Arrgh. Field camp's here again!

It's a super short weekend for me as I take up precious minutes to create this entry. Bloody COS duty tomorrow on a lovely Sunday! Hrummph. Oh what a way to start the week ahead. Talk about SUNDAY blues. Sheesh.

Anyway, despite my short 12 hours of book out, I managed to have breakfast with the family at the usual wanton noodle joint at Frankel Avenue, shop the whole day with the princess at Orchard, ate like a king at the food fest at Taka, stock up the necessary missing items needed for the field camp, have dinner with my bro, and lastly blog my final word for 2 weeks before I book in at 2300. Haiz. The weekend never seemed so short before.

Which is why I am unable to meet, and I apologise for that, long lost and long last seen pal Melvin and the rest of my secondary school friends for coffee session at Tampines. I'm really sorry. But I'm sure we'll find another time to catch up, worse come to worse surely we'll meet at this year end's in-the-midst-of-planning Sec 4C class reunion right? We'll see.

Ok. Next up, field camp. Which will cruelly commence on the 23 of July, making me miss my elder bro's birthday and of course another precious Saturday and Sunday weekend. Haiz. What to do when you lan lan got to serve? Yes. I always believed that they plan the highly torturous (for those maggots) 7-day field camp to always start on a Saturday so as to totally crush the morale of the recruits, thereby extending their pains and misery beyond the physical means as well. Those smart b****rds up there. Anyway, it'll be 7 days of hell for the instructors too as we have to take care of them and at the same time train them in the sacred (dark) arts of camouflage, cover and concealment, field craft, night movement, section firing, movements drills, etc. The list goes on. Not to mention additional lessons such as the mandatory Tekong ghost stories on their very first night in the jungles. Nothing tucks them in bed (I mean basha) better than that huh? Hahaha. Sounds like fun? For us definitely. For them? Anyone's guess. Woo hoo hoo.

Anyway, Ill only be back on the 29th at earliest. Haiz. 14 days away. Well at least when I book out I'll be 2 weeks closer to ORD-ing. Sheesh. Although it's still eons away, I can't help thinking of the day when I collect my pink IC and shout ORD LOH!!! to all those miserable souls still stuck in Tekong or even better to recruits who have just enlisted and just started their journey of 2 years of misery. EVIL ME! But I don't care.

I'll definitely be missing everyone back in S'pore, and definitely my dearest princess the most. Which is also the person I am most grateful to for always being there for me. I have seen so many couples torn apart by the very ruthless conscription of males. Haiz. Its disheartening to keep hearing "Oh, I just broke up with XXX yesterday", or "XXX says she needs some space", or "XXX believes we need to re-evaluate our relationship". Yeah right. Were'nt they getting along fine with their XXXes before army? It's sad. But it's true. NS breaks as many relationships as it claims to have build.

Bahl. Not much time left. Time to book in. To all back home, take care and do excel and persevere in whatever you're doing ya? The fortnight will be over before it's even began. I wish. By the way, you all would realise that my tag board's down. And Miss Long has so kindly agreed to help me rectify it when she has time if not she'll lend me her newly bought laptop for free for a year. Ok, not the laptop part but yes, she will set it up in no time I'd bet. In the meantime, you all can make use of the comments link or drop me an sms if you wanna get me.

Oh well, adios. Till then, stay cool.