lol nonsense actually i just finished the 1st week of NS. so ya. for those who don't know [the bloody spammers randomly flooding my tagbox], i was posted to HRI @ Kranji Camp III near YewTee there. i'll be there for 4 weeks due to having temp PES E status.
date of enlistment: 5/4/2011
luckily my parents rechecked the time or else i would've been late for 1hr. just queuing at YewTee MRT station for the shuttle bus and i can already see all sorts of ppl. skinny/fat, tall/short, chinese/malay/indian/others.
lol actually the camp is quite near to the MRT station. so there i changed my pink IC for the green NS IC, which by the way has the picture taken at CMPB -_-ll. the oath taking was kinda random. and i actually found out there were also others from PJC posted there as well.
the food is ok i guess. like normal mixed vegetable rice lor. but i was seriously quite unprepared for the huge serving of food there. i' ve learned to ask for less cause i poured half of my plate down the bin. yeah waste of food but cannot finish how. NEXT TIME ASK FOR LESS. but of course they are ppl there who eat alot or damn fast. usually i'll slowly chew the food.
next was getting the barang barang. as non-combat soldiers, there is no need for a field pack. everything was squeezed into this big black bag. ok i tried typing down the things but i was too lazy to complete it.
finally cutting botak time. waited for a damnnn long time to get my hair cut. seriously i don't see what's the big deal of cutting botak la. honestly i feel much more comfortable with botak hair!! =P
ya basically tats what i did for the 1st day. got back home at around 7pm+ yes clerks can home go after office hours. tats a privilege la.
day2 is admin day, all the boring things stuff happen today. morning fill in all the forms and stuff. then lunch came!! ok this time i asked for a smaller serving and i ate almost all of it, at least 90%. then in the afternoon got talk by orientation officer (OO) which is some old guy who has served NS since he was 16. his english was er quite broken but still understandable. then next insurance talk by AVIVA. the guy even more vulgar than the officers and commanders. but at least that kept ppl awake for most of the time. end of day2.
day3 the most slack day yet. in the morning got lecture from Captain Pang. the SAF 7 core values are:
- Loyalty To Country
- Leadership
- Discipline
- Professionalism
- Fighting Spirit
- Ethics
- Care For Soldiers
at least he didnt like go through the prepared 1000+ slides. i would have died listening to so much nonsense. after the 3-4hr session there, it was once again lunch time. ok that day fail, threw away quite abit of food. wasted sia. but i tell you wads more wasted.
sitting in a lecture hall for many many hours talking cock. at least i got to rmb some of the names. just sat there talking nonsense, listening to jokes, laughing at the vulgarities. this is PES E BMT = slack.
day4. inoculation day. got jabs on both arms and an oral one. walao the medic didnt tell me to close my mouth after taking the serum. then after they apply the serum, i hold my mouth open like some idiot until another medic told me i could close my mouth. this all happened in Kranji Camp II which is a separate place from my training camp. so for the first time i went into a tunnel [tat how you spell it?] it's actually just an army truck la.
lunch time! today eat laksa which im not especially fond of.. even though i asked for less, it's still alot and i didnt really feel like eating so i threw away half of the bowl. waste. most agree today's laksa suck. but i don't really think it's bad la. im picky in the first place.
movie time! but war movie which i didnt even get the story of. maybe it's because i didnt drink coffee in the morning. also the aircon was sibei cold.
so tats the first week of PES E BMT @ HRI. basically i think the ppl there are quite nice, though vulgar also. almost every sentence had a vulgarity in it. well i don't really mind it. as long i don't get influenced by the swearing, i should have no problem with it.
i think the worst part of the camp is lunch time. aside from the long single queue, there is also the huge quantity and on top of that, there is rush for finishing the food, which of course i didnt finish. WASTE!! and today damn stupid cos laksa alot of ppl like me didnt drink the soup so they just dump the whole thing into the bin. imagine a bin full of laksa soup and leftovers noodles. and then i saw a bird just perched on top of the bin and when it flew away the laksa soup just splashed out la. seriously disgusting.
even though i got to slack in the air-conditioned lecture hall and get to go home every night, this will probably change when i up-PES after the 4 weeks are over. maybe i'll go Tekong and participate in PES B BMT. meanwhile im just enjoying my time in HRI and making new friends everyday. =D
Rebecca Black - Friday
