2 new games i'm looking forward to... God Of War: Chains of Olympus for the PSP and Medal Of Honour: Airborne for the PC. 2 games that should make my day heehee

on an entirely different note... ARGH WHY MUST BOOK IN TONIGHT?!?!!?!?

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

500th post

so cool man, since starting this blog in september '03, this would be my 500th post. lucky blogger has a counter otherwise i would never have known i've reached that many =p

anyway this has been one of the most, profitable (?), months for me in the army so far. a couple of weeks ago i got markman at combat shoot me, which got me 200 bucks. then the government announced the gst rebate thingy, so i got another hundred bucks. yesterday i got my ippt silver for my 2nd year of service, which means another hundred bucks. so altogether, within a month i've gotten 400 more bucks hahaha but it definitely won't come all at one shot so i doubt i'd ever see the thousand dollar mark on my paycheck from the saf =p but still it feels good to have cleared my ippt, and get so much extra money hahaha but still next few months are going to be really shitty times

and i recently realised how fortunate i am to not have been born one year later. reason being is, this year my unit is only going to wallaby. but next year, end of feb they'll be going to india. then some time in the middle of the year they'll be going to taiwan, and to round of the year they'll be going to wallaby again. how wonderful is that man. yes you get lots of experience, but packing and unpacking will just kill you, and combine that with all the amber periods, i think they'll just die. but at least it means they'll have less of those little exercises, but i'm sure they'll still have to contend with at least 41 atec then. good luck to my new guys then, since they ORD december 2008 (wah suddenly i feel so good MUAHAHAHAHA)

last couple of weeks shaun wong was actually at my camp for a couple of days, and somehow both days he was there, once i was on nights out and just yesterday i was on half day off. talk about bad timing man. and tomorrow ben tay will going over too, but i'll be on COS duty and therefore i won't be able to leave the office to meet him. seriously lah, i think i'm not meant to meet my sji friends in the army or something. either meet my cj friends, or meet my sji friends out of camp. don't know why there's such bad timing also.

watched pirates 3 last sunday. the fight scenes were really well choreographed i must say, and they threw in just the right amount of humour, but there were some parts where it got a little too draggy with all the pirate talk and all. and the sudden introduction of so many new characters just threw the movie off a little, with the star jack suddenly sharing the same amount of limelight as barbossa and turner. but oh well at least it was all fun at the end of the trilogy =)

she's off to malaysia with her parents today for a little tour. hope she has fun and nothing bad happens. will be going to bang's house later to swim. alot of exercise over the next few days i guess. saturday volleyball, sunday badminton, monday ARR training. what a good way to stay fit hahaha

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

crappy week but a good weekend =)

another week of army gone by. monday had to set up our rebros again just to help ccp test their comm box. tuesday had COS duty. wednesday went to TP4 for a whole day. set up our rebro 3 times in total. 2 in the afternoon and once at night. it's hard when u can't see anything at night, since we had to practice light discipline, but wallaby will be worse if there's no moonlight at all, so just got to pray it won't be so bad when i'm there, but u never know. went to bed around 1 after cleaning my boots and cleaning up. thursday had to wake up early for muster parade. got up at 6 to set up the PA system. in the afternoon had to unpack our stores and transport them further since our broncos weren't parked right in front of our line store, and clean all our stores. the sun was really mad at that time. on friday went to gedong for half a day. managed to get a look at the new leopard tank. it's really damn wide, but very very low. just what you need to prevent the tank from overturning i guess. and the SM1 barrel probably can fit into the leopard's barrel hahaha and on friday to top it up had guard duty. was quite an eventful one lah. one guard from my company didn't know he was on duty. DO pulled a couple of stunts, and really had to clean up since 41 was having their family day on saturday. FSM was coming lah, so it's another matter of wayang.

so after just 3 hours of sleep on friday night, went to sentosa with my classmates and wendy. bought a new vball and flying ring (it's something like a frisbee), and learnt to play a new game called saboteur. one of those cute card games that josh happened to buy. the new ring can really fly man... put a litle bit more strength in it and it really FLIES!!! quite stunning. and the new ball is nice. actually we bought it coz i totally forgot to bring my own hahaha i actually brought the ball pump but somehow forgot abt the ball =p after that went to vivo for dinner, then sent wendy to marina south. oh yeah and i did alot of driving since my dad's away in china. drove to camp on thursday night, and from there drove home, to vivo, to sentosa, back to vivo then to marina south. really alot. feels good to drive, even though it can be tiring driving a manual car, but for rather short distances it's alright

today had billy bomber's for lunch, watched pirates, and ended the day with a hog's breath dinner. really too much fried western food for a day hahaha

gotta bathe and get ready for another week. it SHOULDN'T be too eventful, but some things can never be confirmed. till next weekend then...

