Yo yo yo~ guess who's back?!

I do have a computer in bunk but since there's no photos to post and no leaking of secret of OCS. I don't really see the point of updating anything. I believe none of the blog reader will like to know what I'm doing in camp.

Just try to imagine a similar entry repeating for the entire 4 weeks with no photos attach to it. How bored it is, right?

Anyway, I had endure till the forth week and going to the fifth. How fast time pass in OCS. One month down and eight more months to go. There's tons of confinements and remedial trainings awaiting.

If you are wondering what had I done for the pass 4 weeks, all I can say in blog is doing lots of exercise, technical handling of some cool weapons and lots of STUDIES!

You guys might think that going to Army is only exercise, punishment and sleep. But I'm here to change your mindset. As Army is going towards 3rd Generation, we, the poor soldiers, got tons to read up and also learning of advanced technologies. But somehow it's really fun!

Other than doing all the things mentioned above,we also had our OCS Family Day on the 2nd week of the confinement. So other inviting my Mum and Aunty Nancy, I had invited friends to the Family Day.

Really got to thank Junhao, Joanna and Yunshan for taking up their precious time to come and visit me during the confinement week. You might think that I'm being mushy here but I got to tell you guys being confined for 3 week in camp with platoon mates that you don't really know them well is tough. Upon seeing CLOSE friends and relatives, you'll know how important are they in your life.

So, other than training us to be physically fit, I guess OCS did a great job on changing cadets' thinking and letting us understand the importance of family and friends.

I guess I'm too long winded here. Gonna cut the entry short and show you guys some photos taken during the OCS Family Day.

This is called the SAFTI Tower and I swear to you guys that the view from top is spectacular! The top of the tower is designed with 3 sides and each individual side has different meaning to it. It consisted of an aerial view of HDB which symbolised HOME, aerial view of a 24 hours non stop working port which symbolised WORK and last but not least the aerial view of OCS and other Army camps around it which symbolised ARMY.

The first week of the confinement, we were made to run from the first floor of the tower to top of it. Who the fuck will think it's fun when you're doing it early in the morning like 6am! But upon seeing the sun rise from the tower, all the pain we had during the climb were all wiped off.






Not forgetting the home cooked food prepared by my Mum. Love my Mum so much! Gonna thank her for waking up early to prepare such mouthwatering meal for me and my friends. The food might be simple but it's heart warming!

A little bit of green green stuff for my Muslim friends.

Selamat Hari Raya!!

Enjoy your 'holidays' as much as you can. Cause some of my unlucky Muslim friends got to book in tomorrow and gonna miss the paying visit and stuff.


Tomorrow will be the day! Erm. The FIRST day in OCS. Hope that everything will goes smoothly till the end of Commission. I know I can. I will overcome all odds and strive till the end. *bleh*

Nonsense.

But I, seriously, hope I could do something to let my parent feel proud about me. Not saying I'm always letting them down. This is something extra I'm doing for them. Right?

I'll be confined for the next 3 weeks. I don't mind the confinement if I got good buddy to share bunk with. Because it will be 2 beds per room and which means it's only me and my buddy in a room. I want a fun and wild buddy. Of course, he got to be helpful too. Not a nerd, not a bossy one and most importantly not some boring people.

I heard that there will be personal computer in each bunk too. But chances are, the PC will only be placed there and we'll hardly have time to use it. Come on. I know the Sirs will say things like, "You guys are here to train. Not to use computers. If you want to use, might as well Out Of Course (OOC) now. Don't waste your time; don't waste my time."

The computer in bunk will be like the Recruits' relaxing room, street soccer field and basketball court we had in Tekong. Can see, cannot touch. *shrug*

What to do? We're TRAINEE. :)

Alright. Got to stop all the complains and get some sleep now. If not I wouldn't be able to wake up tomorrow morning.

End of block leave. Chiong for the future. I'll take care of myself. :)

To Lead, To Excel, To Overcome

Stop staring at my cock!

Posting are out. Some are happy and some are not. People who are happy, good for you. People who are not, suck it up. I think the only thing to blame is the system.

Unfortunately, the Company Best from the Best Company, Jaguar Company, didn't get into OCS. How unlucky. But I'm sure somehow, he'll be able to crossover to OCS after SISPEC. All I can do is to wish him all the best and hope he gets into OCS after SISPEC.

