Work work..

On the 27 i had done my first COS duty (Company Orderly Sergeant) aka (Company Operating Slave) aka (Company Only Superman)... ok la it wasn't that bad.. but many things do come to the cos.

Ok it was morning and we had a meeting with the DOS (Duty Orderly Sergeant). Den came the question. "Who first time cos?", i raised my hand. "OK, 1,2,3,4 flag party", den came the HUH!. Conversations... den came the reply "but we haven't done before and we don't know the procedure!"

To my horror, we will be flag party for both the flag lowering and the next day flag raising. OMG balls shrink.. So the day went by, with me doing the cookhouse duties for lunch and den a bit of dinner. It was rather smooth-sailing. Moment of truth: flag lowering time has arrived. With just 5 mins of preparation and some previous experiences, the 4 newbirds just went ahead with the flag lowering.

The ceremony started, we balls-shrinked fast marched to the flag pole. Do the neccessary preparation, music start. Balls still shrinked, lowered the flags and drap it over our shoulders. At this moment, we folded the flags. A smiley face fold for the flag ensued and we were alright. I was almost in deep shit as the flag seem to be sliding off my shoulder. After the ceremony ended, Balls Unshrink LOL.

OK the Continued portion:
Due to the uncomfortable continuous usage of balls shrink now i shall use the state of anxiety.

After sleeping in the air-con office, on the uncomfortable but better than nothing foldable field bed, i woke up feeling kind of tired from the lack of sleep and the improper positioning of my feet due to the boots. Our feet's natural position is abt 45 degrees. However ,with boots on, its either straight up or flat out. As such, my feet feels kinda sore.

Round 2 of anxiety attack. Early morning, and its time for flag raising. This time i am still pulling the flag which give me the least responsibility, though its still a lot. While the flag raiser of the state flag has changed. The DOS was kind enough to relieve the previous flag raiser from suffering another anxiety overdose.

Once again the flag raising ceremony was a very nervous situation for us. When we finish raising the flag, gone is our anxiety and the adrenaline is no longer produced. WRONG! Now we have to fear if it will somehow drop to half mast in mid-day lol. Ok u can say we are paranoid but it did happen before. My flag's knot was not exactly the most secure.. so it was quite dangerous. Thankfully no, it survived the fast winds that blew throughout the day.