A blog which collects my thoughts while serving my National Services.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Long Weekend and Pre-POP

Life in the Provost 

To be frank, I cannot remember what happened this week except there was no run and there was a lot of arms drills. 

Oh yes, there was IPPT. and I still failed my Standing Board Jump. There was some improvement though. I am feeling a lot more confident now about IPPT. Either how, I'm just glad that its over and I can grow fat a little. 

The rest of the days are just arms drills and then there's C&R. We are supposed to have our grading, but the instructor got hospitalized or some shit. 

In other news, the posting are roughly out. I did not get the MPTS I wanted. The whole MPTS thing is very political. There are 7 openings and 2 are already taken as D and K had been there before, hence they want them back. Then there's the National Player who will be representing Singapore for the coming SEAs Games, I presume the school wants the glory. And there's the LKY award hopeful, which I heard there were instructions to keep him there. And who can forget the did-not-go-ocs-by-mistake. Well, its self-explanatory. There are some suffering with the last 2 names, but I presume its a poli-tactical move. 

I on the other hand I'm posted to the Dog wing. I have got no idea what they are doing, what I do know is that I don't get to book out as I did not pass my IPPT and that I will be on course once again. Ah... 

Booked out on Friday pretty late. I dont remember what we did. The thing about army is that we do a lot of meaningless things which does not really register very well in the brain; not to mention the fact that there's always a lot of waiting involved. Ah! i remember now, we made our camp past. Apparently ISB is a pretty good place to be, no more uniform and all aircon, besides, no body really know where your office is! 

After booking out, went back to poly for my speech training. I was really tired. Then on sat morning, went back to poly to do more speech training. The rest of saturday was pretty blur. (I am sounding like I'm suffering for a very long hangover or something like that huh?) I remember washing TAT bag of clothes and ironing the tailored made No.3 uniform. [We were issued 3 sets which I've ironed 2 shirts and a pants. It took forever and I think I almost burn them. Eitherhow, I believe I'll be only wearing it once for the next... forever. The thing is, dog wing always wears no4 isnt it?] 

Oh yes! I want Soul Garden with the lads. We ate so much, I could hardly walk. Its a craving thing. We walked around till the food almost digested. 

I finished up the ironing at night watch a little tv and went to bed. 

Oh Sunday! I dont remember doing anything much except staying in bed till late. Clean up the room a bit and surfed some porn. Then I did some reading up and worked on my speech a little and went off to have dinner with my parents. Came back and watched some TV and went to bed. 

Today will be booking in... shit! After I'm done with this, I will be packing my bags and what have you, then roll around the bad a little and work on my speech again. I really hope they wont kick me out of the picture. Ah shit! I forgot my book in timing again. 

Next week there's only 2... em, 3 things I can think of 
1) C&R grading
2) Drills, drills and more drills 
3) Parade 
4) POP! 

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