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:: First day in NS ::

ok, you all must be wondering why I can post my entry about NS when I should be in NS now right?

Well, it's a long story so I'll just post about what I did that day first...

At first, I had breakfast with my family and cell, ly, zl, ahgu and yujie came to send me off, so nice of them isn't it... Then they send me off until the interchange where I get to take the feeder bus with my mom and mei to the ferry and all the way to tekong island... from there we were seperated liao, my family went to look at the clothes we're wearing and all and visted the bunks and all...

While I had to do some adminstrative stuff, they took my IC den issued me a new green IC and a sling bag very nice de but I don't like my card, I look funny, serious but funny, it was the one I took during my medical checkup which was like super long ago. Anyway, most of the time we waited to be called until everyone got the new id n sling bag, we went to another area and our sergeant major came to tell us what to do later during the pledge of allegiance. From there we had to start shouting "YES SERGEANT MAJOR!" liao... so not use to it la... tell us we had to stand at attention and all and cannot move blah blah blah... Then after that he left us for a toilet break and to watch this video... my view was pretty much blocked by a pillar so I can only see abit...

After the video, we went in this auditorium-like place and we sat in the center, our parents came in awhile later and they sat the side of the audi. Then when everyone was here someone gave a speech and we watch the video we just watched... after the video, our "principal" gave a speech and briefly explained that about how the training is progressively done and every safety precaution taken and all blah blah blah... ask if there's any question then finish. We carried on with the pledge of allegiance, I, IC number, Full name, pledge that blah blah blah, blah blah blah...

Then after that, the recruits went outside to wait for our parents to go eat lunch together, during the speech, the "principal" said that the food the parents will eat is the food we all will be eating, so what we had was rice, whipped potato, a chicken thigh, red beans, broccoli, an orange, and a cup of orange juice. Then after lunch, we send our parents to the entrance and say bye bye.

And this is where it all begins... we were brought to the track field, they called our names, we say "YES SIR!" take our things and line up in 2 rows... this was where we are spilt into our different sections (bunks). From here we started marching our way to our company (our block), not that we really marched cos most of us dunno how yet. We gathered in a common area which was also the pull up area which was in between company F and E... we were taught how to "fall in" den after that he explained about the company line and all, and we were brought into our bunks were we left our things and went to get our barang barang in another place. We had to bring our new id cards along to scan. There was a person who scanned and another who told us a 4 digit id number which we wrote down, den we walk to the next table where we find our number in the file and sign. den we walk to another shed to get our barang barang with the number and name. It's freakin heavy la! good thing the truffle bag had wheels so can drag it along... After everything get liao, we went to another place to check if all our stuffs are inside with the right size, den we went back to our bunk...

The training started here... where we had to move all our freakin heavy barang barang to the 4th floor using the stairs cos we not allowed to use the lift. Here we are allocated our bed number and where we tried out our clothes can wear anot even the swimming trunk... >.<

After that is dinner liao, this time we also must bring our id to scan den can eat, no need bring bag just the card enough and $2 for the haircut later. This time we had rice, cabbage, 3 lemon sauce chicken drumsticks, 2 fishcake, a ya pear (li) and a cup of cold bandung... It was late liao... We started marching to get our haircut... haiz... byebye hair... Actually it wasn't so bad cos I cut before, after my haircut I saw zhijin cut his hair but he didn't see me. After haircut we go back our company and prepare for our water parade where we have to drink half a bottle of water seh... waliew, after dinner somemore... Thank God I didn't finish my dinner. I never finish cos they give alot of rice so cannot finish loh... I did clear the rest of the food though, the chicken was nice.

Then finally comes the RO where we get tmr's event and we are "free!" to walk around n feel "slack" where smokers get their smoking break, etc. This was where I kind of reported sick to my sergeant cos i asked where the sickbay was then he say I want to report sick ah? n i say ya... I told him my right ear is block, n i have a flu... he told me to look for the COS, i waited for some time b4 i was attended, he den made me sign out and brought me to the medical center which was a few blocks away, I went in to see the OM where he checked me and decided to put me on "att C" which means I must go home! So later he gave me my medicine and a letter that writes I'm under 2 days attend C, den I walk back to my company and gave the letter to my COS where he gave the OC, but the OC gave a command that I be send to the sickbay to sleep, so I went up pack my things and the COS accompany me to the medical center again where he left me BUT there the OM insisted I stick to the att C and told me to go back tell my COS to tell the OC and if he insisted, tell the OC to call the OM, so I walk all the way back to the company again to tell the COS about what happen, waited for quite awhile and decided to send me home... =_=

So I climb up to the 4th floor again into my bunk where I saw my bunk mate in their mosquito nets sleeping soon, this was were they kanna scold by the sergeant major about those who didn't put on their mosquito net, so anyway I pack my stuffs, change back to civillian clothes, called my parent to fetch me but they ask me take cab, so here sergeant David came and fetch me home... first they let me ride on this jeep to an office where I met PC1, I was talking to another PC i think is PC2 also known as sergeant David, he's rather nice and he shared with me that he also went home on his enlistment day cos he had chicken pox... he say he also met alot of ppl on his first day because of that and told me not to worry. He explained some of the system and how/what to do as we were on the jeep, then on the ferry, then in the OC's car, then all the way to my doorstep! -_-"

So there, my first day in NS... a rather comprehensive 1... now if anyone going army soon, you can read this entry to be better prepared.

btw, I used alot of abbreviation for the names, cos that's what they keep calling out... I asked what a few are called but still not very sure cos got alot...

COS - a sergeant on duty that day in charge of signing in and out I think
OM - Medical Officer
OC - Company Officer
PC - i think is Platoon Section leader or Platoon Officer
REC - Recruit
Coy - Company

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on Sunday, September 16, 2007, 10:02 AM