.. for another 18 months at least.

Well I guess this week's entry's gonna be a short one. I'd been sleeping most of the time after I reached home like yesterday evening. The lack of rest finally caught up. >.< Imagine what two times of 2D1N outfield ops with missions throughout the day and night can do to you. I really pity (is that the right word? lol!) those SCTs and OCTs who have more opportunities to 'be at one with nature' over the next few weeks while we.. have lectures and PT all the way

Anyways, our very own SCTs who did the ops with us were excellent. Whatever they lacked in command and control (they were way too nice..) they made it up by being 'up there' throughout. For the last time these soon-to-be sergeants were doing all the donkey work, lugging sandbags, transporting concertina wire, cleaning up all the stores, arranging all the ops boxes etc - and that's on Saturday afternoon after two days of 'fun' at Lam Sam.

Monday afternoon loading up all the stores really used up a lot of strength. Those stores seem to be never-ending, and a detachment was unlucky enough to be selected to fill about 600 sandbags.

Our preparatory exercise was held behind our camp (near the DB side) from Tues to Wed. No staying over, but that was the first time we were outfield doing all the ops required and that was tiring enough when we returned to camp near midnight on Tues. Thankfully it rained during the afternoon and we got some much needed shut-eyes there and then, even as one mission was postponed to the next day. Our cage on Wed morning was.. too 'economical' (small) and we almost did not make it. And then we got caught out when a PW threw a smoke grenade from inside the cage.. (It was left with him for 'hornet drill' reasons when we were supposed to remove his entire vest) and so that was quite a huge screwup.

Thursday was spent loading stores for the summary exercise and once again an unlucky detachment was sent to retrieve the sandbags and concertina wire from the previous site and pre-dump it over at Lam Sam. Well, me and some others were lucky enough to do up the stores at company line before spending the rest of the time chatting until 8pm when the aforementioned people returned. Apparently one driver lost his way and another had his tonner stuck in the sludge that had formed after the rains had descended.

Reveille was at 0400 hrs on Friday.. Was supposed to be one hour earlier, but was pushed back as we only completed the stores the previous day at 9 plus (we were to sleep at 2000 hrs actually). Was in charge of the signal set for the first two missions from 0800 to 0000 the next day with a small break in between in the afternoon due to inclement weather. The traffic one was alright, except we got backstabbed by 1SG Chia as the previous station was not clear in coms-ing us the threat. We only started our cage in the evening after dinner and managed to get it up in an hour. Alright I was just sitting there the whole while manning the set >.<

*Shall continue post when I book out this weekend.. Visiting my uncle who'd not been feeling well before proceeding back to camp. Yes it was a very short book out *

Lectures on Military Law and Chapter 295 this week culminating in a test on Friday. Should be able to do well.. I repeat, 'Should be". Also 3 PT sessions this week! Am so gonna die with SSG Goh in charge. I mean, lunges up and down a multi-storey carpark slope? Along with static, circuit and lots of running all over the camp next door seeing the tanks and armoured vehicles in their full glory.

Jiayou to the people playing tmr for Appa XII ((:

One of my company mates uploaded this
HCI Chem Summary
Memories.. Hehe. That reminds me.. I can't seem to write a GP essay anymore, or even do any academic work for that matter. Need to revise! =/

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