Sunday, April 23, 2006 - x_x : it has been a truly TIRING week.

in fact, the whole week had me out of camp grounds 90% of the time. and half of the time, or more, was spent at lower mandai in the forests.

not fun.

at all.

to give you a better picture, let me give you a rundown for this week.

Day 1
Gypsy 1 - controlled navigation i.e. instructors lead in navigating.

Day 2
Gypsy 2 - uncontrolled navigation i.e. NO instructors leading, so its a group effort which resulted in loooong detours and loooong treks uphill and down with no knowledge of shortcuts whatsoever.

Day 3
Outfield outfield outfield... learning all about how to cross danger areas yade yade.... running here and there in our skeleton battle order and suffering the rain.

Day 4
the day started with SOC, followed by fire movement which we had already learnt in BMT but for some reason, the people at sispec seem to think we didn't do them at all.

Day 5
this time, its Wanderer 1 i.e. uncontrolled navigation again, except that it is a test. this time, we walked through hills, swamps, 1+ km of thorny vegetation etc., notwithstanding the rest of the distance we had to cover to get to our checkpoints. the day ended at 2.15 am for me.

Day 6
with a grand total of 3 hours of sleep, i woke up to another day outfield, this time learning how to breach wire obstacles in the bloody hot sun, and after which we rushed the living daylights out of ourselves to book out. for the better part of the day, my legs were teetering on the edge of cramping.


so as you can see, this week has NOT been fun at all. in fact, it was the longest week in sispec so far... and this week, is ANOTHER week of outfield. except that it is all assessment and im already missing today's one by virtue of the fact that i am ill and possibly the FIRST in the WHOLE of foxtrot company to book in a day later than usual.

what a dubious honour.

at least it's good to know that there is night's off on wednesday and friday, of which i will not be going for. and its a long weekend! but as always, sispec loves to be a sickening wet blanket by placing exercise Grandslam immediately after the weekend.

Charming to the last.


C.K blogged at 10:24 PM