I am totally exhausted after this whole week of training. There is not much admin time for us and we did not even have enough sleep every night. Where should I start? Actually I had a lot of things to write but I do not know how to start.
Let’s talk about my weapon training phrase. At last, we ended our weapon training phrase yesterday with a small celebration marking the end of the 2 training weeks with dumplings. Also, the weapon training wing bought a 3 kg birthday cake and cards for those whose birthday falls in the month of June. So kind and warm of them to organize such an event for us and we were deeply touch. I feel so good to say goodbye to the tough days of training but it is sad that we are now unable to play with the guns. In-fact, it is much more interesting than the classroom based lesson. But also, classroom based lessons also have their pull factor, air-con!
On Tuesday, I had my IPPT retest again. I hate it a lot. But at last, I am able to get silver! Yeah! I am richer by 100 bucks! haa... But I am really sick of doing the same thing again and again. If I am not wrong, there will be a retest again until there are a certain percentage of people getting gold in their IPPT. Until now, only around 50% managed to achieve gold. Why must the Head Gun be so persistent in the percentage of gold he wanted to achieve? Putting his glory over our suffering.
Thursday morning, reveille at 5am. Fall in time at 5.15am. Why? SOC orientation run at Nee Soon camp. We were brief that the SOC ground is good and the run down route is perfectly flat. But when we were there that morning, we felt cheated. The run down from the starting point to the low wall was not flat at all! There is upslope, down slope and upslope again. Running the first 700m is already a nightmare. I could not get my pace right especially after we did a full orientation run down of 1.5km + about 700m back to start line before the actually full run down with our load and rifle on. I could not get my legs to run. It really turns me upside down when I knew that I could not be able to hit my 8.42mins timing in OCS. What is worst than failing SOC? Injuring my back again. I hate to jump down from high platforms. It is a great stress on my back.
Today, of course is book out day. It will be the last book out on Friday until 3 weeks later because I am going to have exercises on weekends. Booking out is always everyone's dream. But today is like a nightmare. Or maybe I should say an unforeseen one. We had our FireGate test which is sort of a computer program test. It is a program we used to communicate with each other. Telling more about the system, I have to kill you. haa... Anyway, we did not expect the test to be in such a format. We were not given a brief on what the test paper is going to be like and how are they going to grade us and what we are suppose to do. The only thing we can prepare is to remember the steps to click and how the mission is going to be executed. Ah... just hope I can get at least a pass.
Today's admin time is long. We had a lot of time to clean our bunks and also, sleep. But of course our main priority is to make our area clean. We spend 1-2 hours just to clean up the whole place. This is the only time we were did such a thorough area cleaning. And we had put in a lot of effort into it. But what we get in the end? Scolding and punishment for not clean enough. Why? Because the instructors pick on small hidden corners for dust. Why are instructors so picky on such things? Aren't them a cadet or trainee before? Aren't they feeling the same when their instructors once did such things to them before? Why can't they be more understanding than just to punish us and lecture us? What did leadership studies thought them? Why are they teaching us leaderships when they did not follow? Why did they use good leadership examples of personnel when they are not able to portray an example?
Ok. All I want to say is for those who are going to be an instructor or leaders in the future show your concern to your men. Show them that you care for them. Never treat your men badly, or else you will see where your men will stand. Training is training. But just a simple area cleaning for example, it makes us dislike the way our instructors run the place. We are treated just like recruits, or even worst than them. I think I had being saying this quite a few times already especially when I was in OCS. In Khatib camp, life is worst than infantry training. Artillery officer cadets will worry about being OOC, Out of Course, due to examinations. True, we always worried about it. But how likely the chance is? Very low. But now my concern is on my SOC. My first time after BMT days, I am unable to clear the swing trainer, aka monkey bars. I am so worried about that. The bars are so slippery that I could not get hold of the grip for long. Now as an officer cadet, my only thing to look forward to is every to pass by without any troubles and problems. And also if I every get OOC, I will not be sad about it. At least I have put in my best in my training.
tata...
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