DE JA VU!

I first step into Air Force School at the year 2000 as a NCC Air cadet as a cadet specialist. Never did i expect that 6 years later i'll end up at the very same place as a trainee.

I nearly died trying to memorise many different types of aircraft back in NCC Air. Luckily, i did it and mastered it. But never did i expect that 6 years later, i'll be doing this very same thing again. But this time, it's now in an "eye test format".

In 1998, i joined NCC Air because my school did not offer NCC Sea. Now in 2006, i tried to sign on in the navy during BMT. But mindef was all too determined to have me in the Air Force.

So here i am, in Air Force School, always with a pack of super strong mints in my right breast pocket, trying to stay awake during lessons. But here, i am not alone. There was this ultra boring lesson where by at one point of time, the entire class fell asleep. All 43 of us. The female officer conducting the lesson had no choice but to declear a short break for us all.

All in all, life in here is like, a school with a hostel. With our 3 basic meals provided for us, enough time to watch TV in the night, a washing machine to share. And even a video arcade center and a KTV bar. It was far from a normal army life.

Been missed is those times when i lived with mother nature. Running for our lives under the rain, getting attack by batallions of ants, and of course, navigating to nowhere at an unknown place and the mass feeding of the mosquitos.

Humans really don't treasure anything until they lose them. Just like how my heart now aches for SOCs and field camp.