Yeah yeah...the headlines are weird..bite me...
It's 27 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS!!! MY FAVOURITE TIME OF THE YEAR!!! I love christmas..heh heh...I haven't set the tree up yet..late late...maybe next week after my bookout or something...
Anyway....yeah...eh...HELL DAMN!! I can't seem to think of anything to write...oh look!! a three headed monkey..Where?? LOOK IN THE MIRROR!!! HA!
Ok ok..getting corny..
Well, the past week has been super slack...I have to admit...I am becoming super 'NUA'..for those who are foreign and have graced this site..it means "soft" I wonder if my 2.4km timing went down..I think it SUCKS by now..seriously...
Slack..why? Cause it's anniversary week...lotsa "Sai Kang"..loosely translated means "S#$t jobs" setting up stuff here and there.
Next week is gonna be hell though...starting my vocational training. Our platoon got split up..but before that..our platoon mate "Ng Kim Sang" or affectionately known as "Alien" (he can do 37 pull ups..that's why) has left us to join the airforce. I never really talked to him all that much, but once he left, it's like a family member has gone. Back to the platoon, we got split up. half the platoon got sent to "Leaders" course where they gonna be sgts when the come back. Thank God I didn't go..it's a suffering place for an extra 100 a mth. Medics gonna leave in dec and stuff..but we're all gonna come back together in 2 1/2 mths time. I start monday. Boatman. Everyone says it's a fun course...swimming 500/1000/1500/1500 coastal is not a fun idea to me. Don't ask me why I dive but don't swim..it's JUST BECAUSE all right!?!? They are totally two different things...except for the water part that is....
Gotta do that water survival test thing again..I HATE THAT!!! the 5m tower jump seems pretty fun though...it's scary as you go up and stand at the edge blindfolded..but ANDRENALINE!!! (if it's spelt right. WOO HOO...if not..oh look!! a three headed monkey!!)..so I'm guessing it's gonna be a physically tough month ahead...hey..heard we gotta carry the damn zodiac boat 1km and stuff...Yeah..I think far ahead...way too far..I think I'm becoming a person with alot of worries...wanna know? This vocational training, get guard duty on new year's day or chinese new year, won't be around for my sister's wedding cause i might be in overseas for training..sigh....problems problems problems....damn....
Yeah well..that's the week or so..

Only bright side...christmas is 27 days away..
And I wanna get a new phone..the Nokia N-Gage QD..why? cause it's BORING in camp doing nothing that's why...

Anyone got anything to say bout anything..tag board is open...

Till next time...OH LOOK!! A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!



Posted on 11/27/2004 by <$The One$>

Yeah yeah....I am writing this 25 days or so later..BITE ME!!!
Don't have much to say bout what went on within this 25 days...solely cause I can't remember jack nuts...
Hahaha...must be too much gunfire and stuff knocking my brain around...Hey..it's sensitive....
Ok...
let's just get straight to the point...someone in my tag board wants an update...so lets see now shall we?
let's start with tuesday since..MONDAY WAS A HOLIDAY!!!
We were expecting a IPPT on tuesday...simple shit...seriously..during poly. 2.4km was a killer for most pple..now...2.4? huh? what's that? we chao chao also run 3+, 4km..in LONG 4!!..ok..back to the story. but NOO...we had a water survival test..
basically jump off a 5m tower with a dummy rifle and swim to the edge...go down 4m, divest and come back up and swim 15m with SBO and rifle..all in long 4 and boots....ok..now..the jump was easy..the swimming to edge wasn'...don't ask me why..nearly went down...so that kinda sucked my lungs abit..and then the divesting...that was hard..
had to do it twice or so...
i dunno why...but i always seem to run outta air so damn fast.....

But oh damn...that ain't nothing compared to what was coming up that afternoon...it rained..and we had to go "overseas" for our exercise... 4 days 3 nights of fun in the jungle...wet jungle...
The first night after we deployed..we went to our respective positions..and something told me to look around...Lo and behold...i spotted the thing that stung me before...a scorpion..damn..oh well..tried to step on it..but it disappeared under the leaves..and i had to lie there too..at least until 2300hrs where we had to move out for an 'ambush'....tired like hell..i won't go into specs..but it was basically a long walk/wait and back again..and in the morning..we had another movement..basically it was hot days and cold mornings...freezing cold mornings..
and after that, we came back to mainland..rested or attempted to rest a few hours and we had our 35km route march..walked a little less than half way, and at our meal point...it rained..whoop dee doo...so we continued in the rain...wet, soaked to be exact..down to our socks. Heavy equipment..walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk...blisters, abrasions, sore shoulders..then our OC told us that the final stop would be at the beach where we would take shelter..YEAH!! or so it seemed..we walked walked walked walked walked and we finally reached. Threw our stuff down and slept...wet..and at 0200hrs ++ the wind came...It was bloody cold..was shivering...so i activated my food warmer with much difficulty and tried to go back to sleep under my gortex. Woke up an hour later colder and stiffer..and we marched another 3km to our final destination..where we waited in the rain for the parade, listened to the stupid black man talk and knock us down twice cause we were too stoned......
and whatever...during the entire time there..the rain and wind came with full fury...ever got hypothermia? trust me..it was so cold, my teeth was chattering, hands and knees shaking...I had to use full control to stop myself from shaking when my rank was presented to me.... and we had to walk back to camp another 2+km i think..and at the end, we got it again cause some clown from my platoon returned the signal set while we were supposed to carry it..they almost took our ranks away and make us walk the 35km again...damn....
more or less that was the week...19/20 nov 2004...I can never forget the feeling...damn....



Posted on 11/15/2004 by <$The One$>