yes yes it's a ooooooold movie. watched over and over till it's so drilled in our head during ns times. but it's still a very good movie.
simple yet powerful movie.
A Team
"it's what you do now that makes a different"
but it's how training convert into real time scenarios
decisions-making and mistakes-making are ever present. pre-planned orders changes in just a matter of seconds. when hell breaks loose, everything else goes wrong.
spilt-sec decisions comes daily but does yours make a different? will it affect the integrity of your team.
each men is not his own he belong to the man beside him. if he falls you falls.
though many of you might think sure not. this world i eat you you eat me.. only e fittest survive. but come think of it how long can 1 man stand on his own? the best org ard be it big or just a small team are never individualistic but they support each other pooling their resources together. the romans legion employed this, the recent or rather not so recent movie 300 also showcase this point.

after a talk with my ocs buddy today. i realise something different style of training does make a different impact in our lives there's lots of examples but shan't touch on it ya. sensitive issues haha but ya. it's sort of leaves a residue pattern in our lives on how we react, how we tackle different issues.
life might be a vicious cycle but you can choose to end it or carry it on. whatever e decision it'll leave a impact.

ah.. got a 4 days break from work.
it's a short but really gd break.
met up with my new cg w423 this week!

taken at Changi boardwalk. went crabbing
oh well it's back to sea.
found out my friend is currently working at one of the company i planned to work in
darn should have ask her to sign me in zzz wasted.
been youtub-ing much these day here's one totally adorable vid.


she's just so cutE! gosh

Atalanta 1

back in sg after 2 weeks
went up to fang cheng in china.it use to be a small fishing village now building up as a port. it's stil a small area when you look at e map looks like a rectangle. 20mins walk for it's breath 30 for it's length(est-ed timing and walking at my speed(can use google earth to find it also ahah)
it's quite near vietnam so take 5 days to sail there

pics of fang cheng:


arrival in fang cheng me with oiler victor

kids in fang cheng who followed me ard during the entire market trip.

central wet market in fang cheng


things we bought at e market


boats we took to transit from ship to shore


our vessel (unload-ed)


jay chow chips.. totally yurks but cheap

short tour of my vessel:
it's built in Japan 1982 even older then me gosh!
but it a good ship to work for experience cuz everything keeps breaking down
it's a 100++ meter long oil tanker

my cabin

entrance to sauna(normal temp is 42 deg)

engine control room

the work horse of the vessel

kitchen


dinning area

bridge

Pics of sunrise/set and moon:

070507. ORD LOH!! haha this is a day where we finally get to see our pink ic.
there's a mixed emotion, glad that you're finally out of green.. but dreads the upcoming ICTs. but actually is sian cuz buddies you've grown to know and respect is going each of our seperate ways no longer can we crap in bunk, make a hell lot of noise, have steamboat, or those weds where we party till next morning. now we can only set a side a date for meeting up boring. anyway had a ORD dinner with my BMTC section C1S4. There's so much to catch up on all e stupid stuffs we did in bmtc and all e crazy stuffs.

C1S4

went up to genting as a ord trip. wasn't suppose to go but cuz one of them call in sick.. so had to stand in for him since paid already dun wasted keke. finally went down to KL! went to e twin towers eh.. nothing much actually pretty much like our paragon. went to chinatown next well...nothing much again.. just a section of street for jalan jalan.. darn should have go times square.didn't really do much up there cuz lack of funds. stayed in First World Hotel e super duper colourful one. we had one of the better rooms cuz my friend aunt is some sort of vvip there it's quite big as compared to the normal one. but.. our's not e biggest! my friend's rm could easily fit in 8 of us. but we're e only one with a safe and a direct view of the park itself.


Next up was the Bn ord funtion held at pioneer spring @ Mt faber safra.food's not bad quite yummy anyway *slurps
the place is quite nice acutally just that the sound system sux! which dampen the mood alittle. but over all it's a good job done. well done guys!
there's also countless of lunch and dinner meet up. thanks guys for taking time out.
basically that sums up e two weeks from ORD date till now.

other then that most oft he time is spend stone-ing and gaming with my gaming kakis
all e crazy bunch where we would play till morning dawn just to make up for the future time i'll be losing duing my job haha. namely harrison wp aloy jl sometime ah du. haha now can go back to normal routine already. dun game so much! anyway thanks for the countless gaming hours and prata sessions.

