woah woah woah! this weekend is EXTREMELY SHORT! but i gotta say it was really well spent. hmmm i didnt have driving lessons, since i had FAMILY DAY instead!! :D nono its not those kinda family days whereby the entire family decide to spend time with each other but instead, its a time of me bringing my family to 3DA (defence artillery) well some of you may not know what is defence artillery, and im telling ya its not from the army! yes the army only has artillery and no such thing as defence artillery. well 3DA is actually a Ground Based Air Defence unit! which is where the GBAD word comes from. :) its just my first month in the unit? and apparently they have such an event annually, whereby everyone can bring their families in and enjoy the fun and games. OH THERE WAS FREE FLOW FOOD and.... ICE CREAMMMM!!! best of all, they had pretty vendors serving us ;D

Frankly speaking, i was thoroughly impressed with the standard of the organisation of the whole event. its like we sort of had a dry run on friday, one day before the main event! The food was free flow! and you know how irritating and pissing it can be when they label 'free flow' and it turns out to be just like one round of food without any top ups? its like a buffet that has just all the food displayed there? well that wasnt the case for 3DA family day! apparently, when we were done eating with one tray, they ACTUALLY brought out another tray! MAN now THATS what i call standard. Its like they really care for the people and cater way more than usual, just so that they can avoid any possible disappointment with the families. free flow ice creams, éclairs, and mind you we can choose the flavours of the ice cream okay! plus there was candy floss, popcorn, snacks for the movie screening.... etc etc FREAKLOAD of foodie!

okokok enough of food im seriously getting hungry after thinking about all the food that i had yesterday. T.T OH actually i was in the umbrella party! which means that if it rains, we got to take out our umbrellas and shelter the civilians. hey hey our dress code was civilian bottom and the airforce tee on top! phew! luckily we didnt have to wear our smart no.4 can you imagine us wearing bloody boots on a saturday...? oh we had to man the PA sets too, to make sure music and the emcee could interact with the crowd. so we were wondering. WTHECK we have to do duty and we cant accompany our family members...that gotta suck. oh i havent talked about the activities available! okokok but anyway, our battalion Signal officer was kind enough and understanding enough to let us run loose and follow our families around! that allowed us also chit chat with our family members and tell them more about the unit! that was soooo coool!!! sheesh if i was in the army and in 30SCE, i dont think i would ever have the chance to. It was also because of the family day which enabled my parents to understand what we do in camp, how is our living conditions like and also get a glimpse of the equipment we use

for the activities, we had erm some missile simulation game? that was embedded into the inert missle system that they train with (phew im just a signaller) along with the v200 vehicle! thats what they call it. hmmm....they also had some jeeps up for display! so its just like an army open house i guess? they also had a small corner of games and floats thingies for the kids to jump on...



There you go! thats the v200 that we use. kinda cute huh? but i wonder how fast this thing can go.. hmmm they also had some bunk viewing, as well as finding some tokens from the bunk. they hid the tokens at the places where they usually check for dirt! also, they had games rooms that had xbox 360 and kinects...etc etc! i BET they simply took em from the bunks upstairs! tsk tsk. in 3DA, some bunks have xbox 360, or ps3  or a tv. pretty fun huh! some also have a mini fridge! i dont know but for out bunk, since we are still new, all we have are tons of potato chips. like seriously TONS. they also had aircraft recognition tests, that was fun! hmmm what else did they have...? HEHE you know what? im too lazy to think! :D

All i know, is that my family really enjoyed themselves during the event and they were, too, thoroughly impressed with how everything was done! the Commanding Officer actually talked to my parents and I and well they found the CO a really fun and positive person! Dad says that the whole camp feels so light hearted and enjoyable to be in, also because of the top-down management, whereby everyone is also happy thanks to the CO. we really really get to enjoy quite a bit in this camp! For those who wanna know where to get posted to, GET POSTED TO 3DA!!! but of course if you are in the battery operating the missle systems, we have to be on 24/7 standby...so for those operators, hard life uh. however for SIGNALLERS.....MUAHAHAHAH. nvm. wanna know something cool? we may seem slack and switch off at times but when the button is pressed, expect us to be at our max capability, all ready to move out! why are we able to do so? because we do our routine duties properly and ensure everything is in tip top working condition.

i LOVE the 3DA family! :D