signals spec to be...

reported to stagmont camp this morning. training under IC2. basically it's the more xiong one hahaha and the reason why i'm home now is because we got 3 days block leave and only have to report in on thursday. signals course is looking up so far. alot better than charlie at least hahaha lets see...

1. no more camo cream
2. no outfield
3. friday evening bookout
4. nights out on wednesday USUALLY
5. my course conductor is willing to be flexible (total opposite of sanep)
6. THE TOILET IS BIGGER!!!
7. NO SOC!!!!!

shiok ah!!! already thrash charlie upside down inside out left right and centre hahaha of course now my bunk is on the 5th floor and there are supposedly rats around, but i can live with that. oh yah and there's a 40% chance that i'll be doing guard duty this weekend. yeah guard duty starts immediately. how wonderful hahaha not much physical training, just runs and ippt trg, so that's alright with me. the only physically really taxing things would be the 16 click route march with signal set (which is heavier than full pack), and the 30km endurance test after that. plenty of powder would be needed for that one man hahaha

mentally i gotta get going again for this course man. will have plenty to study and memorise... so at least my brain keeps going. will have to buy a bag to bring our books around. imagine... BOOKS!!! hahaha oh well at least i'll be a sergeant before christmas. 14 week course means i'll finish on the 1st week of december. man that seems so far away...

i'm glad i'm in IC2 instead of IC1. at least i can go to different units after this and experience what life is like in maybe armour and arti and stuff. should be an eye opener. better than staying in signals battalion man. and i can go overseas trg too! that'd be cool... maybe to australia or something... roam around with the kangaroos =p

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BANG!: what songs u wanna learn sia? u already tried my immortal and that screwed up hahaha

everybody owes, everybody pays... the cost

what doesn't kill you makes u stronger...

with reference to charlie, it nearly killed me, but i survived. so now as i move on to signals, i think the rest of my ns life won't be so bad hahaha i'll miss my bunk mates in charlie man, seriously. even though we never always got along, but we're a very diverse section. everyone works differently. and as a result we got quite a wide range of postings. 2 airforce, 3 aslc, 1 provos, 1 recce, 1 arti, 2 signals and 1 OCS. only don't have medic and pti. i guess we're not the life saving kind of people hahaha

anyway life in charlie was really an eye opener. got to see things i've never really seen before. by that i mean things one sees when he's tired and his mind ends up playing tricks on him, and how company administration can go horribly wrong in more ways than one, and as a result u have a company that hates your guts hahaha oh well... mr. "we will return it to you" and mr. "SAR!" will forever be in my memory man. can't forget those 2 characters. so incredibly screwed up and yet incredibly good in their own ways.

28 click wasn't as bad as i expected. no sore feet like 24 click in bmt. walked through ntu 4 times. the last one back to the soc ground was hell, because it got really draggy. walked past cheryl's hostel hall 4 times without even knowing, and feeling shaggedelic at the end of it all. the burning sensation in one's shoulders when standing on parade in FBO is something i'll never forget too man. really can't be described in words. just think pain hahaha

gotta wake up early to go to AHM tomorrow. the rest of the school will be running 10 clicks, but i got selected to do the division warcry hahaha which means i won't be running, which means i can save energy!!! hahaha but i guess running would be cool, since it'll be really crowded, and we might end up doing more walking than running hahaha hopefully we can be dismissed by 10, latest 10.30. it's gonna be really messy tmr

hmmm... carl's junior, it's gonna get messy!!! (sorry sidenote)

monday gotta wake up early again to report to stagmont camp. it's really near my driving school lah hahaha so it's not that far away from my house. i'm guessing it would take me about an hour to get there by public transport? rough estimation...

1 year 5 months to ORD... goodbye charlie... "thanks" for the ride of a lifetime!

everybody owes, everybody pays... the cost

i'll be keeping this note in my wallet, to remind myself to never disappoint you again. i'm so sorry honey...

everybody owes, everybody pays... the cost

3 more weeks and goodbye charlie...

the toughest week in my training programme is over. this week i had only a total of 15 hours of uninterrupted sleep. (uninterrupted sleep = 3 or more hours of sleep at one go) monday and tuesday night spent the night digging or staying up doing sentry or shouting "CONTACTED!!! CONTACTED!!!" wednesday slept late preparing stores for section battle drill on thursday. thursday slept late cleaning stores after SBD and nutcracker. friday slept late simply because we came back quite late from live firing hahaha tough week indeed.

this week won't be much different, just that we probably can sleep more outfield? i don't know. shall have to see what the weather on tekong is like. i seriously hope it's dry. at least if it's dry u can drink up more and u'll be fine. but if it rains, your skin is gone. u probably get every single skin problem known to man hahaha

going back to tekong will sure bring back memories. and i'm sure we'll use some areas that i used back in bmt too. but at least we won't be digging there, coz it can get really hard there

suddenly things are getting a bit hard. getting harder to balance my rest time and the time i can spend with her. this is the 1st weekend during sispec that i haven't seen her. hopefully i can see her on my half day off during national day. sispec is meant to really push you. or maybe that's just the situation in charlie. insufficient rest coupled with cramped training programmes that require a large amount of energy. it even pushes you until an extra hour of bookout seems like heaven already. but despite all the pushing, i still find that my standards are dropping. don't do things as well as i used to. don't put so much attention to detail into things anymore. maybe it's because charlie doesn't deserve it, or maybe because i've just given up trying because there's not always a point. but at least i haven't found the ability to slack off yet

lesson learnt from this week: digging your grave for the whole night can make you see wavy light bulbs... and imagine guys standing beside you drinking water hahaha

everybody owes, everybody pays... the cost