Monday, February 21, 2005
-2/21/2005 08:26:00 AM
just got released from field camp aka the 2nd level of hell.
ever tried not bathing for 7days, sleeping on rocky grounds wif ants and centipedes as sleeping buddies, having almost inedible dried rations for 6 days, officers visiting you once in a while as if it's chinese new year in field camp just to give you hell, carrying almost 20 kg of stuff on ur back and marching from site to site for 3 hrs, proning onto ants nest and spiders' combs when ur ordered to, standing helplessly watching your friends get whacked mercilessly while you are untouched coz you made a mistake, crawling on sand for 150m under barbed wire with live rounds fired over ur head, digging a hole in the ground just to shit and watching your friends shit beside you! , smelling like shit, digging a trench for more than 12 hrs just so that you can sleep in it for the night, feeling terrified and helpless not knowing what's next in store for you
other than that, field camp was fun.. hur hur hur..
throughout the field camp, God was there for me. I wanted to just give up and feign sick, so that I could miss some activities, but He gave me the strength to just fight on with my friends. I still can't believe I completed this field camp, haven't felt such an achievement before in my life.
well, if you're going through some sort of hardship in ur life, just remember that what you're going through is nothing compared to what Jesus went through to die for us :)
oh YA... super depressing, I only lost 2 kg during field camp, even though I ate nothing but biscuits and fruit bars :( :( not enuf punishments
yupz, gonnna book in tonight :( won't be getting out for another 2 weeks, gonna enter the jungle for another 3 days next weekend for a situational test, and a 24 km road march the week after :( yikes... do pray for me :)
Sunday, February 13, 2005
-2/13/2005 10:26:00 AM
what a wonderful week it has been, sleeping, eating, gambling, ang baos, POMELOS!, hanging out wif friends... ahhh! good times have to end at some point..
though there were many surprises this week, there were many disappointments too..
our class stayover got cancelled
anxiously looking forward to my midnight movie date and it got cancelled
oh well, used to it.
v day's supposed to be a day to share love wif friends and closed ones, but this yr's vday seems to be a day of disappointments and rejections for many, while others like ME just share love in the jungle wif wild boars and scorpions and snakes and what have you... argh.
y can't I be some place else, somewhere no one can find us. . .
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
-2/08/2005 02:45:00 PM
every other person in tekong could book out on fri or sat except for us NINJAs... we had to stay in tekong for another 4 days coz of live firing :(
really freaked out when I got to fire my first round wif my rifle, could feel my ear drums bursting past my ear plugs when everyone fired off.. but it was such a good experience.. especially the night shoot. During the night, all our bullets had a tracer light behind them, it was like star wars in tekong! As we waited for our turn, the hundreds of stars in the sky was enough to brighten up our dull mood at that time. NOt a chance in Singapore can you find such a starry-lit sky, only in Tekong.. man.. I actually saw the Orion belt!
OH YA! first thing I did when I reached home was stepping onto the weighing machine... Oh My GOODNESS!!! I LOST 3 KG!!! wahhahahahahahaa....
time to eat as much as I can during chinese new year! next week's field camp, which is a 7 day camp in the jungle in tekong, no bathing and u live on food rations, which I heard is almost impossible to consume..
ang baos! i just got my feb pay... w00t!