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

$$$

this week passed by rather quickly i must say. monday and tuesday was spent training the new guys. basically just keep setting up and tearing down the rebro, and putting up the camo a couple of times. when u're in it time just goes by really quickly. wednesday went to IMT for combat shoot on friday. that passed by rather quickly too. spent like 4+ hours waiting, and was only in the simulation room for 10 minutes at most hahaha

thursday and friday was spent at range. on thursday i basically helped to cover safety for the entire day and night shoot. time passed by quicker than usual for a live range since u were busy for every detail. but friday was kind of boring, since we arrived around 10 and could only commence the night shoot at 1930. so spent like 4 hours waiting for it to get dark. really a waste of time. but still, i got 200 bucks in the end, so it's sort of worth it i guess. when i fired my rifle for the combat zeroing target, i thought i'd have a really hard time, but it turns out tt i didn't have to zero it at all! it was perfect!!! hit every single target, so i felt really good. during the combat shoot itself i missed 1 in the day and 1 at night. the day one was really stupid. scolded myself after the shot.

today got a letter saying that i'll get 100 bucks for some GST credits for ns guys. so cool man hahaha so it's like a 300 bucks bonus out of no where. then from july onwards will get 50 more bucks until i ORD. so i got an extra half month's pay suddenly hahaha i guess the government has realised that army guys do want to spend more on wkends, so they're in a way just helping the economy =)

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

a new many?

yesterday went to the airport to send many off. met josh and derek too! since they came back from taiwan in the middle of the week. good to see they're fine. anyway many will be in the US for 3 whole months. a really wonder what she'll be like when she comes back. fatter? more ang moh? talk with a funny accent? we'll never know. whatever it is, when she comes back, i'll still be busy since it's like the beginning of my amber period. such a wonderful feeling man... she leaves i'm busy, she comes back i'm still busy hahaha but at least it's only for 3 months. can have mahjong and bridge sessions at her place when she comes back =)

after that went to shufang's house, apparently to watch saw, but in the end the quality of the dvd was so damn lousy, that we ended up watching cars hahaha since josh and chip hasn't watched it yet, and shufang forgot the story alr, it was alright. i just ended up dozing off on the chair. then shufang got back at me for the 2+ years of poking by giving me a hell of a massage. it hurt so much that when i lifted up my shower head at home yesterday night, it felt sore. but it's ok now =)

hopefully she does well for her 2 papers this week. her econs was a little bit of a problem. really hope the rest go alright for her. best of luck dear =)

got another chance to get 200 bucks this week...

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

my life until december...

my schedule with my brigade has become amazingly clear during the past couple of weeks. suddenly, the word "busy", which my S3 and OC and CSM all aptly chose at the beginning of the year, comes into focus. just a simple run down...

may:
just for next week, got ex bold arrow at plc from monday to thursday. will be staying over there, which equates to sleeping in some corner on the floor and attending countless boring briefings just so that i can pass information down. on top of that got guard duty on monday and friday, which means i can't go for many's farewell and josh and derek's welcome back dinner combined. but at least saturday i can send many off. the following week, my PS has come up with a 5 day training programme to cross train the 5 new CCIS guys. 6 week course compressed into 5 days, which means packed to the brim with no space to breathe. after that i've got to prepare for 42 atec. definitely will have to support them. oh and i've got combat shoot on the 16th!!! ANOTHER CHANCE FOR 200 MORE BUCKS!!! but this is more difficult

june:
3 weeks will be burnt for 42 atec i think. then after that will have to plan the brigade anniversary. as if sig coy isn't busy enough already, planning christmas, cny, deepavali etc. THEN!!! have to prepare for another wargames exercise which will happen in july. joy to the world. this time will be more xiong, since it's with the US marines i think.

july:
wargames should burn at least 1.5 weeks, and the bde anni will burn a couple of days. after all that is said and done, have to prepare for AHM and amber in august.

august:
yes it's amber round 2!!! means mounting countless radio sets onto the broncos and BXs, and testing them every single day just to make sure they're still working. amber this time around will cover national day... all the way till the end of the month. and ahm will fit somewhere towards the end.

the forecast for september is not out yet, but what's going to happen in october is pretty obvious. PREP FOR WALLABY!!!! i can hardly contain my excitement *bangs head against wall* i'll be gone for 3/4 of november. running around in a sandy wasteland, fighting for space with kangaroos, praying i don't get lost amongst all the sand, sand, and oh guess what? sand...

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