this week on the contrary was more eventful.. there was this company retreat and everyone in the company went to the chalet on monday and had fun.. the chalet was on til tuesday.. played mahjong til 3am.. i didn't know how to play but i still won 14 bucks nevertheless.. beginner's luck i guess..
tuesday was time to go home and return to camp at night.. but my encik had an important task for me.. he chose me and another friend of mine to escort someone to detention barracks.. if you didn't know what's detention barracks, it's like an equivalent of a military jail in contrast to civilian jail.. you;ll get a criminal record in your database.. the feeling was not good to send somebody there..
was familiar with the procedures to be done as well.. my other friends said next time if somebody were to go there again, i would be chosen to be the escort IC again.. you need to sign the form to prove that you're responsible for the accused.. if he were to escape, then the IC would take the sentence in place of the accused.. fortunately nothing much happened.. saw one of my tekong platoon mates at tengah as i needed to bring the guy to see the doctor..
just hope that when he comes out, he'll be a better person and as well as learn this hard lesson..
other than that, the week was just spent rehearsing for the initiation.. it's like we have to do a siong activity whereby the battalion will welcome us and give us our black beret.. it was started with a 8km run, change parade of 5 minutes from PT kit to Long 4 plus sbo and camouflaging of the face.. fortunately all of us did it within 4 min 51 sec.. if not we'll have to change back to pt again and change within the timespan of 5 min..
after the run and change, we'll have to carry our fake mortar bomb that weighs more than 12kg to clear the obstacles in the standard obstacle course.. it was kinda cool and challenging.. 4 bombs were shared amongst us and we finished it in the end..
then we have to do the stuff we specialise in.. the mortar drill with the bombs we've carried in our caterpillar car.. it was a success and there wasn't any hiccups.. shall post some pics when they're ready.. the black beret was worth the trouble of getting..
went to shumin's birthday on thursday.. actually it was also jaryl's and bernard's birthday as well.. haha.. so many peeps born on this date.. fortunately, nights off on tues and thurs for everyone so i managed to go.. glad to see all the sec school peeps again.. good to see everybody's doing great and well.. hope to see them soon again.. =D
