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Its been some time since I did anything fruitful with the St. John division. But I think I managed to do some in the past few days, as well as experiencing some weird, fun, traumatising (heh) sights.

On Monday we went to HQ at beach road to play with their ambulances to put it unprofessionally. I'll say one thing about AC2... I'm really proud of their footdrill. Credit also to Tun Liang and Wei Lun for training them while I've been scattering myself between an overwhelming number of commitments (they ain't many, but they are still overwhelming). Their first aid.... well.... at least we still have a few months for improvement yeah =) But yes, there are signs of them becoming better already.

During lunch, Evelyn, Si Hui and I witnessed a sight that left us weak and shaking. We saw a gigantic COCKROACH crawling on the BACK of a MAN who was just sitting BEHIND me!!! It was huge! The largest arachnid I've ever seen in my life! Bar the ones from "Eight-legged freaks". It was crawling towards his neck and its feelers were already in the feller's hair!!! Eeeeks!! Mustering every inch of nerve I could, I used my handphone cover to swipe it off.

Out of the frying pan into the fire. The horrendous thingy flew across the room and landed on the BARE LEG of another man sitting there! Eve n Si Hui n I were totally freaked out. The man whom I had just rid of the cockroach turned around and asked me why I hit him. I explained to him (in chinese! I actually spoke chinese!) about his eight-legged friend strolling around on his blind spot. I think he was quite freaked out as well. I'm sure that the cockcroach was big enough to make a grown man run screaming out of the room.

Back to HQ (we cleared out as quickly as possible). After doing some cases my team went to go toy with the ambulance, after having to chase some DHSJAB-ers away. Their SNCO-in-charge was one of the members of the VJ FAC... heh... so they recognized me also. Too bad I'm like only a teeny Corporal (even derek is like twice my rank) so I needed my teacher around. Yeah... they revised the procedure quickly enough.

I recall a few years back when after securing the stretcher and preparing to ram it back into the ambulance, as we lifted it we didn't hear the joint click. But we let it rest anyway. Result was that we nearly dropped the feller.. hehz.

Yeah, taught them how to load ambulance with 4 members, 2 members or alone. Then we did a routine TOC route which led to the second bit of excitement for the day.

Behind the HQ was a narrow route which is usually suitable for two-man-carrier, that is, two men carrying the stretcher instead of four. As we reached the end of this unkempt pathway we were blocked by a pot of plants. And while I was standing there waiting for them to past, a gigantic (theres something about this area that makes all the creepy-crawlies gigantic) chameleon charged at me before skidding past and running up the wall. Chameleons don't scare me, but the rush and the sudden movement after the slow but sure progress of the stretcher team nearly caused my heart to stop. No VTOL aircraft took off faster than James and I jumped. Pah. Hehz... but amusing in retrospect I guess....

Then back to footdrill. I think with Dunman High staring at them they had much greater motivation. It was the best format I've ever seen them do in my life! Haha..... well done guys!

Yup.... so ended an interesting monday.

(Tuesday was pretty normal. Nothing much to say except that nearly deafened by certain nursing teams... hehz)