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2011 Indicative Grade Profile and Course Places in AY2011/2012
Compiled File (of A-Level Applicants) || NUS || NTU || SMU || NIE

Dec 2011 & Jan 2012

many things happened that i wanted to write down
but just didn't get that extra time to actually sit down and type it all out.
i think i better do it now before it becomes a long overdue post.

December 2011
I completed my 2nd year's live firing aka shooting,
something that i totally don't look forward to at all,
not even a single bit.
I just sucks at shooting.
Be it the Basic Trainfire Package (BTP) i did in Basic Military Training (BMT)
or the Advance Trainfire Package (ATP) i completed in September 2011,
both were bad experiences.
Not exactly that i fail to meet the minimum requirement (as in just passed lah)
but it's that i'm still a few points away from achieving marksmanship
that i was asked to go for re-shoot for the necessary segments
for not just once but quite a few times.
All these repeated re-shoots really demoralised me rather badly,
making me feel like i'm some sort of a bobo shooter
who can't even hit on targets at all (which is not the case lah).
I really cried when i did my BTP. I felt really bad that time.
ATP i did it all alone, because i was the only one from my unit going.
My Dy S3 (operations officer) was with me lah, but he's not shooting,
nonetheless he did helped me with quite a bit on the techniques and stuff
but he can't possibly turn me a marksman over 1 night,
so i felt equally bad after the whole range
for kind of disappointing him for not doing well enough.
The range i just did, Combat Shoot (a team shoot), wasn't THAT bad,
as i do have rather good shooters in my team
that helped to push up my scores.
Of course, things did happened along the way
that we need to go for re-shoot as a team
(which i kept thinking was because of me)
to achieve that golden marksmanship everyone is fighting for
because of that 1 point short.
On the individual segment, i did went for countless of re-shoot already
which makes it bad when my team decided to re-shoot for the team segment
as 2 of us didn't achieve marksmanship.
Just can't help but blame myself for being so lousy.
Hai. Live firing just isn't my thing. Sucks ttm.
Hopefully i won't have to do that again for reservist.
At least one thing i'm glad was
i realised i do have good friends and commanders around me.
and REALLY REALLY thankful of my combat shoot team,
namely Eddie, JingWei, Ian, Brandon.

Then comes to the next part.
December was the month that some of the laojiaos from my other platoon ORD-ed,
meaning to say, completed their term of services and leaving for good.
Those were one of the first few group of people that i encountered
when i first arrived at this unit.
Those who we cleaned the vehicles & equipment with in preparation for Ex Wallaby.
Those who we talked to as we start to know more about the unit and the camp.
Those who have gone through many things worse than we have experienced.
Glad to have meet them in my life. Shawn Goh, Jia Hao, Castalos, Sherman & Philbert.
Then comes January where Jing Wei & Louis, 2 members of our logistics section ORD-ed
They were the ones who we worked with before and during Exercise Wallaby
in managing the equipment and stores.
All of those mentioned above were fun groups of people.
They were friends worth enough that i must write it done here and they are really great i must say.

January 2012
The month in which the Chief Armour Officer Change Of Command took place.
You can read the official news here.
(CENSORED)
Well, but i must say, the whole parade was pretty organised, Chief's COC after all uh.

Then there are a few things that i thought would be good to talk about,
but i guess i shall leave it to another post next time ba. =)

Public Transport for Lunar Chinese New Year Period

All that you need to know:

(1) Extension of Train and Bus Service Hours & Service to Chinatown
SMRT:
http://www.smrt.com.sg/Upload/201212017273694542.pdf

SBS Transit:
http://www.sbstransit.com.sg/press/2012-01-17-01.aspx (Press Release)
http://www.sbstransit.com.sg/download/ext_of_last_bus_on_lny_eve_220112.pdf (Poster)

(2) Temporary Diversion/Interruption of Bus Service
SMRT:
http://www.smrt.com.sg/Upload/20121171243775954.pdf

SBS Transit:
http://www.sbstransit.com.sg/press/2012-01-17-02.aspx (Press Release)
http://www.sbstransit.com.sg/download/chinatown_cny_eve_countdown_2012.pdf (Poster)

