MiZ in Weekdays 23: Another week just passed by...

26 Jul 2005
There was SOC training in the morning, but I was not involved in that. Anyway, as it rained very heavily early in the morning, I went for the breakfast quite late. The SOC was also postphoned to the late afternoon, which caused many people to grumble. Well, if I were to be involved, I would definitely grumble as well. Why would people want to run in the hot afternoon anyway, even if it is about 4 to 5pm?

In the afternoon, SJ and I were told to loan the PA system to AETC for the COCOC parade. Well, basically, we just lent them what were needed for the PA system, and SJ did the receipt voucher. As they did not really know how to set up our PA system, we had to follow them to AETC to teach them how to do so. Hmm... they said that they need 4 speakers, but the parade square is only about half the size of 46 SAR, and whenever there is a parade, we only need to se 2 speakers... I supposed their CO likes to be LOUD... Ok, as we were there, we were figuring out why there was some problems when we tried to used their CD player onto our amplifier. Thought that their CD player had problems, but it turned out that it was one of the port from our amplifier that was giving the problems after some trying out... Well, maybe it needed certain maintenance.

As there were no vehicles to bring us back to 46 SAR, SJ and I had to walk instead. Well, at least we were doing what the Health Promotion Board is trying to promote...

27 Jul 2005
Well, basically nothing much on that day. The whole day I was performing my RPS routine. Hmm... think I must come up with something to counter that.

Well, there was nights off in the evening, but most of the platoon were not going as they need to prepare and rest the the SOC trial the next day. Decided to watch movie "Stealth" with PSQ, SJ and DZ at Jurong Point. WQ, CC and KQ joined us for the movie after they left Stagmont Camp for something. As usual, had that popcorn combo. Just didn't know why I could really have amazing appetite for popcorns...

After the movie, I waited at the food court for some people to had their dinner before we took a cab back to camp.

28 Jul 2005
Well, there was SOC trial in the morning. I was still decided whether I should go to the SOC field to pace them or cheer for them, or just wait for them in the bunk, as I only had one admin shirt which was also needed when I get on the bed to sleep. Decided to pace JR a while later.

Hmm... JR had a disappointing first 700m timing... I was giving that frowning face while he reached the low wall at about 3min50sec. After he cleared all the obstacles, it was already 6min15sec. At least he still put in the best during the last 600m rundown, which give a total timing of 10min flat. Well... hopefully JR could run faster for his first 700m and the obstacles... I'm sure he do not really need to conserve that much energy for the last 600m rundown.

Later in the afternoon, HJ asked me if I wanted to help to reel back lines for Cheetah's signaller. Well, as I was reading the most critical point in 8 days, I decided to go down a while later. Well, while helping out in the line, I was sweayting so much that my shirt almost got very wet... Hey! I needed the shirt to sleep at night. The weather was really hot during that time. Wished there would be some air-con room for us to do stores.

While doing stores, there were also some people going down to train for the basketball match. Hmm... I wondered how would they be able to stand such extreme weathers...

29 Jul 2005
Basically nothing much in the morning. Slept for almost the whole morning as I felt very tired...

In the afternoon right after lunch, HJ, WQ, PSQ and I went for the haircut as their would be an observance parade next Friday. Well, some people said that my hair was still very short, and there was no need to cut my hair. Well, I don't think that is short enough for parade haircut standard...

After I bathe, HJ and I went to the signal office as someone asked us to loan out the PA system to AETC. Well, it took quite sometime for the AETC people to come, so we just had to read newspaper and rest inside the office for quite sometime... Well, at least there were no commanders inside the office. Since, there only the 3 of us, HH, HJ and me, helping out to loan the PA system, we just "anyhow" write out the voucher for them and loan the PA system just like that...

Since I had to take over the ops room duty signal later at night, I could only go off for nights off. As my father had half day off from his work, he could bring me to Jurong Point straight. Since there were some space behind, I decided to let SJ, WB and Daniel to come along with me to Jurong Point to have dinner.

Well, I decided to have dinner at McDonald's as they had the Fish McDippers as the promotion, one of my favourites. Well, while we were having dinner, WB was there talking all sorts of nonsense, in which most of his nonsense were directed to Daniel. After dinner, as WB and Daniel left Jurong Point, SJ and I went to the Jigsaw Puzzle shop to look for the Jigsaw Puzzle. Came across a spherical shaped puzzle, but they are quite costly as they are all imported from Japan. Well, you should know Japanese goods are quite expensive. Still remember the minimum $600 Yamaha student violin and the $13500 Yamaha professional violin I said sometime ago? Well, I decided to get a 240 pieces spherical shaped puzzle, which cost about $50 so that I could kill some time in camp. After that, SJ went back home, while I continue to walk around before my father fetched me back to camp.