Saturday
Went to trim my hair at Everton Park, finally can have at least some shape. Drove my mom’s new car back home after MIA for 4 months.

Met up with Johnson, Jackey and LiXiang for dinner to commemorate Johnson’s first book out. Suppose to have more people, but end up got put aeroplane. Anyway he was out on Thursday because of Fever and the sick bay is overloaded, thus he can come back to Singapore. Had dinner at NYDC, first time there is Mushroom Monster available, ordered 2 portions of it. Saw Ray outside Mac Donald’s, so happened he is also in Pegasus Platoon 3 and that makes him my cousin platoon mate, really a small world.

Chilled out at Pacific Coffee, chated lots of stuffs especially ghost story in Tekong.

Sunday
Went to Orchard for lunch, bought an Adidas black polo shirt, suppose to buy my brother new 200GB harddisk drive from PK Computer, but it is sold out. End up we went to Funan and bought it from there.

Came home and realised that the harddisk is 120GB only instead of 200GB, but they charge us the 200GB price. When we called the fellow up, they still argued that some operating system cannot support 200GB, it is very obvious that the harddisk they sold to us is 120GB due to the model number printed on the harddisk itself.

Now my mom and my brother went down to change it while I am blogging now. LOL

I am the driver for the day, must practice more after 4 months of missing in action. Then when become more pro, can fetch people around, if not someone will say I bias again.

Life In Provost
Did 2 lessons of CNR(Control N Restraint) this week, it was fun, it is so much more useful then BCCT(Basic Close Combat Training) and the lesson is either held in the air-con room or at the training shack instead of under the hot sun. Further more there is 6 officers (2LT) that are attending the lessons with us, thus the instructors cannot do much to us also.

Took the Hepatitis B blood test at Kranji MO, I thought it was going to be painful drawing blood, but end up it is the same as injection, and yes it is my first time drawing blood.

Learnt how to use handcuffs, Truncheon and Wicker Shield. Looking forward to the use of GPMG and P226.

Had a 3km run on Wednesday and a 5km run on Friday. For the 5km run we ran deep inside the old Kranji camp and wow it is huge.

On 30th October, 6th November and 20th November I will be booking out on Saturday, the rest of the weekends I will be booking out on Friday. I think 30th October I will get standby for Regimental Duties as the first 9 beds had already started doing duty this weekend. I think each one has to do at least 2 times because there are 6 more weekends and each weekend 18 people(9 from each platoon) will be on duty and there are only 78 of us in total. Sighz

47 Days to POP!

Saturday
Woke up at 6am and reached Pasir Ris Park at 7.20am for a 5km Life Run organised by Provost Unit. It was a cooling weather to run, cloudy day. If not for us School Of Provost (SOP) trainees which has a strength of 78 people, I think you will see very little people participating for the run. Run ended at around 9am. I can say I put in effort to run the 5km, jogged continuously for the 5km and sprinted when coming to the end point. And after the run due to some fucknuts who put in no effort, we got scolded by our CO and I think Monday we are going to get it.

Had breakfast with my mom at Maxwell market, saw David Gan, the famous hairdresser, he is short. lol

Met up with LiXiang for New Police Story at Plaza Singapore, then met up with Laily at Heeren. We like going on a CD buying spree. LiXiang bought 4 CDs, Laily bought 2 and I bought 1.

Had dinner at a Japanese restaurant Located at basement 2 of Ngee Ang City. Tried out the juices from Juice Bar located at basement 1 of Cineleisure. The tropical isle drink is nice.

Sunday
Went to Suntec City with my family, got myself 1 Nike singlet and 1 Nike Sleeveless shirt for sports purposes. My mom got herself a Nike t-shirt and my brother got himself a Nike Shoes. Now he got much more shoes than me. I wanted to get a running shoe but the biggest size they got is 12 and that is a little bit to tight for me.

Got The Day After Tomorrow DVD from Carrefour at $34.90. The LOTR Trilogy Extended Version is coming on 14th December 2004 in the US, no idea when that will come to SG.

Anyway, the salads at NYDC is good.

Need to book in by 10.30pm. Sian.

Life In Provost
1st week at Provost, can say that it is quite slack here maybe as I said it is the first week only. There are only 78 people in the MP Basic course, which is quite little, last batch was around 100. We are under the coy SOP, there are 2 platoons which 3 sections in each platoon. There are 13 people in 1 section. 1 section will occupy 2 bunks even though the bunk can accommodate for 10 people, which means 6 for each bunk.

