Merry Christmas everyone!
after counting down and anticipating for so long, this day has finally arrived... our saviour Jesus Christ is born! yeah~
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Posted to RP at Paya Lebar Air Base
received the posting yest... got posted to Regimental Police at Paya Lebar Air Base...
dunno if it's good or not... must wait to see lor... cos some ppl say RP in Air Base is more tough... but dunno lar.. see how lor... hopefully get take it.. but may have to work on sun and PH...
dunno if it's good or not... must wait to see lor... cos some ppl say RP in Air Base is more tough... but dunno lar.. see how lor... hopefully get take it.. but may have to work on sun and PH...
Friday, December 16, 2005
9 days to Christmas!
time flies... it's 9 more days to Christmas.... hohoho... Santa clauas is coming to town...
nonono... Jesus is Born ~~~ The Reason for The Season
nonono... Jesus is Born ~~~ The Reason for The Season
Movie King Kong...
on wed night, all the new safra members are invited to watch the movie King Kong at PS... i went with my brother as there's 2 free tickets each... the movie was good but as it started only at 8.45pm and the movie was more then 3 hrs long, it ended only around midnight... by then there's no more train and we had to go home by taxi...
before that, i went to walk down the entire orchard road from after tanglin mall all the way to PS to see all the christmas decorations... they'll very nice esp the centrepoint one... yest one was all in the day but last week got walk from PS to somerset at night... will post up the photos on multiply once i compile it... hopefully got chance to go orchard at night again, esp with the christian christmas carnival outside ngee ann city from today...
and pray i'll get a good vocation when i know my posting later in the day...
before that, i went to walk down the entire orchard road from after tanglin mall all the way to PS to see all the christmas decorations... they'll very nice esp the centrepoint one... yest one was all in the day but last week got walk from PS to somerset at night... will post up the photos on multiply once i compile it... hopefully got chance to go orchard at night again, esp with the christian christmas carnival outside ngee ann city from today...
and pray i'll get a good vocation when i know my posting later in the day...
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
POP loh!
Yeah! the day has finally come... 7 dec... our POP day!
actually can't believe that i survived through the whole bmt and past 88 days there was like quite fast... and can't believe that i'm on the parade square marching and throwing the jockey cap...
i think i've learnt quite alot of things through this bmt and make alot of new friends... but i still need to train more for the ippt... still cannot pass yet... as such my bmt status is considered attended instead of completed... but thank god i didnt miss any major events and no need to go back during the next few days for re-training...
now break until 18 dec... must really spend this few days well... but still dunno if i'll go malaysia or not... see how lor...
Sunday, December 04, 2005
24km Route March
just completed my 24km route march yest night... it was quite a tiring experience as the longest march we've went through is 16km, and this is 1/3 times more...
before the march begins in the afternoon, we had rest for the whole morning and also the day before to help us replenish our energy... for the 1st 8km was marching around the school compound 4 times... the ground is more even here but after 2 rounds you would feel very sianz already... there's a 15mins break after every 4km, except for the one after 8km where we had our dinner and had 1hour break...
after our dinner, we proceed to march along tekong highway... this is the same as the 16km one, but this time the entire journey will be at night, so it add the level of difficulty... some more my spectacles always got fog at night then v diff to see...
after we reach the 16km mark, we decided to do a fast march back... although our feet are aching from muscle ache and blister, we tried to push one, for this is our graduation march, our final march in bmtc... but there's some uneven ground along the way then i almost tripped into a small step... but luckily didnt sprint the ankle and can still continue...
at the 20km mark, my leg was like totally pain but i told myself to push on... as i walk slower, my PS put me and another guy in front to set the pace... we push ourselves all the way through the upslope and downslope and before we know it, bmtc was in front of us... yeah... and it was about 2315h...
but now my blister on my both legs are very big and i could not walk very fast... but hopefully tomorrow it'll be better cos there's graduation parade rehearsal and i must attend that in order to march on the POP day... 3 more days to POP!
