hmmm AHM.... it stands for Army Half Marathon! frankly speaking, this is the first time i actually heard of such a marathon in singapore! all these years that i have been staying here...and yet i have never heard of it! well as the title implies, its a run for army personnel..well of course the public isnt left out! the run is 5km long, however due to my injury, i couldnt participate! i have always wanted to run along the city area but sigh! doing in on a typical day would make me look like an awkward fool and just when i have the chance to, i am injured -.- seriously luck seems to be REALLY scared of me for this year! but nevertheless, that's life! its always filled with ups and downs :) hah the most vivid memory i have of that event is the morning trip there. man i slept super duper late for the previous night and i had to drag myself outta bed. i had to wear this red in colour, oversized singlet along with my short army PT pants along with the unmistakably familiar army asics  shoes. i had to take a train into the city and guess what! to my surprise, i boarded the train with loads of other people dressed the same! the funny thing is that we were nearly EXACTLY the same. not just in terms of our outfit, but also our faces - zombified...! everyone had the "why in the world am i awake at such an early time on a sunday morning....?"

well yesterday, my unit had live firing! to be exact, we did live mine arming. BUT as i am injured (nearly every single blog post always has this 'BUT as i am injured...' factor. tsk. ) i was appointed as a sentry instead. had to guard one of the entrance to prevent any unauthorized entry. i was kinda far away from the main body, but it was definitely close enough to feel all the explosions. basically they had to plant charges to blow up the mines that they had planted. I had company! one fellow 'handicapped' mate to join me :) so at least sentry duty didnt feel so boring! the last time i did duty, it took 10 long hours. this time, it was wayyyyy longer! but hey, i have a companion this time round and as usual, i brought a book to read. what i wasnt prepared for, was the mosquitoes!! oh i brought a new book to read, its called "thinking, slow and fast" MAN THAT BOOK SURE PUTS ME TO SLEEP! its like i will be thinking about what the nobel-peace prize winner author wrote and unknowingly i would doze off. its a really good book though, it helps you to understand how your mind works! okay getting back to those pesky mosquitoes. both my buddy and I killed  more than 25 mosquitoes by the end of our sentry duty, with our hands. gosh when we first entered, we were swarmed by them! oh oh the mosquitoes isnt the interesting part yet~ these mosquitoes are TALENTED. both of us humans were decked out in our uniform, covered from neck to toe. we had our helmets of course. oh but these commando mosquitoes are skilled enough to suck our blood through the uniform =.= SIGHHH worst part is that now that i am home, the bites are still itching! its like they leave this really long itch on your skin. tsk tsk pesky mosquitoes. sometimes i really wonder why God created them. oh and that goes for houseflies too. geez they better have some use! (hope they hold the key to cancer) thats like the only way they can atone for their sins for always irritating us! =P

now here comes the interesting part! both me and my buddy were left as sentries far away from the main body! so when they counted for strength while leaving, they actually forgot the 2 of us! we found that out only when we were on our way back as we didnt have a radio set with us. it was like only after a long time later after the last explosion was held did a rover drive to our location and pick us up! it was pretty hilarious when we were in the car too, as we were kinda lost in the live firing area? haha! the instructions was like "left left right left right" so it should be.... "right right left right" if we wanna exit. example example. then we later got really confused! kinda retarded but oh well at least it is because of such incidents that make army life more interesting!