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Oh man, i’m going abit nuts here already. Like all nvr study already… Sigh, i’m gonna piah one last tiem tomolo… try and cram all the procedures in my head. I’ll see how sortie 3 goes… then i’ll make final decision already. sigh…. argh…. brain cannot make decision. i’ll never get a second chance! aaaaaaaaaaaaa… dunnoe wad to do lah…..

Uh…. hur, sunday morn. Chinese service just started in BFC. Its 10am in the morn here. everyone’s either slept until now and just too sian to go out. Tomorrow is monday… i’m not flying but still dread it cos it brings me nearer to my 3rd sortie. GH3.

Eh, i’ve been thinking very hard about what i wanna do with my life leh. My fren keeps telling me to go cos i’ve already given up. And the truth is i think i already have. I dun talk about piloting the same way i do about teaching. I’m not as gian as the rest to pass… i asked some if they were kicked then had to reapply and all, go thru interview, medical…. they said yes… but i dun even care. I’d just go back to infantry and not bother. How? i still have to do my best… i also dunno how lah… wanna talk to someone. I want answers and direction. I’d just go home in the eve if i knew i dowan this. Then feel like i’m giving up something so many people cannot have. Wah lau…. sure got loads of ppl ask why why why… so sian. Go back cmpb also cannot face them already. How how how? I dunnoe lah…

*disclaimer* - I’m not in any way at all, criticising the way they teach us. Somehow, if you were an instructor and your life was in the hands of an 19yr old who radios the wrong tower, taxis off the road onto the grass, cannot fly straight, never look around before turning, flies into mountains/the ground/other aircraft and into restricted airspace, with the added chance of stalling, spinning and killing you. I think most ppl would do the same. Anyhow, the formula is as such… the closer the airplane is to the ground, the higher the pitch and the louder the volume of the instructor is.

—–Fav Quotes——-

“When the propeller start turning, all your brains will be blown to the back of the cockpit!” - Maj S. Chua, visiting us at AFS

“Waiting for christmas ah?!” - Maj S. Chua (desmond… you’ll like this one… haha)

“Cadet, are you stupid?”

“no sir”

“then how come you don’t know your checks?”

“cannot rememeber sir”

“Stupid people always forget things right?”

“yes sir”

“you cannot remember your checks right?”

“yes sir”

“See, you are stupid.”

“……”

- Maj Eng to 08/03 cadet

“Dogshit!” Maj S. Chua

“You FAIL you FAIL YOU FAIL!” Maj S. Chua (desmond… another one for you)

“You’re the worst of my 3 students!” Maj S. Chua (it was discovered he told that to all 3 of them)

“AIYAH! DOWAN TO TEACH YOU ALREADY LAH! YOU DO WHAT EVER YOU WANT!” Maj S. Chua, leaving my fren to do wadever he want for 10 min

“You tell me to fly towards the chicken coops right!?” Maj S. Chua

(after putting the aeroplane into a dive towards some chicken coops on the ground we were supposed to use as landmarks)

One day i’ll read this all and laugh…

Some of you think S. Chua is a horrible old man who terrorises his cadets. You are right… hahahhaa… BUT… must add that he’s one of the best here. Just now still bother to debrief my frens past office hours… like… one whole hour more. Writes down a full page of mistakes for you to ponder (he actually included the “waiting for christmas” comments then put a x2 beside when he said it again to that 08/03 guy)

Today can’t remember nuts about what i’m supposed to do. Just stone there and and have no idea what to do. My brain got blown onto the apron floor… haha… the scoldings don’t really have any effect on me, seem mild actually. I just sian that i couldn’t remember anything at all. He hasn’t really grabbed me helmet yet. I’m not nauseous anymore… he did sommore aeros today but had no effect. 2 guys airsick cannot take it… think going home next week if they airsick again. Honour of being the first to get chopped. Well, weekend… going out to town tommorow. Buy stuff i think… See wads interesting here.

Went to fly liao… wah lau… never felt so weird, took hours to recover. Start at 1000 lidat… taxy out… almost roll onto grass a few times cos checking instruments. Scold scold, then taxi straight again. All my R/Ts all fine… never gabra or wad… sometimes over the radio you can hear frens messing up. Radio halfway just stun there forget everything… then instructor have to finish the call for him. Take off fine… weather was very good. No wind, visibility very high, can see all the landmarks clearly. just hope i can remember. Later go soak in bathtub and try and recall…

His aeros are quite amazing… he dive to gain speed… then he’ll pull up so hard. First time quite surprised… got those white spots and starts appearing, then thought i was a gonner… but then blood come back and see the world turning here and there. upside down is fun… can see the ground. Still got alot of hard to describe stuff… nvm… just turn until siao can already lah. I din throw up, only one out of 16 did so far… this course got strong stomachs they say. But the light nausea drives me crazy. stuck until 3 something then went away. Then everyone who come back alll slumped on the table sleeping… i go underneath on the floor and sleep. Makes you really tired… and i think the air in the plane got CO… makes you feel sick. Felt like sleepy and headache on the way back.

