im home watching tv, eating pineapple tarts and reading the papers. this IS life...
a few days ago, what i really wanted was a change of uniform and my delightful powder bath. adversity reallly changes people and their mindsets.

anyway, im on Att C , which is MC in army terms. i came back yesterday night on a swift penguin and im booking in later at 2030. Had a swelling fever that was around 39 degrees. i was feeling so darn cold and dizzy. to think that i was still 'fighting fit' around 5 minutes before i caught the fever. i guess it was the heat, scorched my brain. and all those proning and contacted! and fire-movement-forward must have broke some bones in me. actually, field camp was quite ok. it was just terribly unhygienic . also the heat really got on my nerves sometimes. u really eat with the sand and camo in your face and fingernails, which makes the food so unappetizing when it's already not so tasty. the pasta was ok, but the rice was absolutely disappointing. we got to cook on the second day. it was really heaven tasting the hot milo in your mess thinking. drinking it one mouthful after another with a spoon was certainly the BEST thing i can remember about field camp. and then, there was the powder bath which is really an eye-opener. fifty half naked males stripped to their underwear all white in files of tiga tiga. certainly something i will never witness again. on the third day, incapacitated by my flaming fore head, i escaped marching back with that gigantic field pack on my back, but took a tonner to company line. today's BIC, or VIC or whatever. its some obstacle course where recruits leopard or back crawl under barb wire with bullets firing over. im sitting that out because im Here in the comforts of my home and my lap top. hahaa
i hope i get to go back to be fighting fit for tomorrow's life shoot at the range. otherwise, i'd have to join taurus company on another day. actually, i like to shoot with my M16. makes me feel like i have a certain responsibility, like im protecting something and im fighting for it. im a gung-ho soldier. and i like to chiong shua.

budget day's tomorrow. gotta dig out some transistor so that i can tune in when im in camp.

posted by iambrianfu [ 2:49 PM ] |

i miss the new year cookies, i miss the black jacks, the mahjong. i miss the angpows, i miss the coca cola cans, the love letters, the small talks, the dinners and the lo heis.
book in day. going in in about an hour. oh singapura, nv am i missing thy as i am feeling now.

i was cycling to bedok reservoir just now for some fresh air and black and yellow tapes. i like my new hair cut. it is so short. people say i look like a war convict. i think my hair's damn cool cuz i can feel the breeze upon my scalp when im cycling down the road. i think i look like walter pandiani.

posted by iambrianfu [ 6:16 PM ] |

i just watched brotherhood and i quite liked it.. it was really touching at certain parts. this stupid 12.90 vcd certainly gurantees the money.. my comp's left speaker was in korean while the right one was in chinese. so i turned the right one around and made it face the wall. and halfway through the first disc, i was thinking... thats cock. so i realized that i could change the sound setting so that it would just be in korean.
woke up rather late today cuz i was watching tv till late yesterday. seems that my body will Not automatically wake itself up at 0530 and turn off at 2230 like what PC said, or pS.. or whoever said that.. crap
i went to army market to get me field stuff yesterday. com squad.. prickly heat.. all checked. ready and raring to go for the 4 days field camp. had dinner at clarke quay at some tandoor restaurant. the food was quite good.. buffet style. good for hungry soldiers like me. but all the coconut in the food really makes u feel sick after that. i went to gramps house to Lo hei after that. i think it was already 12 by the time i got home..
actually.. this 5 days is really too long for a holiday. i'd seriously have it broken up so that i can book out next week. 2 weeks of confinement again. its like totally out of touch with civilisation. when i come out , everything's sorta different and lotsa stuff happening. i dont really like the feeling of being primitive, and after catching up with all the goings around the world and getting all comfy and stuff, then being thrown back into green slacks in unearthly grounds. anyway, wonder if i'd be blogging tomorrow. till then byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

posted by iambrianfu [ 4:05 PM ] |

GONG HEE FATT CHOI

second day of bookout day... Chinese New Year Day. all the food and snacks are certainly a refreshing change from tekong chicken, tekong soup and tekong nightsnacks. The year of the Cock is gonna be a great year. i got so many cockerels and cocks eating wugong during mahjong today. and a bumper harvest of angpows this year. ive gotten five hundred buckaroos already. i feel rejuvenated. all ready and already gunned up for field camp on monday.. haaa

me and my mep class are going to visit mam ongs tomorrow. pay tribute to our curly haired retired ong. she was like a grandma to us.. a nice old amiable lady who was always there to lend a ear. i'll choose the nicest oranges for her tomorrow.

posted by iambrianfu [ 1:00 AM ] |

2 plus now. im about to book in in around 4 hours.
army has been quite an experience. and although the whole platoon is always counting down to book out day, i do find that time passes really fast. its has been two weeks already. two weeks of water parades, drawing and sending arms, senangdiri-ing, left-two right-twoing, kilikanaing, complaining of sweaty helmets...
i have met really interesting people there... people truly from all walks of life. ah-nehs, pundehs, mats, ang-kungs. i cant say i really like army, cuz nothing beats having the Freedom of life. the freedom of walking about without having to march or double. the freedom of having afternoon naps without having to be on your toes for ULYSSES COMPANY.. HEADS OUT. or PLATOON ONE.. FALL IN NOW! but i am very sure that this is going to be a very memorable time. the mood in camp is so eclectic - a mixture of kengsters and garang-ness.
so the food in the army has been better than that i have expected. and i am certainly relieved of eating home food which is always so 'healthy' and bland. i like the foot drills. i am going to take part in the drill competition at the end of bmt and help U coy retain our championship title. i am proud to put on that no.4 everytime. my smart four is always so smart that it becomes a smartest 2 or 3. then i'd go around to help others who always has difficulties with their smart 6 or 7. i know im pes C. but ive decided to be proud of whatever i do. people can think we are the kengsters but i cannot look down on myself because i know that i have tried my best and i will only be a failure if i do not respect myself. afterall, we do almost everything others do, just of lesser intensity, which is a double boon- cuz we get to taste army but at the same time avoiding the greatest of adversity.
im going for the second outfield tomorrow. the air in the jungle is kinda sucky because everyone gets all sticky and sweaty and dirty, in addition to all that camo cream in your mouth. nevertheless, its quite cool to be running about with your m16, then proning on the ground, leopard crawling to the next cover and rolling over to adopt firing position.

posted by iambrianfu [ 1:58 PM ] |