(3) Services provided by the 2 Major Transport Companies
TRAIN
SMRT owns
- East-West Line,
- North-South Line,
- Circle Line, 
- Bukit Panjang LRT


SBS Transit owns
- North-East Line,
- Sengkang LRT, 
- Punggol LRT

BUS
SMRT provides
- NightRider Services (NR1, NR2, NR3, NR5, NR6, NR7, NR8) and
- Feeder Bus Services around the heartland towns of Bukit Batok, Chao Chu kang, Sembawang, Woodlands and Yishun

SBS Transit provides
- Nite Owl services (1N,2N,3N,4N,5N,6N),
- Service 97, 133
- Feeder Bus Services around the heartland towns of  Ang Mo Kio, Bedok, Bishan, Boon Lay, Clementi, Eunos, Hougang Central, Hurong East, Pasir Ris, Serangoon, Tampines and Toa Payoh

My Memories of 2011

#1: finally completed my PTP/BMT with great sect comd and a really awesome buddy who bears nearly the same name as me.

#2: achieved my one and only Silver for IPPT during my final test in BMT, and nothing as good there after =( 

#3: survived 2 months at overseas, longest i ever been away from home. met the worse commander i ever seen in my life. strongly believe we should all be presented with a MRF confidence course badge.

#4: received my A-Levels results for 2nd time, after retaking as a school candidate. don't know to be happy that i did better than previous or sad that i failed my GP, once again.

#5: wallaby moments: talking bad about certain commanders in the ops rm and then checking the PA system mic is OFF halfway through talking =P

#6: getting confined over the weekend in SI for taking shortcut and unknowingly discovered (after i served the confinement) a mistake in appointment, all along, which could have save me 1 day less. haha, smth that Kendrick (one of those who got confined with me) told me is a blessing in disguise.

#7: done all 3 ranges, BTP ATP CS. all 3 are a sore. just so fucking hate range. always makes me feel damn lousy. =(

#8: Yuheng (my bunkmate) who loves walking around in bunk in just his underwear, from SI all the way to unit.

#9: all the armskote moments in BMT from rushing to be the first platoon to draw/send arms to Benjamin Ngeow's (my armskote 2IC) unique voice of commanding to getting the DI (who sometimes is just so hard to find) to sign the book.

#10: when everybody with a initial thought how easy it will be to be in a vehicular detachment for a line laying exercise but ended up the worse, shag ttm.

#11: first day at unit. "you guys IC2-trained ah?" "all from JC batch?" and then followed by a big sigh. haha. what.

#12: it has been all fine for the whole of my BMT until the night just before the 24km route march that i fell sick and had a high fever. ended up with a ATT C and was excused route march and parade.

#13: done a Vesak Day guard duty and a national day guard duty this year.

#14: proud to still have the old brown admin, non-pixelised field pack & the limited edition SOG, while the rest are getting the newer stuff.

#15: whole year in army. the end.


YES, there are definitely more,
but the time was almost up
and i kind of got lazy,
so shall stop it at #15.
In any case,
HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS! =D

Military Knowledge Discovery #1

The current practice in my camp has always been
morning runs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning,
with recently including some vocation-related exercises (VREs),
which is a very muscle-targeted exercises relevant to the vocation we are in.
When written in the routine order,
they always say "We are going to have LIFE run tomorrow....."
Has been wondering what LIFE run stands for,
and after some research,
now i know.

The acronym L.I.F.E stands for
Lifelong Investment in Fitness and Exercise.
(FYI, The Magical Wesbite: http://www.mindef.gov.sg/life/index2.htm)
-_-
After that, i was like chey.
Thought some cool name.

Okay, random.

Concert Etiquette

was watching the repeat telecast of Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) 2011 this noon
(which somehow the koreans kept pronouncing it as
Mnet ASEAN Music A-Ward zi
okay side-tracked)
there was this particular performance by a Chinese Pianist, Liang Liang,
followed by immediate performance by BEAST who sang Fiction (i think).

