for the longest week ever, it had to be the week before chinese new year. damnit man, we're all like having 5 hours of sleep each day. plus, not to mention the stupid navigation exercises we had to do..

i've finally realized. field camp was still alright... it was navigation that almost killed us. imagine having to trash through the jungles.. and the forest.. okay. remember those days back in secondary school where we had our cross-country runs at macritchie reservoir? and beside the tracks that we ran, all you see were bushes and trees and bushes and more trees and plants and vegetation.... that's our playground for 3 days.

we can't use parangs to bash through cuz its THE PROPERTY OF THE NE PARKS. or so i was told. so with our bare hands (actually we wore gloves to protect our palms), a compass, a map, a pacer and a protractor, in we go.

if you think in the day was bad enough... at night it was totally horrible. the first night, we had our sergeant bring us aroud the area. in the end, we got ourselves stuck in the swamps. the fucking swamps! wth man....! even our sergeant was cursing and swearing (partly at us, cuz we did the navigation as we had to learn). when we eventually got out, our boots+lower part of our pants were stained with mud. i pity the bus-driver cuz he had to clean up after we kinda stained his bus..

not to mention we had to lug this 11 kg signal set around.. of course each of us took turns to carry it. walking on the track with that on our backs was no big feat but having to climb slopes and knolls (small hills) definitely got us panting and cursing and swearing. OH i dunno if this's superstitious but cursing and swearing in the jungles will get you nowhere.. haha! my sergeant told us to respect the nature. i didn't curse that much but when we navigate on our own for the 2nd time, we were pretty much blessed with easy checkpoints...

so its gonna be more trainings and trainings till Valentine's Day, which coincidentally is our graduation day. after that we'll get our postings. whether its gonna be Armour, Artillery, Signals, Infantry (the much dreaded ASLC- even more outfields! yucks!), Guards and so on.


today was pretty fucked up. as we had our navigation till the night yesterday, it was too late for us to book out. so we booked out this morning at 6am. and later i'm gonna book in at 9. its really WHAT THE FUCK in caps locks. we have something on tml (can't really dish out all our training details) thus the fucked up booking in and out.

so far. SISPEC has taught me alot of military things. things i thought looked easy but its actually hard when you get down to it. and fun things. weapons. this. that.

i know, my blog posts now are filled with super-boring army stuffs and stories. my weekends are usually confined to 2 days, sats and sundays. that sucks. i sleep at home. trying to be like a PIG.

OH chinese new year just passed. HUAT AH! i had a good rest for the 4 days. went to visit my elders and relatives. but its only my dad's side as i can't take overseas leave to go malayis to visit my mom's side. angpow-wise, i'm foreseeing a decline due to the reccession. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

ahh well. at least i get to eat GOOD food.

i need to fix myself a new computer soon. cuz my current one is almost 4 years old. i can't play games for shit. i'm stuck with old games. =( but its kind of a dilemma as i'm in camp hence i don't use the com really often. i'm looking at how it goes, after i get posted to a unit then i'll see if there's reasonable time to use the com. my current com seems stable now. but actually i've changed alot of spare parts inside. damn......

and maybe a new handphone... if my own piggy bank can afford. heh.

well. february is just around the corner. its quite fast, from the day i entered SISPEC on 22nd december. and i got to know my section mates. wacky bunch of people. haha.

i'm still gonna be sleep-deprived for the next 2 weeks though.

time to prepare for booking-in.