Booking in on Sunday night was quite hectic cause I had yet to study for my ISA (Individual Skills Assessment) on Monday. But I only spent about 30 minutes or so to study. =x

Come Monday, we all had our whole day of ISA. Did all my assessments during the morning session, so I'll be slacking after lunch! lol Luckily I was asked to do Task S1 ( 2 hoseline from pump ladder to hydrant) and F1 (LX-50 Foam branch)- the easier tasks. Overall I got 109.5/130. Passed! =) At night, we trained for Friday's FSC (Firemanship Skills Competition). Until around 22 30 then we went back dorm to rest.

Tuesday went to NUS - ISS (Institute of System Science) for some E-Government Essentials Course. Whole day slacking at NUS was not bad; our enciks wasn't there as well! =p Continued our 2nd night training again. Actually we were given nights off, but due to an exercise going on the following day, we had to cancel it.

Wednesday had our fun wrecking a car! Cut off the roof, seats, doors, boot, steering wheel and even puncture the 4 wheels! Cool! It's a once in a lifetime thingy. =)

Thursday was the slackiest day of the week. We get prepared with our equipment for Friday's competition in the morning then went for AED (Automated External Defibrillation) lesson after lunch. Had our theory and practical tests straight after the lesson. As usual, everyone passed. lolx

We got a chance to witness the POC (Pass Out Ceremony) of the 20th ERSC. Although it wasn't our POC, but I could already feel the atmosphere then. It kind of made me want to endure for the next 3 months and get my Sgt. rank. Can't wait for my parents to put up the rank for me! =)

Friday is the day of the FSC! My section (khairuddin, bong, akram and me) got selected for the first event - Rhino on target. I was the sect. comm. then. Fortunately we got first! woot! The 2nd event our Rota 2 also came in first. But the subsequent events we kind of lost our position to one of the firefighter Rota. Our scores was tied in the 4th and 5th event. At the last event, we came in first, but don't know what happened to the judges, we got second place and was below the first place (by the firefighters) by just 1 point!!!! Nonetheless, everyone knew we were the champions in our hearts... ...

Had been rotting resting at home for the pass 1 day after I booked out from camp. (and I think I'll continue to rot rest at home for the rest of today until I book in. >_<) It's quite mundane rotting at home. What else can I do? Eat, drink, sleep, online... ...think that's it! lol

Others should be outside by now; chilling out. (Well, some had to stay at home to prepare to book in soon...) =p

But when you start to pack your bag...(yx should know better lolx) sigh.

Trying to find things to do... ... ... ...

All I can say is that it's quite an acheivement to be able to survive this week's trainings. =p

The first 2 days were quite slack; apart from the PT we had with our DRC (Deputy Rota Commander) on Monday. We did all sorts of exercises - push ups, sit ups, pull ups and any types of peculiar stuffs we haven't heard of (e.g. lizard push ups). The PT lesson didn't justend like this. We carried on playing 'games' like 'dog and bone', 'group number calling' and lastly the killer of all - 'snake and ladder' (whereby we had to compete with one another to run up the levels across the stretch of corridors on each level and down again in the same fashion. The bad thing was we did it twice!) Tuesday we had whole day of lectures plus PT, which was just endurance run conducted by our PTI, so it wasn't as bad as Monday's. =x

Then come Wednesday, which was the day everyone was getting all excited but at the same time anxious about the training. We had our first ever flashover training. We had to squat and walk into a container filled with plywoods, newspapers and petroleum on fire accompanied with thick grey-black smoke rushing out from any openings available to it. You can wonder how hot can it be inside. I can tell you it's hellishly hot!! (Mind you that the fire wasn't controlled by any controllers.) I almost got burnt when I got inside for the 2nd time, cause the water, which was absorbed by my gloves, got evaporated instantaneously and nearly scalded my left hand! But the whole experience was quite enjoyable and fufilling; at least I've been into a flashover and I was that close to a mega fire! =p After all trainings had ceased for the day, we played with water. lolx Worst still, we sprayed at our DRC and Sgt. We even 'tau pok' our Sgt.! =x

Thursday was the worst day of the week. I call it the Armegaddon. We had swimming lesson in the morning, which made us caught a runny nose afterthat. This was bad as we were having our BAPT (Breathing Apparatus Proficiency Test) after lunch. Anyhow, during the test, I was close already feeling dehydrated at my first station (there's a total of 1+5 stations namely donning of BA set, enless ladder, walking on treadmill, pulling weights, cycling and BA maze.). But I endured throughout the test and I was quite satisfied that I got A for all stations! woot!=) But I was that close to dying when I took out everything on my body.=x

