Last Day of Civilian Life

22nd August, 2011. It is 1 day before my enlistment. From tomorrow, 23rd August 2011 onwards, I will cease being a civilian and will be (forcefully) enlisted into the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). Of course, I have disliked the military since young and would not want to have anything to do with it. Being a Singaporean Son, we have no choice but to serve the country and taking a minimal allowance every month.

I have to report at 9am to Pasir Ris Bus Interchange and that will be the last I will be seeing civilisation for the week. Thankfully, I will be able to book out on 29th August (hopefully) due to Hari Raya Puasa. I will now do a comparison table of my thoughts before and after living in the dreaded island.

Edited as of 30 August 2011

BEFORE: Army officers will all treat you like shit.

AFTER: They respect us and treat us good if we do our stuffs right.

BEFORE: Pulau Tekong is said to be extremely haunted.

AFTER: No abnormal situations.

BEFORE: You get forced to run even though you can't continue on.

AFTER: We were encouraged to run and it was ok even though we could not continue.

BEFORE: The training inside will be extremely tough.

AFTER: It is tough but still acceptable.

BEFORE: You don't get enough rest at all.

AFTER: 7 hours of sleep is still insufficient for me but I have to bear with it.

A Great Day

Had a sleepless night last night because I was worried about a surprise I was planning. Delivery of a flower memo to her office. I am not the one delivering but is very worried about whether it has reached the office. After some hiccups and such later, it finally got into her hands. So relieved!

Went out at around 6pm to surprise her for the 2nd time at the office. Bought Green Tea Frappucino from Starbucks for her since it's one of her favourite drinks. Apparently she was quite surprised too! However, I got a bad shock as I was climbing the stairs up to her office and the wire got caught on to the staircase railing. The whole of the right side got pulled out along with the wire. RIP, Sennheiser headset! :(

Dinner was at Cuppage Terrace and had ramen, very nice! =D

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Only 7 days left. How time flies. When I received the dreaded letter it was 75 days away and now it's down to single digit, just a week left. Wonder how am I gonna cope with it. Hating it more day by day. 

Inception

There has got to be a time whereby you have a dream out of the ordinary. It can be a wonderful dream or a scary dream. Unfortunately, it was the latter for me. "Dream within a dream" happens occasionally but it has happened twice to me.

It goes on something like you dream normally and you enter another "dream". For me, the scene was on 23rd August 2011, the day I am never looking forward to. I was at the SAF Boat Jetty preparing for my scary journey to Pulau Tekong. Probably due to the close proximity of the airport, I managed to dream of a Singapore Airlines Airbus A300 (which has long gone into history) with the tropical livery (which has never been on any SQ A300s, only Boeing 747-400s). I even remember the registration as 9V-SBB, which happens to be one of Silkair's Airbus A319-100. As the dream continued, I was ushered into a waiting room which looked alike to a Muslim mosque with the sign "men only" at the entrance. Several minutes later, I was called to board the ship. At this moment, I knew it was a dream. I remember so clearly that I have 2 more weeks till enlistment but why am I boarding the ship now? I tried to wake myself from the dream no matter what, this cannot be true.

As I woke up from my second dream, I had memories myself in my first dream going on Facebook and checking airplane websites for the registration 9V-SBB, only to turn out to be a Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-200 which has also long gone from the fleet.

This is one of the scariest dream of my life. It is something I never wanted to go through in my life. National Service is putting emotional and mental stress on me even before I enlist, what is going to happen when I go in? I might just become a lunatic when I am deprived of freedom and dignity. I must had been a bad person in my previous life to have to go through such a torture in my current life.

National Day

Happy Birthday Singapore! It's 9th of August again, which marks another year old for Singapore. Singapore has progressed much from independence in 1965.

However, National Day this year feels different. I still feel patriotic, but not as much as previous years. Probably it's due to all the political movement going on. This year marks a very important year in Singapore's history. The GE2011 was a watershed one and it is gonna be an interesting PE2011. What are the results? Sigh, probably voting is not even needed.

A wonderful National Day comic :)