The bunk here is very small, 1/2 the size of BMTC’s one and the bunk is very stuffy because it is not well ventilated due to walls almost all around. The air in Singapore sucks, very still. The toilet here is very big, it is around 4 times bigger than BMTC’s one. There is door for the bathing cubical. As usual, 1 platoon will occupy 1 level. The building has 5 levels, level 3 to 5 is for accommodation, level 1 and 2 is for office and lecture rooms. So which means basically everything is in that building, no need to march to other places unlike BMTC.

We had our meal at Kranji Camp’s cookhouse, as Mowbray Camp has no cookhouse but there is a small canteen. I personally find the food is better than BMTC but the drinks here is very plain. They don’t serve ice cream here unlike in BMTC. This week we already had 4 canteens break and 1 nights off, as I said maybe it is only the first week.

70% of the course will be lectures and most of the time it is a 5 days week, which means we can book out on Friday most of the time. We will be booking in and out in civilian attire finally.

Reveille is normally at 5.30am and we need to fall in at 6am. There is always 5bx with run every morning, chin-up regime before lunch and dinner. We are allowed to bring handphones wherever we go but we must off it, but I guess most of us just put it to silence. No camera phones are allowed as usual. RO is normally at 10.30pm.

EVERY instructors here are very fit, and that fucked up instructor that came to BMTC to interview us, is also there. Really can’t stand his fucked up face and attitude.

Had my IPPT test on Friday, 31 of us failed, and because of that we will get much more PT than the last batch. The next IPPT test will be at the end of the course, I think it is on 30th November 2004.

We will be POPing on the 3rd December 2004.

Thats all I can remember for Provost.

Friday
Had lunch with my family at a Chinese restaurant in King’s Hotel. The service sucks because for 20 minutes we are like glass, no one bothered to serve us utensils and to take our order. In terms of food, only 3 dishes are good, the rest cannot make it.

Suppose to watch New Police Story with my parents, but end up meeting my platoon mates for dinner at Marina South. 14 people turned up, more than those who booked in for the re-ippt/soc. LOL

Quite alot of China people there, there is this table beside us, a bunch of ladies, they can eat till quarrel and throw stuffs at each other. The irony part is that the 2 person quarrelling part did not cry but I have no idea why the lady beside her is crying.

Saturday
Met up with LiXiang at Ikea to buy lamp for Serene. Was surprise that the bulb cost much more than the lamp alone. Weird.

Went to LiXiang house to help her take the food stuffs to Laily house, and on the way to buy beer at NTUC, I saw Rayson. Haha, such a small world and he turn out to be LiXiang primary school mates. He also happens to know Bernard. Really small world.

Celebrated Suqin and Serene birthdays at Laily house, had steamboat till 12.30am. Geargina appeared on the Channel U 9pm show to play some games and she keep saying that she looks weird. Haha no idea why.

Suddenly have cravings for mac-Donald’s ice-cream, went to the 24 hours drive thru at West Cost Road and surprising there was quite a queue as many people walk in to buy.

Happy 20th Birthday Suqin.

Sunday
Went to pray at Waterloo Street before going to Suntec for lunch. Don’t know what to eat after walking 1 round around the restaurants surrounding the fountain of wealth, we settled for Olio Buffer Lunch. It was $16.90++, spread was so-so but food tastes quite good. They have sushi, pastas, pizzas and some Chinese food.

I bought an orange Nike t-shirt from Nike Bird while my mom bought a shirt and a bag. The design of Nike shoes for ladies and children is SO MUCH nicer than those for men.

Met up with LiXiang after that for tea and dinner. Had a cake and drinks at Blood Cafe. While walking across from Paragon to Crown Prince road, we witness a minor accident. That was this kid that just dashed across the road when it was red man and the traffic light just started to turn green, he was knocked down by a car and luckily the car was not speeding and he did break in time to soften the impact. The boy stood up after he was banged and walked to the side of the street feeling shocked of course. Then there was this couple, no idea whether it was his parents or not because if it was, they did not cross the road with him. If not it means his parents just cross the road leaving his son behind them. Then the driver stopped beside and came down to ask if the boy is ok and that couple keep scolding that guy non-stop. I mean come on, it was not his fault as it is red man and he was not speeding. That bloody couple really unreasonable.

