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As predicted it was a very slack week. Even slacker cos of the sheer contrast between it and platoon field camp haha... And also cos the Mid Day route march on friday was called off..

On the other hand it was quite painful from all the Close Combat Training (CCT) lessons.. But really interesting also! I think being a CCT instructor is the coolest vocation in the army by far, even more so than being in OCS! Too bad our batch has no intake..

Anyway we also got to play soccer on friday... Too bad goalkeeping doesn't leave time for practising my break-falls learnt in CCT =D But I must say our platoon took a very long time to warm up... When I see attackers waltzing through a gap in our defences large enough to fly an F16 through, my life flashes before my eyes... Still, didn't perform too badly, though I still can't do goal kicks for nuts... When I kick the ball it is capable of flying anywhere in the 180 deg arc in front of me. That's why I prefer sticking to using my hands hoho....

Live firing was also interesing... A number of people know what happened already but dunno if I can spill it so openly on the net in case of getting charged (refer to ChuaH's blog regarding security). Suffice to say, illumination rounds should be fired into the air, not into the ground. Haha, but my breaching group with Eric and Meng Seng worked pretty well together. I will always remember how we had to run up and down the stupid hill (me carrying the cumbersome bangalore torpedo!), wheezing "Gap gap gap!" and stuff like that...

Anyway, all my best guy friends from St. John all seem to be going to SISPEC! Wei Lun, Wei Quan, Xuan Ming and all... Only Xuan Cheng went to the Navy, lucky feller! Like Wei Lun said yesterday, we really miss St. John, and all of us agree that St John life was worst than the army haha (Of course, we never had to stay in camp for almost the whole week!). Sometimes in joke we still call each other by our team numbers and etc... I wonder when we're ever going to let go of St. John...

Speaking of which, reading my juniors' blogs took my mind off my stress for a while as I read through their thoughts, feelings and memories about their handover... And I recalled some of the things my batch went through with them... Some of them are as follows: like when we were in the corner classroom watching them introduce themselves for the first time... then Vanessa calling me at night asking if I could go along to help buy uniform parts n stuff with them... Having to collect Y. Liting and Clarice from the MRT, when both parties couldn't even recognize each other... House programme... How many of them continued talking to me online even through the Os, as I tried to keep my depression of leaving SJ aside..

Now they're also seniors, not unlike myself a very short while ago... Haha Sec. sch seems so fast when you consider it in St. John terms. I empathize with what they must be going through... To me it was a feeling of suddenly there's nothing to be living for... Probably that's what its like to experience a break up heh...

Anyway congratulations Squad 4 '07! For going through SJ, leaving your mark, creating that new bit of history for the division, for conducting yourselves well throughout your 4 years!

Oh well... Anyway its two days to the end of service term and the third bar! After that, its either off to Brunei on Sunday, or deferment, if it comes on 1st July... Cheerio all!