National day !!! Holiday. Thankyou BMC for giving us a long break of 4 days by granting friday an off day. Anyway, congrats to platoon 3 for finding my blog. This sat i am turning 19. At least i can celeb my birthday in peace. Anyway, i have nothing to blog bout currently...so yar...bye

"Yet another week has passed" is what i always say when its time to book out. Indeed, if I were to count the number of weeks left for me to pass in my NS life, it will total up to a miserably large integer that I dare not think about. Alas, the short weekend is not always there for me to enjoy for i almost got deprived of it this time. Well, i passed my tests and got awarded my weekend free (those who unfortunately fail have to return back to camp for retest, i believe). Casualty aid practical test on monday was okay, tuesday's PAM stable test was one that i almost failed and really affected my morale and confidence level. The ultimate PAM unstable test on wednesday was horrifying for i was one of the "lucky" few to be called upon and assessed by my senior instructor (he failed people easily). Still, i manage to pass under him for hell-knows-what reasons. And then, that marked the end of the paramedic phase of the course and now we embark onto the combat phase, i.e. chiong sua. I will not be surprise if i get to hear "full battle order" or "1 minute, camo on" for my remaining 4 weeks in the course. How else can i be not environmental friendly since i am GREEN almost everyday.

Yesterday's class gathering had a disapointing turn-out of 6 person including me. We watched the Simpson's movie after dinner at suntec and that basically marked the day i had on saturday. The weather these few days can be described by the word "wet". It has been rainy all day long everyday which reminds me of the december period every year. Unfortunately the big holiday we are looking forward to is national day and not christmas. Blame it on the La Nina effect i guess. It is going to be a wet wet summer. Travelling from point to point within the camp requires us to put on an extra piece of fabric call the gortex, a.k.a. raincoat. Still, the camp's policy of marching point to point remains firm and hence the use of shelthered walkways (i can hardly find any) is minimal. Speaking of gortex, allow me to digress to its substitute - umbrella. Perhaps the recent popularity of this song "umbrella", that top world wide charts for weeks after weeks, was due to the erratic rainy season plagueing us. Coincedentally, "La Nina" and "Rihanna" rhymes pretty well which probably constitutes the greatest 2007 mid-year phenomenon of umbrella craze.

Anyway, less than 2 weeks to my birthday. I wouldnt want to think of celebrating it normally like all other years for i face the possibility of having guard duty on my birthday. Such things cannot be help and "no one can be blamed". Still, it is a rainy sunday noon and the grumpy mood in me keeps on pounding with regards to booking in hours later at night...

Its time to book in, once again. Before i leave my cozy home to embark on another week of trecherous journey in the camp, i shall discuss a little about last week's training. Basically we do the same old thing again, bandaging and stuff and it is really hard to keep myself awake despite the extra dose of caffine i could administer during the hard-to-get free time. The climax of the week is Thursday evening where we practise on our first 16G IV session. 16G if you have knew, is of the size of a Yakult straw (unlike the thinner 20G we practised on previously) and imagine piercing it under your skin, navigating under it to find the correct vein and successfully launch it in. It is infact an excrucinating experience where i have to resort to biting my own jocky cap. One of the most hilarious scene i've witnessed was when one of my platoon mate was in such great pain and fear that he bit his jocky cap, clinging on to another's leg who stood nearby, shaking all over and shouting in pain "I'm not scared" as though he is giving birth. Never underestimate the power of 16G. Anyway, tommorow, tuesday and wednesday are exam days for me where i will be tested on all the bandages and PAM. I doubt i can pass for it is really difficult trying to remember all the 100+/- types of bandages. We will see as it goes.

I dread sunday night for it is book in time.

Everytime at this point of time i hav a reluctant feeling to return to camp.

All i wish for now is ORD...which will take place 2 years later.

I want to get out of army asap...but there is this incomplete duty to serve the country.

I want freedom.

Life as a trainee now is, perhaps, turning for the worse...

Night training every day, higher emphasis on discipline and stuff, controlled practice, 16G...

Hopefully i can make the best out of it...

Hopefully i can survive yet another week to the next bookout.

