Two weeks More to Go!

2 weeks more to end of my signal operator course at SI. It's been a rather fun 8 weeks here already...though I admit I did not like signals at all the moment I received my posting after BMT. The people here though, really made SI a lively place. And I even met people who knows my secondary school and JC friends, and we spent much time talking about them. Interesting platoon mates I have. The gifted people are the weirdest. One of them talk non-stop, the other is crazy over pokemons and dances madly. One goes home and checks the place where my PC stays, that he has one twin brother and goodness knows what else he knows about him. The other is obssessed with the female OCT (officer cadet). One is pro-PAP and makes speeches against the opposition, another racist gives nicknames to Chinese (called xiang jiao pi a.k.a. banana skin), Malays (called qiao ke li pi a.k.a. chocolate skin) and Indians (da pian pi a.k.a ermz...nevermind). Then who can forget Sgt Kenny, with his outrageous antics, feminine behaviour, and ridiculous sound effects, though he is no doubt a great teacher - probably our favourite Sgt! And also Sgt James, who punctuates his sentences with a 'kay?' so it goes like this: 'This radio, kay, is a 946, kay, how to open, kay, you press this, kay, and insert, kay, the batteries...kay?' Absolutely hilarious. Anyway I hope most of us end up in the same platoon the next time...


Next week will be my Detachments Setting Up drill and all those important exercises, practically the whole week, a far cry from our usual air-con room mugging/sleeping. Exercises make me alive! Studying is so dead, especially studying about radios. 1 practical lesson makes us understand better than 10 theory lessons. Anyway, I will be looking forward to the next 2 weeks, before I pass out and get reposted again. Can't believe its already 4 months in the army, but still, another 1 year plus to go. I'm getting old liao. My 19th birdthday just passed on thursday. Celebrated with my platoon with 2 pizzas and a cake :)