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13/04/06 (Thursday)

Well.. the drill on Thursday was quite slack.. no drill but got mental torture or shld I say stress; this is becos I had technical handling test on the SAR21 rifle which we wld be handling for 2 parades; NDP 2006 & SAF Day. As usual, due to my mind being "rusty" for dun koe how many thousand years liaox, therefore, there is a slight difficulty in asking me to remember things, but thank goodness, everything was a OK and everyone passed the technical handling test! =).. so now my shift is able to handle another weapon! Yeah!!

Came back to camp and serve my P1. As usual, the P1 for tat day have to do P1 duty. So my P1 grp went down to do duty and when we do so, we were shocked, in a sense tat the guard commander told us tat one of the P1 guys have to do gate duty from 1700-2100. Then its either one of my friends or me. My friend helped to speak up tat this is too much becos we have rehearsal in the morning and then we still had to do duty till 2100. Then my P1 sgt, 3SG Zhiwen, said never mind, just do until 1700. So we did our duty till 1700, but wat we didn't know is tat he helped us to do the P1 duty frm 1900-2100. When I heard tat he is doing duty frm 1900-2100, my repsect for him immediately gone up 100%. You may ask why the sudden raise in my respect level for him; this is becos this is the FIRST time (during my 13 mths in my base) I've seen any P1 sgt helped his men to do a P1 duty. Usually, the P1 sgt sgt wld accompany his P1 guys down, but they juz sit in the Ops Room and juz talk or do some really minor stuff. However, for Sgt Zhiwen, he is really TOTALLY different!
Sgt Zhiwen, if you are reading this, this is wat I want to say to you: "You have earn my utmost respect!"

Bought dinner from SDpecialist Mess becos dinner was relaly horrible! So ya. After duty, went up to bunk, bathe and then ate dinner. Watched a bit of TV and off I go to dreamland!

14/04/06 (Friday)

Initially, I was detailed to go to Toranto Gate for guty. However, I told the Guard Commander for yesterday's duty saying tat I juz went to Toranto Gate for my last duty, so I asked whether is it possible to change! He agreed. So I internal swop duty with another guy and initially he didnt want to but dun koe how come there is a sudden change in decision. So ya.. So in the end, my duty actually was only 4 hrs Main Gate (from 2100-0100), but then in between the timings, not as much rest time as you all think! I actually had quite a number of fatigue work to be done (YES! Fatigue work on duty! Usually this doesn't happen, but dun koe how come my officer want it to be done! Can't he juz ask the P1 force for trat day to help do it? Haix..)

Anyway, the main fatigue work which I did was to clear watever rubbish (eg: can, algae and other stuff) tat the inconsiderate ppl throw into the water barricade. In the end, I spend like close to 20 mins juz to clear 1 stupid barricade! These ppl ah.. haix.. but wats comforting to note tat the Guard Commander for the day (which is another sgt of course, whose name was 3SG Wenjie) actually helped in the fatigue work, despite the rain. Both of us were like soaking in the rain and clearing the stuff.. Of course, it was disgusting but wat to do? In the end, I cleared the stuff with him and another guy lah! One of the supposedly to do guys actually didnt wake up and do becos he overslept, despite me waking him up before I left to do the duty. So ya.
So wat I want to say to 3SG Wenjie if you are reading this, tat you have also earn my respect!

This is wat the sgts shld do; help his men to do some minor stuff or occasionally, help his men to do duty or ration, and NOT like some sgts who juz sit there and order ppl around and expect work to be done, when in their eyes, there is not enuf manpower and he is aware of it! So ya. I'm very fortunate to have the specs tat I have in my GOH Shift. They are really good sgts. Not only us say tat the GOH sgts very good. Even the other shifts (who are not in GOH) actually praised my shift's sgts saying tat among all the shifts, the GOH shift sgts are actually the best becos they really take care of their men (which is us) very well, be it welfare or helping them in their daily work (be it duty or fatigue work!).

15/04/06 (Saturday)

Duty this morning was a bit xiong. Firstbly becos after 5 hrs of undisturbed sleep (ie, frm 0100-0500), I had to do flag raising. Just as I wa splanning to wake up at 0800 to do up the floor (becos I'm the floor IC), one of the sgt woke me up at 0650 and told me tat I have to do Table duty frm 0700 till dismounting.

Of course, I had mixed feelings; I was happy becos I get to do table duty (I dun koe why I juz like to do table duty! My friend said I shld juz sign on S1 branch, which is a branch in army who is in charge of admin matters!) and also somewhat skip from doing the "floor", becos I dun really like to clear up the toilet! Ha. But the sad thing was I can't really sleep another hour. So ya.. guess we can't have the best of both worlds, can't we?

Anyway, juz as I happy-go-lucky and thought everything was fine and dandy, my sgt pyed over and said I was to clear the table duty site rubbish as there is no floor IC. I was like WTH! But anyway, since they are so good, I will be like "ok ok lah!".. My philosophy is simple; if you are good to me, I wld do likewise as wekk! But thank goodness there is my assistant, Weiming. I asked him to help me with my floor and he did lah! So ya. All thanks to him or else, you wld see me slog my guts out! =)

After dismounted frm duty, went home and share cab with Boon Sen, becos not very early liaox. Ate lunch and watched a bit of taped programmes, before I'm here and now in front of the com blogging loh!

Having a long weekend this week, but the sad thing is tat I have to go back to camp tml nite (Sun 16/04) becos I gor rejearsal on Mon (17/04).. haix.. But better than nothing lah.. got quite a long weekend. Good enuf lohz! =)

Ok lah.. enuf of crap.. need to bathe and go to church. Yippie! This is actually a miracle! I was not supposed to go to church today becos of duty, but becos of some changes in rehearsal schedules, I'm ahppy to announce tat today I wld be able to go to church! Yippie! =).. Shall blog more either tonite or tml abt my weekend happenings lah! =)

Got to run..

** I'm still counting down the days LEFT to serve.. its 186 DAYS to ORD!!

Weekend here I come,
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