Monday, April 03, 2006
I'm wearing track pants over my shorts because my room has turned into a mosquito haven in my absence. Perhaps a dusty, uninhabited room seems to be the perfect location for a mosquito HQ. I should've brought home those mosquito zapper "piak piak" things in the shape of a badminton raquet from Thailand.
Gosh you should've seen my bedtime ritual: Crawling under my mosquito net with that deadly badminton raquet and yelling "DIEEE U BASTARDS!!" piakpiakpiakpiakpiakpiakpiakpiak. For a good 5 mins every night my bed would look like zouk on a mambo night.
Hello dear reader! Yes I'm finally back from my month long hiatus. I'd really expected to do a whole "ORD LOH!!" post upon my return, but ah, it wasnt meant to be. I'll explain why in a minute. Exercise Bluethunder 2006 in Thailand was certainly an experience nevertheless.
The irritating thing about not blogging for an entire month, there's just so much to write about.. a totally different lifestyle, personality and mindset, that even if i'd blogged about it, i'd still probably not be able to capture the entire experience as well as i'd have liked to. I could write entire posts on the scorching afternoon temperatures, water fights with my bosses in the bathroom, transvestite canteen stall owners, commando pride rallies and cheers, adreline filled missions, and planning procedures packed with back-to-back deadlines. But like everything else, i'll leave it to the pictures to do the talking. (Which i'll upload in awhile, be patient! I havent even unpacked my camera yet!)
The real (and only) bummer in the whole exercise was this: In a nutshell, our finale battalion mission had to be cancelled midway because some dumb hunter shot at two of our umpires while we were walking in the middle of the night. Yes, as in, shot. Must've thought he was a gigantic wabbit or something. The guys are fine with only superficial injuries, but we now face a possibility of a repeat battalion mission in singapore, sometime next week. Just before I ORD! How suay is that??!
It aint confirmed yet, but everyone's praaaying that it wouldnt come true. My reflections on sacrificing my ORD leave for it in my next post.. right now i'd better unpack my clothes before they spawn flesh-eating mutants, and to deal with these damn mosquitoes. Now where's that mosquito piakpiak zapper badminton raquet?
he rocked the party at 10:57 PM |