If you are wondering how am I feeling now, I can only tell you that I'm excited about going back camp on the 22nd September. But somehow, I'm worried about other factors that I guess I wouldn't be elaborate more in here. All I want is to complete the course and feel proud of what I had done in OCS. Hope nothing will stop me.

One more bad new, I'll be confine for 3 weeks in camp. I heard there's computer in bunk, but I doubt we will actually have the time to use it. And I can forseen that there's tons of fire drill in first 2 weeks and of course, without saying, if we don't meet timing for every fuck shit we are supposed to do, I'm prepared for some blood to be pumped into my brain. That's military life and I had accepted it. Have you? LOL!

Name:

TOH BUN CHIN

Comd SAF BMTC wishes you all the best in your future posting.
Your Posting Order is listed below:
1.	You are posted to	OCS (ARMY WING).
2.	Your vocation is	OFFICER CADET (CBT).
3.	Your are to report to:	SAFTI Military Institute, Warrior's Hall.
	Reporting Date/Time:	22/09/2009 at 0700 to 0800 hrs.
	Person to report to:	Student Affrs Offr
	Contact Number:	6799-7654/7066
	You are required to report in smart no.4 uniform (PES E recruits to be in No 3 uniform), except for those assigned to Police Force.
4.	Special Instruction:	No Camera Handphone is allowed.

To All, the owner of this blog will be away for 3 days... ...

15th September 2009 - 17th September 2009

Gonna drink, drank, drunk... ... ...

Take care everyone!

Ciao~

:)

It's a rare scene to see the ten of us gathered together for dinner. Everyone is busy with either work or studies. Thanks for taking out some of your precious time to make this dinner a very memorable one.

一转眼, the ten of us had knew each other for three years. It's not easy to maintain such friendship when everyone is busy with their individual commitment. But to a certain extend, this group of friends had proven me wrong. I can proud to say that I'm a lucky chap, because most of the friendship I had are like them.

Who need thousands of friend but only one out of the thousand really care for you. Right?

For such wonderful friendship, the 'ZekArk 二人组' will present to you the latest poster we had for 2009. Do right click and 'save imagine as...'

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Ladies and Gentlemen. Present to you, the TRAINED soldiers...............

POP loh!!!!!!! Now you can call me Private Toh cause I'm no longer a Recruit. ^^

I've actually spent my birthday in camp and I swear it's the toughest birthday I had ever been though in my life!

How do I celebrate? I celebrated my birthday by marching 24km with a field bag weighing like a ton with LVB and rifle on.

To be frank, I felt like giving up so many time during the march. But I'm so glad I didn't give up and endure though the whole route march. Of course, I got to thank people who talked to me during the walk to distract me from the pain and people who listened to my complain. LOL.

Like there's a chinese saying, "天底下没有不散的宴席"

Which means that there's never be a banquet that will never end. Every thing will come to an end. Same goes to my BMT life. But at least I told myself I had gain lots of experience and lose 7kg! That's not the important part! The other important thing I know I had gain is Friendship. Malay friend, Indian friend, Chinese friend, noisy friend, animal looking friend, 'Girl'-friend... ...

...and Seragents and Officers that had looked after us during this three months of training...

...how can I forget the person who carried me in her stomach for ten months and always be there when there are important events like this. Always taking good care of me and make sure I'm well fed. Thanks Mum.

This year, additional love from my relatives and knowing new friends in army is the best present I had even receive in my whole life. It worth more than anything else because it's PRICELESS.

Thank God. :)

Three months of Basic Military Training life is finally coming to an end. Though this training, I got to know so many friends from different individual background. Platoon mate like Yao Zhong De, the Pro Yo-Yo player; Richard Kong, the guy with a GPA of 3.99 and award winner of the Lee Kuan Yew Award. Don't you think they are special?

Not forgetting each and everyone in my bunk:

Guoquan aka CASH, Rias aka F.S, Richard, Weixiong aka Monjo JOJO, Fattah, Kenneth, Boon Hao, Sara aka Tamil Leopard, Raj the grizzly bear, Haikuan and Kenny.

They are the one who went though toughs and roughs with me. I guess the memorable thing that we will never forget were the 'chaos' and laughter brought by Kenny and Raj. But I got to save the biggest THANK YOU to my buddy, Tie Boon Hao, who helped me and took good care of me when I'm in need. Thanks bro. And congrat on the Company Best PT.

