fine weather, no cloud cover
"Ding!" microwave oven door opens and a dish of chao4 ta1 songluck meepok is dished out... hot ah!!! this stupid weather combined with the hot engine is making my driver compartment so bloody steaming... i wanna get out of this sauna man... just calculated tt i've travelled a whopping 195.1 miles or 312.16km... guess i should be able to chalk up 400km or probably even 450km by the end of this exercise... the heat is killing me... so contary to Day 5, when it was raining cats and dogs like nobody's business for the whole day... flashfloods and thunderstorms... all the wetness u can get... and it didn't help when we realised tt water was still able to leak through the closed hatches... 2 more daes... 2 more daes and i'll be back to Diao camp... hot ah!!!
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
fine weather, no cloud cover
just reached my 1st deployment ground, some 15.2 miles/24.32km from the field camp... back to Day 1... had actually wanted to do some blogging from the computers available there... but then, haiz... no time... the plane tt i took was SQ8931.. the services provided on the plane was much better than expected, with the standard? SIA inflight entertainment system, games and movies... didn't get to play the games or watch the movies though... it was eat and sleep, sleep and eat for me... well, there's always the return trip to enjoy the services... hehe... reached Rockhampton Airport at 0500hrs on Day 2, Aussie time... quite an experience walking down this stairs from the plane to the aiport ground itself...
1st time not using the bridge link/air bridge? to disembark... or issit the 2nd time? the airport is a small, neat bricky structure, the control tower reminding me of the one at Paya Lebar Airport... lucky, lucky, lucky, the people in front of me helped me to fill up the space allocated for the emptying of stuff from the bags... just some casual questions asked and i'm past customs, preparing to board the coach... waste me time in cleaning up my equipment... !%!^*%*... moving on... heard tt a 2-way trip from the airport to base camp would set the SAF back by A$700... take tt... sure a gd and easy way of earning some bucks...
the base camp got a 3.5/5 rating from me.. not too bad a place to stay in... the rest of Day 2 to Day 4 was basically unpacking/repacking of stores and taking over of vehicles... Day 3 was orientation driving, day and night... the land around here is pretty enjoyable to drive on as a whole... but when the land gets dark, the road starts to get less distinguishable from the short grass on its sides... sidenote: the vehicle tt i took over was in a pleasantly good enough condition and driving it was great... oh yar... did i mention tt SFI followed us from singapore to australia? omg! so si3 can2 lan4 da3...
Day 4, 20/10... moved out from camp and started our 1st outfield... had my 1st long drive, an unbelievable 29.9 miles or 47.84km... wow! wondered how i managed to survive through tt night drive... Days 5-9, 21/10-24/10 rounded up the outfield... very happy to be able to catch sight of a group of ~7 kangaroos lazing ard... managed to see some more kangaroos, a joey and an emu on later separate days... to be able to see animal life in their natural environment and up close... cool... now just trying to see if i'm lucky enough to locate a wallaby... oh... hmmm... realised tt i've jusst used up 7 pages of my new notebook to write down these stuff so tt i can blog them when i reach back home...
Day 9 saw us arriving at Diao camp, an open patch in the outback, with makeshift shower and shitting facilities... i give tt place a 2.5/5.. shithole was a ~8m deep hole where u see yr shit seemingly fall into a black hole... :p... gross? haha... it's a 4/5 toilet (bush toilet to be exact) on Day 9 and a 3/5 toilet on Day 10, as more er hmmm... human waste? start to pile up and generate more fragrance... Day 10 was service and maintainance, mainly catered for the vehicles... lucky only 1 of our vehicles in my platoon broke down...
seems quite a serious case to me... heard tt it's only coming back to action tml... and finally Day 11!, which is todae... set out for the BPT early in the morn... looks like Day 1 of the BPT is gonna be a slack one... heard yesterdae tt we'll be getting an additional dae of R&R... woohoo!!! shiok! guess the main tough things are gonna end after this BPT, so really looking forward to Day 14, 29/10, when we get back to Diao camp to relac... and get a gd bath too...
just reached my 1st deployment ground, some 15.2 miles/24.32km from the field camp... back to Day 1... had actually wanted to do some blogging from the computers available there... but then, haiz... no time... the plane tt i took was SQ8931.. the services provided on the plane was much better than expected, with the standard? SIA inflight entertainment system, games and movies... didn't get to play the games or watch the movies though... it was eat and sleep, sleep and eat for me... well, there's always the return trip to enjoy the services... hehe... reached Rockhampton Airport at 0500hrs on Day 2, Aussie time... quite an experience walking down this stairs from the plane to the aiport ground itself...