before the march begins in the afternoon, we had rest for the whole morning and also the day before to help us replenish our energy... for the 1st 8km was marching around the school compound 4 times... the ground is more even here but after 2 rounds you would feel very sianz already... there's a 15mins break after every 4km, except for the one after 8km where we had our dinner and had 1hour break...
after our dinner, we proceed to march along tekong highway... this is the same as the 16km one, but this time the entire journey will be at night, so it add the level of difficulty... some more my spectacles always got fog at night then v diff to see...
after we reach the 16km mark, we decided to do a fast march back... although our feet are aching from muscle ache and blister, we tried to push one, for this is our graduation march, our final march in bmtc... but there's some uneven ground along the way then i almost tripped into a small step... but luckily didnt sprint the ankle and can still continue...
at the 20km mark, my leg was like totally pain but i told myself to push on... as i walk slower, my PS put me and another guy in front to set the pace... we push ourselves all the way through the upslope and downslope and before we know it, bmtc was in front of us... yeah... and it was about 2315h...
but now my blister on my both legs are very big and i could not walk very fast... but hopefully tomorrow it'll be better cos there's graduation parade rehearsal and i must attend that in order to march on the POP day... 3 more days to POP!
Friday, November 25, 2005
12 days to POP!
finally, get to book out again after 12 days in camp... and another 12 days to POP!... yeah~ for the past 2 weeks we had 16km route march, range and hand grenade live throw...
in the 16km march, after marching 8km at the rest point for dinner, it rained and we had quite a long rest there... but becos of that by the time we end, it's already almost 2330h... then my both feet got a big patch of blister for the next few days and had to fall out for most of the leg activites like running... but i decided not to report sick as i may not be able to go for the range if i do so...
then for the range on sat and sun... it's quite fun to shoot the live round, but we spend most of the time waiting... luckily we can bring some magazine there to read... but i didnt do too well for the test... only 18 out of 32...
for the hand grenade throw this is a live time experience... we get to throw a fake one first which will only make a sound before throwing the real one... the real one at first i thought the sound will be very loud cos i can hear it quite loud from far, but luckily it's no as loud as i tot... the the most sweat thing is it rained when the detail b4 me was throwing... then have to wait for abt 15mins b4 the rain stop... thank god everything went well and there's no blind... if not got to waste 30mins...
so basically most of our major events are over, except SOC which was cancelled on thurs becos of the rain and IPPT, which i havent managed to pass yet... then next wk we'll have our GP rehearsal... the real day is coming real soon too...
in the 16km march, after marching 8km at the rest point for dinner, it rained and we had quite a long rest there... but becos of that by the time we end, it's already almost 2330h... then my both feet got a big patch of blister for the next few days and had to fall out for most of the leg activites like running... but i decided not to report sick as i may not be able to go for the range if i do so...
then for the range on sat and sun... it's quite fun to shoot the live round, but we spend most of the time waiting... luckily we can bring some magazine there to read... but i didnt do too well for the test... only 18 out of 32...
for the hand grenade throw this is a live time experience... we get to throw a fake one first which will only make a sound before throwing the real one... the real one at first i thought the sound will be very loud cos i can hear it quite loud from far, but luckily it's no as loud as i tot... the the most sweat thing is it rained when the detail b4 me was throwing... then have to wait for abt 15mins b4 the rain stop... thank god everything went well and there's no blind... if not got to waste 30mins...
so basically most of our major events are over, except SOC which was cancelled on thurs becos of the rain and IPPT, which i havent managed to pass yet... then next wk we'll have our GP rehearsal... the real day is coming real soon too...
Saturday, November 12, 2005
book out day... after SIT test
yeah... today is book out day... once again we're out of tekong... but the sad thing is next week becos of range we can't book out... so we'll be in camp for 12 days until 25 nov.. sianz...
this week we had the sit test... actually i dont think i do well in the test, cos most of the mission i didnt do much thing... but i dont want to be commander, so not so bad... the route march before each day is already like killing us...
this week we had the sit test... actually i dont think i do well in the test, cos most of the mission i didnt do much thing... but i dont want to be commander, so not so bad... the route march before each day is already like killing us...
