Sunday, April 25, 2004
It's been a tiring week... cos of the 35th Anniversary parade rehearsals... so tiring that I always almost immediately KO when I lie on my bed... From Mon to Thurs, we were all so tired that we didn't even want to go for nights off... just wanted to seh in bunk... and we also had preps to do for the full dress rehearsal on Thurs... that was tiring too... everything must be perfect... sian... rank must put just right... uniform must iron just right... argh.... bloody troublesome... and the parade is so bloody long... although this one really is impressive... Like NDP, quoting from the Army RSM... I'll try to get a pic up when I can.... And my Contingent RSM is like so naggy... always telling us, 'Sharper gentlemen!!', 'Not sharp enough!!', 'Bang your leg down in double quick time!!', 'Close your fingers!!', but sometimes, he tells those things to us when we are trying to listen to the commands being given by the Formation RSM... then, when we do it slower, he scolds us... sheesh... But there is one thing he says that I REALLY like... It's 'You again ah, 3rd sergeant! Always the 3rd sergeants, you all should be thrown in the longkang (drain)!!' Wahahaha.... I always want to laugh when he says that... Ahahaha... bloody specialists can't even do proper drills... what a laugh...
Anyway, I'll keep updating you guys on the parade... think I'll put up day 2 of the Perth trip...
10th April
Went on a 1 day trip to Albany today... Damn long sia... 950km drive there... on the way, passed by the town of Williams, geographical sites like The Gap and Natural Bridge, which is like the blowhole and other formations we learnt in geog... Found those 3 types of Twix in Williams... the pic is on Val's blog... I'll try to get it up here when I have the time... Anyway, throughout the drive to Albany, the landscape reminded me of the landscape in Wallaby, all dry and spacious, with little trees... Drove past a few vineyards too... Oh oh!! I just HAVE to mention this... at the Gap, there was this guy posing for his friends on the rock top... in a meditating position... managed to take a pic of that too... hee...
Went to Whale World too... it's like a museum of whaling that was carried out in the earlier years... saw a restored whaling ship... sheesh... their quarters sure are cramp... I wouldn't want to live in there for long periods... Saw whale skeletons too... they were huge!! Walked around a bit more, then we went to see a Wind farm... where they have those huge modern windmills to harness power... they looked nice against the sunset... and the coast over there... it so beautiful!!! The waves and everything were just magnificent.... Then we went back to Albany before going back to the hotel... and in Albany, there's a huge rock in the shape of a Labrador's head, so they called it Dog rock, and there are even shops around it that adopted that moniker... Dogrock post office... etc... kinda neat huh?
One more thing that I have to mention, in our tour, there's this sole Jap girl who took the tour on her own... poor thing doesn't know much english... so the driver had to help her with the forms and everything... and she even got lost once cos she tot she had to walk back to the coach when it already was parked up ahead... at the end of the walking trail... poor thing... brave though.. Hehe... Think her name was Tomomi Momose... hee... saw it on the forms... Anyway, think that's all now.... got back to the hotel room at 11 plus and went to sleep... tired as hell...
Day 3 coming soon... =)
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