1st time not using the bridge link/air bridge? to disembark... or issit the 2nd time? the airport is a small, neat bricky structure, the control tower reminding me of the one at Paya Lebar Airport... lucky, lucky, lucky, the people in front of me helped me to fill up the space allocated for the emptying of stuff from the bags... just some casual questions asked and i'm past customs, preparing to board the coach... waste me time in cleaning up my equipment... !%!^*%*... moving on... heard tt a 2-way trip from the airport to base camp would set the SAF back by A$700... take tt... sure a gd and easy way of earning some bucks...
the base camp got a 3.5/5 rating from me.. not too bad a place to stay in... the rest of Day 2 to Day 4 was basically unpacking/repacking of stores and taking over of vehicles... Day 3 was orientation driving, day and night... the land around here is pretty enjoyable to drive on as a whole... but when the land gets dark, the road starts to get less distinguishable from the short grass on its sides... sidenote: the vehicle tt i took over was in a pleasantly good enough condition and driving it was great... oh yar... did i mention tt SFI followed us from singapore to australia? omg! so si3 can2 lan4 da3...
Day 4, 20/10... moved out from camp and started our 1st outfield... had my 1st long drive, an unbelievable 29.9 miles or 47.84km... wow! wondered how i managed to survive through tt night drive... Days 5-9, 21/10-24/10 rounded up the outfield... very happy to be able to catch sight of a group of ~7 kangaroos lazing ard... managed to see some more kangaroos, a joey and an emu on later separate days... to be able to see animal life in their natural environment and up close... cool... now just trying to see if i'm lucky enough to locate a wallaby... oh... hmmm... realised tt i've jusst used up 7 pages of my new notebook to write down these stuff so tt i can blog them when i reach back home...
Day 9 saw us arriving at Diao camp, an open patch in the outback, with makeshift shower and shitting facilities... i give tt place a 2.5/5.. shithole was a ~8m deep hole where u see yr shit seemingly fall into a black hole... :p... gross? haha... it's a 4/5 toilet (bush toilet to be exact) on Day 9 and a 3/5 toilet on Day 10, as more er hmmm... human waste? start to pile up and generate more fragrance... Day 10 was service and maintainance, mainly catered for the vehicles... lucky only 1 of our vehicles in my platoon broke down...
seems quite a serious case to me... heard tt it's only coming back to action tml... and finally Day 11!, which is todae... set out for the BPT early in the morn... looks like Day 1 of the BPT is gonna be a slack one... heard yesterdae tt we'll be getting an additional dae of R&R... woohoo!!! shiok! guess the main tough things are gonna end after this BPT, so really looking forward to Day 14, 29/10, when we get back to Diao camp to relac... and get a gd bath too...
fine weather, 50% cloud cover
have been in the australian outback for quite some time already... generally much better than the outfields tt we have in singapore, less for the fact tt the afternoon sun is terribly scorching hot... so hot tt i guess tt's wat caused my testicular abrasion (hmmm... sounds a little crude... but yah... tt's wat happened...)... the coverall tt i was wearing must have contributed to giving me tt annoyance... think i'm more or less recovered from tt abrasion... good... cause i guess u won't be able to really understand the situation tt i was in unless u've been through it yrself before...
when i had the abrasion, it took me a jolly miserable 15mins just to walk to the peeing point and back... really horrible abrasion... well, enough of tt... got to make good use of the free time tt i have... pretty much sure tt little sleep, hunger and thirst are going to accompany me for the next few daes... not tt they dun provide us with water and food... it's tt there aint much time at times to eat and drink up... we're pretty much on the move very often... now just wishing tt i can just get through the next few daes of Battalion Proficiency Test (BPT) peacefully and tt i dun have to break track in the middle of the road, under the sun...
maybe i should start to tell u wat happened since Day 1, from the moment i reached Changi Airport... so there was Day 1... my family sent me off tt dae... should have gone into the departure hall earlier (not sure if i called the place correctly... it's whree u find those DFS shops and boarding gates after clearing the customs... looks like i gotta move soon... will be continuing this entry later...
have been in the australian outback for quite some time already... generally much better than the outfields tt we have in singapore, less for the fact tt the afternoon sun is terribly scorching hot... so hot tt i guess tt's wat caused my testicular abrasion (hmmm... sounds a little crude... but yah... tt's wat happened...)... the coverall tt i was wearing must have contributed to giving me tt annoyance... think i'm more or less recovered from tt abrasion... good... cause i guess u won't be able to really understand the situation tt i was in unless u've been through it yrself before...
