Life in ETI
Its been a long time since my last post, partly because I have been quite busy. For the last 3 weeks in Engineers Training Institute (ETI) I was appointed as the CWSM, or Cadet Wing Sergeant Major, which is like a discipline master of a school, and lots of time were spent doing training related admin stuff, leaving me with limited time to do anything else.
Nonetheless, these 3 weeks been a rather fruitful experience I must say. I'm a innately soft-spoken and nice guy, so I think I've been very nice to my wing. Too nice in fact, such at certain times I actually found that it was quite hard to control my peers because they don't take me seriously and think I will always condone their acts and let them go unpunished. I only started meting out punishments when it was around my last week of appointment. I don't think I did badly, but if I can redo these three weeks again, I won't adopt the same nice guy approach. I will turn the wing out on the first night, whack them, scold them, and show them that I mean business. The nice guy always loses.
Life in Engineers Training Institute has been quite enjoyable, especially since my platoon is full of great fun people who jokes around all the time. There's definitely less physical training compared to infantry, but a lot of mugging and outfield practical lessons which boggles your mind. There are like 2 tests a week, and for each failure (i.e. less than 75%) you will have to book in 2 hours early, and so far I have already failed 3 out of 5 tests T_T Its not that I didn't study, but some of the tests which are designed by the Enciks and SMEs have really horrible English and the questions are super ambiguous. Dammit. I really hope that I can perform well in OCS and attain at least a Sword of Merit, because I am contemplating signing on and I want to have a good scholarship to complement my career. I'll continue to do my best, and hopefully everything goes well.
On a side note, happy teacher's day! (:
Nonetheless, these 3 weeks been a rather fruitful experience I must say. I'm a innately soft-spoken and nice guy, so I think I've been very nice to my wing. Too nice in fact, such at certain times I actually found that it was quite hard to control my peers because they don't take me seriously and think I will always condone their acts and let them go unpunished. I only started meting out punishments when it was around my last week of appointment. I don't think I did badly, but if I can redo these three weeks again, I won't adopt the same nice guy approach. I will turn the wing out on the first night, whack them, scold them, and show them that I mean business. The nice guy always loses.
Life in Engineers Training Institute has been quite enjoyable, especially since my platoon is full of great fun people who jokes around all the time. There's definitely less physical training compared to infantry, but a lot of mugging and outfield practical lessons which boggles your mind. There are like 2 tests a week, and for each failure (i.e. less than 75%) you will have to book in 2 hours early, and so far I have already failed 3 out of 5 tests T_T Its not that I didn't study, but some of the tests which are designed by the Enciks and SMEs have really horrible English and the questions are super ambiguous. Dammit. I really hope that I can perform well in OCS and attain at least a Sword of Merit, because I am contemplating signing on and I want to have a good scholarship to complement my career. I'll continue to do my best, and hopefully everything goes well.
On a side note, happy teacher's day! (:
posted by hongrui at
9/02/2011 12:33:00 PM
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