The previous course guys going back tomolo… so sian.. then nobody to ask anything. 2 out of 16 complete flying (CF) but then complete also still have to be recommended… 99% do go to ground sch, but theres this guy 2 courses ago who passed everything then they din want him. haha… spent 5 wks in tamworth for nothing.

ugh… tiring lah… i need to study my checks until very zai. I think alot of ppl got scolded today… Sleep early they say. 8 also can go sleep already… i really hope i get used to this feeling… if not i go back home to tekong and serve my 2yrs. be teacherafter my studies… haha…

ooooo… fergot… haha, i did somthing crazy with my frenz. we went swimming… haha… the water was so cold. I jumped in and whole body numb already… caught some videos of the other guys jumping in… all same reaction, jump in, full speed to the nearest wall and climb out… haha.. i went in 4 times… last time can tread water and swim around normally already… but too much man, cannot stay too long. i was still cold after a super long hot shower… lalala… might go push someone in some day… they must try man. Esp those NDU guys… even their cold treatment don’t have so bad.

hmp, nothing much happens already. yesterday just had a morning of lectures, then had helmet fitting. Today go out to the apron where all the aircraft parked. Briefed on all the different things in the aircraft, strapping in, bailing out… Eng is quite nice, just sometimes wonder when to do things (initiative) and not do things (listen to instruction). All the talk about initiative is bs… i ask to strap stuff tighter he give me that are-you-idiot-or-what-face and say “tighten lah…” then take initiative to losen it for the next guy while getting out (you’re supposed to do that) then say “I got tell you to loosen?” wah lau… me and the other officer guy look at each other also dunnoe wad to say.

Anyhow tomolo is my first sortie. He’s gonna do aeros… make people throw up. I happen to be in the first wave… with 3 other guys operating in the furthest training area. Hope tomolo morning is a clear day… can see all the landmarks. The parking apron is really cold.. but in the plane gonna get real hot i heard. so squeezy… sian… like kena stuck with tiger lidat. Side by side… haha… the guy who keep laffing at me had the second worst instructor… he haven even fly yet kena scolded liao. instructor say he talk crap… well, thats putting it nicely.

Gonna eat a proper dinner now… don’t wanna get too much breakfast tomolo. Scully all come out into a bag in the end…

hehe… can already! bleah.. flinged the camera around abit then the lensjust started working fine again… weird.

Die lah… i just dropped my camera at the stupid mockup. The stupid thing! crap… now lens dowan to come out… as good as cannot take anything loh… sigh… i screwed up every possible check also. i go and study liao… crap

wah lauz… so many lectures and briefings. Tired and sleepy. Day has ended already and its only 4, time to go back bunk and read or sleep. Probably gonna do the latter cos its been so tiring to listen and listen. Photos are up at ofoto… end up sending to almost everybody my frens ask me to send cos they to lazy or unable to do it on their own. So… i don’t have many emails adds. you interested, just leave ur email in the tag board.. i’ll add it to the unofficial mailing list. hmm… don’t remember blogging so much ever. Well, its more efficient that mailing ppl one by one… In fact i haven’t dropped anyone a proper mail. just no time lah, Weekdays are actually quite busy compare to the first two days whiuh were weekends.

Maybe at night i’ll be online… I’m 2 hours ahead… quite sian, am awake very late and tired in the morning. I don’t think i’m jet lagged, but i’m just recovering from the flight still. taking naps don’t seem to help very much. Well, i’ll go back now…aybe after dinner i’ be back here at the mock up the play around… also need to know how to do morning briefs. Say weather… some safety things… the parade state… blah blah, got alot of abbreiviations to know or else gabra then have to do the next day again. 4 more ppl got chopped today, the board got enough space for both courses already, last time got not enuf boxes for all of us. The the other bunch of ppl left this morn. Not sure when this batch is leaving, but should be quite soon also.

Quite interesting today at lunch… heard the two guys in front of me commenting about our english.. haha… some guy said somehting like “you got go out last weekend?” to him. Our grammer must be really puzzling to him. Wanted to open my mouth but then he sort of said something about our “special” thing called singlish.. so i htink we’re sort of excused over here.

oh yeah… one more impt hing before i round off… i got… uh… one of the more jialat instructors there are already. haha… Major Eng… man… i heard being in the air with him will fly until dowan to fly one. But then again statistically, his students pass more often than the others. My fren said one sortie he messed up his departure route… then instructor said “aiyah, dowan to teach you already lah, you do whatever you want!” left him fly around for a good 10-15 min. haha… can laf lah… but my fren fly until he just lean his head on the canopy like super sian lidat. Also dunoe wad to do.

hmm… maybe the only good thing is we got a new batch of helmets. The second batch to use, so its not the super smelly one like last time… lalala… have to go eh, nothing much left to say.

Just had bbq… eat until so much. I sort of unintentionally siamming the cleaning now. The wind here alot alot… blow until the food just off the grill then become cold already. lips feeling dry already, haven’t drank enough maybe. I already fill 3L pouch until very full then put in my room already, drink and drink when i walk past also not enough.

The time here quite fast..went to shopping centre today to buy necessities then before i know it already 12pm come back for bbq. Haha… i fergot to get the ppl to sign the book in/out book… give this fat guy ask abit. down here like bo zeng hu one leh… can do almost wadever we want outside of office hours… of course i haven’t had any office hours yet but i heard its sort of like afs, but everyday fly one sortie… free time use to study or just slack. Alot of the guys here all going home on monday, can get stuff from them like speakers, adaptor, food… later go upstairs see what i can take. second day already… time sort of flies around here. I just wanna go rest in my room… comfortable.

oo.. forgot to say… there are 2 mock ups here and they’re cut out from a real plane! aha, so can go and try try on monday i think… the atis channel has such a strong australian slang… disgusting. i wonder what instructor will do to me if i jsut sit there and listen to the transmission over and over and over an over agian cos cannot catch what he say. Radio is in eric kwan’s room… tell him he lonely can listen to the australian guy in the atis… haha…

hey… some guy just pluggged in his camera. maybe i’ll do that next time i blog… put some photos here or something. here is so quiet… got nothing much to take also… might make a roadsign collage if i collect enough photos.