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For the first time since St. John training in sec. 4, I again felt the fantastic feeling of working as part of a team of people who knew exactly what to do at the right time and how to do it.

(No offence to fencing, but being a relatively individual sport, it usually comes down to one's own planning and skill, except for the 2-on-2 practices haha).

Anyway we had our MG live fire yesterday. Was paired with Zhenrong and Daniel, with the former as designated assistant, the latter as gunner, and myself as commander, though of course, we changed about during the actual thing. Very very cool, but the 7.62 mm bullet's still such a terrible weapon. Just feeling the power at your trigger finger is rather unnerving... Especially when one watches the targets, which can take dunno how many hits of 5.56 mm being cut down one by one by the MG.

Night firing was also very pretty. I could sit there forever watching the tracer rounds without getting bored haha (I'm so weird) but then I would probably go deaf also lar...

But anyway the three of us could work quite well no matter what role haha... Even managed to play by ear when the cyllum stick illuminating our target went out... So we earned ourselves a "Well done" which left us feeling quite satisfied haha...

Oh yea, also got to fire this parachute flare thingy cos of a good score for technical handling.... Very very very pretty.... Just like in the movies haha... Simply and literally put, it looked like 150,000 candles hanging in midair like some super close star haha... But the recoil and the sudden blast of heat on the hand when the thing's fired is also a little shocking hoho.

Anyway, Demolitions live-firing was also quite fun on friday... Life in OCS is usually fun if we're not getting tekan-ed haha.... Helped to build some charges, although I only got to blow up a little detonator.... But it was very very cool to watch the charges being blown up, especially the incendiary charges.... We could feel the heat from dunno how many hundred of meters away.... Hopefully we never go to war, these are really scary weapons to use on other people...

Oh yea, did I mention that the place where we did our firing was the exact same place that we saw on the video clip when we visited OCS in year 1? It was quite funny getting this sense of deja vu in quite literally the middle of nowhere =D

Well, anyway am off till tuesday morning, but am considering going back tomorrow night cos I live on the wrong side of the island from SAFTI MI. Oh n got to watch Amazing Grace today with a bunch of church friends... VERY inspiring show! except that I was (or am) quite sleepy cos of coming back late from live firing... But yea its very nice haha...

By the way, trailers for Harry Potter 5 are out on Youtube...