- Memorience of my Army days 17 Feb2004 to 16 June 2006...... A road to remember....
17 feb 2004 to june 2004
Enlisted into BMT in tekong and went thru 5 months of PTP training. In Mohawk coy, the worst and most siong company in tekong. Went thru tough training and completed 24km route march before passing out. Had 7 days field camp with only 1 day allowed for bathing and stuck with no toilets and field ration for 7 days. Did a few mistakes in field camp and was made to do sentry duty at night. BMT is one of my most memorable days cos we went thru thick and thin together.. and we made it thru together.
june 2004 to august 2004
One of my worst phase in the army. i was in BSLC golf company in SISPEC.We had to chiong shua every single day.. literally. Go to the forest from as early as 6am to as late as 12pm. mentally and physically shack. Our commanders in golf were unmotivational, unsupportive and show no leadership. Wats memorable is the 32km route match before the passing out parade. And we had no rest before the parade. The sergents in golf just suck! yucks. Got promoted from private to coporal.
august 2004 to november 2004
yet another memorable phase for me. I went to ASLC ECHO company. The demands were high and life was stressful. But we made it together. Everyone was supportive and encouraging. Had our 21km army half matharon before we went to taiwan for training. Taiwan was the part i like most for ASLC. Still remember how we got lost in our exercise long stride and how i got scolded and nearly failed for my exercise warrior. But one thing im still puzzled.. i still dont know who hated me so much til he put an empty magazine in my bag and nearly made me got punished.
November 2004 to June 2006
My longest stagnant place in army. Came to NCC like a blur sotong.. Still remember the 1st few days we were made to try out all the adventure obstacles. Our instructor at that time is Wo Roslan. Still remember how i could reach to the top of the rockwall while my friends could. That was the time when Maj chua started to blacklist me. But i made my way thru by giving my best and showing performance. To be in wo mathi's team is very stressfull. He will check on u every now and then, and give u work when u have nothing to do. Still remember when i had to work til 7+ at night when all my friends know off at 5.30pm. But wo mathi is not that bad. He gives u free ride, free lunch sometimes.
I felt i achieve something cos i hav somehow changed wo mathi's kan giong(anxious) character. He used to bug and chase after u for work undone. Now he still did, but its not that worse.
Worked with all the warrands for at least once and i've realised that all of them have different working style and character. U just have to blend into them and cope with them.
One thing that i learnt here is to make friends rather then to make foes. Cos we had only a small community there and we're very dependent on each other. Once a link is broken, then its hard to stay connected.
I've worked with RSM once too in the challenge quest 2005. As a newbie, i was really scared as i was appointed the secretary. But RSM help me thru a lot. He gave a lot of guidience. Being an RSM in NCC, i can see that he is actually suffering in silence. Seeing his huge amount of workload and ppl like us coming late for work or MIA, and commandant giving stress on him, sometimes i jsut pity him...
Thru my stay in NCC, i've been thru lots of self enrichment course that were put to use in the corp. Gone thru lots of camp feasts, spec courses, 1 CLT course and 1 OCC course. I shld say that im lucky to be able to go thru them cos my understudy wont go thru clt and occ course.Made a lot of friends (teachers and clts included).
I was also given the oppuntity to go to mount ophir in march 2006 with wo kitto. It was sure fun and i get to climb to the summit with the teachers, clts and cadets.
Time just fly fast when u didnt notice it. A moment ago i was looking forward to ORD, but now im was hoping i havent ord.
Really want to thank all those who have seen me grow and nurtured me in my 2 yr 4months in army. Without u guy, there wouldnt be a me today.
(sry for the super duper long story... just couldnt sleep... )
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