Sunday, November 06, 2005
enjoyed the 4 days break... book in for 40 hours then book out again...
one of the shortest book in time... we book in on thurs night after the 4 days break, then book out again on saturday afternoon... quite weird...
so this week we only had 1 1/2 day in camp, which we had IPPT test and SOC practice. i still fail the IPPT, then SOC there's still some obstacles which i still afraid to try... sianz... i think that would be my worse thing in BMT...
but the past 4 days was fun... i managed to go back SP for 2 days on Mon and Wed and went for the choir prac.. they preparing the concert on 23 Nov... but most of the songs i dunno how to sing... then also meet up with some crusaders... i also went for dim sum lunch on tue with my parents and NS friends for dinner...
so this week we only had 1 1/2 day in camp, which we had IPPT test and SOC practice. i still fail the IPPT, then SOC there's still some obstacles which i still afraid to try... sianz... i think that would be my worse thing in BMT...
but the past 4 days was fun... i managed to go back SP for 2 days on Mon and Wed and went for the choir prac.. they preparing the concert on 23 Nov... but most of the songs i dunno how to sing... then also meet up with some crusaders... i also went for dim sum lunch on tue with my parents and NS friends for dinner...
Saturday, November 05, 2005
50 days to Christmas!
Yeah... it's 50 days to Christmas! getting nearer and nearer... orchard road has already been decorated and soon... it will be christmas day... hohoho...
Monday, October 31, 2005
sleeping in field camp...
during the field camp we had to build our basha with our buddy and sleep in it... although the space is quite small but it's the weather condition that cause the thing to get worse...
it rained at around 2.15am on our first night and we were called to leave the basha and go to the training shed to sleep... the rain causes some water to leak into the basha and the surroudning areas was flooded.. this cause our 2nd night there to be not so comfortable... then on the last night we were suppose to sleep in trench that we dig... but it rained in the afternoon and the trench was flooded.. so we were told to cover up the trench and sleep on top of it... then it rained again at about 9pm... so the whole coy of abt 200 ppl squeeze into the training shed to sleep... it's the worse night ever that i could say, cause the training shed was so cram that we had no space to even stretch our legs, and we couldnt sleep most of the time... most of the time we just keep looking at our watching hoping morning will come faster...
it rained at around 2.15am on our first night and we were called to leave the basha and go to the training shed to sleep... the rain causes some water to leak into the basha and the surroudning areas was flooded.. this cause our 2nd night there to be not so comfortable... then on the last night we were suppose to sleep in trench that we dig... but it rained in the afternoon and the trench was flooded.. so we were told to cover up the trench and sleep on top of it... then it rained again at about 9pm... so the whole coy of abt 200 ppl squeeze into the training shed to sleep... it's the worse night ever that i could say, cause the training shed was so cram that we had no space to even stretch our legs, and we couldnt sleep most of the time... most of the time we just keep looking at our watching hoping morning will come faster...
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Finally... Field camp over & book out... 4 days break!
Finally... after 14 days in Tekong, we get to book out this afternoon... this stay in period is even 1 day longer than the first 2 weeks confinment...
during the past 14 days, 7 days was spent outfield for the field camp... honestly, i dont like to stay outfield, but no choice have to go through it and finally its over.. it's quite tough especially that it rained quite frequenly this period of time and the ground are very muddy.. it makes our shirt muddy and dirty too..
although all these are over there's still another 3 days 2 night SIT test coming next week... but for now just want to enjoy the next 4 days and to say, the Festive Season is here again! christmas... stretch all the way till chinese new year... hee...
btw, this whole week i'll only be in camp for 1 1/2 days.. cos i book it on thurs night, and will book out again on saturday afternoon as usual... only have training on fri and sat morning.. yeah... but got SOC on sat morning.. dunno wheather can do it or not...
during the past 14 days, 7 days was spent outfield for the field camp... honestly, i dont like to stay outfield, but no choice have to go through it and finally its over.. it's quite tough especially that it rained quite frequenly this period of time and the ground are very muddy.. it makes our shirt muddy and dirty too..
although all these are over there's still another 3 days 2 night SIT test coming next week... but for now just want to enjoy the next 4 days and to say, the Festive Season is here again! christmas... stretch all the way till chinese new year... hee...
btw, this whole week i'll only be in camp for 1 1/2 days.. cos i book it on thurs night, and will book out again on saturday afternoon as usual... only have training on fri and sat morning.. yeah... but got SOC on sat morning.. dunno wheather can do it or not...
