Saturday, October 24, 2009
24/10/09 taiwan/new unit
sorry i didnt write for like 3 months kinda busy though. lots of things happened during this period. taiwan, typhoo, earthquake , life in my new unit. well went to taiwan for training, ate a lot of longan :) free of charge. well during our navigation, we needed to bring ration, but most of us brought money instead. why, because they got villagers there who sell food, drinks. like chicken fillet, bubble tea, chicken bun, ice cold coke. lol good experience eh. but the terrain is f*** up. lots of up and down hills. climb like theres no tomorrow. middle of our navigation excercise, we were evacuated cause the typhoon was approaching us. happy for us:) stayed in the building for like 5 days. boring cause we couldn't go out, stayed in the room, played ipod sleep. the instructors didnt know what to teach us cause they simply had nothing to teach. so we sleep eat play sleep eat play, that was our routine.after the typhoon passed us, we had 6 days of field camp. after 5 days of rest nobody wants to go back out. endured it and we were on our way to taipei city for R&R. there we ate more, bought clothes and had a lot of fun. didnt really know what to buy, cause i didnt have a list of things to buy. in the end spend about Sing $300. some of my friends spent $1000. crazy. after that we flew back to singapore. one day of rest and back to camp. rehersal after rehersal and in the hot sun some more. best of all i was the right marker, which i always do. had more training than the other people. by the end of the rehersal and parade, the tanned line on my skin was so obvious.so i passed out as a 3rd sergeant day after getting our rank, posted straight to our new unit. there i had tons of nice experienece. like leopard crawling, push ups, crunches and tons of extra PT. there we endured through the course. people fell out of course, some couldn't take it, they cancelled their contracts. some had a bad experience they were eventually preyed by the instructors. last event, we were put to our limits, to test our physical and mental endurance before we can become eventually ops ready. they make us do log and tyre PT, roll in the sand and endless amounts of bear crawl and push ups. was a nice experience to share, something that we will not forget for the rest of our lifes. i guess i am one of the lucky ones to go through. good luck to those who are joining the next course :)
