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What a week! Booked in on sunday only to get a 40 deg fever on the next day and was sent back home... Worse part, I missed the GPMG live firing and even worse, the cadet's evening... The booking out didn't let me rest too since the fever made my sleep very on off... and when I booked in back to camp, I still had a headache which is still lingering till today although only I know about. God help me I have an 8 day field camp next week. Whoever told me that OCS never has any field camp that is more than 5 days should be kicked in the nuts! Got my hopes up so high only to see them crashing down when the death sentence came. Right now, I dun even know whether I will even recover since I had this condition for 2 weeks already and it's causing me to lose alot of my focus! Oh well, just do my best and hope I don't make any mistakes during field camp or else I dun think I can meet up with the syndicate or anyone already effectively making my social life zilch........

What a week! Booked in on sunday only to get a 40 deg fever on the next day and was sent back home... Worse part, I missed the GPMG live firing and even worse, the cadet's evening... The booking out didn't let me rest too since the fever made my sleep very on off... and when I booked in back to camp, I still had a headache which is still lingering till today although only I know about. God help me I have an 8 day field camp next week. Whoever told me that OCS never has any field camp that is more than 5 days should be kicked in the nuts! Got my hopes up so high only to see them crashing down when the death sentence came. Right now, I dun even know whether I will even recover since I had this condition for 2 weeks already and it's causing me to lose alot of my focus! Oh well, just do my best and hope I don't make any mistakes during field camp or else I dun think I can meet up with the syndicate or anyone already effectively making my social life zilch........

It's like the wet season in the mornings and bloody summer in the day! U wake up freezing and the rain causes a CAT1(lightning storm) and during the transition from the morning to afternoon, you suddenly fel like you're in an oven. Oh yeah, news flash: new SOC timing(again) 8:36 minutes. SOC test next week!
Went for demolitions live firing yesterday and met 1WO Dragon again and as usual, his dirty jokes start flying again. Felt happy to see him again. Witnessing the setting off of the bangalore torpedo, claymore and improvised charges was really a balls dropping experience man! I never knew explosions were so powerful... Makes hollywood look so sissyfied(onlything that hollywood has is the fire that real demolitions don't). even with the earplugs on, the sound when the demo charges went off was really loud. The most shiokest feeling is when u feel the force of the detonation when it comes to your direction!
6 unlucky people, five of them are friends of mine got charged during live firing and field camp for ND(negligent discharge) of live and blank rounds. The most unlucky guy got charged because after swearing that we do not have any lives, blanks or any form of pyrotechnics, one guy was found to be in posession of a blank in his water bottle pouch. Now they are confined in camp for 1 month and have to report to OCS HQ every 2 hours from 0600 to 2145. The worst part? They have to shave their heads(again) and look like newly enlisted recruits... or monks! To think I laugh at recruits everytime I see them(and I still do... a guilty pleasure) The saddest thing to happen for a cadet. Really felt sad for them because I was booking out today. So I bought them a drink to let them have a taste of the REAL world before escaping THE "prison". And I really meant ESCAPE since we booked out after 4 today!
After booking out, went with 5 other people and my platoon commander to visit my friend in hospital. What happened to him was really unlucky manz! Got meningitis during the field camp and got hospitalised for a week. So what do you get for the army boy in the hospital with old nurses and old people all around him? You get him FHM and MAXIM magazine! IT's not dirty magazines OK, it's educational pictorials! HAHA helps to stimulate the body and improve blood circulation!!! We're bored soldiers lah. Other than that, since we knew that he'll be getting the usual herbal stuff from relatives and fruits from friends, we got him junk food to pass time with the educational pictorials. A damned good man and I'll hate to see him OOT(out of training). Hope he gets well soon and continue with the course... life isn't the same without him since I don't hear him and his buddy arguing all the time now(their room is opposite mine) and the corridor is getting quieter.......

Seriously, I thought someone may have gotten accidentally shot during the manuevere. We were to leopard crawl in section(xx number of men) level through a course and fire with live rounds that can kill. In the end, I realised that I worried for nothing and that the live firing was actually fun despite live bullets flying everywhere! And yes, 14 out every mag of 15 rounds they gave me hit the targets(as usual) :) The only thing I didn't enjoy was leopard crawling on a lane filled rocks and stones... I was particularly unlucky because the stones were embedded on the ground unlike my friends'(and so he could sweep them aside before continuing his crawl). Pain on the elbows and knees and after the whole exercise all of us had many bruises at those particular areas and since coming home, my whole body's aching. But that was not the worse part. Imagining leopard crawling halfway when a big stone suddenly hits your privates... I doubled over in pain and turned over! That gave a whole new meaning to the word HIGH. Next up, Section Live Firing 2... Hopefully no more rocks and stones.