11th Dec - 12th - An interesting week - First sailing ever -

Monday - 11th Dec

First day of my first sailing trip.
I'll be going onboard RSS Punggol, together with Tomithy as my OJT sailing.

Well first thing we did was to report to the Coxwain of the ship, and then to check the medical supplies/stores, making sure that its not expired/fallen into disrepair.

We were then shown our own beds, which will become the place we stayed in the longest.

It was during this time, that i saw how sailing can be hard. Harder than chionging in the outfields perhaps. (Not as a medic of course.)

First of all, our jobs are just to provide medical coverage, in case of any emergencies or medical incidents happen, we're there to make sure everything is all right.

Hah, speaking of that, 3 'incidents' happened. A serviceman with a eyelash which fell into his eye, one who fell on his hand, and another who suffered a graze on his hand.

We did what we could, used eyedrops, which were fortunately in their medical chest, to attempt to rinse out the foreign object, taped 2 of the fingers together to form a splint, and cleaned the wound.

That's it for the medical part. The rest of the trip was spent:-
1) Reading (7 habits of effective Teens. Heyy.. its a good book)
2) Sleeping. (I'm not used to having so much rest actually, and so much 'free time'. Not to mention i didn't sleep well the night before. bleh)
3) Watching Animes. (I converted some one piece, bleach & death note inside)

That's pretty much what happened for the first trip. I did help out with the chef a bit.

Oh yea, i realised that i don't eat much when i'm sailing. Just don't feel like eating. Not to mention feeling kinda tired too. hah..~

On the 12th Dec, we reached base at about 6:30pm, then called a cab home.

Tomithy innocently engaged the cab driver in a 'what kind of merc cab is this', which turned out into a very complex conversation of 'What is good, what is bad, what is life' kind of conversation.

Omg.

=_=

And that's pretty much for the first sailing.