Sunday, August 01, 2004
had a close shave with a wkend duty again this wk.
man oh man. this would be my 4th wkend duty in 7 wks if i were called, but i begged my pwo to let me off. fortunately he did, but not b4 telling me that ive not served my regimental guard duty.
dunno why i so sway... cos duty oso on wkend, guard duty on wkend, 2 extras oso served on wkend. im the unluckiest person in the coy.
and its not as if ive a bad disciplinary record.

anyway lots to talk abt this time round, since ive got 2 wks to cover. but come to think of it i oso dun remember much of the previous previous wk...

basically it was chiong sua all the way lah. had our sbd, standard battle drills where we did the chionging.. which eventually culminated in the exercise catwalk, a fighting patrol exercise. had to carry the miles system and all. freakin heavy, couldnt even chiong much.
the whole wk was damn shag, the best day was onli on friday where we got to fire the m203 and law at the safti mi range. the place seemed to be a small island by itself. had to cross a long road with water bodies on both sides to get there. loved the bus journey where we could sleep all the way...

on sunday reported earli 4 guard duty. served finish both my extras.

the wk ive just been thru is 'hell'. in every sense of the word. had my exercise wanderer on monday, the navigation test. found all my day and nite checkpnts, but not b4 walking round abt the whole of tekong. went back late to coy line, slept abt 12...

woke up abt 430 the nxt day. after chionging in the day, had our exercise nightowl, the nite ambush exercise. not too bad, xcept that we had to sleep late again, this time oso 12+. woke up nxt day 430 oso to get ready 4 nutcracker.

excercise nutcracker lasted 4 nearli the nxt 3 days. was supposed to finish digging a shellscrape and a fire trench. din get to sleep much at all. at tops i might have slept arnd 3 hrs the two nites out in the field. i was basically a walking corpse. din noe the meaning of shag until this. din even finish digging the trench... hit rock... never felt so lifeless b4 in my entire life b4 this excercise...

came back from nutcracker to learn the SAR21. had to clean up all the field stores cos of the rain during nutcracker... forgot to mention that i was practically rotting in the mud... all the stuff were muddy, i was muddy, even my underwear was soggy. i felt like shit.

then had the shock of my life my i saw my name on the guard duty list again... luckily its all sorted out.

hopefully, with luck, i wouldnt need to serve guard duty again...
god bless me...