singaroo

Exercise Hold! Down to the rescue... what a unique Ex Singaroo to start my naval career! i think i've said 1790 rpm more than 3 times, and that is cool stuff! =) onwards to BWC as i press on to improve my knowledge. but first, just left with a coc fire drill assessment to finally put the case to a rest. sigh~ it'd sure took long, but this ship provides a great opportunity for training as compared to my batchmates.

and so finally a break from a rigourous 5months of non-stop action. IMDEX was a great experience to visit the frigates and destroyers as well as their crew. met up with the council for great meals. had some anime to catch up to, as well as starting the series of prison break.

well, i think i'm overworking my kinesis. have to take it out for a ride everyday which i'm back at home, simply can't resist the temptation. had a crash but it's surely not deterring me at all. =) putting the pieces together makes it even more enticing, the holy white light shining atop the bike would be the icing on the cake; pristine.

thanks LTC Lee for that splendid japanese meal at Miramar Hotel! it was an apt thankyou cum farewell dinner, and next up is my turn. hopefully it's not due to failing to score below 97 for ROR. heh.. its kinda sad to hear from my batchmates that i'm the only one spending so much on chia! should educate them on such an important navy culture.. wahahaha! =)

it was a beautiful scenery from equinox, and great company thereafter too.

one night in kaohsiung

And so we lost quite afew equipment. That was how continuous persistent bad sea state can be. Fortunately, for a large part of the exercise as well as the entire return journey, it was rather peaceful after all the donations of our black trash bags of regurgitated waste to Mother sea while enroute up north. Shore leave was great for the very few days and little precious hours i had, and the rest was spent doing duty. it was more of a makan sutra than anything else, and since i had reduced cash due to the treat in the expensive exquisite restaurant to the officers makan, i was careful with my spendings. However, the roadside stalls wasn't a problem and had me splurging on it. Interesting side note: there's at least a bubble tea stall every other street and it was included in the daily indented meals onboard. Food was of the essence, but soon it became too oily for my liking. i came and my stomach conquered; and what remaining money i had left was spent on clothes. sad, so i got a chinese mathematics book to read since i'll be studying maths soon, but i was conned as the book thus far is dumb primary school tricks. i only got food back as souvenirs as there wasn't any solid materials for gift massing. hope ya guys like it! =)

So, it was another level up for my training, but the focus isn't exactly there. i am not training to become a spec o, but the opportunities were too enticing. clocking 100 hours of bridge watch in a month is cool stuff only because i'm looking back on it now. other interesting events to highlight are the cocktail onboard Endeavour, where there were taiwanese female midshipman to talk to. besides that, there was also 'jia cai' lunch, where an insanely pro guy downed a huge fishbowl of beer in one gulp, although he spilt 1/4 of it towards the end. and by command veto, victory's crew were ordered to coerce me to drink until i lie flat, in which they were very successful as the odds were 60 - 1. sigh~ And the list goes on... ... while back in tuas, i am the last on the list in 188 to get my COC, tragic! i guess i do suck after all huh...

ronnie. what happened in kaohsiung, remains in kaohsiung.