had live firing for SAW and SAR on monday. rather fun i should say.
had ippt. got gold
had gypsy2(topography exercise) at mandai. the 1st checkpt was only 110m from the startpt. we thot we would be able to find it easily, but after spending more than 2hrs, my team still could not find. so we tried to comms back to ask, but they didnt provide much clue. luckily a sgt was nearby, so he called for reinforcement.... 4 sgts came in to help. but couldnt find also.
unfortunately, during the process, 3 person got stung by wasps and 2 out of 3 person were sent back. so my team left 4 ppl. it was especially tiring cos we had less ppl to carry the load.
for the nite checkpt, we skirted the reseviour. after a long walk, the vegetation got thicker and thicker. surrounded by weird looking vegetation. =S we knew that for the checkpt, we need to bash even deeper.. but time didn't allow us to do it. it was a memorable experience in the forest with my friends.(nico, zx, and jl)
hmmmm... now it's halfway thru' the course already.! how i hope everythink can end soon.. heez..
this coming week would be fieldcamp. 4days3nites. monday to thurs. cant book out this weekend as they pushed forward the training programme to let us have off-in-lieu on friday 10th aug
so this book in will be 10days straight!!!!
august coming... which means my bday is coming too! too bad i have to celebrate my bday out in the field.... i dun know how i will feel on wed. no hp no comp to use! no bday cake.. no bday greetings..no presents..
so my father suggested celebrating lunar birthday instead. but when he checked the calandar, it falls on the same day. haha... i wonder wat's the probability of actual and lunar bday on the same day. cos the calandars are normally about 1 month apart. how lucky i am!
just wanna wish myself happy sweet 19 years old in advance.. plus 3 other BMT buckmates who share the same bday as me.
i shall end this post here. hopefully i get to book out on 8th aug and i will blog again!!!!
woOoOOOOoohooOOooooooO~!~!~!
3:43 pm
Sunday, July 22, 2007
BSLC week 4
week 4 was quite slack... didnt have much physical exercises. ... .. learnt lots of stuffs... like M203(grenade launcher), matador(light anti tank weapon), night vision goggles...etc...
had SOC also.... this time i passed... muahahaha... and my timing was below 9min 15s (passing time 10min30s). was quite surprised i could clear so quickly =)
had gypsy 1 on friday. we went navigating in mandai. hmm... quite a good exp but i must say i dun like bashing thru the forest..... day checkpts were okay.. but at nite we were stuck in the forest for over 3.5hrs to find a checkpt 1km away . :S
okay..... about time to book in.. tmr is live shooting for saw and sar...! i hate booking in!
8:57 pm
Monday, July 16, 2007
BSLC Week 3 hmm... did ippt test. got gold.
did SOC. failed the timing. lol..... running with load on me is tiring.
had fever on tues and wed. highest was 38.1. but my company dun realli let ppl see MO. my PC even told me it was normal to have such temp. wat a joke. .. but i was excused from the 5km fast march.
had signals lectures. and we had test on sat (and tt's how we got off on monday). the test was actually very fast, but the waiting time was long.
was the leader section commander for thurs and fri.
had basic navigation lectures.....
had a simple test of our navigation skills on fri. we had to use a compass to get to diff checkpts individually at a small plot of forest. the night test was quite scary and i just bashed my way thru to make sure i get out quickly.
have to book in at nite by 2300hrs. bb~!
2:42 pm
Sunday, July 08, 2007
BSLC week 2 week 2 is still filled with physical activities. had ippt on tue and didnt managed to get gold. haha... i ran 9min 46s. missed by 2s to gold. had SOC lessons also. the 1st SOC this week was quite tough. although we only carried SAR21 to clear the obstacles, the instructors made us run 1 round after each obstacle. tiring =S on thurs was the actual full run down, i didnt manage to clear the low rope and the time i took was 10min10s. so i failed the trial. on friday was strength training, the PTI knocked every one down on the baking hot ground until every1 slighting burnt their palms.
we also had SAR21 and SAW technical handling test. some NE lectures .... and so on..
i only managed to book out on sat cos i didnt get gold for ippt or pass SOC.
i actually enjoyed my time in sispec cos everyone bonded very well with each other. everyday is full of laughter. =D
anyway on sat when i reached home, a person came to my doorstep and said "can i speak to lim yong tat...." at 1st my mum and i thot it's my friend but actually he's ... *wanted to type but i cannot reveal anything* .. he came in and i chatted with him on something. ...
that's all... ignore the last part.
