Saturday, January 31, 2009 
Back after having stopped blogging for so long ever since posted to new unit.. I just didn't know what to blog about since army things were mostly confidential and photos were limited. In truth, I was also just too tired too blog. Ha.
Anyway I got into OCS!! Yay!! Just what I had been dreaming of even before I got into NS. 3 months of my time were pass in SAFTI where I did CLM(Common Leadership Module) in Hotel Wing before moving on to Sierra Wing to do my Service term. I practically enjoyed my time back in SAFTI because the instructors and fellow comrades there were great!! I was then posted to SCE(Singapore Combat Engineer) as an Engineer Officer Cadet(EOC) at Engineer Training Institude(ETI) @ Nee Soon Camp for the remaining 5 months and afterwhich get commissioned as an officer on the 20.06.09. Life in ETI is totally different or what army people would call it a "cultural shock". We have quite a few officers in there who are quite sadistic. There was once a captain was seen lecturing a 2Lt infront of us,the cadets, for falling in us too early!! What kind of respect is that for a newly commisiioned 2Lt!! So what if you are a guy with a rank of a captain. You will never see a major scolding a captain in front of his own trainees. Hopefully my 5 months in there pass really fast and I hope I get posted to bridging or armour as an bridging or armour engineer because I don't want to stay on as a field engineer.
Cheers
Ken
If you fail to plan,
You plan to fail!!
[10:58 AM]
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Yesterday met up with some of my BMT mates to play soccer @ The Cage in Kallang. Quite a nice place to go and play your soccer and it is pretty cheap too cause it was booked at student price. It cost $25/hr for students and $50/hr for normal adults. I paid $5 only cause there were lots of people there yesterday! Was surprised to see our sir join us yesterday but sadly our sergeants weren't free. I played for like 2 hours before resting and going for my evening run. The place there had like this huge fan on top of the court and when you are playing in the field, it is so damn cooling!
Evening time I went to run alone cause my dad wasn't free to join me. We did 6 sets of power training at Telok Blangah Hill but I only did 5 sets as I was feeling quite tired and can feel the cramps on my legs starting to come in. How I really admire those runners who runs really fast and especially since they are already so old like in their 40's. It's like every lap I did, they will be a minute faster than me and quite consistent throughout the whole training unlike me whose timing keeps increasing. Ha. Anyway I shall keep training hard till I reached their standard :P. Hopefully...
Telok Blangah Hill Training: 6 sets x 1km
1st lap: 4:39:17 mins
2nd lap: 4:48:27 mins
3rd lap: 5:08:77 mins
4th lap: Rest
5th lap: 4:28:93 mins
6th lap: Didn't time (Did a slow jog because leg was cramping up)
Have nothing to do today man. Thought of going to Chevrons to purchase some army items before posting in to my new unit. If not I shall just head to the library to read some books later in the afternoon. Shall see later. Going to have my breakfast now. See ya!!
Cheers
Ken
Tough times don't last,
Tough man do!!
[10:14 AM]
Monday, September 15, 2008
1 week of my block leave have almost passed! How time passes so fast when I have been enjoyinging myself this past 1 week. Soon I will know where I will be posted to and I hope it would be to OCS. But I know my chances of being posted there are slim because I did not get gold for my IPPT and that there are too many strong candidates in my company. But still I keep my fingers cross and hope that I still make it through. It is all down to this friday...
Later I will be meeting up with most of my platoon mates to play soccer at the cage. My first time going there so I want to experience what it is like to play indoor though it has been some time since I kicked a soccer ball. After that in the evening will be going SAFRA to run. They will be doing power/speed training at Telok Blangah Hill today. Going to be one hell of a tough training for me! But I'm just going to enjoy myself later though cause I'm going to kick some balls!!! Wahahaha..
Cheers
Ken
If you fail to plan,
You plan to fail!!
[10:07 PM]
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Have been slacking the whole day at home today. Sleep..Eat..Sleep..Eat.. Probably another life of me when I'm outside NS. Love it at times but also hate it at times cause I'm just wandering my time away needlessly.
Had planned to run with the people at Mt Faber SAFRA Running Club people but somehow I didn't have the interest to go run after looking at their training program on my email. They were going to do 6 loops round Mt Faber after which 2 times of staircase. Don't think I can even endure that terrain anymore because I lost all my endurance ever since I entered NS. In Tekong, we are always doing speed training. The longest distance we probably ran was about 4km only. Anyway, I think I will let my body recover the next few days and start my running again from next week onwards.
This coming Saturday is a special day for me, but I can't think of what to do on that day. Haiz.
Cheers
Ken
If you fail to plan,
You plan to fail!!
p.s. Tough times don't last. Tough man do!
[6:53 PM]
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Oh.. Finally back after soooooooo darn bloody long.!! Today was my Passing Out Parade!! Wheee.. "Graduated" from BMTC School 1 with hopes of making it to OCS in a weeks time. My time in Tekong was pretty much filled with full of challenges and memories for me. I must admit that I had a pretty "crazy" time in there with all my platoon mates!! Wahaha..
