wow 20days without blogging. yes, army life is so interesting and meaningful that i've actually no time to blog!

truth is, i've got nothing much to blog.

other than the major events, which are live firing and grenade-throwing which i've completed.

talk about throwing a hand grenade... the feeling of having a live grenade with you, near your body is quite nerve-wrecking.

it could explode any moment.

it could be defected, and any move you made will cause it to blow.

once it blows, anyone within 20m is virtually dead.

but it was fun. not everyone got to throw it though. those with sweaty palms and those who were afraid were excused.

i personally find it fun. especially when it blows off, of course. haha.


SOC- Standard Obstacle Course

SOC is fun too! our own playground. except for the running part, which i dare say is definitely tougher than your 2.4km run. running in your SBO is never a good choice. plus, your rifle's being a bitch by hitting against your body everytime you run.

these few weeks have been rather slack. because we have completed our major events, there's nothing much left.

heck, we're left with a week and 3 days to our graduation parade! or formally know as Passing Out Parade- POP!

oh yeah, i've completed our 16km route march. its special from the other 3,4,6,8 and 12km i've done cuz this time, our field pack is slightly heavier and we walked straight for 8km without resting. we didn't take a break at the 4km rest point, probably cuz everyone was feeling quite high?

i dunno about them, but for me my shoulders almost gave way when i reached the rest point ahhahha.

anyway! recruit life is about to be over soon. going to bade farewell to BMTC 1 Jaguar Company. its been a very good 11 weeks or so. especially with my section. and my buddy. WHO'S INDIAN. HAHHAAHHAHAHHA.

even though i felt that our platoon is not as united as it should be, but at least at some point of time we managed to stick together.

for the 16km route march, we were kinda scattered here and there, abit disappointing but nevertheless none of us fell out, and completed the whole 16km march together.


our field camp photo! heh... heck, i can't even spot myself!

good old days of our field camp.. 6 days of hell, during mid-october. and here, we emerged warriors! HAHAHA.

well once again. its book-out day.

booked out yesterday at a orgasmic 1200 hours! thats 12pm for you fellas. but of course, since when is SAF so nice........................

we had to attend this defence exhibition at Science Centre. wasn't that bad, considering that we can:

1) enjoy air-con (Science Centre leh, not some hawker centre!)
2) get to see mainland Singapore (Tekong isn't exactly the best place to be.....)
3) have the chance to book out early (we won't possibly stay there the whole day till 8pm?)
4) look at girls (girls girls and more girls.)

haha the last point is just bullshit.

really.

no, i was just kidding!

okay never mind.

so we were there for the whole afternoon till about 3pm. thereafter i had lunch with my section mates at Jurong East area. then one of my section mates fetched me home as his dad came to pick him up.

hmm so for the past week... as usual military training. next week gonna go for live range! real, live rounds. live range = shooting rifle with live rounds.

which means you are holding something that could KILL.

hahhhahhhahahahhhahahhahhaa AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHA


haha.

my blog is pretty boring, ain't it? i feel the same way. no pictures or whatsoever. i mean, we can't bring any image-capturing devices into Tekong so there is no way i can show you how our camp looks like.

or the trainings we had.

or the nonsensical funny stuffs we did. (sniggers)

well. here are some songs that we made up and sang inside. all stupid and lame and funny but well... its the army? the original lyrics... well they're not as interesting as ours!

hey ah oh ah infantry ah!
we are the men, from Jaguar company yah!
last time i can masturbate ah!
now i have to stand-by bed yah!
got no time to peel orange ah!
but got time to go for range yah!
got no time for chocolate bar ah!
but got time for pull-up bars yah!

well the beat is... i can't exactly describe it out here. eh got time, gimme a call, i try to sing the song for you. LOL.

