monkeycrap's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simplier, but much less magical.' Feels great to be back. The past 7 days spent outfield have been one of the worst, most hellacious weeks in my entire life. It's nothing like i've ever imagined. I know, i shouldn't be rambling on bout army life, but this i've gotta talk a little about. You see, my company is notorious for having the worst field camp. One which, as our sergeants admit to us after the camp, is of very high level, with plenty of stuff that were 'out of syllabus', frowned upon by the authorities. Even they themselves did not go through such training in the sergeants course. So yeah, we kinda did commando stuff. Many didn't make it through, falling sick halfway or simply collapsing into unconsiousness due to physical exhaustion. No kidding. But i made it. After shedding lots of blood, sweat and tears, literally. Yeah, tears. It was the first time i've experienced unconscious crying. Normally one cries because something hits him/her physically or emotionally, but at one time the punishment given was so painful that tears just streamed down but i didn't even know it until it was over. Weird. But all in all, after looking back, it was pretty interesting. I mean, how often do you sleep in the forest without tents, and hence sleep with earthworms, centipedes, millipedes, and waking up to find a palm sized black-yellow spider above your head? How often do you sleep under the stars, or watch as swarms of fireflies surround the area? How often do you get a stomachache at 4 in the morning, grope your way through darkness in the jungle and dig a hole to defecate in, only to misfire and end up picking up the pieces to clean up? How often do you get so dirty that when you scratch your head, 3 layers of stuff(dirt, mud and scalp) can be seen? How often do you get grenades and flares for alarm clocks? How often do you have to go through many rounds of 'live cs' just to get water? How often do you get camouflage cream, mud and rifle oil smeared all over your face for 7 days running? You get my point. But the lowest point for me in the camp is during the night where we had to dig trenches, like digging our own graves. You can't sleep till they're satisfied with it. I did non-stop digging and shovelling from 11pm to 6.30am the next morning. Damn stressful. The 2 guys next to me snapped. One of them just started screaming at his rifle, while the other one lost it and just started staring blankly into space and started shovelling at the same spot, laughing to himself. Freaky what stress can do to people. Anyway, on to civillian stuff. Happy Valentine's Day everyone! For the past dunno how many years, i've been spending valentine's in the living room watching tv. This year, i can proudly say that this will not be the case. This year, i will spend valentine's in my room watching tv. Yeah. Ok i'll blog again soon. Cya peeps. 6:51 a.m. - 2004-02-14 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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