Days Were The Those

While surfing through random blogs, I chance a upon a very interesting blog about national service. Different bloggers contributed their real-life NS stories and it really lighten up your day. Its pretty hilarious to think about all sorts of stupid things we guys did during our National Service which made our life more interesting. Unfortunately girls don't have the chance(unless they volunteer).

Days Were The Those

Let me share with you some of the posts that made me laughed like mad:

It's been a different three weeks, a difficult three weeks. No internet, only intermittent mobile signals and long queues to the landline phones that allowed us to call home using discount phone cards. And that was just in base camp. Once we moved out, there was not much you could do to keep in touch with your loved ones, or to check soccer results.
When we were out in the field for the 10 days (out of 18) we were at Shoalwater Bay, Central Queensland, the optimistic among us took out our mobile phones to check for any semblance of a GSM signal.
Not much luck until one day, somewhere in the western sector of the middle of nowhere, 3SG Gerard Tan, Bravo Company 84mm Carl Gustav Recoilless Rifle Specialist, took out his mobile, turned it on, and yelled, 'Signal!'
This prompted a mad scramble, and I've never seen soldiers move so quickly, whipping out their phones and turning them on faster than they can reload their rifles.
'Don't have leh, where got?'
'Gort! Select manual network, choose Vodafone, it's the strongest, and you must face that direction and stand under that tree'.


Range Conducting Officer: "Control to Chamber 1."
Chamber Safety Officer: "Send."
Range Conducting Officer: "Did Lane One hit any target?"
Chamber Safety Officer: "Lane One. Did you hit any target?"
Assistant: "Maybe."
Chamber Safety Officer: "Did the target fall?"
Shooter: "Should have hit."
Chamber Safety Officer: "?????... Chamber to Control. Lane One may have hit the target."
Range Conducting Officer: "Control to CSO. The score I have is ZERO. Please confirm."
Chamber Safety Officer: "Roger. Lane One. Did you really hit the target."
Shooter: "Kua Bo. Not too sure."
Chamber Safety Officer: "Chamber to Control. Lane One cannot confirm."


How can one not talk about National Service, especially when it's a very large slice of one's life? Cannot right? I mean, cannot don't talk right?
Even if you paid $5,000.00 for skipping National Service altogether, you'll still want to talk about it, right?
'Eh, um, nah, give you $5,000.000, you don't call me for NS, ok? I'm not free'.
'Not free? Why?'
'Um, I playing piano in London, dowan to come back liao'.
'Nabeh! Next time terrorist attack, me and my NS unit don't protect you then you know! Chow Piano Player!'
And that's why the nice folks at MINDEF are saying that there's nothing wrong with blogging about National Service, and in fact, encourage people to talk about their experiences in the Army, Air Force and Navy. (Civil Defence and Police Force folk, your own pasal, I dunno... you come under a different Ministry).


hello fellow soldiers, this is my first post on this website. hope you will enjoy this funny story my friend related to me recently
he had reported sick one day. so when his number flashed on the electronic board, he went in and found 2 MO's talking to each other. The first MO was telling the other how he knew this guy in BMT. His name on his No. 4 uniform read B.Y. CHEE. But what was written on his jockey cap was CHEE B.Y.

1 year 2 months to ORD