One week in my new unit, i mean posting, as a combat medic. I can only say i missed Bronco alot. Well, life here in SMTI has much more freedom and canteen breaks, the sgt no longer treat us like babies, we can do much more things on our own, the food here is tastier, the toilet is bigger and shower cubicles have doors...but i still miss Bronco. Haha. Maybe i am not used to the culture of SMTI yet or something. Well, its less physically demanding here in SMTI but we have alot to study. 13 textbooks to study during our 9 weeks stay here. We have test every week and most importantly, the most dreadful IV sessions await us. We will be doing our first IV session tml and i can start imagining the excrucinating pain everyone will experience since we are a bunch of unexperienced students poking each other with long thick needles. Haha. Anyway, today's newspaper has a special edition on NS 40 and it has a 2 page report on some familiar faces in BMT. One of which is my Bronco OC whose report took up 3/4 page full. And behind him were us, asked to pose for his photo shoots a few days before we POP. It just brings back the fond memories of BMT i had. Haha. Anyway, still have to study for this thurs medic test. I wonder how i am able to cramp in so much info in such a short time!!!

DOUBLE ORGAS !!! AHHHH !!!

I went Orchard Road today with my parents...

First stop --> Kinokuniya:

Well, i introduced this bookshop at takashimaya to my parents (obviously they dont visit town regularly) and apart from the fact that they are amazed by the size of the bookshop, i found something that made me very excited...

A whole shelf of chemistry and physics reference books !!! Hahahahaha !!! Those thick thick heavy heavy ones, nv seen in school library or normal popular bookshop. Wow, zou3 bao3 liao !!! 2 years from now when i enter NUS Sci fac i know where to find reference books le. Yes, somehow the sight of these books make me orgas. Haha. But then har, i take out, flip flip then look at the back cover, walau eh, 90bucks...another one...60+ bucks. Siao lar, where got money to buy. Haha. Hence must start saving NS pay le...to buy reference books and of coz a laptop. Haha. Ok, i think i've gone crazy, havent i?


Second Stop --> Far East:

Parents and parents, they dont appreciate the things sold there at Far East - all the hip stuffs. They find it boring but thats their problem, as far as i am concern...WOW !!! This is where after Bugis street i can find so many youngster street wear. It took me quite some time to finish window shopping. Feel like buying but no money leh. I got 30 bucks in my wallet which i hav to survive on until the end of this week. I saw this belt very nice one...but dun hav the colour i want. Then got this zinc bag discount until very cheap, very hip oso, there is this urge from me to want to buy, but then another voice within tell me not to...coz i hav to save money...but the bag aft discount 28 bucks wor...alamak...in the end i hav to leave the shop wif disapointment...money problem u see. Haha. Then also too embarassed to spend parents' money...yar...then got another set of chains can hang on jeans one...walau eh...9.90 bucks...dare not buy coz too ex. Alamak...feel like buying but cannot. But at least i know where to find streetwear apart from bugis street....ORGAS !!! Cant bear to leave that place. Haiz....ok, dinner time...ciaos !!!

Its block leave and i am trying to do everything that i want to do and do not have a chance to do after enlistment. Well, be it savouring the well-missed hawker food, shopping at various shopping malls, movies, kbox, etc, now all i want to do is to enjoy my remaining block leave by leading a normal "nothing-to-do" worry-free life - Everyday wake up anytime i want (most prob will wake up automatically by 9), happy happy go down nearby foodcentre takeaway breakfast, happy happy search for any remaining food at home to cook myself a lunch, spend my time surfing the net, watching tv with my radio blasting behind, taking a sip of coffee, and in the evening, go ah ma house eat dinner, and thats all for a day. Well, thats really a "sinful indulgence" for me but then, once i enter unit, how many chances could i do so...

After 13 weeks of trainings in the island called Pulau Tekong...

13 weeks of sweat, tears, fun and laughter...

I hereby announced...








I FINALLY GRADUATED FROM BMT ON 13th JUNE 2007 !!!!






POP !!!!!

