Fruitless Commanders Training

Whoa nelly. Wad a waste of the precious Friday and Saturday slacking duo. Had a super long and boring COMMANDERS TRAINING. Waste my time. Bah.

Its ok to have commanders training on a Friday you know. Friday is anyway a legitimate and rightful working day. Its also ok to have commanders training on a Friday during my lull you know. Anyway there is nothing to do during lull except to find ways to slack. But... But..

BUT ITS NOT FREAKING OK TO HAVE COMMANDERS TRAINING ON A FRIDAY WHEN LIM PEI IS SUPPOSED TO BE ON OFF OK!!!!!

Yeah. I got called back for the training along with some other unfortunate guys. Which means that I'm on off this Monday and Tuesday! Right. Back to the topic. Sheesh. The boring commanders training was followed by a Specialist's Parade and a Perm Staff standby area (yes, sergeants and officers do get standy areas too k!) the following day, effectively burning our friday and saturday. Heng I was COS on saturday. So I managed to siam the stoopid tekan session parade and standby area. Yes! No irritating armpit abrasions nor painful blisters on my feet! Neat!

Ok. Back to the Commanders Training. The officers and specialists present bore the look of only one expression. Utter boredom. Heard Mr.CO (commanding officer) gave his opening address which was more of a scolding lecture on our performance for the first quater of the year.

We were then flashed results of the past cohort of recruits showing how many recruits passed their ippt, range, soc etc. We feel like teachers being briefed by the principal about the 'exam' results of the maggots students. The results were pathetic as there was an overall dip in the results comapred to the already low standards achieved by the previous cohort. Which Mr.CO implied that he himself we were not doing our job well enough. (as if its our fault that the recruits are soft with all the soft measures that we cannot change, already in place).

By the first half of the Commanders training, many of my colleagues already look like this:

I could have sworn I heard quite a few audible rounds of snoring too.

Oo yeah. We then had a video presentation which we saw probably bout a couple of hundred times about how to handle heat related injuries. Gosh! Somebody end the suffering please! You are lucky if you're able to fall asleep close your eyes and listen attentively, without being caught that is (or behold the dire consequences). But it is torturous if you managed to keep yourself awake and listen to all the nosh that is being said just because you have loaded yourself with too much caffine before the lecture (I'm blaming YOU nescafe!).

Yeah. I did not fall asleep that's how yours truly managed to become event official photographer mah. Finally the end is in sight! Q & A session has finally arrived. It sure took its time though. We then setteled a few outstanding issues and questions that we had. A few interesting questions here, a few DUH questions there, and we're done for the First Quarter Commanders Training!~ Lalala! Till next quarter suckers! BWAHAHAHA!!!

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Till next time! Cheers!~