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Sunday, January 30, 2005

Running for My Life!

Running, running, running on... for my life!

I had ran about 2.4km for my training yesterday!

I had a really enjoyable jog-run early this lovely morning with my music from my discman!

And I'll still be running for my life from today till next, next Monday!

I had 3 IPPT physical fitness tests next week. This means I have to run 3 times of 2.4km next week. And maybe on days without IPPT test, I have 2.4km run every morning. Last but not least, another 6km ET (Endurance Training) run on Monday morning.

I'll be running for my life! I did not pass my last, the official IPPT test for my course, I'll have to re-course! So I'm really going to run like the wind!

Whooossssshhhhhhh!

Army Nonsenses.

This week. Finally, survived another week of badly scheduled training lifestyle in SISPEC Bravo company, where training is tough and the schedule's full of nonsense...

Had almost unlimited training of my aching arms on chin-ups (or pull-ups) every time before meals this week... And as usuual, stand by areas, to clean our bunks everday and clean our weapons...

These things are definitely extra nonsenses...

I had been unluckily booked out late along with my company mates for two tests. The first test was done logically for the most of the whole morning, a life-saving knowledge and skills test. The second test, however, a test on demolition stuff, lasted for a mere time of less than 10 minutes when it could be pushed forward in the later morning after the life saving test...

What is the shit about this? We all booked out 3 hours late, slacking our asses off illogically in the bunk when this time could be for our freedom...

They gave the logical reasons that the schedule originally set had two lessons but we managed to squeeze it and done them earlier. But they couldn't get us the ferry fast-crafts during the afternoon...

Fine. I accepted the reasons they gave... But what made sense for the rush to squeeze the previous lessons in the first place...? Duh...

But really, sometimes I ask, "What's wrong with the army?!"

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

The Final Hours.

Here am I, blogging the last of my words in my last hours before heading back to "jail" again, later. Now I'm really feeling the mood of the Chinese New Year arriving but it is mixed with that shitty feeling of going back the the undesired life in the army...

Whatever it is now, I still have that glimmer of hope and courage to carry on. I'm going for a step at a time. Hope this week's of training wouldn't be too much shit.

Yesterday, Monday. Had mahjong the previous night with my usaul mahjong kakis and went back home late in the early morning... Then sleep, then woke up again to jog. But then went to sleep and overslept.

There and after, I went to do some personal life adminstration work like going to the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) building in the Kampong Glam or Beach Road area to do my passport, which was surprisingly faster than I expected. It was just filling up the form added with a photo and then drop it into a deposit box.

After that I went to the SAM machine to pay my handphone bill, deposit some money my dad gave to me for Chinese New Year. Then I went to join to play pool with my SISPEC dudes (Steven, Vincent, Chee Chew and Zul were there) who were surprisingly in the vincinity of the area.

After that short pool session (for me), Steven left first. The rest of us took the shortest taxi trip (shortest taxi trip I ever taken I think) to Marina Square where the rest of them would be watching their movie.

For me, I went for my fav, lovely urban walk in the city-town I love to be in.

I walked through Suntec City all the way to Bugis area. I did some scanning around in PARCO Bugis Junction to see what I can buy for my Chinese New Year clothings. Got a t-shirt at Giodarno. After that, I meet up with my Digimagic friends at that usual mama shop for drinks and chat before going back to their office to have a look around.

After that I walked all my way back to Marina Square to meet the SISPEC dudes again and sickeningly, walked all the walk back to Bugis! Zul left there while the rest of us when for some shoppping together in PARCO Bugis Junction.

It really felt less lonelier, shopping alone than just now when I scanned around, lacking more interest to shop. But with my friends, the mood and interest to shop was better, I managed to get a short pants from the shop Rebirth on the Edge section of the shopping mall.

After all those shopping, we went to eat at the foodcourt below before heading back home...

Sunday, January 23, 2005

Out of House!

Last Friday till now... Yup. Like I say, "Out of House!", this is what I'll be most probably be doing everyday, out of house!

As if I was release from jail, the quench fot the thrist for social life outside camp as a civilian was just overwhelming!

Immediately after I book out from Friday, I went home put down my stuff, got my clothes change and I'm outta my house, going with my friends, almost ever since!

Anyway, a blizzard of many, many of my friends' birthdays are coming! So please don't ever balme me for not buying you presents!

Friday. Just this weekend, last Friday, I celebrated my SISPEC bud, Alex's birthday (brithday on 22nd January) with a lunch and pool with my SISPEC section mates, Chee Chew, Vincent, Steven and Andy Ng.

