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Exercise Starlight - It was so underwhelming :/

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Exercise Starlight (17th Aug - 7th Sep) Yay so I'm finally back from Taiwan/Republic of China. Singapore's quite a mess though, with elections going on and the annual haze issue *coughs*. I tweeted my experiences here in Taiwan but I felt it was too shallow so here, the full experience of the bittersweet 20 days I've been through. 17th Departed Singapore I felt really uncertain about embarking on this trip, mostly worries and fears regarding the three chevrons. You can read about it in my  instagram   post  (It's private though). 18th Landed at Taoyuan Airport, followed by a bus ride to Douliou into Meilin Camp. If you thought Singapore is hot and humid, it gets worse in Taiwan. Everyone was dying from the intense heat. I had to sleep in a 40 man bunk (like a dormitory for migrant workers lol), on the 5th floor. I always thought double decker beds were cool... Then I realised the pain of scaling 5 stories just to climb another 1.5m to