The end of BSLC to DELTA ASLC.

There is no better way to mark the graduation from bslc to coporal than the 28km route march. The mental tenacity.. gruelling 28km route march.. blar blar.. as my sgt read these out in a very weird accent we were laughing in the file.

March from leaders square => detour => ocs training shed => ntu => tp2 => reverse sequence. Do this 3 times and whola 28km completed!. This route is seriously boring. Going through NTU wasnt that fun either. We go through the ulu side or i suppose of NTU. And i think they purposely set it so late so we will be seen by less people. However, we still had some spectators, in particular construction workers from a china firm opposite the wee kim wee building (o.0) they are the ones most interested in what we are doing.

Ok we did see some people during the march and had some fun during the 1st time we march past NTU. Mark my words 1st time ONLY. Its freaking boring. I think too long never do route march le, 16km i already feel like dying. I was already limping due to blisters on my toes from 20km point. Almost had cramps, but no abrasions thankfully. The weird thing was, the faster we march, the easier it was to move forward on my almost uncontrollable legs.

BSLC.. the end is near

I can smell the end of BSLC. The 3 field camps have been left behind in the dust. Field camp sucks. Luckily during the few days there was no torrential rain, which will make our life so utterly miserable.

So exercise Grand Slam became known as Grand slack, as in between missions we have approximately 2h of rest time. Many people slept during the 2 hours after they hastily consumed their lunch or dinner. It gave us time to recharge after we did those tiring drills. We usually have 8 hours of sleep and field camps is when you sleep the most. How i wish we have a schedule in camp that is equals to that of field camp. Life will be so fun.

The navigation exercise was very tiring though. The weather is hot and we travel about 20km in that day going about our exercise. It was not a very good start for field camp when everyone is utterly exhausted. When i reach the end point, i just felt like collapsing there and snore away. It was a good experience though, it was difficult to find the checkpoints as the map is so old that new tracks appear and old tracks disappeared. The map certainly helped in our navigation (like real).

There was 1 group which was quite a joke. My group was following a drain and going south to our end point. We were smart enough to follow the drain which we would otherwise need to bash through a thickly vegetated swamp. When we were reaching the road, we heard sounds of chopping, branches snapping.. in that inaccessible swamp. So my team was like.. omg luckily we decided to detour a little and continue to follow the drain instead of bashing through the forest. The group later appeared at the end point, with 1 guy thoroughly wet (maybe he fell into the swap). Phew, heng ar.