Notes N Wheels

Friday, October 31, 2008

okie, injured myself today. left back, shoulder plate area.
not a light injury which also equals to not good.
had a fast march today, 6km. our total load per person was around 23kg.
around the 3rd to 4th click, my friend was getting dizzy.
didn't sleep much due to duties. took his rifle from him. thats +4kg.
handed it over to another pal after about 1km.
went on for a few hundred meters. and we had two casualities.
that means, 4 people would be without their field packs and rifles.
2 to carry the 2 casualities. means 4 others would have an extra 23kg to carry.
took my friend's pack, thats around 19 20 kg.
freaking heavy, hard to walk cause i carried it at my front.
my pal took over for the last 100m. scarily heavy.
it was quite an experience though. to push yourself.
find out your limitations. and like they say, when the going gets tough,
you see the true colors of the people around you.
thankfully, we are an ok bunch, none of them are selfish, thankfully.
oh yeah, the one major mistake we made was.
we just stared at each other when sir said we had two casualities to evac.
we were like, oh fuck. blur man. lol.

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 21:08

Monday, October 27, 2008

lol, bought my berms, formal belt and collected my sunglasses today.
total cost? 930 bucks. yes, thats right, for the three damn items.
the pair of berms, just a piece of cloth, made in china, 109 bucks.
its from BI thats why. its freaking comfortable. too comfortable in fact.
feels like i ain't wearing any pants lol.
belt's cheap, 49 bucks, from FX Creations.
sunglasses are really cool, look really cool, feels really cool lol.
cool factor, i give it full pts.

alright, now i am left with the shirt and the work out items.
these can all wait. buy them over a period of a few weeks or months.
have already increased my training tempo.
not sure if i can maintain it though. NS has a different schedule for me.
my arm muscles are a little tense right now.
the result of 4 days in a row training. dun feel the strain though, strange.
tried increasing the reps, still cant feel any strain.
guess thats gd though. maybe i needa do heavier weights already?
no idea, shall ask the pro when i get back to bunk.

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 19:03

Saturday, October 25, 2008

okie, got this pictures from the net.
just bored, was looking at some of the tanks.
trying to recognise the different models and their weapon configurations.
anyway this was the one that my team had to push.

this was the one the AI Specs' team had to push.
its also the one that fired off while we standing beside it.

this one looks like ours, different in some ways.
the leopard tank.
looks like the halo scorpion tank. lol

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 23:15

i am thinking of getting a few things. yup.
here's a list.
--that shirt from topman.
--a pair or two bermudas / 3/4s
--a gym bench.
--a pair of dumb bells
--a barbell
--a chin up bar
there's some kinda sale going on.
everything's like going cheap.
and the designs are like, haha last season.
old stock. there are some nice ones though.

the dumb bells and stuff.
gonna get them over a period of time.
its for after army, mostly.
cause for now, i'll be spending most of my time in camp.
and there's a gym. might bring in just one dumb bell.
for some otot. when we are slacking, we can just work out a bit.
koon long might be bringing in his too. a few stools.
double up as a gym bench. then maybe we would bring in the barbell.
the whole bunk's gonna pump iron.
prep up for RCC. and then, to fuck some 'man'

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 20:19

Friday, October 24, 2008

went shopping today, with my bunk mates haha.
first at beach road for our army stuffs, then to town for my stuffs.
was just me and yong shun in town. bought 3 briefs, 1 boxer brief.
then koon long came. continued shopping, bought a shirt and a belt.
finally, a replacement belt lol.
i am nearly done with the book 'the lost boy'
finished 'the child called it' during my COS duty in camp.
pretty good book. sad though.
and oh guess what, we had to book in on thursday night?
yup, for our SOC on friday morning.
so its like, book out on wed night, book in thursday night.
then due to the rain this morning, we didnt do our SOC test.
shucks, booked in for nothing. alright, i had free breakfast. lol.

