Tuesday, May 23, 2006
woohooo!! guess whose back bebeh! its me!!!!!!! the jungle kenyan boy *zaini keeps calling me the kenyan cos i looked like one?? =P* anyway moving on, yeah i just came back from my 16 days holiday in brunei and man it was an experience.. well firstly, singaporean jungle will never feel the same ever again cos hahaha it is nothing compared to brunei's jungle.. secondly being the guy carrying the signal set isnt taht easy..thirdly, it sooooo remind me of the good ol kampong days.. forthly, i never took an aeroplane before! hahaha i believe its the 757 or something.. kinda cool!
so yeah, there i was, doing basically jungle warfare and unguided jungle navigation.. lol kinda deep stuff for someone who was just a mere civilian about 8 mths ago =D i learnt alot, i discovered alot of stuff and i guess it was kinda like a defining moment for me?? =)
ok people would be asking, what did i do in brunei.. well its a 16 days package called Exercise Lancer.. consisting of a 1 day Platoon Battle Course in the Betayan area, 4 days 3 night unguided jungle navigation in the temburong and belitung area called Exercise Chindit 1 and of course the 3 days 2 night day deliberate mission attack called Exercise Chindit 2
i wont really bore you guys with the details cos hahaha some people are just sick of army talk.. but man, all of these stuff i just undergo.. it wasnt easy man, really.. sandfly bites, physical fatigue, wet boots and having not enough food and water is just some of the things i had to go through.. LOL but i can safely say, i did had fun ah.. why? i also dont know, it was kinda an eye opener for me.. a good experience.. and man
it made me miss singapore and home even more.. my family, my friends, my stuff!*guitar, bicycle, pc etc etc* there were times i was climbing up and down spurs and ridgelines and high high knolls and hills and the things that pushed me on is home..as some of my friends said, every single step we/I took, i was a step closer to home! speaking of high high knolls and hills.. i climbed bukit timah hill a few times before and its like 164m high ah and took me like an hour or 2 the most to reach the top and back down.. the Banjaran Biang which i climbed was 462m high and it took me a full 8 hours to go up and go down.. hahahaha =) oh yeah it didnt have any nice paved walkway or road for you to go up ah.. just treks and trails..
now i know why most people called it Mt Biang even though its just Bukit Biang, not even close to a mountain =P haiya its not so bad lah, really.. kinda a cool place to go up to, literally cos the air up there is soooo aircondition like =)oh yeah, after all the hard training, had like a day of R&R and man, i tell you, unless you're the sort who is the homely homely sit at home rot kind of person, you wont wanna stay in brunei cos the life there is really stagnant..
i mean there isnt much to do or what!! serious! aaaaaaaah! it nearly drive me insane when i visited some of the shopping malls and im like zzzzzzzZZZZZZZzzzzzZZZZZ hahahaha.
*will update this further once i recollect all of my thoughts!
smoke on the water.
9:44 PM
