My 5 metres From Death
Thursday Morning. What a great morning it was.
A Heavy storm perpetuated the dreamy morning we spent in the cookhouse hiding the ugly fact that we were having a TSR examination and a 30km route march later. Surreal, dreamy, however you may term the calm before the storm (ironically during a storm itself).
I remember asking myself, how can I muster the strength to pull through the long day ahead if I am already having trouble finishing the breakfast.
Then I remember marching, under the cool morning sky with my commander's bag in one hand and swinging with my other. It was such a clear view since I was in the front row. I saw our pink blocks, Delta... then Foxtrot... a turn... then I saw the cookhouse. Suddenly, I heard something muffled. Something like a cackling hiss from above.
I turned left and right, Hazwan and Rifdi were still marching at the normal pace. Now looking back, time seemed to have slowed down then. "STOP" I said as I halted in an abrupt motion causing my 2 point friends to turn around and look at me.
then- right then!
Like how those huge monsters from old Japanese movies fall in their defeat, this tree (not branch- tree!) smashed straight into the ground 5 metres in front of me.
I suppose we all stopped there and looked at each other for a considerable amount of time.
Ironically, we were on our way to our first lecture of the day: Training Safety Regulations and our lecturer took out the "deadfall case study" after he learnt what happened.
A Heavy storm perpetuated the dreamy morning we spent in the cookhouse hiding the ugly fact that we were having a TSR examination and a 30km route march later. Surreal, dreamy, however you may term the calm before the storm (ironically during a storm itself).
I remember asking myself, how can I muster the strength to pull through the long day ahead if I am already having trouble finishing the breakfast.
Then I remember marching, under the cool morning sky with my commander's bag in one hand and swinging with my other. It was such a clear view since I was in the front row. I saw our pink blocks, Delta... then Foxtrot... a turn... then I saw the cookhouse. Suddenly, I heard something muffled. Something like a cackling hiss from above.
I turned left and right, Hazwan and Rifdi were still marching at the normal pace. Now looking back, time seemed to have slowed down then. "STOP" I said as I halted in an abrupt motion causing my 2 point friends to turn around and look at me.
then- right then!
Like how those huge monsters from old Japanese movies fall in their defeat, this tree (not branch- tree!) smashed straight into the ground 5 metres in front of me.
I suppose we all stopped there and looked at each other for a considerable amount of time.
Ironically, we were on our way to our first lecture of the day: Training Safety Regulations and our lecturer took out the "deadfall case study" after he learnt what happened.
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