Sunday, October 28, 2007
mosquitoes bit through my uniform, can you believe that? mosquito bites all over my body.
Raced @ 3:44 pm
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
monday was exercise "Gypsy 2" in the forest of Mandai. couldn't find the check point and it was demoralising. it's not that we are lost, it's just that we couldn't find that stupid tree in that stupid forest during the day. though we found our night checkpoint at night.
that is where the funny part comes. we are forbidden to walk on the road but who cares? we followed the road to our checkpoint and found another group of soldiers sitting beside the road trying to radio to HQ. our checkpoint was just beside the road, about 50m into the forest.
"what happened? why u all sitting here?"
"got snake inside."
it was my last checkpoint and i wanted to end the exercise early so i decided to go in. some of them were afraid of the snake. few of us decided to go in, take note of the password of the checkpoint, while the rest of the group stayed outside. did'nt take long for us to find the checkpoint. i wrote down the password and we quickly went back to the road.
there is a "Rover Drill" where we were not supposed to be seen by oncoming vehicles. and we were not supposed to be on the road so if our commanders happen to drive by in the Land Rover, we are goners. we were sitting around the bend beside the road. suddenly we saw headlights from a vehicle approaching the bend. and Farhan shouted.
"ROVER!!!!"
1 SECOND WAS ALL IT TOOK FOR ABOUT 15 SOLDIERS TO DISAPPEAR FROM THE ROAD INTO THE FORES! 1 bloody second and everyone scrammed.
end up, it was just a golf buggy (Singapore Island Country Club was just beside the forest).
Raced @ 2:34 pm
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
for the next 3 weeks there will be field camps. will be sleeping in the jungle, hope it will be fun... and not too tiring :P
Raced @ 5:55 pm
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Friday, October 12, 2007
"Where are we?"
common question right? but the last thing u wanna hear, in the middle of the forest at Mandai at 9pm with your water supply running low is,
"I dunno."
bashing through the forest is seriously a pain in the ass, literally. the trees have THORNS! TREES NOT CACTUS! in the dark, u would just tend to grab anything and push it out of the way. we are not allowed to use torchlights. so one can hear the occasional scream of "OUCH FUCK!" and when u turn on the torchlight, u will be shocked that u just grabbed something that looks like a cactus. i was the 2nd man in front. bashing through the dead fall with my bare hands has caused several scratches on my hands, plus the several mosquitoes bites.
being the front man is the worst thing. u walk into spiderwebs. my whole face went into one.
oh ya... one team got lost inside. found them at about 11.30pm.
but when the whole team look back, we thought it was an enjoyable experience, though it was exhausting.
Raced @ 7:58 pm
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