all in a week's work

last week,

sunday:

i woke up early, packed some water, packed my camera, packed my hat into my crumpler, and left the house at 7.00am. singapore airshow. was hot.

literally, the sun baked down on everyone at the site. when i got there at 10.40am, it was blistering. it was cooking hot. my nose and arms and neck were burnt red. even with the hat on, my nose still didn't escape.


but the best part of the show, was watching the air aerobatics display. so @#$% cool.
the black knights, the australian roulettes, the F-18 hornet, the F-16 fighting falcon, the A380 and some ulu ulu aircraft which was so uncool. if you were there on sunday, you would have seen the F-18 crack the sound barrier. so sexy....


and then we met this hot female doctor/pilot from the US pacific demonstration team. she actually flies the F-16.

monday.........

we, unfortunately had to say goodbye to our AT friend, william. he left us on to study farther abroad in scotland aerospace. we went to some sushi bar in orachard cineleisure (i forgot the name of the restaurant) to have the lunch buffet, and yea, i nearly puked from eating too much. then we headed down to lucky plaza to have a few rounds of expensive pool... shit it's $8.50 an hour. finally, cam whoring for the 1st time in my life, and of all places, in paragon's 3rd floor gents bathroom.


tuesday -_-

i got news on sunday during the airshow that my flight was scheduled on tuesday afternoon. well, for the 1st time in my entire phase 1, i never made so little mistakes before, except that, my taxying is still pretty much like fast and furious. and for the 1st time in my entire phase 1, siva gave me a 4.0. ok? no it's not, he usually gives a 5.0 even though the performance is poor. but hey, maybe he's being realistic. he tells me i got to prove my worth in my sortie 5 before he lets me move on to phase 2.... just great eh?

thursday

hoooo kay,thursday was probably one of the most shocking, most exciting, most hilarious, and most painful day in SYFC. shocking? well, i expected to be flying with siva in the morning on thursday, but, when i got there.....

"who's HO CK?" i look around the ops room to find instructor HO CK... and good lord. it was the Chief Flying Instructor. shit! i wasn't ready for this.... but i haven't got much of a choice.

exciting? maybe because it's chief, i got jittery nerves by the time i touched the aircraft for initial checks. i was praying like mad he woundn't walk out so soon. i only had 10 mins. i scrambled round the aircraft like a mad man to do my external checks and my pre start checks. and took out my FRC and Pre-Flight brief to recheck all my lessons and my operating procedures. my nerves were all helter skelter by the time he got into the aircraft with me. i went totally numb. my starting and after start was wobbly, and by the time i taxyed out to yankee, i was going in zig zags. my legs just went stiff. by the time i run up the engine, i was totally malu-ed. but i somehow managed and pull through without any help from the chief. *thank god*

hilarious? hohoho..... i think the chief was a pretty decent dude, he's got these glassy blue eyes that make you wonder if he's actually human. well, i can assure you he is, because he farts. yea. if it wasn't me, who else would it be? i was doing my climbing and descending while he was prompting me, and all of a sudden, i got a whiff of this nasty smell. i was like... what's that smell? is it the engine? it smells like someone took a shit!

still delirious from the smell, i nearly opened my mouth to ask the cheif what was that smell, and if the smell was from the engine failing.... but i thought better than to ask this innocent question. i coundn't risk getting a low 3.0 for my flight.

one you see your friends you spent your saturdays wtih leave you one by one, it really stings alot. yesterday, we bid farewell to another friend. fareez was the 4th to leave the SYFC BFC 157 course, following aslam in suit....it was a painful day.

i won't be sharing any music videos in the mean time, since it really hasn't got much views. but i enjoy watching them. i hope you did too, but it's ok if you don't really like it, just tell me.

and as for homecoming day? sorry, its the final ground school of my BFC. so, i can't miss it, for it may be my last.