Quite shiok that we were able to book in to HTA on Monday morning albeit I need to wake up damn early! lol We left the last 3 days before the end of the HTBC (Home Team Basic Course).

We had our usual lectures all day. Some were so boring that most of us dozed off straight away. On Monday night, we planned and rehearsed for our social nite (which is on the following day!) until 11pm. We were dead beat by then.

Come Tuesday, we had our so-called "mass callistenics and cross country run" before our dinner. But we were told that we'll be able to return to what we had been doing after the mass callistenics. We thought we would be doing the standard PT style as the whole of the HTA people were down at the Unity Square (parade square). YES! That includes all the police people as well as the officers. What we didn't anticipated was that the most 'xiong' exercise was actually jumping jack! LOLX The rest of the exercises we were doing were mostly stretching. Critics said that it's because they did not want to over-exert the old long-servicing officers around. =x

Social nite was definitely a successful one. Everybody was hyped up for the night and did their best to stage such hilarious skits. Most of the skits have some homosexual content in it...that includes my group as well. lol I can say that my group was spontaneous enough to change the first part of the skit at the last minute (how last minute? well, just before we got on stage! =p) However, my group was the last out of the 6 groups cause of the other criterias we did poorly in. But our group morale is still as high as ever! =p

Was quite sad to say goodbye to HTA (wonder when will I get to go in again... ...) but we still had to do so. Had to bid farewell to the friends we had made throughout these 8 days. Was quite motivated to endure the last 9 weeks of my course when some people from the other HT Dept. came up to us and wished us all the best. At the end of the course, we were given nights-off! Woot!

Back in CDA, we woke up to our usual time - 05 15 (instead of 06 10 at HTA). We were lucky enough to have lectures for the whole day. Also, we were to receive our senior trainee rank at 3pm. Due to the disappearance absence of the higher authorities in our wing, we had our enciks to pass the rank to us instead. Little did we know that to get that senior rank was so difficult.

Here it goes... ... We were told to go back our dorm for inspection. When our encik came, we were not prepared yet, so we were told to change to our PT kit and fall in. Some were slow to fall in, so we were told to change to our full bunker gear (full fire suit) in 5 min. We went down by 6:04 min. Then some didn't forgot to bring along their fire gloves. So had to be punished by them (those who sabo-ed us!). Afterthat, we were told to change to our No. 4 with SOC gear (rescue helmet, water bottle and rescue gloves) in 5 min. We got down by 6:14 min. We were told to take off our helmets and carry our bottles on top of our buddy next to us. Guess what! We were forced to pour water over each other's head! LOL That's a lame unique way to tekan us! Then, we were told to clean up our dorms (due to the mess made when we were diligently preparing for our changing parades) and fall in. haha At last, we were given our senior rank! Swee~

Today, we had our Term 2 IPPT. Well, I did improve on all my stations but I still got a pass again, but it's a progress anyway. =) Here are my results-- sit-ups:56, pull-ups:10, SBJ:221cm, shuttle run:10.0s, 2.4km:9:35min (not very sure about my exact timing but should be around there). Hopefully I can get my silver grade by Term 3.

The next thing to worry now will be SOC test, which is next week. The most undesired part of it is that we'll be having the practice on Tuesday and the actual test on Thursday. The only rationale I can think of is that they are trying to tire us out! =x

OHHH!! SENIOR-NOBODY-COCK loh!