Sunday, January 23, 2005
Finally time for me to do my weekly update of my blog. This week is a week of learning and change. Much of the things that happened and so much to type into my blog. A brief but accurate summary of the week.
Sunday: Went to camp, took over the office and mainly sat in my little cubicle waiting for phone calls and bringing the 'little children for their meals'. Slack but still my whole weekend was burnt. Finished reading The Poet by Michael C, City of Bones by Michael C and Black Notice by Patricia Cornwell. Too much time in the the office.
Monday: Nothing much happened except maybe i could not go for nights off due to the briefings. Relatively slack day. Learnt the art of patience and that everyone is equal juz that you cant always see the big picture.
Tuesday: Commander's Training. Dreaded but fun, yet scary. It is a very dangerous and ominous thing to have in the training program. It is like training with people you call superiors doing the things you expect the your subordinates to do. Fun though. The whole night was wasted becasue our superiors failed to coordinate their orders so left myself and jakson alone in the office without any orders. Lesson of the day: No one is perfect so dun expect all your plans to go smoothly.
Wednesday: Briefing, briefing briefing. All for the Thursday's live firing. Was Fun though but stressful especially when the vehicle indents screwed up and your CSM is screamin at you for things get done. Well it was a good day. Bought some food for the next day. Lesson of the day: do you prep early.
Thursday: Woke up and there was CSM screaming at everyone and everything. I managed to get everything working but it was a tad late so things got delayed and really not good. Once we reached there it was smooth sailing. Going everywhere in a rover. Playing with the communications. Chatting with the signaller about life and stuff. CSM was very good at teaching stuff. Learnt a lot. Lesson of the day: Everyone is smarter than you juz that you may not see it. Slept at 0440hrs.
Friday: Woke up at 5 am. Booked out and went home. Tired........ Slept till 10+ and had lunch. Played Golf and then went home to sleep again. Lesson of the day? Sleeping a lot does not make you more energetic.
Saturday: Woke up @0630hrs for breakfast and prep myself for soccer and my blood test. Went to the clinic at Outram for the test. The lab techs were super professional. Surprisingly not much time wasted. My blood must flow too freely. Went for soccer with my frens. Chris and Jon Dave were exceptional on the pitch so was our new fren Bing Jie though he could play more street soccer because his shots went wide and long. I guess i would too if i was a field player. I need to learn how to play proper soccer and not juz tackling. Had lunch in NYP. Food was cheap but choices were few. Mainly because it was 1pm. Went to Chris's house to play games. Ended up staying out till 1800hrs. Went home for dinner. Went to Jon Dave's place for soccer and watched Liverpool lose 2-0 to Southhampton. How many times have i seen that happn before?
Well, the week was hectic but hey it was fun. Hoping the coming one will be more fun and less stressful though in army, both are not exclusive of each other. HAHA!
Ciao!
Sunday: Went to camp, took over the office and mainly sat in my little cubicle waiting for phone calls and bringing the 'little children for their meals'. Slack but still my whole weekend was burnt. Finished reading The Poet by Michael C, City of Bones by Michael C and Black Notice by Patricia Cornwell. Too much time in the the office.
Monday: Nothing much happened except maybe i could not go for nights off due to the briefings. Relatively slack day. Learnt the art of patience and that everyone is equal juz that you cant always see the big picture.
Tuesday: Commander's Training. Dreaded but fun, yet scary. It is a very dangerous and ominous thing to have in the training program. It is like training with people you call superiors doing the things you expect the your subordinates to do. Fun though. The whole night was wasted becasue our superiors failed to coordinate their orders so left myself and jakson alone in the office without any orders. Lesson of the day: No one is perfect so dun expect all your plans to go smoothly.
Wednesday: Briefing, briefing briefing. All for the Thursday's live firing. Was Fun though but stressful especially when the vehicle indents screwed up and your CSM is screamin at you for things get done. Well it was a good day. Bought some food for the next day. Lesson of the day: do you prep early.
Thursday: Woke up and there was CSM screaming at everyone and everything. I managed to get everything working but it was a tad late so things got delayed and really not good. Once we reached there it was smooth sailing. Going everywhere in a rover. Playing with the communications. Chatting with the signaller about life and stuff. CSM was very good at teaching stuff. Learnt a lot. Lesson of the day: Everyone is smarter than you juz that you may not see it. Slept at 0440hrs.
Friday: Woke up at 5 am. Booked out and went home. Tired........ Slept till 10+ and had lunch. Played Golf and then went home to sleep again. Lesson of the day? Sleeping a lot does not make you more energetic.
Saturday: Woke up @0630hrs for breakfast and prep myself for soccer and my blood test. Went to the clinic at Outram for the test. The lab techs were super professional. Surprisingly not much time wasted. My blood must flow too freely. Went for soccer with my frens. Chris and Jon Dave were exceptional on the pitch so was our new fren Bing Jie though he could play more street soccer because his shots went wide and long. I guess i would too if i was a field player. I need to learn how to play proper soccer and not juz tackling. Had lunch in NYP. Food was cheap but choices were few. Mainly because it was 1pm. Went to Chris's house to play games. Ended up staying out till 1800hrs. Went home for dinner. Went to Jon Dave's place for soccer and watched Liverpool lose 2-0 to Southhampton. How many times have i seen that happn before?
Well, the week was hectic but hey it was fun. Hoping the coming one will be more fun and less stressful though in army, both are not exclusive of each other. HAHA!
Ciao!
# posted by Ian @ 9:28 AM 
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