Bouncing plane? >.<

I finally flew my 31st sortie yesterday! After twenty eight days. OMG. Rather stiff on the plane.. My dual flight with my instructor was fine but my first landing for the solo portion was OMG! It was so embarrassing I almost cried. I bounced 3 times on that landing! That's utterly unacceptable....

but there was a consolation. My final landing was nice-ish and soft. whew... hope my flight this thurs will be better..

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!!!

lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng month..

maybe what estee says is true. the new year will bring new things.. sighhh... this was an ultra long month man.. i've not touched a plane for 26 days.. later i'll be flying (hopefully it doesn't rain- thus the new blog song)


anyway. lets see. whats happened the past three weeks?

well, last friday i sat for the CAAS met paper.. hope i do ok.. results today or tmrw i think. i also wacthed flyboys! with the syfc dudes.. the dog fights were like WOW!

on sunday i went for the christman swim at apsc @ FP.. they did 108 x 80m (short course pool) which is almost 10k! hahah i did 80% of it and i swam much slower then them.. hhhahhaha..

on tuesday the 26th, uncle siong asked me to cover coach jin's training session cause she wanted to go on leave. woot! how fun! i trained the swimmers that i used to train with. that was really interesting.. good job guys.. you trained well!

lets see. still got to do aircraft power plants and understanding weather.. sighhh... next year had better be better.. happy new year!

Breaking Benjamin- Rain

This song is uberly cool! and it makes demn alot of sense right now...

Take a photograph, it'll be the last
Not a dollar or a crowd could ever keep me here
I don't have a past, I just have a chance
Not a family or honest plea remains to say

Rain rain go away, come again another day
All the world is waiting for the sun
Is it you I want, or just the notion of
A heart to wrap around, so I can find my way around
Safe to say from here, you're getting closer now
We are never sad 'cause we are not allowed to be

Rain rain go away, come again another day
All the world is waiting for the sun
Rain rain go away, come again another day
All the world is waiting for the sun

To lie here under you is all that I could ever do
To lie here under you is all

To lie here under you is all that I could ever do
To lie here under you is all

Rain rain go away, come again another day
All the world is waiting for the sun

Rain rain go away, come again another day
All the world is waiting for the sun
All the world is waiting for the sun
All the world is waiting for the sun

SO LOSER!

so loser! today i missed my award presentation in school to go flying and in the end? RAIN!.. : /

MALACCA!!!!!!

wohoo! this morning i woke up, had breakfast at home, had lunch in malacca and then had dinner at home again.. wait wait wait.. how? WE FLEW THERE! =) hahahah at 0900 hours, two bright cheery yellow pipers took off from seletar for a nav trip to malacca.. heng, jackson and me together with instructor tan sk were in one plane while Lim Q j, lam wx together with instructors liew mh and sim ck were in another.. since there were three students in my plane, jackson took the front seat on the way there. heres heng and i looking like lil kids at the back..

the trip there was rather hot.. but then it started raining..



gosh you cant even see out the window! but of course, we have nav instruments to get us there. but it was nonetheless scary to fly through... anyway, after getting there, we had paranakan food! it was wow good... we had a lil shopping and then finished up at tan lee hock.. EVERYONE goes there when they go malacca.. hahaha..

anyway the return trip from there was even more exciting! wah piang.. hahah first thing we had to decide on was who was going to sit infront for the return leg.. jackson already had his turn so it was only btwn me and heng.. we decided on a scissors, paper, stone contest where the winner sits infront.. wah it was so close. we had 4 same throws of rock rock rock scissors and then i threw a paper, heng threw a rock. yes! i won! hahahah
i got to sit infront and i flew formation a lil bit.. this pic above is from lam which shows me in the front right seat flying to the side of them : ) man i tell you it takes ALOT of concentration to fly formation. my job was bacically to look at them and fly a constant distance from their aircraft. which meant alot of changes in power and heading... wah say it was tough.. it was also rather strange to fly on the right instead of the usual left during training.

it was a nice sight seing trip and we saw Mountains and meandering rivers from the air..

wow if only every week we got to do this = )

one thing i learnt from this trip besides nav was space.. or the lack of what singapore has.. so singaporeans, DONT DONT DONT ever pollute the lil bit of land that we have.. we're a green country so make it stay that way..