Hello guys !!! Its the long weekend and i'm here for blogging. Ok, the past 1 week is rather short. 3 days nia. And yes, the spirit in camp is accelerating day by day coz we can see POP approaching. A few more days, less than 2 weeks and we officially become privates. And then what comes after next...well, its not for us to decide. Anyway, i'm left wif 24km route march and hopefully i wont die halfway during the march and get eaten by the wild boars inside the wild. Recruits evening and games day is something for us to look forward to. Anyway, i dont think theres anything to add as for now coz i am running out of idea with regards to what to write. Erm...yesterday night after dinner took a train down to PS to shop for essential items for monday's "stand by pirate". Coz this coming games day is pirates theme u see, so we hav to dress up as pirates. Yah...didn manage to get anything much except for the stripe tshirt. And yes, QY promise to lend me his scarf so that i can use to tie my head. All these ideas come from plt 3 encik lar. Personally i feel that the fashion sense is abit weird but then to distinguish us from the rest of sch 1, i guess thats the thing we have to do. Oh yes, did i mention i see one of my platoon mate in the MRT train with his underaged girlfriend on my way home from PS? Its about 10+pm. He saw me also and he tried to hide behind his gf but yar, these kinda things hard to hide lar. Haha. Anyway, later going to collect cert plus go klunch. Ciaos.

Hey guys, i'm back again. The past one week has been abit slack for me in camp. We did our 16km on monday and IPPT on friday. Apart from that i dont think we have anything major. Oh yes, not to forget i did my first guard duty at the ammo dump (i dunno how to spell, but it sounds something liddat) on tuesday night. Well, at least time past very quickly and before i know it, its 2 weeks more to POP. The real hell will start in a few weeks times when i was posted out to my new unit. Anyway, the commanders were really kind to us during OC evening. They served us food like those cookhouse aunties and uncles!!! This put us recruits in a difficult spot, i.e. nan2 zuo4 ren2. Haha. The OC muster parade earlier in the morning of OC evening was sorta...yah...haha. I managed to scrape thru with my fucked up uniform without receiving any confinement or show parade when our OC did a check for every single one of us.

Anyway, my NUS letter arrived late. Just when i thought it is not and never going to arrive, it came yesterday evening when i opened my letter box. To my dismay and expectation, i didn get into my first choice - chem eng. Rather, i got into sci. I have to confess i really like sci but i do not know how do sci fac students get into their area of specialisation i.e. majors. But then if i can get into NUS chem eng it would be the best coz its such a prestigious course. I lose it to many of my peers who got lesser A lvl distinctions than me bcoz my GP fucked up. If not for my GP i could hav gotten in. Now i have to chose b/w NTU chem eng, which is less prestigious, and NUS sci. Maybe i shd appeal for NUS chem eng. Shall take some time to think bout this.

Anyway, I realize i hav this specialisation in making enemies with pple. Haha. And i've made one a few days ago...some idiot who sleep next to me in bunk. For no reasons u call me fucked up and "becareful". Hey dude, i mean moron, if you think i am fucking fucked up, look at yourself first. Who is more fucked up? For no reason you keep on attend A, B, C until Z, talk like no body's business during marching, in the file, even when the command says DIAM. Look at your fats growing all around you, look at how fucking untidy you were, all your fucking shit thrown all over and all around your area. Look at how fucking lazy you are everytime juz sleep sleep and sleep...liddat still want to go OCS bcom Lt? I doubt you can even pass your IPPT. Lets see who is more fucked up. This kinda fucked up lazy, bochap, "i'm living in my own world", "i'm the biggest", heck care attitude? Haha. So you are rallying for the whole platoon to fuck me...you can succeed bcoz u r more sociable than me, but your fucking attitude and upbring wont land you anywhere good, fucker. So stay out of my way and i wont see your fucking face in 2 weeks time...neither will i let you see mine. Haha, i apologize to other readers for my harsh words against some bastard but then yar, it is really saddening, maybe i will reflect on my part but if this fucker thinks he is "totally not in the wrong", he better fucking think also. I doubt anyone in my platoon can find my blog. I didn disclose it to anyone yet. So yar, if anyone can find it and inform that fucker bout what i wrote bout him, i am impressed.

