Day 24, Oct 9
Last day! Graduation!
We sweated out the graduation ceremony had a really quick lunch and was outta there. Nothing much to write about today. The ceremony felt rather rushed and a totally for show formality that nobody seemed to care too much about. But it did mark an end to our basic training [...]
Day 23, Oct 8
Second last day today. Camp is winding down and all we are doing these last two days is attending lectures on volunteering and going to graduation ceremony rehearsals. The lectures add up to the amount required for us to become registered volunteers. So in other words we can record the volunteering activities [...]
Day 22, Oct 7
Some things you’d just see in the military and nowhere else. For example during rehearsals for the graduation ceremony, we were taught how to clap correctly, in military terms that is. It’s all about one thousand people starting to clap at the same exact moment and the same thousand people stopping on [...]
Day 21, Oct 6
Exam day. Three exams we had today.
Multiple choice test on all the stuff we were meant to listen to during the large amounts of lectures we had. 40 questions, 2½ marks each. I think the test time was one hour, may have been longer but it was plenty. I’ve been writing this [...]
Day 20, Oct 5
All I did was sleep during this holiday. Got back to camp around 8:30pm.
Day 19, Oct 4
I was rather surprised that they still took us for a morning run today even though we had already completed the 3000m test yesterday.
We went for a rehearsal of the graduation ceremony after breakfast. The sun was shinning brightly by the time we arrived at 介壽台. After all 16 squadrons had arrived, [...]
Day 18, October 3
Finishing 3000 meters in under 20 minutes gets you full marks on the exam. I’ve never timed how fast I run but 3000 meters over flat land in under 20 minutes wasn’t difficult. So I got full marks for my first exam. It helped that we did it in the morning around [...]
Day 17, October 2
Uneventful, that’s how I would summarize this day. We learned some more injury treatment techniques. How to use a couple of triangular shaped cloths bandage by making slings, headbands and the like.
A young lady came to teach us during the lesson before dinner. The lecture was on drugs classification, their misuse and [...]
Day 16, Oct 1
They lectured us on some of the rights and responsibilities we have as alternative service personnel. The responsibilities are pretty simple. They can be more or less summarized by just acting like a good citizen and remembering that you are serving your country. On the lighter side, we do actually get discounts [...]
Day 15, Sept 30
I never knew there was such a thing as self-CPR. It seems that you may be able to save yourself from a heart attack by, every taking deep breaths every two seconds and literally trying to cough your heart out. Today was also the first day that I fell asleep during class. [...]
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