Holy SHIT!! I'm working in my company under the HQ department.. the thing is dey are severely understaffed.. so for my first wk, i alr done 1 COS duty which was last night. Anyw it jus meant that i stayed in last nite to do duty.. Hmm my friend worse, he came in one wk b4 me, so he did last fri, wed, this fri n coming sunday.. so duty ytd was supposed to be done by him, but my heart went out to him cos i understand the feeling of doing so many duties n yet so little book out timing, so i volunteered to help him do the night shift ytd. That was how i got my first duty.. yep

Basically first week was not bad.. more to praise den to complain, but i'm down with flu now. so dun rrly in the mood to type long blogs. nxt time shall continue...

6:22 PM

10:34 PM

haha i tink this blogskin quite a lot! anyways my face keep peeling cos of sunburn from thurs.. hmm i smell some jealousy ar.. haha sebastian dun jealous la.. lol

Sebastian: Guardsmen! (platoon sgt i heard woot!)

About him: not v tall, not v handsome, not v lazy, not too blur, but good friend.

haha from time he came in, den i alr felt he's good guy, true enough, during our course he helped me a lot and in many ways.. i will always rmb i had such a good friend. sometimes at night we'll talk a little b4 bed n tease each other a little, not hanky panky! haha

ok let me share a lil abt my 2 bed buddies. wilson is long from sispec n such long mention le, i shall talk abt sebast. contrary from wilson, which like to lie beside me* on my bed (wth he got foot rot, i damn scared spread to me. lol) sebast dun lie on my bed. haha

cos my cupboard is near his bed n easier for me to take things sitting on his bed i often do that. haha when packing stuff in my dirty uniform, n sometimes in underwear. (he'll always talk rubbish n say my underwear wet cos i just bathed, but in actual fact its DRY! SEBAST U GOT ME!? ITS DRY!. yep)

he also lyk to beat ppl's backside.. hmm and LIKES to ACT GAY! haha always i pretend to scold him, he'll pretend to be shy or wat, lyk a girl. haha of course, this kind supposed to be secrets we have in camp, but i'd share a little.. the times when he helped me copy answers.. i'm gonna miss all these v much..

ok sebast when u go to guards take care k! i shall not spill anymore of your secrets, lyk how u like to walk ard in bunk in underwear *oops! hehe jkjk rmb to sms me more n maintian comms! no comms no rest! every night sms me once!!

wilson: in case u reading this, dun feel neglected, haha i will miss u too, my bed buddy from sispec charlie to si. i feel v emotionally attached to charlie still, especially CSM. haha ok take care buddy, signals is proud of u!

alvin: haha paise i can't help but talk abt army yet again.. cos we jus pop den we all split, my mind mainly is on my bunkmates n platoon mates.. haha i nv forget the class too, its in my heart lol!

9:54 PM

TIO OWN! haha long time nv play, today first time playing competition in ages. It was exciting at first, cos i din know wat to expect, and dey got new style of counting points (think dey call it league system). yep so i lost 2 games, which i in total played 2. lol ok had a great time wif kmk n syd not forgetting tyl! haha chess is like gathering to me. But interest diminished la cos v long nv train, so endurance fall, skills fall. Den play alr keep losing, one of these days will sian de. haha for chess is must constantly train, so i now got 2 choices -1. train constantly and win and maintain interest in chess. -2. dun train and continue to lose interest n one day, give up chess. haha



ok anyways i tink i wana change blogskin! haha this one use quite long le. tmr i posting to new unit, dey say a fresh start for everything isnt it? but the settings a bit ma fan, i go try to find smth nice! haha mayb cbox also haha.

