went for the VA at hendon camp today(commando camp), and on the day when the school is having an E-learning exercise. haha so unlucky. so i made my way to hendon camp, reaching that place at 7:30 to find a long line of new recruits like me lining up to get checked in. waited in line for a total of 25mins to finally be able to enter the facility. we were divided into retail groups of about 20 in each retail. i was assigned to the 4th retail. we proceeded to the hall for a short briefing session before heading off to the different venues for our tests. had a 3hr IQ and personality test, consisting of a total of about 300qns...haha yeah thats alot lol. then we went to have lunch. surprisingly the food there wasnt all that bad. infact it was nice and cheap too. after that we went for a physical test where we were tested on pull ups, sit ups, SBJ and push ups. wasnt that bad really, but at that point of time i was feeling very tired alrdy haha. then the final part of the day was the interview. alot of waiting but the interview was very quick, so it was a bloody waste of time as the officer that interviewed us just asked us questions from a form that we had to fill in at the start of the day, could have just let us do ourself to save time. used the waiting time to interact with or IC to find out more about being a commando and it turns out that being a commando is actually a blessing in disguise. cos a commando goes through the same BMT as the rest, but only slightly tougher physical requirements are installed for us, but we are more respected then the normal soldiers. haha and rumours on how we were chosen to be commandos is because we failed the initial IQ test during our Mindef checkup and that we are dumb is totally bullshit, infact its the direct opposite. its because we aced the IQ test thats why we were chosen hahaha i feel better already to be honest. and i heard that its easier for us to become officers in the future. the cool thing about commandos is that if we really passout as one, we will get to choose which unit we want to be in, theres the demolition squad(DAMN COOL!! HAHAA), the medics, signal and special weapons unit. hahah im eally excited by the prospect of being a commando. >< but i still cant say that im 100% a commando yet as they say its a 50% chance cos they still need to select and its not confirm that they will choose me. but im hoping that i will be selected haha cos the benefit of being a commando is really good. =]