Thursday didn't end just yet...We were told that there would be dorm inspection straight after the test. We all expected that tsunami would occur by hook or by crook. But little did we expect that it could be so bad. In fact, we were flabbergasted. It's THE worst tsunami we ever witnessed. Detergents, washing powder etc poured onto the floor, beds went haywire, footwear all over the floor... ... ... ...A 2nd impact struck us as we underwent changing parade. Changed from No. 4 to PT kit; then to Bunker Gear (No. 4 with full fireman suit). Then we were told to do 'snake and ladder'!! Looks like 'tired' wasn't in his dictionary. Lastly, he took back all our nights-off; this means that our plan to eat at pizza hut was to no avail. All all the tekan session, we went to clean up our dorm after our dinner. It was so destructive that we took almost 3 hours cleaning up!

And you think that these series of unfortunate events just end here? You're totally wrong! One of our coursemate played 'missing' with us when we were conducting our water parade. Enicks and us took about 2 hours to search high and low for him; from toilets, to training areas to furnance... ...but didn't see a soul. As the last resort, Encik called our CA (course administrator), DRC and Captain down to take control of this heart-throbbing incident. But we eventually found him walking down one of the stairs. Luckily nothing was said by our Captain. We were all safe and sound at the end of the day...took a bath at 23 30 and slept at 00 00. Scary isn't it?! o.O

Friday was a day for us to chill down. We just did some dry runs for our up-coming Inter-Residential Skills Competition, which is commencing next Friday. After lunch we slack and took a nap; waiting for our dinner. Afterthat was awaiting for our departure to Istana for our BOCA Exercise (sounds like 'Vodka' isn't it? lol). Everything went terrible for us as the weather was bad; it started to rain once we were standing-by in our positions. And it just rained continously! Poor us had to suffer under the wrath of the bad weather and endure until a rescuer comes to our 'rescue' us from the chill. lolx Everything ended around 04 00.(No luck to meet the President there though =p) Just came back home around 07 30. Sigh...what a tiring day...

But fret not as next week would be quite a chilling down week for us as we do not have much trainings apart from our ISA (Individual Skills Assessment) on Monday.

Woot! You may ask why I have this luxury of time to be able to use the net and blog now. Cause I just had my first nights off!! But too bad I'm down with a sorethroat and runny nose. Sigh...Why must this happen to me at this point of time?!

Anyway, hopefully I can survive the intense heat from tomorrow's flashover training. And lastly, hope we still have our 2nd nights off this Thursday (for Rota 2 only)! Mass dinner at Pizza Hut! =p Think I won't be eating too much, if not how am I suppose to drink that 1 litre bottle of water for water parade? =x

On the night after I booked out, I went to meet up with bern, jon and ken at Serangoon Gardens for KTV. (Waited for almost 1 hour!! Wasted my precious 1-hour of book out) Anyhow, went into some sleazy well-lited KTV and they charge $10/hr with 1 compulsory drink ordered by each person. Sounds like a good deal? YEAH RIGHT! Guess how much is the drinks...The lowest price is $5!! And may you guess the drink corresponding to that price? A pathetic 300ml soft-drink... What can I say? The world is full of scams. Scheming people...

Saturday rotted at home from morning until late evening before I went to Marina Square to meet up with zc, low, john, kevin and quek for dinner. We dined at Lerk Thai. We ordered the Father's Day Promotion Set Meal - includes appetizers, soup, main course dishes and assorted dessert. The food is nice but you'll be stunned when you saw how much rice they serve. A spatula of it only! We concurred that there must be still some rice left in the big rice bowl and they didn't finish serving all of it. Whatever. Kevin went to meet up with some of his other friends.

Shopped for low's white long sleeve shirt after our dinner as he's posted to OCS and will be reporting tomorrow! Good luck! Hope to see you in SCDF if you were to crossover. The rest of us headed to Coffee Club to have our dessert. Ordered the muddy mud pie. Quite nice but then trying once is enough I guess. If not you'll be quite sick of the stickiness of the mud pie at the bottom of the ice cream.

