MiZ in Weekdays 11: Full Troops Exercise 2

03 May 2005
Had to wake up very early in the morning to have our breakfast and draw arms for full-troop exercise 2 (FTX 2). After drawing arms, I went back to bunk and rest for a moment before putting the rest of the stores into the line tonner (well, we did put some stores the day before, right after we booked in to camp).

At about 9am, the siren sounded, and we had to fall in at the parade square with camo on to be briefed by our CO. As we (the linemen) were part of the advance party, we had to move out at about 10.30am.

After we reached the conc area, we started setting up the exchange area and also laid the lines. While laying lines, I felt very hot and tired. I also felt that the line layed for that exercise seemed more tiring than that of FTX 1, realising later that I was also carrying the TES set with me, which add on a lot to the load I was carrying as well. After laying the lines, I helped HJ, SJ and HH to do metalled road crossing for the BCS line. After we finished with the lines, we then got back to the tonner and had a rest before manning the exchange.

At night, as the chopper (helicopter) was going to land at the place where some of the lines being laid, we had to cut off the afftected lines. After the chopper left, we went to that area and join back the line. It was difficult to do so as we had to search for the lines under the dark and join back the lines at that situation as well. There were also quite a lot of mosquitoes there, which also hindered what I was doing. While out there joining back lines, I realised that the scenery out there at night was beautiful, especially with lighted buildings across the water body. If I had a camera with me, I would definitely take some pictures of the scenery.

04 May 2005
We had to wake up early in the morning to tear down the line as the combat teams moved out of the area. The task was somewhat difficult as well as we had to collect the lines under the dark, and there were also certain entanglement between the lines as well. After that, we went back to the tonner and continue to sleep.

After that, there was nothing much for the liemen to do when the combat teams were out there fighting. For that day, we only need to stand-to and set up camo netting for vehicle when we stay put with the battalion support area and also did our sentry duty around our tonner. Well, we also slept quite a lot as the weather was too hot, which makes our mind really tired.

05 May 2005
There was also nothing much as well, except to stand-to, set up camo netting on vehicle and do sentry duty as what we had did the previous day.
The exercise was supposed to be cut at around 4pm tentatively, but due to the rain, it was being dragged until late in the evening.

Once we reached back camp, we had to unload all the stores from the line tonner and put them in our signal store, and throw all the rubbish away as well. Had to hand-carry my field pack back to my bunk as one of the buckles from the carrying straps had broken off while it was being hanged inside the line tonner. I then clean my arms and send them immediately.

After that, I went to bathe, and then wash my uniforms with the washing machine on the first floor for the first time. Well, the uniforms wash washed cleanly without any sweat smell on them. The uniforms were also dried as I used the dryer, which was just next to the washing machine. Maybe I should wash my clothes more often with the washing machine. Although it may cost me $2 ($1 for washing and $1 for drying), it save me a lot of time from hand-washing and make things a lot easier for me as well.

06 May 2005
Almost could not woke up for breakfast as I slept quite late the night before, when I had to do quite a lot of my personal admin stuff. After breakfast, I went back to bunk to rest. We were told to do stores at around 8.45am in our admin. Heard that it was the CO that allowed us to wear admin for that day. I reeled back the lines collected back after line laying for the FTX 2 into RL11 with Stanley.

In the afternoon, we did nothing much and rest in bunk, since it was raininh quite heavily and we could not really do much stores at that time. After having our canteen break with HJ, SJ, WB, Stanley and Roger, we then did the CVC helmets that came back from India a few days back. After all those work, we then prepare to book out. We only booked out quite late as the armskote was cleared quite late.

After booking out, as I wanted to eat something special, I decided to go to Junction 8 and bought MOS burger set from MOS Burger restaurant back home. Hmm... haven't been eating MOS burger for quite a long time already... Taste really quite fantastic when I had a bite on the burger.

MiZ Speaks
Ok, I just accepted the offer of Computer Engineering (School of Computing) course in NUS. Well, I have to accept it since my place for Computing in NUS had been withdrawn. Hmm... don't know whether I should try applying for Computer Engineering course under Faculty of Engineering next year. Maybe I need to see first.

I have also started playing Pokémon Emerald a few days ago. Well, I'm still around at Petalburg town, training my Pokémon. Need some more time training before proceeding to Rustboro City to earn my first badge. Haven't finalise my Pokémon team yet.

Well, I caught a cold and had block nose while I was having exercise outfield. Hmm... don't really know how I could have gotten it when the weather was so hot during the exercise, and only rained heavily late in the afternoon on the last day of the exercise, and I didn't get caught under the rain as well. I think I need to rest more so that I can recover soon.