Virus of chaos

2009-05-07T21:48:00.003+08:00

Just a 2days more and I'll be leaving for brunei. A lot (and I really mean a lot...) of rules and regulation that must be followed from dress code to the do's and don'ts before and upon landing. Regimental they say... Hahaha..

I seriously hope that everything would be alright while I'm gone but I guess there's nothing much to really think about as I'll be gone for only 3 weeks. But still I'm going to miss my family and friends. That is for sure. Oh yeah, the new pixeled uniforms had already been issused and I'll start wearing it after the trip from brunei.

Its confirmed..

2009-05-05T20:38:00.002+08:00

Looks like the trip to brunei is confirmed. Its going to this coming saturday. Mixed feelings inside of me. Excited yet sad. Its going to be my first time on a plane.... (weee..... like a kid) and yeah, i'm sad to leave behind my family and friends for the next 3weeks. I hope everything would be alright when I return at the end of may.

Till then, take care everyone..

Freaking TIRED!!

2009-04-23T23:23:00.002+08:00

Just a quick update, I'm getting very busy with work and more work day by day. Wonder when will I get my off day. Attachment to other camps and outfield has become a routine for me. Damn!! How I wish I could just fast-forward to day I end my national service.. Chill, there's still a year and 2 months to go. Till then, if you drink don't drive. If you drive then may the steering wheel be with you. I know, its crap. =P

Making A Comeback.

2009-04-09T21:01:00.003+08:00

After 4 months being out with an injury, here I am trying to stage my comeback.

The pain that i went through, the surgery and also rehabilitation only i know what it feels like.

Hahahahaha... Yeah, as if i really got injured. Seriously have been busy for the past 4 months.. with what else??? National service, serving my time as transport operator at SAFTI MI better known as Officer Cadets School(OCS).

After passing my driving test on my frist attempt, that was 7th January 2009. Had to go through another training/familiarsation with 2 more vehicles. The 5-tonner and OUV. 5-tonner is the really big army truck that we commonly see on the road nowdays and OUV is like an SUV and both vehicles are auto-transmisson vehicle which is relatively easy to drive. Finally passing out from driving course on the 2nd February 2009, and returning back to my unit that's where my real NS life starts.

Been so busy, that i spent most of days in the jungle, at training areas and etc... not coming back home, weekends burned has become norm to me. So, I really cherished the times when I get the chance to go back home and spend time with my family. Not only that, I haven't been meeting my bestfriends for months only until recently and that was 23rd March 2009 when my former manager had house warming. Although the meeting with them was only for a few hours, I really enjoyed myself. I hope to meet up with them again soon before going for my overseas trip. Hehehe..

Speaking of which, I'll be going for my first overseas trip in May.. Destination Brunei for a minimum of 3weeks, maximum 6weeks.. Alright, at least I know that I won't be cautious when it comes to food and I know that there's no night life over there. So yeah, I hope that it'll be a trip to remember. I'm looking forward to it. Seriously.. =)

Till then, I hope to able to update my blog on regular basis, understand understood... NS life is a really busy life. Who says it's easy being a driver? Hahahaha...

SANG-KALIAU

2008-12-21T06:44:00.002+08:00

Landrover's done with and its time to move on to driving the 3ton IVECO truck. The first time driving that thing sure is weird. The gearbox arrangement, all those switches, the air-powered brakes. Its harder to control and all the turning points is not the same as landrover. The good thing about this truck is that, it definitely has power in it.

After being scolded by my instructor a lot of times for doing silly mistakes, we finally had a talk last week. Realising he's fierce and his vulgarities are too much, he decided to relax with us a little. That's when my driving gets better. Only 3 lessons left to TP and yeah had to clear my assessment first in order to take. The first tp is in 2weeks, if i managed to pass I'll be given off till the next training, MAN truck at mandai.

Till then, I'll leave thru day by day at kaki bukit centre just enjoy the time there.

32 more days to go

2008-11-29T01:31:00.002+08:00

A week had passed since my drivning course started and its going fine except the driving part. Getting pressured by my instructor to drive perfectly(i don't know how perfect he wants my driving to be). Other than that, my group is really a fun bunch to be with. Getting to know drivers from other units and meeting all kinds of people is sure cool. Just passed my highway code and looking forward to driving on public.

