Random assignments

The downside of my career is that you get assigned duties which have no relevance to your job scope.

I have to attend the commissioning parade on the 9 Dec as an usher, and it would be held at SAFTI MI parade square. Prior to that, "please prepare a set of No. 1 uniform" (meaning I'll have to go to ST Hub twice) and "please attend a briefing session at SAFTI Warriors Hall" (meaning I have to go to Boon Lay twice).

ST Hub is a kilometer walk from the nearest civilisation, and SAFTI, well lets just say that I can be late for work there by leaving house after 5.45am.

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My course was conducted at Singapore Poly over the last 2 days. The radio / radar comms lecturer was nice enough to make sure that all of us can pass our exams. Thanks! As for the current lecturer for Electro-Optics.. let's just say that 8 of us attended his class today out of compassion for him. Spare him the blushes should there not be an audience in his lecture theatre.

It'll end in another two weeks time, and that's when I'll face the incrased pile of never-ending work from Squadron again. I found that I appreciate my conversation with the pilots and the other WSOs more than the content of the course itself. Many times I have mentioned that as junior ADA Officers, our 'vision' and viewpoint of our organisation are pretty myopic. BMTAC is not as much a technology appreciation course as a mini course whereby we learn the insights of the job scope of the other vocations. Their's sound more exciting by many measures as compared to mine.

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I met Siangbin and uncle Jason at AFS. According to them, Bernard and Wenbin are there too. Its nice to meet them (as colleagues) after graduating :P I wonder how the rest are doing.

Yup and I met up with them today finally. Everyone's doing fine! :)

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Hui Min is coming back in 16 days time~! That's the number of days left in my BMTAC. After that would be a month of hectic preparation for my overseas exercise in January. My driving test is on the day after I land back in Singapore. (I must be nuts to choose that date, but well, I was desperate.) February would be a month of consolidation. I'll go back to England in March for a week or so, and when I come back, NDP07 preparations shall go into full swing. And if I don't get posted out by then, it's live firing in October.

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I have a couple of papers and a CDF essay to churn out. (In Weilun's lingo, 'report factory'.)

BMTAC

Basic Military Technology Appreciation Couse.

RSAF sent me on this one month course, which can be thought of as, really, a one month holiday for me because it is essentially a revision of everything (and I really mean everything) which I have done in university. From comms network, to data comms, to DSP, to E-fields and H-fields. Gosh.. its quite a pain to relearn them again actually. Anyway this means that I get to come home early everyday, so I am better rested now than when I was working in the unit. Have been making use of the evenings to read up and prepare my essay, something which I could not find time to do for the last couple of months.

Of course, consequences awaits me when I return after my 4 weeks sojourn. I checked my email today. 150 emails in 4 days. I shudder to imagine how much work there would be in 4 weeks time.

Something to look forward to definitely, is that Hui Min is going to be back by the time my course ends~ Great happiness! :) Everyday's been funny without her pottering around me.

Oh another thing, my driving test date is in Feb, although my lessons concluded 3 weeks ago. There are millions of people taking the test! (overstated, but you get my point) That would mean that I can only get my car earliest Feb. I know people may find that youngsters of my age need not rush into getting an automobile, but for RSAF people, I find it an absolute necessity :P Last week I had to go to PLAB for a meeting, and I needed to go to Point X. I asked the guard if I could walk there, and he gave me this "Sir, are u nuts" face. I later found out that Point X is a 6km walk in (of course, taxis can't go in), so I have to wait for someone to pick me up. And that's a 45 min wait.

People have been complaining that this blog is dead. Well, there ain't much updates for 2 reasons.
1.) No time.
2.) No life.
And that basically equates to no point updating haha..
But of course, if something out of the norm happens, I will update :)

Other stuff that happened in October:

Alvin got married! Congrats :) And meanwhile I gotten an invitation from Zhongwang (Catholic High classmate through 4 years) and Peida is pending! (eh u guys need swordbearers?)

Had an extraction for my molar that was cracked. No a nice experience, especially since I was Range Conducting Officer while on MC.

Ok, my mind is in a mess currently. Forgive me. =P