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 23:21

Thursday, October 23, 2008

had our armour initiation ceremony yesterday.
scorpion coy (pioneers/mortar sergents & us scouts) plus
the new armour infantry sergents.
started off with warm up, defaulter's parade. yeah, foot drills.
then with weapons. went on to reverse SOC.
did a short route march with casualties. ended up with 3 more casualties.
the group was moving too slow.
and we ended the whole thing with the pushing of the bionix.
there were 3 of them on the parade square.
the AI sgts divided themselves into 2 groups of 30.
scorpion coy took the last bx, we had 20 man.
overtook one group, drew with the other.
seriously, i dunch know how they got their stripes.
some of them are really weak. quite alot of us scouts and mortars
were doing the stretcher and taking over their field packs.
meaning, we were doing the route march with two field packs.
and at the end of the day,
we concluded that generally, the scouts are fitter then the rest.
of cause they have got some really fit guys.
we scouts ended with this 'and they said the initiation was tough'

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 08:34

Friday, October 17, 2008

i dun have any pictures to post.
yeah. been in camp. been pretty busy, as usual.
having a bad tummy ache. ran to toilet once already. twice today.
man i failed my SOC. seriously. like what the hell.
in sispec, the passing time is 10.29min, i clocked 10.16min.
over here in unit, its 9.29mins, i clocked 9.39mins.
shit, really, like man i suck.
i still had the strength to double my pace for the last 100meters.
wasted time on the jacobs ladder, wrong pacing for the last run. wasted.
shall blog again tml

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 19:50

Friday, October 10, 2008

today, ahah, was a crazy day. heavy training day.
woke up, had break fast. slack for like 30 mins.
did IPPT Catagory Test.
thats just to see how much have we deproved since the start of bike course.
its a one month worth of slacking course.
in the order of the stations, my results are as follows;
sit ups - 42
chin ups - 12
standing board jump - 243cm<
shuttle run - 9.2s
2.4km - 10.03mins
yup, it could have been a 25/25 pts Gold.
thanks to my 2.4, its now a 24/25 silver. btw, gold for 2.4 is under 9.45mins.
and that would also be 5pts. there's no 4pts gold for 2.4
after 2.4 km. we conducter cool down stretching exercises. standard.
and then hahahah, we took a jog to the SOC ground.
thats Standard Obstacle Course. about 500m<>
ran the entire length of the course without clearing the obstacles.
thats 1.5km. so adding the 500m plus run, it would be 2km.
did some static exercises after that. pretty light ones.
washed up, had lessons, lunch, then some lessons again.
and the main course came at around 1600hrs. 4km fast march in FBO.
thats Full Battle Order. field pack, load bearing vest plus rifle & helmet.
hahah, we had a tekan session before setting off.
this is how is goes.

fall in, report strength. IC kanna fuck.
conduct warm up. 1min, everything out.
means every item in the field pack to be displayed properly on the ground.
LT kept time, our IC didn't. kanna fuck.
layout was messy, kanna fuck.
1 min, everything in.
1min everything out. never meet the timing. we clocked 1.05mins.
so we had to run 5 rounds for the 5 secs around the carpark. but we did only 2.
50secs everything in.
50 secs everything out. kanna fuck for i cant remb why. 50secs everything in.
camo on in 1min. kanna fuck. camo off in 1 min.
then 45 secs everything out. kanna fuck again, then 30 secs everything in.
camo on in 30 secs. guess what. i made me I MADE IT HAHAHA.
fully covered my face ears neck back hands with camo and the black stripes.
was made to stand at the front facing the squad, as a positive example.
why he can do it your cannot? if enemy come, you think they can spot him?
and he scolds them for their indivual errors. then he says to us.
because they cant do it but you can, down 20.
i was like eh? okie, no questions asked hahah. wanted to laugh actually.
then 30 secs everything out. never kanna fuck. 30 secs, everything in.
took our field packs, dipped it in a big bucket of water.
cause the items in there are supposed to be in ziplock bags with the sides taped.
prevent water from seeping in.
did our 4km fast march.
did 4 or 5 extra rounds around the parade square.
thats about 400m per round. so nearly another 2km.
then cool down. they treated us to 100plus and red bull.
first time i received a treat from my commanders.
then book out !!!

they are trying to whack us back to shape and way beyond,
hence the tough training. which i seriously do not mind.
LT said i have a very positive mindset, am highly motivated and very cheerful.
he says he has been observing. thats interesting.
to give us an idea of how good we will become after the recce commander course.
he quoted this comment about scout commanders,
from the previous few COs of my unit.
scout commanders are arrogant.
yeah, because at one point in time, we will realise how much better we are,
as compared to the rest.
thats interesting too. lol.