I seriously wanna pass TP test on my first try in order to be awarded with a week off. But thats still long way to go. 32 more days to end of class 4 course. For now, I'll go with the flow of this course and hope to make it out alive.

Mc Cafe.

2008-11-22T23:34:00.002+08:00

For some reason, I'm beginning to miss my working days at McDonalds/McCafe. Hahahaha...

Although the pay wasn't that good and I had to do a lot of work(and I seriously mean a lot), but I definitely enjoyed my time there. The bond, spirit of togetherness,fun and laughter(everytime working with Fadhil) I should say was there. No matter what kind of problem I faced during that time, being there with the beanies was really memorable.

I miss making Frapees', sandwiches, coffee, steaming the milk, arrange the storeroom.... and everything else that is associated with Mac.

I just can't wait for January to come when I'll definitely go back there to work temporarily during the CNY period. Till then, I'll just look back at my days at Mac with big smile on my face.

Oh yeah, congrats to Fadhil on his promotion to shift leader. You deserve it bro. Hehehe..

DRIVING COURSE!!

2008-11-22T08:13:00.003+08:00

"Hey, Khairul you're going to replace Wan for the driving course." Hahaha.. Finally, its about time that I go for driving course. At least I can escape the auditing that is coming this December. No more sai kang like washing the vehicles or washing bay, changing of tonner tyres, paint vehicles. My holidays would not be affected as the course would be held for 3 months. No need to comeback for duty and such. Hahaha..

The only bad thing is that I'm going to start staying in. Means only book out on Saturday afternoon. Damn, no more Friday nights and book in back on Sunday night. Damn! Reminds me of my days back in tekong. =)

Speaking of which, I recently met up with the Malays of my platoon sometime back. Meeting them, hang out at town watch a movie and catch up with old times was sure great. Although I felt a bit left out when they start talking about field camps and the weapons that they're handling now. As for me, no more handling of weapons as far as I'm concern and the only thing that I have to handle is just the steering wheel. Field camps? I'll just send the cadets around and the only thing i have to worry is that I'll have to wash my vehicle after that.

I'll just enjoy this weekend before I start the course. Oh yeah, you'll only realise how important is that someone to you after you lost that someone. Just some random thing. =)

8 Days of Leave.

2008-10-28T22:46:00.002+08:00

Alright! 8 days of leave will start from tomorrow until next wednesday, and that means a lot of time to rest, play games, hang out(if I feel like it). Which means that I'll miss washing all those military vehicles. *tsk tsk tsk* No playing of the water jet for a week. No fun laughing at each others lame jokes. Doing silly stuff, damn.... imagine NSF's (21 years old) acting really stupid and being very childish. Where else can I get friends who plays tag while washing vehicles and throwing soaked sponges all over the washing bay?? Hahaha.. Nevertheless, its about time I need that good break and sort things out. :)

Craving For More...

2008-10-25T11:24:00.002+08:00

Normally, the average person would lose their touch at something when they haven't done it in a long time especially when it comes to sports. It was a different case for me yesterday night. Been like months since I've kicked the ball around and more less dribbling and shooting with it. Played at FICO SPORTS HUB from 9pm-11pm. It started with myself being the goalkeeper before Farhan switch places with me. And then it all is history... I was amazed that still have the touches to control the ball, give exquisite passes and also give it a good whack even Farhan was just shocked that I was still able to play. Hahaha.. Overall, I felt that I played well and yeah I'm really craving for more football action.

OOC

2008-10-23T22:30:00.002+08:00

I just think that the army need to be more organised. Damn it, they had just wasted 6 hours of my life on monday. It was definitely a long wait to get ourselves registered for the MSET course and then only to be thrown out at the end as there was too many trainees. All they had to say when they had thrown us out of course was... "Thank You guys for coming and we hope to see you guys at the next intake." Like as if I wanna be back there. With the retired warrant officer there who thinks he's damn cool with his commands and couldn't even speak proper english, how is he going to conduct the bloody damn course?? I'd prolly end up laughing at him everytime he does that.

