And it all ended with a couple of medals, one certificate and one Hamilton watch. The watch has the Army logo on it, and I don’t really like it. So I gave it to ZX, but it will be a couple of years before he’s old enough to wear it. And I suppose he won’t mind the logo as much as me.
I wanted to go chong pang to buy soya milk for her to drink. So I got changed and ready to go. Just before I leave I asked her mum whether she can drink soya milk, she say better not. But I don’t feel like changing back. So now walking to chong pang for dunno what reason. Haha.
Can we talk? I really want to talk. I really want to solve all problems together. I know it is not easy for you. I know you were crying last night. I really want to help to make it easier. I really want to understand you. But you choose to ignore me. Do you understand how I felt when I waited for u but you switched off the light and left the room? Have you ever think that, maybe, I also would like to be understood?
Nothing that I do seems right. Sometimes I think nobody understand me. I don’t even have a person to talk to. I know sometimes i say the wrong things. But that is because I’m not perfect. I’m really trying to be perfect. But when everything I do is for them, yet in the end nobody is happy, then how?
This is a good week with many good things happening at work. First we got a Gold Award for our efforts last year, then I had a good work review session with my Bosses, and I managed to clear most of my work that was piling up my desk the previous week. Great.
Using obscenity/ vulgarity is an Art in the Army. Use it well and it’ll sound like normal punctuation, otherwise it just shows that you are a low class pig. CCB, KNN, FU, LP, LJ are the common terms used during daily conversations, and you don’t have to worry about getting weird stares.
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I was a BOBO shooter in BMT, but I was a Marksman in the Unit. Nonetheless I simply suck at IMT.
I got the nickname “Lion” during one of the training course, and that nickname stuck with me for the next 12 years.
People say if you lost your rifle you will have to serve 7 years in the Detention Barracks.
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During one of the theory classes in the Army, I was too tired and dozed off. The officer saw that and shouted at me to answer his questions.
Officer: Give me an example of a natural obstacle?
Me (still sleepy): …….. Rock?
Officer (looking pissed): Then what is a man-made obstacle?
Me: …… House?
Correct answer: Natural Obstacles (fallen trees, valleys, rivers etc); Man-made obstacles (Mine-field, wire obstacles etc)
And so we shave our head. But no big deal about it.
My platoon sergeant is a Chinese, Hokkien Peng style. My section sergeant is a very fierce Malay. And together they called themselves the black and white terror. There’s three other sergeants, the most approachable and reasonable one, is quite handsome, but when he talks his saliva starts to accumulate at the corner of his mouth. The other two is quite forgettable. My platoon commander is a fat pig.
Thankfully one of my platoon mates came from the same junior college as me. So we talk to each other while still getting to know the rest.. A number of interesting characters in our platoon. A sissy, a chao kenG Indian, a pair of weird joker twins, a man with a big mole on his face…
Our company was supposedly the best company in the camp, having “won” the best company banner many many times. And we always got reminded of that, through super tough trainings.
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Air-level: a sarcastic term to describe the A-level graduates, who supposedly had this “air” about them, and always talk more than work.