Today my POP started at around 1600 hours. The weather there was pretty good to us considering that during our last few rehearsals, we were standing in the blazing hot sun around that time too and most of us almost got sun-burned. Nevertheless, all of us made it through the parade and sadly my company got 1 guy fainted. There goes our company's pride!! Lol. After the parade, we had ample time for photo-taking sessions as we were to be the 5th company to take the ferry service back to Singapore.
My Platoon 4 Mates
Lastly, I just want to announced that I finally achieved my NYAA Gold. I will be receiving the award from the President himself on the 3rd October. Looking forward to that day!!
I'm quite tired now going to sleep after this. Will continue tomorrow. Good Nights people.
Cheers
Ken
If you fail to plan,
You plan to fail!!
[10:42 PM]
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Yesterday was neither a good nor a bad day for me.
The good news is that the NYAA Gold Award Interview was not so scary as I imagine it to be. I arrived at the NYAA Council at 1415 hours, 15 minutes earlier from my actual interview time. It was a one-to-one interview and the questions were basically quite easy to answer. Throughout the whole interview, the interviewer that interviewed me gave me the perception as if I had already gotten the award! She first ask me which organization I was from and then at the end of the interview asked me to go home to upload and send her some photos so that she can use it to make a video. Then told me when the ceremony will be, how I should be able to take leave on the day from NS to attend the ceremony, explain to me about NYAA GAHA(Gold Award Holder Alumni) and so on. The GAHA is where all past NYAA Gold Award recipients meet up and continue doing what they like, helping the community! The interviewer ask me continue on to mentor my alma mater and encourage them to take up this NYAA Gold Award and I said I will!! Haha. Anyway I love my scout group for everything they have taught me and I hope to continue helping them as much as I could. Anyway the interview lasted about 20 mins and this are some of the questions:
1) Interviewer goes through the activities that I have done for this NYAA scheme.
2) Interviewer: How have you benefited from doing this NYAA?
3) Interviewer: Which is the hardest section you have done in this NYAA Scheme?
And the bad thing that happen to me yesterday is that my running sucks yesterday!! Never in my whole running life have I done so badly yesterday. Was supposed to do 6 sets of 1.6km round Telok Blangah Hill yesterday, but I didn't managed to complete it!! I only did 4 rounds and I was already so shag out. Haizz. It was like as if my whole body lag of energy or something. Anyway,
I vow that this will be my last time such a thing happen ever again!! Grrr...
Going to pack my bag for tomorrow soon. Going to miss everybody for this 3 weeks. Take care people. Your time will come soon so enjoy while you can! Haha..
Cheers
Ken
If you fail to plan,
You plan to fail!!
[11:33 PM]
Been busy these few days so didn't have the time to update my blog. So here is just a brief post on what I had been doing the last few days of my civilization life.
5/7/2008:
Had volunteered myself to help out in the packing of race kit pack for the OSIM Triathlon. We started packing at 1000 hours and finished at around 1630 hours approximately. By right I could have gone home immediately after the whole packing is done, but I just stayed on to wait for the dinner to arrive cause they had ordered lots of packed food and it would be a waste if they end up throwing away the food! Haha.
6/7/2008:
Went to catch the movie "Wanted" with my girlfriend. It would be our last outing before I enter army. The show is labeled as NC 16 cause it is so bloody!! Bullets flying through people's head and heart, it was a heart throbbing movie. After the movie, she went to my house to have dinner and she helped me clean up the hamsters cage which is so dirty after just 1 week. My water bills are confirm shooting up every month!! Talk about saving water. Haha. Sent her home after that.
++ Poster of the movie "Wanted"7/7/2008:
Had volunteered to do packing again for OSIM Triathlon at Grand Mecure Roxy Hotel, their official sponsor hotel for this year event. The packing started at 1600 hours, this time it was packing of goodie bags. We had to pack at least 4000 goodie bags which will be given to the participants when they collect their race kit, and at the speed we went, we easily completed the packing in 3 hours!! However, I was asked to stay back a bit later to do some packing and transporting of items and ended up going back at about 2200 hours. The sad thing is that we were not given any volunteer's T-shirt which were only meant for those helping out on the race day event itself. The good thing is that, I got a $20 allowance because I did "OT"!! Haha. Swee..
8/7/2008:
Which is today. Here I am now writing on this blog. 2 more days till I enter army. A new phase of life for all boys to become man as said by many. Just hope that I achieve my goal during my 1 year 10 months in there and learn or gain something new to become a better person in life. My goal in getting into OCS is not because the pay is good or to "show off" to others whom many dream of getting into OCS but never got in. My ambition is to go in there and learn to be a leader!
Anyway, will be going for my NYAA Gold Award Interview later!! So nervous and wondering what questions they will be asking me later. Wish me best of luck people!! Another event that could change my life in the future so I'll do my best inside that interview room later. Haha.
Countdown to NS: 2 more days!!
Cheers
Ken
If you fail to plan,
You plan to fail!!
* Will update you all on how the interview went soon!!
[9:51 AM]
