22.54pm, 10/4/2006
Whoopie! It's the end of monday! 3 more days to that LOONG bookout (err..3 days of rest to be exact..). It's been probably my longest time spent in camp by far..the longest before that was only like 8 days. It's probably been my longest period in camp by far..the longest before that was only like 8 days. It's been so long that i can hardly recall a time when i DIDN'T live in the SISPEC bunk. Sucks sia.
The past week has been ok i suppose..Can't really remember much except that it was long and tiring..Haha every day IS long and tiring. So many activities from sun-up till way past sun-down. Hmm..minor activites aside..oh i finally got a GOLD for IPPT!! Haha, it was like so darn easy to get gold for napfa back in JC, but NS u need a 2.4km timing under 9:45..
Managed to run 9:14 though..definitely a personal best. Just 2weeks ago i ran 10:16, and 2weeks before that i ran 10:48..and even THAT was a personal best. Back in VJC i couldn't even clear eleven minutes. Hoohah! Super fit! Does that mean that i'm grateful for SAF's
divine intervention into my life? Err...:
Let's see..my scores are.. Chin-ups: 21, shuttle run: 9.6, standing broad jump: >260, sit-ups: 53
Kinda puts me in the running for Company Best PT...like in the top 5. So weird..Greg who never trains. My company fitness standards not TT high, so got chance. Provided that i had another go at the test. Small improvements in the rest and 30sec off the 2.4. Ahh whatever. I'd probably just go slack. As if i wanna go O-C-S or smthn.
Oh and i had live range too! Gotta try grenade launcher and stuff. And sit in the forest and pine my life away as well. -.- Man but so tired now..probably cause i gossiped and bitched with justin till past 11..we kinda have to wake up at about 5.15am every day on average..
Today we also did outfield drills the whole day, and i just kept screwing up because i was so tired! So i kept getting scolded by my sergeant.. like "k*n*n* ANG! wah lau eh ANG the f*ck u doing??" Haha got a few funny scenes today too..like hearing our platoon commander who's like 30-40+ talk about sex..and when our sergeant was teaching us what to take from slain enemies in the field..
Sergeant Jameson: "After you kill the enemy, your section [preserving state secrets] and [preserving state secrets] will search his SBO, Any loaded magazines take, and any maps, rations, etc...
Private Jensen: "Err...then what if you find Oreos? Hahaha."
-.-
LOL.
What the hell.
Jensen's becoming
sorta like our section fall guy lol...and now we can't even say his name in front of our sergeant 'cos it sounds too alike. Oh and Jensen also "likes" (he asked me about her and we just make fun of him 'cos of that..nothing wrong with that really...hahaha) a particular VJ bowler from my school! Lol then again knowing that girl..liking her's quite..normal lah. Gossiping among my platoon people, I've also discovered that there's this platoon-mate who finds this VJ (J2 now) bowler DAMN chio..like practically the BEST in VJ to him. And there's another who had an ex among the VJ bowlers. Then there is..or rather was, me. There's something about VJ bowlers huh..0_o
Anyway, i'm getting pretty used to this life. Although i kinda feel rather..upset with some elements of my platoon. My section, at least, are mostly nice people, and mostly quite civilian-trained like me (ho ho ho). But the others..i think there're quite a lot of people in Delta with one-track minds and who're quick to anger, quick to judge, not to mention quick to order people about despite their lack of any authority or expertise on the matter. Like they'd get very frantic and shout and scream and others when more things could be done with a calm mind. Perhaps it's just the training. Perhaps it's just that suffering brings the worst out of people. I don't really enjoy being with people who're quick to judge that my actions are wrong, etc and getting all angry before realising that i was right. -.- Why can't people be more peace-loving.
Then there're those who don't appreciate that people are just...different, sometimes. I'm eccentric. I laugh when other people are eccentric or act weird and wacky. I find that it's funny and interesting. And refreshing. Many other people just call it "Mad". I'm classified as "crazy" by some because i sing out loud in bunk and joke a lot. DOT DOT DOt Dot dot...Maybe it's a Singaporean thing; this close-mindedness and this unwillingness to embrace uniqueness and to do and say things which are too wacky and "ang-moh-ish".
Well anyway i've gotta end this..it's past 12am already. Still got plenty of stuff that i have to do..I'll probably be the last to sleep again. (Oh yes i'm also "crazy" 'cos i take my time to prepare everything for the next day BEFORE i shower, not after) Bye for now!