Time To Go Metal

2008-10-17T19:15:00.002+08:00

From the 20th October till 4th November, I'll be attending a course, the MSET (Maintainance Skills and Engine Training). Gonna be a 2weeks course and it'll be held at Sembawang Camp. Gonna wake up at 5am instead of the usual 6.30am. The damn boring 1.5hrs trip. It'll be a course where I'm going to learn the different parts of the vehicle, maintain the engine and do simple servicing to the vehicle. I heard it'll be a very boring course, where our seniors take it as the time to slack and treat it as holiday and its something that I'll definitely do also.

For now, enjoy life as Trainee Driver doing nothing but random work. Hahaha.. I just hope that the weekend would be an enjoyable one.

Slacking On The Job

2008-10-08T21:37:00.002+08:00

Who says life in army is damn sian?

So far, I'm definitely enjoying my time as a driver in SAFTI MI.

Trainee drivers as we're known have nothing much to do as we can't drive any military vehicles until we become qualified drivers. Doing SAI KANG is our expertise and we welcome it with open arms. Hahahaha!

Washing the military vehicles from land rovers, GP cars to mini-buses its actually an easy job. Its time consuming yet fun to do. Doing very easy paper work and sometimes just help out the storemen if they require our assistant. If there's nothing to do then we'll just sit around in the lounge, taking power naps, watch the tv and even play PSP! Hahaha..

I seriously feel that my life in army is much more relaxing than my life back in cafe.

The best thing is that we are allowed to go home every single day and basically we can do whatever we want own time own target. Cool shit! So far, so good and I seriously hope that the chinese guys won't take advantge the privellages that are given to us.

SAFTI OI!!!!

LOST....

2008-10-05T21:14:00.000+08:00

A part of my family. My cousins, nieces( in yellow and red), nephew(cute baby in orange)
(Another bunch of cousins)

My "super -cool" camp pass. Hahaha!

Raya celebrations are a bit different this year as my family don't have to take public transport. We rented a car for a week, and although its a bit cosy at the back for the rest, I'm sure they're all glad that we don't have to take the long train rides. Own time, own target to go anywhere and everywhere as we please. Hahaha...

I'm still wondering how am I going to survive as a driver in the army. I can write a book on how easy it is to get lost in Singapore and also how to find your way around. I've cancelled out a carrier as a taxi driver. I'd definitely get myself lost first before asking for directions. Why? Cause I think I'm the only person who drives, that is able to get lost for like 6 times in a single day. Hahaha.. I know, its like really stupid to get lost in Singapore but yeah, I guess that is just me. Learning from my mistakes many times before I can get things right. LOL!

Also now, I'll be at SAFTI MI for the next 1year 9mths of NS. Hahaha.. Cool shit, driver for the officer cadets. Maybe I'll get the chance to go overseas. That way, I'll get more allowance. The best part its only 20mins away from home. Walking would at least take me 45mins so yeah, I'm lucky to be posted there.

Reliable. Effiecent. Professional.

2008-09-27T10:24:00.000+08:00

Been a while since I blogged, well the reason is I seriously have nothing much to say.

Living my life day by day. Some what still thinking/brooding/wondering why am I posted to be a driver. Only time will tell, if I were to enjoy being a driver/transport operator. So yeah, I'll just go with the flow. The first week of my life as a driver or transport operator, was just doing marching. A change of command parade or COC for short was held on 26th September. So yeah, parade rehearsals were done from 23rd till 25th. Can say we only had a short time to practice together as a contingent and we don't even know each other for that matter of fact as we had come from different companies. Due to all those trainings, I've been coming back home late for the past week. Fortunately, all the hard work, sweat and tears (yeah like real) finally paid off on the actual day itself. I'm proud to say that the whole parade went well and yes, we're treated with awesome food. Boufet actually, with all those high class kinda food. BBQ seafood, satay goreng... even there's a chef to personally make for you an omellete. ARMY sure knows how to treat people well after a hard day's work. So there's the good and bad side of army. Hahaha..

