i am going back to my favourite island tmr...
morning...
7.30am ferry.
with my super ultra humongous black duffel bag.
ha.
just packed damn a lot of shirts...
and singlets...
and uniforms...
and socks.
its omg.
how did i end up with so many pairs of socks.
LOL.
heard they learnt abt hand grenades and stuff le.
i cant wait to summon my pikachu.
haha.
these few days.
i've learnt a few things...
1. television is officially boring should one not have cable tv.
2. sleeping days and days away isnt v fun.
3. losing blood through e nose isnt v fun.
4. e internet is becoming boring... ha.
5. staying at home isnt as fun as it was last time.
haha...
waiting for american idol to show...
cause i cant sleep...
hopefully i can fall asleep tmr night on my favourite bed.
ha.
sounds kinda spooky come to think abt it...
i am bed 5.
bed 4 have had a long history of illness...
haven seen fawaz for more den 2 weeks i think...
den bed 3 also down with fever.... but went back le...
bed 6 (aka my buddy) down with an infection... going back with me tmr.
ha.
heard my whole section with tonnes of pple down with status...
i guess we're just passing e virus around. haha...
just hope it stops here...
haha..
i dun wanna miss anymore lectures...
heard they gonna make up lectures this weekend...
=S
haix.
i shall just go back and not think abt being confined.
LOL.
DA BIG COUNTDOWN: 41 more days! =)
ha.
i just realised some labels on my whole collection of medicine.
one reads...
"may cause insomnia."
two others reads...
"may cause drowsiness."
woah.
haha....
so wad happens when i take all these medicine together?
ha!
i have no idea.
but i noe i have slept today away yet again.
its such a bloody waste of time.
ha!
tomorrow...
i dun wan to sleep it away.
but what can i do? ha.
stay home = internet or food or sleep or tv.
and i just realised how limited television can be.
ha.
watching the arena now on channel 5...
i have to say that it is a refreshing show.
i like the fact that the media is starting to put some emphasis on e debate scene.
ha.
but.... i think the traditional debating system that current Secondary Schools take part in is still more viable as an option.
dun really think that judges should give comments after every speaker.
seems to take away the connectivity of the entire debate.
e commercial breaks also seem to break e debate into segments...
which doesnt really get us to go with the flow...
its like... "i want to hear what he/she have to say about that!"
den comes e commercial break.
-.-"
one good thing was the group rebuttal round.
i thought that change was quite interesting.
offered a chance to really test the teamwork and how well e team knew their case and also, of course their teammates.
e motion was whether Singapore encourages a sense of humour.
well, i must say Xinmin made a better case.
but seriously, i think Singapore is still rather humour-less.
might take some time to change that.
but at least, we are moving towards it.
ha.
enough of that.
ha.
just read about this shop in Raffles City Basement...
Donut Factory.
woah. e pictures are bloody tempting.
wad cinnamon sugar donut...
hazelnut chocolate donut or something like that...
woah woah.
ha.
maybe i'll try it at e next book out.
cause i heard pple queue for hours.
=x
haha...
not that sure if its worth it spending hours in a queue for donuts.
ha.
i am still bored.
just plain bored.
home isnt that nice i think.
at least when u r coughing 50% e time u r awake...
oh my nose started to bleed quite a few times today.
my comforter also got blood.
yucks.
lol.
i want new earphones.
i want a FM receiver that i can bring into camp.
gonna see a dentist for a cavity tmr.
=x
i hate dentists.
ha.
a rather random entry.
just wanna wait for e remaining 15 mins to go by before i watch e results show...
its very antagonising to really sit and wait for results...
especially for team-based events like debates.
its really orgasmic should u win.
but it doesnt feel too good when e team lost because of u.
hahaha!
i remembered an incident when i was debating for maris...
i was first speaker of e proposition.
e last sentence i said was...
"Thus, this motion should fall."
omg.
for those of u who din catch it.
i was from e proposition.
ha.
it was really embarrassing.
i bet my face became a tomato seeing all of them laugh their head off.
luckily,
should my memory not degenerate, we won.
else i can just kill myself.
ha.
i rmb-ed alan's face when i sat down.
ha.
i still didnt noe i made that freaking mistake.
hahahaha...
ok enough of crap.
time for pipagao.
LOL.
staying at home isnt v nice...
especially when a stupid pill makes one extremely drowsy...
apparently.
i slept today away.
well done.
and read half a book.
*yawn*
still wondering if i would be allowed to return before my status end.
dun wish to miss too much.
oh yea.
jinyan's sick also sia.
told him to see a doc b4 going back...
dun wan... den now attn b...
loads of pple sick sia.
i heard platoon 2 got like 11 pple on medical leave.
and jinyan say my platoon even more.
haha.
great job.
my buddy also on medical leave.
everyone's sick.
just pray for 130307 to come asap.
countdown to Graduation Parade: 43 days! =) [p.s. i've endured.... 46 days le]
so basically i am halfway thru!
=)
hang on there pple! =)
yea!
i survived it!
=)
it was ok..
maybe due to e fact that i was sick and skipped a few trainings here and there...
but!!!
lets see wad we did.
HA.
first day...
marched 8km to e first camp site - a rubber plantation.
e march was horrible towards e end.
i constantly worry and think about how i am gonna endure e 24km one...
reached (with a BIG smile on my face)
and started to build our basha (aka tents)...
when i saw my site... it was... muddy.
wth.
den basically i slept on mud for two days.
and!!!!!
e point where i slept got one big log all e way across my back.
so basically...
my back is bruised... still.
