finally, we got our corporal stripes this morning..but nt before we embarked on the hardest and longest walk of our lives ~ the 35km graduation march which started last night and spanned the entire night all the way from 9pm to 6am.

we started off at fort road in ecp, fresh and in high spirits..accompanied by many cheers, occasional jeers and also curious looks from beach goers at ecp. the supposedly slow pace tt our 2ic set was actually fucking fast, so fast tt by the end of 2 hrs..we were ald out of ecp and 14km thru our goal. all i can say is tt its damn shag, everyone literally collapsed at the rest pt, where most of us juz lay down and tried to recover our strength by catching a few winks.

next came the hardest part of our walk...the infamous stretch of coastal road tt lay just before changi ferry terminal. now i know why all the sergeants say it sucks, cos it really does; its neverending, and the terrain is essentially a muddy dirt trail full of sudden potholes in the ground..such tt it demoralised all of us who were walking and sapped our strength totally. changi airport lay juz across the road, lit up in all its glory at night, which served only to taunt us and make us more tired by looking at the neverending lights, the road ahead, and the bloody air control tower tt stayed in our views for all of the 1 and a half fucking hrs we took to walk tt bloody stretch of coastal road. many times i kept thinking i would not make it..and when we finally did finish tt part of our journey and reached the rest pt..i simply crumpled to the ground and knocked out for a good 15 mins before we were woken to continue our gruelling march.

the rest of the march, altho still tiring, was nth compared to coastal road..thru changi beach park we went, past the saf ferry terminal, walking across changi beach and back to changi village, where we saw some of the famous bapos of the place; some of whom were actually quite pretty, very pretty in fact, and looked more womanly than we had ever imagined. hah.

by this time, our bodily pains had been replaced by numbness and vice versa, so we juz pushed on..bypassed our future home ~ hendon camp and continued along loyang, all the way back to the car park at downtown east..where we had a final rest stop, and cans of 100 plus for everyone courtesy of our generous commanding officer.

after which, we made the final push all the way back to pasir ris camp, where we had an hr plus of much anticipated rest after finally completing the hardest and longest walk of our lives..and waking up later in the morning to prepare for our final 'mission', the parade tt would see us get our corporal and 3sg ranks. during the parade, many of us fell out due to sheer fatigue after a night of gruelling walking, and i myself almost did too, except for sheer will which managed to make me hang in there long enough without falling flat on my face..

parade done, we retreated to our bunks, showered, packed our things, and got in abt an hr of slp before booking out in the early afternn, still nt able to believe tt we had completed the 35km graduation march... next monday, we will be posting back to the battalion in hendon camp, the final destination..and im nt looking forward to it..esp the big 'welcome' party tt the our new csm had briefed us abt ald..hah.

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