feeling very tired this whole week. monday was the only day we had "physical" activities. other then that we had live range pract from tue - wed, night live range on thursday and a day live range on friday.

first day of range, on our first try one of the sergeant say my shooting cannot make it. did not really know how to use the sar 21 properly also. talked to my platoon sergeant and he gave me some tips. subsequent shots manage to hit the target. which made it easier for me also. first day we reached back camp i think close to 12 given 30 mins to bathe before lights off. had to wake up early next day at 6.45 to get prepare.

2nd day bsically did the same old thing. in the middle of the day someone reported that he lost $60 and no one want to admit. some of the details were searched to no avail. gave us some trouble. other than this commotion everything went by smoothly. reached back slightly earlier then the first day.

3rd day as my platoon were only schedule for night range we spend morning cleaning our rifle. tough very tough to clean the rifle. and must hit the army standard. after that clean company line, had stand by area before they allowed us to have a 3 hours rest before we set off for our night range test.

was hoping to get marksman in bmt and the minimum score for marksman is 28/32. night range i missed 3 shots. usually night range i don miss but dunno why that day miss 3. i always fare very badly for day range missed alot of shots.

day 4 woke up early for our day range. surprisingly i missed 1 shot and jus achieve marksman. although there is no reward or anything but is good feeling to know that in bmt acheive marksman.

one thing i really thank God is no matter how late i sleep i will still spend time praying while the others are either sleeping or talking when lights off. seriously in army can't spend a day without praying.

before i booked out had our 6 click route march. quite tiring. after route march kanna pump again. i think for every route march can look forward to the whole platoon getting pump. sigh.. no time to bathe as we quickly unpacked and packed our stuffs to get out of rocky hill and catch our fast craft back to singapore.

went to serve yesterday and at the same time attend svc. the new cg machine was in. i was doing announcement and sermon. don think i did a very good job. with the new cg machine is even harder to do sermon even though i need not do the verses, points. wah but jus to coordinate with juslin who was doing the new cg machine and feng ling who was doing directing is very tough. i think i need to go for lesson on how to do directing with the new cg machine. a test of focus as well. can't lose concentration if not thats it.

chorus board going up another level!

aft svc went to 85 market to eat and meet up with the rest of the guys who went down there after cg. along the way saw pam. catch up with them and the dinner was good but the fellowship was even better. quite some time one whole grp of us gathered together and go makan. manage to catch up with yongheng as well who book out same day as me on sat. aft dinner went home and jus rest.

manage to do some running around my area. as and when possible like to jus go run and train up a bit keep myself healthy also.

won't be booking out till 8 aug another 2 weeks of confinement. going for field camp. feeling very sian abt it. but aft field camp shld be more relax because can look forward to POP. after field camp i think the schedule will be throwing of live grenade, standard obstacles course and sid test. and can relax all the way prepare for parade, games day and recruits evening.

when i book out definately gonna catch "mummy". so looking forward to booking out!

will be moving over to sat svc earliest aft FOP or latest end of aug.

book out yesterday. had a long week in rockyhill. actually it was quite a tough week. finally feeling it wad bmt is all about. my friends and myself agreed that this week is probably the longest week we had.

finally on monday get our sar 21. it was quite cool to touch our rifle. tuesday had our weapon presentation at ladang. that is when the "coolness" wear off. we were given drill pract and that is when it begin to dawn to me that is actually very troublesome to have a rifle.

true enough that day we only had 15 mins to bathe and do our stuffs before lights off. rush like mad. don't think any of us were happy with the arrangement. following day had technical handling which took up practically the whole day. thursday had our tech handling test which i pass.

anyway in army they will ensure you pass everything on the spot. probably because they want to ensure that everybody get to go for the range test this week and also another thing is so that anything happen you can't blame them but only yourself cause you pass your tech handling test.

friday had alot of activities..was kindda sian because cannot book out. and also everyone was hoping it rain so that route march will be cancel and we can stay in our bunk to rest. well it did drizzle but route march was not cancel and we still had to go for route march. after route march we had a horrid time because i think my sergeant finally snap and start handling punishment to us after a super tough route march. that night was struck down with fever.

