Monday, November 29, 2004

Why am i at home?

That's because i got 1 day MC! Well, my fever got so bad yesterday my world started spinning..i couldn't think straight i thought i was going to die. Initially i wanted to tolerate and see if i get better in camp, but at 1700 i decided i wanted to get an MC. I called my sergeant and he told me i had to get my MC before my MC which was 1840 or else i can be charged for AWOL. WTH...immediately i called mummy and fortunately she was at Ang Mo Kio central and that time. And luckily we found a clinic that is opened. You won't believe how much this doctor's visit cost my mum...a whooping $55...WTH WTF...apparently its because of the antibiotics they prescribed that is supposingly quite costly. Anyway there's only 5 pills inside.

Ok enough of complaining..i'm glad i can rest at home sweet home. Booking in at 1930 today. Was platoon ic last week and got pumped and scolded a few times haha. I think there'll be a change of ic today so when i book in i'm relieved of responsibilities phew. With the blink of an eye, my life as a chao recruit is coming to an end. Not sure if i'll miss life here until i experience army elsewhere in the coming months.

Oh at the clinic yesterday, i passed all my belongings to my mum because i wanted to go to the toilet. When i came back she asked why i had so many keys and asked if one of them is a motorcycle's key. Opps..immediately of course i said no lah and told her some of them belongs to sam haha. Luckily she didn't probe further. Expectedly i think she already knows it more or less. My room is full of bike posters and magazines and my computer's wallpaper is Yamaha R1.

Anyway i caught The Shutter with puss on Sat. Go watch it if you need some shocks to wake up in life. The thais did a good job..its certainly scary..watch it..oh the lead actress is quite hot too.

Saturday, November 20, 2004

2 more weeks to POP! PO PO PO P!

I'm exactly 14 days away from passing out from bmt, fast isn't it? The past week passed reasonably quickly. Was outfield again for 3 days 2 nights for my situational test. Was a law gunner and that meant that i had to carry the 6.3kg law tube plus my m16 rifle everywhere i went. And if you understand what i mean, you can imagine how fucking tiring it is to leopard crawl and arti run with that shitty tube haha. Anyway all is over now and the few events left are namely live grenade throw and 16km/24km route march.

Had my 5 days long holiday last week, it passed in whizz. Attended my cousin's wedding that sunday. It was the first time i witnessed the cantonese practice of marriage, with the bargaining of hongbao on entering the bride's house blah blah. You won't believe what happened that day. After fetching the bride, they had to travel to the bridegroom's house. A few cousins of mine and i tagged along. 4 cars left and i was in my sister's bf's car. At the exit of SLE going to Yishun, one of the cars driven by the bridegroom's car skidded and it smashed against the wall along the side of the road. On seeing the accident, my sister's bf panicked and jam brake. The car skidded too and smashed into the walls too. Thank God nobody was injured although the cars were in quite a bad state.

There's so many things i want to do, eat and see on booking out but i don't know where to start and i don't have the money to start haha. SAF isn't paying me enough! Slept my precious afternoon away, going to make full use of my evening and night. Going out soon! Meanwhile take care all!

Saturday, November 13, 2004

My Long Weekend

Booked out on wednesday's evening and will be booking in only on monday evening, how great is that?! Will be going back to the jungle on tuesday for my situational test though. But fortunately its only 3 days 2 nights now. Will be back to eating shitty ration and powder bathing, hope it won't be so demoralising this time.

Went Mambo night with my poly classmates on wednesday night. It was expectedly packed but somehow we all managed to squeeze in quite quickly haha. Danced for awhile but felt really sleepy after 3am. Stayed over at Sam's house that night and slept till around 1pm. Remained at her place for nearly the whole day playing mahjong and won some money haha.

Went out with wayniest yesterday. We went to the motorshow and it cost us $10. There weren't mercedes, bmw, jaguar nor volkswagon. Not worth the $10 at all so if you read this try not to go, even going to the zoo will be a better choice. After that we met us with puss, sam and her brother for a movie. Watched the incredibles. Just like the other graphic movies, its funny, imaginative and ok to watch.



You can never imagine how much an NSman will spend on one weekend out. For the past few days outside, i think i've spent more than $200 already. I'm already feeling so broke after paying for the damn bike insurance that cost me $700...someone help me........

Will be eating dinner at merchant court's hotel tonight to celebrate my mummy's birthday. Then after that i'll be going to sentosa to attend mingli's birthday celebration. What do u think? Every book out day is precious! Haha

Saturday, November 06, 2004

Miss me?!

Wow how long has it been? I wonder how many of you all actually do drop by Xiaoville nowadays. You might think i'm exaggerating but this one month plus seems such a long time to me. I've been through shit, mud, torture, humiliation etc etc you name it haha.

I'm in BMTC school 1 Charlie company Platoon 1 Section 2 haha. Charlie is the slackest enhanced company in school 1 this time. While other companies are doing their 5BX (excercise), our company will be just preparing to wake up. We have reasonable amount of admin time but when the sergeants want to tekang us, its hell.

So far i've done route marches, basic close combat training(bcct), circuit training, weights training, ET run, IPPT, range and FIELD CAMP! The 7 days of field camp were the worse days of my life. I didn't bathe nor brush my teeth for the whole one week. Everyday we have to sleep on mud and feed the mosquitos. Ok we powder bath everyday, and that means stripping to only our underwear and cover every part of our body with powder. I hate powder bathing because that's when mosquitos start biting me again and i have to take off my shoes and step on the shitty mud. Throughout the 1 week, i had my boots on all the time except when powder bathing. Can you imagine the discomfort, the socks mark on my calf is still around man. Field camp also means that you shit/pee in the jungle and eat combat ration. And trust me, the braised chicken rice with mushroom tasted like vomit, combat ration is army men's fear factor.

It rained everyday during my field camp. Throughout, we had to put on camo, carry our SBO, wear our helmet and hold on to our rifle. They are a bunch of nuisance, everything is dirtied by mud and stinked. One of the things i hate most is doing route march. Route march means we carry our fucking heavy field pack, sbo, rifle, wear our helmet and march. I think everything weighs almost 25kg, that's almost half my body weight god dammit. And everytime we shift from one camp site to the next, we route march around 3-6km. I don't think i can put down what i've been through this one month in one post. I'll do it when i have more time next time.