Annual Camp 2014

During Junior stage, we did CIW while during Intermediate stage, we did CW Advance and Retreat exercise. And as Senior for the last year for annual camp, we did CW Defence and Attack exercise called Aksasais Mandi Peluh. This year, we stayed 6 days at Bukit Botak, Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan. You heard the place Bukit Botak, then you should imagine how Bukit Botak looks like. For your information, Bukit Botak is really botak and high altitude, surrounding of this mountain got none of tree, no shady place to hide from sun. After 6 days been stay at the open place on the mountain with no water supply and not enough food, we get sun burn, very very serious sun burn. Days during the exercise, really feel like labor who really work very hard to earn money. During daytime, sunlight very strong and we still work hard under hot sun, during night time feels very very cold since we are at high altitude area. One day, we just get issued 2 bottles of 1.5L mineral waters, we had to save it for drinking, toilet use and other usage, can say not enough lo. Our squads got dehydration and send to medic.

~ Before depart, everybody still very clean ~

~ Our harbor base before move to Bukit Botak ~

~ View of Bukit Botak, no tree man ~

~ None of tree, we use leaf to prevent sunlight and as the camouflage ~

~ Tools to dig the hole, want to dig until when? ~

~ My partner, pity him to help me dig the hole, haha ~  

~ That is the only place to find shade ~

~ Because we were at high place, so can get to see good view ~ 

~ Stand to ~

For defence stage, is the craziest thing I ever do, every pair of partners needs to dig a big hole like a grave. The main point is to defence from enemy, prevent attack from enemy, dig a place for us to stand and sleep. All work by hand you should know, 3 days limit for us to dig until chest height. Is it crazy? Pair is one girl one guy, so that the guy can dig more, for my team, I think my partner dig the whole hole la, haha. For 1^st day, we must dig until knee level, 2^nd day until waist height, and 3^rd day until chest height. For all of that, depends on the height of the higher partner, so have to dig very very deep. Dig for that deep need 3 days, but when cover back just need 5mins, oh my god.

~ Success of my partner and me ~

~ My platoon ~ 

~ We are trained to sleep at just anyplace ~

~ We are human, do need a rest when tired, then move on again ~

This was the last annual camp for senior, so everybody really put their heart in the exercise. 6 days didn’t bath at all, yerrr, smelly, but have to get used to it, everybody smell the same, haha. There also got no toilet, so? Haha, pandai pandai la. To make this annual camp more memorable, our officer organized a BBQ party for us, coincidentally was birthday of one of our squad. All these unforgettable memory will always engrave in my mind forever, may be the toughest, craziest, hardest but sweetest memory. 

~ NC and lecturers paid us visit ~ 

~ BBQ Party ~ 

 ~ Is time to go back ~

~ Last, sun burn level ~

After all, now already step in Jun, is end of our Senior year, we are soon-to-be-commissioned sub Lieutenant officer. Looking forward 23 August, D-day for our commissioning parade which will be held at UPSI, Tanjung Malim. Welcome to witness the most proud moment. Our squads involved of 169 Senior. Looking forward D-day, we are ready in action.

Last Annual Camp

Written On 31 May 2014

Kongkoil River Crossing, Floating Techniques

 ~ Beautiful view from Kongkoil Camp ~

After Kongkoil Aksasais Compass Marching, we continue our training with River Crossing and Floating Techniques. Kongkoil Camp has a lake, dirty tea-color-lake, haha. Before we start training, our staffs put few explosive boms to scare the fishes underwater, so that fishes in the water faint for a while during our training. Here comes to play in the water playground which I most scare for. I’m scared because I don’t know what’s underwater, hope fishes won’t bite me. We training together with junior. 

~ Around 100m of distance ~

~ One of my squad ~

~ It’s my turn ~

Well, about river crossing, actually very easy. Why I say easy? Because it was really easy!!! Haha. As got a rope link between two banks, and we were wearing lifejacket and it was buckle up with the rope, won’t drown anyway. We just had to pull the water by grabbing the water to reach another bank of the lake. It was just like playing with water, but the water very dirty!!! Before we start, we have to sink into the water once to “warm up” our body and adapt with the water. Then report to officer: “Saya Pegawai Kadet Wanita XXX, siap untuk menyeberangi kolam”. Then just slide to another bank of lake, very fun. This is one of the important training in military, as to train military personnel to cross river in an emergency case. Like what you see in movie, military personnel help victims to survive. You don’t think we do this just for fun ok, that is none of the activity we do it without any objective.

~ Everybody lined up for their turn ~

~ Pillow ~

After done for River Crossing, another section called “Perapungan” aka floating. How they do the “floating pillow” actually, what is the ingredients inside? They do the “floating pillow” with poncho, ingredient is GRASSES. They wrap a lot a lot of grasses inside, then use branch to stable it and tie up the whole pillow neatly and tightly. The “pillow very heavy, have to carry 2 persons. Thissection challenge cooperation between 2 persons. One person holds in front while another person hold behind and swim to another side. In my case, I can’t swim and my partner also can’t swim, we cannot move at all. HAHA. Then the staff helped to pull us. 

~ Staff pulled us ~

~ My partner for floating ~

Really was a great experience to try all this military training. Sometimes feel sad cannot enjoy much holiday and freedom, sacrifice our time, when we look back, we did something great in our young life. Yeah, everthing worth it. All this experience not included in our text book, cannot buy it anyhow. So, just enjoy the training with our squads.

