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Every time I come out of Tekong back to the mainland I feel as though I've been reborn or something haha... Though I may make it sound quite bad, I think in reality its still ok lar actually haha

Field Camp this week (together with Enjie's company, though they were on the other side of the hill).

Realised the things they never show you on all their Army21 advertisements include:

1. The amount of energy required to dig a shellscrape
2. The amount of energy actually required to run around with a fully water-bagged LBV and rifle
3. The size of the spiders and centipedes in Tekong

and etc.

But then again, I think the factor that made field camp survivable was only God. Cos he's the only factor which remains constant throughout life.

As my section mate told me, when you wake up in the morning sometimes you feel super low morale (especially when its one of the days when all the instructors are in bad mood and tend to make you knock it down while wearing full batlle order). But everytime the sun rises, the sight is so beautiful its like God's way of reminding me that he's still with me.

And the more I think about it, the more I feel that the song "Great is Thy Faithfulness" is meaningful. Found myself singing that a lot to myself during the duration of the camp... when walking around looking for RAIs (expended blanks), when digging entrenchments, when sitting around with nothing to do etc....

The words "Spirit of Excellence" and "If God be for us, who shall be against us" constantly echoed in my mind throughout the camp, and I think this is thing which enabled me to push through. Though now I feel "how in the world did I do that", it seemed to be no great effort over
there really...

Thank God for the good weather, his protection, his reassurance and his peace throughout the camp =)

Actually, the stuff we did was quite cool... like fire control, fire and movement etc.... Got to lead a three-man fire team during one pract, in which I was able to do ok thanks to flexibility skills acquired during St. John (one more I owe my old CCA heheh). But can't elaborate cos I may get charged =)

Oh yar, combat rations are much nicer than I expected (though a lot of people think I'm crazy from saying this) especially the peanut based desserts heheheh

On a closing note, today we had a talk by our CO on entering command school. It would be quite interesting to go to a place like OCS I guess, but the training looks so tough! I don't know if I would even be able to survive! And there are still A-level results to be out and all...

Best not to think too much for now though, or I'll just be overwhelmed... For now I'll continue trusting that God will never bring me to a place where his grace won't pull me through.

Will write more another time maybe, am really sleepy now goodnight!