i have been rotting away at home, and that i dun wan to lose the fitness that i have gained back. it was athar later(kinda sinful though) and United vs Celtic at kim's place. 3-2. wad a match!! United rulz the world!!!

anyhow, getting sick of jus sitting at home and doing nothing liao. although the first few days were alright. now i cant wait to get back into army life!! but i also dun wan to know my vocation. there is this feeling of apprehension lar. probably cos i dun wanna know wad i will get and whether i will hate it or love it. hopefully its something meaningful. shall find out tomolo at 1000. den im off to Fossil at suntec to get that watch that i saw in FHM. wah piang, that watch is really chio lar. and my mama is buying for me!!! YAY!! if u wanna see how the watch looks like, pls refer to FHM (linda liao edition) pg 89.

and last sun, played mahjong with lee jing, sara and colin. hahaha. i may have lost lar. but the fun was more important and it was my first time to colin's place despite me knowing him for a full 3 yrs!! unbelievable!! something more unbelievable, all my poly buddies has nv been to my place!!! something i noticed while playing winning jus now. WEIRD is the word. hahaha

CONFINE!!!! nope, i did not get confined. jus that this is the single most powerful word in my platoon. not only is it our favourite word but its also the most feared. PS To always use it to scare us, and we would in turn use it among each other when only a very minor mistake had been made. it nv fails to bring lots of laughter even with the normally stern faced PS To.

anyhow, haven updated in 2 weeks liao. major events of the past 2 weeks would be the Live Grenade and Live Range sia. damn scary going into the Live Grenade throw lar. bloody hell, scared of dropping the grenade; scared of not throwing far enough. lol. but all these worries were unfounded lar cos its actually very safe as long as u keep to the rules. and cos PC Saufi was standing right nxt to us offering encouragement, it was all the more reassuring. the impact and sound of the grenade is not to be looked down upon sia. only 300grams but on explosion, the sound is damn bloody loud lar. and despite hiding behind a wall, the impact will still force u to jerk back. once in a lifetime opportunity and i will keep that in my mind forever.

Live Range was the following week and its uber cool sia. aprrehensive going in too cos u will be charged if you misfire your weapon. but nothing major really happened lar what with all the training we had in IMT. very interesting to shoot a real weapon, see how it works up close and what type of damage it can do to a human. night shooting was cool because the tracer rounds will emit red light that resembles fireworks. anyhow, kinda disappointed with myself cos my score was only 21/32 but at IMT i could manage 29/32. but the experience was worth it.

and while i was doing assistance work for the firer during night shooting i saw something that literally took my breath away. while waiting for the others to finish firing, i looked up at the sky for fun and i saw this skyful of stars that were not only bright but big too. every corner i looked there were stars, mus have been a few hundred thousands of them up there. den i realised wad xiu hui always mean when she told me abt those stars which i could nv understand. its really magnificent sia, they jus seem to stay there and blink at you all the time. really dunnoe how to describe wad i saw sia. i wonder how many other pple saw wad i saw that night.

the rest of the week was damn lethargic lar. not only was it always raining,we had nothing to do except sit in the bunk and slack. CO parade was nearly cancelled because of the rain, luckily it went forth as planned. but damn, IPPT was not cancelled becos of the rain. wad a mixture of feeling i got there sia. =P. thursday night was recruits' evening and it was damn high lar. totally reminded me of Jam and Hop in TP. everybody was jus basically enjoying themselves, dancing ourselves away. den as it was abt to end, the TP Mass Dance song came up lar (new age girl by dead eye dick). hahaha, me and one of my platoon mates did the mass dance right there and then!!! everybody was jus staring at us but heck it man, im proud of my school's mass dance. so totally nostalgic lar. felt kinda empty after that though, maybe cos i wasnt in TP afterall.

the very nxt day, it was Route March with the bloody FBO again. this time its 10km but it felt like nothing lar. especially when the PES A/B pple have to do 24km, mine is jus a stroll in the park. ended up with blisters and abrasions, but they are not even worth mentioning when i think of wad the others have to endure. proud of myself that i didnt fall out (platoon 4 had no fall out again!!!) but not too proud of myself as well becos i didnt need to do the 24km when i know my body can do it, the feeling jus sucks to the core. im not trying to be garang, but when i heard the 24km pple returning while i was trying to sleep jus made me feel like a wimp. there they are returning after a hard walk and i was back 6 hrs earlier and OC telling us wad a great job we had done. not exactly something im impressed with.

anyhow, passing out is this tuesday. my god, 7 weeks had jus gone by like that. this 7 weeks is something that i'll cherish for my entire life. it made me realise that the army is something that i wan to do and is willing to do. i'll know my posting on the 15th and i have already decided with my parents knowing (they are not too pleased though), if i kenna a vocation that i dislike (clerk, storeman etc) i will be going for PES status upgrade. which means i will fight to be a PES A/B soldier and go into a combat unit rather than be a storeman or clerk. i know this sounds dumb and stupid, but my days passed by so quickly while i was doing military stuffs and i rather do this for 2 yrs than sit in an office from 8-5 doing nothing meaningful for 2 yrs. i will have to recourse BMT for another 9 weeks but i know it will be worth it.

lastly, PC Saufi has left platoon 4 to go roving with the 6th SIR. kinda sad he left us jus before we pass out from BMT. but he will be coming for our passing out so its not too big a issue. wishing him all the best with 6th SIR. we gave him a "water parade" on his last night with us. imgaine 30 full 1 litre water bottles poured onto u simultaneously, thats wad PC Saufi got as a farewell present from Platoon 4. =P
PS To and Sgt Fahd are also going to ORD soon (we are their last batch of recruits). wish them all the best too.