past 3 gypsies and 1 month is gone...

this sunday marks the end of my 1st month in sispec. after this... the going's gonna get really tough, with section training kicking into effect at the end of this week. imagine... spending a whole day outfield, consuming combat rations till u probably can't shit, coming back late at night only to spend hours cleaning your weapon and your equipment, before u have to prepare for the next day, then right the end you can clean up yourself. repeat that cycle everyday until week 8. then after that add in wanderer, grandslam and nutcracker, and u'll have one hell of a time in sispec hahaha

well the one good thing about the mad training is that you don't have much time to stone in the bunk and think. of course staying in the bunk is good coz u can rest, but when u stay in the bunk and have too much energy, you start thinking of what your friends are doing outside, how much fun they're having, and all the wonderful food they're eating, and if they've already watched pirates of the carribean (btw i haven't for reasons pertaining to very late bookout timings) these 4 weeks has passed by pretty quickly thanks to the fact they don't let us think too much. either we're focusing on the lesson, or we're fast asleep in it. usually it's the former, because if it's the latter then we'd be introduced to "jack". in charlie coy... jack refers to jumping jacks. the instructors just call "him" jack hahaha

anyway i'm done with ippt test. no more for the next 1.5 months. silver is good enough for me, mainly because my running timing is far off from the gold standard, so i'm settling for a silver. soc test next week i think. but then... i'm far off from passing man!!! i just can't bloody run with the equipment on me. maybe it's the way i run or something, but i just find it bloody tiring :( but whatever the case, i intend to pass it before my OC takes away my day off in the 9th week.

this will be the last week of lessons in the lecture rooms. got to enjoy the aircon while i still can, because after this the only aircon we'll get is probably from the platoon office hahaha 1.5 more months to a corporal. it's going to be a very trying time... but many have gotten through charlie coy, and i'm sure i can to!

everybody owes, everybody pays... the cost

welcome to charlie company...

2 weeks of sispec bslc training gone. 8 more weeks to go. honestly i'm not in much of a mood to blog. but i just wanna write some stuff down so that i won't leave like a huge gap in my blog, especially during this highly challenging part of my life. it's not as if the other companies don't have tough training as well, but there's always something about charlie that makes people say that it has the toughest training. so far the standard has been set, and can tell it's higher than alpha and bravo, but there are things they do that is slightly more tiring than us, for example running to SOC start point whilst we march there. but the sgts always ensure we put in our effort for soc lah. but then again, it's only the 1st 2 weeks. from week 5 to 7, we'll be going outfield everyday for section training. not outfield means long 4 sbo helmet rifle and jungle. jungle = mud. mud = leopard crawl in mud hahaha wonder how much more we'll do. and i just recently found out that my section commander signed on with the army simply because he likes to chiong sua... such a wonderful prospect hahaha after that still got grandslam on tekong. back to where it all began hahaha

this week... not SOOOO bad lah. had 2 SOCs, 1 speed training and 1 AGR. and the rest of time was spent in lectures and learning about weapons lah. really rushing syllabus for that man. like one day lesson, following day test already hahaha but it's quite learnable lah. they always try to make their weapons as idiot proof as possible, which is always a good thing =)

next week... learn more weapons, SOC and IPPT. booking out at night again. for 4 weeks booking out at night man. kinda sucks... but oh well, life must go on i guess. but i must admit, life in sispec could be alot worst. my section is turning out to be quite a good section! i've got quite an 'on' buddy, and my sectionmates are generally quite hardworking, except the one or 2 who only works when he really has to, but otherwise we're ok. not as united as my bmt one lah, but i'm sure we'll get there after all the outfield training we've got to go through together.

oh yes... and how could i forget... i've passed my driving test!!!! MUAHAHAHAHA not bad for someone who's driven only once a month since bmt started =p but i had to miss live firing for it. but at least i passed! so didn't waste my half day leave hahaha before i booked in again went to eat macs with my dad. really glad that he could pick me up from home and send me to the driving centre and back again. so didn't have to leave the house earlier and rush around, including back to camp. had a nice filling dinner before i headed back to camp.

now my bookout time is floating away in front of my eyes. every bookout now i face the same dilemma. to have proper rest at home for the next week of training, or go out and enjoy my bookout time as much as possible. it's tough making decisions like this, especially when you only have about 24 hours of bookout time to do whatever you want, and whatever you have to do. don't even have time to meet my classmates now. that really sucks man... but then again that's the price of being a physically fit singaporean male.

tags:
glenn: going to ord soon man! jiayou to then end! my ord in 2008 sia... long way more to go hahaha

xin: yeah those were fun times sia. but trust me... u'll have more fun in the army hahaha take care man! see you around one day hopefully...

everybody owes, everybody pays... the cost