NE tour on Friday

About thirty of us NSFs from 23SA went for our half-annual (?) National Education trip, on a Friday morning.

This time, it was revisit the war memorials and history of mainly two places: Labrador Battery site (kinda related to artillery), and Pasir Panjang battle site. I was actually rather excited to go on the outing, not because it was a half-day for us, but it was those rare times I get to go on a guided tour to places in Singapore I won't likely be bothered to visit on my own.

Oh, and I didn't have to pay for anything... except for that fried rice I ordered midway for S$3. =(

I had no camera in my possession, so no luck with photos on my side. There were photos taken by the escorting 2LT in the group, but those photos are a little "hard" for me to access.
Anyway, I won't go into my experience during the trip - though all I would like to say that it was quite the interesting tour. Ahh, a pity it ended so quickly.

Though, what really stood out for me was this:

That was one of the many heritage tablet thingie (or whatever they call it) situated around the island. It marks the location of existing historical sites. Very interesting - reminds me of some relic you go searching around in a sidequest for a role-playing video game. =P

Speaking of rpgs, here is something to rock the socks out of Persona 3 fans!!



^Persona 3 Portable, coming soon 01/11/09, Japan, for the PSP!

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Army Half Marathon '09

For the Marathon last year, I participated as a helper and rotted for one night over at East Coast Park. This year however, I went as a runner - though only for the 6km section.


The reporting time for 6km was 8am, but the 23SA dudes wanted to be kiasu a little, and had us turn up one hour earlier. After some "stoning", the 6km run finally commenced, and off we ran... or walk actually. I brisk-walked all the way, achieving a quick 1-hr completion time! I was so pumped at that time, I felt I could take on the actual 21km too.

Serious. ~_~

So all we got was a half-day off on the following Monday. Cheapskate. The 21km runners got the whole day off though - I should have so participated for that. Blah.

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MC coming to an end...

Today marks the last day of my 14 days medical off. My first MC in the army, and probably the last one I will ever be getting. XP

I should have mentioned that the MC was given to me to let me recover from a minor toe injury I had two weeks ago. Something to do with forcefully plucking out my big toenail and other details.

I am definitely not all happy and looking forward to returning to camp, but my superior have been calling me like almost everyday to ask me when I can go back and resume work. Bleh.

I even went back on three separate days to work on my own initiative, though I don't know if anyone actually appreciates that. I am not bragging about myself, but seriously, where the hell can you find such a responsible and hardworking (aka stupid) worker? Haha~

Oh and, yay for me! Ten more months to my ORD!! Now I can finally count the months with my two hands *glee*

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