oh no/bslc wk 5
humphrey lyttelton, legendary jazz trumpeter and bbc broadcaster, died apr 25th 2008. i'm sorry i haven't a clue will never be the same again, if it ever returns to air. where will i get my comedy fix now?
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hrm. last week was exciting, in a warped sense. field camp 1 (tues-thurs) and gypsy 2 (fri). field camp was slack only cos our instructor was slack; other groups had a brief glimpse of hell.
as for gypsy, it's a navigation exercise where you have to find 3 trees with signs nailed onto them (2 in the day, 1 at night). i had bad luck with my group, partly cos my group was made up of 3 slacker blur kings and 2 well-meaning but clueless bobos (one of which was me). among other things, one of my group members lost my protractor in the bunk while chatting with his girlfriend - less than 5 minutes after it was handed him; i was deserted by my group, who expected me to find the second checkpoint on my own; and we got handed the most impossible night checkpoint.
hint to future bslc trainees (or for that matter, officer cadets - i believe our checkpoints are usually within 10m of each other): checkpoint iris is the worst news ever. give up. you probably have to fall through a time-space dimensional warp to find it. we had to find it at night - this meant going through a swamp (knee deep in mud; i fell over 3 times cos of the bloody heavy signal set) and radioing HQ about a billion times asking for help. we eventually found a sign that said IRIS, only it also said SAF Medical Corps and "where the fuck is sispec?" in handwritten marker. you get the idea. it's impossible terrain, and it's in a part of the map with absolutely no helping features (contours, tracks, reservoir shores), only a sickening green shading which means secondary forest and says pack it in suckers.
other hints: if you're handed anything on or near the shore of lower pierce, you're made. go by the canal, turn right and find EXIT. EXIT, GEAR and HARE are a walk in the park; i believe you can find EPIC, WINE and YEW there too but i'm not too sure on that. you might find other checkpoints if you turn left, but again i didn't go there so i'm not sure.
well well. so much for that. it's quite rewarding if you do manage to find the checkpoints; it sucks to hell and back if you can't. if anyone ever finds IRIS at night... that's some major feat.
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went for the nus law interview and essay test. the interview was... quite an experience. questions coming like machine-gun fire. i got grilled every way possible, i think. questions ranged from why i wanted to do law to coase theorem (cos i indicated interest in law & econs) to how to put a price on the life of an orang utan to the role of parliament and how law is derived... all that in i think 15 mins. the essay test was a walk in the park though. quite fun too, teasing out all the possible angles you could look at the case material. it's like a complicated piece of origami that you have to nurture and massage to shape and create.
well well. sic transit bookout.
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hrm. last week was exciting, in a warped sense. field camp 1 (tues-thurs) and gypsy 2 (fri). field camp was slack only cos our instructor was slack; other groups had a brief glimpse of hell.
as for gypsy, it's a navigation exercise where you have to find 3 trees with signs nailed onto them (2 in the day, 1 at night). i had bad luck with my group, partly cos my group was made up of 3 slacker blur kings and 2 well-meaning but clueless bobos (one of which was me). among other things, one of my group members lost my protractor in the bunk while chatting with his girlfriend - less than 5 minutes after it was handed him; i was deserted by my group, who expected me to find the second checkpoint on my own; and we got handed the most impossible night checkpoint.
hint to future bslc trainees (or for that matter, officer cadets - i believe our checkpoints are usually within 10m of each other): checkpoint iris is the worst news ever. give up. you probably have to fall through a time-space dimensional warp to find it. we had to find it at night - this meant going through a swamp (knee deep in mud; i fell over 3 times cos of the bloody heavy signal set) and radioing HQ about a billion times asking for help. we eventually found a sign that said IRIS, only it also said SAF Medical Corps and "where the fuck is sispec?" in handwritten marker. you get the idea. it's impossible terrain, and it's in a part of the map with absolutely no helping features (contours, tracks, reservoir shores), only a sickening green shading which means secondary forest and says pack it in suckers.
other hints: if you're handed anything on or near the shore of lower pierce, you're made. go by the canal, turn right and find EXIT. EXIT, GEAR and HARE are a walk in the park; i believe you can find EPIC, WINE and YEW there too but i'm not too sure on that. you might find other checkpoints if you turn left, but again i didn't go there so i'm not sure.
well well. so much for that. it's quite rewarding if you do manage to find the checkpoints; it sucks to hell and back if you can't. if anyone ever finds IRIS at night... that's some major feat.
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went for the nus law interview and essay test. the interview was... quite an experience. questions coming like machine-gun fire. i got grilled every way possible, i think. questions ranged from why i wanted to do law to coase theorem (cos i indicated interest in law & econs) to how to put a price on the life of an orang utan to the role of parliament and how law is derived... all that in i think 15 mins. the essay test was a walk in the park though. quite fun too, teasing out all the possible angles you could look at the case material. it's like a complicated piece of origami that you have to nurture and massage to shape and create.
well well. sic transit bookout.
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