Rest Day

AHM is over! I did quite badly in the run. I trip and fall when i hit my 3KM mark. Blood was flowing down to my socks and 1 nice soul came asking me if I'm alright. I just gave him a thumbs up and proceeded on. In my whole mind, i just want to complete this 21KM Marathon. But when I picked myself up, i then noticed that I've strained my left hamstring! Well... I push on and managed to run till the 11KM mark where my left leg can no longer take it anymore. Thats where i started to "walk jog walk jog" till the end of the whole Marathon. I finally understand what is the meaning of "有心无力"....

Yes! Finally i got the 2 Ju-On posters with the help of my colleague's girlfriend! Thanks a million! I really appreciate it!

Well, nothing much to blog today. Got to rest my legs and get some sleep. Really tired... Need to re-org my sleeping hours and get more rest. Only slept 2hrs yesterday. Gd nite!

Oscar Speech

Back in Singapore at last! The moment I reached home, I quickly unpacked my stuff and went straight into a deep sleep…

My brother and Sister-In-Law (Iris) came to my house to have dinner today. Thanks to my brother who help me touched up the nasty scratched and dent (got scratch during the Malacca trip by a motorist…) on the front and back bumper of my car when I’m away in Brunei for training. I sent my brother and Iris back home and went to the car accessories shop to fix up my visor, neon light, speakers and woofer cover.

Thanks to Clarissa for accompanying me to watch this crappy show “The Ghost Game” with me. Although this is our 1st meeting, I felt comfortable with her as the way she talks and express herself is so much liked my friend, Winnie Neo! Haha… Thanks for your company once again and have a good trip to Batam!

Well, Oscar Speech over. Wrapping a present that a friend “craves” for now. Got to pass it to her today after dinner tonight. I got to prep myself mentally for this Sunday AHM as well.

Stay tune!

Finale Ended!

Ended! All training has come to an end! Goodby Darussalam. See you again in 1 year's time! Singapore, HERE I COME!

Im really impressed with my trainees' combat fitness. With the kind of load they are carrying, they could still encouraged each other, keeping their morale high as well as hitting the almost impossible H-hour and completed the whole mission in 1 day when the norm is 2 days! The Instructors are really proud of them. To a certain extend, we are even being pressurized by them! Execellent effort and well done! They have indeed uphold our Wing's motto:

"Making the Difference."

I did not prep myself well mentally for yesterday "Big Walk". In the end, i suffered big time. I just had this "get it over and done with" attitude. My whole mind is just about getting out of the jungle as fast as possible. Maybe after taking 2 batches of trainees, I'm getting bored, tired and over-confident on the training here. But next year, i will be ready.

When i think its over, it has just began. Army Half-Marathon is just this Sunday! Commander's direction is for all Instructors to run 21km! Training just never end. Anyway, i will hugged on Nike's motto and go for it! I do not have a 2nd choice either. :)

Better rest now. I've got a very strong feeling my superior is going to grab me to accompany him for a 6km short run in the evening. All the best, to my legs...

Here I come!!!

Training has been going quite smoothly in Brunei. All trainees were out safely and at last, last three days of training.

I’m not myself today. Concentrating on training seems difficult for me today. I’m getting more and more tired and restless as the days goes by. Logging into the internet here is as difficult as running stadium fifty rounds! Beginning to lose my temper by trainees’ tons of stupid actions, questions and answers. Even my superior got fed up and became sarcastic. The only time I laughed today is when my superior made these remarks to one of my trainee:

“Hey! Do you know what is K.I.S.S?! It means Keep It Simple, Stupid! The way you answer my question is liked you are trying to tell me you are having stomach pain. But when you go to the toilet, you go straight to the urinal and started peeing!!”

The whole Instructors and Trainees’ core laughed!

They just got to start thinking and put things into action. As I’ve told them, “In four months time, we are going to be colleagues…”

My colleague and I started to talk about food today (Because we are damn hungry…Missed dinner…). We surf the web for all the good food and he introduced me a few places to eat when we are back on the 25th. As we are surfing, one particular place caught my attention. A chocolate buffet held at Fullerton Hotel. Suddenly, it just struck me. I’m going to meet a friend when I’m back in Singapore, who craves for chocolates every now and then! Straight away, called and made reservations on next Saturday. I have not called and told her about it yet because of training commitments. Hope she can make it on that day.