Sunday, October 16, 2005
No Handphone from 22-28 Oct
Going to book in later liao... sianz...
after that i will only be able to book out on the night of 30 Oct and have 4 days break. But during 22-28 Oct for the field camp i won't be able to use the Handphone, so don't call or SMS me during these few days... If anything do it after 28 Oct...
thanks
after that i will only be able to book out on the night of 30 Oct and have 4 days break. But during 22-28 Oct for the field camp i won't be able to use the Handphone, so don't call or SMS me during these few days... If anything do it after 28 Oct...
thanks
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Field camp coming soon...
just book out of camp at 1100h... this is the last weekend booking out before the field camp... sianz... the field camp will start next saturday and will last for 1 week... so my next bookout is 30 Oct... and this is great as there'll be 4 days break due to Deepavali and Hari Raya Puasa...
for the past week we've been doing mostly BMT stuffs... there's still physical training but not so much liao... i've learnt how to handle the M16 rifle, strip and assemble it, some drills on it... being one of the armskote assistant, i have to went in to the armskote room to help to arrange the rifles before and after drawing arms.. not a good job cos will be scolded like hell if something screw up.. then the air inside the room is very bad...
then yesterday i went to report sick becos my cough is getting worst and i got a bit of flu... spent 3 hours at the MO and got 3 days ATT B, which means light duties until sunday... miss the route march and BCCT, but after that is all those not so siong activity which att B ppl still can participate like the IMT, where we practice shooting using the M16... but i will still miss the physical activities on mon as they wont allow u to participate on the day after the status ends...
for the past week we've been doing mostly BMT stuffs... there's still physical training but not so much liao... i've learnt how to handle the M16 rifle, strip and assemble it, some drills on it... being one of the armskote assistant, i have to went in to the armskote room to help to arrange the rifles before and after drawing arms.. not a good job cos will be scolded like hell if something screw up.. then the air inside the room is very bad...
then yesterday i went to report sick becos my cough is getting worst and i got a bit of flu... spent 3 hours at the MO and got 3 days ATT B, which means light duties until sunday... miss the route march and BCCT, but after that is all those not so siong activity which att B ppl still can participate like the IMT, where we practice shooting using the M16... but i will still miss the physical activities on mon as they wont allow u to participate on the day after the status ends...
Sunday, October 09, 2005
Sharing of the Australia Mission trip to my church
Booked out at 1045h yesterday...
PTP has ended on thursday and BMT has started... as such, the timetable will be more packed from now on and training will get tougher... must trust god to do it... had started on BCCT and SOC... the SOC is my worst thing for me to cope... becos i'm afraid of heights and the soc requires us to jump... so sianz... but hopefully as time goes by i can cope with it...
going for field camp in 2 weeks time.. it's 7 days in the forest... must start preparing for it liao...
then this morning, i finally shared my Australia mission trip to my church... actually suppose to share last week but becos of the gurad duty... but my voice today wasnt very good as i got cough and sore thorat... but thank god i didnt cough out loud in front and they can hear what i say... also thanks for 2 of our team member in the trip who went down to hear and support me...
PTP has ended on thursday and BMT has started... as such, the timetable will be more packed from now on and training will get tougher... must trust god to do it... had started on BCCT and SOC... the SOC is my worst thing for me to cope... becos i'm afraid of heights and the soc requires us to jump... so sianz... but hopefully as time goes by i can cope with it...
going for field camp in 2 weeks time.. it's 7 days in the forest... must start preparing for it liao...
then this morning, i finally shared my Australia mission trip to my church... actually suppose to share last week but becos of the gurad duty... but my voice today wasnt very good as i got cough and sore thorat... but thank god i didnt cough out loud in front and they can hear what i say... also thanks for 2 of our team member in the trip who went down to hear and support me...
