if you're reading this, you're either
a) visiting this blog for the first time
b) bored
c) trying to practice your reading skills
d) jeremiah marvelling at his genius
e) a retard who doesn't realise the symbols on the left are links

Sunday, July 23, 2006 [[leader of 6 men to set the pace.]]


whew. sorry for no update during the 4th week. anyway, the 5th week's over, and we're starting to see the light at the end of this tunnel we call BSLC. it's been really fun so far, i'm already starting to dread the time when we will get split up after our posting comes out. my section mates, you guys rock man: ivan, poh huat, dragon baby a.k.a. wen yu, mr kuang, li hang, alex, aman, ci yuan.


i know this seems pretty boring to read though; i have no absolute idea why you're here reading this. either you're a close friend wanting to keep up with the jonesus, or you're just blog hopping too bored to notice that entry after entry just describes my army life so far. nothing much i can do to remedy that though, it's not as if army gives me a chance to have a social life, except maybe with the crickets and mosquitoes in the various jungles i've bashed, proned, ran, squatted, kneeled, sat in.

5th week of BSLC. outfield is in full swing, and will only get worse as the next two weeks go by. section quick attack, immediate charge, immediate ambush, fire movement and various other section drills have been conducted so far. we've section deliberate ambush next week. actually sounds pretty fun to play army boy, carrying a heavy load and a gun to pretend to ambush and contact enemies. though the apparent cost of such fun so far are numerous insect bites, scratches where i proned on rocks and blue black knees from kneeling most of the time when not moving.

this week we had another ippt test, outfield, then soc test, then more outfield. i got my gold already so i didn't have to take the ippt test, but i took it anyway, to motivate and encourage my section to make gold too. (pst, ivan when are you gonna treat me dinner huh?) then came the outfield, which was not too bad still. soc on friday was worrying though. my previous trial test got me 9:42 and a fail cause i failed low rope. this time though i managed to pass all the obstacles except swaying bridge on the first try, and managed a timing of 9:32. although i passed the SISPEC requirement of 10:30, i didn't make the OCS standard of 9:30. and i was so close too. so was pretty miffed at that. must have been the stupid swaying bridge.

chemical defence lessons next week, followed by more outfield, battlecourse test then section live firing. should be fun. and tiring. and i've early book out next week! yay, sat morning book outs, here i come!

cya guys. take care.


`donovan. |8:51 AM|