Tuesday, March 22


yest was a horrible day which ended off quite well...when we reported at sungei gedong camp, they didn't really know what we were supposed to do cause our course starts this thur....so basically we didn't have anything to do till then...at first they told us we can book out every night, causing us to be very happy...later, they told us we can take leave for these 3 days, lifting our spirits even higher...after a while, they told us we had to stay in which made us damn disappointed cause we were prepared to book out already....for the rest of the afternoon, we practically did nothing...evening came and we were told we can book out for the night...we were of course delighted although we were quite pissed with the management....then some of them were dispatched to our various units which we were suppose to report to for today and tmr...the units will be where we will be staying tue and wed as well as the rest of our ns life after we attend the course at the school of armour in sungei gedong camp....i was lucky enough to be picked by the officer tog with another 3 to go to keat hong camp cause it just opened last aug and its super new...

today at keat hong camp, it was a super duper slack day...mainly because we haven started our course, so we were told to act lk we had imp stuff to do which we didn't...me and kevin were posted to s3 department of 8 SAB...basically after attending the course, our main job is to do clerical work cause we dun get much chance to drive the vehicle ard...only has to maintain it occassionally and use it for outfields...so we will be stuck in the office and doing stuff and because of our academic results, we'll be given projects to handle lk this yr's ndp stuff cause our camp is in charge of it...given our mostly clerical work, i think we are pretty lucky to get combat pay which is lk 550 each month...

we are beginning to enjoy our first day there...not only is the camp new, i felt lk i was a perm staff there...there was no restrictions and nobody to control u lk in bmtc...its because my department is the bridgade unit...no marching to cookhouse, freedom to roam ard (no need to march from point to point), 2 canteen breaks per day, no time limit for lunch and canteen break...just go to canteen and cookhs when the time comes...i love the freedom i enjoy...cause there was the 40 sar unit which had to train and do stuff as in bmtc which is real boring...so i considered myself lucky...oh ya, my unit doesn't need to do soc which i hated a lot....only have 5 km run on tue and fri...atp range once in a long while and standard ippt test once a yr..i have to keep my own training schedule if not i'm going to die..whole day just eat and stay in office...tue and wed is our nights out which means we can book out in the evening and come back to camp by 2330...sometimes with permission, u can do so on other nights too...then after office hr, we can use the internet at the cybercafe (there's no coffee there)...

there's a taiwan outfield next yr which we'll prob take part in...at least i get a chance to go there even without going ocs or sispec...there's saf day which i'm supposed to take part in the parade..that means there's training..hope i dun get in the parade for the ndp one, if not i'll be training seven days a week..which i think it's impossible...but i'll definitely be helping out in the ndp one way or another...oh and tv, xbox, ps2 are all allowed in the bunk, provided whether u want to bring in or not...

ok, thats abt all i've to say...tmr i'll be back in and repeat what i've done today...i think i need to enrich myself these 2 yrs with other stuff...i'm not going to waste my 2 yrs in ns learning military stuff which i'm not going to apply after my ord...and unit is slack to the extent that i can't stand it...i'll definitely have to go do something to keep myself occupied..

jel; 7:55 pm