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Can't do a very long one now... got a nasty mess of chem, EOM and Written Report to do.

The airmen sat under their 5-man bomber as dawn broke, waiting until it was light enough. It had been a bad week. In their last mission, the aircraft endured 45 minutes of anti-aircraft fire as it proceeded through its mission. The bomber was shot up badly, even forced down short of safety, but the crew considered themselves lucky they had survived the intense trial by fire.

The last week had been spent making repairs to their aircraft. Even the night before, members of the crew had worked late into the night to get everything repaired before they could make it back into a secure area. Everything not needed was stripped out to cut down on weight, to increase their chances of making it. Crew members tweaked various parts of their craft to try and make it work more efficiently, anything to cheat the onslaught which they would inevitably encounter again on the way home. By the early hours of the morning, the captain of the aircraft pronounced everything as best as it would go. By then, most of the crew members were already asleep, preparing for the next day.

So it was that they watched the sun rise. "Give it a little longer." Come 8.40 am, the crew was ready to depart for safety when there came the drone of another aircraft. In this part of the border, it could only be an enemy aircraft. Sure enough, swinging round the clearing came another plane, bearing the wicked looking insignia of the opposition.

"Right, on with the engines and we'll be out of here"

Switches flipped on as the engines thundered into life. Everything looked so good then. But..

"Captain, she's not answering, we're still too heavy!"

"Too heavy? We just took out everything we could! What else is there that is non-essential?"

There was no time to respond. A gunner let loose one ineffectual burst from the mounted light machine which barely scratched the paint of the enemy machine before the bomber was torn apart into flames and hurtling metal by the heavy weapons systems on the fighter.

Using a bit of imagination, you will be able to see this is an analogy of what happened to my group's second draft of our Written Report. It didn't get off the ground before WSW blew it to its constituent atoms before we could mount an effective defence and told us it was still too long.

And yes, we're still wondering which non-essential part can be cut to the annexe.... Darn it, it still looked so good man...
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Its been a hectic week... Stuff pouring in from all over... stressful to say the least. WSW was nice enough to remind my group today that we'll have less time for OP preperation cos 4 out of 5 members have chinese... Oh well... Li Ling's group is also in the same boat, so I guess I shouldn't complain too much... But it doesn't help to dispel my disillusionment with our beloved MOE. As if I could pass this Chinese paper which has nothing to study, but relies on your luck when I couldn't pass the HCL one.

And no matter how well I can do, whats to prevent them from raising the standard again? Best.

I found an interesting site which talks about character types... I got the same thing that I got when I took the test in backwoodsman, which is not surprising considering that time my traits were very distinct... It was kinda freaky, the character description seemed to understand me more than many of my friends... This website can be found here...

Anyway thats all for now... Hope everyone stays healthy as the promos approach...