In my earlier post, I mentioned that I experienced some WTF
moments - just thought I should, in the spirit of community sharing
and good laughter, expound a li'l more before I head out of the
house.
1) We have a certain category of people among us - these people
aren't just physically-weak, but lack strength of character, very
feminine (more like effeminate) and are often the blacksheeps of
the platoon. We address them as "Sister". Just imagine anywhere you
call, your peers call you sister - even the sarges too 
2) There's a China Boy (CB) sharing the same bunk as I; not trying
to advocate or incite any racial hatred - I pride myself as very
fair person all these years. It's a fact that he came from China
and has only been in Singapore the last 2 years. CB is one
problematic turd, he's extremely lazy, refused to fold his own
smart 4, do area cleaning - basically don't expect him to move,
with an exception to his bed, smoking corner and cookhouse.
The first night when I was unpacking, he came past my bed and
slammed his arm on my locker and yelled "Paikia ah!" and for few
nights, he would recite those local "gang poetry" - He also claimed
to be a member from a local street gang. Everyone tulan him,
bullied him to the extend he went to bao tor the commanders
And I am his "official translator", my job is to translate every
instructions from English to Mandarin for him to understand
(supposed to be his buddy's job but they had some serious
disagreements). Imagine the below dialogue.
Commander: Ask CB to fill the
water to the brink for water parade, if bottle's not filled to the
brink - I'll fucking get him to drink up and refill"
My translation in Mandarin: Commander asked you to fill bottle to
the brink, if not he will kill your family and make you drink more
till you die"
CB's reply in Mandarin: *soft KNN* OK, I will get it filled to the
brink"
My translation to the commander: Commander, he said knn - asked you
go fuck your mother and he said he understand he needs to fill the
water"
Go imagine what happened to him Many more funny dialogues but I'm running out of
time. I'll come back and tell you guys more of how a blotched
translation job got CB beaten up by an indian platoon mate
3) The number 3 funny incident would be... hmm... the night we got
caught red-handed not sleeping! Every night, we would sit around
the table and talk cock even after lights off. And it just so
happened that my bed is near the front windows. We were talking
cock one night and around 0030, our platoon sergeant came up to our
level and saw the few of us gathered around the table. My bunkmates
scooted off and dived onto their beds - my bed was right at the
front window and I had absolutely no chance to "escape"
The platoon sergeant shouted to me "Hey chee bye, still trying to
run away from me is it?" I walked out of the bunk, put on a smiling
face and replied "No lah, platoon sergeant... I was trying to walk
near the window so I can wave to you" He controlled his laughter and went "Wave your pak
pak, don't test my system and go to sleep now"
Ahhhh... Still so much stories... Yet so li'l time... Maybe
tonight, maybe tonight!
