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Heya I'm back! Thank God nothing went wrong... N of course thanks to Peng Fei, Kanan, Jeremy, Ben Chen, Marvin, Eric, Kenny, Zhengrong and Daniel for keeping me alive haha... Whoo no regrets being in Section 3 at all!

Field Camp went not too badly for myself.... Let me see... A heat rash, multiple abrasions at very inconvenient parts of the body, cuts, aching shoulders (full combat load takes the biscuit), cough and running nose from inhaling smoke-grenade smoke to name a few...

Not to mention a lasting memory of everything that occured during field camp... It was quite a painful experience, but nothing long-lastingly-damaging (I hope),

BUT

there were also some parts which were ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS on which I can laugh and laugh non-stop probably for the rest of my life =D too bad I don't know if I can post them here or I might get court-martialled for breaching some MSD directive... Really got to know my section better as Jeremy said I would... Now we know each other's strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies n etc...

Am waiting in anticipation when my platoon commander said "You will be able to tell who is who by the way they move, the way they fight and so on"

Right on the back of Section Field Camp comes Patrol Field Camp next week (which will be abother 48 hours of not sleeping, bathing, and probably not too much time for eating as well), which should prove to be another interesting experience...

Anyway, I was the section LAW (that's light anti-tank weapon) gunner for most of the camp, so shoulder aches abound (I can't remember the exact specs of the thing, but considering its something like 1/5 my weight, its something).. Thank goodness we didn't have to run with it while doing quick attack during flanking... I have an affinity for carrying heavy stuff like signals' sets and LAWs despite being one of the smallest people in the platoon.... Somehow it rides better on my LBV than on the tall people o_0

Curiously, despite everything that has happened so far, nothing worst than St. John experiences have happened yet! Maybe its just cos I'm more mature than my Sec. 1 self, so I can laugh at more things now...

But speaking of laughing...

My SJ juniors used to say I looked angry when I walked around in AHS...

My BMT friends said I looked very blur and stoned heh

Now my OCS friends say I either look sad (normally) or very cold (emotionally, not physically, when doing a task). As in, I don't join in the joking and stuff with everyone else, which is kinda weird, cos in JC I could do stuff like suan and counter-suan very fast heh (oh, I don't know what my JC friends say I look like... Probably either gan jiong or sleepy heheh). I don't know either... Eric has asked me about it before and my truthful reply has been "I've got nothing to say". Maybe I have been a bit too protected...

But then again being protected until one remains unaffected by the continuous barrage of four-letter words is useful =)

Anyway have to go back tomorrow to do duty, serving the very lame extra which I mentioned a few posts back, then coming back out on Sunday morning, before booking in again on Sunday night... Means my long weekend gets cut into half, but then the good thing is that I don't miss youth group, and there's usually nothing much to do during the weekends (another thing which my friends find weird). Still, I can catch up on my Bible reading, journal writing, and third of a year of Readers' Digest...

Shall call it a night now. Cheers all!

Isn't it funny... Officer Cadets can be soldiers in long 4 chionging up the hills, students in admin studying for exams, or gentlemen (or "gentlemen")in long-sleeve shirts walking at Jurong Point..