The Worst & The Best. 2010. : Annual Camping.

Hey. Since I didn't really have nothing to worry.
Or nothing to focus on this holiday, other than forgetting the fact that I have to come back to college (yes I do study. yeah what now?).
I decided to write about my experiences. The Worst & The Best. 2010.
These are moments I've walked throughout the year 2010.
Since it's nearing 2011, next year I've got SPM, I'm form V, leading things and much.
Things would get busier. So I wanted to record them, from worst to the best.

As for today, nothing really happens. I went on, nothing happens. Stranded. I got myself visiting my friends. Stranded, dont know what to do and the bus I waited for didn't came. SO WALK!

SO. Here it starts.

Annual Camping: a chapter of life giving me the picture of a real soldier.

Above: Bravo Company Annual Camp.

I remember the part I went out of this bus. Jump off it and I saw the beach.
HAHA! Yeah long time no see beach, but it ain't a holiday you know.
It was still 1340H. While everyone is having mid-year holiday.
And I'm here with my friends. Military. Camp. God.
I remember as I heard and saw something. "Oh shit." I whispered.

My friend quickly ran and lead us, "Woi cepat cepat cepat! Pergi sana! (Oy move it, move it! Run over there!)"

From there I knew, the whole thing starts. What "thing" was it?

Haha! There we were told we would be treated like soldiers since we are in our camouflage clothes. Every movement must be fast and steady. Always aware of your surroundings. (Considering that time we were on pushing-up position.)

OKAY! Skip the whole boring part, I mean it wouldn't fit everything is this blog eh? To be honest, the camp last for 5 days. I remember the last day I said: "FINALLY!"

We set up a camp, poncho and etc. The wind was really strong. Damn my poncho fell down twice. Haha!

Above: Looks like one of those movies you see? The heli was really close above us. haha! Oh yes, this is an example of our "stand 2." You can see my company is the nearest to the sea wearing beret. XD

BOOM! The sound of flashbang was so loud. Everyone was shouting and telling everyone to get down. The word "Stand 2!" which means like "red alert." In other words telling people to get protected and ready to, well, attack the enemy. I crawled and headed towards the beach. The "stand 2" moment lasts for about 10-30 minutes. When it's "line-clear", everyone stands up and continued their activity. Even at night, dark, its a "boom!" again. In the middle of eating, sleeping, whatever, doing things, this "stand 2" thing teaches us something. Things can go wrong and enemy can come at anytime. So stay alert? Yes we did.

Above: It's always nice eating at night when it's cold.

Next, what to eat? Oh good question. There's 2 packs that says "Army Issued Meals." It's up to us to divide how, when and what to eat. Fire? Not a problem, there's matches. But sometimes these matches dont work since it got wet. So we often share. And to save up fire fuels, we use dried leaves and small dry tree sticks to light up fire. HA! Very nice? Yeah, we made up lots of variations trying to make the fire stay lit. To avoid wind, we place the fire in the sand, dug first of course about 5 cm deep. Then its set!

Coldness. Yes, soaked, wet and name it you got it. It was dark night, the wind blew ferociously. Then it rains. I was sleeping and didn't know what's happening, all of sudden, "WOI BANGUN! BANGUN! (DUDE WAKE UP!)" All what I saw was just my camp shaking and about to fly. So we get up and seek some shelter at this quarters. Next day I repaired my camp, considering the wooden pocho we used to make the tent broke. T.T
To avoid coldness, during sentries, we usually lit up fire (at night of course) and tell our stories, shared some jokes. Up until 3 AM. Yes. true.

BOOM! It all started with "STAND 2!" and there we headed the beaches. This is like one of the best experience you know. Everyone's wearing jungle hat and our company are the only ones wearing beret. HAHA! Ok, to be honest, we are in the most frontier of the sentry line. Get it? That means were near to the seashore. While everyone had their clothes dry, we are soaked with seawater. XD Truly great experience. At night is the most worst night for the whole week (an exception the last day). It's really cold since you sleep (sometimes you dont sleep at all) in your cold clothes. Some of other company gets their clothes wet too.

Above: I'm not sure if that's me, but you can clearly see, how tough was the paintball. More, fun. XD

Tired-ness. Haha! I seriously will never forget compass matching, war (paintballs) and speed walk. OK! Compass Matching, my group ended up somewhere, skipped one checkpoint due to wrong bearing reading. So automatically, we were "first" but ended up 4th place. Quite weird? Hell yeah. So on the way, we track up through marshlands, swamps (not so deep phew!) and thick jungles. Seriously thick. Paintballs, helmets only no shields. Ow, it hurts. And speed walk 6KM with 2KG on pack. Let me say, you, the pack and the boots. How much is it? Tak terkira. T.T In the end, you're so exhausted. Seriously exhausted for water.

There's more but I don't know how to put it. Anyways, you'll get the picture, that's all I guess. My worst and my best. Nothing exceptional.

"It's not the people which determines our best but it's how the way we play the game."
Asyraf Amir. 2010-2011.