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Eat eat eat! (Marche BMT Dinner)

This is one outing I sure would not miss, considering that Johnson, my BMT bunkmate kinda "booked" us 1 month in advance for this outing (as we are always constantly unavailable). 6 of us (Johnson, JJ, Xingjian, Xiangrui, Jimmy & me, though we met Edwin unexpectedly later on & yea.. Dominic could not make it) managed to meet this...
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100km and beyond

It had been a day of firsts, namely travelling in the public road the whole day and working overtime (7am-9pm). Riding on the road is not so scary now, as I am more used to it by now. And yea, there was night training today, primarily to give us the experience of riding in the dark (therefore the late...
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Dangerous

Yicks! riding a motorbike on a public road had never been so dangerous (as I thought to be): Having big 10 wheeled dumpers, lorries, buses whizzing past you, vehicles tailgating, cutting in your lane, failling to give way to you, illegal turns and so... Fresh out of riding school (and being very traffic law abiding indeed), this's so much...
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Motorcycle prac test

Yippe! I've passed my skills balancing test today, together with my E-brake, push start and chalking up only 6 points in the circuit test. Thats 3 test hurdles passed throughout this driving course so far. Though its true that 1 outta 4 people won't pass the test (10 out of 40 in this case), just hope that those from...
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Catching Up

Ok then so the net is up on my side, missed a few potential WC3 matches with my NS friends onsite updates, forum visits, news and got tons & tons of much more junk mail to clear. Ya know bout the thing about these junk mail, they still keep coming after you try (unendlessly) to unsub from. And to...
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Passed the highway code test

Ok,, so much for the test which I had just took back at the driving center and hey, I've passed and so did 40/50 others in my class. It a class 2B test, and I would be taking a class 3 highway code test soon too- since I am still fresh in the topic (And I dun wana study...
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Off to 5th gear & above

So much for highway codes… & the quayside sign… still find that a rather funny signboard *duh* Its the second day of the bike course, and hey its rev rev the scrambler bike up to 5 gear on the straights… the best part is, the instructors are so freaking on! whee freakin’ fun dudes. Also a small part of...
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Friday…

And so today would be the last day of my stay at camp, and off to a *supposedly* 9-5 bikecourse at kaki camp. Yea would be training for a class 2B bike military bike license and hey its the SAF who wants us to go for it. So what can I do but get all the practice I needed...
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Nights off

Well, thats unit life as they say, lots of "loboing" (nothing to do) my armor course won't start till year end, so prepare to slack slack and slack till then. And Mmm my first nights off did really get to enjoy this short friday night at home, before heading back to camp for the rest of the night, would...
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New unit vocational posting

*grumbles* Didn't know sewing my CPL rank sewing on my uniform could be such a pain, so many sets to do.... Anyway, the new vocational postings are out and this time the posting's gonna be permanent- one which will last for my 2 remaining years of national service till I ORD *Yeaaa.. freedom, end of army life*. I would...
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28th BSLC graduation

*wakes up after 14 hours of hiberation* And so... the 32km graduation route march is over, so is the passing out parade and the receiving of my CPL rank, all yesterday... It was really a tough day on thursday night, the whole school literally marched 32km from thursday night all into friday's late morning, where we had breakfast thereafter, then...
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Camp stuff & Networking for dummies

A good way to end the 2nd last week in Sispec- take a non stop 12km run, said OC to the company. And yea there we went like brainless fools, like him running madly. So why the sour grape? It was definitely of achievable distance, but the heck? we are only expected to run only 7km as planned, what...
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Medical Appointment

You may be wondering why am I here now typing this blog on a weekday when I should be at camp sweating it out... *pauses with anticipative grin* ok, so I will shoot, would be dropping down to NUH tomorrow for some medical review on some eye infection, acute conjunctivitis(otherwise known as sore eyes). It had been bugging me for quite...
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I wish upon an excavator… & bulldozer!

Last week seems to be a very short week, very much shorter than usual. Whoosh its the weekend again and here I am typing this blog again. As I can remember with this clogged head and aching limbs of mine, heres what I have to share at camp. And yea, so there was the outfield defense exercise for my company...
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BSLC coming to an end, WOoo!

Theres lots to do this week, so I would make this entry short and sweet. And yeeaaa, yup, the 3 day sispec out field camp is over, next week there would be one more outfield "choing sua" before the end of course! and yea company happy hour will be on around end next week. All good things may eventually come...
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Back Back, then movies and back again

And so, I am back from the tekong resort from the 7.30pm fastcraft. Then it was Terminator 3 at Tampanies. The show, though very very similar to the 1991 blockbuster T2, its too, based on the story of machines taking over the world, blah blah blah... (as if we haven't got enough of it, esp with Matrix Reloaded) Also,...
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Camp Blues…

As all weekends there is, and this one is coming to an end here.. *damn* so the fun is over and back to work.. expect more "choing sua" this week at camp, oh its monday tomorrow argh! Currently Listening: Rimini Project- Boys Summertime
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Busy Busy

Booked in late afternoon yesterday, so didn't have time to update on happenings. The first week in Sispec is really one of rush- lessons lectures and practicals. Went out today mostly to buy stores for the course, so quite busy. *looking at the calender* and hey! Creative warehouse would be having a sale next week, would be going with...
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Sispec

And so BMT is over, so whats next in national service? *pauses* oh well, I am posted to the the school of infantry specialists (Sispec) to undergo the BSLC course (basic section leader course). And yea.. It will be more or less 10 weeks of more hell. Gotta report at SFT again (thought I never get to see that place...
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Unit Posting

Well, would be heading back to SFT (Singapore Ferry Terminal) to get my NS posting which would decide whether I get to sweat out or slack for the next 2 years. Hopefully I could get a 9-5 job in an aircon-ed environment with the DSO (defense science organization). Otherwise, I would like to give command school a try, as...
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