Saturday, September 08, 2007
This week is filled with fun and crazyness. Hahax There isnt much training or excercise this week. Monday 3rd Sept there was AGR. After that we did Drill Practices for the competition on tuesday. There was suppose to be SOC but due to the rain it was cancelled. In the end those who didnt complete the 16km Route March have to go for Remedial Training. For that our platoon was left with around only 17 or less people left to practice the Drill. One of the most waste time thing we did was the visit to Science Centre. Go there for 2 plus hours. Haiz could have used the time to practice. Tuesday There wasnt 5bx in the morning so that we can perform our best for the competition. But before that we had SOC in Full Battle Order in the morning. We practiced it with a 300 metre rundown. Shack man... After that in the afternoon was where we had our Drill Competition. 24 of us took part. March our best, with a few of cock ups, and the only platoon to have a timer. And all in all we won 2nd in the whole battalion among two companies. The winner is from another company. Best part is both winners are from tankee platoon. Hahax Best Platoon Sergeant award was taken by my platoon sergeant. We got ourselves a medal each presented by the Commanding Officer, in short the CO. The highest ranking guy around. Wednesday again there was no 5bx. Hahax Cause there was our final IPPT test. Took my IPPT and passed it. Dammit I was left with 2 more pull ups and I would have gotten Silver... Haiz... Thursday There was SOC with the full rundown of 700m and 600m with Full Battle Order. Damn shack I tell you. By the time you reach the low wall, you would have been drained. After that we went to GYM for 2 hours of OTOT on the equipments. In the evening was the time where we get to choose our vocation between Reccee Scout, Armour Infantry (AI) and Tankees. There was around 26 people who wants to be a Scout and around 18 people with 3 other who are not around which makes around 21 of us who wanna be Tankees the rest either wanna post out, go for other vocation or be AI. The CSM look at us "Tankee Wannabes" and wanted to test us. I think he dont like Tankees. He made us spread Grease on ourself, all 18 of us who are there. Do excercise where we did 25 push ups and 25 crunches 4 times and run round the Tank Shed 2 rounds which aprox makes 2km plus. After that go wash up. Dammit we wasted one set of No.4 for that. Grease cant be washed away. We literally massed up the whole Mini Parade Square and the toilet. Even my Platoon Sergeant and Sergeants think that what we did was out of point. Well order is order. Hahax Yesterday Friday Sept 7 Was CO Night. It was the only time we really enjoyed the most during our Army life. Hahax We have performance prepared for the night itself. But before that we had a little game prepared for us. Its called the Victory Challenge. There it consist of 3 games. Combat Frisby where we play frisby in Long 4. Another one is Full Battle Order Run where 20 people will run 500m in LBV Rifle and Field pack. Route March attire. And Finally the last one Emergency Evact. Where 20 people will carry a stretcher with 4 full Jerry Cans on top and run. I forgot what was the distance. Of the three games we lost the Frisby one but we beat the other company in the other two big time. My CSM designed those two games for us to win. Cause our company is physically Fitter. Hahax Before CO night it was raining, So we held the event at the Cook House. The CO came with his family. Everyone in 40SAR was there for the event. We had buffet then there was the performance. The other Company did their performance first which was a skit and a song. After that was ours. We made an opening to our performance by playing an instrumentle of Savage Garden's Truly Madly Deeply with two guitars and a Flute. One of the guitarist was me of cause... Hahax Then after that one other guy from my platoon joined in and we performed the song "when you said notting at all" By Ronan Keating. After we are done, 7 person from 3 different platoon made a skit. They call themselves the Ninjas and the made such a hilarious performance that the CO himself took a picture with them after everything. After the skit by the Ninjas, my platoon made a Bunk inspection skit which also made everyone end up in laughter. We end of everything with a song. And this time with a group of people behind us singing with candles. We performed My Love by Westlife. There wasnt time for me to learn so I play the song looking at the chords. Was such a cockup cause it was dark and we cant see well. Hahax All in all it was a great night. Today it was raining and there was suppose to be SOC test and it was cancelled. So basically we did notting today. Hahax
One more week man ONE MORE WEEK!!! 15 September will be my Passing Out Parade!! Then I will have my one week Bloc Leave. Oh yeah I Cant wait!! Gonna get back my mohawk man!
Clemence Chang
