My saturdayT Sunday, June 29, 2008
Saturday is my only day which there is no left right left, no lights out and stuff so you can put it as the best day of every week.
Started the morning with soccer with my usual sec sch friends, was quite tired actually cause leg was aching from training during the week, anyway, the session was cut short cause went out to meet Zephyr after that.
Met Zephyr at Heeren before heading down to NYDC wheelock place. Been a long time since I met her, so we caught up with lots of stuff, chatting and joking as usual. Then accompanied her for abit of shopping before we left for our own stuff again.
Met Boshi and Gabriel for dinner at amk beore going to new york new york with Jer,treviz,Alicia and new friend Kendra. Then slack at S-11 coffeeship before cabbing back home, anyway ought band of brothers and watch 3 of the 10 parts today, so going to carry on ,every sunday when I book out.
My life today.
4:57 PM
2nd Walk Out AgainT Friday, June 27, 2008
While ,2nd walk out, the feeling is not as excited as the first one maybe cause this time it was shorter and we are getting more used to life inside.
Anyway,the week started depressing cause we were back in camp at 9pm on Sunday but it was much better as monday start and progress,this week, my bunk was great, brought in iron,iron board, foodies, drinks and stuff all out and share. My bunkmate are seriously fantastic I should say. :P
Had more jokes this week as well, hha, it was much more friendly environment. Started PDT training and swiming,PDT basically is learning how to use the different police equipment which I had to use next time. It was mentally challenge as we got to move to the steps for like 4 hours.
But I guess what one of my instructor say is true. A police is trained to really use our skill but army are just train for deterence with very low chance of using what they learn.
Anyway, weekend is here, gonna enjoy them :P
My life today.
9:44 PM
My first week of NS lifeT Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Ok by right, I should walk out this friday but was given MC yesterday and was allowed home and must walk in back to camp tonight at 9pm.
The first few days were quite boring, beside the morning PT, we were slacking thoughout due to doing administration stuff which can take the whole afternoon. I guess system could be faster but probably they just wanna test our patience or they aint too bother about improving the system, so basically was sitting in the hall or drill shed until my butt hurt big time.
So a typical day would be waking up at about 5am and get ready for water parade at 5.45am and then fall in at 6.30am for morning PT which usually last a minimum of 1 hour and 15minutes, it can be longer though before going for our breadfast then we had our footdrill training all the way till lunch time. So normally from lunch till like 3pm,there will be no training so we will be resting in our own bunk or having short nap on the floor since we are not allowed to be on our bed from 6am - 7pm. Then we had either drills, PT or stuff to improve our fitness before going for dinner. Then after dinner is slack time again until8pm where we had our water parade before doing whatever we want until 10.30 pm and that is when the lights will be out.
I guess my squad is quite fun and my bunkmate are crappy. haha, we crap day in and out and wasting our time, countdown to walk out. I guess the worse part is over which is staying in over saturday and sunday. The senior poked fun at us last friday while doing their jogging, they shouted " 1,2,3,4 LEFT RIGHT LEFT, 4,3,2,1 HOME SWEET HOME" . And I guess this is what we will do when the next month intake comes in, probably gonna see some friends coming in as well and yea, waiting for POP as well and let me post to NPC. :)
Anyway, going to walk in at 9pm tonight ,friday going to walk out agian till sunday. Cannot wait for that, as each day pass, means its nearer to the end :P
My life today.
10:55 AM
Final post before enlistmentT Sunday, June 8, 2008
Spend saturday having soccer with my secondary school pals, it was great at the carpark again. Quite tiring though but soccer still the best ever stuff in the world.
After that went for Sarah Fan birthday bbq which I saw the others like Nat, melissa,samatha, some farmiliar faces and group of new people like Alicia and Darryl the one other guy we had lots of crap chat with. It was fun seeing Nat and Jer doing lots of stunt like making jer drinking some mixture and them whacking each other, poor Nat but it was all for entertainment value. I want some photos I took there.
Sunday and had dim sum lunch with my parents and cousins before heading down to AMK hub to catch sex and the city with Shahul,Kent,Jer,Meiqi,BaoYun,Cherie,Kimberly and Xinyi. Kelvin Phua joined us for awhile after the movie and kinda slack and chat up before heading back home.
While, Tuesday gonna be my enlistment. Suddenly feel that its like the first main chapter of life is going to end and NS is the start of the next. Its like I dont know what going to happen ,I dont how the people are, I dont know the kind of environment,even though people are all saying, its slack to be in Police but then again, its still the unknown SO hopefully it gonna be real great.
But then thanks to the type of life I been having, I'm really thankful I got a life that compromises of a large variety of activities and different type of friends been with me.
Anyway, will update on how life in HTA after my first book out :P
My life today.
11:42 PM
Tampines Sec campT Thursday, June 5, 2008
TAMPINES SECONDARY SCHOOL CAMP
2ND-4TH June 2008
The Final Camp
DAY1
Started the camp by being late for 30minutes with Baoyun,Patrick and Wei Jie. Met my group which was class 2T1, I guess we had the least number of people with 26 in total and luckily I had the nosier peeps in my group.
Basically,we only had nature rumble for day1 and no general station because they are good in delaying time so left like 15minutes, so just do campfire prep instead, no harm deal.
Had kidnap in the night and we won after 3 tries. KUDOSSS.
DAY 2
ISS was late so all activities wer pushed back and with all the briefing , I left just 8minutes to get my campers up there so in the end I cleared only 4 of them before proceeding on for campfire preparation which was rather a slow process. Anyway, had abseiling after that.