G is for Geylang!
E is for every night!
Y is for young chicks!
L is for long dicks!
A is for ah-peks!
N is for night life!
G is for good life!

down by the alley,
i took a little walk-kkk,
ran into some prostitues,
had a little suck cock.

we fucked them, (AHH), sucked them, (AHH), fucked them sucked them (AHH AHH!)
into the hoooole,
left her to drown-nn,
we don't need no girlfriends,
prostitutes are cheappppp,

HEEEYYYYYY don't be a fool, somebody said we are number 2,
PUI, we are number 1!!!! JAGUARRRRR!

we still have some other nonsensical songs, but lazy to write them down here. haha!

oh well. POP is coming next month. 10 dec 2008. i'll no longer be a recruit! a trained soldier! most importantly...

no more going back to Tekong! its like someone shipped you off to another island and imprisoned you there man...

alright. time to get some rest. oh well.

i reached home at 11 30pm, or rather 2330 last night. i've never felt so shagged in my whole life before, haha.

the last 2 weeks have been physically and mentally tiring for me, and of course all my buddies. we stormed the jungles together, leopard crawl through mud and dirt together (once we had to leopard crawl over this hill cuz we pissed our Sir off but heng he relented. i swore i wouldn't be sitting here if i did that), slept in a shellscrape i dug, swiped tons of mosquitoes and flies and ants, killed a centipede (with my SAF boots leh!) and of course...

the highlight was i actually DID NOT FALL SICK. or FELL OUT. hahaaahahahahhaahhahahaa.

never thought i would made it through all these huh.. you fucking pussies!

except i came back with a swollen right eye and tons of insect bites on both sides of my hand. my sister is afraid to look at them lol. i think there's.. (counting) about 20 bites on each hand? went home and applied MOPIKO, that kinda helps to soothe the itchiness.

field camp, 6 days, took place last week. it was hell, i tell you. literally a boot camp kinda thing. well, its an experience, firstly i didn't bathe for the 6 whole damn days, i only bathed for the 1st time in 6 days when i reached home.

i stood in the shower, at home, and just basked in the glory of having warm water run over me, for... a good 3,4 mins.

and another thing.. having dug a hole for more than 6 hours, and sleeping in it... never felt so good. hahahaha!

the worst thing that happened was that it rained CONTINOUSLY from the night of Day2 till the morning of Day5 of my field camp... it was really fucked up man, that was really some bad fuckshit. sleeping in wet clothes.... but luckily i had my gortex jacket.

so anyway, another highlight was SHITTING in the forest. yeah baby, you just dig a hole, unbutton your pants, squat down and.... let everything out!

i was shitting at another camp site that offered me a sea view... okay how many times in your lifetime have you shit in an open area, and in one that offers you a sea view? which you can see ships passing by.....

no right?

THEN WHAT YOU WAITING FOR? SIGN ON WITH THE SAF!

that was just plain bullshit, excuse me. heh..

so one night, i was sleeping when suddenly... it began to rained.

no, not just rained. it rained heavily, accompanied by thunder and lightning. all of us hurried out of our tents and took shelter at a nearby shed. which was, just nice, beside the sea.

so as the sea breeze blew in, we shivered. it was just plain pathetic, all of us soaking wet (the shed wasn't big enough for all of us) and the wind just kept blowing in at us........

conclusion: life in the jungle is tough, and is subjected to the mercy of the heavens and weather.

now you jackasses know how lucky you are?

alright. time to let my swollen eyes to rest. honestly i don't know how i got them... bloody hell. there's an old saying that when you peep at girls bathing, you will get swollen eyes.

BUT JUNGLE FIELD CAMP WHERE GOT GIRLS!

!#@!$#@%!@^^#$@&#@&#@%#!%@$#^$#@^#!^#!&!#

hmm.

today is beeping's birthday! hahaha. happy birthday chua beeping!

so last night, we went out to eat. its a restaurant called Brussels or something. located near Robertson's Quay. i think.

but there is like, an angmoh heaven la. first time i see so many angmoh gather together.

or maybe its just me... stuck at Tekong chalet for too long, become fucking sua ku liao. =((

the food there was quite awesome. erm, so there was beeping, of course, soe, hteinlin and kush. kush came to pick me up and drive there, as the other 3 were there already.

hteinlin rode his bike there. i got the chance to pillion ride his bike! my first time sitting on a bike. honestly it was a little scary but not bad. especially when the cold wind hits across your face your hair kinda stands.

nope, i didn't pee nor crapped in my pants either =D

as i was saying, we were eating at Brussels, and their mussels (i think its spelled like that) are pretty good. beeping and soe ordered some chicken thigh main course, not bad. kush and hteinlin had fish n chips.

so... me bring curious. went to order some Fillet Americain (i think its spelled like that...?) which is some beef stuffs. well, could be some beef main course. the waiter told me its something like raw beef so i went ahead with the order.

when my meal came... i tot it came straight out from a can of Cesar. you know, that small can of dog food with a picture of a cute white dog on it?

yeah. that one. my raw beef looks like dog food served with lettuce and potato wedges.

