Stark from Earth @ LS @tonyfromls@qoto.org

Had to adjust the return flight and the return ticket for the boat to accommodate margin dates for the dives because clearly we need rest days from the deep dives for the CCR and it's going to be exhausting for the instructor and me to go straight 12 days on the CCR training for level 2 and level 3.

Training deal has been closed for the Close Circuit Rebreather back on the host country's beautiful island where I trained for PMC.

It is going to be ANDI CCR level 2 and level 3 back to back for 12 days and also gave day off's from the dive for the complete itinerary.

So 40m deep good for most tactical missions on both no-decompression and with decompression.

Back at Luzon now in my home near the beach. I did a Combat Course in Mindanao and my ear hurts cause of 2 days live fire on 5.56 NATO for carbines on both rifles and carbines and 9mm and .45 for pistols.

It was a large group of trainees. The bulk of the class came from Philippine Airforce on Air Police units, Combat Search and Rescue, and Reserve Group.

The rest were from SWAT and Customs units, medical professionals, business men and me.

I was sick on the second day cuz my ear hurts for not bringing my ear protection, my sinus was in pain due to allergy, low fever, super hot climate with few drinking water supply hence I was dehydrated, and cuz of the induced or forced physical stress while doing the drills but fortunately I was able to finish it and go home.

Been a while again but for some surprising update.

I dropped out of the BSEE program after a realization about tactical career opportunity and because I could not maintain the BSEE program while I am away in tactical and related trainings for PMC career.

So in Early October I decided to finally stop the BSEE program and prepared myself to travel outside my home country and that is to attend a Private Military Contracting training, and a supposed sniper training but I ended up continuing my scuba diving path instead in replacement for the sniper training.

Back at the Private Military Contracting training although the middle of the training was low morale due to the hardness and lots of mistakes on weapons and CQB, the final mission on hostage extraction was relatively a success.

I now hold an AOW, Nitrox, Deep Specialty, Emergency First Responder, and Rescue Diver certificates and currently looking for the reasonable cost training for Technical Diving and CCR.

Recently I also attended local training in PH on Tactical Combat Casualty Care and I now I officially hold a TCCC qualification. Turns out TCCC is somehow a step above the tactics on PMC training and also a step above the Emergency First Responder training and that is because on TCCC, the combat care provider should be able to neutralize the enemy on contact before administering care and this is amidst adversarial situations . The care provider also has more advanced skills than the typical EFR personnel such as the ability to apply needle decompression on the collapse lung side of the chest, be able to apply effectively the tourniquet amidst heavy gunfire and more.

Next step is Intelligence Cycle Fundamentals program from UK, Technical Diving foundation on Open Circuit and operational CCR.

January I am also expecting advanced TCCC, Vehicle Shooting, and Combat Course in PH.

As for the STEM, although I have given up the formal studies of BSEE, I'll continue on the informal study of BSEE under the MIT OCW and also will be changing Society in IEEE so I can join the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society while maintaining the IEEE Aerospace Electronics Systems Society membership. That means I am canceling my membership on the Control Systems Society.

Been a while again since my last toot.

So far Electrical Circuits grades is good the rest is so so, whole I flunked the Engineering Mechanics for the P1 term and it's my fault. I still have P2 and P3 term to make up plus the separate Common Final Exam which is 40% in the final grades.

Exam done for Electrical Circuits 001. The last for this week is basic thermodynamics and then a long weekend.

Exam done for Electrical Circuits 001. The last for this week is basic thermodynamics and then a long weekend.

Been reviewing Electrical Circuits since weekend in preparation for the exam tomorrow.

Not doing good on engineering mechanics. I need to work on it double time.

Exam week done but then I still have electrical circuits and basic thermodynamics next week.

I'm not a fan of the Modern Arnis but this is the best we can use to teach the general population via the PED course in college.

I'm still a practitioner of the Kalis Ilustrisimo system.

Exam today on the course Ethics and Modern Arnis in PED. Had to take the lead for the group performance and teach late enrollees of the 12 basic strikes and blocks. Had to pressure two of the new comers so they can easily remember the movements.

OMG I spent like 12 hours analyzing a difficult series-parallel circuits and combing all the tools from circuit reduction, ohms law, voltage divider rule, current divider rule, KVL, KCL, patterns or sequence of process, and finally, proving that KCL and KVL stands true for the circuit.

Indeed BS Electrical Engineering is difficult!

Problem with my long slow distance training is the knee pain after cause it takes me many foot landings for 21km compared if I am running faster and with that amount of distance for the rate of steps, feet impacts ground many time the road where I run isn't asphalt but concrete.

Gait is more midsole landings. I need to use forefoot landings next time for long slow distance run training.

Did the long slow distance run training in 21km after many months of hiatus cause I sticked with a more faster 21km run trainings.

Been overly generous with my classmates but then it turns out I am not that ready for the test which is not really good. Barely passed. So no, going to step back and let them fix themselves. I go my own and next test I should ace it or at least have a decent score.

So many things to learn, so many hard things to learn, so hard to 🤣 learn

Gym atm. Went back to my Martial arts master's gym for strength training.

Haircut, gym workouts, martial arts. Can't do any runs until infection on my right toe finger including the next finger are healed.

I was cutting the nails on the toe finger when a small piece or flesh was cut at the nail edge. The next finger nail got injured while I was on my 2nd consecutive day of 21km run turns out the nail was longer. End result was infection after these 2 fingers got exposed in the floods.

Did my 21km run yesterday. Preparing for another 21km run in a while.