Saturday, July 19, 2008
Part B 2006
Training Team: Zhi Yi, Shuo Xian, Guan Chiang, Nicholas
Ok, start of the 4-man training team. On the day of ORD, Zhi Yi took us for a round of drills (forget if it was before or after the parade). I that time still blur blur, didn’t find it weird that he came to give us drills, and also don’t know that he is going to be our PS. I didn’t even recall seeing him during previous trainings at all. The only guy I remembered was Guan Chiang, because he and Ding Jie used to scold me in bunk during camp when I do stupid stuff like wearing beret while sitting down.
Our slack part A life came to an end when Zhi Yi said the words “By the way, I am your PS” when he was debriefing us near the admin block. Couldn’t remember what was the building there before it was demolished. The transition from part A life to part B life totally caught us by surprise. 1st training, we have agreed in the classroom that for each person who pon, the rest do 60. This did not work very well apparently, as our part strength still reduced from 41 to 33, and then to 32. I still remembered that at the start of every training, there would be a certain zhamming session that awaits us, as Zhi Yi was very particular about attendance. After all the initial scolding and pumping, we would be given one minute exactly to fall in at MSCP. We were frequently late. Tekan sessions included pumping us in front of clock tower when we fell in late, resulting in many people having blisters due to the hot tile (Yit Khai kept the peeled-off skin from his palm in his wallet compartment), as well as one training whereby he tekanned us until there were very little people left in the part as one guy ponned the training.
The tekan training included a hiong drill session under the sun at the top deck at mscp, in which I reported sick, but I joined back after the drill session when he asked us to fall in in front of our old bunk. He then gave us 30 seconds to run to TKK statue and run back, and of course we would be late. Then he would settle the pumpings for being late, and make us run again. This process was repeated a few times. Even though it was hiong, I did not report sick for this period and for what was to follow. He fell us in at mscp, made us run to one side, knock it down carry on 1, then run to other side knock it down carry on 1(repeated a few times). After that was another hiong drill session in which whoever screws up must run to TKK statue and run back within a time limit (2 min I think). I screwed up a few times, and I still remembered seeing aaron running back from TKK as I was running towards it. After a few times, I knew I couldn’t possibly make it in time, so I just gave up and walked back, reach the stairs of MSCP then start to run again. Guan Chiang asked me how long was I late, then I told him I don’t have watch (of course, I knew that I was super late, but NCOS couldn’t possibly take the times of everyone who was running to TKK). He seemed to accept that reason and I was not screwed further. A long debrief followed thereafter and that concluded the toughest training of our NCC life.
NDP, I was the right marker for the supporting contingent and had to march to the marking first. On that day I think I did not march in a straight line as I could not see the yellow spray-paint marking on the floor and had to make a sudden shift to get to my marking. The march-pass was screwed up also, I still remember we could not coordinate with the band’s beats once they changed the music. Got screwed by Zhi Yi in front of donation board.
Zhi Yi, our PS then. We disappointed him by screwing up NDP.
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Was right marker for NDP. Look at my lousy uniform. Hah
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Supporting contingent.
1st PDS training, my IC called me and asked me to bring half U on wednesday. I was puzzled. The next day Ting Feng intoduced himself and told us that he would be teaching us PDS. It was compulsary for everyone to learn, starting for my batch, but it was alright since I already intended to join. I volunteered to be the PDS IC for my part. For the subsequent trainings, the ponners gave me a hard time, as well as some others who gave lame excuses to not come training. I had to remember the various reasons why they did not come, but thankfully Ting Feng turned out to be a kind NCO and did not gave me as much pressure as Zhi Yi gave the normal training ICs if there were ponners.
There was a particular ponner that Zhi Yi tried to get back then. The training team would go to his class after school to talk to him and try to get him back. Once, our whole part still went to his house to get him back, but to no avail. In the end, during one of the PDS trainings, he brought a metal pole to threaten Zhi Yi, but was caught in the end by some teachers. Training ended early that day. I could still remember that ponner crying as he was sorrounded by 2 or 3 teachers. We were later asked in bunk if Zhi Yi subjected us to any unreasonable punishments. The ponner eventually quitted, but I still want to thank Zhi Yi for his unwavering efforts to get those who were uninterested to come back.
