FIRST IMPRESSION REALLY COUNTS

My friends and i was walking along Scotts Road one day when we saw a few hotel staff, the door man and two police man on high alert outside a hotel, propably waiting for some very high profile guy. But what caught our attention was one of the police man.

With just one look, we knew he is a NS man doing some kind of guard duty. Here's why, he had this very burly look like as if he just woke up, looked bored and he's hunching his back.

As he look un-impressive, we made a joke amoung ourselves about him.

(Talking to ourselves)
"Eh boy! You miss-fire your gun izzit? So that's why you come for guard duty izzit? Ha ha!"

We then burst into laughter.

Haha.

And i did really learn from that incident. I may not have a girlfriend to impress, but that doesn't mean other girls won't look at me. Impression from guys is important too.

Anyway, girls and boys look at me all the time, especially if i'm in my army uniform. Kids that is. They never fail to look at me in my uniform from the playground whenever i come back from camp in saturday afternoons.

Oh well, kids impression is important too i guess.

I AM STILL SCARED OF HEIGHTS

I realised that the hard way. At a water theme park called Wild Wild Wet. This is how it goes.

This ride is a 2 man ride called slide up. You bring a 2 seater blue float kind of thing up a tower, sit on it, and someone will push you off the tower, slide down the slope and by the kinentic energy, you slide up the next slope.

So there we were. i seat at the back while my friend seat at front. We were facing at each other. And the crew push us off.

When we started off the slope, we instantly went into a vertical terrifing drop. My weight of 65kg did not help. My 72kg friend did not help either.

I thought i was going to crash and get injured. So i sub-consciously let out a scream. The fact that we were seated at the wrong place gravitise the problem. See, as we went up the slope, my heaiver friend is now above me. By the law of gravity, we turned to such a way that now i'm at the top while he was at the bottom. and before i knew it, we were sliding down vertically again. I let out a second scream.

Little did i know those two scream sent all the crew, life guard and my army friends laughing away.

So i left the ride and went to play other attractions.

ACHIEVING NEW HEIGHTS, CONQUERING NEW FEAR

Army belives in progressive training. This means, things will be longer or harder. When you thought it's the end of the world when you march 6km in full battle order, you end up finishing 24km route march. If you are scared of heights, you will still made it through the Jacob Ladder. And the list goes on and on and on and on and on..........


ROUTE MARCHES

It first start with a single SBO marching 3km. The next march will have an extra rifle to carry, Then Full Battle Order. Then the distance increase. 3km, 4km, 6km, 8km, 12km, 16km, 24km.

Commanders all say the most important thing here is the breathing. Take deep slow breath to prevent panting and tireing yourself out. But personally, i think the most important thing is water intake. Something that i mastered only during the 24km route march.

Mid-way during the 16km march, i had a drink too much, literally. If i couldn't sweat excess water out, i'll be punished by means of the bladder. As a result, i took an emergercy pee along the road side. I had so much pee, my platoon was about a good 50m ahead of me when i had finish. Of course, i ran back.


SOC

This is called standard obstacle course. Where your balls are put to the test.

Since i am afraid of heights, i naturally could not do the jacob ladder. Going up was easy. It is at the highest log when the trouble comes in. During, the training, my balls were so loose, i had to hold the PTI hands to walk up and down the jacob ladder.

But when the test came, i ran up and down with ease. Here's why, before you start to cross the low wall (SOC's first obstacle), you need to run 600m to reach it. It is here, that you realise how hard it is to scale a wall slightly taller that you. It is also here you can make the most painful of mistake. For me, when i reached the wall, i aimed to jumped far instead of high.

Luckily, the wall did not break. I simpily do not have enough money to pay for damages of a concrete wall.