=S
that was where we spent our two days...
on e morning of e third day.
about 4am.
woke up with a fever... 38.3.
went back to medical centre and came back to e camp site at lunch time...
den we moved!
like move house ah.
haha.
to oil palm plantation...
v nice trees....
v nice environment.
until...
all e mosquitoes and sandflies came out to play at night.
wth.
bit all of us...
esp siyuan abit serious on e legs.
haha.
den it rained.
OMG.
it din rain for e first two days... we thought we were lucky.
ha.
haix.
so basically slept in e rain with e sandflies biting me all over.
haix.
gross.
den e next day we learnt about digging our graves.
omg.
i was on status but chose to try digging anyway...
so we dug....
and dug....
and we dug for e whole day! omg.
and e worst part?!?!
we haven finished it.
omg la.
haha.
den after dinner...
my temperature shot up again...
haix.
38.6...
den just took panadol and slept e day away in e medical tent.
during e night...
was quite rough...
rained heavily at 3am...
all e graves we dug all got flooded.
haix!
to think we have to continue finishing it...
it was a omg.
ha.
den e next morning i kinda recovered...
so i continued with e grave.
emptied it of water....
which took damn long.
=S
den....
it started to rain again!!!!!!
=(
OMG.
den wear raincoat..
and stay there lo.
=(
by e time e rain finished...
it was flooded again!
=(
haix.
so had to take e water out again...
omg.
so by e time all of us finished digging...
it was around 6pm.
of course we din start in e morning la.
started after some lectures and practicals...
so basically...
we used about 24 hrs (conservative estimation) for a task that has to be done within 45 mins.
WELL DONE.
ha.
den we were all wet and muddy.
and we cant change shirts that night.
haix.
that night i almost chilled to death.
for a guy like me to shiver...
it takes real cold temp.
now i noe why people on SURVIVOR shiver without fire.
e moment it heats u up....
its a
haha...
forest temperatures suck.
its damn freaking cold at night.
i wearing long sleeve shirt, long pants and boots still feel cold.
ha.
we din bath at all.
but got some time to wash up on e 4th night.
not too bad...
powder bath everyday...
but e last night was horrible.
imagine...
powder + wet, muddy clothes... den sleep.
its omg.
HA.
but....
i survived!
OHHH!
and we only ate combat rations.
ha.
e biscuits are rock...
but e rations arent that bad...
haha...
yup...
cookhouse food is heavenly now.
we reached back at camp yesterday.
=)
imagine my BIG smile.
hahaha!
we bathed!
omg.
ha.
today is BOOK OUT DAY!!!!
ha.
i basically brought home every possible thing i could for my mum to wash...
there's like 20 pairs of socks if i dun remember wrongly...
and loads of shirts...
e whole laundry point is like.... LOADED.
and drying area is like.... all humid.
ha.
i pity my mum...
she's considering sending them for laundry services.
ha.
tmr's see doctor day.
to get my antibiotics i lost in e jungle...
before all e viruses get immune to all e antibiotics.
=S
ha.
tmr's also meet-up-with-frens day!
ha.
gonna be enjoyable...
sleeping early!
nite!
ah.
had my break at home after a gross throat infection.
ha.
going back to my wonderful tekong tommorow morning.
=/
haha...
gonna miss e 6km route march tommorow as i have Day 1 status.
ha.
packed all my clean and nice-smelling clothes into e field pack.
it looked damn full.
but its quite light.
have to reach e ferry terminal at 7.15am tmr morn...
ha.
wont be coming out till e 27th of jan.
will be outfield (aka rolling in mud in e jungle) next week.
haha.
hopefully i'll come out in one piece.
=)
see ya in.... 12 days.
=(
**edit:
ohhh. i just watched Girls Out Loud.
and i think its a nice show. ha.
the two hosts seem to complement each other very well.
haha.
catch it if u want a laugh!
oh great...
i think spending money is....
eh...
addictive...
LOL.
though i din spend a lot today.
woke up at 8am.
WOW.
haha.
den went to have breakfast....
5 bucks gone...
den went to see e doc in pasir ris...
42 bucks gone....
den went to kino....
bought some books....
den.... 49.88 bucks gone...
den went to beard papa...
bought some puffs for my family...
and...
10 bucks gone...
den... went to watsons to get some blister prevention stick-ons.
10 bucks gone....
den thought of e medicine...
but have to eat lunch...
so another 7 bucks gone...
omg.
den took medicine...
and den walked around a bit to digest some food...
omg.
den...
I HAVEN ADD TRANSPORT COSTS YET.
adult fare can.
omg.
=S
i still went around to look at clothes...
ha.
GAP jeans really looked nice.
but looking at what i bought...
i had better stop.
ha.
now resting at home...
will book in on tues morn instead of tonight.
hopefully i recover fast enough.
ha.
=D
oooooh....
a well deserved break.
this whole month of january is practically spent in camp...
hmmm.
these few days were painful.
from e numerous blisters on both my heals.
ha.
but other den that...
our platoon really strengthened and is growing as one.
thats what my sergeants want from us.
UNITY.
=)
next two weeks not gonna book out.
first of two weeks will be in tekong.
second of which is gonna be spent with trees, grass, mud.
ha.
i had my first taste of rolling in mud.
never ever did that for 18 years of my life.
i feel deprived.
ha.
oooh.
and i put on make up for e first time of my life.
HA.
green mascara with black eyeliner.
its difficult to wash off la.
and jy says i look damn gothic.
cause e area around e eyes are somewhat....
black?
LOL.
basically...
i have adapted.
ha.
to military life.
everyone in there has high demands.
but its all beneficial at the end of e day for us ba....
live range coming up.
=)
excited!
ha. wad a great outing with s46 pple.
haha...
steamboat was really warm and stuff...
but it was real fun.
haha...
tmr's book in day!
=\ ha.
hopefully i survive for another few days.
b4 i book out again a few days later.
hahahaha....
i'm training to be a soldier!
=S