The Next Big Thing
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the lonely story
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Two Hundred Forty Six Time
This week is a bad week for my platoon. Many unhappy things happened. Many many conflicts. Arguments over guard duty. Ppl trying to geng. Sergeants insulting status personnel. Sergeants making life hard for status personnel. The bunk next door almost had a fight. Super duper low morale for the whole platoon. I have never seen a group of ppl together with such low morale before. Sad case.
Mon
PAM Unstable practical exam. My case was SOB. Simple enough. Primary survey with assisted ventilation to oxygen mask, load and go, secondary survey. Pass. Got nights out. Went to AMK hub. Wanted to watch movie. But not enough time to watch. Go makan instead. Ate at the coffeeshop where the judokas always go.
Tues
Start of military PAM. Long 4 plus SBO. Instead of doing it at the training shed, we did it in open field. Quite fun and tiring.
Wed
Learn how to do TOC. Everything is familiar. The difference is that the stretcher is always shoulder height when transporting so that the medics can run. We did this contact drill also. We have to put/throw the stretcher on the ground with casualty on top when we get the signal. In less than 2 sec we are already on the ground. The casualty we use is a manikin which weighs 80kg. Carry until shag. Then we have to do a relay race. We have to use manual and strecther to transport the casualty around the field. The field is 3X the size of a soccer field. zzZZzz... Really super super super super super tired after the whole relay race.
Thurs
Valentine day. IV day. Its military IV. So we still do it in the field. We were told to keep it as sterile as possible. zzZZzz... How sterile can it be. Hahaha.. Nvm. This time we got timing to meet. 1 min to IV. That is super short time. Normally we can spend 3-5 min doing it. My partner did it in 1:45 min, the fastest yet. I did it at around 2min. The pain is getting lesser. Maybe I got use to the pain. In the afternoon was clinical skill lesson. The things that we learn in nursing. No nights out for us. Other platoon got to go out. Dunno why. Everyone is paranoid. Its super sad and lonely to spend the night in bunk.
Fri
Supposed to be book out day. We had military PAM again. This time it was more fun. We had mission. Our section have to fight the other section. We were on defensive. So we set up snipers behind the bush, in between the big tentage. So we were waiting for the other section to come and attack. In the end, two sections came to attack us. So we kept shooting and threw grenade when they got near us. But we still lose. Why? Everyone was using dummy rifle and our grenade was our FAD and burn dressing. So how to win or lose.. It was a fun event. But had many scratches on the hand.
In the afternoon, the sergeant announced the amended list of who will be doing duty on sat. So i was one of them. Alot were unhappy with the last min decision.
In the evening, we had our 8 km route march. It started out bad. I started to have blisters before 1km. The next 3km was hell. It was a hot and stuffy day. The road we walk on was super hot. The uphill part was a killer. 7kg++ field pack, 4kg rifle, 3 kg first aid kit. Very chuan. Along the way saw mah doing life run. Also saw kelvin tuong ze wen. Rested awhile at the accom block. Then off to the next 4km. Everyone was tired after the 8km. Then we had our flag lowering. As the flag lowers and the music plays on, tears started to roll down my eyes. Did the tears roll down because the music was too sad or because i completed 8km?
Sat
Started to do duty at 7am. Rot in the room till around 10am. Then the DO called us to do area cleaning. We clean one training shed full of logs. We have to differentiate the good and the bad logs. The place was infested with lizards, ants, termites and millipede. Clean till 1130. Then go for lunch. Then rot again till 1515. Had to go clean the smoking point. The place is horrible. The cigratte butts are ....... Clean till 1615. Relax till dinner. Attended staff parade at 2200. Slept at 0000.
Sun
Wake up at 0515. Flag raising 0600. Finish duty at 0745.
Went down to tampines to look for the girls for breakfast. Reach there around 0930. Had mac. Then took some/many pics before taking 168 to woodlands. Because of the duty on sat, i cant meet up with them for gathering at sarah hse. Quite disappointing.. But i must thank jessica, chee yan, jie ying and willy to eat breakfast with me after their overnight mahjong. :)
Next week should be a not so good week also. Alot of ppl is gonna geng. Sergeants are going to tekan us. Sianz~ Looking forward to March 10. 3 more weeks. Hang on there.
"There is no weak platoon
Only weak leaders"
So it speaks for my sergeants.
I am gonna write a song. Song title will be 小小王子. Getting inspiration....
Till then, Au Revoir.
and so He speaks
