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After spending two months in the Basic Military Training Centre on Tekong, I finally passed out. No more a recruit anymore, but a private. Not much difference actually anyway, haha, but it marks the start of a nearly two weeks break.
BMT nowaday is not as siong as before. In fact there is a lot of welfare, provided you do not land in company like ninja which have a commando as their OC (officer commanding). I was lucky to be in Whiskey, the company known as welfare company. So do expect my OC to intervene if the tekan by the sergeant is too harsh. This is especially needed for our platoon, which is the toughest platoon to be in the company. On the day of enlistment, my platoon sergeant told us, "It is no easy to be in platoon 2." We do not know what he means until when the adjustment period is over.
Our platoon sergeant is one who is very strict about the standard of the platoon. He will catch a person for very minor mistake and give him very harsh punishment. Guard duties and confinements are oftenly given out for offences which seem very minor to us, like the mass tin (pot) not clean, or digging tool not clean after field camp. I have been very careful when he is around, but I still kena two five hundreds words essay for not having two water bottles filled to the brim before training and not "aiming" when triggering off my rifle after checking clear. The worst nightmare is the day after the OC night, after some guys from other platoon imitating him. He gave us a field bag inspection, everything out or everything in within one min plus. During inspection, any ziplock bag which is old or have a small old will be torn. A few confinements were also given out. After that, he didn't allow us to rest for the 16km road march unlike other platoon (note that we have a IPPT test in that morning). During the road march, we even have to high port our rifle which eventually became rifle over head. Luckily, our OC stepped in to stop all those tekan for the last 4km. My muscles became very tight and I was fully exhausted after that road march.
However, all these also have benefits. After all those tekans, I lost around 5kg to 62kg. My tummy is gone and my muscles became more developed. My no of pull-up also doubled from 5 to 10. His tekan, which he explained to us in the end, is to prepare us for the tough trainings in the command school next time.
O ya, I was also the toilet ic and have 10 men under me. Being ic isn't easy. I remembered once I got screamed by one of my sergeants because there is shit in the toilet bowl. And it is in the toilet bowl that is choked. That happens on the fifth week, and everyone in the platoon should already know that that particular toilet bowl should not be use. Until this day, I still wondered who is the blur king that did that. However overall, my toilet committee seldom get pumped by the sergeant, unlike those cleaning the bunks. So yup, I think it's a good job done. Haha!
I will always remember the good times I spent with my section, esp singing with jiewei (a person who loves singing and always singing at his top of his voice)...
Ah bing || Tuesday, March 07, 2006
The feeling of getting A level results wasn't there. I was strangely not feeling nervous at all the day before the release of A level result. I could clearly remember the times when I was about to get my PSLE and O level result, I was very nervous and not eating well for at least three days before the release of result. This time I was perfectly normal. Prehaps, it is because I was too tired to even think about it with all the army trainings. On the day before the release date, we were allowed to book out. However, we have the Standard Obstacle Course test before that, which though I manage to pass it, is extremely exhausting. I went to sleep soon after having my dinner at home.On the day itself, I was also not nervous at all. All I did is to do a prayer to god to hope that I would pass my GP (which I did badly). The release of result is rather fast other than the long speech by the principal, which includes telling us to join the alumni. My class even produced 2 students who got 7 distinctions. However, I did become a bit scared even she talked about, "Despite our repeated warning that GP is very important,..." I was 4th in the queue to get my result. All the people in front of me got straight A and I was getting pressurised. I just prayed very hard as I stepped forward. Mrs Lau and my civic tutor were there. My civic tutor searched for my result slip and then said to me, "Congratulations!" I was a bit stun when I released that I got 4 A too. I totally didn't expect my chem to get A after screwing up so badly for my food chem. I scraped through my GP with a C6 and got merits for both my S paper. I, of course, informed my parents immediately and they were extremely pleased with my result. My dad even talked about buying roast pig to thank the god next year.
I went out with my friends after that to have a short pool game as celebration before going home to get ready for booking in that night...
Ah bing || Saturday, March 04, 2006