WELCOME

What was the first thing that happened to you when you first step into pulau tekong?

For me, and the many other luckless guys around, we attended a lesson of shouting appreciation. The importance of shouting and how to adapt it. And a recuits' journey sure depends on it. We reply to anybody by shouting, your CSM shouting commands, and bla bla bla. We even pledge our loyalty to singapore by shouting out the pledge. Soon after that shouting apprecitation lesson, we were shown a touching video about life in wonderful tekong. With the song 'time of your life' by greenday playing in the background, we saw lots of smiles, joy, and happiness amoung the recuits and instructors alike.

Anyway, we had a nice lunch of chicken rice and soon, our parents left tekong for home. Via the penguin express of course.

We were soon issued our uniforms, sort out wrong sizes, had dinner, and were sent to sleep in our bunks. At 10:30 pm, the time of the day when our mind was at it's most active state.

We tossed, we turned, we went to the toilet, we even counted sheeps. But we just couldn't sleep. We even tried to hide under the blanket to sneek out sms'es to love ones and friends, usually female friends.

In the end, all of us managed to fall asleep. Only to be woken up 5:15am, that's the time when most teenagers would start to fall asleep. We all went fully awake when told to fall in by 5:30am. For most of my recuit days, i brushed my teeth only after we came back from breakfast.

And this is where my very interesting life as a solider begins. Next up, will be a collection of all my mis-adventures during our famed national service, collected since 8th june 2006.