Not forgetting 2LTA Wiggy, 2nd SG Ronald, 3SG Han Rui, Arif, Kevin and Jonathan.

Soon, we will be having our last 24KM route march together as one and we'll be separated to different unit. I sincerely hope that everyone will enter the unit they wanted to go and meet up more often.

3 more days to POP. Hope that the next phrase of my military life will be as fun as now.

090909... POP LOH~!!!! ^^ Oh.. and HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOOHH~~~~!!!!

I was chatting with Shan online when I totally forget about my piggy and turtle shape mooncake in the oven. They turned out looking so burnt and died. LOL.

But please don't doubt my baking skills! The traditional mooncakes I made are perfectly okay. LOL.

28.08.09

It's been long since I last stepped into Hua Yi Secondary School. The memories of the good old days simply flash back. Remembered the days when I'm always late for school and staying back in school till so freaking late. Oh~ sweet memories.

Met up with Joanna and Peiqi.


Miss HYBand so so much thou I don't really know most of the juniors. Miss playing trombone too. Did play awhile when I returned to Hua Yi yesterday. Wasn't that bad for a person who didn't touch trombone like nearly a year.

Last but not least, gonna thank Joanna for the 'Tai Yang Bing'!

13 weeks of Recruit life is coming to an end. 2 more weeks and we'll be though! Hopefully I'll stand a chance to get into Command School. That's part of my wish now.

After so so so much of physical training sessions in army, I seen lots of improvement on myself. But I know it's not enough! My standing board jump suck! SBJ is the only station I couldn't do well!

I FAILED my IPPT because of this and I know that I could simply obtain a Silver if my SBJ performed better. I'm seriously praying so hard that I could perform well for the final IPPT next week!

I know I can do it!

And I believe... ...

"Tough Time Don't Last; Tough Man does!"

It's National Day today and thanks to this festive, I got an extra day out to enjoy myself outside.

Went to look for Huiying at Timbre and not forgetting Simz.

Anyway at exactly 8.22pm tonight, the civil defence will sound the public chime and all Singaporean are invited to recite the national pledge together. Are you in?

I'm back from my six days field camp. Though this six days, I had learned, seen, handled and experienced lots of things.

I guess the toughest part of the camp is practically the high kneeling part. In order to avoid being spotted by enemies, all of us got to do high kneel to keep ourselves low. The more we kneel, the more bruises I got.

I also experienced being a Company In Charge during the camp. Things were not as easy as I thought. Being an In Charge of the entire company and kept things running smoothly wasn't easy. From organizing manpower to passing down important messages without breaking it. Oh yeah, and communication between IC and sub-ICs, while I think I had failed on. I was quite disappointed with myself thou.

Other than the minor failures I had made during the field camp, memorable things like first time seeing fireflies and get closed to a wild boar made my field camp an unforgettable one. For now I'm sitting in my living room, all I could flash back was the beautiful scenes of fireflies flying around me. Instead of all the tough trainings and painful punishment we got during our outfield.

I know I'm growing stronger day by day and most importantly is experiencing things that changes my mind and point of views.

Last by not least, I'm so grateful to have such thoughtful and understanding Sergeants and Sirs in my platoon.

Anyway, I'll try my best to update more.

Temperature Monitoring: 130709
0800: 37.1°C
0955: 37.7°C
1030: 37.2°C
1057: 37.5°C
1119: 37.2°C
1154: 37.0°C
1215: 37.0°C
1236: 36.9°C
1257: 37.0°C
1332: 36.8°C
1356: 37.0°C
1405: 37.1°C
1427: 37.2°C
1443: 37.2°C
1505: 37.0°C

Every morning, I'll feel so blessed to see the morning sun and knowing that I managed to stay alive instead of leaving my love ones behind.

I woke up this morning and took my temperature. Unfortunately, the temperature didn't went down but remains on the high peak.

I had been taking medicine on time and drank lots of water but still there's no improvement and even sign of recovering.

My throat hurts like shit when I started coughing. Damn.


Temperature Monitoring: 120709
0800: 38.3°C
0900: 38.5°C
1021: 38.1°C
1233: 37.1°C
1648: 38.3°C
1804: 38.4°C
1829: 38.1°C
1709: 38.0°C
1741: 38.3°C
2017: 38.1°C
2047: 38.0°C
2106: 37.9°C
2152: 38.0°C