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Am back! It was quite a short day, considering that it was mainly lectures or area cleaning, since I had already gotten gold for IPPT =)

Had the handover of the cadet wing appointments this morning, so all the best to Samuel and the new safety personnel. For myself, shall be taking over Kory (who became the new Cadet Wing Commander) as the Section 2 safety IC until further notice. Was so relieved at surving that I felt like throwing my jockey cap again after we were dismissed =)

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From a little less than a month ago, with a single white strip and lanyard,

to the two vertical and one horizontal bar of the Safety Officer.

So its farewell to my epaulette with the two torpedoes which are perpetually aimed at my head...

Now am back to using an ordinary one... Just two white stripes. And now that my Safety IC post has been removed, I'm back to my VJC, accident-prone self. In 24 hours, I burned my hand on the iron and then whacked the same hand against one of the railings of the staircases...

Also had to soak my 4 non-parade uniforms in some anti-malaria / mosquito solution today... So I'll be using effectively one uniform for the rest of the week. But then again its all lectures for now, so it should be ok... Maybe wash once will do.

Section field camp next week. Am a little nervous but also a little excited haha... Jeremy says that "After that you'll get to know all your friends much much better" so that's probably at least partially good =)

Everything seems quite fast... Its so surreal. On the first day our instructors asked us "Has anyone been here before?, and I was the only one in the platoon who had come, but not for a commissioning parade. And the instructor asked me "So has anything changed?" and I replied "Not which I've noticed, sir".

And indeed from then to now, nothing has changed since the 6th of May 2005 when I visited with my classmates. The winglines, the gym, the Warriors' Hall (where people had been complaining about it being freezing cold), the parade square (where the senior cadets had told us that "that's what we run up in the first week" and hey, two years later I did!). As I walked around the first two weeks, I was just thinking the last time I walked here I wore beige instead of black green and brown, and I worried about SPA instead of extras.

Or maybe there are some changes.... Now there's Internet in our bunks, and we actually do use the CAI haha...

Then there was that cadet who invited us to his room n told us about NS... And he said things which I eventually found were true... "NS is not just about torture. You really learn a lot of things also" or something to that effect, and so much so for an OCS cadet.

I miss VJ, and my class, fencing, SJ immensely, really, a lot... But i guess at the end of the day, OCS is the best place to be serving NS in =)