when i had the abrasion, it took me a jolly miserable 15mins just to walk to the peeing point and back... really horrible abrasion... well, enough of tt... got to make good use of the free time tt i have... pretty much sure tt little sleep, hunger and thirst are going to accompany me for the next few daes... not tt they dun provide us with water and food... it's tt there aint much time at times to eat and drink up... we're pretty much on the move very often... now just wishing tt i can just get through the next few daes of Battalion Proficiency Test (BPT) peacefully and tt i dun have to break track in the middle of the road, under the sun...
maybe i should start to tell u wat happened since Day 1, from the moment i reached Changi Airport... so there was Day 1... my family sent me off tt dae... should have gone into the departure hall earlier (not sure if i called the place correctly... it's whree u find those DFS shops and boarding gates after clearing the customs... looks like i gotta move soon... will be continuing this entry later...
Friday, October 15, 2004
was packing the stuff tt i had to bring to aus during the last few daes... really kn**c**... made me so fed up... so they want our stuff to be clean... freaking clean... black (read: charcoal black) boot sole, mud & sand & plant & oil-free equipment... scared tt we would introduce new? bacteria and fungus and who noes wat f shit to their land and cause the bio-ecosystem to have diarrhoea... unbelievable...
so there was this inspection yesterdae... had to further clean up our equipments tt didn't meet the standard... and my pc was pushing us to finish the job fast so tt he could send us packing... there i was, under the blazing sun, fed-up, irritated, feeling f-ed-up and under nagging to complete my task, i just gave up and bo-ga-lanly threw my webbing into the alibaba bag when it still showed bits and pieces of bluish-whitish corroded metal... so wat? let those guys check it out and say no... no u can't bring this substandard fungal/bacterial carrying stuff into our land...
blah... just throw me the extras and shut up... i dun f-ing care...
so there was this inspection yesterdae... had to further clean up our equipments tt didn't meet the standard... and my pc was pushing us to finish the job fast so tt he could send us packing... there i was, under the blazing sun, fed-up, irritated, feeling f-ed-up and under nagging to complete my task, i just gave up and bo-ga-lanly threw my webbing into the alibaba bag when it still showed bits and pieces of bluish-whitish corroded metal... so wat? let those guys check it out and say no... no u can't bring this substandard fungal/bacterial carrying stuff into our land...
blah... just throw me the extras and shut up... i dun f-ing care...
know wat? i have a part time job now... i'm a walking directory on board the mrt trains... -.- in the past 2 book ins, i was asked by 3 guys if they were on the right train... the thing was tt 2 of them were elderly ppl who spoke hokkien... (why dialect???) so, with my limited hokkien speaking ability, i managed to solve their problems...
didn't know tt i actually had such a part time job only until recently... smrt should really start paying me for helping them provide such a service... and maybe a medal too: the most approachable walking directory... haha... lamez...
didn't know tt i actually had such a part time job only until recently... smrt should really start paying me for helping them provide such a service... and maybe a medal too: the most approachable walking directory... haha... lamez...
Sunday, October 10, 2004
was just blogging halfway when i got a call from pok... offered me a lobang tt was very attractive but seemed to be like a pyramid hybrid to me... hmmm... if u are interested, go see www.ntiparis.com... a sure make money, OTOT business scheme... cool huh... i'm still trying to find out how this thing goes about...
oh ya, the msg tt i was blogging about halfway should be out tml... tired of continuing... it's time for the z-monster to eat me up... zZz...
oh ya, the msg tt i was blogging about halfway should be out tml... tired of continuing... it's time for the z-monster to eat me up... zZz...
Saturday, October 09, 2004
the post tt i have been working on for some time:
had been thinking quite some bit lately... was thinking back on wat i did in the past and pondering on wat i wanna do in the future... my life had been monotonic for quite some time already and the things tt i do lately doesn't seem to be constructive at all (not to imply tt they are destructive)... perhaps it's about time i start to get my perspectives rite again and get things going...
to kick off, let me just see wat i've achieved/done thus far...
*Academically:
-1st in class (came as a surprise to me... expected to do well but to get 1st... well... was happy nevertheless, to have completed one of my childhood dreams...)
-1st in level (a even bigger pleasant surprise to me)
-2 bronze and 1 gold certs for the Singapore Mathematical Olympiad (the gold cert is amongst my most treasured achievements... heard tt it's only given to the top 5% of those who took part in the SMO... :) )
-can't-be-bothered-to-count-how-many certs for new south wales, australian maths, bilingual and science competitions
-Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 4 (perhaps the biggest surprise here... didn't had much confidence in passing the test)
*Physically:
-climbed a mountain 5000+ft high (memorable experience... esp to view the 1st few streams of sunlight at the summit with the person i like standing near me...)
