[4/10/2003 7:23:20 PM | Lance John]
walked down to the airbase to be fitted for my flight suit this morning. pretty cool. but for some reason they're all cut pretty long in the crotch. hmmm. perhaps the manufacturer knows something we don't?

got a look at the cool american -15s while we were there too. saw two of their pilots too. don't believe what you see in top gun.

incidentally, i now have a permit to carry a weapon on board the plane to oz. surprising that they'd still let us carry our flick-knife along with us in the current climate. but then again it'll be in the baggage after all...but hey! its still a weapon! so the next time your local qaeda recruiter calls, you know where to point him!
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[4/10/2003 12:47:00 AM | Lance John]
why??
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[4/8/2003 10:40:20 PM | Lance John]
why isn't this thing publishing?
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[4/8/2003 7:16:38 PM | Lance John]
oh yeah. i leave for australia on the 25th, tentatively.

the place is tamworth. that's some town in south-east oz, somewhere around canberra. the accomodation and stuff there sounds pretty decent. certainly beats hendon. free flow of icecream, supposedly. single room with attached bath. heaters! mmmm.
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[4/8/2003 7:04:13 PM | Lance John]
first off i would like to announce how thankful i am to have been transferred to aviation wing, airforce school. this wouldn't have been possible without my parents, and God, and my manager, and i suppose my grandparents too since my parents wouldn't be around without them and my record company and my homies over in da hood ( what up, yo! ) and the good folks over at uhm...ikea. and peanut butter.

right. so now i have a 7.30 to 5 gig going on at paya lebar AB and i can't imagine how the government justifies paying me and my 26 fellow coursemates some $1600 a month for sitting around every day and doing absolutely jack. well perhaps the fact that i'm now considered an officer cadet helps ( just for being a pilot trainee. no officer training at this stage. ).

it is incredibly slack here. two breaks a day, we can buy food from the canteen and minimart and for almost the entire day we're pretty much left to our own devices. we've got our own airconditioned room where we can read, talk, play cards - there's even a risk board. there's even stadium and sport facilities, plus a pool and gym which we can use at certain times. i think we might even be allowed into the bar - duty free alcohol, what! things aren't totally OTOT - we airgraders are still at the bottom of the pecking order and we're supposed to greet the senior cadets and all that but all in all - after hendon, life is bliss.

i must start to exercise though. i just know i'm going to get fat from all the junk food and soft drinks and lack of movement.

i'm also still waiting for some blur cock to mistake my OCT bar and greet me 'Sir'. cheap thrills. :-p
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[4/6/2003 4:28:36 PM | Lance John]
thursday was...eventful. i probably shouldn't say much about what happened. but there is an air of faint ridiculousness how one small incident, albeit huge on stupidity, could have caused so much disruption. namely it screwed up more than an entire day's schedule for some 300+ people. all because of one stupid fool. the guy is probably going to have to sign so many extras, he'll never get out of camp for the rest of his ns life. but he should count himself lucky he's not heading to kranji hotel.
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