Saturday, January 12, 2008

When It All Falls Apart

//When It All Falls Apart//

And it's been yet another week in Tekong.

First day in Tekong after the book in on Sunday night is pretty bad. My theory is that they purposely chose to tekan us badly on this day because they think we are fresh from the bookout, no muscle aches and so on, so at least we can do standard pushups and so on. Imagine them tekaning us on Friday, with more than half the people doing half-fucked pushups because of the muscle ache from a week of training.

The funny thing is while we were being tekan in the Parade Square outside the cookhouse, staring at the red ground on the parade square at one moment doing pushups, then staring at the starry dark morning sky at the next moment doing that shutter kick or something, the song that was playing on the radio in the cookhouse was this...

I'm having a day from hell
It wasn't all going so well
- When It All Falls Apart (The Veronicas)

And it became sort of the theme for the day, and the entire day did sort of became the day from hell.

Subsequent days were defintely much better though. I looove the long long admin time at night after RO. I espeically love the moment when I lie down on my bed to sleep, cause it feels that the day is officially over and I'm one day closer to bookout day.

Went out with my section mates today for lunch, sort of as a farewell for mark who's posted out since he's already down pes, and as a opportunity for us to see wai kit too. Section 2, down to 11 people from the original 13.

It's quite an eye-opener, or rather it's quite interesting to hear from some of them about who they dislike in the platoon and so on.

I feel really lucky to be in section 2, cause I think among all the not-so-pleasant people in the whole platoon, or to put it more crudely, among all the people I dislike in the platoon, none of them are from section 2.

59 days to POP. 1 more bookout before my fieldcamp. Feeling kind of nervous about the fieldcamp.

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