Hawkguar

First book-out!

The feeling when you step out of the fastcraft onto Singaporean soil is incredible. (The fastcraft is, for the record, the slowest ferry ever to have been constructed by man). Still, I have never felt better about stepping off a boat.

Am in Hawk Coy, the first company in the history of BMTC to have 5 platoons. We've topped up the existing 4 Hawk (PTP) platoons. Platoon 5 is also the only platoon in the history of BMTC to contain 5 sections instead of 4. So we're staying in Jaguar bunks.

Actually, we may as well be Jaguar Coy, since our PC, PS, and sergeants are all from Jaguar, so we get treated differently to Hawk 1-4. I actually have Arthur's old commanders.

Section mates are great - I'm bunking in the same section (1) as Nick Keong and Julian, so that was cool when we found out. Our section seems to be the "overseas" section - most of us have studied overseas or in international schools at some point or another. We're also generally the youngest, although there is this other Chinese guy from section 5 who was born in '88. He doesn't speak any English but he can number off, which is good enough I guess. :D

Physically it's not been that bad yet - got a silver for my cat. IPPT so that was encouraging. But my left knee is starting to swell up after all the footdrills/stomping and jumping, so I'm going to have to watch that. Also felt a shot of numbness down the left side of my right hand during training - hence nervous about my elbows as well. I guess we'll see how it goes.

Nonetheless army life is pretty hectic and takes some getting used to. I was hopelessly blur and very stressed out for the first few days, but it gets better once you adapt to the routine. I still seem to consistently mess up in front of the PC though, ahha. o_O

Note to self: Very annoyed at the guy who keeps shouting "Platoon 5 fall in" every time he walks by our section. I actually preferred it when he was in the Hokkien-singing phase.

So, booking in Sunday evening - in the meantime I'm going to enjoy what free time I have left. This includes sleep - lots of it. Cheers. :D