I got to make it a point to call home tomorrow as well. Wondering what is my parents doing now.

Well friends, wish me luck for the next three days of training. May God bless us with good weather and journey mercy. Mount “B” and “7 wonders”, here I come!

Thoughts ran wild out in the field...

Sleeping at 3am and waking up at 5am is really tiring me out. As usual, I took my fieldpack (plus laptop) and waited at MT line for my rover to pick me up to “S” area. On my way there, these weird thoughts came into my mind.

“Do I really want this to be my career? How long my fire can keeps burning? Can I be liked my superior who is 41 this year, to be so on the ball and runs almost everyday although I know he doesn’t really love running…”

Well, all these questions I don’t really have an answer for it. But one thing I know and that’s for sure, I’m NOT READY to give up my command position, my Officership…

Well, the weather is extremely hot and humid today. My sweat only stops flowing from evening time onwards. Its only 5.40pm where the sky is getting darker by the minute. I on my laptop and began to scan through what movie am I going to watch tonight, keeping myself awake to mend the radio for “Midnight Comms checked” with my trainees.

I go through my movie list… hesitating to watch “A Beautiful Mind” by Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly. I remember watching it with someone whom I’m really once closed with, when I was an Officer Cadet during one of my weekend. She wanted to watch the show so much and in the end, I slept in the cinema! I even remembered she was quite angry about it and commented, “If you want to sleep, might as well go home and sleep. Why waste your time and money to sleep in the cinema?”

I do not understand why she was so pissed off at that point of time. Even until now... Couldn’t she understand that I am very tired after six days of training? After I watched this movie out in the field today with much difficulty (chasing flies, moths and insects which came flying to my monitor for light and heat), I think I finally understand.

She actually has a point right there. Add on to that, I missed the opportunity of watching this “Beautiful show” with this “Beautiful person”.

Well, I’ve always been told by my sister since little and after 4 years of being in the working society plus 25 years of life experiences, I’ve long known the meaning of “do not take things for granted.” But this show just reminded me of the past and further enforced it down into my half-awaked brain right now on the a/m meaning. .

Got to move on in life, concentrate on training and re-org myself on what I want to achieve in the army. But will still stick to my principles in life:

“Simple thoughts, Simple life. Be content with what you have.”

Lancer Training

Have been reading my Sister's and a new friend’s blog. Its quite interesting actually. So, i've decided to create my very own blog. It begins...

Singaporeans have been taking many things for granted. The allowances kids have. The washed clothes, ironed and hung in their cupboards by mothers. The roof they stay under... everything! Even I at times also took all these for granted. But whenever I, or rather anybody who come to Brunei for training, everything just changed.

Weather is hot and humid. Its always super hot in the day and will definately rain at night. Yah..thats Brunei Darussalam. For the past few days, my Wing has completed all the numerous recce, Platoon Battle Course (PBC) and guided navigation exercise. Now Its their own show. 5 days 4 nights of navigation on their own. Last year i went in with my cadets... not an easy task at all. we have to cross numerous mountains and hidden knolls, just to find our checkpoints. Not to mention all the thorn plants, fallen tress, dead falls which were obstructing our rate of movement. Good luck to you all, cadets!

Soon, we will be transiting to our next phase of training. All including Instructors, will be walking the “7 wonders” (7 knolls actually) and Mount. B in Company level. We will then fight "Cynthia" and that’s it for Lancer training! All of us are just looking forward to the 25th August. Everybody just wants to go home fast…. Especially the Instructors… Cadets had their RnR to look forward for. But we instructors know that actually the RnR in Brunei…Is M&M.. (Mosque and Museum)!!! Lets all evacuate from this country fast!

Had a small chat with a group of my fellow colleagues. Delta WSM just cracked a joke. Saying now must minimized on vulgarities. The moment he said that we all laughed! Of all people he is the one who is the “most not qualified” to said that! Haa…

The interesting part of being in the force is you get to meet many different types of people with different personalities and characters. But we still can work as one! (or must work as one??)

Going for a 6km short run now…stay tune!