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Saturday, October 09, 2004

Fieldcamp.... 1.......

Ants, spiders, scorpions, centipedes, mosquitos of differents sizes and ranks from a trainee-to-be-commando to lao jiao or what you call veteran.... Those were the many insects I have been sleeping with for the past 2 days for my fieldcamp. Wildboars and snakes were roaming nearby so were the hornets. The best insect though would be the fireflies, it was the first time I have seen a firefly, though the dissapointment was not to see a bunch of them hanging together only saw one!.... Oh well, If I can see a few of them together, I will definitely try to bring it back to mainland singapore in one way or another... Always love fireflies, guess its the romantic moments of many movies which incorporates them...

Fieldcamp was ok... I think what I mean is, I survive without much difficulty except when I am running around and carrying loads of stuffs for a long time! Anyway, my platoon and another of my company's platoon was tekan jialat jialat for not being on time and also cos a few smart ass brought in wet tissue papers when we were told not to bring, some of the tekaning was running to the 8th tree from dunno where..., wearing full battle order.... Well anyway, I think i have been thru some of the common things you will get in fieldcamp, one, sleeping with insects and all kinds of forest creatures, two, having ants crawl all over me and getting into my pants.... ouch..., three, powder bath myself with about 170+ people wearing nothing but slippers and underwear..., four, sleeping on ground which will turn soft if water happens to hit the ground are mix..., five, combat rations!!! Note to self: "I MUST LEARN TO APPRECIATE THE COOKHOUSE FOOD AND NOT COMPLAIN SO MUCH ANYMORE!"

I also learnt another thing, the people who came out with the army songs were really good, take the tekong no. 1 hitlist for example,

Training to be soldiers,
Fight for our land,
Once in our lives,
2 years of our time, (or replaced by What a waste of time)
Have you ever wondered,
Why must we serve?
Because we love our land, (or replaced by Because we got no choice)
And we want it to be free to be free...

Stand up,
Be on your guard,
Come on everybody,
Do your part,
Come on every soldier,
With soul and heart,
Do it for our nation,
Do it for our Singapore....!

Looking all around us,
People everywhere,
Children having fun,
While we are holding guns,
Have you ever wondered,
Why must we serve?
Because we love our land,
And we want it to be free to be free...

Especially the last verse, I can't help but agree that the soldiers who invented the song were right, children were indeed having fun while I am holding guns...# insert NO ORIGINALITY for I have been lamenting about children having fun for the past few posts! #

To add on something more, my section was the most fighting fit section, haha! Total strength 12 presence strength 12 until near the end of my second day where my total strength was down to 11, felt a bit dissapointed because all the other section had strength of 9, 10, 9 respectively and I really thought my section can do my section commander proud. Oh well, not many things in life are what you wished for what you get, you just gotta live with it!

Our OC was really fun, after the morning tekanning he gave us, in the afternoon, he was back to normal and gave us the green light to sabo our instructors! Yes! Camo! Powder! Insect Repellent! Hurah!!! Haha, we sorta had our revenge until we hear our instructors saying neh mind, you all wait for the next field camp. Haiz, I guess it means more Half-Left Down & running around like idiots, rushing for time yet when we arrive way punctually, we wait like idiots and then rush for time again, what a stupid system SAF have! Rush for time like idiots, followed by wait like idiots...

jh out!~

p.s: FYI, I gained 2 kgs last week but am confident I am back to losing weight this week!
p.p.s: combat rations sucks to the core!

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