Friday, November 02, 2007
Ex Wallaby has ended for me and provided me a short trip prior to my ord. what a nice ending to my 1 year and 10 months of national service.
Rockhampton looks like a nice place to stay, a cosy little town at the north-eastern side of the Australia. The weather there is very erratic. Freaking COLD at night and Ultra Hot in the day. And imagine we were told to have a morning 5am run in like 13 degrees in pure PT Kit. Trembling like a dog… after which, the following days of run, my body seemed numb to the coldness le.
Back to the training, it was ok. At least I had a better understanding of what my missions are and how I am part of my company effort. The last day was memorable though. It was my last night with my men, looking back they have spent about 7months with me. I was just laying back on the hull on my vehicle, gazing at the stars-filled sky and talking with them. A feeling of sadness and emptiness filled me suddenly. The feeling stood out so much that it felt like the stars so brightly lit against the black canvas sky. That sort of soothe me a bit and my men told me they understood why the unit fly us up for a week plus just to fight the last mission with them. It was a feeling of resent at first but that transformed to gratitude for I’m truly glad I am able to spend my last days in NS fighting a good one. That morning, the 9 junior officers of us were presented out full lieutenant rank in the field. All the dissent towards the unit became appreciation. We then transported back to camp and further on to Rockhampton for a free-n-easy tour of a day.
Basically, there’s just this big mall in the town and it has 3 “NTUC-like” supermarkets plus a handful number of shops. The mall wasn’t far from our motel and the lunch and dinner place was just a stone’s throw away. The eventful day was spent shopping and watching DVDs we rented from the motel. It was definitely great to travel with the other 8 officers. We had fun and loads of time to bull around for day.
The next day, we left Rockhampton for Brisbane via the domestic flight.
There was no chartered flight of direct flight back to Singapore for us as we were sort of like inserted into the exercise in the first place. At Brisbane, we had to take a train from the domestic airport to the international. Once we arrived at the station. We stood up, proceeded to the doors waiting to alight as the train had stopped. The PA system announced, “International Airport. This is where you should alight for international airport. Please alight at this station for international flights out of Brisbane.” And for 10 seconds, we stood by the door, listening to the PA thinking that only after the announcement then the doors will slide open. However, there were passengers walking in front of us and we were thinking something is wrong. Then, at the corner of my eyes, there was a blinking light by the door and it says, ”Press here to open the door”. Gosh!!! I pressed it quick, we all quickly exited the carriage for the rest of the passengers were mocking at us. It was a great laugh later. Haha
Then it was just a long flight back to sin via Quantas.
And guys, Presenting to you my Pink IC today. Haha.. ORD LO…
I miss all of you, esp you babe.
My
Pink Ipod is soothingly playing, "彩虹 - 周杰伦 <我很忙>"
Jim popped a can of Jolly Shandy @ 7:16 PM
Then it was just a long flight back to sin via Quantas.
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