Its finally over. Stage 2 of my National Service life and thats like around 5 months already. I have finally completed my Basic Section Leaders Course (BSLC) and now, I am a corporal! Wahahaha. It wasn't too easy though. Training is pretty tough and they really love to push people to the limit and test our mental endurance. Horrible.. but well, I managed to get Gold for IPPT at last :D and I also passed my SOC!! Fantastic feeling.
Well, before I officially became a corporal, that means before I passed out from the course, I went through the 28km route march. To be exact, thats on Tuesday night 9.30pm, 30th May 2007. 28km route march is really so tough, it makes passing out from the course so significant.
Well, I started my march on about 9.30pm. 1st 4km was alright. Then another 4km. And another 4km. Every 4km we get a short break. By the 12th km break, I was already "enjoying" the blisters on my legs. No choice, I had to continue. So I kept on going. At the 16th km break, I had to go see the medic to suppress my pain so that I could continue. He wrapped a little bandage around my foot so I wouldn't feel so much pain. Yup, ok, its still painful, but I could at least go on. Then 20km. Then 24km. The last 4km was a super super big test for the mental endurance. My physical strength has reached its limit, my physical endurance is at its limit also, the pain on my legs is enough for me already. All I had left was my mental strength. Well, the last 4km was around 5am already. So that means I was really sleepy, tired, and in pain.
When we finally reached the end point, woh, the feeling was tremendous. It was about 6am on 31st May 2007. We took a short break. I took a short nap. 6.30am, we had our passing out parade. So with every thing on, field pack and everything, we marched onto the parade square, with blisters and cramps and tiredness. When we stepped onto the parade square, I nearly cried. Haha, the feeling was superb. Its almost as if I fought a war and came back in victory or something. And some NCC people was there cheering as well. I seriously did not know why NCC people was there but I didn't care about it anyway, what mattered was that I was there.
With everything still on us, we waited for the reviewing officer to finish his speech, gave out the awards, and then my platoon commander presented me my corporal rank and finally, we were officially passed out from the course. Woohoo! I took my bags back to the company line and then bathe, and bang, I knocked on my bed. Haha. At about 8am then went for breakfast. After that we cleaned our bunks and prepared for our posting order.
Got my posting order at about 6pm. Engineers school. Geez, I don't even know anything about that. Doesn't sound too interesting but I have no choice anyway. After that, I went home and began my sweet break! Ha, I reached home and saw my sister going for G12. So I just put down my bags, changed and quickly followed her. Lol. Thank God.
And I also accepted the offer for English Literature at NTU. :D