-joined OAC (physically demanding cca)
-ran 15km (gonna run 21km in next year's AHM)
-went for night cycling
*Miscellaneous:
-learned how to cycle (proud to say tt i learnt it in just 2 hrs... hehe... 1 hr to get the bike going straight, 1 hr to get it to negotiate turns... now able to cycle with just either of my hands... still trying to learn to cycle with both hands free... one of my childhood dream completed too...)
-became a prefect (another childhood dream... liked the feeling of being a prefect...)
-got 2 trophies (small trophies though but nevertheless... both were from running competitions... wished tt i had one of those nice stuff when i was young... thought they looked good on the shelf...)
-got a plaque (from being the 1st in level...)
-got a medal (from tt volleyball competition in sec school... kinda jokez... cos i remember playing only 1 game... also thought tt medals looked gd on the shelf...)
-done many hours of CIP
-taught tuition
-learnt how to drive a military vehicle
-took part in SYF as an usher
-took part in NDP04 as a member of the marching contingent
-had my group's article published in the Straits Times Forum section (could still remember the moment when Mr Han broke the news to me, yixiang and lin hai)
-became one of the first few person to speak at my sec school's speaker's corner (thought tt the idea was a gd one... but sad to see it degenerate into nothingness...)
i think there are some stuff tt i've left out... but the main thing tt went through my mind was tt my life experiences thus far is quite varied (at least in my own opinion)... i've done quite a number of things... been there, done tt... now to see what are the things tt i want to do in my future...
-be finally able to swim 1 length of the swimming pool (learning how to swim was one of my childhood goals)
-take part in another NDP parade (should be able to be realised next year, when there is the mobile column)
-learn dialects (sad to say tt the dialect i'm most proficient in is not my own dialect... primarily wanted to learn hakka because i want to understand my roots better... learning dialects would help in CIP too... esp when it involves the elderly)
-learn how to drive a civilian vehicle
-revise my jap and take JLPT level 3? and learn another language, prob malay (quite diff i guess, if i wanna further my jap... cos the environment is not there...)
-be a teacher (inspired by my teachers in how they inspired us)
-do volunteer work out of singapore for at least 6 months (inspired by my cousin ms lee... bra noes who... she went to nepal to do volunteer work for quite a long period of time...)
-climb another mountain? (can still remember how tiring such a thing can be... but i guess it would be nice to do it again)
-try parachuting
-find tt special person
had been thinking quite some bit lately... was thinking back on wat i did in the past and pondering on wat i wanna do in the future... my life had been monotonic for quite some time already and the things tt i do lately doesn't seem to be constructive at all (not to imply tt they are destructive)... perhaps it's about time i start to get my perspectives rite again and get things going...
to kick off, let me just see wat i've achieved/done thus far...
*Academically:
-1st in class (came as a surprise to me... expected to do well but to get 1st... well... was happy nevertheless, to have completed one of my childhood dreams...)
-1st in level (a even bigger pleasant surprise to me)
-2 bronze and 1 gold certs for the Singapore Mathematical Olympiad (the gold cert is amongst my most treasured achievements... heard tt it's only given to the top 5% of those who took part in the SMO... :) )
-can't-be-bothered-to-count-how-many certs for new south wales, australian maths, bilingual and science competitions
-Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 4 (perhaps the biggest surprise here... didn't had much confidence in passing the test)
*Physically:
-climbed a mountain 5000+ft high (memorable experience... esp to view the 1st few streams of sunlight at the summit with the person i like standing near me...)
-joined OAC (physically demanding cca)
-ran 15km (gonna run 21km in next year's AHM)
-went for night cycling
*Miscellaneous:
-learned how to cycle (proud to say tt i learnt it in just 2 hrs... hehe... 1 hr to get the bike going straight, 1 hr to get it to negotiate turns... now able to cycle with just either of my hands... still trying to learn to cycle with both hands free... one of my childhood dream completed too...)
-became a prefect (another childhood dream... liked the feeling of being a prefect...)
-got 2 trophies (small trophies though but nevertheless... both were from running competitions... wished tt i had one of those nice stuff when i was young... thought they looked good on the shelf...)
-got a plaque (from being the 1st in level...)
-got a medal (from tt volleyball competition in sec school... kinda jokez... cos i remember playing only 1 game... also thought tt medals looked gd on the shelf...)