Today had an early morning bball session at 8am. As usual, only hk, yx, zy, lim, john, quek and me attended. The rest still sleeping... Zzzz...lolx Played for 2 hours and had our breakfast at LJS. Later met up with zc, les and low for KLunch. Our selection of songs was somehow saturated. At least for me. Like nothing left. Accompanied low to purchase his ridiculously over-priced watch at one of the shops. lol And he went for a haircut while I went home...too tired for today...=p

Kind of dread this coming week of training. Stress man. Hope everything turn out good and fast! Friday on standby status. Sigh...=x

Well, also good luck to those who will be reporting to their new vocations. For those who got into xiong one - endure and look on the bright side; for those who got into slacking one - talk to my hands lolx jkjk... =p

It was quite a hectic week. We were activated for the Pre-Pandora Exercise on Monday; after our dinner. Fortunately, I wasn't involved cause I was selected for the ship fire fighting with those officers previously. =p

Had my Voice Procedure Test on tuesday. Think I've got a perfect score! woot! On that very same day, we had our first unofficial night training - BA Maze Exercise 2. This time it's different from our first exercise whereby we were told to crawl through the guinea-pig-like cages in smoky and dark conditions.(And we got confined for that one!! Shan't continue...>_<) Anyhow, this time, the setup was a maze (duh!?) with cages tall and large enough for us to walk with much ease. However, this time was absolute dark. "Stretch out hand cannot see your 5 fingers." (Shen shou bu jian wu zhi.) So, we tried to fully utilise our teamspirit; checking out for one another once in awhile, follow strictly to the direction we were walking etc... Finally, we managed to get out of that highly-to-tio-guard-duty evil place with everyone following through. Good job Section 9! =)

We headed to Jurong Island fire station on Wednesday. It was quite a heavily polluted island. Nonetheless, the view was quite good, apart from those catalytic pipes. Sad to say I tio guard duty on Wednesday. Luckily Thursday we were having rapelling exercise. That's not that physically demanding, so I didn't have any problems with trainings that day. But was getting quite tired during the night cause we were having our E-learning. However, while we were all sound asleep, (or most people were trying to be sound asleep =x) we were asked to FALL IN!!! Because we didn't throw the cookhouse rubbish as we were in charge of doing so. Whatever...


Friday was quite a slack BTM. Played with guns! (Now who says SCDF doesn't have any guns to play with?!) We've got water mist gun(WMG) and impulse gun(IG). WMG was those normal normal type one. The recoil was close to zero. But for the IG, it's a totally different story. The recoil was so large (heard from one of the regulars who was from Army previously that the recoil is much stronger than that of the rifles used in the army.) that my wrist got a sharp aching pain when I first triggered the gun. (That's following a very loud "PANG"...resounding too! lol) Wonder what will happen if we were to trigger happy? lolx But the subsequent triggers was alright.

Thought we might be able to book our early but it didn't seem to be the case. Lots of miscellaneous work to do, scoldings etc...dragged until about 17 30 then we were able to book out. Thanks for taking so much of our night time this week...

Next week will be double the hectic...Here we go again... ...

Forgotten to write about how we got traumatised by an Encik while we were booking in and conducting our water parade. But I shan't comment much about it anymore... ...

Anyhow, xh kindly invited us to her chalet yesterday. Actually many many more people should be going (me, hk, jj, sf, yx, zy, zc, lim, low, john, marcus and quek), but some 'pang seh' us. (Don't play 'pang seh' lah. lolx) Hk need to prepare things, yx ps, zy got 'fo tang', john mia, quek sadly had to stay in camp till late at night. So only left me, sf, zc, lim, low and marcus. Had dinner with sf, lim and low. Then we bought our midnight movie tickets - The Omen and waited from 9 plus to 12 10; loitering around that area. The movie pace was quite good. The storyline as well. Something about this movie which was different from most stereotypical horror movies was that there wasn't any loud and errie sound effects before something really traumatising pops out before your very eyes. They just made everything peaceful and quiet and all of a sudden, you'll almost jump off your seats when some craps happen. Give it a 8/10. Anticipating for Silent Hill next week! =x Coincidentally, saw one of my fellow trainee watching the same movie as well. He was sitting just a row behind of me. lolx.

Afterwhich, we all took a taxi toward Downtown East. It's quite 'xie men' that we both got the same travel fare of 7.50$. =x When we got there, xh and her friends were all sleeping already cause it's 'san que yi'. lolx. After our arrival, everybody was perked up and started playing mahjong and cards. Only after around 4am then we started sleeping. Woke up around 7 plus and washed up to have breakfast at Macs as usual, while xh and company continued to stay in the room to sleep.

