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this week has been pretty much fulfilling for me..

random pt #1: our CAO, BG wong ann chai, is from hc..

random pt #2: if u cant kill 2 birds with 1 stone, kill 1 stone with 2 birds (ok that really doesnt make any sense and it's so so random)

let's see. the last time i blogged was on wed. and hey! there was a sudden change in the day of meeting for indent of assault boats.. i was supposed to attend the meeting on fri but it was changed to wed instead.. and i only knew the news like 10min before the meeting started (well done!) so i cheonged down to seletar camp. OMG the camp looked so rundown.. now i really appreciate what i have in sungei gedong.. and i had to walk for like 15 min from the gate to the conference room. just to attend 5 min of meeting.. and then spend another 15min out of the room to the gate. and my job was done. spent my lunch outside and then went back camp to realise there's nights off. spent my night at jp.. and sgt lai told me that i dont have to book in that night cus i can go straight to PLC for meeting on thurs!

thurs: went straight to PLC with nic to hav meeting for indent of helicopters.. so dui lah. 2 x 3SGs against a whole bunch of LTCs, 1WOs... etc. came back. nth much happened but alot of saigang for ex stingray so worked till late in the night. as usual we had subway for lunch and dinner.

fri: nth much again.. went back to PLC to prep for ex stingray. aka i wasnt in camp for the whole day. came back to write "NIGHTS OFF" in the remarks in my book in/out book and went for nights off. had kfc for dinner.

moral of the story: there is an inverse relationship between the size of one's stomach and one's wallet..

sat: had SOC test. something that pissed me off. the results were voided cus some supervising officer overslept and he claimed that the results were fake cus he didnt supervise! HEY HEY.. u want to play rank isit.. fine.. sigh.
after that went down to HC for HCCO interaction.. kinda sort of a laste minute decision i suppose. cus nth to do. met ger, went back, bummed around and talked to dy and co and miss tan until the mass games. didnt really feel like participating but just went down to play.

so i went down and watched the fun. and then out of nowhere.. SOMEONE HAD TO BOMB ME. yes.. ger's cousin! omg omg omg. nvm i was slightly wet haha. rotted throughout the evening, went back and witness the prize presntation and then took some photos with the juniors..

damn i look damn old..

i wish i could turn back time.. back to when i was in jc.. the carefree time.. where we could do all the stupid things that we wanted to..

today: went to settler's with kian soon sherman and yisin. too bad only yisin came. i called the junior guys and everyone pangsehed me. nvm.. played board games for the entire afternoon.. very fun. totally relaxed myself. the nice atmosphere.. the drinks.. the company :) too bad had to leave for dinner. and then im here.. dont have to book in! :D cus have OM course tmr.. so i bookin in tmr but SIAN have to wake up early already..

I FREAKING HATE WITS AND USMS!! wapiang it's causing a problem to my head and thanks to it im sure alot of white hairs has grown out of my head :(

anyway ytd was super sian! woke up very early at 6am (yes 6am is early compared to the rest of the time in hq) because i had to move out early to follow s3 to see the combat teams fight. supposed to move out at 645. but somehow or another.. thanks to s3.. i waited and waited.. and waited..

and i fell asleep.. and woke up.. and fell asleep again (and got caught by s4 for sleeping beside phoon).. and woke up..

and finally i moved out.

AT A FREAKING 1200! OMG that's a freaking 5 hr 15 min wait ok.. knn and s3 kept telling me "i'll be ready soon... i'll be ready soon.." how soon is soon.. i think his soon is equivalent to 5 hr 15 min..

and so i went outfield ytd. pretty boring cus nth to do except to watch lion coy fight. and then there was cat 1 so we stopped at a training shed nearby in limchukang. and HEY HEY it had to continue raining! until dunno when.. think it's 9pm. so we were stuck outfield till 9pm.. thought we could go back camp already but NOOOOOOOOOOOOO s3 and s2 and lion OC had to plan the route of advancements for the combat teams and we waited and waited ..

