MiZ in Weekdays 5: A Short Time in Camp

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Well, someone said that I will be needing the computers to write a lot of things... if it is this entry, yes, there will be quite a lot of things to write.

Ok, this entry is somewhat special, only contains entries for 3 days as compared to the usual 5 (since I'm only in camp for 3 days as I had leave on Thursday and there's public holiday on Friday), so I'll come out the other two in other entries.

21 Mar 2005
SOC test... Before the test, my heart seemed very weak, maybe because I was very nervous about the test. 9mins30secs can be a quite difficult timing to achieved for many of us. You know on Friday (18 Mar), when HJ told me that those that pass SOC trial on 11 Mar will take the test on Monday (21 Mar), I almost fainted onto the floor. Luckily I'm still quite strong enough not to faint that time... But after that I kept lying on the floor throughout the day and not doing anything, just thinking about the SOC test (well, I still went to the gym later on).

Ok, coming back about the SOC test, thinking of how JR ran his SOC trial that time, I was still amazed how he could just missed by 10secs when he took more than 4mins for the first 700m rundown and walking throughout the obstacles part. Well, I decided to do some of what JR did that time... which was to do my 700m rundown a bit slower. Well, quite amazingly, I still don't feel tried after running that 700m for more than 3mins, and this let me clear all my obstacles much faster than usual. After that, I run through the last 600m and eventually completed the whole course by 8mins40secs, according to JR's time. Hmm... an improvement of about 40secs as compared to the trial, which I took 9mins21secs to do so. Well, for the trial, I ran quite fast for the 700m, eventually being quite exhausted while doing the obstacles, which slows down my timing by quite a lot. So, the slower 700m rundown did makes a lot of difference and improvement for my overall timing.

Another thing, my window for SOC test only just opened a few days before my SOC test. Well, I passed my first year SOC on 17 Dec 2004, so my window opened on 17 Mar 2005, just only 4 days before my SOC test. Wow... that's too soon for me to take my test, as compared to others when their windows opened in mid-January (they had 2 months while I only had 4 days...).

22 Mar 2005
Ok, it was my turn to perform my ops room duty that day. I brought quite a lot of things to the ops room, but I only eventually used my CD walkman to listen to music and also bought 8 Days and The New Paper to be read in ops room. Hmm... didn't know that cello sounds nice, but too bad I wasn't keened on learning the cello.

Ok, heard that the DOO was doing his duty for quite many days, which included the Monday and Tuesday duties consecutively. Hmm... he must be feeling very tired after that so many DOO duties he had to do within a week (heard that it is about 4).

The DOO also gave me two reports to be faxed about 23 hours ealier. It was supposed to be sent on 23 Mar 2005 7am, but he decided to gave it to me much more in advanced (if you want to know what time, it was on 22 Mar 2005 at about 8+ in the morning). Well, he said that he would be conducting SOC training on Wednesday morning, so he gave the report much more advanced (which also includes the DOO report that was to be faxed by the duty clerk).

Ok, I felt quite stupid while standing in for duty clerk's duty as I made quite a lot of minor mistakes then. Felt quite bad almost throughout my ops room duty... just really don't know what I should do... :(

Ok, let me talk about other things instead. I had my lunch quite late as I let the duty clerk had his lunch first. He took quite long to consume his lunch, which was quite expecting since he had said so earlier on. While it was my turn to have my lunch, the cookhouse personnel said that they ran out of some food and were still preparing them. I could not just wait too long and almost just only had my white rice for my lunch (I eventually decided to take the "char-siew" pork as well since the rice doesn't gave much to what my body needs).

The nightsnack wasn't that bad as well. We were given hot "tou-sa" puff and that usual cookie by SFI for nightsnack. I wondered why they had decided to give us hot nightsnack quite recently...

23 Mar 2005
After handing over my duty to another signaller, there was nothing much for me to do. Well, it was just another slack day.

In the afternoon, I fell asleep after listening to music and reading newspaper and magazine. At that time, BSO happened to come in. Thought that he was going to scold us, but didn't he briefed us on what we were going to do next week.

He also ask me to take out my "violin" (which was a viola actually) and play it to him. I wondered how he knows that I had a "violin". Too bad I wasn't that proficient, so I could only play simple pieces. SJ, PSQ and Alex was also the "victims" as well.

After I book out from camp, I went to Jurong Point to eat. Thought of eating at Swensen's at first, but decided to had my meal at Delifrance by myself instead.