7:33 pm
Sunday, July 01, 2007
sispec BSLC completed my 1st week in sispec. life here is definitely tougher than bmt.
went to my new camp on monday and i am once again posted to the F company. but it's called foxtrox instead of falcon. heard that there was no intake for foxtrox for the past few batches so nobody knows whether life here is tough anot. after the sgt told us our platoon, i went to my bunk and the saw gilbert(my ex-platoon mate). then realised that he is my buddy too. haha...
for this week, we attended lectures(mostly on safety), self-studied and learn how to handle SAR21, SOC, ippt.. and more.
i got sliver for ippt cos my running was 2second short of the gold timing. the rest of the stations were gold standard. i believe that i will have to stay for training on this coming sat just cos of 2seconds.
i did guard duty on thursday. we reported late for it cos we had ippt earlier on. by right my duty was supposed to starts at 7pm to 9pm, however the briefing ended at 8plus. so the superiors were rushing us to start our duties. as the 1st pair of prowlers, we did not know the route and checkpoints at all, and there was no1 to bring us around. i was holding the walkie talkie and had to communicate with the guardroom. i have to say that everything was quite disorganised. my next duty at 1am was better cos my platoon mate and i walked slowly and spent 1hr plus to complete 1 round. there was this irritating turn out drill whereby the siren sounded in the middle of the nite and everyone has to chiong out of bunk with LBV, draw rifle, bayonet, ammo. nonetheless, it was a nice experience.
2 special things about my coy is that there are gers, and all the 9 of them are in my platoon. and my OC banned vulgarities. think these are qutie uncommon in ns.
expecting another tough week. bb~!
3:04 am
Sunday, July 29, 2007
BSLC week 5
had live firing for SAW and SAR on monday. rather fun i should say.
had ippt. got gold
had gypsy2(topography exercise) at mandai. the 1st checkpt was only 110m from the startpt. we thot we would be able to find it easily, but after spending more than 2hrs, my team still could not find. so we tried to comms back to ask, but they didnt provide much clue. luckily a sgt was nearby, so he called for reinforcement.... 4 sgts came in to help. but couldnt find also.
unfortunately, during the process, 3 person got stung by wasps and 2 out of 3 person were sent back. so my team left 4 ppl. it was especially tiring cos we had less ppl to carry the load.
for the nite checkpt, we skirted the reseviour. after a long walk, the vegetation got thicker and thicker. surrounded by weird looking vegetation. =S we knew that for the checkpt, we need to bash even deeper.. but time didn't allow us to do it. it was a memorable experience in the forest with my friends.(nico, zx, and jl)
hmmmm... now it's halfway thru' the course already.! how i hope everythink can end soon.. heez..
this coming week would be fieldcamp. 4days3nites. monday to thurs. cant book out this weekend as they pushed forward the training programme to let us have off-in-lieu on friday 10th aug
so this book in will be 10days straight!!!!
august coming... which means my bday is coming too! too bad i have to celebrate my bday out in the field.... i dun know how i will feel on wed. no hp no comp to use! no bday cake.. no bday greetings..no presents..
so my father suggested celebrating lunar birthday instead. but when he checked the calandar, it falls on the same day. haha... i wonder wat's the probability of actual and lunar bday on the same day. cos the calandars are normally about 1 month apart. how lucky i am!
just wanna wish myself happy sweet 19 years old in advance.. plus 3 other BMT buckmates who share the same bday as me.
i shall end this post here. hopefully i get to book out on 8th aug and i will blog again!!!!
woOoOOOOoohooOOooooooO~!~!~!
