This morning I walked into a pitch dark Nee Soon Camp. Everything seemed so gloomy. First day as "Auxiliary Instructors". Sounds as if it was a menacing task ahead, but if you really read into what I did for the entire day, it's pretty cool life. The urban life style of Nee Soon camp and a few feet from my bunk doorstep takes you to a very urban view of other equally high buildings and a tennis court. Thus, the name 'nee soon condominium" I gave it. Canteens are everywhere, and bunks have lifts!
Book in timing was ridiculously early. 0630 at the cookhouse because they indented breakfast for us! Argh, screw SAF rules! Kenneth choose not to stay out. Can't help it, I have a 15 minute away "teleportation" from home and not everyone does I woke up at 0530, feeling all achy from sleep deprivation aches. cold winds in the morning, and the early morning drizzle makes things gloomy but I managed to get changed into PT attire and consume the horribly cooked bee hoon served at the cook house. Eating meals provided by SAF is just like entertaining them. a formality. it's like, if you visit a person's home and he cooks for you out of courtesy you'll eat it even if it tastes horrible. Not to mention the various minor implications of having fussy taste buds and vehemently and persistently rejecting SAF good could be a magic number called 1206 which forces you to pay for something you DID NOT eat.
But still. Stay out is enticing. Because for us combat personnel, we're frankly quite sick of staying in. And this is a good opportunity for some fresh air! Not to mention, my sergeants and understudies HAVE to stay IN because it's their course!
And so I slept in. Had a choice of whether to go for orientation run, but no. Sleeping in bunk was better. I wanted to run but my butt cheeks still ached from badminton with clement. So three of us, we slept in. Woke up occasionally to change the music or stop the music. then woke up abruptly suddenly and began reading books. it was just random rotting on our bed (which still does not have a bed sheet!) one large bunk! three people. And the furniture in the bunk looks as if it's imported from Ikea! The showers at nee soon are legendary! Because the pressure makes you feel as if you don't want to get out of that damn cubicle! seriously. I think my bathing time increased by threefold just because of the shower!
So we rotted under our stomachs growled and decided to walk abit around to find food. there is no such thing as branch under SAF so we had to hunt for a place with food and it's called, the "canteen". We walked about 1km around and found some large canteen which resembles a typical school canteen. YUM! Breakfast! suddenly it seems as if we have so much freedom!. without telling anyone, we just could sneak away as we like, walk to anywhere anyhow, as we like. And do anything as we please. I saw lots of higher ranking people walking around, but since I was in PT attire (and by then it was 10am+ in the morning),I assume there was no need for any formal greetings. We just walked around as if we owned the camp.
Pre lunch time. I sat on my bed playing Sudoku on my Ipod. And reading books, listening to music. It was so relaxing that I kept dozing off and falling asleep! Post lunch was even better. We drew the gym key and went for a work out! And at 1615 we were back in bunk changing and ready to book out!
What a day. Relaxing. Urban Freedom. Legendary Showers. Nothing to do. And coming home to have a warm dinner and play the piano! Cool life. I want to stay there forever!
On a side note, it may be because today's the first day. Subsequently, I'll have jobs and roles to play. And I may even have to go SBO on and chiong the exercise with them. But still, I'm an "instructor" so maybe this status does make me slightly more invulnerable to SAI KANG. Still, I personally know that I know nothing about this course right now. it's been 13 months since I was at Nee soon was a trainee. How am I supposed to even remember anything!.
I only remember the showers were great! And my (hanged) underwear dropped down 6 floors cause of a random idiotic gigantic wind.
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