After doing B2 from 8pm to 4am, the final mount is finally over. This marks the end of my shift status and the beginning of the long process to convert from a crap-spouting, slack NSF to a even more crappy and slack Civilian.
Gone are the days of standing beside a radiation-emitting machine for hours, talking to a dog, seeing lizards chasing each other and consuming other insects, opening the gate during heavy showers with risks of being struck by lightning, removing long and heavy flagpoles with risks of breaking a pinky, eating ration so lousy that sometimes even dogs wouldn't eat it and occassionally finding a cooked insect in it, going to the canteen everyday at 10.30 if possible just to see someone, staying inside a pathetic box till late at night just to wait for OT folks to get their asses home, walking around the B2 carpark with weapon like some ah-neh cleaners looking after the cars, being treated like dogs by some of the regulars, checking out the details of every new babe coming in yet got no balls to approach them, acting like bouncers of the place, frequent visits to Doctor Orh-ki with hopes of getting a downgrade, making voodoo dolls of the old fucked up OC, making voodoo dolls of some fucked up regulars, sleeping in freezing cold bunks, sleeping on sponge mattress in the freaking freezer, sleeping on pillows so old that some are even torn with holes, running on the 800m track that never seems to end, sleeping less than a metre below rats doing their route march inside the false ceiling, seeing commando rats repelling up and down an electric cable, getting stared at by one whole group of navy clerks, dxo, officers, rubbing shoulders with Dr. Tony Yan and friends alomst everyday, seeing "stars" everyday, discovering the truth behind all the MINDEF response to queries posed inside the local papers, standing for hours doing nothing staring at blank space, etc...
Defintely there are more to go but I just can't think of so many at one go. For all of you still suffering in there, just carry on what you are doing and don't give a damn to what the regulars are doing. Yes they can disturb you, but how long can they do it ? Just finish your time there and get your ass away from the pathetic place and do what you are supposed to do.
Cheers.
-Life sucks, but what can you do about it ?
