ai.. I'm so alleviated that the week is finally over.. it surely has been a hectic and miserable 5days .. the amount of stress I faced was beyond imagination.. here's how it happened..
Change of Appointment Parade..'New BPCC Cadet Wing Commander.. officer cadet.. Joseph Ong.'
O_O my heart stumped for a moment before I actually stepped out to recieve my new rank. as the new ranks are fixed on my shoulders.. I know I'm in for some mess orgy for the week. Its a week allocated for Boat Package where we learn to operate assault boats in open sea. So being the cwc of the course, I have to run the show for the course.
Planning for training schedule wouldnt be so wearisome without some idiots hindering me, making my life so miserable. Especially this particular officer who just joined us from another company. He's the reason why I slept for less than 10 hours in 4 days.. Everyday after planning and going thru the tiring trainings, he'll purposely call for me and my 2 platoon commanders in the office while everyone already turned in, just to present to him my plans for the next day's schedule. You would be thinking perhaps he's just making sure that things don't go wrong.. I would greatly appreciate if he's sincerely trying to help me out afterall it's my first time taking over the whole course but.. what I got was nothing but tekaning..
'I give you 15mins, write me an AOP (approval of plan) for tomorrow's program'
frankly speaking 15mins for me is not enough.. but I just do whatever I can, and presented to him. Just browsing for less than 3 seconds he tears everything..
'I give you another 5 mins.. get out of here and redo another AOP..'
At this stage I know I'm in for some tekan session.. 5mins later I opened the door and walked in..
'oie ! you like to walk alot izzit.. 3 of you better crawl here now !'
right.. he made us crawl forward to his chair and crawl back to the door again.. Just as I was crawling on the floor many thoughts came into my mind.. I asked myself.. why am I doing this.. It's just 2 years of my life and no big deal whether I made it in my officership or not.. where have all my pride gone to.. why do I have no intent to stand up and fight for myself.. I have no idea man.. of all the humiliation I'm still able to tolerate.. that's probably the most mortifying thing I've ever done to myself..
Anyway thats one of the awful experience I had for the week.. I'm glad that my coursemates are very cooperative and listens to my command.. thou everyone went thru some hardship carrying boats here and there due to punishments, everyone still stick together striving thru tough moments..
It made me realised that being a leader is not easy.. everyone looked up to you.. everyone expect alot from you.. no matter how stressed and shagged you are, infront of everyone you still have to present yourself like you're strong and good to go.. A good leader must be able to work under stress, if one cant even control himself.. don't even think of controlling his men..
As I mentioned.. Tough times don't last, tough man do. see I'm now slacking at home again... lol~ That's probably one of the positive way to think and get myself moving on in my officership..
blogged with love by Josified @ 5:54 PM
Thursday, January 11, 2007
After returning from the 10 days training at Brunei, I was seriously dead beat! Looking back at the things I did, I could hardly believe I overcame the training. The climb up Mount Biang was the ultimate killer experience. One would be faced with a slope almost close to 80 degrees to the horizon, climbing up such 'common' slopes required one to be on all fours, any slip proved to be injury-causing if not fatal. To top it all up, the route up and down the mountain was not as direct as it seems. It was full of ups and downs for the ascension and descension, causing you to wonder whether or not have you progressed up the darn mountain. Along the way, we faced wasps attack and ended up with 4 casualty. 3 of them were alright while 1 of them got pulled out from the exercise due to the serious swellings all over his body. Trust me it’s extremely horrifying to see someone being attacked by a swarm of wasps. It was then tougher as everyone have to share the load of equipments and moving on with less manpower.
Doing of river crossing was pretty fun at first. It was like swimming in ‘ice-milo’ trying to get the equipments across the river. As we approached the middle of the river, it starts to get real deep and your muscles start to ache as you struggle against the current. It’s kind of worrying cause even thou you’re tired you cant afford to stop at all else you’ll swerve away from the end point. The weird thing is leech bites doesn’t hurt at all. All they do is to suck your blood and drop off by itself after sucking. It was until harbouring then I saw the 2 leech bites when I change my trousers.