Sunday, October 02, 2005
Guard Duty
This week, suppose to book out on Saturday... but suay suay kena guard duty on Saturday... as guard duty on weekend is 24hrs shift, i had to do it until sunday morning... just book out at 8.45am but later had to book in again at 6.45pm... sianz...
this guard duty is regemental as we had not kena any minor yet... so its like quite suay, cos usually sat guard duty they'll ask those who had serious mistake to do.. but now as we're only 3 weeks there so no minor had been given out yet...
i opt to do sentry with my buddy, which is to stand at the entrance of the ferry terminal for 2 hours each time... although we did not move about much, its still as tiring as those who do prawling where they walk around the camp... then in the early hours basically we just stare at one another as there's no body coming in...
this week basically we just had more physical training... the road march is extended to 4km liao... but we got more admin time as there's no night activities... but our muscels are aching now from all the exercises and the guard duty...
this guard duty is regemental as we had not kena any minor yet... so its like quite suay, cos usually sat guard duty they'll ask those who had serious mistake to do.. but now as we're only 3 weeks there so no minor had been given out yet...
i opt to do sentry with my buddy, which is to stand at the entrance of the ferry terminal for 2 hours each time... although we did not move about much, its still as tiring as those who do prawling where they walk around the camp... then in the early hours basically we just stare at one another as there's no body coming in...
this week basically we just had more physical training... the road march is extended to 4km liao... but we got more admin time as there's no night activities... but our muscels are aching now from all the exercises and the guard duty...
Saturday, September 24, 2005
1st Book out Weekend
Hi ppl,
I just booked out of camp yest... Finally can get back to Singapore mainland and back home... But have to book in again tomorrow at 1830h... sianz... then the journey super long sia... i book out at 1545h then only reach home at 1810h... almost 2 1/2 hours...
For the past 2 weeks it's an adjustment period for us so the training is still not so tough yet... But next week onwards maybe more tough and strict... hope i can take it... Now as i'm still in the PTP stage so mainly is physical training... train until my muscles aching all over... but still cannot do any pull up yet... and another sweat thing is i actually gain weight for the past 2 weeks instead of losing... i think becos they got give supper and also their serving is very big, so i think eat too much liao... going to be overweight soon if this continues...
I just booked out of camp yest... Finally can get back to Singapore mainland and back home... But have to book in again tomorrow at 1830h... sianz... then the journey super long sia... i book out at 1545h then only reach home at 1810h... almost 2 1/2 hours...
For the past 2 weeks it's an adjustment period for us so the training is still not so tough yet... But next week onwards maybe more tough and strict... hope i can take it... Now as i'm still in the PTP stage so mainly is physical training... train until my muscles aching all over... but still cannot do any pull up yet... and another sweat thing is i actually gain weight for the past 2 weeks instead of losing... i think becos they got give supper and also their serving is very big, so i think eat too much liao... going to be overweight soon if this continues...
Friday, September 09, 2005
Enlisting to NS...
Hi friends...
Time flies... and I'll be enlisting to NS tomorrow (10 Sep)... and my first book out date is expected to be on 23 or 24 Sep... During this period my HP will be off most of the time but you still can SMS me... I'll try to read it at night... Thanks
During this period the updates of my journel will not be regular, but i'll try to share my experience in NS here when i can...Will miss u guys there... haha..
Zheng Lin
Time flies... and I'll be enlisting to NS tomorrow (10 Sep)... and my first book out date is expected to be on 23 or 24 Sep... During this period my HP will be off most of the time but you still can SMS me... I'll try to read it at night... Thanks
During this period the updates of my journel will not be regular, but i'll try to share my experience in NS here when i can...Will miss u guys there... haha..
