POP 2

Hello everyone, how have life been for you guys? I apologise I have not contributed an entry here for a long time. That's the problem when you have your own personal blog.

Before I start anything, allow me to yell:

POP loh!

I did not find 9 weeks a short time. I found it painfully long, and am rather glad its over. Training was not easy, but I had fun there too. On a sidenote, Yong Rui was in my coy, in another platoon. I talked to him quite often, and he's pretty much the same as before.

There is no need for me to list out everything I had done for the past 9 weeks, since Liang Hong has already done a pretty good job out of it, and I did more or less the same things he did. The differences are that my SIT test was less xiong than his haha, and I had painfully little PT. G Coy only did one 30:60, not a single 60:120, and we only had one AGR. You can say I was quite lucky to pass IPPT.

For those who misses Tekong badly and wants to know what's happening over there now,

1) New Pokka vending machines churning out bottles and cans of Pokka green tea, blueberry, oolong tea and POCARI SWEAT are now available. Sad they came a little too late for us to enjoy.

2) Three more companies are coming up in Sch 1, namely Q(?), Y(Yankee) and Z(Zulu). They will be residing at Rocky Hill Camp, which is the old Sispec grounds. They have 02/07 Apache, Gryphon and Krestel to thank for, because we cleaned up that very, very dusty place. They will take tonners to and from the ferry terminal, which means no need to march when booking in or out, but the trade-off is they will be very isolated from everyone else.

3) Apparently they switched back to grey admin shirts. I can't confirm it though; my observation is based only on the new A, G and K mild obese batch. If it is true that means 02/07 is the only batch to have brown admin shirts, which makes us stick out like sore thumbs.

4) No one mentioned anything about potential officers needing to go through Sispec before entering OCS, so I think there is still a direct intake from BMT. Say, there are alot of false news from 01/07 huh? Where on earth is my $450 recruits' allowance? Haha.

5) Not sure whether I can say this, according to Sch1 CO this batch has a record highest number of heat injury cases. Not exactly surprising if you see the time of the year we are doing our training.

So what's next for me? A good 11-day rest before I report to my new unit next next Monday. Posting will be out on the 22nd, perhaps I will update you guys then.

Rumours are there is a Guards intake in this batch, so I am crossing my fingers. Already 2 days ago my 2IC read out names of people shortlisted to be Infantry and Guards recee troopers, and heng my name was not inside. Maybe if it had occurred before enlistment I wouldn't have minded, but my mindset has changed now.

Private Sum came, saw, blogged