This week was once again a victorious one :D Why? Because I cleared a veto factor to my passing out as a 3rd sergeant - SOC (Standard Obstacle Course)! :D Whoo hooo!! :D SOC may not be a big deal to most people, but to me it is..hahaha. My problem? Running. Let me re-enact the situation to the best my vocabulary can allow you to envision.
In the late Tuesday afternoon (If I didn't remember the day wrongly..haha) there was a sudden call "All SOC failures come down in your SBO attire NOW" So off we went and jogged to our 700m start point.
I was really nervous at the start point. I was praying and at the same time thinking of the consequences of failing...and I was thinking of how to conquer each obstacle when the sergeant shouted "30 more seconds! Jogging on the spot!"
At that instant, I told myself "I will pass this test and get over it!" The sergeant then waved his hand and shouted "GO!" Off I went still telling myself "I'm gonna pass this test!" I was mentally reciting this all the way.
Low wall no problem. Parallel bars no prob. Step jump over concertina wire? Lame. Swing trainer, primary school issue...LOW ROPE. I began speaking in tongues. HAHAHAHA! I jumped, pulled, looped and repeated this twice and "PONG" I hit the metal bar!! I passed the worst feared station of my NS life in SOC!!! Whoo hoo!!
By then, my morale was up high in heaven. The rest of the obstacles were but a waste of time...After the jump down the new pussy 1m, 1m super low ramp was the arduous 600m run back. This is what caused my failure all this while. Haha. I glanced at my watch...6min3osec. Still can make it!
I had to run. I just had to!! I pushed myself, panted louder than 10 dogs. Finally I was round the last bend about 250m left. I looked at my watch. It read "9min 15 seconds"!! Boy adrenalin rushed through my body. I SPRINTED and by the time I reached the end point, I clocked 9min 47 secs!! A pass!! The passing limit by the way is 9min59sec.
I PASSED!! HALLELUJAH!! I literally shouted that at the end point. Haha! I high fived my buddy who also passed with me! And high fived everyone around me. LOLS! It was over! I've proved my mettle! It was more mental than physical. I was one step closer to wearing my 3 black chevrons!
That was my SOC story :D Once again, thank God for this pass :)
Next is Grandslam 2. They cancelled RIVER CROSSING!!! Hallelujah!!! If they had river crossing, I'd have fall out. For sure. Why? My appointment? 2nd matador gunner. -___-" I had to carry the 8.9kg bloody weapon with me throughout the whole field camp...inclusive of road march in FBO!! & mission in SBO!! Imagine with river crossing...add the weight of the water around 4kg and I'd have met my maker. Haha!
I almost died for the first mission. We left for our overnight mission at 8.30pm? Around there. It was the begininng of our 16km road march in FBO + my new found buddy the MATADOR!! I almost died. Was so shagged out and tired that I contemplated falling out. I've never fell out of any training before. Once I'm in, I'm in for good. This time, the matador whacked me out man. But I pressed on.
It was 7am when we reached our FUP (Form up place) and from there we moved off to capture our objective - the top of the knoll (small hill). I tell you, running up the knoll with a bloody matador on your back is no joke. My legs couldn't take me as fast as I wanted them to.
So in the end we captured our objective and had to do hasty defence. That means shellscrapes must be done in 45mins and fire trenches done in 6hours. -.-" As usual, we took longer than usual. Haha.
I only slept 4 hours because I was called to do a special operation - an additional mission which took 2.5 hours of sleep time away from me which the rest had. That mission, I felt, was a waste of time. We just had to walk on track to our objective and attack the enemy. Basically, they wanted us to finish up our blanks -__-" We marched 1.5km there and 1.5km back. 3km morning SBO stroll...Our outfield 5bx. Haha!
And there's this one issue I have with some of the malay assholes in my bunk. They like to shout at us (me, Han Hui & Leslie) to help when their own kind don't help. One event really pissed me off was this...Before I go on, let me abbreviate their names for they're too ugly to appear on my blog. Haha...
The scenario was this. They suddenly asked us to clean up the area. I was already powder bathing halfway. So that few assholes were done and they started doing their part. Upon seeing some of us not doing, they just kao-peh for the sake of showing they're doing something.
H.A.: Eh Jonavan stop wiping your face and come down help la!!
Me : Wait la. Kao peh!
T.Q.: Course kao peh la!
Me: You go shout @ the rest up there powder bathing la!!
The thing that pisses me of is this - 1st, there are tons of our other section mates sitting around doing nothing either. But no one dares to shout at them because they have attitude problems and won't listen to you. So to rant, they shout at the nicer ones like myself and my good-character friends.
2nd, shouting will help ar? Just shows that you want to prove a point that you're doing something and we're not. So what? There's no end to comparison.
Ok I'll stop bitching. Haha...
Then we moved off to MUTF to do urban ops. There was a cock up due to miscommunication. And when we started to move to clear the rooms, our 1st guy simply walked past the first 2 doors and we were contacted by the enemy. We actually "killed" the enemy but our master sergeant declared us dead because we skipped 2 rooms...LOLS. So I didn't even get to fire one round and I was dead.
-__-" So much for the 4km road march there. -.-" After that we did field cooking (again..haha) and left for coy line :D
All in all, grandslam 2 wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. 4 days 3 nights in training programme, 2 days 2 nights in reality :D Whoo hoo! So yup, cleared my 2nd last high key event!!
Next one...THAILAND! The most xiong of all liao. This one really no joke already. I'm prepared for the worst. So jia you Jonavan :D
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