so it was the latter so oh well i will probably be retaking my A's. strangely i'm not sad or depressed or anything. i guess its just what you just call just desserts. on a lighter note, i passed chinese B.

had my 3-day SIT test this week. (read: 3 days in jungle again.) sparing the technical details, and on to the juicy part, i had to take a shit on the 3rd day. this is a BAD thing. because by now, the shit area is a veritable mine field crawling with stink bombs. but i'm getting ahead of myself.
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JUNGLE TOILET 101
let me explain to the un-initiated. in the jungle, there are no toilets. so, you pee into the trees/grass* and dig a hole and shit into it and cover it up. and all this is done in a designated area.
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ok now back to my rant. so by the third day, a company of 200 recruits have been using the same 10x10m area to shit/piss. what do i mean by mine field? when i take my shovel to dig a shit hole, alas! i UNCOVER a previous shit hole! wa lan its damn sick and smelly la. then while you're shitting, you must keep swatting your pantat to keep the flies and mosquitos away. and there are other people shitting around you and you can see all kinds of shit. deep brown, light brown, reddish brown, long, short, skinny and fat. the mental image... ugh. if you're some kinda perverted sicko into that kinda kinky shit then you'll be in heaven man.

so my advice for recruits to be- shit early on and then avoid it after that like the plague.

*my section mate was unlucky enough to prone (i.e. lie down) in a grass bed of pee during training.