Travel the world while you work sounds great? yup, it's part of my job to travel while working. Nah it's not up in the air but rather in e ocean. confine 24/7 to a mode of transport called ship. Once again i'm back as a cadet or rather assistant engineer they called it. would be on board Atalanta 1. An oil tanker which operates in the East china sea region and no.. it's not those super big ones just shy of 4000DWT(Dead Weight Ton a marine term for measuring ship's tonnage) so it's eh.. avg ship ship? There's goes my europe trip haha anyway should be back during christmas period i hope.. will try to update my blog if i get to use the com.

my assigment and discharge book

a super cute card i recieved.

today SOTM lesson conclued the beattitudes. it's really one of the challenging sermons. it'll challange your thinking and character for it deals with your attitude.
mat 5:3-12 just these 9 versus took over 4 weeks showing how important it is. every versus would make you think hard and ponder on your past/current/future actions.
it's really greaT! moulds you into a stronger christian. too bad i'll be missing e next 7 lessons.. haiz oh well =)
See you guys ard!

ah.. long time since last blog.. haha
anyways there's nothing much to do recently..
all in lull mood awaiting the much desired three letter word.
O R D!!
so till then there's lots of events that was line up namely
arty 119, 46th commissioning, CDF coc, bty cohesion, Bn ord function
etc etc.

most of us at 119 dinner.

ha.. finally back from Nz.
had a month of fun filled activities. only to end it with disappointing
there's nothing much to do in Ackland itself. visit Nz if your're e outdoor type..
those who are the shopping type sorry but there's nothing there..
the time spent in Nz was and interesting one. a large number of us(45th faocc) is actually involved be it as exercise troop, evaluators or safety officers. it's good to actually be able to gather together once again.
here's a grp photo of us outside the temple

the exercise itself is comes with a different apporach cuz most of the time we have been training in limited vegetation of singapore.. now there's vast empty land with only shrubs. the temperature itself is also a big different the highest temperature is like 15 deg the coldest we ever got is 4 deg. 4deg outfield is no joke plus wind chill factor and rain it went further down to around -5 deg.
there's longer daylight sunrise0530 sunset2100 so daily activities are quite long.
with little sleep due to long hours of de-breif sessions

view of the famous Mt in waiouru

the sunsets in Nz are usually quite beautiful =)

All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go,
I'm standing here outside your door,
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye.
But the dawn is breaking, it's early morn,
The taxi's waiting, he's blowing his horn,
Already I'm so lonesome I could cry.
So kiss me and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me,
Hold me like you'll never let me go.
I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again.
Oh, babe, I hate to go.

There's so many times I've let you down,
So many times, I've played around,
I'll tell you now they don't mean a thing.
Every place I go, I'll think of you,
Every song I sing, I'll sing for you;
When I come back, I'll wear your wedding ring.

So kiss me and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me,
Hold me like you'll never let me go.
I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again.
Oh, babe, I hate to go.

Now the time has come to leave you, one more time let me kiss you,
Then close your eyes, I'll be on my way.
Dream about the days to come when I won't have to leave alone,
About the time I won't have to say:

Leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again.
Leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again.

this week is superrrr long..
there's nothing in store for us. so bascially we just laze ard..
i remember there's one afternoon.. i was just sleeping the entire afternoon away..
it's like after lunch so nap abit.. after awhile and many positions "eh why still 1400 only.."had a hard time trying to get to sleep till dinner..
that's life in e cubicle no one know you're there till you make some noise or stand up.
had CLS on wed. not the chemcial life science.. but combat life saving course
had abit of fun with all e bandages and stuffs.
thurs was our Bn coh day. it's made up of games day(frisbee and dodgeball)
CO night(Ms 21SA, beer-a-lious and movie screening)
my batt won most of 2 of the 4 events.. it's like match fixing cuz we happening to be the organizing community haha.but seriously we won fair and square.Everyone had fun that's e impt part. Bring e BoOZe! 18 cartons of tiger it's any alcoholic dream night.
okie flying off to somewhere where e sheeps and cows ratio is 1:1 with singapore anyway after this everyone will be looking forward to one thing. ORD!!