19 nov

wake up 5.30am..change to no.4 and get everythings ready..den take 161 to woodlands den change mrt to sembawang and take 856 to sembawang camp...went into ndu and go through all the admin stuff..den after that..change to PT rig..den go for lecture..sian..diving physic..i almost fall asleep..after lesson, went for lunch..den after that..is the medical part..i fall asleep..den my partner wake me up..after that..got revision..den followed by admin stuff again..den had dinner..

20 nov

first thing in the morning..do pull up..den go have breakfast..after that change to wet suit, booties and fin..do turtle back for 10 laps..ankle was like breaking off..den do some stretching..and went on to do the sea circuit training..got rope climb..first time..cant get up the rope..somemore with the fin..damn difficult..den second try..did it..have more confidence in myself liao..after that..did the E drills..got buddy breathing..E surfacing and buddy companion(10m)..

21 nov

first dive..take out cylinder..put along the pool..and went for the orientation dive..only 1m..the instructors teaches us many things..how to clear our mask underwater when there is fog..the hand signal...and get ourselves adapt to underwater by breathing in and out through our mouth only..den after that..stay in underwater for 10 to 15 mins..den start swimming circles woth cylinders..after that..went for lunch..came back to dive pool and dive at 4m..it's orientation dive again..after that..break surface and went for the in-water proficency with 2 weight and trap water for 5 mins..this is the tough part..i and my buddy went in first..endure for 5 mins and heard this, "INFLATE YOUR BC!!" damn happy..so quickly inflate my BC..haha..so i have pass the 2 weights..den when come out of the pool..i cant even walk! den at the edge of the pool massaging my legs..den i slowly drag myself to the centre and do stretching..we still got 4, 6 weights and cylinder to go..wa..after that..went for diving physic test..i failed man..den got to go for the retest tmr..

22 nov

first thing in the morning..did the 4 weights in water proficency..this time worst..when i get out of the pool..i cant even move..everything part of my legs are like..numb..den do some stretching..den went to have the test for E drills..after that..surface up and continue the 6 weight...i did 3 times..first 2 times i got leg cramp..den the third time..i did it..after that..the sir ask to to change to only PT rig and mask..he called me to do bobbing..bobbing need to tie and and tie leg..let yourself sink and go to the bottom of the pool and kick yourself up...so i went down..blow out bubbles..but in the end.i never sink..i float up..haha..coz i am positive..haha..only negative ppl will sink..den the sir say..look like i choose the wrong ppl..haha..after that..went for my retest..and medical test...for the diving physic i passed..but for the medical i failed..=)

23 nov

morning did the cylinder in water proficency..got to carry cylinder(20kg) and trap water for 1 mins..the 1 mins is enough to kill you..haha..i passed and after that..did marked diving..hand holding on to a rope connected to the float above..and dive untill the instructors ask us to come out..afte that..did ditch and don and pool com 1/2..ditch and don is to ditch your equipment underwater and wear it back underwater..pool com stage 1 is stationary..a agressor will attack you and take away your mouth piece with you knowing..and lossen your shoulder.waist stripe..stage 2 is moving..so agressor will suddenly attack when you are diving around..so got to be alert and hold breath when he attack you..after that..had our dinner and we book out!! wahahaha..finally can go home liao..

25 nov

book into camp at 2000hrs

26 nov

went to have some diving revision..and sea curcuit..nothing much..today is a half day coz chief of navy coming down to ndu..

27 nov

did sea circuit in the sea in the morning..got to turtle back around 50m to the rope, den climb up the rope and run to the tower and do the tower jump around 5m den turtle back around 150m to the shore, run to the atart point and continue the circuit..did 3 rounds in total..my timing was 25mins..haha..like running 5km like that..was damn tired..after that..did afternoon jackstay dive..was very excited but when we go for the second time..haha..not excited already..coz below got nothing to see except plastic bags and glass bottles..haha..den did the night dive..haha..our first night dive..it sucks man..the visibility was 0m man..haha..total pitch dark below and total silence..you cant even see your hand when it's place infront of your mask..

28 nov

did jackstay dive again..nothing much today..when for medical test and i passed..=)

29 nov

training starts at 2pm..coz other unit got operation so we cant use the sea untill 2 plus..did afternoon searches and night searches...the mud was damn disgusting..it can go to the dept of your arm when you dig in..sucks man..

30 nov

did our reharsal for our passing our ceremony from morning to noon..haha..i did pool com stage 2..finally after so much things..i passed out! hehe.=) after that..book out of camp and went home..

HOME SWEET HOME=)
2 dec
went back to camp at 2100hrs..

3 dec

the day i have been waiting for..muahahahahaha..our passing out ceremony..did all our performance and went for the ceremony and photo taking..=) in total..11 went in..7 had passed out..4 is NCC and 3 is medic..haha..

in life,

always have a positive mindset..it is your mind over your body..

tell yourself you CAN do it, and you WILL do it!!!

now the divers badge is mine!