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 Fr. Vaz's sermon today was pretty interesting.

(This, by the way, is the first time I am posting anything related to a church service on my blog.)

"...In this period of the year, we have countless students sitting for their examinations; there are some who've just completed their PSLE, N'Level exams, and there are also those about to take their O' ( Read more... )

 I am Jack's sense of accomplishment.

"Gentlemen, you will walk 72km during Long Walk. You will get blisters and abrasions; the flesh on your feet will tear. It won't be easy but at the end you are one step closer to calling yourself Reconnaissance."

Highlight of the week : Exercise Long Walk.

I've never walked anything as painful as 72km with a 30kg ( Read more... )

 I don't even have to say I'm tired, that is already implied by the title of the post.

Itinerary for this week :

Monday - LIM Package (outfield)
Land Infiltration Movement Package was the first of a few lessons on how recces move tactically on the ground. Sucked because it was tiring, wasn't too bad because we knew we were going back the end of the ( Read more... )

I'm back from the first week of RCC, and I have so much to say yet nothing to say at the same time.

In a nutshell, I am depressed. And very tired :((

Being treated like recruits all over again isn't a sensation I would like to savour. I used to think PTIs (Physical Training Instructors) had it tough during their training phase, until they enforced ( Read more... )

 I"m writing this in the last hours before I chop (or shave, rather) off all, or most, of my crowning glory I have kept since a month or so ago, in preparation for RCC this monday. A pity, only, that it is at a length that allows it to look reasonably okay when you have a face like mine hahaha,

NS ftw.

It's going to be 8 weeks yet again in hell, ( Read more... )

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 I can remember, I made my very elderly grandmother laugh today. It comes a long way from her ferociously spanking me as a kid and certainly longer from the times my report card results were less than admirable. Fearsome as she was, she laughed today. This is what happened :

She asked me if I had a girlfriend,

so naturally given the circumstances, I ( Read more... )

 This whole week was probably one I wasted out of the many I have in this life, doing nothing productive; unless you count working thumbs in the PSP or watching Deuce Bigalow and I Am Legend as doing something productive, this week has been, ladies and gentlemen, what you call living the Good Life.

I don't recall waking up earlier than 10 this week ( Read more... )

 No one ever complains about an early bookout;

Which was why, we endured through two hours of walking around Pasir Laba camp looking enviously at all the 3G equipment we would never get to use despite the constant emphasis on 'how 3G equipment serves our army better'. Meanwhile, after politely browsing through thermal visualisers and 940A signal ( Read more... )