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Monday, October 31

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its been awhile, since i see colours entering my world.. its been seven days of green, black, brown and all sorts of other dull colours you can associate with nature. i was initially afraid i could not complete all the missions and tasks assigned, but i guess doing it with all my mates there pulled me through the hard times.

the seven-day "adventure" began on monday morning with an 8-km route march to our first campsite - reclaimed land. the place was very "man-made"; trees grown nicely, one big patch of grass for training, and jungle for simulation purposes. we began building our first bashas once we've reached our campsite. it was tough in the beginning, but we learnt the small techniques from the sergeants who gave us valuable tips. our first lunch in the form of combat rations on a small grass patch under a big tree, feeding the hungry mosquitoes.

we began learning how to judge distances, and stuffs like that. had some practices and dinner followed. had the daily field routine at night where we had the first powder bath. it was freaking pitch dark where you can barely see each other. but we were all stripped stark naked and im sure many would remember. we were all tired, had an early night.

the second day was pretty much routinal. lessons in the morning in full battle order because we were doing some stupid small mistakes. lunch and some practice in the noon doing visual searching before marching to our next campsite. i dunno the name of the site, but it was some ulu ground with tall thick grass. built our bashas before night falls. had a chit-chat/bonding session with our new pc.

day three of field camp with all of us already half shagged. we learnt how to walk in file formation and practising how to draw on our range card in the morning moving down the road to practising fire movement drills and all sorts of crawls in the afternoon. had a good laugh with the sergeants because some cocksters screwed it up like the normal days.. thinking back about it makes us grin.. LOL

day four, our technical break. something everyone is looking forward to after doing through three days of shit. we were still fighting hard not to get punished for every single shit we do. trying hard to work as a section, a platoon, a company. a 4km march to the third campsite - oil palm, basha building followed by lunch. went to "bath", shave and basically wash up. bad experience there because the toilet simply SUCKS. and it was raining heavily whilst we were there. we got dirtier after bathing. =/

we came back, watch one platoon mate got fucked while we took shelter in our basha, waiting for the rain to simmer. when the rain finally ended, it was dinner already. sounds like when you're in field camp, time flies sia.. we got tekan every now and den, so we were rather glad to see the sun set once again.. supposed to haf OC evening that night, but the OC cancelled it because the place was too small, and the weather was stil wet. our pc, who just got his full lieutanent came back for the event. so we made use of the guitar we brought, while nicholas (one of the platoon mates in section 2) performed with his yoyo skills. simply fabulous. we sang so many songs around the big torch, famous camp songs, retro ones, rock hits, all of them. our morale was sky high after that night. life seemed better already..

day five started with another 4km march to our final campsite - rubber plantation. a place i would never forget. the trees so magnificiently tall and artifically planted; surreal jungle some would say. "never would you find a jungle so beautifully grown", our pc told us. we built our basha on the slope of a tiny hill. platoon sergeant appointed me as the platoon IC. wtf. we had lunch and practiced more on our fire control order. played with blanks, which was rather fun, but the kneeling and proning on the ground kills. we had a group battle course in the late afternoon which lasted till the evening. had dinner and had our usual powder bath. lights out was rather late because our pc was the CDO (company duty officer) of the day.

day six simply fucked up. had our first turnout at five plus in the morning. and the problem with being the IC means you gotta be down there reporting strength before everyone else does. fortunately, we're the first platoon! =] got back to our sleep, camou on after breakfast and it was another fire movement practice. fresh ration for lunch! simply delicious.

shellscrape digging after lunch. TIRING. physically and mentally torturing. i had to dig one extra mile because of my height. went on to help dig the fire trench. 5 hours of hard digging got us another round of fresh rations for dinner. we ate in the dark like the rest of the night, not knowing wad we were eating. platoon sergeant was the DI (duty instructor) of the day makes my job as a PIC even more arduous.

our last powder bath for the field camp. we were asked to light our 6 candles making a mini deepavali in the rubber plantation. very special indeed. we finished up our powder bottles with every single part of our shagged bodies white and nice-smelling. we slept in our shellscrapes which we dug in the day, very unique indeed. watching the stars twinkling above you, the crickets singing beside your "hole", your buddies ard you snoring..

day seven began. more FCO because we got too many blanks to expand. we were tunnel-led to sispec for our battle innoculation course (BIC), something all NSF hates i guess. leopard and baby crawling through a course of about 100m, before throwing grenade at your target and charging at it. we were all motivated to do it since it was already the end of the seven-day field camp. we were sent back to our company line by tunnel, by that time, we were already in high spirits singing our hearts out.

our lunch with our final pack of combat ration. sucks. the afternoon back in our coyline washing the mud off our sbo and stores, making ourselves humankind again. cleaning our weapons was the worst part of all. the whole thing was black, sandy and rusty. had our first lunch at the cookhouse. cookhouse food was the best thing. the aunties and uncles serving us food were more than happy to give us more. we spent the night happily eating our tidbits and crapping. we had an early night on comfy spring beds for the first time in 7 days.

we woke up feeling fresh and psyched like the rest of the booking out days. life was simply good and at a high level because only 2 sergeants were left behind to keep us busy for the day. i must say i really enjoyed myself during the past week, and im sure sit test which is due to come next week would be something we would be looking forward to somehow..

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