Back To Being A Civillian

Yeah, I'm back from my reservist!

Even though I was looking forward to this chance to take a break from work and all, it was difficult for me to wake up on Monday cos the guys from church took me out for a movie and dinner for my birthday on Sunday night. So it was quite late when I finished packing.

The programme for this year's reservist seems tighter and more organized. There was altogether less waiting around and more doing. Training programme was packed and the hot sun contributed to the fatigue of the platoon, while trying to recall our mortar drills. By the end of the 3rd night, 90% of my mates were already in bed by 9pm. We were fortunate to have rain on Thursday while we were out in the field and so we didn't get to do much. On the whole, the platoon did very well and got a recon 1 for our IBOS test.

Other than all the siong parts, we also had some fun. Some of my friends played Dai Di and the losers had to eat a share of the night snack (Tuna Sandwich); I stuck the scary picture of the lady of the "Quit Smoking" Advert on the cupboard of the only smoker in the platoon and scared him when he woke up to smoke at 5am; my stupid buddy kept waking me up when I fall asleep, and when I'm awake, he pretends to go to sleep and ignore me when I'm talking to him!

On the whole, it was a quite a pleasant experience, but I'm not looking forward to next year's in camp. It'll be high key and I'll have to stay 3 days and 2 nights in the field with no change of underwear and no where to shit.

My New Crumpler!

Whoooppiiieee. I got a new Crumpler. Thanks LQ! Lovely b'day present

Fatigue

I'm tired. Have been sleeping about 5 to 6 hours every night for about 2 weeks.

I want to take a break but work will pile up if I did.

I want to sleep more, in fact I slept at 11pm last night, but found myself wide awake at 3:30am.

I'm actually looking forward to reservist next monday.

Lousy Grades

Quite stressed out this week. Failed my assignment after working so hard for it. The lecturer said that I wrote out of point. I was so depressed when i first know that. Few days later, found out that half my class who chose to wrote the same title as I did, failed. Not that I'm laughing at other people's misfortune, but that really made me feel better.

This incident sparked off a lot of hate mails about the lecturer amongst the students. First, she didn't give us the correct due date and cut it short by 2 weeks. Then she wasn't very helpful and was very offensive in her replies when the students asked for extensions. The whole situation has been blown up so huge that some of the students met up with the headmaster this evening to trash things out. Though I have been a quiet observer in this whole situation, I do hope that the something will be done to moderate the marks, if not I'll have a terrible scar on my transcript.

Meanwhile, I'll have to go read up for an assignment for another subject and then quickly go redo and submit the assignment which I failed. It will be due next week, and I'll have to put extra effort into it so that I can at least get a supplementary pass.

Pray for me please.