Think most of us would be dropped dead on bed once we reach home. haha. Don't think there'll be any lunch meeting today. =p

Ironically, I was down with flu this slacking week instead of the past few weeks where trainings were more xiong. A whole 5 days of staying in the air conditioned classroom(plus the everyday rain) really made us sick. However, this medical week was definitely fun and we learnt alot of things from there as well.(And we had lots of breaks too! lolx Think our breaks accumulated would be longer than the actual lessons duration.=p) From how to assess casualties in the incident site to treatment of the casualties who were suffering from all kinds of injuries and difficulties.

We only went for a 5km run around cemeteries on Tuesday as our sliding pole pratice was cancelled cause our practice ground at the chemical plant was being used for some field exercise. It was quite interesting exploring the different cemeteries of different religions. Explored Christians, Protestants, Muslims and Jewish ones. Have yet to explore a Bahai' Cemetery. Then, we came across a plot of lawn cemetery which looks uncannily similiar to that of a Teletubby land! Think it's meant for children. You could really feel the calmness and peacefulness there.

Nothing much to say about this week, just that we had some 'tekan' session with our self-volunteered 'casualties' by drawing graffitis on their face etc...

Due to a pack schedule next week, we can't use our nights-off for next week. And I had to do guard duty on Wednesday night, and I would have gone through our night training (BA Maze) on Tuesday. Wonder if I could survive the shortage of rest time? However, we still have our 2 nights-off in our hands(cause we had more than half of our Rota 2 guys who passed IPPT and SOC) and the good news was we might have a high chance to get a half day for Friday. Meaning we will be able to book out in the early afternoon!~ Cross our fingers! =x

Lunch with S3A guys was flopped today, but was asked to have lunch at sr central for the Western food with jon and ken. Then went for some KTV-ing at sr gardens with nyco seniors for a full 4-hour long session... all with the price of $9!

Came home and I got tagged by yx after reading his latest entry in his blog. lolx...Well, since I'm bored now and got nothing else better to do, I shall follow suit.

Instructions: Name 20 people you can think of at the top of your head. don't read the questions before you write, and tag 5 pple to do this survey.

1. Yong Xiang
2. Quek
3. Leslie
4. Low
5. Marcus
6. Ho Kong
7. Zheng Yu
8. Adelene
9. Xiao Hui
10. Cheryl
11. Jon
12. Ken
13. Alvin
14. Wei Xiang
15. Chang Sheng
16. Bernard
17. Benny
18. Wen Shu
19. Gary
20. En Qing

How did you meet 14? [Wei Xiang] --- In MSCO Music Room. 1 year senior in the woodwind section.

What will you do if you never met 1? [Yong Xiang] --- I'll have 1 less friend who's always willing to help in one way or another.

What would you do if 20 and 9 dated? [En Qing & Xiao Hui] --- Wonder if they sympathise with the idea of 'jie di lian'? lolx I'll try to make them to the eye-to-eye level. =x

Did you ever like 19? [Gary] --- Favourite junior~ lolx Craps...

Would 6 and 17 make a good couple? [Ho Kong & Benny] --- Totally impossible. Both are guys and are attached already. On another note, their age gap is about 5 years.

Describe 3. [Leslie] --- Not an initiator but will become a good friend if you know him well. Has quite a 'philosophical' mind too.

Do you think 8 is attractive?. [Adelene] --- I shall say yes before she writes something nasty about me in her blog! lolx

Tell me something about 7. [Zheng Yu] --- He's a vegetarian!! You didn't know that?! haha

Do you know any of 12's family? [Ken] --- Not really know them but at least saw them before.

What's 8's favourite? [Adelene] --- Shopping, eating and working.

What would you do if 11 confesses that he/she likes you? [Jon] --- We are friends for about 13 years already but don't think such thing will happen.

What language does 15 speak? [Chang Sheng] --- Good choice! He speaks chinese, english, cantonese, hokkien, japanese... wonder if he knows any more languages...

Who is 9 going out with? [Xiao Hui] --- You'll have to ask the 'dang shi ren' yourself~

How old is 16 now? [Bernard] --- Hmm, not very sure, but I think is around 2o odd.

When was the last time you talked to 13? [Alvin] --- Yesterday while we were having a mini MSCO outing.

Who's 2 favourite band/singer? [Quek] --- Shrugs. Have to check out his MP3 first.

Would you date 4? [Low] --- Try asking again. Go figure.

Would you date 7? [Zheng Yu] --- Same as above.

Is 15 single? [Chang Sheng] --- Yes.

What's 10's last name? [Cheryl] --- Cheryl Wardhana

Would you ever be in a serious relationship with 11? [Jon] --- Like the same question ask in question 11....

What school does 3 go to? [Leslie] --- Not going to any school yet. But will be going into NTU in the future I suppose.

