Sunday, April 24, 2005

The Gurkha Experience

been on duty for the past 3 days. in camp all the way. in the same Ops Room everyday. facing different officers and duty specs which seem to change every single day except for me of cos. weekends burnt just like that. only managed to book out this morning and going back in tml morning without knowing when i will get the hell out of the shit-hole next.

3 days seem short but the hours practically crawled when i was in there. nevertheless i manage to do and experience a few new things on the island. last night i went catch crabs with the duty Sgt Major by the BMTC Sch 1 SOC ground haha. of all the places on the island it had to be there haha. managed to catch 2 and i gotta say considering its a small river, the crabs were quite big. tied it up and hung it at some training shed and i totally forgot about it till i booked out haha. wanted to bring it back but i guess a bit mafan ah wanna bring back a live crab. sekali crawl all over my bag sia.

i was sending a few duty personnel the other day over to the old BMTC where the Gurkhas were putting up and i must say it was an eye opener. they are one bunch of remarkably friendly people. very very hospitable people when in actual fact we were the ones who should be hospitable to them considering they were only residing on the island for training. the condition of the old school is seriously damn pathetic with zero facilities whatsoever and yet they didnt complain much. put the Singapore soldiers in there and i swear they will immediately complain without even lasting a day in there. but anyway we were talking to the Staff Sgt like as if we knew him for years and he even offered us lunch haha. the Gurkha lunch. how did it taste? nahh i didnt give it a try since they had pork in it but i heard from the guys, it was much better than cookhouse food haha. maybe we shd cater them instead of NTUC. =p oh and i didnt know Sispec sells cigarettes. tts new.

this coming weekend will be the one with the labour day. long weekend? NOT! my life is so screwed now that i dun even know if i'll ever book out on weekends. saturday is a bday wkend while my cousin is getting engaged this sunday as well. my my. planning to take leave but then its a freaking saturday and sunday sia. like wtf man. argh! y is my MT Line so cocked up? one officer even came to me saying "u on duty again?? how can like tt one? then u can drive anot? nvm lah u go rest, i'll just drive myself back." luckily good and passionate officers still alive in there. now tts care for soldiers for u. but i guess MT Line doesnt practice any of the 7 values lah ah.

ranting so much since im feeling damn frustrated at how my NS life got into such shit. so just venting it all out. dun mind me. anyway its a new day tml. another i cant care less day in another i cant care less week. praying hard to get out of there. woo pls help! cmon pray wif me.

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