MiZ in Weekdays 6: A Somewhat Special Long Week for Me...

28 Mar 2005
Nothing special. After the company run, I just spent my time "refreshing my brains".

29 Mar 2005
Also nothing special. Well, during rollcall, SSG Fong caught those people who had long hair. Hmm... luckily SJ seemed to have escaped from that. After that, it was something like Monday.

30 Mar 2005
SOC test/trial for most people in our platoon. There were only about 4 to 5 pacers to so many people running. Thought of doing some understudy with someone experienced first, but there were too few pacers, so I could not do so. I decided to pace JR since he had that potential to pass. Well, after some "pushing", he managed to get 9:25 for trial (also with the help from the timer). Well, since it was only a trial, it's ok to have that timing, but next time I must try to "push" him even harder... Anyway PSQ managed to get 9:29... how lucky. Ok anyway, good luck for the test for those who pass trial.

Nothing much happening in the afternoon.

In the evening, all of us were asked to go for nights off, which included i-net duty personnel Daniel which was excused from doing i-net duty in the evening to go for nights off (but exclude SJ who had ops room duty to perform). Why was that day so special? Look at the date and compare it with my profile you have seen it before and you will know why.

Ok, JR booked a bus for the whole platoon to go to JP to eat. We all decided on Swensen's. Well, I decided to had my favourite baked rice as usual, and also eat quite a lot of ice-cream. Ok, we pay the meals by cash since those that had UOB debit card did not have enough money in the account, or did not bring their card along (well, I'm short of $5... so no 10% discount... also I could have earned more than UNI$50 for that...)

Ok, after reaching back camp, I was told to go for the CAOCOC parade rehersal as one of my platoonmate had problem marching, so I prepared my SBO and also got that special rifle sling from him as well. At the same time preparing SBO, HH came back and also gave me a movie voucher (indeed, it was a special day...).

31 Mar 2005
Had to wake up early to draw arms to prepare for the parade rehersal. The rehersal was quite tiring especially the morning drills practice as we had to do a lot of "homat senja ta" so many times. During the break, I was also asked by the RSM to do some short extra rifle drills training as I had missed the first 2 rehersals. Well, he said that I was a bit slow and need more practise. The morning drills practice was somewhat short and we got to rest quite a lot then. A lot of my friends complaint about the parade commander who kept telling us the wrong things... how pathetic he could be...

In the afternoon, we had a short practice before commencing the rehersals. Well, PSQ was asked to attached with 42 SAR platoon as they were short of people at that time. I was asked to wait under the building with the other 2 as I was the reserved. It rained halfway during the rehersal (and I could not believe that the parade commander still asked if it was Cat I or not when it was already raining quite heavily and lightning also start to stuck then). the rehersal continued after the rain stopped.

After the rehersal, we changed for dinner. I just only had plain white rice for dinner as I had no appetite for the food they served (I was telling people that the white rice tasted the best among the other food). Later at night, I had mashed potato and noodles kindly contributed by JR and JF since I had nothing much for dinner.

01 Apr 2005
The company run was changed into gym training. Well, I did nothing much for gym since the machines were mostly occupied.

After that, I went back to bunk to changed and prepare for my ops room duty. Knowing that the 4 stripes is the BOS, I thought my duty was going to be a disaster... but actually no. As what JR had said, he was quite slacked actually while on duty.

During my duty, I kept playing my gameboy advance (which I had not play for a long time) and read "The Sims 2 University" game guide throughout the day without having to hear any word from him at all. Also, I didn't sleep during daytime of my duty as oppose to what someone had accuse me of doing so... >:(

Well it was also April's Fool Day. Well, escaped from most jokes from my friends since I had ops room duty.

Well at night, as I do not really want to sleep in the same room with the 4 striped, I decided to pull one of the beds (with pillow and blanket) out of the resting area to sleep (well, the duty clerk was sleeping there as well). After lying on the mattress for a few minutes, I started sleeping quite peacefully then...