3:43 pm
Sunday, July 22, 2007
BSLC week 4
week 4 was quite slack... didnt have much physical exercises. ... .. learnt lots of stuffs... like M203(grenade launcher), matador(light anti tank weapon), night vision goggles...etc...
had SOC also.... this time i passed... muahahaha... and my timing was below 9min 15s (passing time 10min30s). was quite surprised i could clear so quickly =)
had gypsy 1 on friday. we went navigating in mandai. hmm... quite a good exp but i must say i dun like bashing thru the forest..... day checkpts were okay.. but at nite we were stuck in the forest for over 3.5hrs to find a checkpt 1km away . :S
okay..... about time to book in.. tmr is live shooting for saw and sar...! i hate booking in!
8:57 pm
Monday, July 16, 2007
BSLC Week 3 hmm... did ippt test. got gold.
did SOC. failed the timing. lol..... running with load on me is tiring.
had fever on tues and wed. highest was 38.1. but my company dun realli let ppl see MO. my PC even told me it was normal to have such temp. wat a joke. .. but i was excused from the 5km fast march.
had signals lectures. and we had test on sat (and tt's how we got off on monday). the test was actually very fast, but the waiting time was long.
was the leader section commander for thurs and fri.
had basic navigation lectures.....
had a simple test of our navigation skills on fri. we had to use a compass to get to diff checkpts individually at a small plot of forest. the night test was quite scary and i just bashed my way thru to make sure i get out quickly.
have to book in at nite by 2300hrs. bb~!
2:42 pm
Sunday, July 08, 2007
BSLC week 2 week 2 is still filled with physical activities. had ippt on tue and didnt managed to get gold. haha... i ran 9min 46s. missed by 2s to gold. had SOC lessons also. the 1st SOC this week was quite tough. although we only carried SAR21 to clear the obstacles, the instructors made us run 1 round after each obstacle. tiring =S on thurs was the actual full run down, i didnt manage to clear the low rope and the time i took was 10min10s. so i failed the trial. on friday was strength training, the PTI knocked every one down on the baking hot ground until every1 slighting burnt their palms.
we also had SAR21 and SAW technical handling test. some NE lectures .... and so on..
i only managed to book out on sat cos i didnt get gold for ippt or pass SOC.
i actually enjoyed my time in sispec cos everyone bonded very well with each other. everyday is full of laughter. =D
anyway on sat when i reached home, a person came to my doorstep and said "can i speak to lim yong tat...." at 1st my mum and i thot it's my friend but actually he's ... *wanted to type but i cannot reveal anything* .. he came in and i chatted with him on something. ...
that's all... ignore the last part.
7:33 pm
Sunday, July 01, 2007
sispec BSLC completed my 1st week in sispec. life here is definitely tougher than bmt.
went to my new camp on monday and i am once again posted to the F company. but it's called foxtrox instead of falcon. heard that there was no intake for foxtrox for the past few batches so nobody knows whether life here is tough anot. after the sgt told us our platoon, i went to my bunk and the saw gilbert(my ex-platoon mate). then realised that he is my buddy too. haha...
for this week, we attended lectures(mostly on safety), self-studied and learn how to handle SAR21, SOC, ippt.. and more.
i got sliver for ippt cos my running was 2second short of the gold timing. the rest of the stations were gold standard. i believe that i will have to stay for training on this coming sat just cos of 2seconds.
i did guard duty on thursday. we reported late for it cos we had ippt earlier on. by right my duty was supposed to starts at 7pm to 9pm, however the briefing ended at 8plus. so the superiors were rushing us to start our duties. as the 1st pair of prowlers, we did not know the route and checkpoints at all, and there was no1 to bring us around. i was holding the walkie talkie and had to communicate with the guardroom. i have to say that everything was quite disorganised. my next duty at 1am was better cos my platoon mate and i walked slowly and spent 1hr plus to complete 1 round. there was this irritating turn out drill whereby the siren sounded in the middle of the nite and everyone has to chiong out of bunk with LBV, draw rifle, bayonet, ammo. nonetheless, it was a nice experience.
2 special things about my coy is that there are gers, and all the 9 of them are in my platoon. and my OC banned vulgarities. think these are qutie uncommon in ns.