CRC for the next 4 hours before campfire prep again.
And end of the night with campfire, it was an emotional campfire. I cried for the memories. Anyway ,my group performed Low by flo rida, it was quite a nice dance.
Camped ended on the 3rd day with cleaning, was lucky to be cleaning the dining hall instead.
To my class 2T1 : Always remember that all of you are stars but question how bright do you want yourself to be. Its not that you are dumb that why you are in N/T, its just about the acadamic qualification. Your attitude and character are more important that result. Dont ever think you are stupid, cause if you do, then you really stupid. I believe in all of you to do well in whatever you do, so stop that thinking and be more confident, I will always root for you.
It had been a great camp with all of you, full of fun and laughter had 6 great leaders with you at all times, I will cherish the times we had:)
My own thoughts.
Finally my last camp. To being with I would like to thanks the group under me before and they are
2007 -CWSS,CCHYS,JWSS,PRPS,GRSS,XMPS,JYPS,Sembawangsec
2008- EVSS,QTSS,UnityPri,SAC,MacphersonSec,HCI,CCKSS,Tanglin,MahaBodi,RVPS,ClementiPri,Fairfield methodist sec,Dunman high, NUS High , GESPS,tamp sec
1 day event = CHIJ TP PRI,RGS
I remember my first campfire performnance from clementi woods sec, haha, it was an mimic of what happen in class and due to some reason ,I thought I wont be doing camp again but I was wrong it was the start of many camps. For tamp sec camp, somehow, I decided to be low profile, haha, I guess its just something you will become as time pass, you only rah rah when necessary and your group is more important I guess.
I realise I grew so much in the way I think,the way I educate and handle my student and due to NS, I had to leave when I feel that I'm on the peak, espeically in terms of making my student learnt. I was quite previledge to be here since last year.
Just sad to say that the instructor dynamics is no longer there, nowadays, it seem like only a particular group of instructor enjoying themselves, I miss the dynamic I felt last year and handful of camps this year. But nevertheless,I still met quite a number of great friends I had like Jeremy He, Terence,Xiao Wei,Parick,BaoYun,Shahul,Meiqi and Kelvin lam who was my buddy before who got into campha.
And for the last time, my next camp is a 2 years camp with Singapore Police Force. Will be posting photos soon :P
My life today.
3:47 PM
Gan Eng Seng Pri school Leadership campT Sunday, June 1, 2008
Gan Eng Seng Primary School Leadership Camp
Primary 4,5 Leaders
29th-31st May
Day1
I guess chief kent started the camp by being a victim of his own implementation. He told us to reach by 7.15am with 10minutes buffer but he was late by a few minutes. So yeah ,the camp started out on a hilarous note. After that, went up to the hall and met the leaders.
Went to labrador Park adventure centre for the first time to put all our bags down before heading to sentosa for our amusing race. I guess its not as tiring as the amusing race we had in SJI with Dunman High. But due to the renovation of Sentosa, some place were closed so we had to just whack out some games for the student to play. Ended with sand castle bulding but somehow the sky decided to cry for whatever reason and we had to rush to the centre station where we had our campfire prep in the end, decided to do butterfly,the retro song since we dont ve time for any campfire prep unless it rain the next day.
Had kidnap at night and finished off 3rd even though we had numerous attempts.
2nd day
The primary 4 and 5 were separated into the primary 4 having the cross rope challenge while the primary5 had MLC in the morning and Gladiators later in the day. For MLC,somehow,my group had a score of 610, I didnt know how they count cause for some part of the game I was attending to regina who was knock by someone way biggest size than her. And after they told me the score, I cannot really believe but then again, I was not present so I had no reason to doubt them as well. Had jia hui crying too but her was much more minor but still another packet of tissue paper gone. Lucky I brought 4 packets.
Gladiators was up in the afternoon, and the team finish 2nd which I felt was quite good considering we start of with 20 student with the rest having about 4 or 5 more extra student. Then after dispersing our student, instructor had our own minor gladiators and the funniest part was when kelvin phua was trying to splash a pail of water at cherie as she was being chased by jeremy he but due to mis-calculation of timing, the water splash on to jeremy's face instead, this action immediately had all of us laughing like there is no tomorrow.
Ended 2nd night with campfire.
I find this particular group of student were quite well-behave,they didnt gave us that much problem and the place was relatively in a clean state.The student were also fun, they had also similar ideas when we started the malay tradition and also soccer cheer with the banging of the table,they will start to clap thier hand or shout EH EH EH EH AR EHE AR EH AR. It was really fun, like the whole school bringing down the place and of course the other group student were nice like the ah lians of jeremy group, my malay ah bang from xinyi group with our handshake.
I felt I had a great group of student, they started singing in the bus, they will clap their hand for something without being asked to do so and probably they are leaders, so their maturity way ahead of others even though they are leaders of different area. I can see they really appreciate what they are given as well because they ended with cheers by changing their team name to my name instead. Chief kent thought I taught them but it was them who came up with the idea.
My 2nd last camp, with my last being on the 2nd-4th which is tampines sec, its gonna be the last camp for alot of us,those going to NS and of cause to Andrew. I hope the final camp will be a blast with no hard feelings between instructors. I will blog my after feeling of everything after I finish camp.
So take care people and yea, Cheryl ,thanks for the talk today as well. :)
My life today.
12:22 PM
