Dear Blog,

This week has been... tiring/enriching/crazy/high and a lot more... Boat package just ended. It has brought me to many new places in singapore which i never thought i would go to.

Chris wasn't out with hernia. It is just some balls thing... but he's going for operation tmr. Hope he doesn't OOC.

Last week when we prepared for boat package, i thought we are perhaps going outsea for 2 days, at most 3. But ended up we went outsea from tues to fri. Launching and Upstaking are very demanding times. The slipway has became a place where i only think of demons and satan. It's a scary place la. Blah... i am blabbering... Strained my back a little, hurt my legs a little... but everything's okie la. Shouldn't go on anymore about the bad stuff.

The good stuff... Driving an assault boat through the water of the johor straits... The feeling is... exhilarating... orgasmic... i have never feel so free during training...

The wind... the sea... We are all going to smell salty after sometime. The salt stains in the uniform is becoming part of the camouflage prints...

Night training has never been so exciting. Think of 10 assault boats driving at... erm i don't know what speed but it's damn fast... doing sailing formation... with all the lights from the ports of our northern neighbour... machiam like Deepavali... and the several mast lights from the few boats around you... and the throbbling engine... seawater constantly splashing on our faces...

The sea... never ever would i think of operating a boat during bmt, nor in sispec... it was always land... forest... soil... spiders... mosquitoes...

Sea Navex was fun. Around the northern area of the coast of singapore... from seletar to sembawang shipward... to sembawang park... civilians were all looking at us... then to punggol... pulau ubin... changi... could see the control tower and lots of big planes... and was having a headache cos i was navigating using the seachart on a boat that was rocking here and there... luckily sgt alan is a nice guy. He's one of the nicest around... handsome... boyish looking... committed(he actually looked for the ans to the ques i asked him about the flashing light and came back personally and told me about it). He helped reduced ivan's 3 confinements to 1 early book in... we need more of this kind of sgts around.

Upstaking... it is something like a race... which pumps everyone's adrenaline skyhigh... even though we are all super tired... everyone worked like hell during upstaking. Race against time... battle against fatigue and pain... Was up in the BII tonner every night. Put that strain on my back. But couldn't help it. Cannot expect me to squat down and pick up the stuff and move them to the front of the tonner right? There isn't enough time for it.

But the feeling of accomplishment... heart pumping and sweat pouring down your arms while falling in to report strength... 12 boats... 160 kg each... 10 OBMs... 66 kg each... and all the stores... easily 5 ton of stuff everyday for the whole course...

Everyone is saying... you think the boat package is xiong... wait until candace package... that is the killer... well... candace package starts tmr...

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Yf, yh and vince came over yest for ps. Then went vince house watch soccer. Man U is disappointing... haven't seen them so toothless upfront... Cut my hair... was falling asleep... haha really tired... should get more sleep during the weekend...

Brought out the notes and letters people gave me and read them yest. Feeling is different and you learn more things now than when you first read them.

Went by the yatch club that day. I want a yatch.

Okie la... that's about it... 3 weeks of BPCC gone... 7 more...

Yours,
Lah