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SPECIALIST COURSE!
Saturday, June 06, 2009
I'm back, i'm back, i'm back from SPECIALIST COURSE! And, I passed out as a 3SGT.
WEEHOO! I thought i was going to hate the whole course and it would be 4 days of torture.
But, what i thought turned out to be wrong. The whole course was fun & awesome!
The camp was damn tiring but super fun too. I'll give a summary of the whole camp.
The girls and I were grouped into the same platoon, thank goodness. There were loads of guys.
But, the guys were pretty friendly and they shared whatever they knew with us.
Our bunk was at the 5th level & we had to get use to climbing up the stairs for the next 3 days.
Oh yeah, before I forget, I was in Golf Company, Platoon 7(Pokemon). Cool, huh?
I got two awesome & nice sirs, Sir Gabriel & Sir Riduwan. They sure made the camp fun.
Of course, we had to maintain our discipline and all, but they knew when to be strict and fun.
The first day was mostly about lectures, settling in and practicing for tmr's tests.
The next day was mostly filled with tests. I was pretty nervous for everything.
Typical me, when am I ever not nervous? Well, I think I did okay for most of the tests.
Finished all of them on time except for the stripping & assembling of M16S1.
I forgot to turn the rifle to safe during stripping & i didn't have enough time for assembling.
Urgh, my stupid firing pin screwed the whole thing. Dang.
The second day was pretty stressing and we did peer appraisal at the end of the day.
The third day was basically LOADS of fun though we had to march long distances.`
We went to SDC first to use the GPS technology,
take a photo and complete a quiz in the army museum all with a friggin' cool phone.
Pretty cool, huh? After that, we went to play a board game.
Then, we had our GSK & Physical Fitness test. At night, we went for IGTS.
SUPER DAMN CRAZY AND AWESOME FUN!
The last day was just cleaning up of our bunks and some lectures.
Then, we had platoon photos and Passing Out Parade.
We were given our certs and ranks. Then, we waited for the bus back to Joo Koon MRT.
From there, we trained all the way back to Pasir Ris.
And of course, when I reached home, I bathed and slept all the way till today.
Basically, I had an awesome time at Spec Course. It wasn't torture, after all.
It was a camp which disciplined us to become leaders but have fun at the same time.
I'll always remember this time when i was a CPL at East District, Phase 2, Spec Course.
God knows how relieved i felt when i opened the envelope and saw the ranks & cookie inside.
I just felt the great sense of achievement and how the 4 days i spent wasn't wasted at all.
I'll miss my whole Golf Company, my Platoon(Pokemon) always.
I'll miss the stupid, lame and funny jokes my platoon mates shared.
I'll miss setting aini's phone alarm at 5.15 and snoozing it until 6 instead.
I'll miss running with the girls to our training shed cause we were late to fall in.
I'll miss panting with them after having climbing the steps to our bunk at the 5th floor.
And, I'll miss everyone I made friends with during those 4 days.
Wait, now, i'm gonna try and remember all the names of those i got to know during the course.
Seok Zhen, Syed, Ridzuan, Nas, Nurman, Ithnin, Max, Johnathan, Haikal, Muhammad, Nurfirman, Raihan, Irfan, Alfin, I'll miss you guys!
Hopefully I'll see you guys again someday.
To those whom I forget the names, so sorry, but i'll still rmbr the times we had together though.
POKEMON! I'm a catchermon!
(:
This proves that I shouldn't be so pessimistic about things all the time.
:D
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