往后的五月天
Hell month is officially coming to an end (which also means not alot of wu yue tians left). We have finally completed our final 2 exercises, wanderer and grandslam.
Wanderer was quite successful. We managed to find all 4 day checkpoints. On our way we bypassed echo field camp. it was around 3ish and the echo ppl were alr slacking around in their base, eating and sleeping and all. and we wondered if our grandslam will be like that (dream on...)
We reached our day end point 1.5 hrs early and had a good rest before wandering off to find our night checkpoints again. Our night checkpoints are extremely far and my team really didnt want to continue but i was surprisingly energetic enough to push them on to our first chckpoint. On our way, we saw lots of bright stars in the sky. It was a really beautiful sight and someone commented that he wished that he were there, sitting on the field with his girlfriend. haha. it is not exaggerating to say that looking at the tons of bright stars in the sky rejuvenated us and lifted our spirits. before long, we managed to find our 1st checkpoint, and continued on to our 2nd checkpoint.
On the road leading to our checkpoint, we came across this area with lots of bright red lights lit, and generators whirring. at the start of the path there was a sign which said: UNAUTHORISED PERSONNELS WILL BE SHOT. we spent a long time deciding whether we should enter or not, so we comms in to chck if we are allowed to enter and we were told to just enter. after a while we decided to try our luck and walk through the 500 m path in the "red light district", hoping we wouldnt be shot. thankfully nothing happened to us, but it was a really freaky trek. we reached our 2nd chckpoint and had to hunt for it, but noone was really in a mood to bash through chest level lalangs. so we just gave up and walked to our end point, hoping for a good rest before grandslam.
we should have thought better of JULIET coy. guess wad. once we reached there, we were told to move out to our field camp site and harbour there. like omg. we all felt cheated cos previously we were promised a bath and a night's sleep in SISPEC before we began our grandslam. pffft. so that was it. the start of grandslam. then came 2 days of ambush + patrolling which were really exhausting. there were lots of quarrels over many issues cos everyones very exhausted and uptight and all. ):
on the 2nd day, i had enough of combat rations and decided to cook maggi. wow. it was like the best meal i had in ages lohh. maggi never tasted so good (: then ppl who couldnt cook came over and used my mess tin to cook and in the end we cooked like 10+ packets of maggi. yummieee.
in a flash, grandslam ended. on our last day i was really praying that noone lost any items like last week. thankfully nothing was lost and we got to book out on time. (: and so ends our 9th week in SISPEC. next wed we will all be corporals le (: cant wait!!!!
was really exhausted after grandslam and caught up with my sleep last nite. woke up todayy to rush lots of my tutee's stuff cos his common test is after the sch hols. then listend to longhubang. OMG! yanzi's wo huai nian de rebounded to 1st again. so it is the 2nd 3 x champ song this year (: YAYYYY (:
oh btw. i collected my cert and yrbook le. for those of u who dont know, u can go collect le. but the yrbook really sucks. firstly, the photos are stretched to everyone looks FAT. secondly, the pritn quality is REEEEEEAAAAL bad. tskk. wad a disappointment.
tmr im going for live firing and im carrying SAW. pray that i dun kill anyone with my live rounds tmr ):
consilio et animis
5/27/2007 04:42:00 PM
