My World, My Life, Myself

The next day (Thursday, 20/03) after the training, i had to go to Air Force School @ Paya Lebar for a reservist briefing. Went to pick up Wei Meng at his place and went for breakfast at a nearby McDonald before heading to AFS. This briefing is about the changes in Airforce. Its a NSmen cascaded brief on the new structure by the the officers from TAB/ALS, or should said the Former TAB/ALS. Shall not dwell much into what is being brief, as it is not much of interest to me anymore. Managed to meet up with some ex-airforce colleagues. Chit chat with them and joke with them of some past happenings. After the brief, went for lunch with Wei Meng, Raymond and Tze Chuan. Went back to company after that.

Friday (21/03) was Wei Meng’s house warming. Tried to contact Edmund Tng in the morning, cause was wondering if he need a ride to Wei Meng’s house. In the end, he had drove there himself. He bought his car from another airforce colleagues who is going to USA for 2 years detachment. When i reach there, i was the last. haha. Anyway, chit chat and joke with them and we had our laughter. At around 2pm, we left Wei Meng’s house. I went to Mitchelle house in Bukit Purmei to help her check her computer. Seems like the mother is spoilt after some troubleshoot. Also saw her little doggy, which was very loud! Haha. By the time i left her house, it was around 4pm liao. Loiter around Tiong Bahru Plaza and went home at night.

Sat was spent resting at home, doing nothing much. Slept alot. haha.

Sunday (23/03), was Benny’s little baby girl, Adel’s one month baby shower. It is held in the evening 5.30pm for friends. I wake up around 12noon, then ate my lunch and do some surfing of the net. at about 4pm, set off to Tiong Bahru Plaza to buy comics and then went opposite to read comics before going over to Benny’s house. Saw David and Steven there. Chat with them while eating the buffet. Catch up with them on their latest updates. At around 8pm, we set off. I sent David, who lives in Bukit Batok, home.

Lifes Goes On
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Ok, i haven’t been updating my blog since, ermm… 3 weeks ago. So once again, i have to back track on wat happened in March since my last update.. haha. Will have to keep it simple and short..

17th March, went to Malaysia for training by my company, NOV. It is a 3 days course on Basic Offshore Safety Induction & Emergency Training (BOSINET), which include Offshore Safety Induction, Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET), Fire Fighting, Sea Survival,…etc. The training ground is at Marine Safety Training Service (MSTS) in Johor Port @ Pasir Gudang.

On the first day (17th), the transport company came to my place to pick me and another colleague. Initially, we are suppose to meet at the company for the transport. But i arranged with the transport company to pick 2 of us up at my place in Woodlands, since we will be going thru the Woodlands custom into Malaysia. No point for us to go all the way to Tuas and then head back to Woodlands. My colleague stayed in Yishun, so i went to pick him up in the morning before the pick up time. Another colleague is Malaysian and stayed in Malaysia, so he will drive his own car to the training ground.

After we are in Malaysia, the driver took us for breakfast before going to MSTS. When we reached MSTS, we waited at the cafeteria for our instructor. The traninig was held on a training barge. Later, we are introduced to our instructor. He then briefed us on our course, the durations, the safety, and also did the adminstratives part of the course.

The very first day was about Helicopter, the safety suit, life jackets…etc. Theories on how and wat to do before, during, and after boarding helicopters, how to survive in crashes, underwater capsized… etc. Then we went for lunch and in the afternoon, it was the practical part of the helicopter training. It was really tiring, but somehow fun for the practical.

At night, we went to check in our hotel, Mutiara Hotel, Johor Bahru. Which is beside Holiday Plaza. It is a long journey of about 45mins to 1hr from the MSTS. After check in, we took our bath, rest and met up for dinner. Went to a Jap Buffet for dinner. After that, went back to hotel to rest for the next day.

Next day’s training is all theory, which include performing CPR. Everything ends around 4.30pm which we then went back to hotel and then went for a good thai massage. After which, we went for a good dinner. Not sure where is the place, cause our Malaysian colleague drove us there. The dinner was sumptous and great, and it is quite cheap. We had black pepper crab, sambal lala, oak prawn, hot plate toufu, steam fish, and a sambal veges. And later, we also add a desert in. All for 188RM. After the dinner, we went back hotel pack our bags and had our rest for the day.

The next morning (our last day of course), we checked out the hotel and went to MSTS. Morning session was sea survival, so we got wet. We learnt how to increase our chance of survival in the sea. After lunch, was about firefighting and there was a simple practical session which was at another building. Everything was finished around 5pm. Then the transportation company sent us back to Singapore. Along the way, the driver have to divert to another small road as the main road had a traffic accident ahead and traffic was very slow moving. At the custom, there is also alot of vehicles entering Singapore, so the traffic was also almost standstill. I reached Causeway Point around 7pm.

Some photos from the training:

Lifes Goes On
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