Sunday, July 18, 2004
Army update again (okay okay, i get it. You dont have to read this post if you're not interested. Go read my previous post where i actually have an opinion about something. But there's no stopping me from blogging about army stuff)
Anyway, yes, i survived Exercise Theodore 1! It was much much much much worse that All Out. Not to mention that it was graded. Ahh crap. Tekong is officially the worst place in Singapore. The smell, the mosquitoes, the sandflies, non-stop rain, cold nights.. and the list goes on. I didnt have time to eat. Yes, EAT! Not even to nibble on pukey combat rations. Well, it didnt help that they confiscated by ten bucks worth of civilian food which i sneakily snuck in my field pack, but foolishly surrendered on the second day before a bag check. (and they didnt even check!) Guy friends will understand that the combination of the lousy taste and large packet makes eating combat rations really difficult and takes a long time to finish. So heck, i hardly touched mine for the four days, and nearly starved to death. The longest period was not eating from breakfast on Wednesday to dinner on Thursday, when we were finally back in Hendon camp. Am a skeleton now.
Which results in this weekend's vow to binge on every meal, to eat until i cant eat anymore to make up for the lost time and three weeks ahead in Taiwan! Thank you to deb for accompanying me on my fish and co splurge, and yes, i wish fat osmosis was possible. -grin-
My stint as PL for the raid on Dogra Bridge didnt go as well as i expected, but i suppose i did my best in the time constraint. Gosh, what's it with officers and their obsession with warning and ops orders? My issue of orders to my commanders dragged to an hour instead of the 15 mins i had scheduled, thanks to OC, 2IC and my lane grader's constant cutting in. Think im the only PL unlucky enough to have three officers poking their noses into everything i did. Have some doubts whether i really want to try out for OCS. But as the song goes, "i was born to try.." But i suppose its no big deal if i dont get it. There ARE lots of other people with a much better attitude than me. Haha!
Anyway, im off to Taiwan tonight at 0130 hours.. anyone wanna send me and 66 other hunky commando leader trainees off at changi airport? hahaha.. It is the Land of the Ninja Van, which appears mysteriously to sell you food no matter how deep in the jungle you are. Undulating terrain, a huge Area of Ops, freezing cold nights.. 4 days of navex and 9 days of missions... im pretty excited actually. Theodore 2 will be important i guess. Hope i can perform. And once we're back, we can look forward to 2 slack weeks before our sergeant rank! So i'll be gone for three weeks, back on Aug 8 in the wee hours of the morning (i wonder why saf schedules its flights as such unearthly hours. then again, they have plenty of things to hide)
Till then, all you good friends are tasked with the mission to plan memorable and exciting meet-ups, gatherings, and get-togethers for Lionel's return after Aug 8... Deserving winners will, of course, be duly rewarded with Taiwan souvenirs. Any takers? hahaha seeya!
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