Had dinner at Heeren’s Marche because LiXiang did not try it before. After paying, I got the shock of my life, I nearly lost my mini credit card. Damn it small size card is not a good thing sometimes.

Sighz, so fast 10 days block leave gone, got to report tomorrow at 8am at the Mowbray Camp.

Met up with LiXiang at Great World City to watch Resident Evil: Apocalypse. The movie is 2 hours long, it is much more action packed than the first one but the storyline kinda simple as compared to the first part. Conclusion, I still prefer the first Resident Evil. The ending of the movie ended with Project Alice. Anyone played the game care to share how the storyline goes. I am sure there will be a Resident Evil 3 in the movies.

Had dinner at Zion Road Hawker Center before walking to Tiong Bahru Market that area to meet up with Laily and Serene. They worked till 9pm+. Suppose to eat again together with them, but end up watch them eat and I just ordered a drink. Their boss also came down for a chat and he paid for my drink also. Quite a friendly chap.

Saw Dodgeball and Open Water. DodgeBall was pretty funny and lame but overall it was quite good. I think many people will missed out the comedy gold part after the credits. Open Water is a boring and short movie. The whole movie is just about 2 person stuck in an ocean and end up both of them got ate by sharks. Pretty lame.

Got my posting, got posted to SAFPU as Military Policeman. Woot, need to report to Mowbray Camp on Monday at 8am.

Tuesday
Had lunch with my mom and brother at Harbour Front, quite alot of changes have been made since I last went there. The front part of it is now accessible with new shops in it.

Tried out the Noodle Hut, it serves Shanghainess food. The fried la-mien and guo tie is nice but not the xiao long bao. The food is quite expensive compared to Ding Tai Fung.

Had Ice Cafe Latte at Starbucks later. My brother ordered the Ugly Chicken Puff. I had no idea why it is called ugly but it tastes good.

Met up with Johnson to pass him some NS stuffs before meeting LiXiang and Laily to shop for birthday presents. Had dinner at Ding Tai Fung and coffee at Heeren’s Spinelli.

Wednesday
Got woken by some fuckers who keep pestering you after you filled in the survey form at Pasir Ris Interchange, heard from my friend is some MLM stuffs. This is not the first time I getting it. So please do not fill in any survey form on the streets, if you really have no choice, give them a bogus number.

Met up with David and Calvin for lunch at Heeren’s Sakae Sushi. Managed to get the student price after I showed them my tertiary ez-link card which do not have any expiry date on it. Now the buffet comes with 2 Moshi Ice-Cream, 2 red plates and 2 portions of food. Very worth it.

Met up with my army mates later for dinner at Selegie Road, they ate the chicken rice there, I just watched them eat, but I did joined them for tao hui after that.

Went to Parklane for 3 hours of LAN gaming at The Odyssey, 3 hours for $5. We only played CS and WC3: TFT but it was fun, because there are 7 of us. Hope there will be another chance to do that.

Had another round of tao hui after the LAN gaming before proceeding home.

Thursday
Had lunch with my mom and brother at King’s Hotel coffeehouse. The food there is horrible and so expensive considering the portion they give us.

Today is my cousin enlistment day. Such a small world, he is enlisted to Pegasus -> Platoon 3. Same platoon as me somemore. But he is in section 3 instead of section 1, bed 4 instead of bed 7. I think the sergeants should be still in the same platoon.

Happy Belated 20th Birthday Serene.

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» 3 Different Half-Life 2 Posters
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Reach Tekong at 8.30pm yesterday night, walked all the way to my company line instead of marching. Went up my bunk realise all our food and my liquid shoe polish is gone. Must be those bloody sergeants who took them. Luckily my friend brought in 4 cup noodles.

Only 12 from my platoon turned up, out of around 30. 18 of them must be bloody chao keng idiots. I regretted not getting att c.

Woke up and fall in the usual timing, as usual my platoon sergeants is always not around to bring us for breakfast, luckily the booked-in sergeant was early and brought us there.

Took my IPPT test, before the test start, the officer said those who failed only 1 static station will only that take station. If those who fail more than 2 static stations or fail 2.4km they will have to re-take the whole test. But at any point of time if you fail one static station, you can fall out already. I think all of us in the company fail chin-up. The first station was chin-up, only 1 pass in our company and the rest all failed. Before that the sergeant already said after the chin-up station all of us will fall out and he was right. And he said “Operation: Fallout Accomplished”. LOL. The sergeant who was following the only person who pass pull-up keep grumbling how come he pass. That was really comedy gold.

