Node Outing

Today was node outing with the army guys. No Jurong camp, no PT, no ranks, just plain civilian shirt and trousers. And 1SG Cheung gamely said we don't have to call them and the officers by rank today ("Sergeant", or "Sir"), which resulted in a 'Yes, Cheung!' response from one of the men, to the amusement of all of us. Basically we pretty much enjoyed ourselves because this is nothing like army environment at all, and I am so happy to just play Amazing Race for the whole stretch of road from City Hall to Orchard Road. Makes me feel so hopeful for that ORD day. 9 more months...and I will be like this forever. Freedom...

Ok, we actually came across a group of Koreans and we approached them because we kenna a forfeit that requires us to take a photo with 5 strangers. But there were about 8 of them. They look very ordinary, and for once, I realized that there are actually koreans whose parents are not genetically perfect. Wahaha. What I mean is there are no Song Hye Kyos or Rains there. And what made me laugh out loud was that Sgt PPG actually politely pushed away 3 of the guys in order for us to take photos with the 5 korean girls. Wahahaha!! And he later explained that he did that because they couldn't really understand English and he cannot be bothered to explain slowly to them (and well, we were in a race.) Still it was so comical... We thanked them and I wanted to shout 'Kamsahmida!'. But alas I was too shy. Maybe if the girls are cuter I would :X Something like this:

And we played 'Shi Zi Lu Kou'. The last food item required us to find the food 'Skin'. And nobody had any idea what the hell it was. It was pure chance that we actually decided to go to Paragon Basement 1 (out of all the places in Orchard Road), and indeed, there was this Japanese store whose menu read 'Skin' as one of the items. I doubt the rest of the teams got this one right, and we couldn't believe our luck. In the end, our team won the race.

We ended off the afternoon with lunch at Fish and Co. The fish and chips there is really oily and big and made me so full and I hate it, though I forced myself to consume all of it. Being all guys there, you can imagine the amount of jokes made to those female waitresses...Some of us ordered 'The best Fish and Chips in town!' and then this girl came over and asked, 'Who ordered fish and chips?', to which Sgt Nuah answered, 'Is it The Best?' to the amusement of that lady. Pure entertainment. And then Sgt J was like, 'You know why she serve me drink first?' when the lady was gone. (Actually it was because he ordered first...duh) Everyone can't be bothered to answer him, until the lady came back again, and I purposely asked Sgt J loudly, 'Yah, why ah? Why she serve you first ah?' He was super embarrassed! His expression was priceless.

Overall, it was a pretty nice time to spend some time outside with Trunk 2 company.