well i don't blame him. probably my platoon really took it for granted and also the other sergeants were not helping by complaining alot about our platoon. this coming week would be my 6th weeks in tekong. i don see that it is gonna be easy or anything. i think my sergeants are gonna be very tough on us now sigh...

went to singapore discovery centre on sat for our national ed journey. was still feeling feverish and stuffs. manage to reach home at 1pm. rest awhile before heading down to riverwalk for cg.
actually had thoughts of not attending cg because i was still having fever and my whole body was aching. but decided to go for it.

decide to go for svc as well so that i can have my 10 hours of rest before i book in on sunday. thought that svc was great yesterday. every week jus look forward to coming for svc either to serve or attend. went to join up with shi jie's cg to go for dinner at airport. do a little catching up with him and weiming. quite happy finally after so long.

after dinner wnet home. decide not to let my fever slow me down. need to catch a movie at least so went to catch the dark knight with gordon and van. quite a long show but is nice. at least is much better then the other shows that i have caught recently. almost full house everywhere i checked. thought that when we reached the theatre gonna get like front row seat. but gv tiong bahru actually added another new show so manage to get a very good seats.

reached home quite late. and still having slight fever. not sure can i book in today anot. but if i don book in i am afraid i will miss my range test this week and have to go for a retest with other company which i am not looking forward to.

well this week is going to be another long week as we have range test starting from tuesday to friday. and we might potentially reached back our company at 12 midnight depending on fast we do our range test.

gonna book out on sat again. gonna have route march before we are allow to book out. very sian. this coming week will be the last time i book out before i am lock up in camp again for field camp. which means i will miss FOP. sigh...so looking forward to POP. 9 sept!

its been confirm today that we are going over to sat svc and having cg at 1.30 on sunday. maybe is good also because can have enough rest before booking out. got to talk to kelvyn abt it.

had kindda a lousy week in camp. first 2 days was still alright. enjoy the AGR alot. been raining quite alot this week and some activities were canceled. was the platoon ic on wed. kindda demoralise...felt quite stress. in the evening i had thoughts of looking for my platoon sergeant and request to change.

however things changed during the night. there were some "mess" in the company and after the mess were cleared up my platoon commander wanted to meet the whole platoon. and he started sharing a few things. and from the sharing session i decided to give it a try because i feel that after that talk is not appropriate to go and request a change in platoon ic.

thursday morning whole platoon get pump because a few guys fall in late for 5bx in the morning. at first thought that is gonna be a bad day again. however must thank God that i have good platoon mates because they helped me alot when i was the platoon ic. some even say that i am doing a gd job getting better with each day.

had a crazy day dunno is it on wed or thursday had standby universe and in one day we had i think 2 or 3 standby. from then on we had to clean our bunk everyday for standby. well beside this, had a very relax day on thursday. had no activities and all we do in the afternoon is watched 2 movies "full metal jacket" and "courage under fire". in btw we finally had canteen break our very first in a month. i think the uncle easily earn at least minimum 500 dollar for that 1 hour of canteen break.

knew it that we won't have it easy. after the movie during RO, we were told to do 500 words reflection on each movies. that is our homework from the army. sia la..first time hear got homework one. recently CSM like not in good mood after the so call crack down. dunno whether can i finish it before i book in. must try to squeeze some time doing it if not later drop dunno how many.

had ippt today..quite happy with my results. even though i fail because i fail my pull-up station but for sit-up, standing broad jump, shuttle run i got all 5 points. set a goal for my 2.4 to run 12 mins but manage to go under 12 mins. jus need to slash another 15 sec and i would be in the silver timing. now to work on my chin up.