The whole thing finishes even before 9am. But just as thought we can book out at 10.45am, we wasted too much time waiting for instructions and last minute we have to help the sergeants do shit job again. Got all the stores from Jaguar company and distribute those stores for the next batch, and just as I thought that was suppose to be the sergeants work.

I expected this will happen but I did not expect we are taking the 12.30pm fastcraft instead of 10.45am. Bloody bastards.

Just booked in to do 3 chin-ups which just takes only 5 minutes and spend 2 hours waiting and 2 hours doing shit job. For those people enlisting in NS soon, next time if there is a re-test after POP, just take att c. I regretted not doing so.

Had my lunch at Ikea and went to Outram Polyclinic to get a referrer letter to General Hospital or Nation Skin Center to remove my “corn” on my last toe. It is very irritating. The appointment is at 10.15am, 19th October 2004. Medical benefits for NSF is very good. Almost everything is free. Must fully make use of the benefits, next time must go book a dental appointment.

Saturday
Went to visit my grandfather and my auntie in Toa Payoh, been months since I last visited them. Kinda miss them because when I was young I stayed at my auntie house and my grandfather house was just opposite.

Had Kuay Chup for dinner, cheap and good, 4 of us eat only $7.80.

Met up with YongTang, Calvin, ZhiWei, Victor and JingWei for supper at Maxwell Market. This time round is YongTang come and fetch me. I still dare not drive my dad’s car. Got to wait till my mom’s car come which is somewhere in October before I drive again. After Maxwell, went to the 7-11 opposite Tiong Bahru Plaza, bought some drinks and sat down there and talk cock. Listen quite alot of scary and interesting story from police as YongTang is in police.

Sunday
Went to pray my grandmother, after that went to Lei Garden for Tim Sum. Is really a small world, saw my uncle (mom’s younger brother) there together with his wife family.

Later on when walking to Heeren, saw Lynn. She really slimmed down alot, looks so skinny now. Then in Heeren, I saw one girl look so much like Serene. The way she dress, clothes, her hairstyle and her face is almost the same. For a moment I thought it was Serene.

While buying drink at Spinelli, there was this couple queueing next to me. The guy look so much like Glen Ong, then when I look closely, the girl is Jamie Yeo, so that makes that guy Glen Ong. Jamie Yeo in person is very chio but just a little bit too skinny.

Going to have dinner at Swenens at White Sands before taking the TIBS bus at 7pm.

Thursday
Had my Pass Out Parade(POP) at around 4pm. Everything went on smoothly, even the human traffic is very well regulated as compared to the parents visiting day.

After the parade ended, all of us from Pegasus(including sergeants) form a very huge circle with our OC and 2IC in the middle and we sang Peng You, the feeling was very good.

Alot of people took pictures with our Sergeant Major because he is the only CSM in red berret. Snacks was quite good. We are the 4th company to leave Tekong. Reached Singapore at around 7.30pm.

Met up with Pei Jun at Tiong Bahru Plaza for a chat/dinner, the last time I saw her was before enlisting in army. Had dinner at a cafe located just outside GV Tiong Bahru. Surprisingly the cafe was empty and we are the only customers inside. The food was not bad and the price is reasonable.

Friday
Had breakfast at my house’s downstairs coffeeshop with Calvin. It has been at least 5 months since I ate the Wan Ton Mee there.

Met up with my section mates at Plaza Singapura for a movie, but every single time slot of New Police Story was selling fast, thus we end up watching it at Suntec City.

The show is good, very worth my $8.50, it is not really a typical Jacky Chan movie, maybe that explains why it is good. Wanted to watch a movie marathon all the way till next morning but as usual after the first movies, many of them backed up and we cancelled the plan.

Had dinner at Fish & Co, this time I did not eat the Seafood Platter, instead I ate the fish and chips. It was quite good.

Life In Tekong
On Monday had my OC evening, it was fun, with more than enough food for everyone and I think my platoon and platoon 4 performance was very outstanding because the other 2 platoons just sang songs and it was boring.