Alex bought a new N-Gage handphone, we each gave him a "small" sum to subsidise his birthday purchase.

After that birthday activity, Alex, Andy Ng and I went to buy a birthday present for Yanren, our common BMT section mate (whose birthday is on 2nd February). He was celebrating an early birthday at a chalet in Coasta Sands East Coast. Alex and I went late together to his birthday chalet.

Not only us, the rest of our BMT section mates, Andy Wong, Weiwei, Zwee, Eddie, Kelvin were all ther for Yanren's birthday celebration. That's not all, even our former BMT instructors, Sergeant Damien and 2LT Raj also arrived for his birthday.

Together, all of us chatted with each other and catch up with each others' going ons.

At the end of it, I was really tired and Z-monster was winning (as I lacked alot of sleep on Thursday's guard duty and late night on that last Friday). I went home extremely late via taxi with Eddie. I reach home only at 4am plus...

Yesterday, Saturday. I went to watch the Korean movie, Fighting in the Wind with Hong Yun, Junlong, Bryan and Chee Wee at Suntec City.

I find the Korean movie almost Japanese as the storyline location happened in Japan...

It was based a true story, of a Korean man named Baedae, who from zero to hero, struggling with his life and eventually became the best fighter in the martial arts world of post-war Japan, following the path of another great historical hero named Masato Yatoshi.

The hero Oyama's fighting duels were a bit over-exaggeratedly and his martial arts display actions were a bit cheesy. The movie sometimes was quite funny. These made the hero lack of realism to that it was based on a true story.

Anyway, the good part of the Korean movie was that the Japanese lead actress who is a beauty... Hee...

After that, we went for our dinner and some shopping at Plaza Singapura.

That followed by another movie, Elektra, with Hong Yun, Bryan, Chee Wee and another two girl friends theirs. The two girls, one was the familiar acquainted friend named, Siling and her friend I think.

The Marvel heroine movie,movie, Elektra, is not to bad movie to watch except that the baddies all died easily in one way or the other lame way.

Perhaps the storyline needs to be extended a bit as there is a sense of storyline period inadequacy. This would perhaps help to make movie-goers feel what Elektra, herself feels, of her nightmares and heroine life struggles.


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Today, Sunday. I think I'll be going out today but still don't know where. I could go for my another BMT section mate (Weiwei, whose birth is on February 4th) birthday chalet at Costa Sands Pasir Ris, but its really far away... too near to Tekong...

Not to say I'm sick of my friends' birthdays already, I think I'll get a temporary break from some of these birthday celebrations... I want to plan to do sometyhing of my OWN schedule instead attending pre-fix events...

I want to do something else other than birthday celebrations this "vacation" break, man!

Sorry lah, Weiwei :p

Happy birthday to you. Sorry I can't come to your chalet. Hee...

Saturday, January 22, 2005

The Great Outdoors.

Since last freedom bloomed... Its been really a long 2 weeks since I blogged. I'm finally release from "jail" of SISPEC and it was really been a long and quite a tough 2 weeks.

I think I'll simply summarised what were happening inside Tekong...

One of the main events for this long period of "jail" was doing section drill movements in the jungle.

And so, I had been living in the outfields of Tekong for about 4 days,3 nights, having to chiong missions day in, day out. The chionging part wasn't too bad, it was only physically tiring.

The daily living conditions at the outfields wasn't as stressful as of BMT's. All personal administrations were of OTOT (Own Time, Own Target), not as of following a rigid time schedule of BMT outfield living.

The stars in the outfields of Tekong nights are especially mesmerising to me... They made my mind the peace to relax...

After living it out in the forests over the weekend in Tekong, the second week's main event activities were better!

We were having all sorts of fun outdoor activities like of those in Outward Bound School (except we didn't had any extra safety line on us!). The courses we went through were AOC (Additional Obstacle Course), COC (Confidence Obstacle Course) and Rappelling.

We had rappelling, canvas jump, omega jump (flying fox), climb this rope and that rope, this wall up and that wall down, up and down that SISPEC tower, jump into dirty waters, crawling onto sand and into dark damp tunnel with smelly whatever and we did many more...

Some activities really made my heart bump fast but they were all fun, especially doing it with my platoon mates.

For the confidence part, it was simply "JUST DO IT!"