What that i find really disturbing and annoying was that
during the piano performance solo, on and off
there are some fan girls who just kept screaming aimlessly.
Something like, eh next is BEAST next is BEAST, AHHHHHHHHH.
That sort of that.
It's like PIANO PERFORMANCE leh, can't they shut up first
and wait till appropriately timing to cheer or scream for your idol.

This goes as far back as i was still in band in secondary school,
that i have this concept in mind: concert etiquette.
At least in Singapore, much efforts were put in to allow the general public
to have access to the arts and for this case, music.
Free music concerts are accessible to public at Esplanade,
for instance the Beautiful Sunday Concert.
Not too sure if they still have it now but well,
that would very much mean that anyone can attend a music concert,
not just the rich, as it was in the past.
Nonetheless that does NOT mean that
the way of music appreciation shall be dragged till the extend that respect is no longer given.
It's just simply too rude to just scream halfway through, especially so when it's out of nowhere.

Perhaps the following might give a better idea of what i meant by concert etiquette:
http://sco.com.sg/english/concert/3087.html
The least i want to do is to point out 2 things.
One would be the dress code for attaining a concert,
be it a school concert or a professional music concert,
wear a proper pair of footwear and decently dressed, if not smart causal.
Another would be all that shouting and screaming WHILE the performance is going on.
I understand la, there are times where performances can be really great that you just feel like shouting and clapping out loud and hard,
but please, appropriately.
I'm sure you are smart enough to get my point. =)

Blogging

Was kind of bored just now that
i decided to tidy this page of mine
(if you have realise that there was one)
where i've the links to some of my friends' blog.
Clicked on each of the links
and removed those that were no longer vaild
and those whose last updates were like nearly a year ago.
The pictures below illustrate the change.

BEFORE

AFTER

I can't help but wonder how many of you who used to be a blogger still blogs? Or has facebook, twitter, etc replace it all?

Australia!

16 Sept to 3 Nov,
nearly 7 weeks of stay in Australia
participating in a overseas military exercise
codenamed Exercise Wallaby.
More specifically, it's in the state of Queensland,
somewhere near the town of Rockhampton.
Even the nearest city, Brisbane, is quite a distant away.



Shoalwater Bay Training Area was the place where i was,
with a landscape which you probably won't find in Singapore.
Pretty refreshing and interesting to see but
definitely not an exercise that i look forward to.
Nonetheless it's still a good learning experience, i would say.

Shall not go too much on the military part,
below are some of the happenings during my trip.

At this small little town of Rockhampton,
there weren't much of big shopping malls,
but there is this particular supermarket chain outlet
called 'BIG W'.

It is one of the more well-known ones there,
comparable to our NTUC.
In fact, it IS our "NTUC" in Australia.
Everything we need is bought there, more or less. Haha.


I remembered somewhere near that supermarket,
there were this shop called 'GO SHISHU', housed in the same mall.
Happened to past by and was looking at their display of sushi.
Next thing that happened,
i was prompted by the salesman if i was from Singapore,
and he continued saying there are discounts for us if we buy their Sushi.
HAHAHA. It's like the FIRST TIME in my life that
i was exactly offered a cheaper price for being a Singaporean.
Not bad uh! Hahaha. =)

Just as the exercise mark its start,
it was part of my responsibility to do outfield duties.
As soon as you start thinking, first thing that comes to mind
would be combat rations and a few days off from showering.
Well, it wasn't too bad after all when it comes to doing
duties on the mountain where the scenery is seriously really very, very nice.
Like WOR!~
I do have some pictures,
but somehow it doesn't looks as great as it was when i was there.
Perhaps some things just need to be seen in person.
Nevertheless, here are some of the pictures,
credits to my sergeant, FOO MING FENG.










And, seriously, that was what i saw for the whole 7 weeks.
Trees, Mountains, Grass, Sand.
Just a little too much of it. HAHAHA.
ANDDDDDDD
it does get really cold at night especially when you are on high ground.

Much of unpleasant events have happened at the camp site.
A lot of lessons were learnt,
relationships deepened
true colours of people exposed.
Seen pretty much during the 2 months.
Like really really a lot.

HOME SWEET HOME! =D