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Friday, July 29, 2005

304 days to ORD

The NZ chief of army visited my camp this afternoon, and i was selected to represent Singapore to welcome him. "We should feel proud, as there are many others that want to be in your shoes, but are not good enough" an officer said. Well, i will gladly let him replace me. I should be on off for the whole of this week, but as i was the "good enough ones", all my off were cancelled. I also had to spend two afternoons, polishing my boots and ironing my smart four, just for the 10 minutes parade. "You all better do well. My promotion depends on you now" my CSM said.

I think he will be promoted as the parade went quite smoothly. But we had the fright of our lives when the 2 star general opened Shawn's SBO pouch (as we were supposed to syuff neswpapers inside to make it look squarish and nice), but luckly, the particluar pouch that he open was filled with out-field stuff (Shawn was lazy to take them out). Everyone thought that's it, when saw him opening the pouch. Well, everyone had a good laugh after that.

After the parade, I had to help out my section to set up rovers for the out-field next week. As we were short of manpower, we asked the other sections in my platoon to help out. As usual, a particular section, and Mr. Act Rich refused. Well at least Mr. Act Rich had a new and interesting excuse this time. He said that he can't go down to help as he was afraid CSM is looking for him, as he failed to report to guard duty on Monday (as he was busy "making" money). Nice try. In the end, he went to "help" by sitting on the driver's seat to make the car more balanced, so that we will have a easlier time setting up the rovers.

Actually, i was more diasppointed at the two "old bird" in my section than Mr. Act Rich. The two of them actually spent the WHOLE morning zeroing their weapons, leaving only two of the "new birds" to set up the rovers. Do you have to take so long? Well, only they can answer that. Last time i did zeroing, i finished in half an hour, and we had many more weapons to zero then.

Hai... 304 more days...

Malaysia Boleh!!!9:16 PM