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Sunday, September 09, 2007 It hasn't been an easy week. . . absolutely tiring. . . if not for the coc parade and acct grading, life would have been easier. . . but at last. . . they are over. . . past my 2months to ord and one step closer to ord. . . vincent had already got his pink ic, proudly showed off to me his return to freedom with an sms that said,"ord lo!". . . oh!! when's my turn. .!!Throughout the entire 5 days in camp, we gone through rehearsal after rehearsal, and practise after practise to prepare for the actual parade as well as the ACCT grading. . . They all went well without a hiccup, despite all the worries beforehand. . . I was in the front row of the marching contingent, horrible experience. . especially during the rehearsals where the RSM was shouting at anyone who screwed the slightest thing up. . . standing at the centre of the parade square in the front row of the contingent, i was really worried that i will become the next to get screwed. . . my drills could hardly make it. . . and i have to count myself lucky not to have that happened. . . instead, csm was the one who came to me and correct my mistakes every too often. . plenty to be relieved about, he wasn't those who give you the hell of a scolding. . just patiently remind and jokingly tells me off. . in the end. the parade went off smoothly and at last, all the preparations over the weeks for that have been over. . . Then, with that, thursday and friday became our intensive ACCT revision and the actual grading. . i didn't want to take it too seriously initially, trying to slack my way through instead. . it wasn't until the mock grading where i realised i have to memorise all the techniques taught before i made a joke out of myself by screwing up the test. . . even though all the while i had dismissed the importance of the ACCT grading, thinking that it is easy to pass etc. . when the actual test came, i can't help but felt really nervous. . . i got joey as my partner, didn't seem to be any good new at first. . when we had our first and only practise together, he was so stiff that i wasn't able to do the moves and throw him on the ground. . . complaining all the way about having to do acct and that he wasn't able to do the moves, i had to admit that i was pretty worried that he will more likely to screw me up rather than i screwed the test up myself. . . luckily somehow he managed to buck up and i managed to calm my nerve to perform the techniques 'to perfection'. . . i wasn't going for distinction so perfect to me just mean it's the best that i can do. . anyway. . going into the sparring next, see yong was my opponent. . weighing 75kg, with a nickname of king kong, i took him on, and nearly died in his hands. . . straight from the start of the 2minute spar time, he was pounding on my head with the "bolster-like thing"(i have no idea what's that call). . it was a bulky item to carry to hit your opponent and i was having some problem attacking him with it. . nevertheless, i showed that i was no push over by relying on my kicks. . . it missed quite a number of times but when it actually got him, he was telling me about the pain that it had caused after the spar. . . and guess what, even though this giant nearly made me concussed in quite a few occasions, somehow i managed to make him fell on the mattress for two times. . so proud of it. . . anyhow, it was more like a game actually, damn fun but tiring. . It was pretty much happening in the platoon this week. . . first, sgt xin li cried because he was so fed up at getting people down to do some work for him after the parade. . . it caused a hoo-ha as pc and later, ps became involved and screwed the platoon for that. . then, there was a rise of anti-ps sentiments later on. . he came to our bunk suddenly on thursday morning, seeing most of us were sleeping, he ordered for a stand-by area at lunch time. . when he came up again while we were having lunch, he tried to vent his anger by over-turning the rubbish bin and throwing things around to show his displease of the standard. . this sparked off numeral discussions between the platoon about him, with arrows all pointing towards him. . . clearly he knew that the platoon was against him as he told shanta and justin about that, and things became worse as pc announced that he will leave us for ocs with effect on monday . . all the power goes to him now. . . personally i don't have any grudge against him, just that sometimes i feel he just control too much. . we are second year soldier going to ord now, he should just close one eye on certain things and let us enjoy the rest of the ns days. . yet obviously he is still trying to make his presence felt by restricting and controlling this and that. . . this way everyone gonna hate him. . . Alright. . yesterday went visiting the dairy goat farm and the aeroponic farm with the kids from hips, the volunteer programme i'm in. . . located somewhere near the darned camp i'm in, it was supposed to be an enriching experience for them. . but i guess most of the learning points inside were too difficult for them to understand at their ages, which mostly were below 7. . it was more like a family outing, since almost all of them had got their parents along, even when this was only allowed at the very last minute. . . with their parents around, my job there became more like a supervisor. . following them and ensuring everyone were well taken care of. . so it was quite relaxed job scope as the programmes got off smoothly with the senior volunteers from other branches taking care of everything. . . anyway, the most important thing is that the kids had enjoyed it and we can have most of such excursion coming. . so. . back to camp again. . expecting guard duty on monday, route march on wednesday and combat shoot on friday. . . it's the last week we have so many key events in a week i supposed. . after this i will have my offs and subsequently october will have my leaves. . . what i'm most worried about is tomorrow's guard duty. . didn't feel like doing it. . only 3 of us in the platoon are doing and i guess i will be the one doing the sentry. . then, i will have to fight for the detail sheet so that i don't become the first one. . . the experience last time haven't been nice. . darn. . hope this is the last guard duty. . |
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