CAMP

Legal knowledge test on Thursday, which we spent the whole week going sitting through lectures for. Passed on first try again like the Military law test the previous week. At least my hopes of going SIB ain't done and dusted yet.

Three PT sessions in the past week from Mon to Wed. The only thing I can say is.. 'Shiok sia!'. Then again you will feel like vomiting and falling out while in the actual process of training. Imagine us making friends with the four storey high slope on Mon - sprinting up it eight times, lunging upslope, wheelbarrowing our buddies up, along with static thrown into it with everything divided into appetizer, main course and desert.

Spartan training on Tues was.. wts man, my arms totally went limp after pull ups, crunches, log push ups, dips, monkey bar, pumping and so on. Cool. At least we managed to play soccer at night.. Then again some people played too violently and injured themselves with no one else to blame. Tsk.

That's probably why I could only muster around two mins plus per round on the track during Wed's speed training. =/ Couldn't help the section and by extension platoon sprint and try to win the long-running race.

In other news they chose the people for the PA positions already. I've a lot of comments on that which I will not type out. Mm I'll probably only explain my angst over the phone or in person.. Haven't told anyone about it yet surprisingly..

My buddy's chosen to do Gombak as well and body search Aaron at the gate every morning.
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OUT-OF-CAMP

Friday was a public holiday thus a few of us in the section decided to visit Greg's house for a game of mahjong. Then again, as I 'lian-zhuang' six times in total we were late in meeting the rest at St Wilfred's for our kickabout.

All was going well, then an unexpected yet shocking incident occurred which ended up in me sitting beside the driver as the ambulance raced towards SGH at over 100km/h. >.< Shall not divulge much here. Again, only over the phone to people I know very well.. =/ I left SGH after being there for close to 4 hrs.

And and that reminds me how screwed up our guard duty roster is. After rotating my friend in for Sat (we managed to do a three-way swap to ensure he did not get Friday, as it was unfair to just inform him on Thurs before bookout that he would be burning the next day). How the swap came about was due to the fact that the original guard on Friday was down with a foot injury. As he could not find a mutual swap for the Friday slot the Sgt got his chance to pick and just nice picked my friend out from next Sat's one (he wouldn't touch the rest as they are his section).

Then my friend ended up hospitalised. So he swapped this Sat's one with another bunkmate of ours who was earmarked for next next Sat as that would prevent the roster from snowballing and affecting all the reserves on subsequent days. Hopefully the sacrifice will allow him time to recover by then and save all the subsequent reserves from being snowballed.

The only reason why the snowballing occurs is due to the fact that
Let's say on Fri,
We have 8 ppl on duty, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H
Then I and J will be reserves.
On Sat,
I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P will be on duty,
with Q and R on standby.
On Sun,
Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X will mount
with Y and Z in reserve.

If A is down, I will be activated. Then Q will have to fill in for I on Sat as I will be doing on Friday. And then Y will be activated for Sunday and cause next weekend's reserves to be called up as well unless A's status is short-term. If its a long term MC like what my friend will get then snowballing will begin and they have to shift a lot of people up one day causing much disappointment and anger (as affected personnel have to cancel any plans they might have made). Worse still when the Sgt picked someone from the next week to fill in the next day's slot. At least they could have sounded off much earlier instead of just before book out.

Alright end of the math behind guard duty swapping.

On Saturday I attended NUS Law fac's Welcome Tea. Lol. Saw Yunheng and Marvin from HC. The supposed speeches ended very very quickly as it turned out to be a rather informal session. The pastries on offer were top notch though.. and they ordered A LOT of food. Better than what catered Chinese food during course cohesion the previous Thursday.

And then it was off to Citylink NYNY for dinner with the rest of our batch.. before heading to VCH to reserve two rows of seats with two people.. Lol. . Felt like a spoilt light bulb.

Concert was excellent (You can read all about it two posts down), and we had a great time. Too bad there weren't any night activities planned. And I had the next day free $&*%&%##& unlike some people who made plans already. I hate having my weekends free leaving me to rot at home. Even a morning jog with someone will suffice. Or lunch, or just plain chilling out.

Well.. Its not that I can't talk much to people.. I just need to get into the mood sometimes.. And definitely seeing someone face-to-face is much more conducive for conversations to take place than on the phone with deafening pauses. On Friday I was tasked with convey the news to my friends parents personally at SGH.. And we ended up chatting about so many things.. Most of the time I just need someone to talk first at times before I add in some witty (crappy) lines or share some related experiences. Personally I feel that I'm more of a listener than a conversation hogger and starter :D

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One year on, and nothing about that insipid r/s has changed much under the surface..
Maybe the status quo suits us all?
Or are we just waiting for something that will never happen?
Trust one's own intuition.. And follow through with whatever you feel is the best course of action..
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A burnt engine that cannot start your car well is just not worth the time you spend trying to maintain it.
- By me :D

Life sucks, life stinks, life is unfair but still, life goes on. Suck it up..
- Favourite quote I created in camp

鸡蛋!
- Most often used expression of shock, dismay, angst, disappointment that is not a vulgarity. (It just means 'egg' in Chinese). The reason why I use it as such is because it resembles a Hokkien vulgarity. I leave you guys to figure out which one.

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