First book out!!! and yeah, its gonna be the happiest time in my life, after being cut off from the world for 15 days, im out!!! But yea...also sick...sore throat and cough. :((
Life is not really that bad afterall in the army, had quite alot of fun and also tough trainning. I always wonder why people say a boy becomes a man when he goes army. Is it because of the toughness of the trainning? or the age of becoming an adult just nice falls during most people's NS time? is it because we ge to hold a gun and be cool? or is it because its just something random people made up? But then, the moment i went into NS, on the 3rd of 4th day, i realized why. Its really a growing up process, and i can feel that im growing. Im not sure about the trainning that is waiting for me, the outfield, situation test and others. But for now i can already feel that im becoming not and more independent. And really starting to grow.
I come from a average family with no financial problems, i do work abit for my own extra pocket money but have not experience much hardship. My mom is a housewife and so there is no need for me to do house work or wash clothes. But the moment i went into NS, i need to do all those things myself. Area cleaning, washing clothes, tidy up my bed and things like this. And i never know things are that tough. Washing clothes is a good example, i did learn abit on how to wash clothes before i went in, but then again, washing clothes is really tiring. I use hand wash although there is a washing machine (4 machine shared by 200+ people, you wont get your turn...) anyway, washing the clothes is quite easy, all we need to do is to take a pill and put in the dirty clothes, add water and washing powder and soak it for awhile. But the hard part comes when we wanna squeeze the clothes dry. First few days we did not do any arm workout, but my arm muscle gets pains from squeezing the clothes, and my palm turns red from squeezing too hard. Yea, its only 4 pieces of clothing a day. I then start thinking, my mom washing how many pieces of clothing a day? I dun know...but surely its more then what im doing. Slowly, i start getting use to the washing and have no red palm or muscle ache.
Next is the drying of clothes, I never know drying clothes and making sure clothes wont drop on to the first floor is so troublesome. Its raining season now, so in tekong, we get rains too. So main point here is, we need to collect back our clothes when its rainning. The problems with that is sometimes we do not have time to go up and take back the clothes. Also on rainning days, we will also have to worry about clothes not getting dry, not enough clothes to wear. (we are only given 3 pieces of singlet for PT, 3 admin tee, and 3 shorts) so yea 1 set a day, sometimes we use more then 1 set, cos we sweat a lot there. So many things to worry about, plus i drop a singlet down to the first floor once, its quite scary, luckily i found it :D gonna bring more clothes peg in next time :D After experiencing this, i realized how mom would call back and nag us to help her take in clothes during rainning days when she is not home, and sis and I sometimes were so lazy we didnt bother. And how our clothes fly down stairs and she would help go and find it.
Next is the area and bed cleaning, honestly i dont do housework... so yea...fuck man... Cleaning itself is still okay, but when it will gets dirty again very soon!!! there are people who are just fucking stupid and make places dirty again. My area was the corridor and stairs, it wasnt that bad, just need some sweeping to be done. But the fucked up thing is that the rubbish bin at there and we are responsible for it too, and there will be people who cant throw the rubbish into the bin, no idea how they miss such an obvious big bin with a small piece of litter, but we always need to clean it up...dam... Bed and bunk also need to be in stand by (very clean and tidy) condition everytime, we leave our bunk, if not we will be punish even if its not a standby bed. This is also quite hard for me to adapt as i do no really tidy my room at home. Once in awhile yea, thats what most people my age do. But now we need to keep it clean and tidy at all times, so yea... trying trying trying, luckily im able to adapt fast and changing my habits. From this, i learn to get rid of bad habits in NS haha, not bad eh. I also learn that its really terrible when you clean up a place and people mess it up again. It really sucks. Really learn how to appreciate things more, even cleaners who help to keep our environment clean, next time i wont litter anymore...its really fuck up.
Food, no need to say, taste wise is not bad, tekong have decent food. But the problem comes when the food everyday is almost the same, rice with chicken and vege and meat or fish and 1 more dunno what. 4 dish with rice, everyday and everyday sure got chicken, sure eat at least 2 chicken a day...eat till scared of chicken now... I miss my mom's home cooked food. i remember there are times when i ask my mom to cook and i went out to eat with my friends...i felt bad... i miss alot of food and during this 3 days break i eat alot...oh noooooo haha.
Training and other things like punishment stuff are all very mild, so i cant say much now, the first 2 weeks is for us to get use to the life in NS so they are not that harsh yet, will blog more when interesting things happens.
I have become more tanned and have lost 3kg in 2 weeks, not bad but still alot more to go!!!
To conclude, i actually felt that i adapt quite fast and became a more independent person. I learn to do many things myself, although we help each other out too, but main thing we need to do is to be independent. I use to think army is about bonding and helping out each other, like what we do in PID. (ok this teamwork and bonding part is important too) But now i realized im lacking alot of skills and experience in life, and im slowly learning. Learning to survive in a new world. NS also let me appreciate more things, i have not appreciate those things enough. Lastly, looking back at this merely 2 weeks of NS life, i realized how much i have grown... i wonder how i will be when i come ou of NS, i think thats the reason why people say a boy goes into the army, and comes out as a man... Im ready for a change, growing more matured, and a path to manhood. This 2 years, im not going to waste it.
I have left my comfort zone...and growing up...im really happy to be a NS man... :D
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