8:40 PM

eh, b4 u read, i tink u shouldnt' cos quite boring, mainly abt my experiences abt parting (cos i graduate from signals institute) and meeting ( cos i parade at sispec and met a lot of my previous commanders). and quite incoherent. haha read at your own risk

hmms, been some time sinced i blogged.. i shall blog mainly abt my pop. Its abt an hour and half parade and held in sispec parade square. ok start from thursday:

thurs morning, after breakfast, we changed n prepared to take bus to sispec at 6.20am!! so early! but we were all excited n raving to go! it was POP man! haha the previous night, dey made fun of some ppl too, lyk camou cream on them whilst they were fast asleep.

so anyways we were to go to sispec, v near to charlie coy. it was the placed i spent 2mths of my army life in. naturally i felt it v v meaningful to go back cos i can see all my sgts. so i went in with a v excited heart. to my disappointment sergeant major(lyk discipline master) was not in, he went on cruise apparently. haha but we saw some sgts tt day. it wasnt easy, cos our sgts were not walking ard for us to see. lol wat i meant was cos charlie's last batch jus passed out, so it was down period, den the sgts some at home, some not on duty, so dey were free to go anywhere. i was a lil disappointed, but nonetheless at the end of the day ard 5plus or 6 plus, me, wilson, zhi qin went to see some of the sgts tt were present. haha my Sect commander was as humorous as ever. haha i remember him as being humorous normally, but angry easily, but but recovers from his anger fast. haha

the first day i went in charlie coy, i angered him, haha his name was aaronn, i heard the sir called him sgt a-ron, so i did lykwise calling him sgt a-ron, but he got a lil angry n say his name is sgt a-ren. lol i rmbed it clearly, and also got once i tink 1st day if i not wrong, we were supposed to look for him, but we went to dinner first. so he got a little angry, but after 1 or 2 hours he ok le. haha tts my sect comm for u.

btw i found out, our batch when undergoing training, each bunk (4-5 bunks in a platoon ard 10-11 ppl per bunk) had a section commander. but nowadays i heard my fren say sispec dun practise this anymore, it used to be instructors taking up the role of section commander, but it seems it isnt anymore, i heard now instructors act as teachers only, teaching many classes but nv attached to one class strongly, whereas our batch when our section comm only taught us, it was more closely bonded. cos u know the sect comm's likes and dislikes and he also biased towards his own section, however when it comes the teacher kind, this is no longer the case. lol

anyways so we rehearsed ard 4 times for our parade on thurs. the sun was overbearing, so now i've got a distinct 2shades on my face. on top(yellow), from eyebrow down (red n a lil black), dey call this CHAO TA. lol so on thurs nite, was v shag and everyone slept by 10pm. haha

ok so fri's morning, which was TODAY to me, though now is passed 12am, anyways so we took same bus at 620 too. hmm on the bus journey, i was beside wilson, i listen to songs and got emo at the same time. the thoughts that flashed through my mind was i was leaving the school, the comfort zone into a new n (might be worse) place. my frens which i've bonded with will leave me, i'd have to make new friends, which may not be as close as my current platoon mates. remembering the charlie peeps, especially my bed buddy wilson, from charlie till signals, we basically went thru thick n thin, from privates to corporals (our v tough times in charlie), and corporal to 3sg (our life in signals using computers.) its quite sad to part..

but i rmb my sir said b4, all this is part n parcel of life, u've got to accept it. i'd also rmb my sir, we used to dislike him, warrant john, cos he was strict, but we've all came to realise, its for our benefits, so i respect him. EMO EMO.. Wilson ar wilson.. dun be so slack in unit ar.. "swing ur arms properly.. u is it wana stay back on sat to march?" although i dislike him at times, but i've came to accept him le.. also sebastian, though not so long, the bond is dere too.. my bed buddies.. oh no so sad. oops haha

i believe most ppl see army as a place u serve and FO, but actually strong bonds are formed, may not be between whole platoon size, but between buddies level surely have.. charlie was rrly tough when we went thru, so wilson went thru with me, gg outfield, seeing n fearing wild boars. so we take care of each other, but he quite afraid of insects.. but he's strong physically, so i rmb fast march he pushed me on.. other times i help him too. ok seems incoherent le, cos too many things we went thru tgt to mention all in coherent manner. just feels sad la..

seriously in charlie though we bed buddies, i always feel he v slack, so dun like. but after come signals, we bed buddies again, den we formed bond le, i know how he works, he also know how i works, and know wat i want to say, its like when i wana say one sentence, he knows wat i mean when i frown or wat, but others wun know.. he also try to peep my hp, n i dun always dun let him peep. haha got once he successfully peep when i charging, den i du lan i charge hp will delete all msgs. lol

ok talk so much abt him ltr ppl tink i gay. but i tink we're formed strongbonds, so i sat in bus beside him, i kept getting emo, now also.. nv talk much on bus today cos i emo ma, think he mayb also but i duno la.. normally i go places i'd go with any friends, but dese last few days i feel we rrly jus look out for each other, go lunch, after lunch, bus journeys. difficult to phrase properly la, but anyways i in army for a few months le, i tink so far wilson formed strongest bond with me, but wasted he go armour camp i go jurong combat engin camp. ok anyw, so we went to parade.