~ My hands when finish training, so geli ~

~ After training ~

~ Report finish training ~

~ Prepare pre mess night for senior ~

I still remember the week after came back from training, my whole body full with red dots because of too hot. Until I went home and get some air-conditioner air, just turned better.

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Written On 21 November 2013

Aksasais Compass Marching

~ Group 13 in action ~

In PALAPES, there are 3 categories of training: Latihan Tempatan, Latihan Berterusan & Annual Camp. Our Latihan Berterusan was arranged to go to Camp Kongkoil in Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan. Camp Kongkoil owned by UPNM, a camp by roadside. UPNM always send students to there for study camp, military training camp, even lecturers also have their activities at here. HAHA, so pity. We went to Camp Kongkoil for our military training for 5days. This was better than our annual camp. At least at Kongkoil, we get to bath everyday, sleep in tent; can wear sport attire, and no dirty mud. But, don’t know why, maybe I haven’t get my mental set before went there, I felt very uncomfortable at there.  

~ Got tent leh, so good ~

~ Line up for breakfast ~

~ Breakfast together ~

~ Ransom ~

15 April 2013, early morning after breakfast, we gather and released to start our mission – Aksasais Compass Marching. This is my very 1^st compass marching experience. A group with 10 people, with a map, a compass, some “explosive bom” and ransom, everybody carry a backpack and a steyr AUG A1, Yeah, start mission.  Compass Marching, we have to solve every obstacles we face to reach the destination. Either in front you is a high mountain / river / underbrush / mud, you have to cross it, MUST. Walking at the rubber estate, mosquitoes always follow us, ouch..!!! Beh tahan leh. Mosquitoes keipo than us. Yo….. Walk depends on the map and compass, will lost or not? When we walk, we have to hide ourselves by passby passenger, especially our officer. If found by our officer, we have to restart our mission from beginning. 

~ 1^st pit stop ~

~ Great to see small river, rest for a while for recharge energy, drink tea, cooling tea using river ~

~ Fish pond that we passed by ~

~ Scary ~

Well, my group was the last group released from starting point, it was about 12 noon. We were so hungry under the hot sun. From our starting point, is a high mountain, yes, CLIMB!!! Everybody can’t go with empty stomach, so eat our lunch at a place which we don’t know where is it. Until the half way, everybody give full co-operation to the team. A lot of obstacles that really out of our expectation. Hot sun, heavy backpack, heavy gun, can’t find correct direction, what else you want??? 

~ No direction ~

~ Obstacles ~

~ No more energy, tie the rope at tree and pull ~

~ Too hungry ~

Around 6.30pm, sky turned dark, we still can’t find our checkpoint, can hear for car sound, but we were at high peak of mountain, can’t find a way out, really LOST, LOST, LOST. We contact base camp by radio set, can’t hear anything, take out handphone, no line!!! Don’t know what to do, we decided to find a place to setup our tents. We follow a route, like a route can pass by car. We really hope for help and wish can meet someone, but NONE. We walked follow that route, it’s a circle going down to downhill. Turn, turn and turn, we saw a house!!! Is a simple wooden house, our hope!!! We knock the door and unfortunately, nobody inside, the house just like a pit-stop-place for rubber tappers. We overnight there, did a campfire to avoid from mosquitoes, cook for dinner, and atleast lit up some fire for us. 

~ Radio set ~

Actually is a fault to come down the hill, we were in the right middle of the jungle, surrounded by mountains, that’s why can’t receive signal. We used the explosive bom to give signal to base camp and shoot few shots to inform officers we were there, but no response, maybe they can’t hear our shots and they can’t see our emergency explosive bom. OMG, so helpless. We slept outside that house and take turn to guard our place. 

~ Miniflare and ThunderFlash used in emergency ~

~ The house we overnight ~

Another morning, we are so pleased to see rubber tappers came to that house, and they point the road for us. OK, we continue our journey to complete the mission. Actually we already know got road outside just by walking distance. But, we are not going to give up like this. We continue our journey to find the checkpoint. Nothing landmark can be seen, just a peaceful and mystery rubber estate. We depend on the bearing of the compass, but can’t find the checkpoint also. Thirsty and hungry stomach made us no patience, plus my face and hands also swollen because of wild mosquitoes. I hate you la mosquitoes!!!

~ This called mosquitoes ~

We slide down to downhill, then walk follow river, then one of our member nearly get beaten by bee. Then don’t know direction already, and finally we gave up, due to safety comes first. We walked to the roadside and try to contact base camp, still no signal. Luckily, our truck passed by there and picked up us. We didn’t complete the mission and for sure get punished. An unforgettable experience, lost for 24 hrs, luckily I’m still here today. And here came our punishment…But I cannot show you la. 

~ Dinner for the night , rice and fish ~

~ Eating maggi mee ~ 

~ Part of training, serious when comes to serious matter ~

But next second….what happens?

~ Everything will be fine after serious ~

Is it a good ending or a bad ending?

Good is they found us, we are safe now, bad is we failed the mission!!!

~ Swollen condition for 1^st day ~

This is just 1/5 level compare to Annual Camp.

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LOST for 1 DAY

Written On 10 November 2013