Nav.
Night navigation is no walk in the park. The earlier you finish, the better, because with more people around comes more torch light, and that in turn helps you find the checkpoint, which happens to greeting-card sized paper hung on trees. These checkpoints do not glow in the dark and that makes it very difficult to find the checkpoints from 1930hrs onwards, unless there are others around shouting "CHECKPOINT 4 IS HERE".
I could find checkpoint 3, 5, 6. I couldn't find checkpoint 4, and I couldn't proceed.
Life sucks. But then again, this is the only test I've failed in SAF. Quite paiseh when I emerged from the woods though -blushes-
Being stuck in the woods alone is creepy. Tree branches almost seem invisible, poking me in the eye, scratching my spectacles, et cetera. Stumbling around uphill/downhill isn't the best exercise I could think of, but it was quite an experience nevertheless. Throughout the 2 hour ordeal, I didn't panic at all.
I despaired.
I knew it in my gut that I won't be able to complete this simple course, because I couldn't even find the start point. It was terrible enough to feel alone in crowded areas, it's worse to be alone in a dark, almost-enclosed area. I guess "desolate" pretty much sums up what I felt about that place.
Being a Thursday night made things pretty much worse.
Creepy lah seriously, it's not something I'd like to experience again, what with the Hungry Ghost month coming up and stuff. I just want to finish any future night navigation ASAP and get the fuck out of the forest. One experience is enough, and I know that I'm deeply scarred for life.
I exaggerate. Maybe I should stop talking about the ghost month because of the 6 day field camp coming up =.=
It really disturbs me that my female friends are all going to whatever university they applied for, getting into "hall", stuff like that. Maybe "disturbing" isn't the right word to describe it, but it reminds me of the civilian life out there--a life that I won't be living for another 19 months. I'm not complaining, just commenting. I'd think that I've gotten numbed to the fact that I'm an NSF.
At least I don't have to study (;
-- 7/31/2011 01:37:00 AM
