the great chinese new year...

well today's the 7th day of chinese new year, and according to my parents', this is everybodies birthday. never knew that, and don't even know if it's true. anyway the past week has been eventful indeed.

spent the 1st day of cny in camp doing COS duty. basically i sat in the office the whole day and played my PSP, luckily i bought 2 new games. brothers in arms: d-day and sonic rivals. kept me busy most of the day. oh plus ridge racer too of course. only got 1 (ONE) phone call the whole day. S3 and S4 came down at 9 in the morning, causing a huge stir among the 4 of us who were on duty in the whole brigade, just to with us happy chinese new year and shake our hands. really a very nice gesture if you ask me. 2 majors coming down early in the morning to greet us, not everyday you get things like that.

on wednesday and thursday, basically did last minute preps for amber. set up the radios in the bx. besides the fact that it's really cramp, it's cooler than a bronco to a certain extent. at least they install fans in those things now, so it ain't as bad as it used to be. oh and i think i know how to drive it! just like a car lah. steering wheel, 2 pedals and a gear stick, how hard can it be hahaha just like a car.

news is coming in that i might have to go taiwan between mid march to 2 april. very high possibility that i'll be going i guess. but the good thing is that don't have to bring our uniform, since we're all issued taiwanese ones there, so just underwear, socks and boots hahaha and of course some civi clothes too lah.

oh yesterday i got a call from some SSG from 41. and to my great amusement, he said that i had been picked to represent armour in a volleyball competition! hahaha my eyes just grew damn big when he told me lah. didn't think there actually was such a thing in the army, since vball is not exactly recognised in singapore that well. trials will be on wednesday. really don't know if i can make the team man. but i guess i've got a better chance, since there are fewer guys than girls who can play volleyball =) shall see how it goes. but the trainings and competitions will clash with many things man. just hopefully it doesn't mean that i can't play IF we actually manage to make it through the prelim rounds. anyway trial will be on wednesday at gedong camp. die man, don't know how i'm going to get there myself. most probably got to take cab lah.

15 months and counting =) i love u baby

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daren - how come cannot fire? oh yah hoh only used gpmg and co-ax to fire blanks hahaha nvm lah better than nothing hoh? at least manage to kill some guards =p

guanghao - hey i think i know who you are... at least got a rough idea lah hahaha you'll purposely never bring the float nearer to the shore right. make us get our socks wet hahaha

i know you indeed - happy to you too =) hope the jc students don't stress u too much

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

the most sickening things...

it's 1 am in the morning, and as i tilt my head up toward the heavens, the sky glittered with stars like sand scattered across the floor. i took my time to study them as the breeze brushed against my face, so cold that i had to put my hands in my pockets. as i looked ahead of me, the lake spread out in front of me like a table cloth. the surrounding trees reflected perfectly over the rippling crystal surface. the moon looked the same from the water surface as it did in the sky. and as i looked down i could see my reflection, looking upon myself. all that was running through my mind was how peaceful and serene the place was, and how fortunate i was to be there to experience it.

then suddenly i was jolted back into reality with the cackling sound of my radio set in the rover. and it's just me in my long 4 staying awake tending to the radio comms while my commanders and the driver sleeps. antennae sticking way up receiving information from the brigade as the mission continued through the wee hours of the morning, and i have to stay awake to monitor for any activity that might concern us.

such an irony that the most beautiful, natural places in singapore are in military training areas. but then again i guess they're the best places because they're left untouched by the NEA and picnikers like those along east coast park who fish and eat and leave their rubbish behind, which as a results attracts more birds and bugs who just mess up the place even more. this place is seriously untouched! the only thing done is rocks placed along the banks to prevent erosion, and as a result swimming tanks, but that's all! really so amazing how huge the contrast is between the environment and what it's used for. most of it is green and brown, but one is life, and one is, to put it simply and bluntly, training for death...

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

voyager...

went on my first exercise last week. was attached out as CO SOA signaller. quite an easy job lah, except for the fact that i had to hunt high and low for either a g-10 or retrans on the first day coz my radio was brought directly from brigade, so didn't have the essential information inside it to allow us to listen to the command net. managed to get it around lunch time, and from then on it was smooth sailing. felt good that the equipment didn't screw up on me.

the exercise was basically infantry and armour vs guards and airforce from what i could gather, since the damn choppers were always hunting for our tanks. but it was really interesting to see how the armour element operates in the field. bashing under trees for cover, putting a bloody big pandan leaf along the barrel to conceal it, and how the choppers hunt! even managed to catch a slight "conflict" between our tanks and the guards. one moment the tanks lit up light christmas trees, due to the lasers, then once the guns started firing, the guards lit up, since they were all wearing the new laser training system. quite funny actually. and quite realistic too. but don't see how an RPG can do anything against a tank hahaha some glitches in the system i guess.

all in all it was a really exciting and new experience for me. was tiring at one point where i had to stay up the whole night manning the radio in case our armour element was called upon. being an armour signaller rocks man!!! that's all i can say =)

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koon: hey i don't believe in zodiac stuff either man, but since kwee bought it for you, cannot leave it with me right hahaha

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way