reflection of my army life
Thursday, May 31, 2012
5more days to ORD.
Cannot believe that the day finally going to come. Guess I shall do a reflection of my army life even though I think every post I made this past 2 yr is almost the same.
Before I enter NS, I were actually quite scare because of my physical fitness. Being someone who were exempted from PE suddenly, and were told that I got Heart Murmur. I grew up with the mindset I am going to get Pes C/E. However, fate like play trick on people I guess, went for the cardio checkup, and were told the hole in my heart is healed and I have recovered from heart murmur (Read on the net that heart murmur will heal by itself as you grow up) and I ended up as Pes B.
Fast forward to my enlistment day. With my parents, aunt and cousin(they enter to see the island only) I entered the island which at that time I still do not know is the place I spend the majority of my time of NS in. First impression of the island is that the place look like a holiday resort, little did I know my worse time of army is actually during BMT.
Surrender my IC and getting an 11B. rehearsing the pledge while waiting for my parent to finish the tour around tekong. Eating lunch with them for the one last time before getting confine or the so-called adjustment as they want to beautify the word and not make it sound that bad so that the parent won't be that worried. My mum and Dad smilling happily while I am marching away to a completely different lifestyle. All recruits went through this phase I guess. Surprised by my memory, can still remember everything so vividly as if it just happened yesterday. Last time not as organised as now, so they were calling names out for those in the different company. the small slip of paper they passed to me read 7th coy, but I enter up in Taurus. Collected the equipment and shirt and went to my bunk to put the stuff down before heading to cut my hair. Never once have I ever cut my hair bald, so I do not look in the mirror straightaway, but slowly. Couldn't recognised myself but well, all man in singapore have to go through this, so thinking it this way is all that bad. Plus everyone in the platoon and company look the same too. The so-called first night, we sat around the table and my section mates start introducing our name to each other. And me being me, start asking them to play camp games (easier to rmb the names this way).
PTP phase in BMT is tough, doing exercise, running almost anydays.Doing everything together with your section really make it feel it not all that bad, and encouraging each other and feeling happy for each other when we finally break the "Zero" for chin up. We sweat, we joked, we laughed. BMT part started and ADF attached to us. Insane training started and we were treated like a dog, complaining to each other and badmouthing them in bunk is like the only time all of us can vent out our unhappiness (Seriously, I swear I read the part about illigal punishment and I swear none of the punishment or even their traning is approved in the lesson plan!). Guess that how Taurus is the second toughest after 5th coy came about (if I not wrong). Field camp time, hearing stories about how tough it is make me quite worried, but I guess I were too tired to even bother about any ghost or whatsoever that I can just go pee by myself without thinking of anything else. 24km route march, and I finally done with the first 4 months.
Posted to SCS were quite a surprise cause I were damn quiet during BMT, being low profile except for the mooncake incident which I cause the whole platoon to get food ban. Foundation term weren't that tough after going through bmt in my coy, even though I can still hear people who came from other coy complaining it being tough. In Bravo, it seriously heaven already! I think bravo is seriously the best coy with the best OC in SCS! Posted to Professional term back in SCS. I do not know whether I should be happy or not. Happy because I am not in sniper, sad because I know it going be tough and there is chances I might be posted to guards and suffer more trainings. Make more friends along the way, My buddy really help me alot in taiwan and I feel bad asking him sometimes because I'm too weak to carry stuff from the foot of the hill to the top. And also my love for karaoke make me get to know even more friends from the other section and we often go to sing karaoke during night out.
Passing out as 3rd Sergent, I were posted back to BMT, the no.1 place I want to be posted to. And then to SME, at that time I didn't know what they do, but now, really glad I were posted here. Endless laughter and jokes during outfield, fieldcamp and various training. Time would not pass that fast without them or them making fun of me. Even though sometime i really feel what they do is out of the line, but spent one year 3 month in tekong together. that like even more than my BMT and SCS. Eating, sleeping, training recruits together. when you have the authority, it is not really that tough. I got a good encik too, who will help us and fight for our welfare even when some of the coy is unreasonable. The countless night spend in bunk playing "spade", cards game, "in between". shouting at each other and insulting each other. liting the table with fire by Marc. Movie night by using the projector and playing ghost movie at midnight. Running back to bunk when we are suppose to run the coastal route. Night out to eat at Changi Village.
I must say, I will miss all this, and Even though I looking forward to starting Uni life, I won't be surprise if I start saying I miss being a spec in tekong and being part of SME team 2A!
Even though there still 5 more day, I want to shout out ORD LO!!!!! woohoo
"For every singaporean's son, have to serve his 2 months till he's done. For every single breathe he take, come a bond which can't be break. We've been through lightning, rain and sun, and now we are back to where we first began. Forget my friends, you know I can't"
forget the lyrics for the song, but this is what I remembered.
life in army in often what man like to talk about when they hang out, and friends you make when you are sufferign together is friend for life. Really glad that I made quite a lot of friends worth being friends for life from BMT, SCS and in SME!
2:45 AM: Izanagi_ang
Friday, May 4, 2012
Typing this on an iPad. Bought the keyboard for like a few months alr yet I havent try it out yet.
So, in 30mins time, I can start My countdown to ORD in one month exactly! 4th June! This definitely will be a day that I would remember for life! 31 more days to ORD...
So more about life...hmm, I bet every post I been typing these few month is all about how I looking forward to ORD. Truth is I enjoyed army life too. I mean though I will complain about training being tough etc, it feel good looking back and thinking, wow, I can't believed that I actually survived all the shit! And being an intructor in the island actually feel kind of cool cause you get to meet diff kind of people. Even though I not sec com in coyline, it feel good when the rec did the rite drills after training them for the whole day.
14 more working days after deducting weekends, off and leave. and the only work I need to do (If all goes well) will be a 2dn fieldcamp in which i so not looking forward to. will be only the ORD personnel taking, so I dunno how we gg push all the demostration and lessons ard! and confirm all eat snake and shortcuts...wahaha...
Hmm...did something to torture myself for the next 2years. wahaha. hopefully will spend less than then average.
haiz, cant think of anything alr...time to dream of ORD-ing and looking forward to June for Brunei and Hong Kong!!!
12:00 AM: Izanagi_ang
