MY NSF LIFE part 2

Hey, im back to continue my NSF life after SISPEC, which is now no longer called SISPEC from wad i know. Its newly knowed as Specialist Cadet School.

ok, as from last post, i was sent to ETI in Nee Soon Camp as a Combat Engineer trainee. During the first day together with my daffel bag, my dad sent me to nee soon camp. At first i only tot i was in the same field as meng hee and yee pong. But surprisingly when i reached the training shed waiting for the tonner, i saw JASON KOH and TAN JUN WEI once again! YES, AGAIN!

I was more den happy to see them again, and wads more? There were more then i expect to know in the same platoon. And who are they?
Namely,
Chee Han
Zi Ming
Ang Eng Ann, Alan
Jia Hao

All these for i can rmb, are my old frens either from BMT same company or my ex secondary school frens.
In our bunk, platoon 3 section 2 bunk 1 to be exact, there were 5 of us who were old BMT platoon mates. This greatly triggered my motivation to finish this 1 mth with them. Though this is prolly the shortest period of my trainee life in ETI but however its one of the best as well. Coz of this fate, or maybe the human resource side had done a great job, I was able to meet my old frens once again and do this shit tgt with them. And with them, i know im not alone. From cleaning the toilet to doing "sai gang", we do them volunteerily. Learning new basics away from the infantry style, was pretty interesting and new for me. Playing with demolitions, mine prodders was definitely a new try and interesting gadget to fondle. And its also at ETI, tat i had my first encounter with the m16 rifle, and picking up the armskote men appointment again.

We learned different demolition charges, from a size of a thumb to a size of a 26inch lcd tv. Learnt minefield, mine clusters, and boring sessions of intensive lectures. And there was even once we got knock it down in the bloody lecture room!!! HAHAHAHA isnt that hilarious? I was like laughing my bloody ass off when i was in the pumping position, it was so funny tat almost the pple ard me were also laughing their ass off when we changed position from pumping to crunches and back to pumping. This was old school.

Next, when we were first introduced to our engineer song. This bloody loser, Tommy, made fun of the song by changing the lyrics to some bangla thing, causing us to march ard the parade square like a dog.

And soon our 1month is up, we're moving off to the specialize engineer field, namely, Field Engineers (FE), Armoured Engineers (AE), Plant Engineers, FLB.
From this point onwards, my buddies left me again, jun wei and alan went to the HOTTER selection, the Plant. While me, Jason, Meng Hee, Zi Ming, Wei Hao, Yee Pong went to the more interesting selection, the Armour family.

So we left ETI and moved to the furthest camp of all.... Sungei Gedong Camp. "Once armour, Always Armour."
And indeed, this last phase of my trainee lifespan in sungei gedong made me rooted to this camp, FOREVER.

We went to AETC, which is aka 38SCE now for training. 2nd Warrant Officer Vincent was our incharge and Staff Wong was our welfare PS. Now there i landed in the same bunk as, Jason Koh (yes once again), Yap Wei Hao (joker), Ziming, Yee Pong, Tommy.
We learnt how to operate, drive and service a Bronco. What are the necessary stores and OVMs we need to prep the vehicle, how to prep-for-ops and how to make the bronco swim.
We also did some live firing with our favourite engineer demolitions.

During the armoured engineer course, we had a few out fields before the summary exercise. I can rmb there was once we came back frm a out field, everyone was so shag, den we tio fk. Staff Lee was giving us a 1 time good 1, den he suddenly ask jason koh, aka yandao, "Eh yandao let me ask you, why do u need 3 to 4 pple to clean 1 bloody L plate?" (He was asking tis in a very stern look, and the atmosphere was so intense because Staff Lee was angry). Guess wad jason replied?
"Because its VERY DIRTY." (He said this w/o thinking much) And then the whole group of us burst into laughter. Then we tio knock it down liao HAHA. Well i cant rmb exactly how the scolding went but i roughly rmb its something like this, and we all laughed so hard that my tears almost rolled out.

Soon CNY came, den then another theft case arise. Wei Hao's 500 bucks went missing in 2 different occasions. First time he din wan to make a big fuss bcoz its book out day, if he were to report, he knew everyone book out timing will get delayed. So he said nvm.
The 2nd time, he lost approx 200bucks i think? He decided to report it. And this time, its after an out field exercise den it went missing. And the suspects were those who didnt go outfield, and unfortunately, i was one of them. But after a thorough investigation, before the book out, we were made to do a full body inspection, we even took off our pants to check the underwear. And that was the time the culprit was finally caught. The money was found to be hidden inside the underwear in one of the main suspect. And it was a few hundred bucks. He was immediately taken away by court martials and charged to DB. Well, luckily in this incident i didnt get framed by this fella. And most importantly my innocence was cleared. PHEW!!

These were the few big incidents tat happened during my stay in AETC. Lastly, after our sum-ex, transformers, i can still vaguely rmb on the 13/2/09 after a few smses, i broke off with my last girlfriend. It was really disheartening, as it happened directly before valentines. I made a lot of preparations for her, and even pre-ordered flowers. But it didnt work. On the same period of time, Hee received a bad news from his beloved girl as well, causing him to break down during the final Passing out Parade. We're all fooled by the word love i wud say...

And soon we finally passed out as a 3rd Sergeant. We went back to Sungei Gedong camp AGAIN and headed to a new home called the 42th Battalion Singapore Armoured Regiment. Together with my fellow mates, Wei Xuan, Wei Hao, Meng Hee, Kenny, Boon Kiat and Duane, we joint the family of SERVAL COY from 270209 onwards.