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Ok so I'm on sick leave lor. Initially went to the medical center yesterday to collect my appointment card for my specialist appointment with some guys who were reporting sick(surprisingly all are from OCS ALPHA wing) but the moment I sat down to chat with them(after collecting my appointment letter) my back felt aching and a burning sensation. Not surprisingly, I couldn't sleep the night before due to the pain so I took out my book and read 2 chapters till sleep finally overcame me. Resulting in a state of zombification in me the moment I woke up for reveille. After some time of thinking I finally convinced myself that I HAD to report sick... Didn't know what was happening to me.

After waiting 5 hours, my turn finally came and after I told the doc what happened I was so surprised that he referred me to ttsh! What shocked me even more was looking at the x-ray of my backbone: instead of being the natural curve shape, it was fully straight! Muscle tension... The doc told me to go home and rest for 4 days.

After a good night's sleep the pain's still there... I'm afraid I can't recover in time. I hate being on status. Last night, my good friend Ci Wen said: "Don't OOC lah, we must commission together." I said: "Even if I OOC, I'll be there to witness y'all commission" He replied: "We are good friends, I want us to be marching side by side". I didn't reply.

ADMIN(free time in the army context) which since we are now in ETI at nee soon, translates to "A Dangerous Moment In Nee soon". Not only that, CTW(Cadet Training Wing) is now officially "Cancel The Weekend" since they like spilling training into the weekends... crap. But I don't think I'll have much to complain about already because I'm gonna OOT(Out Of Training). Just when I accepted my fate and adopted a positive attitude towards the course, my OC had to pump us in FBO(the whole load, field pack and all) during one of his 7 mins standbys(which happens rather frequently) to make us "operationally ready", made us perform everything in and out(of the fieldpack) to infinity in 1 min which means my fieldpack was constantly hitting my back, I've now got a back injury. Sleeping is also difficult for me! Went to the doctor and he told me to rest and gave me 2 weeks excuse but I doubt I'll recover. The meagre amount of(4, maybe 3, 5 hours if we're very lucky) rest will never allow me to recover. What to do? OOT lor. But nevermind lah, I won't miss that chickenshit place anyway(except for afew good friends). I love physical pain but pain from injuries is a totally different thing and I hate people who do illegal things and cause their trainees injuries. Truely and Absolutely Detestable, Abhorrable!

Although I'm daunted, I'm never defeated!

Maybe I should do this in future and y'all will see my name on the newspaper in future. No no no! National Geographic, Nature or Time magazine!

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When the charge goes BOOM! and the whole place shakes. Yes, I've just finished round one of my demo live firing package with live plastic explosives but I still don't know why they call it explosive since it doesn't actually "explode" but detonates, heh. Got abit of knowledge then I hao lian already. Even though where the action took place and where we were holding at were separated by a hill, I could see my course mates' helmet nettings shake whenever there was a detonation. Sometimes when a charge went off when we least expected it, we could jump on our butts! Setting off a charge isn't scary nor pressuring but it is the constant scoldings that your instructors throw at you, even worse is the standard 3 extras you could get for every minor infraction you commit! And I was one of the Firers(only 3 guys out of teams of 8 could be firers)! So going to set off a charge only made me nervous due to the fear of getting extras and not getting myself blown up! My friend and many others got 3 extras for starting their counting with one-thousand instead of 2-thousand onwards(because your actions are delayed 1 sec after firing the safety cord - a wire that delays the detionation of the plastic charge) after lighting the safety fuse. For me, shit happened only when I was firing off the safety fuse as practice before firing the charges. First for counting like a "robot" when my friend was the firer so, the instructor came with verbal "power" together with knocking my helmet so hard that my goggles came down from it and then onto my eyes(but I was only echoing my friend). Secondly, when I was firing off my safety fuse(as practice before firing off the plastci charges) and I counted twenty-one thousand instead of one thousand after twenty thousand the helmet knocking started coming and more verbal "power" ensued(and I forgot how many times I was "knocked") even though this counting issue is the first time we practiced it as we were taught a different technique at OCS(but when we said that, they started condemning the school... oh well). So in the end, I was pumped 62 with webbing on and a shit load of equipment on it on top of the helmet knocking. Good training but if I was an instructor I would only tell the trainee he counted wrongly and correct him the first time but if he commited the same offence the second time, I'll pump him but no use of verbal "power".

On the way home, I was thinking of my platoon field camp during my days at OCS and remembered my APC executing a platoon flanking with us and was if could do it as good as he. Thinking of leading a platoon attack made the blood rush in my body and I kept thinking of ways I could lead my men and overcome the enemy in different situations. Truely, I am a better fighter than a constructor(I'm bad at directing how a building should be done but I'm good at destruction).

Oh, I've just sent my application to be a guards regular! Ready to strike! Must pass the interview and all that stuff first. Who knows what I'll be doing after that since I'll only sign on for 3 years? Uni? Maybe. But I wanna be a photographer or journalist for national geographic or some architectural mag. Damned, I think the prospects of getting a job like this and having enough to pay the bills in sg is almost zilch :( can someone give me lots of money for the rest of my life so I don't have to work? I have a plan! Get a rich indon tai tai to be my sugar mama!

When the charge goes BOOM! and the whole place shakes. Yes, I've just finished round one of my demo live firing package with live plastic explosives but I still don't know why they call it explosive since it doesn't actually "explode" but detonates, heh. Got abit of knowledge then I hao lian already. Even though where the action took place and where we were holding at were separated by a hill, I could see my course mates' helmet nettings shake whenever there was a detonation. Sometimes when a charge went off when we least expected it, we could jump on our butts!