brunei 25/7 - 3/8

Jungle Orientation Course (SOCJOC) starts tmrw :) Yet another fun-filled action-packed 9 day tropical holiday :D

service term ends in 1 week (:

1. we'll get our senior rank (3 white bars) this coming week :D

2. i'm posted to Combat Engineers

3. i was appointed as the runner (i.e. the Platoon Commander's 'slave') for Ex Scorpion King, which is this defence mission where we had to dig trenches. Since the PC is permantly moving around overlooking the defence instead of staying at his defence spot, I dug his share and did approximately twice the amount of digging as compared to everyone else

4. Ex Scorpion King is kinda overated. Its not that bad actually. I actually got to sleep around 6 hours during the whole mission

5. a monkey stole my breakfast accessory pack on the 2nd day of Ex SK

6. the monkey opened the cereal packet and sprinkled the cereal all over the floor

7. my whole trench was swamped with ants within 5 minutes

8. !@^#%@* stupid monkey

9. my trench was filled with granite slabs, courtesy of the tango/sierra people who burried them inside. i unearthed at least 30 of them, smashing half of them in the process

10. my appetite has grown to a monstrous state since i entered NS.

11. I entered KFC alone the other day, checked out the menu, and settled for a buddy meal.

12. my rice bowl for lunch and dinner at home has now upsized to the bowl kopitiam uses for their fish soup and banmian

13. OCS bunks have no room number 13

14. there's social night this coming week, and then i'm going over to brunei the next week. life is good

15. i've charted my direction in life. I'm no longer going to pursue music at uni, I'm gonna go for engineering (: