Back to "Excel through Basics" (BMTC motto)

Chinese New Year's break gone. Back to the usual boring routines of life. Yours Sincerely is booking in in a couple of hours. Here is the usual Sunday-night-back-to-camp-book-in-blues-soon-to-be-monday-blues blog. It hurts especially so this weekend to do this entry. It always is after a long break. 6 lovely days as a civillian. Gone in less than a twinkle of an eye. To make this weekend worse, tomorrow is Valentine's day! And instead of spending a romantic night with Xin Yi, I will be instead the guard commander for tomorrow night's guard duty of Pulau Tekong. Sheesh. Just what i need to start the week ahead.

The past 6 days was an oh-so-lovely 6 days. Was able to collect my ang pows, spend some time with my family, meet up with relatives, play mahjong with cousins, chill out with frens, go bai nian in the wee hours of the night with much fear but armed with 2 oranges for safety(shoots a look at Sok Wan) and of course most importantly spend some time with dear dear.

Reminds me of what it is like to wear civillian clothes for so long, not being in your super heavy and stuffy Goretex boots for 15 hours a day, not having to wake up by 7am daily, not having to shout or release your wrath on petty happenings, not having mountains of paperwork to do and most importantly, being able to soak in the mainland lifestyle. Shiok!

For those who were with me at any point of time for the past 6 days, I wanna say a big thank you for making my short holiday a very enjoyable one. Even my last night's 1am 10-1 pool game trashing by my elder bro did not dampen my spirits. There is something about army that girls do not understand despite my efforts in explaining. (Really Doris, you do NOT want to sign on). No matter how beautiful instructor life seems like in there, nothing beats civillian life. If only I could throw my 11B down Tekong river when I ORD. ORD OH!!!!!!!!

Which is why i indulge in "civillian" activities in camp. Like learning a third language.Evryone seems to be learning a new language. Xin Yi is learning malay, Xiang Ning is learning Japanese, Cheryl's German is getting scarily impressive. Fine! All you tri-lingual people to be, wait and see. But I shall not show off my "tekong" language. They should be reserved for the interaction with recruits. Heh. I shall bring in a third language book next book in. Always good to learn.

Oh well. Farewell thee all! Till I blog again at specialist mess soon. I hope. Take care!
Ps. Xiang Ning, I'll be waiting for you-know-what.