Surprise to see this blogpost??? Questions about why in the world am I updating my blog on a Tuesday afternoon??? Here's the answer...


I had high fever on Monday morning and was sent back home... "MC" for 3 days before going back to Tekong.


Shiok? Partly yes.. The other part? Cause I can't go out and I miss being with my section mates. Well, they had their enjoyment throwing grenades and doing area cleaning + rifle. HAHA!


Anyway, that isn't the whole point of updating.. Just wanted to share some thoughts and feelings about my first 3 weeks into NS..


Well, I can say for now is I really enjoy my first 3 weeks on Tekong.. Excluding the scoldings and te-kaning, I feel that it is really fun! Having to do things together, helping each other and knowing more people in a deeper manner is what I feel is awesome about the BMT period.. the times where we remind each other to bring our cards, waking each other up and helping to jaga each other's rifle when going toilet is what brings us closer in each section and platoon...

Kestrel Coy can really be very strict and jia-lat. But I feel that it is also part of their DNA to make the recruits better than the others. Like drawing arms or area cleaning, I feel that they want to set a kind of standard so that other coy can follow.. (which I heard the drawing/returning of arms is something which other coy is following).. Platoon 1. Its where the sergents have super high expectations out of the recruits. I mean, when we look around, we really get it alot from our sergents. But looking back, if not for their strictness & pickiness, we would not have survivied through alot of things. So thank you Sergent Idzhar and Sergent Amin for your pickiness. HAHA!


So like I said, I was sent back home on Monday morning. Took the 11am ferry to go back to the mainland. I had the previlledge to have Sergent Amin with me to "send me off". I pretty enjoyed my time with him actually. Although at first it was kind of awkward, but we broke the ice after awhile when we boarded "Penguin". We started sharing about our poly days, family and other things. We had quite an interesting talk and I found out that he is really a nice person. Could see that he take the platoon to his pride and had a goal for us. Too bad we only have 4 weeks with them (and now with 3 days minus off, I'm left with one more day with them!!!).. Oh well, hope we can keep in contact la..


Well, end of this week marks my end on Tekong. Time passes by pretty quickly.. soon, I will be posted to a vocation training camp where I will spend my 5 weeks there.. Hopefully I will get into the counselling vocation so that I can learn more skills during my NS days.. rather than doing other vocation which probably don't interest me as much as this. God I pray that you will arrange me into counselling vocation :)


Gotta rest again.. Update soon!