ThE $CreW uP, ThE C0ck uP & ThE f*** uP

Dec 2003
Posting for combat engineer specs out. 9 of us posted to 42 SAR (Singapore Armoured Regiment). Noticeable am chio(hidden laughter) from experienced & seasoned officers, warrants. Doubtful.
Feb 2004
1st step into 42 SAR. All seems well for a start. Better facilities than AETC. CLeared 2 days leave for trip to M'sia. Met up with Xiao Zhuang and a Pr. Sch classmate, all in the same coy.
March 2004
OC's demonic side surfaces. Bryan, a high flyer noted by higher authorities for scholarships and sweet talking. A cunning back stabber and power abusing shameless boot licker to the eyes of all others. A weak leader he is. Only able to force submission thru loud voice and threats. Ridiculously demanding and a scumbag who sets priciples he doesn't follow.
April 2004
BN trip to Brunei, temburong. 1st Armour unit to do infantry training in Brunei. New CSM, warrant Jenny, a female 1st warrant. She SUX as a mum and soldier. Treating the guys here like her 3 teenage sons whom she performs stand by bed every Sundays.Tough time for guys who went there. Poor terrain, poor leaders. I was lucky enough to be 1 of the 5% staying behind for course.
Xtras, Xtras... sign all about it. Guys who were there signed enough extras to cover 2 months of COS, all thanks to our CSM.
May 2004
The in thing in the BN was to get charged. Fines & SOLs were rampant, not to mention DB. OC and CSM in my coy alone charged no less than 10 guys, for reasons simple as using handphones. Burglary happened twice.
June 2004
Week long full troop EX to Pulau Tekong. A grave mistake and horribly back fired. Bronvo (the vehicle this BN uses) proved to be the ultimate disaster created by Singapore Technologies and SAF. All vehicles returned with considerable damages, costing millions for repair. Decision was made for us to be the 1st... and the last Bronco battalion ever. Which means, we have to fight ATEC... probably the 1st testing BN to do so.
July 2004
Change of command. Jason the jaded steped out in relief, while Bobby the blurry steped in with high hopes. The parade raided by storm forecasted his path ahead. Stern and majestic at first. Battered by tons of helpless situations and ridicules new & old. A total new man in just 2 months, frail and lost. My coy CSM changed too... Allan, a very motivated & hardworking 28yrs old staff sergeant with 8+ yrs of service. If he runs a biz or works in MNC, he could be Mr somebody by now. Sadly, SAF is all about suck ups. No suck up, no rise up. We respected him.
On Stand-by.... kanna recalled on a Sunday.
Aug 2004
Change of OC... the most desired for all in my coy. Patrick, a 29yrs old LTA... totally uncommited and Bo Kah Lan. Married, owns car, flat, ~$4000/month and goaless in life. Takes MC for months, comes to office ~4 hrs a day... to smoke, canteen and then jio all PS to play LAN till midnight. Contributes almost nothing to the coy, except a pack of cigarette to his office. However, we like it. He's good.
More Stand-bys. So sianz
Sep 2004
Army Open House... A whole lot of shit work for us at the SOC ground which was made into adventure land. Generally well planned and results were good, with lotsa grace from the public.
Still on Stand-by. Getting used.
Oct 2004
A tunner over-turned in Tekong. I was lucky enough to miss it. Quite a few serious injuries but luckily no death. 42 SAR named most dangerous & costly armour BN ever. Accident rate tops all other units and cost of all accidents in 1yr surpassed cumulative cost of accidents in all other armour BNs over the past 10yrs. Some kind of record.
Stand-by still on. Dun even wanna care about it.
Nov 2004
1 week block leave... to help the March ORD batch to clear some leaves. Most went overseas. A great time indeed. No trainings, outfield.
Stand-by ended... We're so glad.
Dec 2004
Logistic Readiness Inspection. Everything from bunk to office to vehicles made to so called "tip top" conditions(meaning everything dun need to use). A waste of time and resources.
ATEC stage 1. A great wayang show for the invigilators. The process of scoring in ATEC was not really hard. All that we need was to treat the testers breakfast and sweet talk to them.
Jan 2004
Outfields were the highlight. Almost everybody went for at least 3 outfields. Sick and tired of moving out. We suffer 3 days in the sun, eat dust, get damn dirty and feed the countless mosquitoes, when 80% of the time out in the jungles were spent waiting.
Ex. Dragonball... A combined Ex with Brunei troops. Good friends they were, no doubt roudy and pleasure deprived. I bought them to Orchard once. Alcohol was the highlight. ZOUK and porn tapes were their requests. Geylang for those who dared to venture far. Eye-opening.
Feb 2004
6 days past so far. Nothing much to say for now. Wishing all a Happy Lunar New Year. Happy ORD to those brothers who chiong with me all these while.