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Wednesday, October 21

Touched down and damn relax

Right now it is 3.28pm, which is SG 1.28pm shown on my mac. Over here in Queensland, it is 2 hour ahead. We touched down in Rockhampton at 12.07am, having the clearance checked by the custom and quarantine are pretty fast. Anyway, it is not 747, so the people are not many anyway.

Found our kit bag, took it and put it in coaches after we had the head count and hop on the bus which stated, CQU and Camp Growl.

CQU refer to Central Queensland of University and Camp Growl is base in Shoalwater Bay base camp, which is about 2hrs journey in there. For us, staying in CQU just take about 35min.

It is a relaxing day for us as tomorrow we will be commencing our training. For today, we had our orientation walk around the campus and even head to Junior Common Room for both TV and table tennis session. It is fun and we are sweating non stop.

We knew that there's wireless in the campus, however, we are unable to login as we do not have the userid and password. So, we decided to purchase 4 x lan cables from General office earlier on as one of the active guys told us that it can be purchase there.

So, for now, yeah! We can login to net and kill the time! How wonderful huh.

Commanders need to handle some important task, so the rest of us will station in bunk. A total of 45 personnel took over the entire hostel block since last night. But there might be some changes later.

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Hugging Cait for the last time before flying off

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Cait and I

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Victor and Kok Peng

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Jack and Buah Heng

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Sam looking out the window

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Self cam whoring

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Buah shy? Ha!

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Touching down at Rockhampton around 12.07am. It is very cold about 21 deg. Everyone is queuing to enter the custom.

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Tiring.... very tiring... the 5hrs journey is making everyone butt damn aching

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See, how many people lining.

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Victor and I

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Gather and finding the kit bag

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Everyone finding their own kit bag urgently.

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Bus in front is the one we have to hop on. We are sharing with other units and apparently they are envy when we reach CQU

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The rooms taken from the front.

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My room, good?

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Outside the room. This is the back alley whereby we can walk on it and pass by everyone room

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My room

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Taking photo from outside

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Wallabies!

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In the morning.. clearer view at the back alley

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Outside of the room. Look nice? It is pretty cooling in the morning tho

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Our hostel

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Left is hostel while the right far end is the laundry area

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The morning feeling

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Shiny day to start with ahead!

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Sam

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Kok Peng and the rest awaiting for some orders

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Another view of the hostel

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Sam checking out behind

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Self cam on my shadow

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Bush fire detected and it is pretty visible when Sam and I saw it on plane.

Everyone were joking about the ash smell like 7th month burning

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Moving out for orientation

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Briefing on orientation

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Carpark

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Area by area that we have to know

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The bridge beyond that is out of bound for us. This bridge is usable when there's rain. Water will flow below the bridge into the pipes.

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Laundry

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Laundry area

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The back view of the hostel taken from first floor

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Common room

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Pool time!

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Common room

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That's the Austar movie / tv guide

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Victor and Jack relaxing

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Steam myself again

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In Junior Common Room

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Seen such a big surveillance cam?

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Big huh!

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Pool time!

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Tables

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Table tennis corner. We had fun playing with it and sweat it all out!

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Our lunch

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No tables? Thats the only way to do it!

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Larry sitting down enjoying the food.... but not that hungry!

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Buah smiling happily when we taking photos of each other

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Larry food.. giving the bird to eat tho.

By the time the photos had been uploaded and ready to carry on blogging, it is 6.32am, which is 4.32am in SG. Preparing to fall in and have breakfast. As I wanted to put in more photos, but there's not enough time at all.

The after 9 years back to here indeed bring us a lot of fun and laughter. The NSman will gather around along the walkway for a drink and talk it out until everyone head to common room for TV. Then, afterwards, I will login to Skype and chat with my beloved wife, family and baby Cait.

All had been fine and good. I shall keep more updates tonight if possible. Not every photos can be uploaded from today onwards due to sensitive issue. Ha!

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