A lesson that I have learnt from this trip was that water is seriously precious. We had to collect river/stream water because 3days 2 nights of walking and climbing took a toil on our personal water supply of average 4litres. The water collected was cooling to the max! Just seconds after filling your bottle, you could see water droplets forming on the surface of it. Of course, Puritabs were added to the water to kill off any bacteria present, making the water potable. It was truly a cool experience...literally.
Everyone looks forward to 5pm because it is then when we settle down at a suitable harbour site to rest. Deep in the vegetations, it starts to get dark very early and that’s the reason why we had to get settled down before sunset. Hammocks then sprout up like mushrooms after a rain, and bonfires were a frequent sight. For me, I derive great joy in cooking Maggi Mee with teammates when I harbour. The feeling of surpling down warm noodles and sipping hot soup was the ultimate killer concept. Temperatures at night and in the early morning was cool. It was like being in an air-conditioned room.
Here comes the most ludicrous part of the exercise. 8am we set of from harbouring site expecting to finish the last stretch to the end point within 6 hours. We were too confident at that point of time and we actually burn off all rations we had to lighten up the load. The unexpected then happened. We lost our way while trying to take a different route due to bee attacks cases on general route we’re taking. The price to pay was painful, we ended up bashing thru thick vegetations where you get cuts all over due to the thorns everywhere. It was raining heavily and made it really tough for us to climb up steep knolls. I’ll never forget this experience when we ran out of water, few of us who are totally exhausted made the desperate move of trying to take a sip of water by sticking out our tongue to quench our thirst using rain water. That’s how desperate the situation was. Upon reaching the end point, the boat was there yet they told us they couldn’t get us back to camp as we missed the timing. Our pre-planned 3 days 2 night expedition was then prolonged to 4 days 3 night as we spent another night sleeping on muddy ground while it rained for the whole night. The wintriness at night was horrendous as we shivered thru the night in starvation. Nonetheless, tough times don’t last, tough man do, still, we’ve gone thru it and got ourselves a memorable experience.
Last day of the trip, they prepared a one day tour in Brunei Darussalam. Taking a tour bus with a tour guide introducing us to the local Mosques, Water Villages, Museums, malls but still the best part of it was LUNCH & DINNER BUFFET at one of the hotel. Make us suffer for 9 days then give us good food just before going home so that we won’t complain so much. How smart~
That concludes how my 10days in Brunei were spent and it has definitely gave me a memorable experience. If given a choice, I’ll climb Mount Biang for the second time..
MY ARSE~
blogged with love by Josified @ 6:36 PM
Saturday, December 30, 2006
memorable moments..
Farewell to 2006.. and hello to a brand new year in 2 days time.. Well I wun't say time really flies.. as indeed it has been a year full of ups and down.. never in my life have I experienced such drastic changes.. coming to an end of the year, i think it's a good time now for some reflections on the happenings this year..
Starting from a goal I made last year.. I could remember that I wanted to get trained up and slim down for the sake of her.. hmm looking at me now.. okie lar~ Mai Hiam Bay Pai.. thou not those very fit and muscular type but as least I'm pretty less corpulent as compared to last time right.. all thanks to army ar.. turning me into an exercise machine and hit the Year-of-most-sweat-perspired award..
Graduating from Nyp.. indeed it has given me lotsa fond memories and experiences.. meeting of many wonderful people.. close friends like bob.. ken.. ah soon.. aier.. trigger.. ecc coursemates.. the big family from Nyp guitar club.. and also my first relationship.. hmm sadly, graduation seems to mark an end to all the fun we used to have.. mainly because everyone has been busy moving on to the next phase of their life.. and it's definitely not an easy way man, burden starts to set in..no longer the juvenile teenage who cares about enjoyment all day.. Nevertheless, thou we don't contact that often now.. we'll always remember everyone for all the good old times we had.. right guys?
hmm.. sad to say that my relationship with her didnt work out in the end.. thinking of it now, the way I used to behave and mindset everything are indeed pretty immature in the past.. probably thats the reason we didn't make it in the end.. somehow I felt like I owe her an apology for all the things I've failed to do so.. well still I'm very glad to see that she's doing very well now.. at least much better off being with me.. lol.. man i made myself sound so futile.. Okie.. I believe these are lessons in life which we can learn from it and eventually make us a better person in life..
