Was extremely tired after two full days of ERT(emergency response team) training at Spore Aviation Academy.
My muscles are aching now and I also suffered some bruises and big mosquitos bites.
Today is the last day of the training. I am a certified ERT member!
This ERT is to trained us how and what to do during an emergency such as gas leakage or fire.
But I wont be in the front line if such emergency really occur.
My responsibility will be to coordinate with the front line people and help in the evacuation.
If I am the one in the front line, I probably will put everyone's lives in great danger.
Coz it requries alot of courage and physical strength to put out the fire or rescue any casualty.
I lack both and I must admit I am the worst female warrior during the training.
I totally cant carry the hosereel or fire extinguisher, let alone to rescue a 70kg dummy casualty.
And on top of that, I am carrying a 10kg breathing apparatus which I will have to depend on for oxygen.

The training is quite tough especially for a weak female like me.
I was fully dressed from head to toe with my helmet and breathing apparatus throughout the training.
One of the activity that scare me to death which is also the most memorable of all the training was the building simulator.
They put us a group of five into a dark room with alot of obstacles and a manhole.
This is to create a fire emergency. The objective is to overcome the fear of darkness and to find the way out to a safer zone.
To let us have a feel of the real situation, smoke and heat were introduced into the room.
When I entered the room, it was a total darkness.
I have to crawl through the room and rely on my sense of touch and also my group members to get out of the room.
The breathing apparatus can only last for ard 30mins.
A whistle will start to sound when the oxygen in the tank is running low which will make a person panic.
The whole experience was so scary becoz I couldnt see a single thing a all.
To make things worst, I was left behind by my group.
This is what happened...
I was the second person in the row and everything was going smoothly until we hit a dead end..
When my group was retreating, I lost the grip on the person in front of me.
Btw we are crawling in a narrow cage so we can only move in one direction either forward or backward.
I started to shout for his name. I couldnt hear very clearly coz everyone in the room was communicating with one another for direction.
I am not sure if he got response back to me.
I got panic and started to shout for 'number one! number one!'
I tried to search for him by using my hands to feel for his present but he was out of my search radius.
I think he was far ahead of me already.
Maybe he was already out of the cage to a safer zone.
At the same time I was waiting for the guy behind me and the rest to catch up before I can move on.
While I was gan chiong-ing shouting for number one, I realised the guy was not behind me anymore!
I tried to shout for him and he responsed but somehow he din reach out his hand to search for me.
Maybe he did. I couldnt see a single thing.
Soon the rest of the people behind me realised I was not with them.
I could hear them shouting for my name. I quickly response as loud as I could.
The most amazing thing came about.
That is I duno how come number one is with all of them already.
As I couldnt see a single thing and too scare to move, I stay put and wait for my group members to come and rescue me.
While waiting I heard the noise in the room dying down and soon the room was in total silent.
I know they had left the room WITHOUT ME.
At that point in time, I was so scared that I almost wanted to cry out.
I started to bang the cage violently and shout for my members' name.
The instructor acknowledged it and came to my rescue.
Btw the instructor has always been in the room to follow us through the training.
After the whole thing, I realised that the instructor has asked them to leave the room when they tried to go in and rescue me.
Coz he deliberately want to create a mis-communication in us to test our alertness.
Soon after that incident, I had became a laughing stock.
One of my colleagues even create a metaphor related to me and this incident.
Anyway, the course has been fun overall.
I will load the photos here in my next entry.

Tomorrow I still need to go to work for some classroom training.
I have been attending intensive classroom training for the past two weeks.
I need to sleep now. My eyes are closing....