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Friday, October 28, 2005 @ 6:54 PM

Gunz..

Gunz

Im back! was a pretty relaxing week for me luckily, with all our lessons pretty much lecture and introduction based.. Haha did maintenance work bleh got pretty greasy and oily.. Anyways still better than chionging around right?

Wahaha.. we got our first taste of the guns on thursday! Ugh pushing is an absolute pain! 6.2 tons of machine is crazy.. It requires 3 men to even move it, but hitting the ramp up to the hanger s equivalent to pushing it into a wall! Mad.. not to mention the huge strain on our back, shoulders, wrists etc etc.. My back already starting to feel effects le.. ><

Had our first SOC lesson as well in Seletar Camp.. To our relief it didn't rain.. It was a light hearted affair with the PTIs bringing us around the ground and refreshing our memories. Haven done SOC in ages! The run-down felt so very long.. But it was good meeting our other coursemates where we could catch up with each other.

Been a very suay week for me, to the amusement of all my coursemates. Sigh don't really wanna talk about it though.. Just know that i did the right thing at the worst time. Now they won't stop driving it in *sob* Well anyway I guess I help brought some happiness in their lives..

Anyways just so happy to be back! My com was down, but anyway its back up thanks to my father! Haha thanks Dad! Got a new game: Makai Kingdom which I'm currently playing.. Its pretty fun, though I haven really played very far..

Wahaha back to my anime! Signing off..

The rocky path ahead, the big gun to push..

Friday, October 21, 2005 @ 1:08 PM

Back to Heaven!

I'm back in heaven.. if only for a lil while.. Air Force School, perhaps the nirvana of the RSAF world, its a relaxing place to be in compared to the one I'm at. We arrived last night, the 8 of us feeling so bloody high that we were finally going back. We hit the mess first, where blade trinity happened to be screening at that point of time, and there they were, our fellow 19th WSO cadets.

It was great to be seeing them again after the isolation of 160 SQN. Pool games, aeroplane games, some drinks (not me).. we were all damn happy to be back. It was a good night for me, winning 3 out of 4 games of pool. Muz be on form that night haha!

But it was a pretty relaxed week for us on the whole, other than a SOC lesson that was replaced by a crazy physical conditioning session. The result was tired out cadets struggling to do the exercises. Ugh the next morning was pretty painful..

But that night was really heaven.. Some of us went out cos we got nights off, and brought back Chong Pang Nasi Lemak, Coffee Bean brownies, ooh delicious!! haha estacy man!!

Pity next week will be back to hell *sob.. goodbye..

Friday, October 14, 2005 @ 10:17 PM

20 qns..

20 Things about Bong

lol guess I have no choice but to do this.. haha I won't be tagging any1, but it'll be good if u do this too ya? haha..

here goes.. *breathe

1) This nick Bong came about in sec 3 or so.. Started by a guy called Jun Wei.. I still think the reasoning dumb but the nick stuck anyway.. So til now, i've been called Bong by my peers, even in camp. I don't really mind the nick la actually ^^ so feel free to call me Bong!

2) I'm scared of kids! Haha really really! Very scared of them running headlong into you, their screams, crying etc etc.. Lol really dangerous creatures.. Gimme a FCE anytime! But not that I don't want kids or anything la.. just that i scared haha :p

3) I'm scared of girls! Yup really defenseless against them.. sigh how to deal with girls? Really need a sensei to help lo.. Just come up to me and say please and i'm dead.. lol thats why insurance agents get me :(

4) Guess most ppl already know.. I like anime! lol not crazy bout it, but yeah like it quite a bit. Bong currently is watching: Bleach, Naruto, Suzuka.. I won't go into details cos u get the idea.

5) I love games.. but having like no time to play it anymore.. Army really sucks..

6) wah very long list lei.. help..

7) I'm quite gross actually.. haha hygiene is not really a big concern to me.. so i can be quite dirty, untidy etc etc..

8) I like sports, but then again.. no time.. well stuff like soccer, basketball etc yup usual S'porean stuff. I ice skate too, but its been a long while.. Not say pro la, but quite ok.. ust wish some1 would teach me how to spin ^^

9) I hate Chinese Medicine.. haha really hope my mom would just stop making ginseng tea.. Tell her dun wan also she don't listen.. sigh.. TCM is long term, but in the Long Run, we are all dead..

10) I love BoA! haha no la just her songs.. She dances so damn well too.. pity shes kinda like going down the bad girl path sigh.. Come back k?? I prefer those not so rock songs..

11) Whew halfway mark! haha think you know by now i'm like trying to cheat!

12) I like walking around at late night with a drink in hand talking to myself and God. Time record was from CCK interchange back to home around 1 hour plus. Lol really clears your mind of a lot of things..

13) I drink.. Or rather i drank.. I've been drinking occasionally since sec 4.. been damn near to being drunk twice, puked twice.. well etc etc.. Might come as a shock to some.. I've since quit as of 03/09/05 indefinately..

14) I love coffee! Haha my profile says it all.. Muz be double esspresso with cream, chilled.. U know the starbucks 1? lol.. love it.. pity its so expensive.. everything else is just not enough le..

15) I sleep top off.. cos bottom still there la.. haven reach sleeping in the nude before.. lol maybe should try 1 day huh? lmao..

16) I love to just laze around in the water! Maybe its just the army thing that makes me like to bathe and feel clean now.. Lol when the best thing in a day becomes the 3 S i.e Shit Shave Shower, U know something wrong le.. haha but water really makes u feel shiok!

17) Loves to sauna, spa.. but no facilities.. haha muz find chance go to Jess's or Jacky's house use their sauna ^^

18) Tries to take good care of his hair. Styling includes hair mousse, gel and hair spray! 3 layer coverage lol. Sigh.. in camp no point ah cos helment just thrashes your hair like mad..

