ONE HECK OF A WEEKEND

This week is insane, and it all started from Friday morning at 0900 hours when there is our CCO WKSP cohesion event/party at NSHomeTeam Superbowl at the old CDans area, follow by a mini buffet.

In the afternoon, met up with Shuyan for the first time in many months since my enlistment for a shopping trip at Town. The entire shopping trip lasts around 7 hours and we were dead exhausted.

Then at night, clubbed at rebel with Weiling, Kelvin, Shuyan and her friend Thomas. And since the shots and gin tonics we ordered didn't made us high, we went out to the local 7-11 to buy a packet of 6 Henineken to make ourselves high, in which we did, and later we returned back to club all the way till 0500 hours in the morning.

Saturday afternoon met up with Sebastian for another shopping trip at City Hall. In the meantime, we've had arcade sessions and finally, a 4 hours long KBOX session at Marina Square.

Later meeting up with the guys at Lot1 to book in. I shall update again.

LEH-PAH

So I've started off my first week at Sungei Gedong Armour HQ, as known as the CCO WKSP. I shall just summarise it.

Tuesday - Report to camp, report to Armour HQ, did PC interview with Warrant Chang; learnt rules and regulations and that I'll be driving the M113 Ultra upon my deployment to 12MFD sometime next week, and since we didn't have a bunk of our own, we had our very first nightsout/book out and most of us, other than the 4SAB people and a few others would have to come back before 2300 hours and stay in camp.

Wednesday - Officially became the shitwork warrior of the day. I've also learnt that my ex-platoon mates and the drivers and GPMG gunners of 41 SAR were there to train for the next 3 weeks. Awesome. As HQ Armour personnel, we had tons and tons of freedom. Anyways, at night, ran 4km around the stadium before relaxing at the bunk and having nightsout, own time own target at around 2100 hours.

Thursday - Yes, we've done it again. Shitwork warriors are in and we managed to complete most of our work before our day has officially ended at around 1730 hours. And so, we booked out and I've managed to squeeze a 2.4km run along with static and circuit exercises at the stadium nearby my area.

Not sure when to book in though. I guess it's on either a Sunday night or Monday morning?

Tomorrow shall one heck of a long day. Clubbing, bowling cum cohesion bonding with HQ Armour people, shopping and so much more. I can't wait.

And I need energy for tomorrow, update soon!

POSTED OUT

Tuesday to Friday was intense. There was daily training of SOC and IPPT exercises carried out. Other than the SOC 700m rundown, the circuit training on Thursday was a killer as well. I wasn't feeling on Friday as I had a 3 hour long dirraheoa in the middle of the night and that nearly killed me while I was doing my 11 exercises before my speed training. There was Captain ball later in the evening before dinner and our platoon just kind of skipped that without the other officers noticing. LOL.

And so, that concludes my last day in Kranji Camp 2.

And also thanks to Aarone, Weilong; my buddy, Nicholas, Kenneth and Terrence aka sampoks, Hui bing, Nico the ticko, Shino, Hai wei aka Teletubbie, Zhong Liang and many others for the farewell wishes. You guys take care too.

And, I've been posted out to Sungei Gedong camp, if that's how you spell that. Armour HQ. Maybe I'm just not cut to become a Armour infantry unit? I don't know.

Many people, my Officer, Sergaents and platoon mates likewise, say that the workload there would be slack. Probably a driver or something.

There is only one way to find out. To experience it myself.

Reporting to the camp at Tuesday, 8am. Till then.

BOOKING IN

And so, I'm booking in in less than 3 hours.

I wonder what to expect for this week? Hmm.

FAMILY DAY

It was a nice day slacking at home, with my family. We had dinner outside, just like how we did before I entered the army, but with a pinch of salt. I didn't eat. I just didn't felt hungry. All that laksa, rojak and curry chicken rice makes me nausea.

After dinner we headed down to the stadium. I did a couple sets of chin ups. It just felt great with the twinkling sweat rolling down my body. I've also used this time to catch up with my family. It was just a good evening though there were some disagreements in I and my dad's conversation, everything was cool.

