Gotta report to camp later at 0800hrs. just cant sleep coz of the world cup and partly due to my bodyclock. just half a day in camp and im outta there. gona meet winz too before she goes to work maybe at around 5+ to collect my bday prez!weee... she bought me a wallet to replace my old. such nice timing to replace the old one :p
met up with guozhong today at northpoint and passed him my books.
deception point and
angels & demons. both were written by dan brown. by far i've read 3 of his books. well i guess u noe what's the other one, its
da vinchi code. was telling him that i got no SOC, route marches and alot of slack times. he was kinda happy for me coz i need not do those shiong stuffs anymore. i even told him that i may grow fat and he was like so jealous. missed the times we went out at taiwan in the nite with him and victor. both were great outing buds. we went shopping together, surfed the net at there together and even sneaked out in the middle of the nite after reporting our attendance to our sgts. the 3 of us shopped easily and bought our things fast. we tried going out with even bigger grps but there was so much compromisations. it slowed down the grp and the three of us weren't abit happy about it. we just want to enjoy but with so many ppl with different ideas, it just didnt help.
i realised that i missed life as a trainee in sispec during aslc. the buddies i had in my section were truly gd companions and we had similar frequency thus we clicked better. victor was another guy who never fails to light up our morale irregardless of the toughness of our training. he and his blur ideas always made us laugh our whole heart out. i still remember during at training for fibua(fighting in built up areas), victor showed us his style of holding the SAR21 weapon. my sec com obviously had a lil dig outta him but it was more of a friendly one.
another moment that i really cherish was the 32km route march with river crossing in between at tekong. me and kanna was planning to fall out since we failed out ATP shoot so it was useless to do the route march as we wun be getting our combat skills badge. well the idea turns out to be our motivation. we walked for 20km before doing our river crossing in the middle of the nite. so with 12km left, we had to walk with our body drenched and boots filled with water. the last 12km was the most challenging one i've ever experienced. the boots were wet, u feel very soggy and u still have to walk with the full battle order. btw the 32km lasted the whole nite from 9pm-7am. so we were walking in the dark. after chalking up to 28km, we rested at the old sispec at tekong for 15mins. i was so shagged that i just took everything off and lie on the floor. moments later i closed my eyes and i was like dreaming? haha...yea...i guess when ur so shagged, u definitely slp straight away...and for the remaining 4 km, that's when ur really fighting with ur mind. all of us kept pushing one another to complete the march and by the time we reach our end point, it was daylight. everyone was delighted and we had to wait for our 10shots at the range. during that period, we consumed our breakfast and i dozed off awhile. if u were there, u wud haf seen the shagged faces on each and everyone of us who did the march. everybody was practically falling asleep and many tried to keep their composure. i was asleep on this bench, but when i woke up, haha...the floor was wet with my saliva...LOL...i tot i saw some saliva markings on the floor at other spots too...u cud also hear ppl snoring away....damn...it was so tiring. and i got a perfect score of 10/10 at the range. it was a great march and shoot.
in sispec training, friends beside u go thru the same shit and ordeal with ya. and those were gd pals of mine who also shared the same laughter and complains together. in tough times, that's when u see true friends.
and so im volunteering myself to accompany shiming to sgh for his follow up checkup. he just had a operation on his nose due to his sinus. asked him whether he was going alone and since i was free, might as well accompany him even though its in the morning. i had to make it up for not visiting him in the hospital.
got a bday chalet on the 24th at costa sands. it's my poly mate's bday party. so i tink i might be staying there overnite. its been 3 months since we last gathered. the last outing wasnt that nice by my accounts and i hope this time will be a better one. im left with 10 more days of leave and im fully adjusted to civilian mode...its gonna take me sometime again to get into the gear of wearing the greens again...hehz.
