Wednesday, September 10, 2008
ORD LOH
2 years have passed and I figured its time to revive my blog since I promised that I will not blog during my time in NS to prevent accident revealations of classified information regarding the SAF.
"ORD may not be a good thing after all" Derrek smsed to me a few days after he orded.It was during august and I had yet to ord so that remark came as a surprise.I am beginning to understand his statement now.
NS life was depressing at first because I have to admit , I wasn't comfortable with the regimental lifestyle.I was having difficulties coping with the training and even today may still have some problems.I guess the interesting thing about it all are the experiences and friends you made during this difficult period.I believe this experience will last forever and the same goes for the friends I made over there.We went through almost every hardship together.There may be some people that I find hard to get along with but I would like to acknowledge a few of these buddies I had.
Thank you dan for being there for me during the difficult times in BMT and always looking out for me.I was being discriminated by the platoon then but you never once look down for me and stood up for me.
Thank you Steve for coming along from viper to being my platoon mate for the 2 years.
Thank you Darrell ,koon liang , kenneth and benny for being there for me not only in camp but also my outside social life.
Thank you Derrek teh for being my bed buddy.I love your exaggerated acts especially the one you swang your underwear around when you got accepted by SIM.
Thank you Yang Jun for always talking alots of random stuff with me especially anime and for printing the ORD survey for me.
Thank you Jian hui for giving advice to us like an elder brother would.Your wisdom is greatly respected.
Thank you yao chong for driving me home with my duffel bag and eating chicken rice with me :)
Thank you Jun ye for always playing naruto with me in bunk and not jioing me to go dragonfly !!!
Thank you rong hua for always asking me to help him do guard duty !!!
The list goes on ...
And lastly , Thank you Captain kelson for signing my Clearance form on the last day.Like what you said during the last day. I am glad that you are proud we cleared the YTT status of soc and will definitely approach you for advice if I encountered any problems in the real world .
I managed to secure a job which will start next monday with a good starting pay and my weekend classes with naaec are starting next month.Cleared my Basic Theory test yesterday .Everything seem to be going well but I don't really seem happy about it.The main reason would be its time to face the music.2 years in the NS made us led sheltered lives and pass each day counting down towards ORD.We didn't realised that once we ORD , we are exposed to reality of the society we live in.Whatever we learnt during poly days had been overwrite by military related stuff.Now its time to recall back our poly stuff and move on...towards the real world.I remembered something I learn during media class , The real world and the reel world.I guess the 2 years were somehow just reel to me.
Posted by Ern at 11:29 PM