Had my SOC Trial Test, timing was around 12.30 because it took me 5 tries just to clear the low wall. Suppose to take the actual test on Tuesday but suay suay there is an IPPT retest on that day and thus I have to take the IPPT retest instead of the SOC test. But I chao keng and did not take the retest because I know I sure fail one. LOL

The thing I hate most torwards the end of BMT is the POP rehearsal, 5 bloody hours standing there doing the whole parade over and over again. And the voice of Mohawk CSM and the School 2 SSM just irritates me further. Mohawk CSM always say “Its Horrrible”.

As usual, our sergeants always not around, wanted to take pictures with them during POP but none of them are around because they got duties to do.

Will be booking in tomorrow at 7.15pm for a IPPT re-test on Monday at 7.30am. Will be booking out at 11am after the test. I don’t feel sian because 3/4 of my platoon will be booking in also because either they fail IPPT or fail SOC. LOL

Thinking back, BMT was very fun and enjoyable but not PTP. During PTP we got fucked like we never got fucked before, almost every 2 days got Stand By Area/Bed because there is just too much free time.

In BMT, sometimes in a week do not even have a standby and we seldom got punished. We suppose to have a Stand By Universe on the last day, but due to lack of time, we just fall in for the POP instead. My favourite item for the whole BMT is still Live Range.

Pegasus Song
I may never march in the infantry,
Ride in the cavalry,
Shoot the artillery,
I may never march in the infantry,
But I’m Pegasus Company ya.

Saturday
Booked out the earliest so far, took the 8am fastcraft, reached Singapore at 8.30am. Had breakfast at Hans with my parents before meeting up with LiXiang for The Terminal at GV Marina.

The show is slightly more than 2 hours long, is a good show, nice storyline (based on a true story) with a little touch of romance.

Tried the new 6 piece shrimps from Mac Donald’s, it is so tiny and nothing special about it, Mos Burger’s shrimp is still the best.

Met up with Laily, Serene, Geargina, Suqin and Johnson to celebrate Johnson’s 20th Birthday at Kuali - The Asian Kitchen in Suntec City. The food there is very average and thus it is overpriced. The Joaquim Buffet Restaurant is much better.

Went to the Chocolate Bar at Esplanade to chill out. Saw Ismail and Hafiz there. Chatted with them for a while. Didn’t realise that Chee Ming, Ismail and Darren is in Ninja, so close to Pegasus but didn’t notice them. Damn, I can’t remember which coy Hafiz is in.

Happy Belated 20th Birthday AiLian and
Happy Belated 20th Birthday Johnson

Sunday
Went to Waterloo Street’s Temple to pray before going to Din Tai Fung for lunch. I didn’t realise that there is Social Studies in ‘O’ Levels till my brother bought the book.

Bought 2 pairs of toe socks from Takashimaya for my 24km road march in the hope that it will prevent blisters. Had some snacks at Blood Cafe before heading home.

This past weeks had been editing Invision Forum skins to match my site layout, screenshot #1, screenshot #2. Will be relaunching my forums mainly for support on my WordPress Hacks. Had been getting lots of email about that, so I think a forum will ease the trouble of replying the emails.

Life In Tekong
Had been in Tekong for 7 days and that sucks. Had my live grenade throwing on Sunday, I think the grenade power is reduced to 30% or was it 70%, but nevertheless it is very loud. Out of my whole coy, there is only 1 blind. Suppose to wait for 30 minutes, but the demo man just go to the grenade after 5 minutes and detonate it and the sound is even louder.

Had my IPPT final test on Wednesday, as expected I failed, failed by 3 chin-ups. Shuttle Run: 10.2s, SBJ: 216cm, Situp: 51, Chin-up: 3, 2.4km: 10.48min. Total 15 points.

Got selected for MP(Military Police) interview, they really did lots of filtering, but luckily I am still in it. Hopefully can get posted to MP.

Had my 16km route-march on Friday together with MoHawk, Raven and Orion. Was the last coy to leave but the 2nd one to come back to BMTC. Raven was the first because they get to booked out after that and of course they will be super motivated. The rest only get to book out on Saturday morning.

Returned all the stores right after the route-march and emptied almost 3/4 of my cupboard to my black trolley bag

Monday: SOC Trial Test, OC’s Evening
Tuesday: SOC Test
Wednesday: 24km route-march
Thursday: Pass Out Parade.

4 more days to POP!