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This blog post is brought to you by the letters ‘O’, ‘R’ and ‘D’.
Woohoo! Finally, after enlisting three years ago, I’ve     gotten back my pink tablet of freedom.

 Wait… Seems like I’m not that free after all… My NS unit, 788SIR, is gonna have an alert amber manning this year in November… Dang…

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14 days to ORD!
Finally, after enlisting three year ago, I can take back my pink IC and freedom back (well… at least most of it…) for real. Come 2nd of August, I will no longer be a NSF. Woohoo!
Clearing my leave now, till the 29th of July. I can’t clear my leave all the way [...]

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News

Good news and bad news…
First the good news.
Whew… After worrying for a quite a while and craming like crazy for my exams, I managed to clear my current semester.
Bad news?
My CAP has dropped to quite low, thanks to Maths and Electrical Engineering… Not rock bottom yet, but at 3.06, I can’t even fit into a [...]

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If Singapore was still a crown colony, it would be On Her Majesty’s Service, which sounds nicer… But I digress…
Anyway, gotta re-enlist tomorrow… Going back to 3 SIR (Silent and Effective!) to serve out the remaining of my NS liability. Heard from Guo Wei that it’ll be stay-in and that I’ll be posted to S2 [...]

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O, R and D

Quite a few of my army buddies are ORDing these couple of days. They are from the BMT batch and not from the PTP batch like me, so they get to enjoy a two month deduction from their NS liability.
Anyway, all the best to your future endeavour, and we should meet up sometimes, ya? [...]

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Woohoo! Finally got back my pink IC! After spending almost two years in a cold dark room in CMPB, it’s finally back in my wallet.
Went back to camp today with Desmond to finalise the disruption paperwork. Bought some curry puffs there also to treat the guys who are still stuck there. To say that 3SIR [...]

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FFI

Went to back to camp today to do my FFI and also hunt down signatures for my clearance form.
Had an appointment for the dental FFI at 1015 but when I got there, still have to wait for almost 30mins before the dentist took my case… Wonder why one must still go through all the trouble [...]

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Outwit, Outplay, Outlast
Nope, I didn’t join any reality tv show but I’ve just complete my 5 day Combat Survival Training Package. (Its interesting on how they come out with words like “Package” etc to make it sound nice, but I digress…) Like what I’ve posted previously, it involves a nav-ex, POW training and living-off-the-land. And [...]

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So I’ve just went for the CAI (Computer Aided Instruction) for my CST (Combat Survival Training) at PLC (Pasir Laba Camp). (What’s with SAF and abbreviation?)
Basically for CAI, its just sitting in front of a computer and going thru lessons in the computer. For the CST course, the lessons are basic survival skills. Stuff like [...]

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The Great Escape

CST – Combat Survival Training, the most dreaded course in our Scout Platoon has resurfaced again… And this time, its confirmed and scheduled from the 3rd of July to the 7th…
According to those who’ve went through the course, it involves killing of live animals for food, navigation and POW training.
As for the schedule, it goes [...]

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