And so we headed home and watched the television as a family. It had been a long time since we did that. Everything just felt great.

Until next time.

UPDATE UPDATE

First and foremost, I would like to thank SLY for the chocolate cookies he made for my birthday, they tastes fantastic (:

Yesterday met up with the gang to go Jacqueline's parent's wedding anniversary at ECP, slacked there for a moment before heading off to Macdonald's near Princess Cinema for dinner. It was a short day, but it felt pretty good.

Until next time. Ciaos.

BBQ AND STEAMBOAT WITH ARMY MATES

And so, met up with PC sir, the Sergaents and a few fella platoon mates yesterday at Tian Tian Huo Guo for a magnificient 2 hour steamboat cum BBQ session before ending off with a walk around Bugis Junction and Bugis Street and heading to an area where there is this fantastic tasting Tao Huay dessert. We ended our day heading different directions, for some like me going home, the rest either going to meet up with their other friends or otherwise, for pub session.

It's going to be a long, long day later (:

RUN

Just came back from a short running session with Zijian and Sotong, it felt great, and I mean really great.

I've really got to put my focus more on chin ups and doing more lower body exercises; tuck jumps/power jump, etc. I want to improve my SBJ!

Off to sleep already. Nights everyone.

POP LOH!

And yes, after 3 days of intense training and tons and tons of rehearsals over our parade and performance sequence, we were ready for our grand night, our BMT Passing Out Parade held yesterday at 1800 hours, 090909. Overall, the performances were great. Our Hawk Company displayed the UO and FCO drills perfectly, while Shrike performed BCCT and Falcon; CPT1 and the 5BX exercises done every morning before training. After sending our arms, prepared to book out and off we go to enjoy our 6 days block leave.

Anyways, last Saturday chilled out with Brother Zijian and Jacqueline at City Hall and Marina Square area. Sunday was spent with family at Westmall's Swensens as belated birthday celebration and later after that, joined up with Zijian and Sotong for dinner session. We chilled out a bit at my place before booking in.

Later at 7pm I'm going for my run, and I do hope I can break my 9.52 minutes mark and reach perhaps a timing of 9.14 minutes? Until then, ciaos.

BE-EARLIED 20TH BIRTHDAY PHOTOS AND WEEK'S UPDATE

Before I start, here are some of the photos taken at Yada's house on my be-earlied 20th birthday celebration. Thank you guys for organising this barbeque cum steamboat for me and also everyone whom sent birthday messages, may it be sms or facebook to me. I love you guys.



And so, it was the start of another week in army. However, this week has tonned down quite a bit. On Monday, we practically did almost nothing except to decorate our board for the POP parade and some arms drill. Tuesday and Wednesday was mainly SOC 200m and 400m rundown practice for the actual 600m rundown this coming Monday. We also learnt how to do guard/sentry duty while practicing basic counter and offensive movements to take down hostile targets.

Thursday was IPPT test, in which for the first time, I've passed. I could have gotten Silver if not for my SBJ whereas 8s less in the 2.4km run would result in a Gold standard. Here are the results.

Situp - 44 reps (5)
SBJ - 216 cm (2)
Shuttle Run - 9.7s (5)
Chin up - 9 (4)
2.4k run - 9.52s (4)

I've also had completed the milestone in our BMT, the 24km road march on my actual birthday, how amazing is that? The track from Changi Village to ECP wasn't easy but the fighting spirit actually pushed us on and on. It will always be a memorable day to remember.

Yesterday after book ou at 1050 hours, slacked at home for a while before meeting up with Brother Zijian and later Jacqueline to slack around City Hall area aimlessly. The main thing is for us to catch up with one another and enjoy good food while taking a break from the busy weekday. Once again thank Zijian and Jacqueline for the birthday wishes in person.

We toured around City Hall, Marina Square and later Bugis. I've got home at around 2230 hours, totally shack from the lack of sleep since yesterday.

Later going out with family to celebrate my belated birthday, and I've not decided where to go and eat. I shall go and crack my brains to think of a place now, and until then, ciaos.