Where does 6 live? [Ho Kong] --- Hougang.

Whats your favourite thing about 5? [Marcus] --- Will always get to the bottom of things.

I am tagging zc, zy, les, low and adelene to do this little questionnaire! Haha. Have fun!

Suddenly got the urge to go for a swim this morning before I went to meet up with alvin, bern, jon and ken for lunch. Before that, something really revolting happened to me... ...An ah pek actually sneezed/coughed(don't really saw what he did) his mucus/phlegm onto my jeans while in was standing in the train!!!! YUCKS! Just my day... ...

Anyhow, had our lunch at Galilee and Friends. Then walked around town area to do some window shopping.

Later met up with jj, yx, zy, low and quek to watch X Men 3: The Last Stand. Didn't meet to my expectation as the last sequel of the trilogy but well... I give it a 6.5/10. As what Ms Chiew always says, directors like to rush off with the last episode. Actually Jean Grey wouldn't have died if Wolverine was intelligent enough to use 3 'antidote' needles on Magneto and the last one on Jean Grey. At least she still can survive albeit without her telekinesis power. Well, whatever. =p

Dined at Pepper Lunch for our dinner while zy went home to rest. (John wanted to meet up with us but... ...) Didn't have any plans to do afterthat(or maybe we're tired already?), so we just went straight home.

PS:Those haven't pay the tix be reminded to do so next week~ =p

Since last week was quite slack for my Rota, we've expected this week to be xiong.

As usual, we had our BTM trainings almost everyday. But we've somehow been adapted to it already.

Had our Term 1 SOC Test on Tuesday. Fortunately, I passed it with the timing of 9:01. (Back to our Term 1 IPPT last week, I only manage to get a passing grade... sit-up: 43; pull-ups: 9; SBJ: 220; shuttle run: 10.5; 2.4km run: 9:36.) Quite satisfied with my results as we've been through all those physically-draining BTM trainings in the morning and did the test all that. Luckily I got ready 2 plasters for my previously broken blisters during my last SOC training, if not I would not want to foresee what will happen if I didn't cause my plasters is in a "un-useable" state after I did my monkey bar!

Wednesday was our so-called 'day's-off' as we had a whole-day lecture on HazMat (Hazardous Material) operating procedures and equipments.

Thursday we had our sliding pole practice. But this time is abit different from the usual. We had our practice at the Chemical Plant, which is 4 storeys high. We did the 'hugging' and 'Singapore' method at each storey twice; 12 slides in total. I can say that I've finally overcame my phobia of sliding down the pole at great heights. The aftermath of sliding too much is having abrasions on my inner thighs! lolx

Finally comes down to Friday... ...Rota 2 Judgement Day. We had our Heat and Humidity training in the morning. It's a 4-man operation where we had to run 700m with a stretcher loaded with four 64mmx20m hoses; run up the 9-storey high Furnace building doing 10 counts of 8 jumping jacks, 10 push-ups and 10 power legs; run down the 9 storeys; lay and pack up the 64mmx20m hose twice using the dutch roll method and lastly is into the SAUNA ROOM where we did things like reciting our name and I/C no., 10 counts of 8 jumping jacks, tie a reef knot, 10 push-ups, tie single sheet bend knot, another 10 push-ups, holding 2 fully-filled jerry cans for 1 min, arraning the jerry cans according to what was instructed to us! It's literally LIVING HELL! Imaging doing all these things while the temperature is increasing bit by bit. PS:All these trainings were done while wearing our fire jacket and lagging together with our BA set!

We thought our trainings had came to an end and getting psyched up to book out. We were wrong!! We were asked for to participate in a in-promptu ship firefighting exercise for the officers. And I was one of the 12 unlucky lucky people chosen to help out. We were like half dead already and now we were asked to go for another round of training! Fortunately I got a nice Captain Cheng in charge of my section. The experience is quite refreshing as it's the first time we are doing real fire drill, let alone within the stimulated ship fire training ground. I also helped to carry out 2 dumb-bells dummies from basement 2. =) After all was done, my Captain offered us a bottle of water to us even though Encik offered to him. That's what I call a leader who leads with pride and care. The exercise was quite a success too!

And guess what!? We had only 10 minutes to change and fall in to book out! Maybe that's why they call us Emergency Response Specialists! lolx

"If you can survive today, you can survive any other day."

Funny things I've came across for the pass few weeks:
"You have the responsible to be the responsibility"
"Slow runners ahead"(or was it "Slow. Runners ahead.?" lolx)
"Don't worry! I confident you!"