Friday, September 23, 2005

I'm back.... shagged...

As mentioned last week.. i got Friday book out.. so here i am...

At this time... i am quite shagged already... reached home at around 2040... then got a ton of stuffs to clear.. especially my clothes....

Anyway... describe my week first... had been qutie a hectic and "out-going" week... from Monday onwards we spent our days in mainland, before returning on Thursday evening to Tekong....

On Monday itself... we went out to mainland early in the morning... went to PLC to train at the FOFO hill.... by right suppose to train for FOFO.. but it was cancelled at the last minute... so we end up doing section battle drill... because the rounds have been indented...
Abit lame... but no choice... so we are basically just going back to basics while spending the rounds... then after that went to Mandai Camp, 1st SIR to stay.... actually is stay at PLC traning shed for the 2 nights.. but they manage to get the MPH at 1st SIR... so at least better than nothing...
And basically... we did the same thing the next day... go FOF hill do SBD, then go back 1st SIR to sleep in the MPH..
On the first night... suppose to have night's out.... bbut they gave it to those who got IPPT gold and those family day helpers to go first... then the rest will go on Tuesday night... but on Tuesday night... they suddenly say it's cancelled... so i didn't manage to get the night's out... anyway it doesn't really matters to me... at Mandai.... if i want to go home... i have to start moving back to camp after reaching home because of the time limit.... so i'm quite ok with staying in camp to rest....

Then on Wednesday... we went to 127 Squadron to train our drills on a real CH47, then after that went to a carpark at around Yishun to chill and hang around until evening... when the chinhook will come to get us...
At around 1900 plus... we went to our holding area to get ready... and 1 thing i myself cannot seroiusly believe... is that they came LATE!!!!!
Wa lao... airforce by right is TOT one leh... how can they be late?????
By the way... i realised that helicopters are actually SAF.. just that airforce is looking after them....

Anyway.. when they finally came... and i finally got onto it... i can tell you... the wait is worth it....
On board the CH47... i suddenly felt like a real soldier... ready to go out for mission.... the feeling is really very "high".... felt damm cool..... then the landing was really solid... couldn't feel anything at all... in fact... i didn't even realised we landed until my Sergeant signal for us to get out....
The only thing not so good is that we only went for a small circle back to our own location... and the chinhook is quite noisy... we got to wear ear-plugs to get in....

After that... we took the "ground chopper" to our mission location.. and from there... began our Exercise "Grandslam"... harboured for the night.... then set of for our mission on Thurday at 0400... and so do mission and movement to contacts all the way till around afternoon.. then finally went back to Tekong... company line... and cleared our owns tuffs and all that...

Then this morning... we had a 11km run... abit not very right... but we still run anyway.... quite a refreshing run... and this time i was not as tired as the 12km run during the AHM.. maybe because the pace is slower as we are runnign in section level......

After that.... we had a very useless lecture all the way till afternoon... ands i basically slept through it... while the lecturer( who is my PC) also like jsut skip through it.... then we sit around clean bunk, and have some admin time.. before we finally had an early dinner.. then book out...

Felt damm ke xi... those who got IPPT gold can book out in the afternoon... guess they also know that the lecture is useless... so let them book out... and i am 20s short of it.... damm.... no extra $100... no night's out... no early book out... missing out on alot of stuffs man.....
But i guess i should be happy .... never got a Friday book out before... so well... be contented ba....

Then after getting home.. basically spent the time unpacking my stuffs... and soaking all my soiled uniforms... all the mud.. have to soak them for the night before putting in the washing machine....

And basically after that.... ZzzzZzzZZzzzz.... shagged out....