..it is surreal..
..yesterday, i took my last ride in a rover..i wore long four, sbo, helmut, rifle for the last time..and when i shot my last round of 5.56, i remembered to tell myself, while aiming at the silhouette target, "this is my last shot out"..today, i cleaned my "wife" for the last time, stepped into e-mart for one last time and ate my last cookhouse dinner..
..it was a good last week..the training programme was like a journey down memory lane cos i went to all the significant places..nee soon, where it all started..pasir lebar, where growth was tremendous..might go to selarang tomorrow, where life was not too bad..
..三月十七是好日子, (incidentally, it is ger ger's birthday, but it's 14 years earlier)..the day it all started..cmpb, bmt, rec, 11b, dog tag, no.4, smart 4, long 4, pt, pti, sbo, fbo, m16, ippt, soc, pop, pte, ocs, oct, cb leaf, pengkang, aoc, tekong, spade, elephant, lancer, cicada, chindit, biang, ps, roc, starlight, cssm, dumpin, pac, pop, 2lt, discom, as1, mpoc, lta, brightstar, rod, saf100, 649, s1, mob, bctc, rt, atec, mr..MR!!
.. 17 years..phew!
10 THINGS I PROBABLY CAN'T DO OR WOULDN'T GET A CHANCE TO DO IF NOT FOR NS
1. shaving botak
2. 2.4km in 10min 10 sec soc in 8min 50sec
3. climbing up pengkang with a log on my shoulder and a pti sitting on it
4. run 12 km non-stop
5. force march 12km in fbo
6. not sleep for 66 hours
7. falling alseep with chungkol in my hands overhead in a chest deep pit
8. route march 40km in fbo
9. walking in waist deep swamp in the middle of lancer
10. fire a gun, throw a grenade, fire m203, launch a law
TOP 10 MEMORIES
10
doing push-ups too hiong and chipped my right upper front tooth when i hit it on the ground
9
pumping position, respecting the slope, under the scorching sun for what seems eternity
8
can't decide between (a) last roc mission, 50% casualty, evacuate for a few km and (b) watching a family of wild boars scrambling across the path 10m from me in tekong
7
stepping into my first disco experience in tornado, then hardrock, then fire, then sparks, then zanzibar
6
climbing up biang in pitch darkness, clutching on thorns and bloodied my hands
5
bought 7 garfield pillows from roc, stuffed them in ali baba bag; receiving a garfield stuff toy for my birthday from my section mates over there
4
walking from safti guardroom to bunk every sunday book-in night with tears in eyes
3
minister lee boon yang asked me how i felt and later throwing my pick cap into the air..pop loh!
2
with camou on my face, stinky and sweaty long four, took a bumboat from tekong to changi, cabbed to singapore casket cos received news that my grandma passed away
1
squatting on a sandy roc beach, cool breeze carassing my face, viewing the sun rising from the sea, shitting