The only damn and sian part of this long days trapped in Tekong was that on the last day on Thursday, when I was suppose to book out along with others in the late morning, I had to do my extra guard duty on that day for my unfortunate misfire...

So I had a boring long wait of 4, 5 hours of boring waiting with half-fuck sleep from about 10am to 4 pm... Then do the boring cmap guard duty routines (same as my last guard duty) from about 5pm all the way to 7.30am the next day, Friday...

The only beautiful things was the bright diamonds in the dark sky... And of course, the beautiful dawn!

There and after that, I book out for my freedom... Ah... It was great!

What a great two week gone... And now I had 4 and a half days of long weekend of freedom!

(^-^)

Saturday, January 08, 2005

Where Is Hope?

Hope is always there. Its about myself. Its about my life positivity that encourages me to move on and get over life's difficulties... on my own...

The Mandarin song below is titled "Stefanie", sung by my most favourite Chinese singer, Stefanie Sun YanZi. Its song lyrics basically reflect how I feel now and what I'm going be...

This song can be part of my Hope...

Stefanie
by Sun YanZi

站在最顶端上 却失去光
曾留下的浪迹 我无法想像

一个人的勇敢 能和谁分享
喜悦後的悲伤 在没人的地方
深呼吸继续往上

我知道 我知道 也许明天会更好
对天空大声咆哮 答案我却听不到

我知道 也知道 心里的恐惧有时多过坚强
有你我不再难熬 也不再寻找

最後一场赛跑 他开始踮脚
陌生人的喧闹 一句都听不到
想飞越 他不怕高

Biting My Teeth Already...

Obviously, life has not been pretty good. Absolutely tiring, but I've only in the beginning. The real hell has not break lose till the next week...

Haiz...

This feeling on the verge of "death" is sometimes really hard to bear.

Think I'm gonna bite my buck teeth through it...

This week's training programmes has started to increase on taxing on many Bravo trainees minds and body, and certainly, it is also taxing on me.

Monday. I had SOC trial test. Failed it without overcoming the parallel bars. Reason? I'm too tired. Lack of sleep the previous night. Slightly fatigued.

Tuesday. I had official SOC test. Passed it, surprisingly. Although not exactly too excited... Becos' I suspect it may be an errorin marking my timing. But at least the good thing is that I do not need to do any further SOC practices anymore in the near furture as I passed it.

I also had the Exercise Wanderer, the tiring on-foot navigational exercise on land from day till night. I walked with four other platoon mates as a detail to get to out navigational checkpoints.

Luckily we did not wander and got lost, but we found all our checkpoints.

Survived this exercise. So? Wat's next? More army chionging the next day...

Haiz...

Wednesday. I had my first outfield training, onto the first field fighting drills which was quite tiring. Lasted from day till night...

How bad was this for my section mates?

Let's continue...

Thursday. I had a whole day of lecturing lessons... Seven out of my nine section mates reported or had reported sick for injuries and such.

Four reported sick due to injuries of the previous day outfield fightting drill training.

Friday. I had the second field fighting drills which was more tiring than the first. My section had four fighting-fit mates to do this day's training.

But unluckily, two platoon mates from other sections were attached to my tarining section as we didn't have enough people to do our drill.

I did drills (especially the "arty" or artillery drill, which is just plain running with SBO) till my right leg chui (right calf cramps)...

One guy attached to my section fell during a drill and kind of injured his leg...

My section commander, Sergeant Salihin, is not exactly a garang sergeant. But he's just plain crazy enough to drive us berserk to do our drills properly.

And yes, he's crazily saddistic enough to order us to do extra redundant drils (which we know it already!) and scolding us unneccesarily without proper explainations.

I know he's doing his job. But his mentality is a bit wrong.

But I don't think he's putting his heart into it. He's just doing it for the sake of doing. And for that, I dislike the way he is teaching us, which is certainly not effective.

Its only making us tired (or injured) and not getting to the point objectives...

I do not feel I am respecting him. He's not good as my Sergeant Damien (ha ha).

Anyway, I am not going to give up yet.

Sunday, January 02, 2005

The Last Time for Sanity?

New Year's Day, Saturday, yesterday. I had LAN gaming, some really short-lived shopping with only Chee Wee. I also had mahjong last night with Huimin, Chee Wee and Hong Yun.

Won some money there, but I'm not satisfied with my life now...

Boring eh? I suppose? I felt bored too...

It would be most probably the last time for my sanity kept alive this weekend, and its just like that?

I don't like it at all!

I need to break free and feel more alive! I need to feel something different!

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!