staying at home isnt v nice...
especially when a stupid pill makes one extremely drowsy...
apparently.
i slept today away.
well done.
and read half a book.
*yawn*
still wondering if i would be allowed to return before my status end.
dun wish to miss too much.
oh yea.
jinyan's sick also sia.
told him to see a doc b4 going back...
dun wan... den now attn b...
loads of pple sick sia.
i heard platoon 2 got like 11 pple on medical leave.
and jinyan say my platoon even more.
haha.
great job.
my buddy also on medical leave.
everyone's sick.
just pray for 130307 to come asap.
countdown to Graduation Parade: 43 days! =) [p.s. i've endured.... 46 days le]
so basically i am halfway thru!
=)
hang on there pple! =)
yea!
i survived it!
=)
it was ok..
maybe due to e fact that i was sick and skipped a few trainings here and there...
but!!!
lets see wad we did.
HA.
first day...
marched 8km to e first camp site - a rubber plantation.
e march was horrible towards e end.
i constantly worry and think about how i am gonna endure e 24km one...
reached (with a BIG smile on my face)
and started to build our basha (aka tents)...
when i saw my site... it was... muddy.
wth.
den basically i slept on mud for two days.
and!!!!!
e point where i slept got one big log all e way across my back.
so basically...
my back is bruised... still.
=S
that was where we spent our two days...
on e morning of e third day.
about 4am.
woke up with a fever... 38.3.
went back to medical centre and came back to e camp site at lunch time...
den we moved!
like move house ah.
haha.
to oil palm plantation...
v nice trees....
v nice environment.
until...
all e mosquitoes and sandflies came out to play at night.
wth.
bit all of us...
esp siyuan abit serious on e legs.
haha.
den it rained.
OMG.
it din rain for e first two days... we thought we were lucky.
ha.
haix.
so basically slept in e rain with e sandflies biting me all over.
haix.
gross.
den e next day we learnt about digging our graves.
omg.
i was on status but chose to try digging anyway...
so we dug....
and dug....
and we dug for e whole day! omg.
and e worst part?!?!
we haven finished it.
omg la.
haha.
den after dinner...
my temperature shot up again...
haix.
38.6...
den just took panadol and slept e day away in e medical tent.
during e night...
was quite rough...
rained heavily at 3am...
all e graves we dug all got flooded.
haix!
to think we have to continue finishing it...
it was a omg.
ha.
den e next morning i kinda recovered...
so i continued with e grave.
emptied it of water....
which took damn long.
=S
den....
it started to rain again!!!!!!
=(
OMG.
den wear raincoat..
and stay there lo.
=(
by e time e rain finished...
it was flooded again!
=(
haix.
so had to take e water out again...
omg.
so by e time all of us finished digging...
it was around 6pm.
of course we din start in e morning la.
started after some lectures and practicals...
so basically...
we used about 24 hrs (conservative estimation) for a task that has to be done within 45 mins.
WELL DONE.
ha.
den we were all wet and muddy.
and we cant change shirts that night.
haix.
that night i almost chilled to death.
for a guy like me to shiver...
it takes real cold temp.
now i noe why people on SURVIVOR shiver without fire.
e moment it heats u up....
its a
haha...
forest temperatures suck.
its damn freaking cold at night.
i wearing long sleeve shirt, long pants and boots still feel cold.
ha.
we din bath at all.
but got some time to wash up on e 4th night.
not too bad...
powder bath everyday...
but e last night was horrible.
imagine...
powder + wet, muddy clothes... den sleep.
its omg.
HA.
but....
i survived!
OHHH!
and we only ate combat rations.
ha.
e biscuits are rock...
but e rations arent that bad...
haha...
yup...
cookhouse food is heavenly now.
we reached back at camp yesterday.
=)
imagine my BIG smile.
hahaha!
we bathed!
omg.
ha.
today is BOOK OUT DAY!!!!
ha.
i basically brought home every possible thing i could for my mum to wash...
there's like 20 pairs of socks if i dun remember wrongly...
and loads of shirts...
e whole laundry point is like.... LOADED.
and drying area is like.... all humid.
ha.
i pity my mum...
she's considering sending them for laundry services.
ha.
tmr's see doctor day.
to get my antibiotics i lost in e jungle...
before all e viruses get immune to all e antibiotics.
=S
ha.
tmr's also meet-up-with-frens day!
ha.
gonna be enjoyable...
sleeping early!
nite!
ah.
had my break at home after a gross throat infection.
ha.
going back to my wonderful tekong tommorow morning.
=/
haha...
gonna miss e 6km route march tommorow as i have Day 1 status.
ha.
packed all my clean and nice-smelling clothes into e field pack.
it looked damn full.
but its quite light.
have to reach e ferry terminal at 7.15am tmr morn...
ha.
wont be coming out till e 27th of jan.
will be outfield (aka rolling in mud in e jungle) next week.
haha.
hopefully i'll come out in one piece.
=)
see ya in.... 12 days.
=(
**edit:
ohhh. i just watched Girls Out Loud.
and i think its a nice show. ha.
the two hosts seem to complement each other very well.
haha.
catch it if u want a laugh!