rehearsal basically went thru smoothly, haha oh ya this morning zhi qin saw csm, our sergeant major. haha we were drawing arms, but a bit slack and anyhow draw, so when zhi qin saw him n said "good morning staff voon" (btw we only got used to calling ppl by rank n name after we came to signals so in charlie we addressed csm as sergeant major, cos he was deeply respected by almost everyone in charlie, so i'd still call him sergeant major, once our sergeant major forever our sergeant major, i can say he's rrly deeply respected n revered, he's v devoted and good, haha most of my course mates expressed tt dey respect him greatly too.)

back to story, so zhi qin greeted him. he gave his signature stare wif a lil pout (means he unhappy abt smth). den he raised his left hand clenched into a fist except for index finger and did an action to beckon zhiqin to him. he said" i send u tot signals u go slack one corner, now u duno wat i want alr?" (cos we were trained to draw arms neatly single file and everyone stand on both legs, same for queuing up for meals in cook house, apparently this standard not easy to be met and ppl also talk a lot lyk 'fishmarket') "NOW, i want you to go and tell dem wat i want!". haha sergeant major chided him off haha but its the sergeant major that we know. haha wat a sense of familiarity. lol

after parade in evening, we went to talk to him n take photo, haha csm still rocks. ok la nth much to talk abt rrly.. stop here

1:25 AM

YOYO HAHAHA YOYOYO HAHAHA after 2days of torture!! haha from thursday night 730pm to fri after 1pm we were walking from my camp at cck, to kranji dam, to neo tiew, to keat hong camp and back to my camp at cck today. throughout the journey, sometimes dey specially added in some turns here n dere to make the distance 42k. each checkpoint we reached we had to do some test, like quizzes or wat, which were related to our signals. holy shit, cos most of which i've forgotten, so ytd we all anyhow completed it lol.

whoa ytd night was quite cool, so i could feel dry on my lower body while walking, lucky sia, nv feel v hot n sweaty at my lower body, if not will get abrasion, my upper body of cos is drenched. but it is to be expected. haha the feet not so tired, since last wk had 24k to season my feet, the blisters also not serious.

only fri morning v tired, den at the station which we were to do some writing (some parts lyk u try to find the representation of the word in another page, lyk dose games u find the word in a sea of words) den my fren find while i read the word to him n i take down wat he say. so

eg: i'd say the word 'happy', den he'll find find den say column 5 row 4 den i'd take down, but we all too tired, so i'd say "happy" den he'll find, den i'd doze off, so wat he say i nv hear, den i'd ask again "eh y u nv find ar, find happy"
den he say "i found alr, but u fell asleep, lol" LOL so i say try to keep myself awake, n wait for him find again, cos he lost the page, den he'd find but i'd fall asleep again!! OMG!! haha i keep falling asleep.

den ltr on when the sun came out it was hell man!! HELL!! SUPER HOT!!! WALKING IN THE SUN WTH!! super hot, but the adv was tt got many ppl walking ard, lyk pretty girls, haha so we could look at dem, lol jkjk as if, is ppl look at us lo, we walk everywhr ppl also look at us haha den we'd pretend to be walking with discipline hand on our rifle, otherwise when nobody looking we're so shag, we jus hang our hands by the side. haha hmm den walk until no water somemore, cos weather v hot so water drink v fast. den many friends walk until the end sunburnt. lol cos dey roll up deir sleeves. so when finish we all super happy. haha den our beret presented to us, haha we earnt it!!

for 42k we alr so shag, den we tink abt ocs 70k and commandos even more, lol but nvm i'm more den contented to do 42k. its enough, haha some kind of training u do once u dun wana try another time, cos u do once more, u suffer as much. some trainings is the more u do, the less u suffer. lol

ytd night, we went home 7plus or 8 den i slp until 8.18am this morning. tired..

11:59 AM