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Saturday, April 9

Wandering wanderer

The theme for this week of sispec is Gypsy. Basically, we are doing navigation. Monday for the first session which our commander was leading us, everything went smoothly. We found all the checkpoints using very little time. The most embarrass thing happened during this session. I was carrying the singal set when we need to jump across a drain, and I fell into the drain with my back facing down. The signal set was really heavy. Fortunately, i was quick enough to use my hands to support myself else the signal set will be smashed. Nonetheless, i was in this awkward position of having all 4 limbs on the ground and face looking up. It reminded me of the gymnastic class i've gone through when i was sec 4 (the bridge...). I had to hang on at the position if not, the set will be squashed. Section mates helped me to pull me up.

Sgt Ong then looked at me and said "is anything lost from the signal set or not?", instead of "are you alright?"

It really made me wonder if it is because Sgt thinks the set is more impt than me or its because he trusted that i'm not so easily injured. Eitherway, I feel so relief that i din get anytrouble other then my pants muddy and wet.

The Second navigation was on thursday. i was with liyan, wei quan, dev and someone else from other section (fique i think... dunno how to spell). I feel that i made the wrong choice to be the first one to carry the signal set. I really made me too tired to say anything and eventually i was not very involve in the navigation, don't feel like contributing anything. However, we only found 1 checkpoint of the 2 at the last min, that was after they instructed us to return to end point. This was because the checkpoint, HERB, is right in the middle of the swamp, its block in all directions. It was during then i got seperated from the group and got lost. It was a frightening experience to be alone in a swamp shouting for my team, even if it is only 3-5 mins seperation... haha... . We were lucky to have Fique in our grp for he was the one who persisted on to walk a few more meters from the point where we turned back as we almost gave up.

Though we were all muddy to the knee level, we were so happy that we hugged one another and the tree as well.
Sadly, upon reaching the end point, we found out that the other detail in our section had lost their antenne of the signal set. And the person who was carrying the set all the way was my buddy. I could really see how panicky he was while he tired to explain to the commanders. And that reminded me that my exbuddy had lost his map during the navi 1. That made me wonder that my buddies made such mistakes as i was not around.

The next day, Friday, was Wanderer. The test for navigation. Due to some adjustments, i was transfer to my buddy's group. I felt very comfortable in the group as there were Darmen, Baoluo, Yee shen and Jian Qiang in there. They are those people who do not qiang feng tou and would listen to the view from others. Though our checkpoints were from one end to another and its in a star shape, we managed to find everything. Personally, i believe that it is because we listened and cooperate with one other, thats why we can complete it. I was so happy that i was able to proof Bao luo wrong. Bao luo was rather passimistic about this naviagation and said that we will fail the test. I heard complains abt him during navi 2 from his group members. That was why i tired my best to communicate with him during the test and hopefully try to bridge him to the rest of the group.

It was a fun experience for me as during all my years of navigation in npcc, i never met up with such challenging checkpoints.... maybe i'm beginning to like sispec liaoz... hahaha...

|[ zofz | 10:57 PM ]|