After the breakup life has been pretty gloomy all the way.. and something very weird is I refused all help and concern from family and friends.. i remember all i did was to stay alone and grieve over what has happened.. hmm..not gd ar.. thats the worst thing one can do after a breakup.. it doesnt help in any way and all it does is to make you feel more dismal day by day.. so friends.. if u're feeling murky now.. do something positive and get brighten up.. only you yourself decide how you want to lead your life everyday and not anyone else..
4 months later a new Botak evolved in the world.. I still remember the very first day i'm enlisted to bmt in tekong.. the kuku recruit who's so lost and don't know what to do at all.. but those were the days man.. had so much fun with my bunkmates.. everyone doing kuku things together.. then kena tekan upside down together.. and end up swearing together in bathroom every night.. seriously recruit life is still the best of ns life..
then I moved on to trainee phase in OCS.. that's where I met someone very inspiring.. My platoon commander Captain Seah.. he's a very unique officer as he's able to inspire you alot and motivates you to strive on thru the tough times.. not forgetting my bunch of wonderful section mates.. I seriously enjoyed every moment spent with all of them.. those times we fought for the best section competition.. those times we got lost in dense vegetations and walked out of it as a section.. those silly things we did to saravanan's *** in his room.. and many more memorable times when we worked hard together to achieve.. thats where I experienced the real teamwork.. Sierra Platoon 3 Section 2 - Bonderz..
As for setting goals for next year.. not much of a choice anyway.. Hopefully I can do well in my officership.. and on 9th june 2007 at the parade square in SAFTI.. my parents and friends can witness me being commission and be a good officer as what I've promised Captain Seah..
blogged with love by Josified @ 1:16 PM
haiiiii.. why didn't they post me to infantry man.. Life is really heaven in SAFTI Military Insitute as compared to Engineer Training Institute.. Anyway just an update that I'm officially posted to Nee Soon Camp as a Combat Engineer cadet for 6 months before I return to SAFTI and commission as an officer.. nt bad uh.. I'm already finished 1/3 of my cadet life before I even realise it.
1st week in engineering training institute.. life here is sooo much different than I expected.. If you think life is SAFTI is strict.. think twice~ I felt like I've went back to those recruit times whereby we're restricted in every single thing we do.. so called the culture shock.. I guess I'll take some time before I'm able to pick up this authoritarian lifestyle man. somemore SAFTI provides pc for each bunk with internet access.. at least there's something to relax at night after trainings.. all we can do down here is probably make phone calls.. or polish boots..wash toilets..sad right~ okie lar.. perhaps it's still early to judge.. who knows life will get better as time goes by.. (hopefully but doesnt seem promising.. -_- )
Overseas Training - Exercise Lancer in Brunei
yeap.. I'm going for overseas training in brunei at 2nd jan till 11th jan. So thats how I celebrate the arrival of 2007 huh~ many horrifying stories i've heard about exercise lancer.. just wondering whether i'll come back in one piece.. once again pray for me okie..
*ps and ya.. i'm not being lazy okie.. It's because my camp now got no internet.. lol
blogged with love by Josified @ 12:39 AM
Saturday, December 02, 2006
yeap i'm here once again.. blogging before somebody say i'm lazy again.. lol
visited nyp last night for nypgc's concert right after i booked out from camp. man i'm actually going back as an alumni already.. it makes me feel so oldddd~~ meet up with some of the other alumni as well but sadly.. none of them come from my very own batch.. nonetheless the atmosphere there fellt exactly the same as the previous concert we organised.. i'm missing it already man.. those were the times we shared lotsa joy and laughter.. it was so much fun i have to say. .
thats me and michael..
Back to army stuff.. Coming next week's gonna be tough man.. 5days 4nights platoon fieldcamp at marsiling area.. and i'm appointed as the platoon sergeant for defence phase.. CHAM Cham cham.. it's gonna be vastly taxing man.. i don't understand man.. i've already held the appointment for 2 weeks.. and now they appoint me for fieldcamp again.. plus GPMG commander for battle course.. WHY~~~ it's either they see me very 'up'.. or tekaning in progress..
so peeps.. pls spend 1 min and pray hard for my well being nxt week.. greatly appreciated.
blogged with love by Josified @ 11:54 PM