Oh.. on a different note, this might sound gay.. but...... I seriously miss my friends from BMT. I wonder how are they doing now at their units. If only I had been posted to command school, I'll be with them now. Those times in BMT, I am freaking willing to go through all those shit again a 2nd time with them. Its seriously true that in BMT, you'll find mates that eventually be your brothers. Hahahahaha... Well, for now I just have to live with the fact that I'm not a commander but as a transport operator. I wish myself all the best for the next 2 years.. I seriously hope that I'll experience something cool, overseas trip maybe...??? =)

A Blessing In Disguise?

2008-09-22T01:01:00.000+08:00

In just a few hours time, I'll be reporting to Sembawang Camp.
My vocation as a driver. I do not know whether I should be happy about it or be disappointed.
I didn't get to SISPEC, so my dreams as a commander is gone.
My friends and family told me just to enjoy it. Its not going to be so bad.
For now, I'll just go with the flow.

No more late nights, no more lepak-king around on weekdays.
Time to drive Nizam. Oh yeah, from now on I must take care of myself in camp no more ZULU platoon mates to remind me this and that. Take care zam, you'll need it.
Seriously.

BORED!! BORED!! BBBOOOORRREEDD!!!

2008-09-15T23:21:00.000+08:00

I think I'm getting fat.
My muscles are shrinking.
My six packs are slowly turning back to flabs..
Nothing to do the past few days definitely make me a much more lazier person than ever.

Somebody out there please ask me out to the gym.
I really need it. Need to get my adernaline pumping back.
If not, how am I going to keep up with training during the next phase....
Damn I think i'm in a really bad shape now.
Anybody out there care to help me out??
Pretty please...

The End Of BMT

2008-09-11T21:13:00.000+08:00

The 4 outstanding Malays of Z3

10 september 2008.

A real memorable day for us recruits as we're finally promoted to private after 3 months of rough and tough training. All our efforts, hard work, sweat and tears finally paid off on this day.
All the things that we went through as recruits like route marches, field camp, the everyday physical trainings really bonded as together as a platoon.

ZULU platoon 3 from being the worst platoon at the start of BMT turned to be the best at the end. Section 4 from the section that I hate, became the section that I enjoy being a part of. Being part of ZULU coy for BMT had turned out to be one of the most memorable things ever. The people from my platoon were the best. Made up of people from different walks of life just made life in BMT much more fun.

We were all feeling emotional on that day, suddenly reminisicing the past 3 months of BMT.
It truly had been a real eye opening experience for me and all the others. ZULU platoon 3 would agree with me when I say we have the best sergeants around and our BMT experience had always been full of fun. I will definitely miss my platoon mates and I'll be looking forward to 2010 Japan trip. =)

Oh yeah, I have to thank mizah and siti for coming over just to watch me graduate from BMT. Thanks ah guys for coming all the way from SINGAPORE... Such a long journey, you need to take a ferry just to reach here. Hahaha... Oh yeah, Fathin also for coming to join in the break fast. Hope you all enjoy the little treat. =)

Graduating on 10 September.. =)

2008-09-06T00:13:00.000+08:00

It's been 3 months since I'm enlisted into The Army. In just a few days time, I'll be graduating from Pulau Tekong BMTC SCH 1. Was 'dumped' into ZULU COY, Plattoon 3 at rocky hill of pulau tekong.

At first I thought my life is going to be miserable there, but how my experience there proved me wrong. Its actually a privillage to be there. Bigger bunks, shower with doors and the best thing its away from ladang... Away from all those warrant officers and also those big shots of tekong..

I can still remember my first 2 weeks in BMT, they're like the longest 2 weeks ever. Counting down with my fellow platoon mates to the day tt we finally book out. And now, we're only a matter of days from graduating there. The live firing experience, the field camp, hand grenade throw and all those everyday training just bonded us together as a platoon. Its true when they say that you'll find a lifetime of buddies when you get into the Army. All those shit that we've been through, the good and and bad times will always be in my memory. I will definitely miss my time in ZULU COY. Its definitely the place to be for BMT.