IMT, screwed up again (zzz why we keep screwing up). Zhi Yi asked us to set goals for for many marksman, how many passes. But obviously we did not manage to achieve it. Requirements for marksman was 3 groupings out of 4 with 4.0cm and below, and pass was 2 out of 4 with 6.0cm and below. I almost missed marksman, with groupings of 2.3, 3.something and 4.0, and some other that was between 4 and 6. Got screwed when we came back to school. I got shortlisted for IMT comp with renjie, jaron, aden, yuxuan, daryll, and some which I couldn't remember. Went for a few hiong PT sessions but did not get into the competition team eventually as Zhi Yi said that I could not hold the rifle firmly. Nevertheless, I was glad that our part's shooting team managed to get term 3rd for the competition. This was considered a great achievement as our unit's shooting was generally not as good.
Don't remember much about december camp except that I was at canteen for solonite. Orientation. Was in unarmed combat section. Was doing with Aaron initially but he got called over to pair up with bert after gerald got injured. So I got paired up with Jun Kai instead. 1st time applying camo paint on face, felt damn disgusting. Damn hard to wash off also. Mid year camp. Quite slack. Had some amazing race around singapore in PT-kit and barbecue on last day. Called into interview room but screwed up big time, and was never called again for the rest of the camp. yisheng was BOS for one of the days, but he kept on calling our RSM, Shuo Xian BOS instead, and got screwed alot of times.
Went for Camp Feast. Enjoyed ourselves but lacked discipline during the camp. Got screwed by Zhi Yi again, this time under the big tree outside HQ. If I am not wrong, he blamed daryll for setting an example as the best cadet of our previous mid-year camp. He also scolded ren jie for smiling when he screwed up a drill during camp feast. When there were people who walked out of HQ, he would recover us and told us to talk cock as if nothing happened. Did the punishment in the form of holding half-position for some time. Some of us found it unfair, some blamed Zhi Yi for being so strict, some cried as well. After that experience, whenever any of us went to HQ, memories of that incident would flow back as we walk past the tree.
Bert mum's zai sewing skills
Picture of us during part B
We did it, together.*
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Training Team: Zhi Yi, Shuo Xian, Guan Chiang, Nicholas
Ok, start of the 4-man training team. On the day of ORD, Zhi Yi took us for a round of drills (forget if it was before or after the parade). I that time still blur blur, didn’t find it weird that he came to give us drills, and also don’t know that he is going to be our PS. I didn’t even recall seeing him during previous trainings at all. The only guy I remembered was Guan Chiang, because he and Ding Jie used to scold me in bunk during camp when I do stupid stuff like wearing beret while sitting down.
Our slack part A life came to an end when Zhi Yi said the words “By the way, I am your PS” when he was debriefing us near the admin block. Couldn’t remember what was the building there before it was demolished. The transition from part A life to part B life totally caught us by surprise. 1st training, we have agreed in the classroom that for each person who pon, the rest do 60. This did not work very well apparently, as our part strength still reduced from 41 to 33, and then to 32. I still remembered that at the start of every training, there would be a certain zhamming session that awaits us, as Zhi Yi was very particular about attendance. After all the initial scolding and pumping, we would be given one minute exactly to fall in at MSCP. We were frequently late. Tekan sessions included pumping us in front of clock tower when we fell in late, resulting in many people having blisters due to the hot tile (Yit Khai kept the peeled-off skin from his palm in his wallet compartment), as well as one training whereby he tekanned us until there were very little people left in the part as one guy ponned the training.
The tekan training included a hiong drill session under the sun at the top deck at mscp, in which I reported sick, but I joined back after the drill session when he asked us to fall in in front of our old bunk. He then gave us 30 seconds to run to TKK statue and run back, and of course we would be late. Then he would settle the pumpings for being late, and make us run again. This process was repeated a few times. Even though it was hiong, I did not report sick for this period and for what was to follow. He fell us in at mscp, made us run to one side, knock it down carry on 1, then run to other side knock it down carry on 1(repeated a few times). After that was another hiong drill session in which whoever screws up must run to TKK statue and run back within a time limit (2 min I think). I screwed up a few times, and I still remembered seeing aaron running back from TKK as I was running towards it. After a few times, I knew I couldn’t possibly make it in time, so I just gave up and walked back, reach the stairs of MSCP then start to run again. Guan Chiang asked me how long was I late, then I told him I don’t have watch (of course, I knew that I was super late, but NCOS couldn’t possibly take the times of everyone who was running to TKK). He seemed to accept that reason and I was not screwed further. A long debrief followed thereafter and that concluded the toughest training of our NCC life.
NDP, I was the right marker for the supporting contingent and had to march to the marking first. On that day I think I did not march in a straight line as I could not see the yellow spray-paint marking on the floor and had to make a sudden shift to get to my marking. The march-pass was screwed up also, I still remember we could not coordinate with the band’s beats once they changed the music. Got screwed by Zhi Yi in front of donation board.
