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| National Service was most definitely an obstacle, but nevertheless we pulled through...excerpts are taken below... | |
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"Hey guys, i was free and decided to write this email :)it is MY ARMY LIFE :) yes army life is boring, very boring. And face it my warrent officers & sergent don't like mi in camp as i take a lot of MCs and MAs. recently i just got excuse dusty environment permerment & i will be getting excuse running(1 year) jumpping(1 year) IPPT(1 year) & drill(3months) >>>> most prob a temp downgrade due to my ankle. C2L9? O boy & due to the exuse dusty environment i am suppouse to change vocation to a clerk but my OC don't want mi to change as the store is short handed yes i am wanted althought i have a lot of medical problems hehe well i guess tat is wat u called being marked.. O & further more next year I will be having a nose op to widen my breathing passage as u guys say tat my breathing to loud well it is due to my breathing passage too narrow & a bone blocking it. And maybe also an op to my ankle as it is loose. O woe me woe me Y when i enter army i have so many operations....*SIGH*" My ARMY LIFE by Weilong (Wulong) :D
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Above...Lunch at CoffeeClub during the weekends... 
Above.. One of our outings at Suntec City during NSF... 
Above.. Lunch and photo shoot at Hotel Rendezvous... Below ...A picture taken at Orchard Cineleisure...
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Article written by Gerald. "My time is almost up... I'm not dying of course ! Haha,i'm referring to my NS. Finally!! After almost two and a half years of slogging it out in the jungle camouflage attire,black boots,helmet and what-not equipment they provide.Sigh...i almost never thought that this day would ever come.When i would be able to relax,sit easy, and not fret and worry about exercises,stand-by bed,dirty rifle,parades,getting caught for not cutting hair or being "arrowed" to do a lot of shit jobs - carrying stuff,digging drains,cutting grass,washing the toilet...argh. And all they show when they post those SAF Recruitment Ads is the glory and glamour of it all. Hah!One whole big hoax. My BMT seems like only yesterday.But it was almost 2 years ago when I joyfully shouted "P.O.P loh!". That was when we had our BMT Passing Out Parade.And i thought i had tided over the hard part.Little did i know that it was only the beginning of a long,sweaty,hard and many times,frustrating journey.When i got my posting - to 35th Singapore Combat Engineers - some idiot(my platoon sergeant,actually) had the cheek to tell me it was an 8 to 5 vocation,very simple,everyday get to see water.He was wrong about everything...except the seeing water part.Boy did i get to see water!In the middle of the night,on many,many nights,stuck waist deep in muddy,murky water,arms straining with the weight of heavy equipment,shouting and cursing.Imagine having your boots filled with water,socks and uniform soaked,and you had to last like that for 2-3 days with the same uniform and not being able to bathe.To sum it up,it was a wet,wild,and most of all,wearisome experience. On some weekends when other people could go out and have fun,I would have to do guard duty,or serve out a confinement for some silly,trivial mistake that usually wasn't my fault.I hated the mosquitoes the most.They were like a plague!And being in the army means having to live with mosquitoes.Trust me...it was the most frustrating and irritating thing to someone who needed sleep badly in the middle of some forest/jungle.Imagine waking up in the middle of the night with over 20-30 bites on one arm. And if you cover everything else up they'll come and bite your face.Ahh!To hell with them mozzies! Haha...no more having to book in/book out of camp,no more having to see your superior's face-colour(lian se),no more having to sleep with mosquitoes,no more shit-jobs,no more getting blamed for things that had little or nothing to do with you...and so much more...It means so much to me to be able to live a normal civilian life...to go to school - i've never been more enthusiastic about going to school - and study ! To be able to go as and when i please...to be able to do anything i like without worrying about getting caught...like sleeping during office hours. And,i can finally do work for myself,instead of for the army. Most of all its about having the kind of freedom that one can never really have whilst doing NS... Its finally coming to an end...finally..." Gerald |
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An essay by Yours Truly.. "I carnt believe that time has passed by so quickly, like a damn bullet. Once we were fantasized by the idea of college and now we are goin' to the university. What the future holds for us hangs vaguely in the blue skies, and stars. Relationships come and go, friendships are sometimes lost and sometimes are built, while others grow even stronger. Most of the time , we see the days go by in the calender, we see how many days left to serve as a soldier. We see how many days till our freedom finally comes. 2 1/2 years don't come too easy, it don't come too slow either. but somehow when it goes by , it seems juz like yesterday when we were havin' our faculty barbecue at the East Coast, when we had Wulong's b'day lunch at Tampines at the korean barbecue with all our gals sitting by our side. But now it's like an empty chair left rocking by itself without life. I like to think of the days when life was simple , and feelings were easy to express. Where nothing actually mattered more than being with the person we totally adored. Let us go back to the time when tennis and basketball matches were more important than trigonometry or algebra. Where skipping classes only meant detention classes and not detention barracks. But somehow, the stone seats at the beach are still the same, the barbecue pits lay exactly where they used to be, the sand smells like the old times and the sun sets magnificently as before. Perhaps we have grown older and wiser, or perhaps we are still the same old person we used to be, juz that experiences have changed our point of view, that time has enriched our perception. However, let us not look at the calendars and watch our days go by, but let our feelings carry as through. Let us live our lives by how we feel each moment of our day." Regards, Eugene (Myself) 120501
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A team photo after practice session...yeah! |
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