PECKPOST

Yo people just booked out last night and will be booking in tonight. Sucks but too bad. SIT test (or situational test) was really tiring. We had to walk 12 km first with about 20 kg of load to this sandy site near the ocean before it and that was really draining. The SIT test itself is ok (you do simulated missions), but the running in between the stations is a real killer. Basically all they wanna do is make you damn tired so you can't think properly. Then they can separate the pansies (me) from the godlike people. 

Umm for those that haven't taken it knots and lashings are bloody important. If you don't know them you're essentially a sitting duck noob. Like seriously I should know. The last thing you wanna do is to be standing around while your team ties logs. Another thing is hydration. Drink as much water as possible. It's especially true in my company's case because the air was dusty and the terrain was mofo sandy. I definitely was dehydrated on the last day despite drinking a few good litres and I didn't eat lunch and dinner either because I didn't want to shat my pants so my head was whirling back in camp. 

Anyway SIT test is an interesting activity because they are trying to distinguish whether you're good enough to be an officer. A lot of the time you try to look out and see whether people are doing "wayang" so to speak aka suck up and be enthusiastic in an abnormal way. I daresay I saw 1 in my team. I also made a good friend during the test. He's from ACS but he's not the stereotypical outspoken kind. He turned out to be a really nice, perceptive guy and he was just great to talk to. Other highlights include a 6 man powder bath orgy on one groundsheet. And yes I was 1 of the 6. Hahaha that was seriously off the hook. To the average person its just sick but in the circumstances it was hilarious. Everyone was like WTFOMGGHEY. 

Anyway they also interview you and ask you if you want to be an officer. I said I'm not. I know that I'll get pummeled in command school. I just know it. And I dislike the military lifestyle. And I can't make it anyways. The problem is that they tend to push you into command school even if you can't make it fitness-wise and then you get fuked. Bah anyway my sergeants know I'm a noob. 

Aiks back at home I ate KFC + 3 cups of orange juice+ 600 ml of water + oranges. I was just dying of thirst.

Yeah charpeck we haven't spoken for a while. Timezones just don't allow it. You take care ok? And don't let dem fuken econs models and algorithms get you down. I've seen some papers before on JSTOR (damn that beetch bhagwati) and holymolyomg the equations are like 2 pages long just to prove one point. Talk about occams razor. Send you a picture of me soon. 

Yep and I've been trying to follow up on entertainment news. Yes the Xmen movie does have Gambit, as well as Deadpool, Kestrel and Agent Zero. I don't know the last 3 but apparently the guy playing gambit is from Friday Night Lights. Yeah you can find out more here just scroll downwards. 

Yep and check out this nice video of David Archuleta singing Heaven on AI. He's definitely favourite to win because he has the entire star package and hes pretty good looking. 

  

Mmm new song from Daniel Powter - Love You Lately. I really like the song.



and if you didn't manage to catch the All Star NBA dunk contest go and check out Dwight Howard and his godlike dunks.

Mmm going in about 4 hours. I hate army I really do.

Yo here's a first official picture from the new wolverine spinoff movie. Pretty cool.

I'm not a big comics book fan but I have read about the story of wolverine and I think its great movie material. All the stuff about becoming weapon X, duelling with sabretooth is going to be kickass. But hopefully other interesting mutants make some appearances too. 

Argh my body is broken. I got a sprained ankle, thigh strain, a bloody stiff neck and a cough. And seriously screw SOC. People are dropping like flies there.

Heyo check out this performance by JabbaWockeeZ in America's Best Dance Crew. Starts at about 2.00 and ends about 3.10. The 'Apologize' part was awesome imo. 10/10 for the name too.



Ah will be leaving soon.

PECKPOST

Heyo everyone CNY has been slack and relaxed. I've been sleeping a lot and trying to get well from tekong cough which has been plaguing me for the past few weeks or so. The past 2 days I think I've taken 3 or 4 hour naps in the afternoon and then slept perfectly well for 8 hours at night. Must be the cough medicine I've been chugging. Makes me drowsy like a druggie.

Yeah so my relatives are over from malaysia. I actually used to dislike going over to KL or them coming over because it's mighty disruptive but both our families have gotten real close. I enjoy spending time with my cousins now and I think the reason is that everyone has matured a bit and everyone has similar interests now. We all watch soccer, listen to mainstream music and play cool computer games. I also prefer it when more (8 or 9) people are eating together, rather than 3 or 4. The talk is so much more spontaneous and there is an effect of slowing things down. Usually my dad is always hasty and gobbles his food down so in like half an hour the meal is over but with my relatives my dad can entertain them and talk cock. Oh yeah and did you know I like to watch how people eat? I like to see the way people prepare their food, enjoy their food. It's kinda weird but I just do.

Anyway I've been wanting to watch a few movies but probably won't have the opportunity to.

1) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2) Juno
3) There Will Be Blood
4) No Country for Old Men
5) RAMBO!!!!

Oh yeah charpeck I have lost weight since entering the army. I was about 84-85 going in and now I'm hovering about the 80-82 range. Last night I was 82, this morn I was 80.5 so ho hum it fluctuates. My face is definitely slimmer though.

Oh yeah to christians out there check out this article that seeks to disprove conventional views of heaven. WHAT? NO FLUFFY CLOUDS? NO FRIED CHIKEN GROWING ON TREES? WE STILL GOTS TO WORK FOR TEH BIG GUY?