Anyway, can anyone out there plz help me decide on my uni decision. I really dunno what to do. Shd i appeal? The chances are slim...argh...maybe i shd take double major in sci? Dunno lar, go hav breakfast le. Today book in quite early. Ciaos !!!

We always sing "SOC, sibeh jialat..." in BMT. I can confess it is indeed jialat. Haha. The freaking swing trainer caused me to hav very serious skin tear and blisters on my palms. Freaking pain, freaking orgas. Anyway, today booked out early to attend AJ college day. Woohoo, after like so many years finally can go on stage and receive award. This time is under such an impt occassion. Not bad lar, nv regret going. Got certificate, got voucher and got some sorta trophy/plague. So yah. And the food is nice, maybe bcoz...yar...haha. Not convenient to say. But on the other hand, i looked so freaking stupid in formal wear. Muz wear tie, wear office shirt, long pants, office shoes. And i juz shaved my hair again last monday (which i m reluctant to), i looked absolutely stupid. But then there r other botaks present so its ok. Haha.

Hey, i broke my personal record: falling sick 3 times in 8 weeks. Haha. Yes, you can guess it, i am sick again. Anyway, the past 1 week is really very slack. Everyday shoot shoot shoot. Mon to wed go IMT, thurs go live range, fri stay in bunk n slack coz another grp go shooting. Live range firing is fun PROVIDED you do not encounter frequent IA problems. My score at night shooting was fucked up bcoz i experienced IA almost every single round. Fuck sia. ANyway, next wk quite siong...got strength training & SOC everyday. How fun can that be. And yes, next sat hopefully can book out early coz muz attend AJ college day. Now i dun really feel like going but nvm.

Hi guys, i'm back from SIT test. Woohoo. Just when i thought i wont hav to sleep in some freaking basha on some hard ground in the wild again after field camp, i was terribly wrong coz i had to spend 2 more nights in the freaking basha again, this time for SIT test. Well, we had our SIT test at the reclaimed land and i tell you the location this time is definitely better than those for field camp. At least for this one we can see the sea, the beach and of coz, mainland singapore. And then u will be there wondering why am i here, looking back at home and soon tears run down ur cheek and wadsoeva nonsense u can gather for your narrative essays. Anyway, i screwed SIT test, nothing much to add. Fucking hell the weather is always against us. Field camp rain, now SIT test oso rain. Dun ask me hows SIT test like coz i wont reveal any SAF stuff according to law. But then, it is definitely NOT for testing you the 101 different sitting positions you can ever think of. Anyway, the mosquitoes at the reclaimed land is fucking deadly. They can penetrate thru ur thick number 4 and bite you de !!! Walau eh, i kena bitten quite a few times but not as jialat as my other coy mates coz i applied 2 layers of insect repellent. Hahahahah. Ok, nvm. I dun aspire to go OCS anyway. Physically i cant make it there, mentally cannot, personally oso dunwan. Hopefully can get some sinan 8 to 5 job in some freaking slack vocation thats all. And at this point of time my enciks will all say "DREAM ON". Yah, perhaps i haven wake up yet at this freaking time in this freaking sunday morning. But yah, last night book out tonight muz book it le. Short weekend muz cherish the time i've had. Anyway, going for breakfast. Cya !!!

Wheee...long weekend. Got 4 days of break - sat, sun, mon (today) & tue (labour day). Today break coz it is holiday in lieu of last weekend's field camp. I.e. i didn book out last wkend due to field camp hence they compensate it for today. But then even though it is 4 days, i still feel that time outside camp pass very quickly leh. Walau eh, before i know it, its alreadi monday! Tml gotta book in le. Sigh. Field camp last wk. 6 days 5 nights of hell. I still dunno how i manage to survive it. Maybe i am not alive currently afterall. But i m tired to blog bout field camp coz i juz wrote 3 pages long of field camp reflections for my commanders last evening. Since it is in WORDS form, maybe i can try copy n paste the file here. Haha. But then, yah...field camp is damn shag...all the trainings plus living wif all e creepy crawlies plus ur commanders shouting at u all the time minus alway all the comfort and basic needs of life like water, light, toilet infrastructure, etc. Anyway, this wk is SIT test. I heard it is as shag as field camp. Infact it is a mini field camp. Haiz...back to hell again. Anyway...my entry shall end here. Dunno why, too tired to blog or do anything. Dont even hav enuff time to slack during the 4 days break. Argh !!! Oh yes, i think i m gonna turn into a coffee addict or something. Ever since i enter NS i hav been craving for coffee (which i dun used to drink in the past) every bookout. Haiz. My cup of coffee is waiting for me now. As for now, ciaos !!!

