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Hello people, back again from camp.

It's a hectic week, since it's Field Camp week.

I'd be lying if i said that it's all fun and no grilling. In fact, i think it's more of tortures than enjoying it.

So bad, i got fever at high 39.4 degrees, and was sent home to rest yesterday right after field camp ended.

Even as i'm typing this, after a night of rest and sleep, i still feel groggy and light-headed (I mean, come on, i using a lot of wrong words and phrases here and there), but i'll try to finish it now.

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Day 1; Monday 3rd May

We're preparing for field camp on Tuesday, so there's a lot of packing to be done. There are 7 packs of items as well as some store items like a shovel to dig and stuff like that. It was also the day when we have our firepower demonstration.

Let's just skip to the demonstration.

Firstly, we went to the multi-purpose hall to gain knowledge about the different kinds of guns. Not surprisingly, presenters emphasized on the point that this may be our last chance to see and feel these weapons, depending on the units we're allocated to after our BMT.

There're a lot of stuff we saw, i'm not going into details again because of security reasons, but one weapon i'd like to emphasize on is the M16 rifle, the weapons our fathers and grandfathers used.

It's light...really light, despite it's longer length to the weapon we're issued with.

After this 'theory' lesson, we went to the range to have a look of how the weapons fare in practical.

It really wasn't as impressive as some people think it, i thought that it's normal for a gun to act this way. Like, exploding a watermelon, punching holes on sandbags and stone pillars. Which guns doesn't do that, aside from the weaker side-arms?

Then we had haircut after dinner, again. Apparently it was for hygiene purposes in field camp. Paid 2 dollars to shorten my hair, which has grown considerably.

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Day 2; Tuesday 4th May

Normal beginning, wakeup early, exercise all that stuff. At 8am, the company went for route march. That route march was set for 4km long. I skipped it because every time after route march i'd feel a little sick, and since right after that we're having field camp, i don't want to risk it.

After company came back after route march, which lasted about 1 and a half hours or so, we set off to our camp site. We set up our tents and had our lunch. I didn't eat because i was feeling a little sick and felt like throwing up. Then we moved off to various locations to have field training.

I'm kind of relieved that i don't have to put on camouflage because of eczema. Every time i see people putting them on, i can't help but think that it's a lot of inconvenience.

At night, our Sergeant Major showed us the use of flares (No, it's not flares, but i said this because of security reasons again). I had no idea they were THAT bright, and i actually have to cover my eyes because my eyes hurts like hell to look at the flare.

Went to sleep in the tent, it was really uncomfortable because of my big size, my legs were outside the tent on the grass.

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Day 3; Wednesday 5th May

More field training. Emphasis of the day is the 'Movement during Day'.

We're supposed to move through a jungle by ourselves and search for letters written on white tapes bound on trees. Then we're told to make as little noise as possible by not stepping on twigs and branches as well as talking loudly.

We found 10 out of 15 letters. It was quite annoying because our I/C doesn't really take our advice and wanted to do it his way. After we found out tenth letter, the I/C moved us to the left where there is a lot of tree branches blocking our way. I tried to advise the I/C to backtrack to the last letter and do an area check from there. Nope, it didn't work and the I/C continued to move his way. Hence the entire group, 7 of us, squeezed through the tree branches and found no more letters. We reached the end point with insufficient letters to complete the word.

I was disappointed, but well, whatever. I can only follow orders since the I/C has the greatest authority.

Nothing else interesting, so back to sleep in the uncomfortable tent.

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Day 4; Thursday 6th May

I was woken up by my buddy at 1.50am. A little muddle headed, i forgot that it was my shift of night duty. I grabbed my weapon and proceed with my buddy to meet 2 more people from Platoon 2. After all 4 of us are ready, we started walking to and fro a point. It wasn't pleasant for me as my glasses are fogging up and the latrine (Read toilet) was really close to our route. We had to halt everyone whom we see and haev them tell us the password. I didn't do any of the halting, though.

1 hour later, we changed shift and returned to sleep. That's when things got really ugly for me as i kept coughing. Did not managed to get any sleep after that.

At about 7.30pm, we were asked to pack up our tents and everything. After we done that, we went into the jungle for a test, to put what we've learned into practice. Unfortunately, i couldn't participate because i was feeling unwell.

Went back to company at about 11am. I was asked to see the medical officer because i looked dead. Did that, and found out that i have fever...at 39.4 degrees.

In our camp, if you have fever, you're sent home immediately.

So, i didn't get the chance to visit the Discovery Centre and went home, booking out one day earlier than the rest.

Went home and still felt like crap. Took all medication and just went to sleep at 8pm.

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That's about all that happened. I still feel sick, so i'm leaving it here. Good bye.

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