Dear Blog,

First week at Seletar Camp. ARMCEG, BPCC(Bridging Pioneer Commander Course). Cultural shock. It's like... back to the 70s. Double decker beds. 5 inch sponge bed. Cupboards that are very small. No lifts. And yes absolutely no lifts. We stay on the 6th floor.

Our company line is a hangar. Those which planes are put inside. But ours contain comets. Inside got a comet cage and several comets and a few tonners inside. Our bunk is a distance away from the hangar. Everytime march will need to sing a lot of songs. There's a depression right in from of the hangar door. So a pool of water is always gathered there. Our small little wet gap.

1st day. We got there all laughing hysterically. A bit shocked by how the place is. But i am okie with it already. The walk into ARMCEG is going to be long. We tried to walk around the small little pool and kena scolded for that. Because we are bridging, aka water taxi man, bound to get wet like hell. So the next time we got to go across to the other side, everyone's running through the pool and splashing water everywhere. Didn't unpack or anything. Went straight to some briefing. All the way until night. They purposely tekan us like crazy. They gave out our manuals, and bedsheets. And we had our duffel bags and CV bags to carry. Gave us crazy timing. Run here run there. Aron's field pack after that got missing(but as found the next day). Everyone was grabbing everything they could find. Chaotic. Luckily i got my CV bag. I thought it was utterly unneccessary. What's with this operational ready thing? Slept at 2. First time can sleep in a new camp straight after lying on the bed. 515 wake up. Stoned.

Surprisingly 2nd day didn't feel that tired. Was drawing on reserve energy. 3rd and 4th day was the great battle with the zzzz monster. It is a very strong monster. Most of the time we lose the battle. Sometimes it doesn't come and bother you, but when it comes, it hits you instantly. And you will be in the struggle with the zzzz gas.

They splited me, Chris, Terry and Zihao up. I don't know how it gets so qiao. All 4 of us different syndicates. Oh ya they call us syndicates now. So basically we are some drug group. Anyway most of the things are done as a whole course. So its alright. The OCTs are training with us as a whole course too. I think it is an excellent idea. Because both sides can learn a lot from each other. Benedict from cj is there too. PC 2 for last week. Good to see him there. Lots of cj people there. Collin, Jun chen, jinhan, sam and me. Course total of 43 cpls and octs. Plus 2 officer trainee, one of them is shane, guitar prez when i was j1. And 4 armour guys.

I am the anchorage IC. Put right into action last week. Stores were drawn. Vouchers were signed. Lots of heavy stuff. SWR cables, 10 tonnes jacks, BII boxes... after the 1st loading and unloading, everyone wants to help me with my stores now... haha... they are really a lot and damn heavy. Ashwin is my 2IC. I don't know how come so coincidental. He was my 1st 3 months classmate. And i've got my own tonner... =p Thing about that is people start chucking stores which aren't mine into the tonner. And so am i supposed to take care of them?? Like the 10 demo hooks(supposedly), after fri only left 5... and i don't know where the other 5 went. Confinements and statements await...

Sergeants. Its quite a balanced ratio btwn the nice and the bad ones. They are like SOCE's, just newly passed out. SGT Lawrence, who is the anchorage sgt, looks a lot like Zhang Shan Wei. Got resemblance. He is damn nice. But he smoked me out that night when he asked me to lead chinese song. A few others... are haiz... really unreasonable... don't know so strict for what. We are all in this army together. If i meet you somewhere outside instead of in camp, then maybe we might have became good friends.

Warrant Officers. Oh... we've got 4, 1 for each syndicate. And when they all get together, its like the shi da meng zhu. You know... the 4 great leaders from the wu xia xiao shuo. We were trying to think of who is who... and names like tong xie xi du, bei gai, and gai bang bang zhu came out. Damn funny. Warrant Cheng is the funniest. He will be a great grandfather. Small, slight pudgy, and he has this very ci xiang face. Like a small santa claus. And he is very very comical. Always accompany his actions with sound effects. And he is very nice. Warrant Tan, the infamous guy in armceg. Think i will grow to hate him as the course progresses. Already started to hate him during the vehicle guiding training. It was supposed to be a practical lesson for us, in the end he did everything himself. He simply looks down on us, because he went through a lot and he thinks he knows a lot. Haiz... Confident is confident la... too full of himself is not so good.

Our life is basically waking up early in the morning and sleeping late at night. If we can get back to the bunk before 11, we are damn happy already. They are machiam training us to be CQ, draw stores... load stores... unload stores... check stores... maintain stores...

Guess what is happening back at SOCE?? Field had nights out on tues. Plant had nights out on wed. Whole school went to Lido to watch new police story on thurs aftnoon and they booked out from there because it's beavers day. And they had games in the morning. Friday off because its the school's anniversary. They are booking in either tonight or tmr morning. Good life huh?

The SGTs say that after our course, all of us will definitely change. Go back SOCE for graduation parade will see the difference between us and the rest. Well... so be it then.

Life after course... most likely going to Alpha company and be sect comm. If that is the case, then will slack until april cos we taking mono intake. Then train them as recruits all the way until their specialisation course in bridging engineer. After that they will become our men. Okie la... cos that will mean 5 days week and can book out if there's nothing at night.

That's about it. Tired. Need to study light signals for boats and TSR.

Yours,
Lah