I'm back again and i'm not yet dead. I'm really surprised why i'm not dead yet. Following the stomach flu i've got after i booked out last week, i dio slight fever and sore throat this wk 2 days after i've booked in. Suay siah. But then i dunwan to miss my 4km makeup routemarch hence i didn report sick. I manage to surpress my fever by taking 2 panadol that night but as for the sore throat, it has been bothering me until now. My throat feels damn bloody pain and you can imagine how bad it can be when i have limited supply of sorethroat "medications" and "throat relieving sweets" in my possession in camp. I tot i would juz die there in camp and i totally lost my voice. But then other sections oso got pple lost their voice lar.

This week is also an interesting week coz we finally got "promoted" - from chao recruit aka "new bird" to "senior recruit". Haha!!! Why leh, coz my april batch friends all come in this week le. Welcome welcome !!! Welcome to paradise. Enhanced back sia, very fit de. I see their schedule oso scared. Damn siong lar, wad we learn in 13 weeks they squeeze into 9 weeks. Jiayou arh. They all come in that time looked so blur...juz like how we looked when we came in. My neighbour Apache enlisted on thurs. And guess whos in apache? Chinguan, qiyang, brandon, jinglun. I dunno who i've missed out but these were the ones i've spotted. I wonder if they have notice me around in bronco. But its ok. Hope they enjoy their bmt life. Seriously apart from the toughness in the training, there are other moments to be enjoyed.

Anyway, today before book out we got BAC. Walau eh, muz chiong sua, and it is real mud. I came back wif everything from top to bottom muddy. My platoon fucked up and spent hell lotsa time washing up that we almost miss the fastcraft to book out. Anyway, the sgts were very patient with us though some of us were like...fucking slow. But nvm, everyone is shag after the BAC. I nv tot i can complete the BAC obstacles but the fact is i completed 2 rounds. Woohoo. But i am so damn bloody suay i lost my fucking ID tag somewhere in the obstacles. Now hav to chiong down to beach road to make if not i kena confined next wk during field camp. Fuck sia. ID tag is supposed to be my life leh, infact more important than IC or 11B. Haiz. Suay siah. Plus my freaking sorethroat haven improve yet. This short weekend will b damn busy and i wonder why i am blogging right now.

Anyway, we initially plan to giv our Apache friends a "song presentation" but bcoz we were rushing for book out, we didnt. Awwwww. We were like planning to sing "today is our bookout day, bookout, bookout..." loud loud for them to hear one as we marched out to the jetty but bcoz we fucked up we almost miss the fastcraft, we didnt. Haiz. Why we so "good" want to sing song for our Apache friends or perhaps other new coy leh? Coz Eagles did that to us when we kena confined first 2 weeks!!!! So we must reprocicate and spread down the good deed to our nearest neighbour - Apache. Haha. Ok, apache pple is gonna kill me liao.

Anyway, next wk is field camp leh. 1 weekend cannot come back home. Nvm, we will book out same weekend as our april batch friends then. Anyway, i shall go beach road n settle my ID tag liao. Bye !!!

Second bookout and things started to get miserable days before. 2 days after booking in I started to fall sick. Firstly is fever at which i went to see MO at 10.25pm...5min b4 lights off. And then the next morning i start to get symptoms of stomach flu. Stomach was painful and i experienced diarrorea. What made it worse was i lost my appetite and i had not been eating for 3 consecutive days. Every meal i juz took 1 or 2 bite and thats it, everything else go to the thrash. My whole body was totally weak that i could hardly maintain long in serdia position. Thankgoodness i got 2 days attend B that spared me from the tedious strength trainings, bcct under the hot noon sun and the 4k routemarch. Anyway, i m still experiencing some stomach wind now. Diarorea had stopped (hopefully) but keep on breaking wind. Haiz. Sian arh...

