Saturday, August 1, 2009
wanted to write about what happened last week, but the stupid blogger got problem.
last week, i sat in the chinook. first time experience but a short one. went from yishun to woodlands to tuas and back. but it was too short wish it was longer. than we had river crossing. a guy in my platoon almost drown. 3 person had to swim across to attach the rope to the other side of the river. they swam without life jacket, in uniform, boots and a rifle. 4kg of metal is different from 4kg of styrofoam. 1 guy almost drowned but lucky he was holding on the rope. manage to pull him out after 1 min underwater. he went to medical center but came back the next day. because of him, we didnt have to cross the river saving our boots from getting wet. we had to dig shellscrape. which i took 4 hours. slept in it and had to stand two the next morning. few minutes into stand two started drizzle. drizzle became rain. soon the shellscrape was getting more wet. than ate my breakfast in the rain. damn difficult cause it was raining and it was freezing cold. shivering and eating aint easy. than instruction were to get ready to stand two again. but by than it started pouring again which was the worse situation to be proning it the hole. but who cares everyone including the instructors was standing in the rain. they feel fucked up too. so no instruction was given. we just stood under a tree, shivered and talk to each other to pass time. it rained from 5.50am to 11am. damn suay, escape the river crossing but kenna this rain.
this week prepared for taiwan. we gonna be there for 3 weeks. training there. kinda find first time going there. see new things and environment but end up doing the same old stuff. hope my trip to taiwan will be a trip to remember. cant wait for it.
