Friday, 29 June 2007
Back From Seletar Camp
35th Singapore Combat Engineers (35SCE), Bridging Engineer (Pioneer - Bridging). Sounds nice, just like all vocations are supposed to. Actually Pioneer just mean being a man, not a commander. So far life in Seletar Camp is quite okay. Its around the same as my BMT in Mohawk, only that the place is bloody old and ragged. It just looks like a kampong in there.
On the very first day, we kenna wack by commanders liao. Stand by bed in the afternoon on the very first day. Quite sick la. Stand by bed means inspection of the bunk by commanders to make sure that everything is clean, even our cupboards have to be checked and everything must be arranged neatly and standardised. In my first week in 35SCE, i had 2 stand by bed and 2 stand by area. Stand by area is the same as stand by bed, only that our cupboards do not have to be opened during stand by area. Thats a bit crazy, as thats almost everyday. Anyway, luckily i come from Mohawk company in BMT, i do not have such a culture shock as experienced by those who were from slack companies. Seriously, i do not know wad the slack companies taught them as they are as just dumb as a recruit, even thought they are already privates.
Had lessons on demolitions during thr last few days, how to lay charges, how to set them off and stuff. Quite interesting. Cannot wait for the time we live fire demolitions. Think we will bomb the whole place down. LOL. Demolitions, such as TNT or PETN made charges will be many times more powerful than the live grenade we had in BMT. The explosion would confirm be much stronger and the ground would definately shake. Can't wait to live fire demolitions.
Think i have fully recovered from pneumonia that i had 2 weeks ago, as i can now cope with the training very well. Today i just had a 5km run. Tired. So i think i will be resting early. Will be having a long weekend till monday night then book-in. Shiok!
Cal
found sought peace at 18:31.