Hey everyone !!! I'm BACK !!!!!

Anyone misses me during my absence for 2 weeks? Haha. Ok, i think i know the answer. Anyway, i've been "enjoying life" for the past 2 weeks in a local "offshore island holiday resort" call Pulau Tekong. Haha. Life there is "fun". Shall go back and enjoy the fun this sunday evening, i.e. tml. Anyway, for those of you who think i will die in tekong or something, i reassure you this is NOT cmh's ghost typing this blog entry. So plz dun send me any offerings this qing ming fest. Haha, joking. Ok, currently botak now...hav to wear a cap everywhere i go. Haiz...2 weeks of honeymoon period is over, welcome to HELL as for now!!!

OMG !!! I couldnt believe this, I AM ON NATIONAL RADIO !!! First time man. I happened to be listening to radio 913 (SPH Unionworks english station) and they have this Singapore's Most Wanted daily top 10 chart. So I sms in to vote for Welcome To The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance. Then after a while my handphone rang and which i picked up, the person on the line is the DJ, Jeremy Rathnam. Yup, those who found his name familiar, he was from power 98 previously, came over to 913 weeks ago. Anyway, he asked for my name and particulars and announced i wont myself a pair of tickets to catch the movie The Pathway (which i dunno wad e heck izzit about). Anyway, i also won myself a tshirt. But then i enlisting soon, this fri infact, so dunno wad to do wif the prizes. Haha. But anyway, he ask me to "be the DJ" for a few second announcing the 7th place song on the chart and i am like okay...haha...and i tried to act excited. And then i hav to say "at no. 7 is fergalicious on singapore most wanted" and something. Then he prerecorded it and play it juz b4 the song!!! OMg !!! I was still at a shock. Lol. A little surprize juz b4 enlistment.

Went for NUS Open house this morning. It wasnt as happening as NTU's one. But anyway, i managed to get somemore indepth info about the courses i am interested in. I shd be applying online tmr or something. Have to do it fast before i enlist this coming fri. Anyway, juz now at NUS open house when i was on board this campus tour bus for science route, the student guide who speaks thru the bus' microphone to intro the campus sounded very much like my AJ Chem teacher, Mrs Kuah!!! Omg, the pronounciation and stuff all almost the same. Walau i was like laughing throughout the whole bus journey. Not that i am bad laughing at pple's english but i laugh bcoz it brings back lotsa wonderful memories in AJC 2205 chem lessons and lectures. Omg, you guys (tutucians) shd hav board that bus and listen for urself. The whole bus pple were like giggling and laughing nonstop lor. So bad rite? Haha. The pot calling the kettle black. Anyway, one prof for nus chem eng asked me to attend the course talk instead of asking him questions...i am like...you know...hahahah!!! Get to hear from students that chem eng is a super duper competitive course, more competitive than i've expected. Most of the students that got in are those S paper distinctions one...straight As??? No hope. Haiz...i was like kena poured cold water sia. Sian... Oh yes, after the NUS open house i took MRT to bugis si ma lu to meet my parents coz they want to bring me to pray for safety since i am going NS very soon. Then on my way to si ma lu guan yin temple i hav to walk thru bugis village rite. Then as u guys noe in the mids of it got one sex shop. When i pass by that sex toy shop rite, i saw this ah pek prob in his late 60s or 70s peering thru the glass windows looking at the sex shop's display for a very long time and then i was like thinking...okay...yah...*eyes roll*. Hahahahaha

I dunno what happened, my left knee actually hurts. Actually its not the knee to be exact, its some point above the knee about 15cm to the left or something. Maybe i sprained my muscle but i didn really do any vigorious exercise recently. Except that i went swimming on tue. Weird. The pain only set in yesterday... Hope its nothing...