Saturday, October 21, 2006 @1:16 PM
i SURVIVED FIELD CAMP!!
yeap thats rite,u heard me, i m back.i survived.and in one whole piece,with the exception of more blisters on hands,a little rash here n there of the body n stuff.
So glad that the gruelling journey of field camp is over.u wouldnt believe how one such camp will make u appreciate life more.am gonna tell ya so sooon.
its been eons since i last penned an entry in here.if i rmb correctly the last one was dated 7oct.time really flies quickly.both the gd stuffs and the bad ones.for me that is. i felt like i was Adam Sandler in the movie Click.it was like everything was fast forwarded to now.all the so-wanna-get-the-fuck-over chapters r skipped.
Lots of things happened within the wk long camp.it was a test that truly tested the grit of a person's mental and physical strength.however its more of the former. as the physical strain mounts larger by the day.by the end of the 2nd day, body is alr exhausted. its only left with the mental power,the games ur mind will play that pushes u on. Mind over matter baby.
Day 1 : Set off to campsite from Coy.with full battle order on(which weighs a fucking 12kg) on ur shoulders, rifle,helmet,long 4 uniform suit. everything weighs a shit ton. off we marched up the steep slopes. by the time we reached the top.no comments to say how fucking hard it was becuz we were all BREATHELESS. some succumbed to heat exhaustion even before we actually start work.Pitched our own tents,get all the nitty gritty stuffs done n its evening. combat ration food sucks.
Day 2: beginning of field craft lessons,handling of rifle and some dry running of practial lesosns.boring and mind draining.basically day is kinda wasted as nuthing intersting was conducted.
It was only the 3rd day onwards that trouble really brewed for me.we had a long tactical walk from the current chkpt to the next campsite.6km long.ran n ran n jogged up the unfriendly terrain.by the time we reached.heat rashes were formin.fuckin discomfort feeling.rising temp.felt like giving up. but i relented.endured silently with the rest.some fuckers complained that i was takin mi own time but little did they know i had a fuckin blisters the size of ur thumby on my ankle. so UP YOURS to the person i m referrin to. btw he's GARANG KING.
last day was oso the killer one.we proceeded to reclaimed land area to sleep for the night.AND NO its not the usual basha tent we gonna sleep in with. this time its diggin a trench for urself to sleep inside.using all but a small ET stick.fucking took me 4hrs to dig a grave of my size. and yeah its literally like diggin ur own grave n sleepin inside it. and of all places,reclaim land is the fuckin filthiest place to ever sleep in.its not the trash but rather the FOES/FRIENDS u pay a visit to when u enter their territory to camp with,which over u choose to think. the insects there r gargantua. fucking ants have pincers the size of a sewin needles big.worse is yet to come. the centipede.
its not ur average black hairy small fuck kind. its BIG,its FAT. Measuring 10cm by 1cm wide, its brown in colour with RED LEGS. and its fuckin teeth is CRIMSON REd.even a chicken would be be intimidated by it and run off with its chicken feet! sleepin at night is like doin so at ur own reach.for once i felt like i m the prey and the centi is the predator. once in a while i would wake up n watch round.thank god nothing happened and it went past.
Thurs came n we went thru the Battle Inoculation course before we marked the end of the camp. it was fun shit as live rounds were fired over our heads while we crawled thru obstacles to the destination.deafening but fun other than some abrasions. it was the aftermath of the whole thing that i began to appreciate wad i once didnt.
when we finally got back to the company.it felt so surreal.to sleep in the bed once again that i used to detest.shittin in the toilet and stuff.more imptly its water and light.powdered bathe for 7days.stank like a skunk.making do with the available light of the sun.and fendin on ur own with a stupid torchlight at night is too diff. small little things became a thing i start to cherish.
Despite all the bad points which i ve said,there were truly some moments which r to be cherished.like wad my encik say,take all the difficulties gone thru inside as a pinch of salt.when u endured to the end.pat on ur own shoulders n say "i made it". nothing felt more accomplishing than that. also the camp brought about team spirit,camaradarie among mi buddies.workin together to get things done,endurin shits together.
aniwae its a long wkend hol for me thanks to the DEEPA-RAYA hols.will be bookin in on tues evenin.till den i ll be back to upate more.but first i gotta crash the shower room to bathe before GATECRASHIN town shortly after.missed that place for a month.god. betterfly.
till den I'LL BE BACK
hasta la vista BA BI