the jellyfish is back! The 2nd week of BRT has passed, which means there is only 3 more weeks to POP! Isn't that great? =D

Scope of this post

1. W1 Night Prawning
2. W2 Night PT

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1. W1 Night Prawning

Went out on 11th Feb with some Delta people to prawn after a tiring 1st week of BRT. Perhaps that session is for bonding after a long break during CNY? =D

2030 - Meet up at Bishan with Marcus, JM and Aaron. Walked to a nearby coffee shop and had our dinner there. The meal is damn nice as we had five spices, beansprouts, oyster omelette. =D Aaron wasn't hungry, but still those hungry ppl including me had a satisfying meal. ^^

2130 - Met up with Kelvin and walked around Bishan and then walked quite a long distance to the prawning place. This night route march was rather fun as there is no fear of getting pumped any moment.

2250 - Let the prawning begin! I fell asleep, while Marcus, Kelvin and JM prawned. Aaron was playing his PSP... They took quite long to catch 1 prawn.

2315 - Aaron left? The rest continued prawning.

0030 - Me, Kelvin, JM and Marcus went for night snack at a nearby coffee shop. I and Marcus ate toasted bread while the rest ate kway chap. The snack is Ok la... Talked about life in camp while eating, which I enjoyed the most for the whole trip.

0130 - Went back to the prawning place and stoned, while watching WB, JQ and his friends prawned. Dunno why JQ called his friends when it is a Delta prawning session but nvm. JH Ong was there too.

0200 - Prawning session ended, a total of about 10 prawns were catched and donated to another group of ppl who was prawning also. Didn't prawn personally but at least I gained some experience, haha.

0210 - Took cab with JM and Kelvin to woodlands. JM stayed at my house overnight as he forgot to bring his house keys. Once again, we talked about life in camp and other experiences. ^^

0330 - Lights out, last movement, sweet dreams.

0800 - Trip ends, JM went home. A prawn session has ended!

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2. W2 Night PT

Quote LCP Hasif: "This is going to be the best day of your recruit life, welcome to 115."

Best day? Maybe. Memorable day? Definitely! ^^

On Thursday, 17th Feb, our whole day was very different from the other days throughout the whole 10 weeks. It was the 1st time when

- we were early for lunch and dinner
- we really moved fast
- we heard a really loud bang
- we got encouragement from sergeants
- our PT was conducted by our instructors
- Plt 10 saw great determination
- we were much more punctual than usual
- we had night PT
- I know there is a routine order
- I learn high efficiency while doing things

Our thursday IPPT training was conducted by sergeant Danial and Sir Greg which was very diff from our 5BX and usual training. Did a lot of weird exercises and had to do 210 assisted chin-ups which we completed thanks to Dorm and many other people. Shall not elaborate much on the day part.

For the 1st time, we had a proper night PT conducted by both platoon sergeants. Plt 11 ran for a night run while Plt 10 did static exercises. Started at 8pm and sergeant told us the purpose of the night PT and gave us general info on our future vocations and his opinions on each one except dog-unit.

We really did a lot of jumping jets and push-ups. It must have been about 4 or 5 times as many as our usual PT lessons. However, Sgt did it in a fun way, until we were laughing while doing the exercises. I shall term it 5AX (5 advanced exercises) instead of 5BX (5 basic exercises).

AX1: Spelling push-up

We spelt Mohd Khairi which was really tiring as the r contributed to 18 push-ups already. Khairi's name made us did 96 push-ups. Sgt asked how many we did and i actually answered 96 which Sgt replied "wtf u actually counted ar?!" LOL! Should have kept the number to myself. He then proceeded to ask me maths question which the answer became 0. ^^ Aaron double checked the answer and it is correct.

AX2: Teamwork push-ups

everybody will stay in push-up position, and the 1st person will do 10 push-ups, and the next person continues 10 after the previous person is done and so on until the last person finished. We managed to clear this AX during our 2nd try, which was not bad!

AX3: Spelling jumping-jets

Spelt the items / names through jumping jets. So for example apple, there will be 10 counts of 8 as there are 5 letters. So Sgt made us spell

- BRANDON TOH KAY BOON (thats 34 counts of 8)
- JEFFERSON MATHEMATICS (thats 40 counts of 8)

thanks to me answering the 96 and 0 for the maths questions, everybody kena the extra 40. Oh well! :X

Tiring sia, especially if you are like me who forgot how to spell mathematics halfway. Sgt then asked me if my maths is good, I answered my maths fail. Haha!

AX4: Record jumping-jets

The previous few delta batches did 71 jumping-jets continuously as a record. The 118 batch did 100 counts of 8! =D

100 sia, damn tiring, but everybody is very happy after finishing it, even Sgt Danial was impressed that we could finish it. Plt 10 aimed for 118 counts of 8 before POP night, I wonder whether that will happen or not. Haha. ^^

AX5: Victory run

Actually this AX is not tough, is just that after u finished the many counts of static exercises, u are going 1 round which almost everybody is half-dead already. Sgt Danial lead the POP / ORD cheer while we ran the round. We also ran a morning run the next day with Sgt Neo.


Overall everyone felt tired, but happy that the night PT has ended and easy to pass. Just imagine the whole PT Sgt Danial is making jokes and u are laughing while doing at the same time. Examples...

Sgt: "Bob, help me throw shoe at them."
(Bob really takes out shoe and prepare to throw)
Sgt: (quickly stops) "walao dont need la!"

Sgt: "Bob, the light duties are not supposed to be sleeping."
Bob: (w/o warning) "OI!!!!!!!"
Sgt: "Walao, give warning la! I just say tell them but not shout sia!"

[a while later]

Sgt: "Bob, tell those light duties to wake up."
Bob: (w/o warning again) "OI WAKE UP LA!!!!"
Sgt: !?!?!

Sgt: "Khairi u look at my sms ar?"
K: "No Sgt!"
Sgt: "sure?"
K: "Yes Sgt!"
Sgt: "Half-right."
K: (half-right position) "But i really never look!"
Sgt: "too bad!! =P"

(abt 5 mins later)

Sgt: "eh Khairi! Why you half-right?!"
(Khairi recovers)
Sgt: "oi! who ask u recover?! Half-right!"
K: huh!? (half-right again)
Sgt: "ok la recover, dont look at my sms again."
K: "Sgt I never look!"
Sgt: "still argue! Half-right!"

LOL! How can you nt laugh, unless you have great endurance like HS or WB. o.o

Somebody said that the cemetry has a figure and Sgt felt a bit scared. I didnt see for myself, so i dunno about that figure, haha. Before going back to our bunks, Sgt gave us advices and encouragement for us to lead a proper 3 weeks before POP. Thank you sergeant! =D

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This post ends here! 3 more weeks to POP!

10:56 PM