and i fell asleep.. and woke up.. and fell asleep again and woke up..

and finally i moved out from outfield

AT A FREAKING 0100! like what the hell.. by the time i reached camp everyone's snoring like dead pigs... and i only slept for like 5+ hrs -groans-

alrights i shall stop complaining.. wooo finally i can blog in this com. but of course my dearest s3 doesnt know.. and haha i dont think i'll let him know anyway :)

this week has been a pretty good and exciting week for me. why?

our dearest CSM is on overseas leave! woohoo that means the whole freaking hq coy is in HAVOC!! waseh there's no one to arrow us to do stupid things.. and there's no need for the specs to activate their personal smoke grenade launcher (if u know what i mean)..

had my 1st COS duty on wed and OH MINE it sure was an experience. COS is really the coy's only slave man.. have to man the phone for 24 hrs.. stand like an idiot in the cookhouse.. like an exhibit. the only thing that im proud of was the lowering and the raising of flags.. dont ask me why..

thought that i can relac abit after office hours and the irritating cookhouse duty.. but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO there had to be a sudden security check by the brigade pple. OMG i wasnt prepared at all.. cus i was briefed only to do the security checks on the various offices (which was like at 10+pm) after staff parade.. and the sudden security check was at 8+? WTH.. so there were alot of security breaches loh..

i see myself in camp during Xmas le..

thought all the adrenaline rush would be over after the checks.... but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (again) someone had to book in after 2359. wapiang i was panicking by 2330 already cus he had to book in at 2230. and after 2359 he was still outside. the best part was that his hp wasnt on, when i called his home his parents say he's in camp already, when i call the hps of his frens no one knew his whereabouts and the best part was that when i did a check around the bunks he wasnt there! GG.. i reported this incident to the DO and i think he didnt know what to do also except to wait. so i waited at my desk and dozed off and that idiot booked in at around 130am.
WTF

i was too shagged to say anything to him.. i closed evreything at around 2am and i slept and woke up at 4+ cus the aircon was FREAKING COLD. KNNBCCB!!!! so practically i only had 2+ hrs of sleep and i had to continue my duty till 8am. after my COS i went to run SOC with my men. quite fun except that my men failed still. sighs after the adrenaline rush was over came in the fatigue. was so shagged i hid under the table in my office, listened to my ipod and slept. the officers didnt know that i was in the office all along and my men helped me cover up. THANKS!

so that was my COS duty. the best part of the week was ytd! woot had 1/2 day off in the afternoon for my s3 branch cohesion outing! but some bad things had to happen.. like we had to fall in at 1pm.. had to check our eyes if they were red and watery. cus apparently our battalion has an outbreak of conjunctivitis and my dearest smoker (think in terms of smoking out and not smoking) who tried to get attc cus of his conjunctivitis was stuck in the sickbay HAHA!

ok that's not the main gist of fri but anyway. we left after our eyes were checked by the medics and we headed to marina bay for bowling! some of us bowled while the others dotaed.. and yes my ops sgt is DAMN GOOD at dota.. apparently he owns every game according to my men haha.. and i bowled like shit again.. only barely a 100+ for 2 out of 3 games.. but it's ok. had steamboat after that which was the highlight cus s3 brought his wife! ok nvm.. had fun eating and talking but we had to stop eating at 9+pm cus some of the men had to run their SOC tests (again) today! but nevertheless it was a great outing. s3 says that we can have it like once every 2 months but i think we should do it like once every 2 weeks or something! :D then we dont have to go back for RT on sat! yeah..

dont ask why am i posting an entry on a monday afternoon. no i didnt awol or anything. it's my OFF! woot what a way to start the week ahead.

waking up when the sunrays whack your butt, eating breakfast in front of the TV, spending your days lazing around and bumming around at home... that's the life i really want to enjoy. esp when i ORD.

but for now it's a luxury man.

