Hello there. It’s me again.
Sorry for the lack of some serious updates, I’ve been very busy in camp for the last 2 weeks due to my unit’s involvement in the SAFRA Sheares Bridge Run and Army Half Marathon.
The preparations were real hectic and lots of things need to be done, therefore my book out days for the last 2 weeks were erratic and I didn’t have the energy to sit down and type a proper post. Even as I type out this post, I have to return to camp later as the event commences tomorrow.
I have some bad news to share. During my 2 days field camp last week, my weapon was stolen by my officer man!
I was awarded 1 confinement this weekend, which I have to serve after the event.
Man, this really sucks. I’ll be wasting time doing nothing man. I rather study more C++ than doing nothing.
Please pray for me man! Pray that I will be more alert and careful in my entire NS career and that I will not sign anymore confinements or extra duties.
Anyway, onto the good news, I passed my SOC test which was conducted today before I booked out!
My timing was 8:58 minutes man! I was the 2nd winner in my platoon man! Thank you God!
Truly He is miraculous as I prayed hard and fervently before I embarked onto the test. Even during the test as I was panting hard and getting real tired, I cried out for His help and He really did help and push me on.
Thank you Lord.
Well basically that’s all that is what has happened this past 2 weeks. Also to my friends that are linked to me, I’ve also read your blogs and I thank you all for updating so that I can know roughly what you guys are doing and this makes me feel that I am still in contact with you guys.
Thanks man!
Alright, I got to return to my C++ studies.
Remember to pray for me and God bless!
Good evening!
Thank God that I was able to book out on Wednesday night due to National Day on Thursday. I went to my cousin’s place to celebrate his twins’ first birthday, which happen to fall on National Day.
My oh my how they have grown. It seems like yesterday that they were still so small and in a short span of a few months they have grown tremendously. Celebrated their birthdays together with the nation and had a buffet dinner before heading back to camp in the night.
Did SOC on Friday and my hands were left with very bad blisters after I did the monkey bar. So bad that my skin was peeling off and hurts like hell when I wash it with water.
Book out on Saturday afternoon, thank God for the second book out in a week, went out with my mom to Jurong Point to get a new spectacles done for my outfield and had dinner with my cousin (the twins’ father) and my mom.
I went to church today and man, I was greatly blessed by the sharing of the Word by Dr. A.R. Bernard. Man what he said directly refers to the situation that I am in right now man.
I’ve always find his preaching of the Word to be very prophetic and it really shines a light in the current situation that you are in. Therefore I’ve pre-ordered his sermon DVDs for the past 2 days that he was in
Man, just a few more hours before booking in. After today, it will mark the 5th week of my BMT phase. Praise God that I’ve managed to do 1 chin-up! I was praying last Sunday about the chin-up and God encouraged me by giving me the strength to finally do at least 1!
I’m asking a favor from all you Christians that are reading my blog, please pray that I can pass my IPPT and successfully pass out from this BMT phase. Please continue to pray that I have the spiritual stamina to go on! Your prayers are sincerely needed!
5 more weeks till BMT ends. Each week the training gets crazier and crazier. I do not know what will happen this week but I sincerely pray that no matter what they throw at me and my platoon, I pray that I will be able to overcome it.
All right, I’ve got to go and purchase my dinner before I head back to camp. Thanks for reading and continue to pray for me!
God bless!
Good evening!
It’s amazing how fast time flies. Yesterday was the second time that I’ve booked out!
Read up some C++ and caught up with what was going on in the gaming industry for the past 1 week and was shocked that so much things happened.
Man, I pray that I will not become obsolete once I ORD.
Lord please guide me to the end!
I bought the Source Premier Pack on Steam today which basically comprises of Half Life 2 and other Source games made by Valve. I bought it for the sake of trying out the Source SDK so that I can learn to create a modification to the game each book out.
Played Counter Strike Source and it was excellent man! I hope I can study C++ quickly and practice it on this SDK that I just bought!
About what I did during the army this week, man I had range this week. It was so freaking boring man. The best companion I’ve found during boredom besides Jesus was writing! Therefore I’ve written about 2 days of what I did. So here goes:
30-07-07
Monday 30th, booked in on Sunday, yesterday at 8.30pm. My dad sends me to the camp on his bike so I can relax and enjoy the ride instead of squeezing with the others on the MRT. There wasn’t much activity after booking in, except unpacking my stuff before I sleep.
No 5 BX today, had a light breakfast before waiting for the bus to take us to a virtual shooting range. We waited almost for an hour and a half before it finally arrives.
Went for the virtual range and realized that my shooting sucks in real life. It was tiring holding the rifle man.
Couldn’t really aim well due to my hands which were shaking.
Man, how am I supposed to pass my range test this Wednesday…
However, after some tips from my platoon sergeant, my night shots improved and for my overall score, I did not fail!
Praise God!
He always answers our prayers!
My faith in Him has increased dramatically man!
01-08-07
Wednesday, 1st August. Woke up damn early at 4am for live shooting and was feeling real groggy when I awoke.
Therefore I stoned and prayed for about 10 minutes on my bed. Washed up, wore my long 4 and collected my SAR21 before heading off to a quick breakfast.
Sergeant appointed me to be the one to help to distribute the weapons to my platoon! WOW!
Had a short trip to Nee Soon Camp and here I am, writing this entry while shots are going off while I waited for my turn to shoot. Feeling calm and not one bit nervous, thank God.
Hope I pass!
A little while later, I came back from my zeroing shots. Damn my technique of shooting is bad man. A few shots went all over the place. I’m going for the actual test now, pray that I pass…
Back from my test. Woohoo I got 13 shots out of 16!
I almost got a full score if I had not trembled man!
I’m going to pray for a good score for my night shots!
Yeah that’s the 2 entries that I wrote for those 2 days. The scores for the night shots were very bad. I didn’t pass and I had to re-shoot where I obtained an overall score of 23 out of 31. I didn’t write about the night part cause I was too freaking tired.
Man seriously I hope I don’t burn out. I didn’t went service on Saturday cause I was too beat by the road march in the morning and there weren’t any service on Sunday morning cause everything is held at the Festival of Praise at the indoor stadium.
Please pray for me man!
Pray that the Holy Spirit will always be with me!
Thanks for reading and God bless!