i finally got my 2B license!! after a whole month of non stop riding on the SAF bike.. i finally got it.. but it also means that the course is coming to an end.. sigh.. 1 month of stay out is going to be over soon and hell beckons back at unit. the ever notorious ramp-up training prior to RCC.. *even so my friends now in RCC are saying its tough*
the whole bike course experience is really and eye opener and probably given me a whole new list on why i should never ever ride a bike on a public road again.. more so cause i finally understood how much a menace taxis are on the road.. one bunch of irritating drivers i swear.. that aside.. island-wide is tml and im really looking forward to it.. the off road course is also scheduled for this week.. the obstacles (as the instructors make it out to be) sound like a perfect plan to break smth in our body and get a long term medical status.. or better still.. down PES! lol
this is the bike im riding.
3 races pile up my schedule outside NS before RCC begins though.. that's a lot of training to be done huh?? Nike [10km].. NB real run[16km] .. and standard chartered marathon [42km]..
the best part of it all is the fact i havent trained for it yet.. no thanks to the haze which has engulfed this tiny island of ours and given me a really bad case of sinus which lasted me close to 2 months now.. sigh.. damn it all!! its getting better now though.. thank god!
ok now its time for me to get back to ODST. and kill more hordes of aliens!!! jumping in feet first into hell.. =]]
Thursday, September 17, 2009
2years on.. and the spirit of washington lives on! we just had our gathering last sunday and it was a blast.. chatting and talking abt OBS.. NS.. uni life.. all while dining into NYNY..
i never imagined how much i missed the lot of them..
bowling after the meal was just one excuse for us to stay together a little longer.. but considering we havent played the sport for a while now.. [now i really mean years here].. hilarity ensues!.. balls keep getting into gutters.. even daryl's hooked balls curls pass all the pins.. only the rare occasions that we actually score a strike or spare.. apparently tyconess was on our side.. 3 of us nearly broke the 100 mark.. lol.. norwin went past it!
we came up with the crazy idea of a night cycling again.. [this is such an odac thing.. the term night cycling.. haha].. we'll see if it pulls through.. dont really mind it.. just kinda sad i wont be doing it with my soon to be mine road bike.. haha =]]
Saturday, September 12, 2009
its just 4 days into registration.. and race shirts for male namely M,L,XL,XXL are gone.. for nike human race.. is that even possible?? that an event with such a big turnout last year can be so ill prepared for the large number of registrations? i am really disappointed with this.. really.. i hope nike does something about it fast and quick..
Monday, September 7, 2009
Do not worry about what HAS happened or what WILL happen..
but to live in the exact moment that it DOES happen
Sunday, September 6, 2009
and now we're out.. no more army camp for at least the next month.. home sweet home EVERYDAY for one month.. soft bed and aircon every night for one whole month.. oo the wonders of being on course.. =]
so yup.. life's pretty much the same as the previous week.. just the addition of ANOTHER IV DRIP.. and random tekan sessions which pop out out of nowhere with no warning and probably done so just for the sake of messing with our minds.. and if i might add our joints.. [ crawling up and down the football field with FBO.. field pack over head.. yadayada.. ] it's all over now!!
but i probably will be missing the camp.. well the spec mess at least.. i cant believe we're actually allowed to use it! not that im really complaining or anything anyways.. its a godsend that we can use it.. tv.. billard and snooker tables.. table soccer.. aircon!!! lol
so yea.. will be starting my 1 month bike course from tomorrow onwards.. hope we all have fun!! before suffering ver.B commences.. FEAR..
Saturday, August 29, 2009
armour recce.. desite the cool sounding name.. its probably the only cool thing there is to it.. first day in the camp and we already got an entire day devoted to converting a pig sty bunk into a pristine clean 5star hotel. i really wasnt exaggerating on the entire day part.. it lasted from around lunch till late into the night.. we had a total of 8 stand-by in all on a single day.. [that's more than what i had in sispec?!]
second day couldnt get any better.. 6km route march was planned and hey.. what's 6km right? we already did 28.. WRONG.. its now 6km with out standard loadout PLUS 4l of water more and 4 batteries [each is around 1.5kg.. at least that's wad they say]
third day was a little better... just a little.. 4km run in the morning was the standard for the whole unit.. then came the part about recce being the elite and always the fittest and HAVE to maintain that image.. so we continued with 160counts of jumping jacks as a warm up.. followed by many many MANY counts of push-ups.. i completely lost count how many we did.. but it was sufficient to knock us all out in bunk later and have our arms ache the following morning..
nothing much on the forth day.. we just had a yakult straw sized needle pierce into our arms by our friends in order to learn how to do a IV drip [its those drips u see in hospital]..
book out day is never easy to earn.. sure we can brag about what we did the past week to justify it.. but when does that ever satisfy the upstairs? so we had 6km fast march [ie done in 50min with no rest].. heavier load compared to tuesday.. and no rifle sling.. gosh we could just die then..
life of an armour recce will never be easy as it seems. just gotta last 1 more hell week before bike course and our 5 week heaven commences.. o LORD please make it fast and painless..
monday will begin with 9km fast march.. with 12 batteries in toll now.. Lord be with us.. in your name i pray amen..
Saturday, August 22, 2009
and so i finally met my 2 lovely girls yesterday for dinner at shokudo! it's just been way too long! but the first thing yx said to me was that my hair looks funny.. "like want to grow but dont want to to grow like that!" damn u sispec and ur lousy 4321 hairstyle..
so anyways we had so much fun just talking and eating the night away.. with random stops into shops to look at clothes.. and eventually to FOX pre-reno sale.. stunning discounts!
eating at shokudo just proves how much i love japanese curry.. curry udon.. curry rosti.. lala.. o the tangy taste of curry.. =]] wonder if army will ever give us such food as a meal.. we already had sub-par roti prata with chicken curry.. so.. hmm.. haha!
yh told us all about life in NIE and her trip to aussie with her bf.. its so cool to travel aussie in a caravan! and i didn know its a rule to wear formal in NIE.. gosh.. can u imagine girls wearing heels everyday to school and walking around NTU?? they'll probably die first.. yx told me everything on what to expect in NUS.. i really wonder if i'll still be able to see her when i enter FASS in 2011.. she'll alrdy be in her final year.. hmm
going back to army life again on monday.. its too fast.. o.. i got thrown into 4SAB temporarily.. apparently sispec didn realise 8SAB was in taiwan for their ROC.. and it took them a full week to realise that.. they eventually called me 3 times yesterday to tell me.. LOL
i hope we get to book out on friday.. i hope training doesen start yet.. i hope its really just do saikang in there the coming week.. i dun feel like choing sua-ing so fast just yet... hahahah!
i hope to meet up with u 2 soon yx and yh!! must be soon k! dun be like this wait for nearly a year before all 3 of us meet up.. its just wrong.. ahhahhaa
who cares if marche is gone.. japan's version is so much better!