Zheng Lin
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Bus journey from MM to SP...
talking about the bus journey to SP... funny sia... haha
cos i got a free ride for SBS bus when a bus broke down last time... so i decided to use the free ride for this as this is the most expensive ride that i'll take i think.. cos i going ns on sat liao and the tickets expires on 13 sep... so use lor...
then i have the feeling the inspector will come out during the ride... haha.. then it really come up... whoa... then funny lor... cos since the ez-link started i've only met an inspector once when i use bus concession... but for this ride it was a ticket because i use the free ride... so from what i saw everybody give the ezlink card then only me give ticket.. haha... an another thing is i've not got a bus ticket since 21 Nov 2002.. and if the inspector check the ticket, he'll tear abit... haha.. then the ticket doesnt look so nice liao... haha
the trip also v long sia.. cos got traffic jam near sim lim square there.. so took about 1 hr to reach SP... sit until i want to sleep... haha... then actually want to go crusade room for a while b4 CLM starts but no time liao... when i reach it's already 4.50pm liao so end up going straight to the LT...
cos i got a free ride for SBS bus when a bus broke down last time... so i decided to use the free ride for this as this is the most expensive ride that i'll take i think.. cos i going ns on sat liao and the tickets expires on 13 sep... so use lor...
then i have the feeling the inspector will come out during the ride... haha.. then it really come up... whoa... then funny lor... cos since the ez-link started i've only met an inspector once when i use bus concession... but for this ride it was a ticket because i use the free ride... so from what i saw everybody give the ezlink card then only me give ticket.. haha... an another thing is i've not got a bus ticket since 21 Nov 2002.. and if the inspector check the ticket, he'll tear abit... haha.. then the ticket doesnt look so nice liao... haha
the trip also v long sia.. cos got traffic jam near sim lim square there.. so took about 1 hr to reach SP... sit until i want to sleep... haha... then actually want to go crusade room for a while b4 CLM starts but no time liao... when i reach it's already 4.50pm liao so end up going straight to the LT...
NSM and CLM... my last one before NS...
it's my last time attending the crusade staff meeting before my enlistment... actually its not compulsory for me to go as my term already end on 31 aug... but i just went to see see... haha
then during the meeting.. they give me a surprise.. haha.. they thank me for volunteering for the last 2 months and present me a gift and pray for me... abit paiseh.. haha
then after the meeting we went for lunch... there's this food center opp the mass media (MM) at the industry park.. although there's many stalls, only 2 are open... but no choice la.. cos its still early and i still want to back MM to look at books...
so i go to MM.. there got alot of christian books, so as usual i can look at them very long... so in the end overshot the timing which i schedule to stay until.. haha... then i also buy a few of the books...
then at SP... i think due to many people rushing projects, although it's the last CLM of the sem, there's not much ppl... kind of sianz la.. cos usually last one alot of ppl go one... plus this time those who went some also left early... but thank god still got others who went in later...
after that we went to staff lounge for dinner...now the food there they add more topping to it... like nasi goreng and mee goreng they add an egg... but the laksa super oily sia... can fill up one bowl... haha... luckily i didnt eat that... if not need to go extra ptp liao.. haha...
then during the meeting.. they give me a surprise.. haha.. they thank me for volunteering for the last 2 months and present me a gift and pray for me... abit paiseh.. haha
then after the meeting we went for lunch... there's this food center opp the mass media (MM) at the industry park.. although there's many stalls, only 2 are open... but no choice la.. cos its still early and i still want to back MM to look at books...
so i go to MM.. there got alot of christian books, so as usual i can look at them very long... so in the end overshot the timing which i schedule to stay until.. haha... then i also buy a few of the books...
then at SP... i think due to many people rushing projects, although it's the last CLM of the sem, there's not much ppl... kind of sianz la.. cos usually last one alot of ppl go one... plus this time those who went some also left early... but thank god still got others who went in later...
after that we went to staff lounge for dinner...now the food there they add more topping to it... like nasi goreng and mee goreng they add an egg... but the laksa super oily sia... can fill up one bowl... haha... luckily i didnt eat that... if not need to go extra ptp liao.. haha...
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