Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8/16/2006 12:05:00 AM
Motivational
Wow it seems that recently I'm really able to come in often to update my blog quite often again like in the past whereas its almost I make it a point to update everyday then as time goes by, getting a bit of lazy hence its once a week followed by once a month. But now its like back to once a few days when my mood is there to come in and update.
As I've said in my previous entries, this month August really seems to be a good month for me. Reason being till now, my roster has been consider quite okay and to the situation of the moment start work have to work non stop till either break time or meal time. So shall try to keep all my fingers cross at all times...
Yesterday attended the first day of the basic firearms course conducted at the CISCO building organize by my department. Its due to the reason that all of us have to attend it as in the time to come when we're convert to the HUS, we'll need to carry firearm while performing our normal duties.
Well basically yesterday for me is considered as a fresher or can I say its a boring day? As it was our first day in which most of the people do not handle firearms before hence as a SOP, they need to run through all the SOP and not forgetting the safety precautions. Then for me is that I've already learnt and taught all these either during my school days in NPCC time, during my army days and even during my times when I was still sort of active at the airsoft pistol shooting.
But luckily for the second half of the lesson is practical session hence get to hands on on the new weapon, Taurus. Well it definitely differ from the previous firearms I handle before as this one the barrel is shorter, handle seems to be shorter but the best thing is that it has a laser aided hence making the shooting much more easier.
But since its only the first day, naturally there isn't any live shooting conducted. But after the course, instead of going back home to rest, we still need to report back to work for 3hrs till our afternoon ends. But as the course ends late and got struck in the traffic jam, we reported work at 2000hrs instead of 1900hrs. Due to that, our roster need to be changed again and hence we landed up at departure bus hall. The surprise thing was that I had a relief at around 2035hrs and they pull me to arrival bus hall instead as they say its crowded. But when I reached there, there isn't much crowd at all so I just take my own time to do the work.
But for today which is the second day, there was a weapon handling test in which all of us must take to ensure we learnt by heart all those safety precautions and SOP. After which, we proceed on to the live firing session. But before we start, the instructor show us a demonstration and told us we need to fire off 35 rounds for the day each.
Hmm think for me is that its either its been a long long time since I fire any firearms especially when I'm already used to train firing long firearms or another reason is that all my basic fundamentals of shooting all getting rusty in which some of my shots landed outside of the target at the no point area. Damn wth.. But luckily overall I still manage to score 46 out of 70 without the help of the laser but just using both the front and rear sight. But although my score can consider not bad but I still consider it as quite low in which I was actually hoping to score a minimum of 50.
Gross luckily tomorrow there isn't any range so my fingers can get to rest abit for the next session on Thursday but still need to go back to work as it's our first morning shift. Hence shall stop at here for the time being and need to catch some rest for tomorrow or should I say for later working in the morning. But looking forward for the next few sessions of the firearm course as it quite fun.
"Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time...”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life."
&thats the end of the season