martes, diciembre 23, 2003
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Two weeks at tekong has been an enriching experience i'd summarize. All the waking up early to rush here there and everywhere has become routine quite fast actually. Like what someone said, basically you rush to wait, then you wait to rush again. First few days were lined up with much admin hoo haas. Training is really slack. and i mean slack. When someone finally snapped and went to run on his own around the blocks, he was rewarded with the honour of doing the first guard duty for the coy for taking his own initiative without permission. Learnt to listen to commands, march properly, sing stupid army songs, and also to ensure that the whole company doesn't not send more than 15 report sick each day. Bunk politics started to rear it ugly side from week 2. Cliques start to form and old dirty laundry were all taken out and screamed across the bunk. Some tall self-professed handsome dude with a sheeet girlfriend gathered enough bad blood with some platoon mates within 2 weeks to form a soccer team. Perhaps two. Never mind. Report sick rates were atrocious. First four days we reported a total of 12 sicklings. The OC then came to scream at us for being so sick despite enlisting for only 4 days. On the fifth day we gave him an early christmas gift: a new 13 sicklings reporting sick. He flipped. Thereafter, everyday we had a range of 12 to 14 people reporting sick. Until he promised confinement for anyone who comes back with a normal duty status. The following day, the report sick rate miraculously plunged to zero. Talk about the power of words. Biscuit parties, sweet parties, oreo parties, newspaper parties were the order of the day in tekong. Things were getting into shape... until the day of parent's visit. Almost everyone's parents came. As i saw how the guys got reunited with their parents... i felt quite upset. Why? My parents couldn't come. And my friends were late. For that half an hour i got to wait for that next fastcraft to arrive, i sat there and thought of a lot of things. About army life. About what i want to do. About my family. About church. About God. About the people in my life. About my loved ones. About my platoon people. About myself. About life. About death. About. I dunno. At that point in time, facing the sea, looking at every raindrop falling into the vast expanse of the ocean, i simply felt no purpose in life then. But then again... i told myself i gotta snap out of it. I know there has to be something for me to reach for. Well, i stopped myself form mel-ing any further then. Friends came, talked, ate, and that's that. The next day i was admitted to the sickbay for acute conjunctivitis. I had to be isolated. Doesn't really help when the bunk is hot, boring and the food sucks. they feed you porridge for every meal. Bahh. The only variety i got was that i had chicken porridge for sunday and crabmeat porridge on monday. A grand total of 32 hours in sickbay watching a total of 20 patients coming in and out of the sickbay and 6 person being dripped will certain make you the fastest packer of your own stuff when you are told that you're discharged. As a bonus, i caught a fever and also a ferry home to mainland to my own bed. And now here i am, typing while the rest suffers with circuit training, route march and two fire drills today. Cheers.
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