Monday, 26 November 2007
Back From Ops
This week i came back from Ops. I cannot reveal anything about the ops, except that sentence the SAF allow us to recite. "The SAF is assisting the Police in a security step-up operation for the Asean Summit." Look at it anyway you want. The bloody ministers better make the summit worth it. Dunno how many small fry like us put in so much hard work for them. Anyway, i'm a Boatman, so i only drive boat. I was on standby all along for the whole 7 days. Damn sian, but i learned lots from a former boat platoon sergeant, things that i was never taught. Met with heavy rain when the whole boat was flooded and we had to scoop water was damn sian. Met Jeremy the commando with his red beret on his shoulder at his commando camp when i was taking a break and going his commando canteen was quite fun, the same old style Jeremy. Being a commando never changed him. LOL. Drove from Pulau Ubin to the Changi commando camp in the night at full throttle for one medical evacuation case was quite a shiok experience. Engine breakdown on the final lap before going back to camp was quite a bad experience, had to swap engine in the boat, something i never ever ever did before. Learned about two things that can make a boatman really very du lan: 1) Flooded boat, 2) Failed engine.
Proud to be a Boatman. Commander of a boat. I think i am the only guy in my platoon to feel this way. They don't know how to appreciate wad they have. Every vocation does different things and their job is different. A bridging man is just a sai kang warrior to be ordered around cuz the bridge is operated my specialists. A boat specialist does not usually drive the boat, its the boatman that does. How to be a bridging engineer is u don't know how to operate the bridge? Boatman is different, a boatman is often more proficient than his sergeants and officers cuz they are the ppl who drive the boats. But if the boatman don't take pride in his job, that will haver happen.
Anyway. Thats life. People can never be contented. Played Fairyland this whole weekend till angez said that i'm crazy and would push me off a cliff. Damn sian la. Gimme wad game i also can play cuz weekends nothing to do will be more sian. Army guys have no life. Going to book in liao. Book in by today 1330hrs. This will be a short week for me. Booking out on Thursday. Friday is off day, hopefully they don't suddenly change again. >.<
Cal
found sought peace at 11:35.
