Sunday, November 19, 2006
yea eugene army life isnt all tat sian.some ppl are juz lazy to type out wad they're tinking.like.me.
well i juz got back from brunei.contrary to wad i expected it was much more fun and less tiring.mabe im seasoned from taiwan.or mabe because im a spec alr and them men are sizing me up all the time so i gotta act tough even thou i reli wana fall out tat kinda thing.
it rained all the time over there.well not exactly everyday but every time we stayed outfield it rained.i tink tat's worse.ok lets go thru wad we did in brunei in more detail
airport.gathered there at round midnight.took train by myself(sobsob) so i was quite early when i reached.i was damn irritated cos on the train, i was listening to the radio using my phone.and as u noe the train goes underground for a period of time so wasnt able to receive the transmission for some time.the irritating part is when the train went underground for a brief distance,but i tot we reached the tunnel alr, so i took off the headset and kept the phone and everything.den the train got out of the tunnel.sigh.i was so qigek.
okback to the story.at the airport i was standing ard at one corner trying to siam all the bigshots.talking to them aint fun.den someone came and told me one of my guys is on clutches.tat bugger.apparently he twisted his ankle while playing soccer.tink he chaokeng wana siam brunei.hell no it's not gonna happen.so me with my ps made him change his appointment and dragged him up the plane.in the end he did nuttin in brunei other than untangle the comscord,distribute uniforms etc(aka saikang).and i had to get another guy to become the MG assistant.the new guy duno anything bout the mg so basically i became the assistant for the period in brunei.
the flight was not bad.gd in fact.sq planes rock.i watched 'the three kings' on krisworld.lucky it finished on time.wana to play pokemon when the plane touched down.we're dere.watching the movie meant tat i hadnt slpt for more than 24h.it was ard 5plus alr.so on board the bus i slept.like the dead.got woken up,loaded the ferry and on board slept somemore.it was damn uncomfortable.the seats were like small and there were no headrests,so everyone got lousy necks by the time we woke up.aft the ferryride it was another bus ride for abt20mins.then we're at lakuin camp.their logo is a scorpion.dun ask.i haf no idea why.
so aft briefings and drawing of stores and uniforms and other mundane stuff we got to our first exercise on the third day.jungle village!sounds fun eh?it was.in someways.we woke up damn early to prepare for the inspection but only to sit ard and wait for the inspection to start.anyway environmentally-friendly lakuin insists tat all our rations and stuff brought out are recorded so we'd be forced to bring the rubbish back.they're juz afraid of complains from the locals.tsk.ok.so aft the we took bus to the landing site and waited sommore for thee sp.the chopper came and picked us us stick by stick.i was the stick ic for my stick,and i admit tat i;ve forgotten wad to do.but nvm.the aircrewman did everything.haha.but as we were unloading the chopper my mg gunner put the mg on the chopper deck so he can get down himself first.(its quite a jump for someone in fbo)but he didnt put the mg down properly so it came tumbling down the chopper.looked as if he threw the mg down.but lucky for him me with my lightning reflexes caught hold of the mg with one hand(weapon and fieldpack on the other hand).hand the mg hit the floor we both would haf been screwed so badly cos our RSM was looking at everything.so me aka rambo saved the day.
at jungle village we did harbouring drill, jungle lane live firing and platoon cmc in 3days2nights..harbour drill was..dumb.i mean its juz a drill.we juz do it.nuttin much to tat.the live firing was kinda interesting.tat had to be the least safe live firing exisiting in the saf.its a trail where ure supposed to walk den prone down and fire when the target pops up.the firing sucked but the mud rocked.haha.IT WAS MUDDY AS HELL!it was juz mud everywhere.everywhere.aft that in the noon we moved out for platoon cmc.i tink it stands for contact movement course.wadeva it means, what we had to do was to move and fight when the enemy contacted us.we did fairly well.but the long aar aft every fight meant tat we returned late.oh yea on the first night we had a night walk.it is a walk in the night.haha.it was pitch dark.and in the thick vegetation roots were everywhere.but thankfully rambo me managed to get thru it without falling.ok so on the last day of jv we had a company mission.i dun tink i shd and wana describe the fight.aft tat we walked to the main road to wait for buses to bring us back to camp.
the nx package was navigation.tis a 3d2n navigation exercise where we had to find 4 checkpts 1 mid pt and 1 end pt.my detail, lead by my pc me and another spec in my platoon(raj) found the first checkpt pretty quickly.me and raj led the way as we're supposed to 'practise'.so, on route to the second checkpt, my pc decided we sucked and took over completely.in the end we got lost.well me and raj didnt mind it at all since our priority was to haf fun outside, not fight for first team or wadeva.so tats wad we had at night.we cooked and ate like kings living in the jungle.maggi mee, canned oyster(yuck), sardines, chicken curry etc.we smuggled the canned food out.heh.aft food we went round hunting ants for entertainment.one of the guys managed to find a scorpion and kept it in a ziplock.so we threw a few commando ants in and waited for the fight.the ants dere are HUGE.and i mean H U G E.wait lemme find sth to compare with it so u can visualize.ahh got it.go to py's blog and find the entry where she moans bout her lousy stamina and how she's gonna start running soon.see the pic of the shoe dere?tats the size of 1 commando ant in brunei.i am not kidding.i got bitten by it once and it hurt like crazy. i yanked it away and its giantic teeth ripped away a chunk of my godly flesh.ouch.fuming mad i went ard stomping and squashing all the ants i see.a commando ant can do so much damage.juz imagine wad guardmens ants are capable of.
where were we?oh ok.so on the second day of the navex we juz walked ard for the whole day aft finding the second checkpt.it seems we were juz one ridgeline away from it.haha.not able to find the midpt b4 nightfall,we harboured for the night where we ate more food and talked alot more rubbish.in the morning we met another team who brought us to the midpt, then we made our way to the endpt.yay end of navex.alot happened along the way, unpleasant stuff..but tis isnt a safe place to talk bout it=)
ok lets take a break.end of part 1.to be continued...
yimin
rmb to sign off! sang at 1:52 PM
