CNY and short week with 3 guard duties in it.............

It is the annual chinese new year and a new year of the ox. But it is a sad opening to a new year with me doing guard duties 3 times this short week. Anyway, i already knew i was doing wednesday's complex guard duty which was on the third day of CNY. Anyway, there's still another which i volunteer in doing which was on the first day of CNY night which was a 12 hour shift as it was CNY. I thought i was not going to do another one but to my surprise, i found out last week on friday that i will be doing another guard duty on sunday( the seventh day of CNY). Seventh day of CNY is so-called another important day in the 15 days of CNY cause the chinese will celebrate the birthday of every born chinese. It is therefore known as human festival. So this year cannot celebrate with my family as i will be doing guard duty tomorrow for the third time in a week. As the guard duty thing settling down after a talk with our sgt that is planning it for us. Now the guard duty planned is more fair and we are all clear abt it. Anyway, i don really blame the sgt that much as on my part i also long time did not do a weekend duty lol. So this will be a short weekend for me as i will be booking in tonite. Anyway, hopefully there will not be any weekend duties for me in march. Or i will complain and see that something is done. Back to CNY, the ang baos collected was almost equal to last year's. This CNY, i planned carefully as i knew i had to do my duty in camp. So first day of CNY, my family and i went first with my 3rd uncle's family in his van to my 2nd aunt's house for a visit. After that, went to my grandma's place in toa payoh. Ya, all the morning, my family has been visiting relatives from my mother's side. After that, we went to my father's side relatives starting from my 2nd uncle's place to my grandma's place which houses her and my 6th uncle's family. After that, it is abt 5pm and we went back to my grandma's place(mother's) to collect my bag containing my stuffs of army which i left there earlier. My family also had dinner there. My family and i stayed there till it is time for me to go back camp for my guard duty. On the second day of CNY, i finished my guard duty and one of my sgts sent me home in his car. I reach home at abt 9.30am and after waking up the whole family. We started visiting again with visiting my first aunt's house(mother's) a few blocks away, the time was then abt 11am when we reach her house. After that, we went to my first aunt's house(father's) in redhill taking bus 132 from hougang bus interchange. Then after, we went to bedok for a visit to my second aunt's place(father's). After that, we decided it was time to go grandma's place for another visit. Anyway, it was almost a practice for my family to visit grandma's place 2 times in CNY. Anyway, in the end, we separated. My mother and i went to my mother's side grandma's place while my father and brother went the other side to the other grandma's place. In the night, my father and brother went to look for us and we were reunited before i went back camp for wednesday complex guard duty. So there's this year CNY for me. As for thursday and friday were normal days in camp. Book out yesterday night for this short weekend. Actually i planned to stay home as it was book in day for me today, but my torchlight was not working and i needed one for the upcoming outfield next monday, so in the early afternoon went to beach road to buy one before heading home. Anyway, my cousin came over to use my computer at abt 2pm. I saw him and talk before heading to beach road. I reach home abt 5pm after buying the torch and heard my cousin left my house at abt 4.30pm. Ya, this is my short weekend ba! Update again next weekend..........................

A short outfield with surprises installed after that..........

This week in camp, we had coastal hook outfield in a day(wednesday) where it is a special ops involving assault boats in the sea. After that, we went back in the night. But on thursday and friday, we train in the new urban training area in Murai which is in Lim chu kang. Quite tiring though but when we came back to camp, we found out that there were surprises installed for our platoon. The surprise was not for me actually but also involving me in some way. Anyway, this revolved around the guard duty still. This is the second week i complained abt guard duty i guess. Anyway, this time the sgt is really irresponsible and was on off somemore. At first, the guard duty on friday should involve a storeman, me and my section 2IC but due to urban ops training, my company 2IC ask my sgt to cancel my section 2IC and my name for the duty. Since then, he did not put any names for the 2 slots for the guard duty, until when we return from outfield, the bikees found that they were on duty and this shocked them as they thought they could go home that friday. A lot had been then debated, in conclusion, one of the bikees and a signaller decided to do it. The sgt was so irresponsible not only because of this but because a driver tried to call them to ask and could not get him, so he ask another sgt to call and finally that irresponsible sgt decide to put up the phone, and when ask he just reply with a answer of 'oh'. Anyway, the whole platoon of mine decide to talk to him on next week after CNY. Ok, done with army stuffs. Now, today is already First day of the ox year. I wish everyone a happy and joyous ox year. Hope everyone earn a lot in the new year. Great health to all in the new ox year! Lastly, Happy lunar new year to all! Update in a while.......................................

Another week in camp........................

