Navex with pixs Galore

It's been a looooooooooooooong week.

Schedule of SOC, Navex, SOC and SEOC is a lil too hectic for me.

My shoulders are still in recovery mode & my legs are battered to its' brittle bones.

Will be resting (aka sleeping) for the remainder of my pathethic weekend.

A recap of the whole entire week first.

CRAP LOADS OF PHOTOS FOR YOUR VOEYURISTIC PLEASURE ........

Last Tuesday n Wednesday, there was an uncontrolled navigation exercise where we had to explore the depths of the jungles of Mandai & Marsilling.

I was grouped with the bunch of fellow cadets who are going to Artiliery.

Yay!

I'm really glad that I get to go to a new place with some of my best pals, especially Terence & Alvin.

Detail 13 - Future Arty Troopers

Back on track to the Navex, it was really shagedelic but fun.

Scenic shot - looks like we're at the Mekong river

Checkpoint Charlie - Frigging hard to find

My OCS buddies that kept me going throughout - HamHam & OnOn

Terence & Me

The full load on the shoulders was no joke. Getting lost and finding your way out was frustrating but it was a test of mental resilience and the urge to tear the hair out of the navigator who is leading the pack.

We got lost loads of time & only thru luck & chance did we oriented ourselves to the check-points.

The first exercise was EASY PEASY though we holland-ed and too shagged out. 75% completion but I was still satisfied nonetheless.

The 2nd exerise was held during the night. Moving around in the dark is eerie and espcially if you were me, who was at the back of the pack with TH, you feel like something is creeping on you.

Eerie.

But we conquered the night !!!

Random friendly ghost trying to scare wandering cadets

Our detail was the first to reach the end point. Go Arty bombers !

The final exercise in day 2 was 'siong'.

I didn't know Mandai/Macritchie area was so large and sparse.

Being the basher/forward man, I ate up uncountable number of spider webs and stumbled onto many potholes.

It took us 4 hours to reach the first checkpoint.

I was famished by the time I got there

The frigging MGR was wrong & the sun did us in. Fatigue brought us to new levels of just sitting by the murky stream and watch the mudskippers skip.

The second checkpoint was a godsend.

We have declared ourselves lost and dead tired.

Engery-less and no motivation to push on, Terence, Tian Hai & Michael's casual trip to the toilet turned out no so casual after all.

They found the 2nd checkpoint !!!!! Just by peeing at the right tree.

Advice to future navigators : Sometimes unzipping and aiming ur dick head to a general direction will make you find your way to certain things it wants to find.

2nd Checkpoint - Blowing the Moon

Wen Yao & Me - Garang navigators to the end of the earth

Glad it was all over when the horizon greyed and it was time to ship off to proper civilization.

It's only cool when you survive the ordeal

Shagged out & waiting for the lift to heaven

Thursday was Chemical Defence and I kinda chao keng.

The last time I wore the gas mask, no less than 10 mins later, all my mucus flowed freely and overflowed to the point where it become mucusy-drool.

Thank the heavens I don't have a pic of that.

Since I have to be a sai kang warrior, I had to go anyway. Some pixs:

Me & KS - Self-proclaimed Yan Dao Kia

Forcing KS to say I was the ORIGINAL Yan Dao Kia

Standard attire of officer cadets for dining out

Met James there, fellow SISPEC Echo warrior. Hoo Hah!

The closest I got to 'wearing' the gas mask

Even more bo liao /misc pictures in camp:

Auditioning as the next stripper for the new casino opening

Muscleman Wee & Me - I feel puny in his prescene

HardCore Colin & Me being goofy

Me wearing peak cap - Commissioning date: Oct 1st

Gay Ho (Ex Spade buddy), Me & HardCore Colin

Francis & Moi - Excursion to Bukit Chendu

Got my pay last week and splurge on a frameless specs that I've been eyeing for MONTHS.

Mr Fong aka best fren should know since he beat me to the punch, I've been wanting to look like an intellectual and getting the specs would give me that look at the very least.

If I'm not an intellectual being, at least god damn hell I look like one the very least. :P

Intellectual jailbird mugshot

Designer specs that comes with a dent in my wallet

Hope you enjoyed these photos, it was the most I could get before I'm leaving them soon for Artiliery.

Photosnappyhappy,
Benjamin