im back at home, finally, after a week in cgh. getting dengue sucks, having to miss training becoz of it is even worse. while others are suffering in tt hellhole known as tekong, im bedridden in cgh. argh.

dunno wads gg to happen to me now, but i can only say the future looks bleak for me..why? veri simple. field camp~ the most impt and siong thing in the whole of bmt, and i missed it. hah.

i suppose i shld juz conc on fully recovering now before i worry abt army or anything else..well, i shall do juz tt, other things can wait i guess.

thanks to all my frens who came all the way to cgh to visit me during my stay there. u noe who u are. i'm really thankful to have frens like u guys. all the best and keep a lookout for mosquitos..else i'll be the one visiting u next time round, hah. choi..touchwood..dun mind me, juz talking cock here.

well, ttz juz tt, 7 days of mc, i'll juz wait it out and see wad the near future may tell. hah.

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Disclaimer: the following was written by a chao recruit who has nth to do on national day and is feeling damn sian. everything is purely self opinion only, do not subscribe to it as the truth if u haven't been enlisted. similarly, if u noe better, den do correct me. thanks. otherwise, juz take it as crap and read for solely entertainment only..thank you.
oh yeah, if any of my sergeants happen to read this, pls juz turn a blind eye to it, i dun wan to go DB!

1. Discipline
army is all about discipline, being on the ball with everything u do. following orders, blah blah. how do they do it? with drills of course. there are drills for everything, from footdrills to weapon drills to training drills, if u can think of any activity, there's drills for it. dun wan to follow orders? prepare to knock it down. haha.

2. PT
physical training. one of the main things u go to army for. to train up ur physical and get fit. a friend once told me if u dun get fit in army, then u nv will. quite true i suppose. PTIs~ ur personal physical trainers provided by the army, the guys in the white top who go ard every morning during PT to see if ur doing ur thing correctly..if they catch u chao keng, haha, good luck to u...another thing abt PT, it can be done anytime anywhere, in some cases it is also interpreted as tekan by chao recruits such as myself. u tend to do so much of it, even if u dun like it, u will get used to it. there's a line in some song we sing tt goes, "got no time to watch tv, but got time to do PT..." haha, ttz how much PT u do.

3. Sergeants
Yes Sergeant! No Sergeant! sth tt u hear every minute all over camp. u love them, u hate them, ur afraid of them..wadever. they instill terror in every new recruit, but they can be ur frens too, if ur on the ball with everything u do la..hah. see them, u better greet them before they greet u, or else, prepare to knock it down...haha. do everything swee swee, and they can actually be nice ppl too, unless u suay suay kenna those set super high standards ones or are juz plain guai lan..den too bad, lol.

4. Army Songs
there's all sorts of funny ones, with variations created by individual companies, platoons, and u sing them whenever ur on the move..during runs, marching from pt A to pt B, and most of all during the dreaded route marches..and better sing out loud and clear, or u knock it down again. hah

5. Team Spirit
one for all, all for one. they tell u tt, always, u dun do things for urself only, coz no man is an island..u finish ur stuff, u help ur buddy, auto, and hope he helps u back next time, if not, ur both fucked, simple as tt, coz out in the field, u depend on ur buddies to watch ur back and u watch theirs. similarly, during training, u see ur platoon mate cmi, u better help him, or ur instructor fuck both of u..he kenna tekan, dun laugh, better go down with him..haha, so as to keep up with the team spirit.

6. SOC
standard obstacle course..everyone's favorite activity...yar rite..nt too bad la actually, some think its damn jialat, coz they cant clear the obstacles, while some think its fun, coz it really is, haha..altho by the time u finish its damn shack...fuck, i nearly throw up the time i run finish with sand cans and all tt shit.

7. Weapons
being a soldier, u gotta care for ur weapon, whether its SAR or M16, u better clean it any free time u got, or ur instructor will fuck u upside down..its a damn important piece of equipment, so u better keep it safe, respect it, wadever...lock it up if ur nt holding on to it, or else...haha..7 years in DB..enjoy. and call it by its proper name, weapon, rifle, SAR, M16, wadever..nv call it juz a gun..or u get fucked again..lol

8. Vulgarities
ah..the common language in army, esp bmt..u get it so much from ur instructors u soon get used to it and can anticipate wads coming.. "fuck" is like a punctuation mark in sentences in the army..while others like ccb or wadever juz keep flying at
u anytime anywhere. haha, ur sure to pick up some in there, if u haven't ald done so before enlistment. wan scold can scold, but in moderation, or else ppl cant stand u either, haha..worse still, u get out to civilian life, u'll find it hard to kick the habit of swearing..lol..

well, i guess ttz all i have for now. write more when i learn some more, for now..im juz still a chao recruit.

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gawd. wad a siong week.

monday~ soc training. sand cans. yakult cans. sbo. weapon. helmet. juz abt everything la...fucking shag..altho i managed to complete the course under 10 mins, by the time i came back, i was on my knees on the verge of throwing up..haha..weak..

tuesday~ 12 km route march..finally we went out of prc and into the outside..however..i was nv happier to see the gates of prc at the end of the march..haha

wed~ pt in the morning..followed right after by another one..more like tekan session in the bunk..haha..we bathed the bunk in sweat..

thurs~ ippt test. the real one this time. heng got pass. if nt every week also must take...damn sian

fri~ soc test, nv take..coz coughing like mad..hah..got dripped again..but thankfully only took 1 poke this time round.

today~ bloody 16 km route march. nuff said.

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hah, nearly kenna confined for missing soc training twice this week..but heng ar..coz of the bad weather, they decided to let us go..really sibei heng.

seriously, i wouldn't have mind staying back to do soc since i miss both trainings this week coz of graduation and attend B. if they had made us stay back to do sai gang instead, tt would have been bad.

and so, another week of bmt has passed juz like tt, without much happening except tt i got poked 8 times for the IV drip when i reported sick on wednesday..stupid medics, totally no skill at all, where got poke so many times still can miss one...2 or 3 times is acceptable, but 8 times is seriously damn ridiculous lor..and worst of all, they were all joking ard while they were trying to do the IV drip on me.. whatever happened to the SAF core values tt we recite during every water parade~ namely the last three: professionalism, ethics, and care for soldiers?

enough of tt, this week was really quite slack, probably coz i missed so much training. 12 km route march on the coming monday, sian. field camp in two weeks time, lagi sian.

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3 more hrs..3 more hrs and i'll be back in prc, block 8b, bunk 2, bed 15, back to cheong sua again for another week..hah.

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bookout day! bookout day! yahoo!

after two weeks in pasir ris camp as a cdo recruit, i find tt army life is not fun. and its gg to get worse. confirm. so far we've been treated by all the instructors and commanders pretty ok, but then its juz the adjustment period. next week is my turn to be platoon ic, siao liao...

soc~sibei jialat..i nv did anything so siong in my life before..by the time i finish i wan to toh liao..but still its fun at the same time.

route march~lagi worst..the field pack pull so tight i can hardly breathe..still muz sing out loud somemore..so far only 6 k i feel like wan to toh liao...how the hell can do 72k? bleah..

every week ippt..even more sian..nt siong..but fuck boring.

i dun think i like army life. altho i can take it...but so far its still nth..still a long long way to the red beret and silver wings. haiz.

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