Summary to my NS...just the bits and pieces.

With the first intake's ORD parade already around the corner, I'm getting my mind right to transit back to normal life and planning the way to clear the fog of uncertainties. My NS life has been on an exceptional positive note so far and I'm doing my best to keep it up. BMT didn't start so good but in Guards it gave me a grip on my own character, strengths and maintaining the mindset to never give up but know limits at the same time.

My best section commanders would be from BMT Rocky Hill Tekong namely Han Xiang and Saiful but my best PC and PS are from Guards. Current PC Chenghui and Plt. Sergeant Yeong Tah Yuen as they all are funny, friendly but firm and understanding characters. People who don't go by the book but still managed to keep things in order.

Toughest experience would probably be in Brunei where the landscape is so fucked up you wished you were dead before you move on from a break and the most climactic battle I ever had was in Malaysia fighting in the terraced plantation hills with the Sarawak Rangers during Ex Semangat Bersatu. For all you know it was raining bullets all around throughout that battle without a pause.

Seems like my section 2IC is signing on and all I can do is wish he makes the best decisions for himself. He's been the Battalion best soldier for 3 times and that's obvious he's in his own league. One of the most noisiest, fighting fit, hyperactive and funniest cockster in the battalion at the same time is my bunkmate and second closest person to me in my whole NS. The section I got damned into is the GAIT best section of the battalion and fate couldn't possibly be more precise than that. Just so if you want to know GAIT stands for Guards Advanced Infantry Training during which I was still in Tekong while they're doing it.

I'm able to read my body better now. Having awarded platoon best soldier between Aug/Sept, cleared 2.4km in 9.11 mins, 20+ chin ups and several other commando standard fitness which is still getting better considering I still have more than 5 months to go, are just a few among the achievements that I achieved and I hope so much to maintain when camp life ends. Not to forget, digging 3 shellscrapes in 3hrs hahah!. There's just one I still need to improve which is swimming. Yep, time to rule in the water.

It can't be helped but I envy my company and platoonmates who earned the Overseas Service Medal for helping out in New Zealand for the aftermath of its earthquake. It's not the medal that I envy but the thought of earning it without having to sign on! Ohh life's not fair...

From one Ending to another Beginning.

One moment I thought I just set off to Queensland and next thing I'm sitting here thinking of how we're left with one last important mission to settle before everything will tone down. I'm worried not about my 2yrs NS but of how I'm going to catch up with all that I missed out sitting in front of the table studying. My mind feels so decayed I wish I could just rip my head and stuff all the books I ever read inside it just like that and snap out its knowledge.

And I found a new ambition and saw a side of me I didn't really know existed. Question is, I don't know the possibility to even out my multiplex personality and the way to achieve it with the kind of person I am right now. At any rate, Allah knows better.

Wallaby.

The major event everyone's been waiting for next friday...mission in Australia. The place we'll be training is somewhere around Shoalwater Bay. It's the nearest to Great Barrier Reef although sadly we won't be given a chance to drop by there I think. From what I heard from my fellas the R&R activities was quite boring which I'm assuming it's 'plain' instead due to the lack of interesting sites. I'm just assuming cos I wouldn't want the R&R to disappoint as we're all about to go through hell for the training down there.

Not because it's gonna be a tough training but getting back to some really old school life. Not much about the tentages we'll be sleeping in but the toilet that is. Rather than flushing the shit down the toilet bowl we've to cover it up with sawdust instead and damn that sure is gonna stink. Plus, no tap water to wash your ass! Bathing will consist of using the dangling waterbag which we have to fill up and then unlock it slowly to let the water flow sufficiently enough but not too fast or you'll have to top it up again.

Too much trouble eh? I bet it's gonna be one heck of a life to live there.