-done many hours of CIP
-taught tuition
-learnt how to drive a military vehicle
-took part in SYF as an usher
-took part in NDP04 as a member of the marching contingent
-had my group's article published in the Straits Times Forum section (could still remember the moment when Mr Han broke the news to me, yixiang and lin hai)
-became one of the first few person to speak at my sec school's speaker's corner (thought tt the idea was a gd one... but sad to see it degenerate into nothingness...)
i think there are some stuff tt i've left out... but the main thing tt went through my mind was tt my life experiences thus far is quite varied (at least in my own opinion)... i've done quite a number of things... been there, done tt... now to see what are the things tt i want to do in my future...
-be finally able to swim 1 length of the swimming pool (learning how to swim was one of my childhood goals)
-take part in another NDP parade (should be able to be realised next year, when there is the mobile column)
-learn dialects (sad to say tt the dialect i'm most proficient in is not my own dialect... primarily wanted to learn hakka because i want to understand my roots better... learning dialects would help in CIP too... esp when it involves the elderly)
-learn how to drive a civilian vehicle
-revise my jap and take JLPT level 3? and learn another language, prob malay (quite diff i guess, if i wanna further my jap... cos the environment is not there...)
-be a teacher (inspired by my teachers in how they inspired us)
-do volunteer work out of singapore for at least 6 months (inspired by my cousin ms lee... bra noes who... she went to nepal to do volunteer work for quite a long period of time...)
-climb another mountain? (can still remember how tiring such a thing can be... but i guess it would be nice to do it again)
-try parachuting
-find tt special person
http://www.princeton.edu/~ccaro/mist_or_ghost.html (courtesy of yanfang)
some stupid 'scary' stuff tt u probably watched b4...
some stupid 'scary' stuff tt u probably watched b4...
Friday, October 08, 2004
hohoho... so who's back from ROC? yeah, it's tt tty... and next wk it's gonna be my turn... ARHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! terrible ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! headache ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! outfield ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! :(
so stupid... they onli gave us the packing list last fri... and the list wasn't really meant for us one some more... sianz...
just pray tt my vehicle doesn't fail me k... can call me suay... i'm the guinea pig to help test the rd conditions for the other drivers behind me... -_-'''
went to search up on the training area there... so here's some pics for ya all...
hmmm... seems like i could onli find a picture... well...
oh ya... the place's called Shoalwater Bay... claims to be the best military training ground in the world...
so stupid... they onli gave us the packing list last fri... and the list wasn't really meant for us one some more... sianz...
just pray tt my vehicle doesn't fail me k... can call me suay... i'm the guinea pig to help test the rd conditions for the other drivers behind me... -_-'''
went to search up on the training area there... so here's some pics for ya all...
hmmm... seems like i could onli find a picture... well...
oh ya... the place's called Shoalwater Bay... claims to be the best military training ground in the world...
HELLOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! yeah, i'm back on the blogging screen... let's see let's see... started to keep this little msg note in my hp to remind me of the interesting things tt's happening ard me... yeah... 1st up...
increasingly noticed tt there are actually quite a number of female gamers... in my case, or more specifically wat i'm talking about, is female gunbounders... Ooooooooo... saw this gb couple on the mrt the other dae... hmmm... i guess it's gd to have this kinda shared interest among couples... have more topics to talk about in their conversations...
so last last wk was the battalion full troupe... had my 1st experience of wat it's like to have a longer-than-1-dae outfield... terrible... i mean the mosquito bites... there was this nite tt they drove me nuts... real nuts... felt the men1 qi4 inside me almost exploding out...
last sun was mortar live firing... cool... finally managed to see how the actual mortar bomb looks like and the power of it's impact... just starting to imagine wat the 60 bomb nuke would look like... POWER...
the following dae was the cs smoke training... ouch... got a glimspe of wat bra's job is like... i pity him man... so how was the training? felt the burning sensation caused by the combusted cs pellets... but generally ok... nothing much... it was only a short period of discomfort...
increasingly noticed tt there are actually quite a number of female gamers... in my case, or more specifically wat i'm talking about, is female gunbounders... Ooooooooo... saw this gb couple on the mrt the other dae... hmmm... i guess it's gd to have this kinda shared interest among couples... have more topics to talk about in their conversations...
so last last wk was the battalion full troupe... had my 1st experience of wat it's like to have a longer-than-1-dae outfield... terrible... i mean the mosquito bites... there was this nite tt they drove me nuts... real nuts... felt the men1 qi4 inside me almost exploding out...
last sun was mortar live firing... cool... finally managed to see how the actual mortar bomb looks like and the power of it's impact... just starting to imagine wat the 60 bomb nuke would look like... POWER...
the following dae was the cs smoke training... ouch... got a glimspe of wat bra's job is like... i pity him man... so how was the training? felt the burning sensation caused by the combusted cs pellets... but generally ok... nothing much... it was only a short period of discomfort...
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