19) Has a alcohol bottle collection. Haha its not large, but i do keep some of the bottles. Lol it wont be expanding for awhile..

20) Is tired.. yawn..

@ 9:57 PM

Shagged!!

Shagged!!

Woo!! 1st week on 160th SQN and i'm like whoa.. The kind of training is so ever different from what I really hope. We are like sweating throughout the day, then finish training late..

Its really quite tough, but I do know the worst is yet to come. The 8 of us are coping pretty well at the moment, still waiting and hoping for that first precious nights off. Will it even come? Just ending training at 1700 is near impossible T_T

Nonetheless our instructors have really been very fair to us. I really respect our senior officer Cpt Chng, some of the specialists there. While of course there are those.. but still I find each day quite fun.

Sigh.. pushing a 4.8 tonne monster sucks, especially if you find yourself pushing like mad and it doesn't budge.. it really feels like shit. Lol really hope the other courses can come push for themselves!

But I really relish the challenge here. Hopefully I can push my mettle in the months to come, both to the people above and below me..

jigsaw completed!

Thursday, October 06, 2005 @ 12:10 PM

Don't wanna go..

Don't wanna go..

Sigh.. next week the gunners will be leaving AFS to train in ADSD. I'll be on that bus too.. I really hate to leave AFS, 'cos I know life will not be easy there at all. I dun wanna face the horrible 6.2 ton guns we're gonna have to push, or the other heavy equipment included in the package. >< Anyway the worse thing about leaving is that we won't see the rest of the course for awhile..

So here's a little army song edited for both the 28th Guns Officers Course and the 25th I-Hawk Officers Course:

Far far away in the South China Sea
I left my course with tears in my eyes
I must go where the cadets die ya
A gunner has to push the guns because he loves his land ya
A gunner has to push even he has to die
Cos we are the ones who hold the guns
Cos we are the ones who fight the front
We are mighty gunners of our land ya

Good luck to those who are leaving AFS.. hope we will come back together again as a course at the Commissioning Parade.

Btw you can find out more about the system i'm using if your curious here..
http://www.oerlikoncontraves.com/produkte/flugabwehr/f_3g.htm

1, 2 push..

Wednesday, October 05, 2005 @ 12:09 PM

ADA initiation

Initiation

We were awaken by knock on our dooe at approximately 0245. Ok so we had early warning, so we were pretty much prepared for it anyway. In a flash we were down at the chin-up bar, our seniors shouting and screaming at us to move faster, doling out push-ups to those who were slow.

We ran to the hanger where more excercises were done,ran back foor chin-ups, the weight of 8 sand-cans feeling like shit. Our breath were mostly ragged. Then it was on to a corridor where more exercises awaited. By the end of it, we were pretty up beat-up.

Again we ran.. back to the hanger for the finale.. the missile walk. A tradition of the ADA wing where cadets had to walk together in a line carrying the missiles used to knock down planes. Not light mind you.. After walking around the school, we came back to cheers of jubilation of our fellow coursemates.

All these probably lasted about 3 hours. To be fair, we were spared quite a bit due to the rain, but nonetheless it wasn't easy. There were worse times though, as those who went through ocs would know, so in a sense this one was pretty much chicken feet.

All in all we learnt lessons from this short ordeal. Teamwork, mutual encouragement, determination, fighting spirit and a slew of other values. All these helped bring us through as a course, waiting for the weaker ones and pushing them on. A team is only as strong as its weakest member, and as ADA officers, we must work as a team to defend Singapore skies.

Our people sleep soundly in their beds 'cos we are there..

Saturday, October 01, 2005 @ 11:59 PM

Happy Childrens Day

Happy Children's Day!

lol sure i fabricated this post to make it before the day reached 2nd Oct.. haha paisey lar..

Well just wishing all you people a very happy children's day!! Whether young or old. you should still be in touch with that kid in you. Never let go of that childish side of you while thinking you are already grown up. Don't be too serious, there's always a moment in time to unleash that inner child to make yourself feel young again. Go on, go play a dumb game, laugh out loud, go bonkers and jump around etc etc.. I'm sure you can feel that small moment of relaxation..

We all have a side of us that wants to revert back to our younger, more innocent lives. While we know thats impossible as well as unsightly, should they stop us from having some fun?? Lol no! Never forget that in your heart, you are still young no matter your age. Your moment is now..

lol but I'm sure trying to act like a kid in front of my instructors will only land me in hot soup XD dun play play..

Corpse Bride with a cookies n cream.. yum!

@ 2:04 AM

Back

Back!

Alright guys and girls I'm back!! Wahaha another week gone by and my basic phase is finally over.. Now for another 19 weeks of so of Weapons phase.. wish me luck k?? ^^ Announcent: I'm going to Guns. In case you guys don't know whats it, its basically an anti-aircraft 35mm gun. Uh I won't go any further or I might hafta shoot you ya? lol j/k but yeah some things military dun say too much..

We had our end-of-course dinner at Kublai Khan @ Park Mall. Damn.. the food there is eye-poppin.. Not really traditional Mongolian style, rather it was more like jap + chinese food.. But why am I complaining? Sashimi + fresh oysters + delicious dessert = happy Bong lol XD I think the guys all had a load of fun. I was practically bloated after it all that I felt I was carrying a baby.. ugh so full..

Then we headed over to PS where we watched Dukes of Hazzard. This show sucked.. seriously the only pull factor was Jessica Simpson.. If you wanna drool over her hot bod, be my guest, but don't expect any nice plot or whatnot. Kudos to this show for being the second show to make me fall asleep! *cheer well the movie sucked but I had a lot of fun in the arcade while waiting or the show to start ^^

p.s the first was Three

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