Heart of glass III

So well Wednesday was the day of reckoning I guess. My last day as LPS.

In the morning after breakfast and all, we were forming up for our first parade when suddenly a man carrying a wooden stick appeared. Some people noticed and then there began my small panic mode. I had nooooooo idea what to do. So sergeant told me to take things slowly. Eventually we got the guys formed up well, then I started the procedure to greet the man in green. I sedia-ed myself, then shouted "spec course, diam. Spec course, sedia".

Bodoh.

I marched over to the guy, who was now behind the platoon, and then suddenly he stopped me and asked me to do it again. #okaylorh

Marched back, and for some stupid reason I made the same mistake again. I diam the platoon already then sedia them. But anyway I was expecting a different result lah but that one too long to explain. So anyway I eventually got it right, marched to the back (again) then saluted him. ME5 worh, equivalent to a Captain rank. So after that whole ordeal, I sighed. I really did hahahhaha!!

Had practical in the morning, lunch, clean bunk (because of some stuff they did to the bunks, it became super dusty and disgusting) then got some updates from OC, lecture (the two lecturers took us although it was the pretty one who did all the talking) about the medical centre attachment on Thursday, then ISM (big shot) engagement where he showed us some of his pictures/experiences that he had when he went for operations in Afghanistan. After that we did more cleaning, then book out!!

Oh and I got the office number for the two lecturers!! I'll probably give them a call and ask the pretty one if I can meet up someday to ask some questions. KACHING.

Headed straight to church for institute because meet up failed. Slack one corner and suck WiFi while waiting for institute to start. Institute was fun as always, and there were so many people that I didn't recognise. Such a weird feeling. At least I was sitting beside someone I knew :) we ended the last class for the semester with sushi. I forgot how to eat sushi the the proper way but heck forget it lah just eat only.

Went back home with the guys (so glad I could finally see them) but one of the big players wasn't there so...just make do lah. Eventually reached home and man, I felt sooooooo tired. Showered and used the com till 1am. Bad choice.

The next day rolled around, and I woke up late for my medical centre attachment (as expected ahhahaha). Rushed out of the house like a recruit chionging for change parade. Supposed to reach joo koon mrt by 7am, ended up reaching at 7.20am. Supposed to be at the guard house by 7.30am, and I made it at about 7.35am. Supposed to be at the medical centre by 8am, and I reached at about 7.45am (even though it was super far in) because some ma'am decided to give me a lift just because I was walking on the road instead of the pavement LOL.

So anyway, I was attached to SAFTI MI medical centre. Pretty cool day!! I learned so much and ended up practicing a lot of things that I learned during the course and also right there at the medical centre.

We stayed back a little bit compared to the other groups because our senior nurse wanted us to practice our IV and also our 4man-drill for heat injury. We were reluctant at first but I believe that this was a super good opportunity to practice the "real thing" in a real environment with professional supervision and critic. I volunteered subtly (more like because the others didn't wanna do it)  and I learned so much!! Super grateful for it :)

Oh and asyraf wanted to interview me for the course video. Being who I am, I did my normal speech (just like how we give talks and lessons and bear testimonies) and once we were done, he said "wa so good, I'll use this for sure"  hahahha. So I'm looking forward to seeing the video at the end of the course!! :D

During lunch I saw asyraf (same name but from my BMT platoon) and we chatted for a while. Cool guy. Met with hard gay too while we were going back when it was raining. He's doing well so I'm really happy for him. Although it was for just around 2minutes of conversation, it was a really great meet up. Man I miss that guy. We decided to go back to training one Saturday!! Just like old times.

So yeah that pretty much sums up my Thursday...