Okayy now for a proper post before i book in later. Life in ETI is...tougher than I thought. As in the regimental is dam strict, compared to sispec at least. Im in the same bunk as my long-time buddy jon ang again. HAHAHA. The whole BTC-STW only has 2 platoons, im in plt 2, while raphael and sinyean are in plt 1.

All of us feel asif we're back to being recruits. We get scolded and punished for not singing while running. Hell, how much and how loud do they expect us to sing while we're running 4.5km? I was at the back, trying to lead songs all the way. Me and a few others reli try to lead until du lan liao, come back still kena scolded. Then water parade must say 7 core values/ specialist's creed. Wth sia. And we have dam lil admin time. I hardly have any time to stay in the bunk since first parade till last parade. And we always have activities until 9+pm. The bathing water is soooo freaking cold that i dread taking a bath even though im all sweaty and stuff. Of course, i still bathe. But ZOMG 2 platoons use 2 toilets for bathing. There's ALWAYS a long queue for the bath. So, 2 choices, either really rush up, strip, get bathing things and be first, or relax, wait for everyone to finish then go bathe. I've been doing the latter. Too lazy to rush.

And im the armskote 2ic now. Sian. Picked by random, i was thinking i wont so suay one. 46 ppl, choose 2 for armskote ic and 2ic. Somehow, i just kena. Lol suay. Had a stupid highway code with no prior experience, no revision or anything. So obviously, i failed to meet the 90% mark. Only got 64% the first try, 86% the second try, then finally PASS 90% at 3rd try. LOL. Anyway, life there is quite boring, lectures most of the time. Then lecture finish, go practical. It's been all about demolition this week, i wonder if we're doing something else next week.

For the first time in a long time, im actually feeling emo that i have to book in again. Iuno, i thought i should have gotten used to army life by now. Maybe its just the sudden change in regimental discipline thats hard for me to swallow. Im reli glad at least jon ang is in the same bunk as me again. Things are gonna be that much tougher if i dont have any close frens with me in ETI. But then again, i bet it's the same everywhere else. Heard from ching that boonping is saying air force is also dam strict. ASLC cant be any better, with darence wanting to ooc already. YJ's going to taiwan for 4 weeks armor training. Bahh, i reli envy hou cheng and jer who're gonna become 3SG next week or something. =/

Okayy enough of complaints. At least there's something to be happy about. I'm only gonna stay in ETI-BTC-STW until 14th Sept, which is when we will have completed our basic combat engineer course. Will be going back to PLC for beret ceremony on that day. Then post out again after that. Most likely CBRE at seletar camp, if i do well for the interview next week. I just hope life in cbre gets at least a lil better than this. Bleh.

My email inbox is flooded with "*name* confirmed you as a friend in Facebook". LOL.

Okayy i got my facebook up. Still dam empty, but better than nothing right. Heh. Imma take my time to update slowly lar. Bookouts are too precious to spend too much time in front of the comp. LOL.

3 ppl voted for me to set up a facebook acct! ZOMG i just remembered telling Japhet i'll set up a facebook acct and leave it there, but i didnt. LOL. Okay okay i'll prolly set up a facebook acct when i book out next week, if the total votes reach 5! Quite impossible i think, so few ppl reads my blog. I dont even know who are the 3! Hahaha.

Lemme guess, the 3 are: Bk? X'tine? Yong Jian? Tag in my board if i got it right! Heh.

Booking in tmr. I always knew nee soon camp wasnt v far from my house. I just went to check out the route, i'll say i only need 15 mins bus ride to reach. LOL. But hell, so many things to bring back tmr. Ahh.

Ohh did i mention? My mum is suddenly dam ON about how my house looks. She thinks it's reli messy. So over the course of this week, she threw away my sofa bed (im using my original sofa bed now), bought a new shelf to put in my room, bought a new tv shelf in the living room and threw away the old one, then bought a new single-seat sofa to put in living room. -_____________________________-" I duno what came to her all of a sudden, but she's even having plans to buy a new house now. She just told my dad that they should find time to go look at new houses. Of course, we're not gonna sell my current house...now. Wait till 2015, got MRT and sports complex in bukit panjang, then sell. PROFIT. $.$ Oh well, i dont mind moving house actually, i think the house is getting a bit too small. But nahh, not gonna be anytime soon.

I finally ate at Kai's Fan Club (KFC) ytd for dinner. First time eating KFC ever since NS started. LOL. Then had buffet at Sakura for lunch today. TOTALLY FATTENING. Im so gonna die during PTs in camp. =/

Wish me good luck for cbre! Do everything in gas mask, even bball. LOL.

Leave out all the rest

Okayy sorry for the lack of updates, cos my stupid laptop broke down on sunday! Block leave start, laptop die. Great. And since i had to go to camp on mon and tues, i couldnt send it for repair until wed, and i only got it back ytd. At least im glad it only took 2 days to repair it. I sent my earphones in for repair as well. Sennheiser was nice enough to give me a free upgrade of my earphone, from MX75 to MX85 Sports II, cos they said the MX75 is 'beyond repair'. LOL. And yea, i got my earphones ytd as well. Cool.