LOL. its not bad...... considering they mixed it with some MY-YOUR-NIECE sauce (miniwong taught me how to spell it like that! lol) and bits of colesaw in it.

so... yeah. there was my dinner. sad. a can of Cesar.

heh...

after that we went to catch Max Payne at The Cathy... basically the movie was DISAPPOINTING man. considering its from a game. plot was abit draggy here and there.

wanted to watch Body Of Lies but its coming out on 20th NOV -_-

anyway, soe bought beeping a Wii for her birthday! omg man hahhaaha not bad sia. Wii. damn!

after the movie we had supper at bukit timah, and went home to sleep.


one thing i realised is that, everytime i booked out, first thing i would do is rush to the toilet and.............................

SHIT.

wa, the feeling of shitting in your own toilet, in your own comfort is so damn... priceless.

so all you people out there. don't take shitting in your house's toilet for granted. its a PRIVILEGE.

well well well..

next week's my field camp.

6 days in the open jungle.

how nice.

the week where my commanders will literally yell and fuck us up.

can't wait for it.

=(

too tired to blog now though. nights.

time really flies man.

its been 4 weeks since i've enlisted. 4 long weeks. 4 weeks of physical training.

and of course, 4 weeks of punishments from my commanders. haha!

compared to the other platoons in my company, i must say mine is the most..... relaxed one. HAHHAHHA. all my sergeants treat us very well. but that is to be over soon, as military training is coming up, and the angels inside them are disappearing. =(

next week is the 5th one. i'm left with... around 9 weeks to go.

of course, what is army without all the jungles? haha. next next week i'll be going in, finally. getting close to mother nature! and no doubt, no bathing for a LONG LONG time.

correct what! jungle where got bathroom for you to bathe? hahhaha.

i can't say much here anyway. ah well... army life. getting quite used to it.

4 weeks together with my section mates. we feel almost like we've been training together for like 4 months hahaha.

can't imagine only 2-3 months ago i was still working at PwC. wearing formal, civilian clothes.

leading a normal civilian life.

having a normal civilian haircut.

eating normal civilian food.

holding a normal civilian IC.

taking normal civilian pubic transport.

life changes, and there is so much i can learn from all these.

anyway, my com died on me yesterday. my power supply, apparently, cocked up on me. i can't boot up my computer at all. guess its time to buy a new one.

wanted to make myself a new com but i don't have enough time nor cash.

a recruit's pay is really pathetic. OH, and miniwong has enlisted! HHAHAHAH. that poor ass. in my school somemore! guess will see him in the cookhouse. hahha.

can't think of any shit that i can blog now. maybe will blog about my jungle experience. LMAO.

the sky looks dark. all the dark clouds loom. pretty soon you see everyone clearing off the streets and the sun is blocked by the low clouds.

you carry your field pack. heavy, but still comfy. dragging your boots, which you're not supposed to, you walk to the ferry terminal. along with all your buddies. no one speaks or said anything, and all with the same solemn expression. boarding the ferry, you sit down beside your buddy, and closed your eyes. took a short nap. glance up occasionally to check your bearing, and pretty soon you see the dreaded island.

that's book in day.

you carry your field pack, and god, it feels so fucking light. together with your buddies, all of you run towards the ferry along the pier, shouting and singing book-out songs. though tired out from the morning's training, no one showed any signs of slowing down. removing your jockey cap, you hurried onto the ferry and find a sing, plonk your ass down, and start to call/sms people. everyone is smiling.

that's book out day.



this sucks man.

i'll be booking out late next saturday, so i won't be able to make it for my cousin's wedding dinner.

and i've got another cousin whose wedding is in december. on a sunday evening.

WA LAU.

so rare got 2 wedding dinners in a year.

SO SUAY I HAVE TO DO NATIONAL SERVICE.

and book out late.............



have to book in later though. sigh.

the start of week 4 soon. physical training will soon be over, and more emphasis on military training.

well, its good, i mean, we're soldiers so we gotta learn how to use our guns right? haha. anyway physical training will always be part of the training there.

see you guys soon. =)