Saturday, January 21, 2006
Doing standby duties for my 4th consecutive week. It sucks. Though I get to skip one guard duty, walking up every morning to wear pants and boots straight away is no fun at all. So all in all, I did 4 weeks of standby which was activated 4 times. The one held this week was the most 'zzz' one.
'Porrrrr, porrrrrr' I look around with my sleepy eyes to the people around the bunk. 'Activated, activated!' Someone shouts around. 'Wtf!,' I think to myself, 'there's no warning at all!'. I quickly dashed out of the bunk and returned to mine. The scene is pretty chaotic. 'Let me help you fill your bottle.' 'I help you get the book signed.' Because there's another guy in my bunk who is also helping out to do standby, everyone is rushing to offer a helping hand. I quickly changed to my long 4 and grabbed my field pack, rifle and sbo and chiong-ed to the parade square.
Everybody would have either cursed out loud or in their breath 'fknnbccb', part or all of it. I surely did. After that standby, we all had a good laugh about it. Their PS even commented that it was pretty fun to do that once in a while. To really test out our readiness, instead of the normal warning we get beforehand to prepare. But for the rest of the week, all of us are on tenterfoot cause after that 1 experience, no one dared to take it for granted that they will not activate us again.
Luckily for us, there was not to be another activation. So for the ending of the week, that is Thurs and Fri, we pretty much just nua away in bunk waiting to book out! Woo hoo. Count down to CITI, Chinese New Year and ORD!!!!!!
思念是一种病 {8:33 pm}
