your area will never be clean enough. this is a fact. the only
time you don't get punished for 'mistakes' is when the sgts do not
have time to punish you. we've ever spent 2 hours cleaning the
entire bunk, pulling out all the cupboards and beds, removing the
cobwebs below the cabinets, and even wiping the floor with soap
water to remove the rust stains, muds and what have yous.
and no, we do not sleep and rush to clean the area in the last few
minutes. we're not dumb.
2 minutes may be enough for one person to pee, but
try having 20 or more people squeezing into the same toilet all at
once.
come to think of it, i rarely feel hungry when i'm inside. so i
don't really care whether i have enough time to finish the food.
there're times when i just take half the meal and idle the time
away. 20 minutes is barely enough, you eat whatever food you can,
and eat your fruits on your way to return the plates. the only time
it's enough is when you do not have to queue. we can make do with
25 minutes though, which we are given now that we've spoken to the
sgts. at least feedback works sometimes.
there are injuries that do not heal; look up torn ligaments.
on both my ankles, my calcaneofibular ligaments are fully torn,
anterior and posterior talofibular ligaments are partially torn.
the most i could do is train up my calf muscles to make up for the
lost of my ligaments, but ligaments will not reattach themselves no
matter how many years you give it. i don't really have any problems
jogging, i've been doing that for the past 2 years by myself, 3-5km
per day. it's the continuous standing and jumping that really
hurts. and when it starts hurting, i can barely walk, let alone
run.
i'm not really complaining about ns. i actually quite enjoy it: the
experience and the training. except for the really boliao tekan
sessions and some really pointless regulations. i enjoy training, i
don't enjoy torture.
of course, it doesn't hurt to have more pay too.