Not having my laptop with me didnt really bother me much cos im already used to it through NS. Hahaha. I just played my PS3 when i got time. Im hooked onto Prototype now. ZOMG this game is INSANELY FUN! Okayy definitely not the type of game for ppl who cant take gore and strong violence. It's rated M18 after all. But ZOMG the fast paced action and dark, intriguing storyline makes it the best game i've ever played. But since there's gore, i got to be careful when my parents are at home, they'll prolly scold me if they see the game. There was once, i was playing, then my mum just sat down at the sofa, watching me play while shes eating some fruit. I didnt even dare to go around fighting stuff, i just jumped and flew from building to building, enjoying the scenery. LOL.

Official news that a cheaper, slimer ps3 is coming out. I doubt im gonna sell my current ps3 to get it. No point. If we're talking about PSP, where u need to carry it around wherever u go, then yea u prolly wan a slimer version. But ps3 u're just gonna plug it to ur tv and leave it on the ground. So yea, no point. Heh.

Tmr is the last day of block leave. Im gonna stay home and emo about how i got no more leaves to take for this year. Boohoo. =/

Insomnia

Hmm lets see where should i start. Grand slam was okayy, quite shag, shell scrape was crap. Went back to camp and had section live firing the following day. I didnt have COS duty that weekend, so all was good.

Had urban ops the following week. Warrant Billay? Pillay? was dam funny. SLOW IS SMOOTH! SMOOTH IS FAST! Then i was sect comm those 2 days, so i had to take charge at our road control point at night. Our pwo suddenly drove the stupid rover dam fast and charged into our RCP. I thought he was testing our drills, so I was like "HALT! HALT! HALT OR I'LL SHOOT!" and my section just all started firing blanks at him. LOL. Of course, nothing happened 'cept we were told not to fire anymore blanks.

Back to camp, I was told last minute that I got regimental guard duty that friday, so i was only allowed to go home on sat morning. I was dam pissed at that moment, cos we had to book in again that sat night to prepare for route march. Bleh. I was tasked to do desk duty with Ivan Xu. We planned to take turns throughout the 14 hours of duty. Plan was for me to sleep first while he do. But hell, 8.30pm got riot drill, 9.30pm got staff parade, 10.30pm got turn-out, i sleep what crap? Then in exchange for the CDO to not have another turnout, the PTI guard comm agreed to do all the saikang for him. And i was the only one who woke up at 11+pm to help him with it. Did till 2am then it was my turn to do desk duty. -__________________________________-" So basically i didnt sleep much at all. But i think it was quite fun lar, learnt quite a bit about guard duty stuff. Heh.

So sunday was NDP, and we had to go back for a 28km route march. Was quite tiring. Breaks in between were supposed to be 15 mins, but we took only 5 mins for most of the breaks. Lunch break was supposed to be 1 hour, but we only took a bit more than half an hour? The distance was obviously more than 28km, and I heard from duno who that a commander took a GPS to measure the distance, and it was actually 34km. LOL. The march immediately after lunch was the most shag for me, but i took a power nap during the next break, and i felt all refreshed. No problem with the march thereafter. And i was helping the rest who were lagging behind. Heh. Came back at 5+pm, parents were all waiting for us at coy line already. Its dam funny how we were supposed to proceed to leader's square to watch NDP, but all of us were walking like we have a crippled leg. LOL. And NDP was quite funny, the part where...isit MP? supposed to juggle their rifle, one of them missed and dropped the rifle. Duno what song the lyrics supposed to have "Cause" but it was shown on tv as "Cos". HAHAHA. MSN language for the win!

Monday holiday, tuesday also off day for us. So i went back to CJC with ivan, eugene and jerome. Was good to see all the teachers again. There are sooo many new teachers now. Wanted to have a good talk with tan jek suan but he had meeting. Wanted to meet Mrs Renne Lee but she wasnt in school. =/ But at least i got to meet some of my juniors too! X'tine and jon *ahem*, emo, junyi, hutt shun, richmond, chris lye, cherie, eunice... Saw val toh and grace too, but they cant seem to recognise me xD

Then we had Chevron's night that day. Basically a mini party for our coy at the chevron's. Didnt have to pay anything and got food got beer. What's there to complain about? Heh. Okay lar, only for a short 2 hours+, but i had fun! And apparently echo and foxtrot coy dont have this thing. Poor thing.

Booked in on wed afternoon..nothing much. 'Cept Japhet bullied my buddy Darence, so i played a lil prank on him. I first put my empty kiwi can in japhet's bedsheet. Of course he just took it out and threw it away. Then i know that he leaves his sandals outside while he bathes. So i took my black camou cream and put it in his sandals. He came out, walk walk then realized his whole feet was black. He thought somehow kiwi ended up on his legs. Then i put more black camou on his lock key, and water bottle cap. The following morning, he touched all those areas and went for breakfast. He wiped his mouth with his hands, so his mouth was black as well. HAHAHA. He didnt understand what was happening, and just took it that the kiwi he threw away wanted revenge, so the kiwi god was there to exact vengeance. LOL. Okay basically these last few days was dam funny lar, everyone ended up having black cream on them after they wake up. HAHAHA.

Very last day of BSLC. Graduation parade ended at 8+am. We waited until 4+pm before our posting were out. -.-" Soo yea, i got into Engineer Training Institute, CBRE. Gonna be in the same camp as gab bro. Heh. Again, im going to the same place as JONATHAN ANG ZHEN YI. Buddy from BMT, go sispec together, now ETI together. Zai.

Supposed to have 1 week block leave next week. But i dont have enough leaves to take, so i needa go back camp on mon and tues. Sian.

Heh sorry for the lack of updates, been really lazy. But i promise a LONG post after i pass out from SISPEC tmr. =D