anyway. so i went to vivocity ytd. ok ok i went to recee the grounds.. i just walked around the area with my family. and to conlcude, vivo is BIG. but it's not very environmentally friendly for guys.. cus i dont see alot of shops that cater to the guys leh. it's more of a place for ladies to shop until they drop. but walking along the top floor was.. good. shuang to say. it somehow felt like marina square but the feeling was different at the same time. aiyah dunno how to describe lah. and the food republic in vivo sucked. the only good thing that i can think of is that it's near sentosa and thus i guess there's quite alot of good places to take photos. HA!

short entry bah. going to have lunch at sakae sushi later. cant wait!!!

im tired. both mentally and physically.

overworked, underpaid.

never expected the specialist's life to be this tough. as with the famous sandwich theory, the specialist is "kiaped", or sandwiched in between the officers and men. the officers push the specialists to push the men, and at the same time the men push the specialists to be relax with them.

so in short, the specialist is simply pushed around by the men and the officers.

and now to another famous rubber band theory. if you dont stretch the rubber band, it will not be taut. yet if you stretch the rubber band too hard, it breaks. it's the same thing for us. if we dont push our men, they become so relax until the extent that they are going to "eat" us up, not listening and responding to our instructions, etc. but if we push them too much, they will complain and cry father cry mother, call us names, etc.

it's hard to strike a balance.

anyway, i hav nv felt like a effing cb before ever in my army life.
never in my days would i bark and yell and people until my voice could be heard like 100m away.
never in my days would i pump people, scold them until some of them actually cry.

but i did. i had no choice. they were not obeying my instructions. and now i think most of the men would hate me. actually it's not just me. i think it's towards all the specs (hopefully not). i suppose they feel that we are angels but now it's totally the other way round. we have no choice. we are just doing our jobs. but in hq rank doesnt really matter. it's more of networking and interpersonal relationship that matters more. and i wonder how badly would today's tekaning session affect them.

i certainly hope it wouldnt.

fine i take back my words. so i was wrong to say that i will grow fat in hq. cus for the whole week i was doing nothing apart from running here and there.. had this commanders' programme on wed where we had to do this 3 x 1.5km run. the timings were freaky (as usual) and most of us couldnt reach the timing. and us doesnt just include the HQ specs.. but also includes many of the officers and regulars. hah! and all the buddha-clapping sessions were enough to shag us out already. thought that was enough for the whole week until i found out that there was combat run the next day. fine so we ran. the good thing was it was only sbo + jockey cap. not so bad. but the fact was as commanders, we not only had to run; we had to motivate our men who were dragging behind, ensure that they were running in caedons, yada yada. and of course even if we feel shagged we cant show it to the men (which is pretty hard lah).. and apart from the trainings i had to run around the whole camp here and there to settle alot of administrative stuffs.

so who says hq is slack!? argh i totally hate it when other pple in the battalion says that oooooooooooooooooooooooh hq very slack.. oooooooooooooooooooooooooh hq life so good.. for goodness sake we still have our standby also and we still have to cheong with you all what! and apart from that we still have our administrative stuffs to do leh. it's very very mentally stressing. ugh. screw all those who HAVE to make last-minute changes to the ammo indent. and make me write all the explanation letters and run all the way to HQ armour just to send the changes. knn you all~

and office is pretty busy lately.. flooded with all the ORDing personnels who enter the office to sign some documents. argh.. so jealous of them. dont need to fight ATEC at all.. their hair now like so long now.. and they keep saying "ORD LOH!!!!!!!!!"

wapiang...

alright on a happier note, i caught 2 movies this week! 1st was DOA.. which was a very stupid show to say the least. CJ and me wasted our $9.50.. cus both of us agree that we paid a total of almost 20 dollars to watch a stupid TV game... haha but at least the girls were great.. esp HELENA! woot!~ and during nights off me and kahwee went to watch the covenant.. it was a good show despite the abrupt ending. nice buildup and effects i would say.. and the female lead was also good looking -drools-..