I had been in camp this whole week because of the rehearsals for the up coming SAF day parade which is going to be held in 1st July at SAFTI MI. The rehearsal is rather tough and tiring because of the long hours(maybe not that long, around 45mins to 1hour?) of standing while waiting for this for that for every redundant things and i am actually quite proud of myself for that kind of endurance i had during the rehearsals. People who know me will know that i am flat footed and standing still for long period of time is not really the thing for me as it is quite torturous. At certain point of the parade, i almost wanted to give up when i felt the intense heat and numbness in my feet, swaying from left to right and front to back, tip-toeing up and down and trying to bend my knee every now and then just to keep my blood circulation really flowing so that i will not feel that bad in my feet. I just kept chanting in my head that i will be a stronger man if i am able to endure this, i will not give up no matter how bad the circumstances is(a little incantation i will do whenever i meet something difficult which i need a little of mental power for it. A bit stupid i know, but i still do it anyway) Anyway, i still manage to survive through everything up till now and i should really applaud myself for it.

Other than the whining on my part that i am suffering because of this parade, i think we are generally being treated like VIP from the air force. They always give us encouragement and they never once scolded us during the parade itself(unlike some certain contingent trainer behind us who never fails to shout at their man like they were some animals), I am really glad that i belong to the RSAF. The food over there is quite unexpectedly good too, they gave us KFC on a few occasions and the fresh ration were western food for one or two times which is really going to make us fat if we are to continue eating at that rate. Enough about parade, I just hope that i can quickly get the parade thing over and done with and look forward to other stuff.

Now is already in the middle of the year, soon all the alpha crewmen will ORD in another 4 to 5 months time, I really wish for that to happen as soon as possible because by then, it will be my turn i about 2 months later! I know by the time i ORD and when i look back again, i will think that this had been a crazy 2 years for me which consist of both bad and good stuff. Met a lot of people from very different spectrum of life especially those from alpha as i normally do not get myself associated with this type of people and my own circles of friends are nowhere like them. I better not talk about NS things now or else i will get depress again soon, shall do this when my ORD date is near! LOL