Sunday, April 19, 2009
♥ 8:21 PM
finally exercise over. prior before tuesday exercise i wanted to slp real early because i had a tough time sleeping on sunday. someone called me at 4.20am caused me to toss and turned on my bed.
little would i know while i was at branch trying to finish up my previous work my major gave me new work to do. in the end stayed in branch till 12 plus trying to finish up. had very little rest because the next day had to wake up early to prep my vehicle.
boy was it a hot day on tuesday and that is not the worst..when most of the bronco had made their way to the exercise ground i was out at the parade square under the hot sun changing battery because the signaller forgotten to switch off the master switch. as a result i was sweating like mad even before the exercise started.
injure my fingers while changing the battery. but the good thing is i only joined them in the afternoon and i managed to get a quick bath. upon reaching the site, had a quick lunch, rest up for a little while before heading off for navigation exercise.
seriously by the end of the first day i was super tired. moved out at 5 plus with not much instructions. drove ard trying to find out own way to the final destination which is on the other end of the map. initially is was really quite fun trying to navigate ourself to the place. but as we drove longer and "holland" in all the different place the enthusiasm slowly turned to a painful agony.
along the way saw some of the new areas. frankly is quite fun getting lost and trying to find our own way to the final destination. but driving 5-6 hours straight is no joke no fun. plus got to eat alot of sand, bronco is stuffy and you lose your focus and concentration as the hours dragged by. in the end we were saved by one of the LTA. did not managed to consumed dinner because we only reach the place at 10 plus. nice excuse when the conducting blamed it on the vehicle commander which i think is a total rubbish.
next we had to convoy back to original site which took us another 2 hour plus. on the way back i was kindda feeling a bit of car sick. crazy day by the time we get to go and rest was already nearing 1 and had to wake up at 6.30 to consume breakfast. seriously bmt is much better than this because you get to have at least 6 hours/7 hours of rest.
thank God i got a fantastic vehicle commander. a sergeant from another branch whom i know. very nice guy. made the whole exercise quite pleasant with no much trouble.
2nd day we had to move out to another place. because of the rain i guess we move out later for navigation exercise. previous night we were promised that no more navex. but because the conducting screw things up we had to do it again.
this time i am pair with a 2nd LTA. thank God even though i really fair super badly at reading maps but i made it up with trying to remember all the routes that we took the previous night. 2nd day route was different but first part of the route i was given and trusted solely to bring us there safely before he took over the middle part and leaving the final part to me. guess i impressed him as he suggested he want to partner me again for the night navex which did not happened.
practically 2nd day quite slack because upon reaching the site did nothing much because commander were having meeting. at night i was asked to do guard duty. sigh had my slp disrupted once again as i was badly lacking of sleep.
3rd day which is also the final day had to convoy out with some vehicle for a tactical exercise. cannot believe it lor. i did not know it was a tactical ex only thought that need to drive and chop chop reach the place. i was wrong! about 30 - 45 mins into the journey saw one person exiting the bronco to throw up. soon we had to do a tactical halt for 2 hours in the middle of nowhere. sigh..tiring day.
finished the exercise in time for lunch before learning how to set up tech cp. alot of things to do. that palce full of mosquitos. in the end i ended up as the champion for killing 10 mosquitos. during evening we moved out to go and washed the vehicle.
cannot believe it had to wash the vehicle overnight from 8pm to 8am. sigh i have nth much to say. jus glad that the exercise had ended and looking forward to finish another exercise next month before i can safely kiss goodbye to local exercise for the year and just prepare for year end oversea exercise.
went for make up cg on friday. was late for half an hour because had to stay back in office to finish up my work for my major. thought i need to OT for hours. really thank God that my senior actually accompany me and helped me with my work. very touched by his gesture because that day we did not have lunch, lack of slp and usually he will booked out fast because he need to meet his gf. but he actually sacrificed everything accompany me.
finally my parents decided and paid for the new car. changing the harrier for nissan murano a 3.3litre car. don really see why we need another huge car for wad. but well i have no say as long as my parents happy ok already since i also don't fork out a single cent. but quite glad that my parents got me to participate in the decision making. i was quite reluctant to go for test drive that day because my wrist was hurting badly and my feet after outfield was bleeding. but my dad want me to go do the test drive and give my 1 cent worth of comment so i had not much choice but go with them.
at least i can say this car is definately much better than the harrier. nt that i got alot of chances to drive it. after which go see the necessary docs. let down ch alot because planned some stuffs with him but because i nv get back to him he was frustrated. got to change in this area.
don feel like going back camp because tmrw is another busy day. got alot of unfinish work that need to be finish asap. guess i gonna try to apply off on friday.