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 22:28

Monday, October 06, 2008

okay so today isn't a good day.
let me see hur. went off road riding. fell twice.
the 2nd fall nearly got me seriously injured.
as in, i would have broken my leg.
and then, we rode back. under the rain.
heavy rain. like cats & dogs kinda rain.
so we were shivering all the way back.
not to mention the pain when the droplets of
water come smacking at such high speeds.
boots, socks, pants, boxers all soaked.
guess what, my car, washed it last night.
was exposed to the rain, nearby construction and the sun.
so yup, it looks like it hasn't been washed for weeks. man.
and a couple of other silly things.
BUT, me being who i am, Mitchell,
still smiles :)

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 20:53

Sunday, October 05, 2008

more then usual today.
was trying to drain the camera batteries.
this one's the mini speakers that i bought recently.
pretty good pair of speakers. around 70 bucks.

number 1 bought this bobble head star wars figurines for martin and i.
yoda's his and trooper's mine.

this is the plant for my desk. was at Far East Flora today.
chose a white pot and this green leave fellow cause my desk area,
is like mainly dark brown in color. woody woody color.
so yup, white and green. something different.

some changes done.
the blinds have been changed. this is the original ones selected for my room.
the brown ones in previous pictures are actually for my brother's room.
curtain guys got mixed up.
light bulb has been changed to 60 watts bulbs.
for both mine and martin's pendant lights.

ah this one. was testing out the effects of flash on the water.
somehow, the lightings above the car turn out different with the flash.
i think i forgot to switch one of the settings.
its not supposed to be so yellow.

okay, this picture is strange to me.
i still cant figure out how those rays of light came about.
cant replicate this shot. flash was on.
maybe reflection from the car at a certain angle? no idea.

pebbles with her white eyes

this is one huge dog cage. i think its 7ft by 7ft.
had a roof made for it plus canvas sheets as walls.
just roll it back up when you dun wanna use it.
cage is meant to keep the doors in when it rains.
cause when their fur gets wet, they stink big time.
oh that small fellow's poofy.

say cheese.
thats mini on the left, siti on the right.

started on a new book. some star wars novel.
its a series. this one is some where in the middle of that series.
cant find the others, managed to get two only.
bought two new books last week.
the boy call it & the prequel to that book.
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bike course is ending soon.
and, i have decided against taking the bike license.
the civilian ones i mean. two reasons.
firstly, i dun wanna hurt dad by going against his wishes.
secondly, save the money. i can use it for other stuffs.
like, to pay for that pair of oakleys.
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i thought i was the only one.
it appears that my new buddy from recce is experiencing this too.
we lost contact with most of our friends since enlisting.
just like that. enlist and then wa la, gone.
we hardly meet up with them.
and even if we do, there's nothing much to talk about.
and so we agreed lol, that we would be freaking good buddies.
cause we would be seeing each other for the next 1 and a half years.
and when we return for reservist. ahaha, man.
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alright. i am returning to swo this coming sunday.
and most likely would be able to attend all subsequent band practices.
of cause, this is if all book in timings stay at 'by 2359'.
its been a while. things dont seem good at all.
cause the past, not few, band practices have been cancelled time and again.
i must have lost quite a bit on skill lol.
time to regain what i have lost. hopefully, practice would resume soon.

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 21:49

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

this is the chosen one.
first of its kind, for me lol.
anyway, yup. placed an order for it. why an order and not off the shelf?
okay, thats becaused the lens are polarised and with degree.
sort of like sun glasses that's also prescription eyewear.
its comes in two months time lol. dun ask the price.
its like 2, 3 times the price of the off the shelf model.
details;
--Flak Jacket ( 03-881 )
--Jet Black frame
--Black Iridium lens
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i have passed my public road test lol.
means i am gonna get my 2B license soon, hooray.
okay, we were racing in the circuit on tuesday.
supposed to practice pillion riding. we ended up racing with pillions lol.
winding through the crank course, S course and everything.
even up and down the slope. average mileage clocked is around 10km in 3 hrs.
we clocked 30 km in that same time. lol.
instructor realised we were fooling around nearing the end of that 3 hrs.
when he came in to round us up, it was like the safety car during F1.
everyone started slowing down, forming up behind him lol.
and because it was so slow, plus the pillion on the back.
we had hell alot of difficulty keeping the bike straight.
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oh man, marriage is really so so troublesome.
my first aunt's 3 daughter is gettin married soon.
and so is number 1. next year i believe.
like what the hell. so many things they have to do. and shit.
its my bro thats getting married. means i am gonna be really busy.
hope i'll be overseas on some training exercise heehee.
i mean, what the hell. so many things to do la.
and so much money wasted heehee. i'll only understand when my turn comes.
and that's because its all for my would be darling :)

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 20:08

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