PECKPOST

Hmm so what can I say about field camp. It's probably the dirtiest I've ever been in my life and it was horrible but I'm glad I survived it. So basically we did a 8 km route march with about 20 kg of load to our camp site which wasn't too bad (relative to what was to come later) and at that rubber plantation we set up tents and stuff. Yeah my buddy and I were bloody unlucky and our tent was located on some bumpy bushland with potholes -_-. So it wasn't uncommon to see me walk out of the tent in the morns, slip into a pothole and go freaking ballistic. Point is, you're prohibited from excessive torch use in the morning and night so you just have to be really careful and literally not throw your weight around. Doing shit in the dark is just plain messed up and you lose stuff way too easily.

DRILLS
Yeah so basically the next day all the drilling in the jungle started. I won't really go into this because frankly it'll bore you. Some of the stuff maybe wouldn't make sense in the context of war but anyway we just did it. I dare say that the most interesting one was the urban operations one (we went to a built up area) which I actually felt was quite realistic. Oh yeah at 6.30am and about 7 pm you need to prone with your field pack on the ground for like 20 minutes to wait for light to come and fall respectively. Just in case your enemy decides to pawn you at this time. Damn near shattered my ribs sia.

FOOD N SHIT

Food was actually OK. Rations are alright once you get past the generic taste. Accessory pack had biscuits and stuff. But then again I tried not to eat too much because what goes in must come out. I actually shit once in 6 days which is probably the average. Why so few times you might ask. Because the shithole is far away from your tent and you need to dig your own shithole and cover it that is really troublesome at night (unless you are shameless enough to shit during day). I shan't elaborate anymore in case I spoil your chinese new year.

TRENCH OF WIN

Holy shit. Holy moly. This is where the shit really hit the fan. Day 4 was day of win. You basically dig this large bed-like depression for yourself with this miniature changkol (or hoe). About half an hour in it started to rain and we got fucked big time. All our holes filled with water, mud started flowing down and everything just got sandy and muddy. Everything includes us btw. Shirt and pants can be changed but freaking hell boots have no replacement. Freaking fungi haven sia. I had to move to another location and redig my damn hole and I got a blister on my middle finger which tore in the same session. The skin below that tore as well leaving my flesh exposed to stuff. At the end you're just shack, muddy, dirty, sandy and pwnt. And then you realise that most of that will stay the same way for the next 2 days. We were quite unlucky because it rained for the next 2 days and during the same barbed wire obstacle course lip was talking about. Unlike manbeast lip I was damn tired and I struck the wrong place so the officer in charge forced me to apologize to the target and redo haha.

YUR RIFLE

What a pain in the ass. At night you gotta sleep with it if not the commanders steal it. I put the strap around my groin so if they tried I'd wake up FOR SHOR and kick em. I saw one guy whose neck skin got ripped off because of strap burn. Not pretty sia. Oh yeah my section mates completely utterly pawned me one night by pretending to me a sergeant and pawning me. I was in a stupor at the time so I was duped -__-. Now I am taunted 20 times a day :/

Sorry if you're bored with the post but that's me life at the moment. I just had my reunion dinner and I must have eaten about 1 kg of beef. I spent the afternoon catching up on a lot of sports news, politics (super tuesday was today) and also playing a bit of com. Later on I'll probably watch the england match with my cousins.

I got tons of videos to put up. Here's the first one. Superbowl advertisement for Pixar Movie Wall-E with cameos from buzz lightyear and woody. Wall-E is so damn cute.



And here is a new song from Colbie Caillat - Realize. Just wanna chill out and relax to this song.



And btw anyone wanna watch Juno? I do.

PECKPOST

Hey everyone I'm back. Field Camp blew. Just bloody filthy at the end of it because of all the rain and mud. MOFO trench. I had 7 blisters on my feet after that (2 with pus) so I just pansied out and went to see the MO and surprisingly got excused from physical activity for 2 days. I'll tell you more later but I have reunion dinner in a bit so I gotta go.

Oh yeah 500th post. Just in time for the new year. Happy CNY to all teh readers (if there are anyleft -_-) and Lippo too. lip I wonder what you look like now. Better hopefully :]

In case I don't blog tonight.

GONGXIFACHAI NIANNIANYOYU XINNIANKUAILER EVERYONE!

Back from field camp with about a million bruises and cuts to show for it. And an ingrown toenail which blos. Lets see, the worst thing that happened in field camp...

At 530 am we woke up to about a million grenades exploding around us (thunderflashes, not real ones they just make a loud loud loud bang and a flash.) So i was busy putting on my sock in pitchblackness with my eyes half closed and sand sticking to my uni my rifle slung from the night before and PHWEWWWW a bright trail of flame streaked through the sky and exploded. I was like O.O for a whole minute until about 5 more exploded and i leapt back into my grave (we dug them that day) covered me head and screamed what i was supposed to scream. Then we got destroyed by the commanders for doing the wrong things, scrweeed for about one and a half hours :(

Getting fired at by a machine gun with grenades exploding around you while crawling as fast as you can under barbed wire is :(. At the end, youre supposed to aggro this dummy with ur rifle and bayonet. SO the commanders tell you to be aggressive and stuff, but seriously, at the end of the crawl through wire and sand, at the end of the camp with all the shit and torture and 0 sleep and crap food and stench and no bath and general roughing up, you are just so damn angry that you naturally unleash subhuman bestial rage on the stupid dummy and just lose your mind and go berserk on it. hhahaha

k army sucks i stop talking about army now.