Omg Im actually in OCS

I just finished my two weeks confinment in OCS. Actually, the first part for all new cadets is called the "common leadership module"where it is basically a orientation period for all cadets. On the first day itself, I got my one white bar and formation tag. Pasting on the rank and formation badge honestly felt more scary than anything hahaha... didnt feel any pride at all lor was just thinking about the tekan sessions that lay ahead.

I was posted to Sierra wing! I was surpirsed to see that my platoon had a lot of girls, re-coursees and even some older people who already had children! Not like BMT at all where everyone just came from JC and were all guys. So we all just gathered at this place called the warriors hall, talk a bit and then went to shift our stuff over to our bunks...

Did I mention that in OCS the bunks are made only for two people? Again this was very different from BMT where 16 people shared a bunk. Some people were excited about it. But for me, I think I would like having the "communal" feeling where our whole section could just chill in our bunk and interact more with each other. Also, as all of us are now more separated in the different rooms, it makes spreading messages like a lot harder to do urgh. Ya lah so we just quickly put our stuff in our cupboards then start doing activities already. I was relieved they didnt do a "everything out" because I really brought like a ungodly amount of things into camp hahaha.

The whole scheduly was quite packed lah. The first week we started doing a lot of things already. We had like nearly daily ciruit trainings which were damn tiring but fun, one route march, a field camp and daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn a lot of lectures on very random stuff. Got some lectures about singapore's relationship with malaysia and even one about public speaking hahaha I found it very random!

Oh but about the field camp, in the end it wasnt really a field camp hahaha. More of like a adventure camp or something. There were a few team building games and we had to make our section flag and cheers... didnt feel very army-like at all haha except for the fact that we had to eat army rations! We also ended up not sleeping in the field because there was a thunder storm so we just sat on the parade square gallery instead XD very funny hahaha.. oh ya the camp is also only two days and one night so it really didnt feel like anything much. Before that I was so worried about the camp for nothing haha. Oh. and on the morning of our field camp we also had our tower run and confidence jump which were both very shiok! the tower run was basically just running up the SAFTI tower. The run didnt feel very hard at all actually although the tower seemed very high... but the view on top was amazing and cannot be described. It was truly unforgettable haha. The confidence jump was also more fun than anything- we basically just needed to jump off a 5m tower into the swimming pool. For me it was easy cus I jumped down higher places before so it ended up just being a refreshing morning dip in the pool. But ofc, there were some people who had a fear of heights and took a longer time to make the leap... but in the end everyone made it so hurray!

Our second week was eveeeen more jam packed. We had our first two exam papers on map reading and safety regulations (yes, we have to actually study in OCS :( ), we also had our IPPT, Two freaking route marches, more lectures, a parade with rehearsals and on the last day we had our initiation ceremony plus our chemical defence.

For our initiation ceremony, we knew that there would be a tekan session prepared for us and they would probably turn us out. True enough at 3am in the morning, they started banging on all our doors hahaha was even earlier than my alarm which I had set at 3:30am just to prepare for the turnout! Ya then they asked us to change two times and finally we had to gather in our FBO with our field pack items and stuff at the parade square. At the parade square we did some 5BX, everything in and out etc.... It really isnt as hard as it sounds tho! But for me I forgotten to put on my rank and formation badge hahaha so had to do a bit of extra pushups sigh. Was quite sad also luh cus I thought I had prepared well for the turnout.

Ya after that we went into the ceremonial hall where we did a short parade thing before getting our second bar! Again, there was no sense of pride for me hahaha cus now it means that we had no more "immunity" to hardcore punishments and that our easy days were over. Haiz but I tried not to think of it as that day was our bookout day as well.

After that, we did our chemical defence exercise which was really nothing much. My mask actually didnt work and all the tear gas kept going inside it. But then again they used to little gas that it didnt really affect me anyway. Apparently they really toned it down for our year as my seniors said that it used to be so bad that they could feel their whole body tingling the moment they step inside the gas room! Ya and we had to wear this very burdensome suit and mask which made me feel super hot and stuffy urgh...

BOOKOUT LOH! hahaha this was the moment we were all waiting for! There was a short programme planned out for all families to come down and visit the area and listen to some speeches! it was very nice to see my parents and brothers after 14 days :) We chit-chatted a bit and ate the buffet food before chioning out haha. I asked them if they wanted to tour around SAFTI but they were all also too lazy haha. So we just took a car and zoomed out looking forward to home sweet home! I really loved my family for coming down just for me hahaha


Yeap we had a long weekend due to labour day as well. Went out a loooooot during the long weekend until got headache hahaha. Even had a barbeque with my new section mates as well. Oh ya, many of us also felt quite sad as after the two weeks, many of our section mates would be leaving to join the Navy/ Airforce so it was really like seeing some of our good friends leave... but alas such is life hahaha. At least we would get to see each other in our last three months of cadet training during our Joint term.

hahaha okay I think thats about it bah. turned out even longer than my BMT re-cap hahaha. I think they next few weeks are going to be super tough... Im quite worried I cannot take it but I will try to Jia you okay! I want to prove to myself that I am stronger than I think I am and I also want to take home some stories to share with others in my time in OCS (cus I think my life also very boring so far haha). I will try my best not to go out of course and continue updating this blog with more adventures from OCS.I hope this would help anyone in the future who is worried about entering OCS :) Actually, I am going to book in later already so Im gonna go off to relac and sleep first hahaha so goodzbyez and see you again soon!