Zhi Yi, our PS then. We disappointed him by screwing up NDP.
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Was right marker for NDP. Look at my lousy uniform. Hah
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Supporting contingent.
1st PDS training, my IC called me and asked me to bring half U on wednesday. I was puzzled. The next day Ting Feng intoduced himself and told us that he would be teaching us PDS. It was compulsary for everyone to learn, starting for my batch, but it was alright since I already intended to join. I volunteered to be the PDS IC for my part. For the subsequent trainings, the ponners gave me a hard time, as well as some others who gave lame excuses to not come training. I had to remember the various reasons why they did not come, but thankfully Ting Feng turned out to be a kind NCO and did not gave me as much pressure as Zhi Yi gave the normal training ICs if there were ponners.
There was a particular ponner that Zhi Yi tried to get back then. The training team would go to his class after school to talk to him and try to get him back. Once, our whole part still went to his house to get him back, but to no avail. In the end, during one of the PDS trainings, he brought a metal pole to threaten Zhi Yi, but was caught in the end by some teachers. Training ended early that day. I could still remember that ponner crying as he was sorrounded by 2 or 3 teachers. We were later asked in bunk if Zhi Yi subjected us to any unreasonable punishments. The ponner eventually quitted, but I still want to thank Zhi Yi for his unwavering efforts to get those who were uninterested to come back.
IMT, screwed up again (zzz why we keep screwing up). Zhi Yi asked us to set goals for for many marksman, how many passes. But obviously we did not manage to achieve it. Requirements for marksman was 3 groupings out of 4 with 4.0cm and below, and pass was 2 out of 4 with 6.0cm and below. I almost missed marksman, with groupings of 2.3, 3.something and 4.0, and some other that was between 4 and 6. Got screwed when we came back to school. I got shortlisted for IMT comp with renjie, jaron, aden, yuxuan, daryll, and some which I couldn't remember. Went for a few hiong PT sessions but did not get into the competition team eventually as Zhi Yi said that I could not hold the rifle firmly. Nevertheless, I was glad that our part's shooting team managed to get term 3rd for the competition. This was considered a great achievement as our unit's shooting was generally not as good.
Don't remember much about december camp except that I was at canteen for solonite. Orientation. Was in unarmed combat section. Was doing with Aaron initially but he got called over to pair up with bert after gerald got injured. So I got paired up with Jun Kai instead. 1st time applying camo paint on face, felt damn disgusting. Damn hard to wash off also. Mid year camp. Quite slack. Had some amazing race around singapore in PT-kit and barbecue on last day. Called into interview room but screwed up big time, and was never called again for the rest of the camp. yisheng was BOS for one of the days, but he kept on calling our RSM, Shuo Xian BOS instead, and got screwed alot of times.
Went for Camp Feast. Enjoyed ourselves but lacked discipline during the camp. Got screwed by Zhi Yi again, this time under the big tree outside HQ. If I am not wrong, he blamed daryll for setting an example as the best cadet of our previous mid-year camp. He also scolded ren jie for smiling when he screwed up a drill during camp feast. When there were people who walked out of HQ, he would recover us and told us to talk cock as if nothing happened. Did the punishment in the form of holding half-position for some time. Some of us found it unfair, some blamed Zhi Yi for being so strict, some cried as well. After that experience, whenever any of us went to HQ, memories of that incident would flow back as we walk past the tree.
Alot of theft cases happened during my Part B life, I lost 2 handphones during this period, one of which I just bought less then 24 hours ago. Later when we checked, the glass on the window can be pulled out so that someone can climb in...Tsk..unlucky me.
Silver wings, went for the course with Bertram, Aaron, Weijing, Jun An, Daryll, Wei Long, Alfred, Ren Jie and Yisheng. I still remembred that my name was called last when Zhi Yi was announcing the list. Anyway, we went there and showed them our zai standards. The sirs kept on praising us for our drills and discipline. Our boots were so shiny that the sir thought that Daryll was using kilat(liquid polish), which we never even heard of before. Alot of us slept during the lectures though.
ORD. Was better prepared this time. Gave Zhi Yi a gorilla, complete with a miniature no.4 uniform sewn by bert's dam zai mum. Gave the other NCOs a dog-tag each also, very expensive. Felt sadder this time when our training team was leaving. Alot of NCOs from this batch came back as CLTs.
Bert mum's zai sewing skills
Picture of us during part B
We did it, together.*
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