Pre & Post Bangkok Trip

Now for the pre and post Bangkok activities i have with my army mates. Let's start with the pre. Congrats to Jay who ORD at last. His 28 days SOL (Suspension of Leave) certainly came as a shock. Didn't expect a soldier of his behaviour would get into this kind of shit. Thankfully, he was given a lighter punishment instead of being charged to DB (Detention Barracks). It's just a month plus before his ORD date that such unfortunate incident happen, so count himself lucky and unlucky as well bah.

Till now, with just 29 days left to ORD for myself, i asked myself, so is National Service harming or causing us trouble or is it doing us any good at all? It's the first in my very own opinion. Now i'll say why.

- One of my pal since Tekong all the way until the same camp, he got his leg injured with the possibility of being wheel-chair bound after a fall during guard duty.

- One of my best pal in army got his spine scanned during his last visit to specialist, just months before he ORD, only to find out that they missed out the fact that his spine is crooked, which might require surgery and by the time he get his dates for the surgery, he's out of service and no more medical cover.

- One of my friend went on to school after National Service only to realised that he has lost touch with the outside so much so that he need to start refreshing his stuff all over again.

- For me personally, other that those sayings on how army can change a boy to man, i think i haven't learnt much during my army days. Apart from some good friends i've made, nothing relevant i learnt in there is of much use to me.

Well, enough of those crap, back to the my friend's ORD. He, being a filthy rich guy whose family own a car distributing company and a large bungalow and 4 cars, invitied those NSFs over to his house for his ORD bbq party.

Shawn and Edmund

The ORD Guy

Civilian and Doggy

The rest...

For now, i'm officially left with 29 days, with few days of OFFs and leave to clear, plus MC, i'm left with like 10 over working days....count down with me!!

Post Bangkok activity: Pulau Ubin Visit.

My office, System Office as it's called, has its NSFs planning for this trip long ago, ever since March. Planned but never fulfilled. And at last, a day after my trip, i was informed of this trip. Yipee. Got a day off from my boss and off i went, joining the GUYS on this Pulau Ubin trip.

Reached Tanah Merah at 8.15am, only to find the weather not kind enough. After much discussion, we intend to stall the time, hoping god would do something about the weather. We went to have our breakfast first with Changi Airport, Popeye Chicken in mind. Wee!

Fancy eating fastfood early in the morning. Not those type like hotcakes or big breakfast like MAcdonald but fried chicken and fries similar to KFC. I have previously ate their chicken so this time round, i tried something new, their fish burger. Well, apart from the tasty cajun fries and the delicious whipped potato with cajun sauce, nothing else i ordered fancy me.

On our way to the airport at the Skytrain.

We were busy getting our friend to join us..texting here and there...

Soon, food filled the table

I think god heard our prayers and soon, weather turned fine. We also managed to get Edmund to join us, if not, his leave will be wasted totally.

The organizer and leader

When Edmund arrived, everybody started 'bullying' him. Not only he was late but also because there's simply nothing else for us to do...so he became the centre of attraction...

Shawn never fails to lead

At last, we pay $2.50 each for the boat ride which is just 10 minutes away. It's been a long time since i last went to Pulau Ubin, if i remember correctly, the last time i went is 7 years ago with my secondary school classmate.

On our way to P.Ubin..

The moment we reached there, we rented our bikes...and off we went. The weather is not too hot, more of cloudy, most probably because of the earlier rainfall. But still, we had our worries that god might play a joke on us again...

Off we went to our biking experience..

Due to the earlier downpour, we have difficulties riding. The uneven and muddy terrain made our ride much worse..Not only our shirts were stained by those mud but our bag as well...gosh. I sure have to thank Edmund for bringing my his slippers, if not, my new white shoes would have turned brown. Phew...

By then, some of us were shagged..

We have some serious difficulty riding up this slope...brakes were useless here..

The System Office Guys...

We managed to reach this quarry. The gate wasn't able to stopped us from entering it. It's a new view over the quarry inside.

Silly Naked Boys..

The nice view of the quarry..

We then made our way down into this path and found the lake there...We tried looking for some fishes but there are nowhere to be found..

Fish-searchers...

Enjoyable trip came to an end. Drizzling rain and muddy terrain are the only spoilers, other than that, everything is a perfect experience with the guys..We were totally shagged by then. Thankfully, we had our meal @ Changi Village - Nasi Lemak...Woot!

Shagged.....