CSM want us to cut hair again. so now i am botak again. nan de hair longer a bit then cut again. my buddy will be leaving on monday evening gonna have a new buddy in bunk. kindda sad to see him leave because he really is a very good buddy. when we had a little misunderstanding and i misplace my gutters he actually gave me a new pair of gutters to tide me through the week. thinking how to make his last day a nice and memorable one.

today then i realise that actually my company is good. i get to book out every friday unless there is something on. for example next sat we are going singapore discovery centre thats why booking out on sat instead of friday. and we don't have rt until after our next ippt on 2 august.

finally is 1 month inside. ptp phase is over. the tough training are abt to kick in. can't wait to quickly pop. thank God i nv kena guard duty on 26 july. only kena reserve guard duty on 24 july. can't imagine booking out on a sunday morning and book in on sun evening. hopefully next month guard duty i get the weekday slot instead of weekend slot.

going to catch hellboy 2 later most likely with van and dan. need to go and enjoy myself after a miserable week in camp. from the trailer i think is a good movie. and this month there are quite a few nice show. next week when i am out on sat i will def go catch batman.

been feeling very tired and have been contemplating to attend sat svc on alternate weeks so that i can have max rest on sunday before i book in. well yet to decide on it yet. when the day come and i don think i can take it anymore i will most likely attend sat svc and sun svc only when i need to serve.


went to the prata house at upp thomson there to makan with ch, yh, jason, dan and colin. had a great time fellowship with them. stayed there till 3am before i send everyone back home. probably gonna org one more when yh and ch both end their confinement week. but got to plan again.

had cg at riverwalk today. after cg went to have late lunch before a group of us head down to orchard there to just kill time. left orchard at abt 7. decide to join the guys who went for svc today for dinner at 85 market and do some catching up before i go back to tekong.

had a great time with people like shang, shunfu, joe, hx, jr and mel. shunfu was sharing with me his army exp. and thank God for cgm those guys help me with the commands. although i thank God for this chance to be platoon ic but if ask me i hope my commander will forget abt me.

caught hancock with van at tiong bahru. well i must say is just a so so movie only. not a very fantastic show. i must make it a point to try to catch at least 1 movie each week when i am back in sg. nowadays hard to find companion to go watch movie together.

had plans to wake up early to go for morning run. however looking at the time now i am super tired and have to wake up super early to send my bro to his camp as well before i go for svc. seriously lack of slp. if can shall wake up go for morning run if not will jus wake up late.

sigh...sian tmrw gonna book in again...kindda dread tekong life!

finally is book out day again. always look forward to booking out each week. although i adapt well to life in tekong but i still think nth beats staying in mainland singapore and of cos able to go back home.

this week schedule not so bad. after missing 5 days (including weekend) of training realised that is not very wise to miss training because find it tough to get back to the training regime.

as usual 5bx every morning to get our body engine starting. had a 4km full battle order route march. even though miss the last 2 but still not so bad nv feel anything. able to complete it without much trouble.

had agility group run. during the cat ippt i was place in grp B. had to run 20 mins non-stop under the hot sun. in tekong practically everyday is very hot. had some trouble but still cont to persevere.

had another AGR yest not so bad, because this time round i think my fitness got better because i felt very alright and not very out of breath. just nice because the next ippt is next friday so hopefully can hit the passing time since i failed by 30 sec the last time.

manage to pass my first aid test and also my swimming test today. after 2 days of no rest we had a relatively slack schedule today. manage to book out earlier as well but the bad news is have to book in early on sunday at 6.10pm.

monday and tuesday will be AGR again to help prepare us. wed light activity follow by a slack thursday in order to let our body rest for the ippt.

so can't wait to book out on friday next week. probably after next week i will be booking out on every sat. quite sian to know that i will be only booking out on sat. sigh...but nvm another 10 more weeks and i will be out of tekong provided i pass the compulsory tests. 1 down 2 more to go.

going to meet up with jason, yh, ch and dan later for supper. so called "last supper" with yh and ch before they enlist next friday. wanna catch a movie aft that but see how...dunno whether will i be tired anot. probably before i go to slp shall go run ard my estate for 30 mins. keep the momentum there.

if can't watch today i will go catch it tmrw night! at least must try to clock one movie per week. bunk mate ask me to go out tmrw but not too sure do i want to anot.

appointed to be platoon ic next week. kindda dread it because i not very sure abt the commands. shall go and brush up and ask ard wad is the commands. thank God because not everybody gets to be a platoon ic and my platoon have a total strength of 45. being platoon ic is a way for the commanders to assess your leadership quality and see whether can you go command sch like sispec or ocs.

i don't mind going sispec though be sergeant. OCS if can go also don mind but doubt i will want to go there since is quite harsh and strict.

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