Symptoms of A Failing Heart

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this photos was taken on the 7th of september at marina bay where we had our farewell steamboat dinner for benjamin whose going army the next day and also a early surprise 20th birthday celebration for mond.

my one week of block leave is finally coming to an end. nevertheless, i've really made full use of it though. which means, i've hardly stay home throughout these days. but on the down side, i've been spending so much money which means i'm almost broke now! damn it. anyway, i'll just summarise on what i've been up to.


friday night after my pop
i went to meet up with my platoon mates cutecute, ee seng, da hua, zhixiang, weili and sgt. robin with tong ling and 2 other girl friends at raffles city mrt as we'll be going boat quay for some drinking session. we had dinner first before proceeding to this pub and then taking a cab over to mohd sultan to the club, 'rush'. the environment there wasn't good for me as it's a techno club. HOW THE HELL YOU EXPECT ME TO DANCE WITH THAT MUSIC? hahaha. so i just sat down there and look at people. by the time the club close, we went outside for our supper before i took a cab back home alone.


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saturday
out to home team academy's official opening with keong, felki, khiaseng, ah ni and charis in the evening. the performances was not bad as there's performers such as fiona xie, electrico, singapore idols, superstar winners and many more. we stay from 7pm to 10pm before we finally went home by train.


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sunday
finally had our long awaited rowdees soccer match. and now that we have alot of fit army men and soon-to-be policemen and our attendance that day was 100%, we won the match with the scoreline of 4 - 1. hohoho! not bad as usual. to so-call celebrate, we went to 85 market for our breakfast. after that, it was back home to rest.


it was only in the evening before my brother and i went to meet keong, weitong, hock, zhenfai, terter, wenyan, felki and ah ni for dinner at bugis. we were supposed to dine at this new western restaurant which i found at sunshine plaza, but to our surprise, it was closed. so we got no choice but to dine at this famous wanton noodle stall instead.


next up, we walked over to arab street where we had our first seesha session as most of us were new. it was a total fun and laughter night but too bad zhenfai left earlier. we tried 3 flavors which were grape, strawberry and apple. the food there, wedges, kebab and chicken was fantastic! but fucking expensive. it's worth all your money though. plus, first time smoking wasn't quite an experience, we coughed and we felt giddy. haha. it was lame. then, we walk back to the mrt to take the last train home.


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monday
outing to orchard with wenyan and hock. we met up at tampines for lunch first. well, we all did our fair share of shopping and i end up buying a atticus polo tee and a heartcore tee shirt which cost $114 in total at image 2001. damn. then we proceed to bugis to shop alil' while more. night time, we went to changi village's subway together with weitong, kuku, boon, ah ni and sharon as ben is working his last day there. we spent quite awhile there because we waited for ben to close the shop. took a cab home to rest at 11.15pm as i was dead tired.




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tuesday
i was out to katong for gaming together with boon, tong, ter and wenyan. we spent around 3 hours there playing battlefield 2 and swat before going back tampines to meet keong, ah ni, felki, hock, qingan and sharon for kfc dinner. congraduation to qingan that day as he just POP. after that, we went to rent some vcd before going home first to change. then it was back to wenyan house for vcd watching with only me, tong and dick who came later for mahjong.


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wednesday
i only came out in the evening where i cabbed down with tong to east coast for our platoon's bbq. sadly, not many attend the bbq as i expected but it all turn out okay. we stay only for awhile before danny (our platoonmate) drives us to panpacific. over there, tong and i cabbed again to zouk where we'll be meeting qingan, hock, james, ter, kuku, alex, amy, wenyan and peggie to celebrate alex's POP.


the night was okay as i didn't actually enjoyed myself that much. there was so many people and i have to keep squeezing through the crowd. by 3am, some of them decide to go boat quay for more drinking so i didn't. instead, i took a cab back with peggie and kuku to tampines west cc's mac for supper. in no time, it was KO back home.

PO PO P! P O P O P O P!
hohohohoh!!! i've finally POP! fuck yeah. after all these agonizing 2 months which felt like forever. i've at last pass out last friday. for those noobies wondering whats POP, it's Passing Out Parade where boys become men, and recruits become privates.


the days before our POP was the toughest of all. because we just complete our 24km road march on wednesday night which ends on thursday morning. straight away after lunch, we had to do our POP rehearsal without even having sufficient rest after our road march, most of us walks like we had huge **** because the abrasions were so serious that it ends up all over our legs. sad to say, even my balls got abrasions, it's like what the fuck. it was a tough day.


just when we thought hell was over, we were wrong. on the morning of our POP our battlion had a mini arms and skills game. it was FUCK UP. the reason for the game was to select the companies' best platoon and battlion's best platoon. my platoon, 12 was split among 9, 10 and 11 because of the shortage of numbers. i end up in platoon 10.


the first station of the game was suppose to be a fast/route march of 2.5km with Full Battle Order (which weighs 10+kg) but because of the competition, every companies run/jog instead throughout the 2.5km. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? i was barely alive throughout the run, my legs was almost half-dead. no recruits in singapore has ever done running with FBO.


after we complete the march and drop our FBO, before we can even catch our breath, the second station begins where we had to sprint 200m to strip/assemble our SAR21. next station, running to a soccer field 400m away where we did our fire movement, leopard crawl, back crawl and throw a grenade where it MUST land within a target board's range. we didn't, so we had to do 2 times! i swear it was worse than our route march. we then had to proceed to our Standard Obstacle Course ground where we to carry 2 stretcher each with 2 jelly cans ontop (weights around 40kg) and complete our SOC (missing 3 stations).


we had to then run the last stretch to the finishing line. and i tell you, i've never been so HAPPY in my entire life after i cross the finishing line. finally there was light up ahead. after the game, we had a short rest before our last POP rehearsal.


the actual POP started at 4pm where most of our family/friends were there. for me, only my mom and young cousin went to attend. POP wasn't easy too, because all of us had to stand for almost an hour thanks to the prize giving and stuffs.


the most memorable would be, first of all, when our family/friends are allowed to come to us to put on our jockey cap. second, when we threw our caps up the sky with the machine guns firing in the background. army life has never been so fun.


with that, marks the end of my POP. when i come back from my 7 days block leave, i'm most probably going to be a tankie (either a tank gunner or driver) IF i pass the psycho motor test. and sadly, there would be no more platoon 12 since most are gonna be posted to Armour Infantry and etc. i'll be separating from most of my section mates as well which i will miss most.


I LOVE PLATOON 12!!!
I LOVE SECTION 1!!




below are some lame photos we took in our bunk.