Normal week in camp as duty calls upon our company for this month till after chinese new year. Actually this just means doing more guard duties for this month. Just did one on last friday, and what's worse is doing guard duty after a 8km route march. I was so tired after that though had to perform the guard duty. Suppose to book out in friday. Anyway, because of guard duty can't book out. But saturday had an open house cum chinese new year celebration in our unit was force to bring family members as to book out early on saturday afternoon. Anyway, brought my mother and brother to my camp for the open house. Had an appointment with my insurance agent to collect my insurance policy after the open house held in camp. But anyway, i sort of was release early at abt 1pm with my mother and brother. After that, i rushed home with them. Reach home at abt 3pm, pack things and 10 mins after, went out as i was late for the appointment. Went to meet her at bugis and reach at abt 3.45pm. The good thing is i got the policy finally, talk to her for a while before heading to vivo city where i supposed to watch a movie with my friends(seb and ah kiong). Watch the movie at 5.20pm. The movie is Red cliff 2. The movie was exciting with the fighting scenes, though the movie ending is not very great but overall the movie is ok. After the movie, it is already 8pm and we went to had our dinner at chinatown hawker centre where i spotted a empty table by luck very quickly. I had sliced fish soup and rice that day as i was still coughing and decided to take something light that night. After that, we went home at abt 10pm. Sunday as usual! Update again next week!!!

New year of 2009 and camplife resumes to 5 days work-week lol!

A bit not comfortable as previously in december had a lot of long weekend. So when new year hits and i resume my normal soldier life, i feel not adjusted back yet. Anyway, the past week in camp was outfield for 3 days and 2 nights of mission based exercise from tuesday to thursday night before we came back to our camp premises. The exercise was not as tough as i expected, quite relax through. Ok, normal routine resumes and we book out on a friday night for this weekend. This weekend actually nothing much as i think was a bit tired after the outfield ended. Saturday went out for a while with a company mate of mine in the evening and play arcade games in suntec before going home at abt 10pm yesterday. Yesterday also last day for the open houses of the various polys. Actually planned to go but in the end because of time, decided not to go after all. Anyway, the application of JPAE also have not started for this year. Need to ask MINDEF soon before the application opens for the poly i guess. Hopefully can start my studies in april this year. Today, same going back camp lol! This upcoming week so sian lol cause saturday got open house in my camp so have to stay till saturday afternoon before coming out from camp. Sian lol! That's all folks! Haha! See you guys next week!

First post of the year 2009.................

It is the first post of 2009. Before looking ahead of what should be installed for me, first we should update the following which is the last week of 2008. Abt this last week of year 2008, before that, i had a long christmas weekend, for this last week of 2008 is the same, i also had a long weekend even longer than the christmas one. Anyway, i returned to camp only on monday nite which is the 29 dec. That whole day started with my body not feeling very good as i suffered from flu, sore throat and cough. Anyway, i still return back to camp without fail as i feel it is only a day in camp and will not do anything serious to my illness. That night, i went back to camp feeling restless and tired from the illness. I went back to camp to rest for the next day. The next day supposed to take a SOC test but did not take as i was really not feeling well. Anyway, there was nothing much after that. I successfully book out in the night, though i was not feeling very good but better at that point of time. Went to eat at jurong point with a group of army friends before going back home to rest for this long new year weekend starting from last wed till today. All the while this time, my illness though it is better but my flu is on and off. Anyway, went out for new year's eve with 2 of my ite friends. Met up abt 3pm before we went looking for lunch and had pasta at the pastamania in cathay cineleisure before walking around orchard and watching a movie at cineleisure itself. We watch IP man at abt 5.10pm till 7pm before heading down to plaza singapura to shop around. After that, went to SMU to play wireless game of mario party before heading home for that day. For new year's day itself supposed to be going out with my secondary sch friends, but there were no news and in the evening i was bored so went out with 1 of my army friends to suntec to walk around before heading to bugis to have our dinner there. After that, i headed home. For friday, i went out with my parents as my father return with the news that he would not be working on sunday starting this year. He returned in the afternoon and since i had no program and my father proposed going to the airport which he hadn't been to the new terminal 3 since it opened. So i follow my parents to the airport that afternoon, we started walking from the newest terminal 3 where we dropped from the bus 27. We walked through all the terminals and viewed all the viewing malls to see planes. But my parents and i were disappointed to see the viewing mall as it is grown smaller and smaller over time. Remember when i was young, my parents would sometimes bring me to the airport for a walk. I remember the viewing mall was bigger and there would be a lot of planes for us to watch and see. Anyway, we went to the budget terminal even as i wanted to ease my curiosity for the terminal itself. Disappointing results in the end, there was nothing much to see or watch. But anyway, remember i wanted to i-weekly which i forgotten to buy it earlier in the week so bought the i-weekly there. After that, we took a bus and went back to hougang central where we had our dinner over there before heading home for the day. For yesterday, i also supposed to meet my sec friends but to no avail. So same thing since my father was around, i suggested going to tampines to walk around. It was in the afternoon that we decided to go. But decided to go in the evening abt 5pm, my brother didn't go as he met his friends for an overnight cycling trip. So my parents and i headed to walk tampines. First, we decided to go GIANT hypermart in tampines before heading to tampines central to shop the malls over there. So we reach home late yesterday abt 11pm, i descibe late cause my parents seldom go out till so late. Haha, with me around, very hard to say. Anyway, that's the whole long weekend for the new year. Today finally, it is booking in day and for me to return to camp for the outfield week ahead of me. Sian, long holidays had ended. Time for outfield training to carry on, although i hate it but nothing much that i can do i guess. Hopefully, i will suffer through this last few outfields ba. Let's pray for the best!!! Will update again!!!