My journey in bmt

True enough, i did lose my freedom, work and my hair. As we all know that the first phrase of being an NSFs was saying goodbye to our pink IC and welcoming our green IC AKA 11B. Next was the thought of being confine for 3 weeks. 

Confinement wasn't the thing that i am worrying about; it's my platoon, my bunk mate. "How are they like? How should i interact with them?" Was all that i could think of at that point of time.

After saying goodbye to my friends and family. We were being bought back to our company line with our army stuff that was collected just before that. We fall in on the court and was asked to check the list, to see which platoon and bunk you belong to. At the same time, i spotted familiar faces. My secondary school friends and one that i met while we are filming for crimewatch. Let's just say that the fear of being alone in the unfamiliar place disappeared. When we were send back to the bunk, it's was then i saw all my bunk mate and my buddy. I guess everyone was busying packing their stuff, i was just sitting there and analyzing them. (Thats just my habit)

I cant remember how me and buddy started to talk, but we sort of say out our baseline. What are the do's and dont's. Until today, i think i couldn't find a better buddy than him. We were similar in someway, that it make us work well with each other. Especially during field camp, where people said that, true color will be revealed. I guess my true color was being a total noob, do not how to pitch a tent, candy wrap and etc. luckily he was patient with me and We make it out of the field camp with a smile. The next thing that i find it memorable was that we passed our last ippt together. Both of us were at the standing board jump, and when he finally cross the passing line, i crossed it too. Guess the motivation was not to lose to him. There are lots more story with him, but shall end the buddy story here. 

Next was the rest of my bunk and platoon mate. Bunk mate consist awesome people too. I was shocked when me and the acting acting buddy were in the same bunk together. I guess my bunk mate mentality was to work with each other well no matter what. I dare say that during that time i bond was so strong that we own in games! Haha. Everyone was so enthu in winning, or losing but in a enjoyable way. Motivating and encouraging each other along the way. Playing sabotuer at night, talking and doing nonsense stuff with newspaper. Awesome bunk mate in my opinion. 

I wasn't really close to all my platoon mates. Guess you all can say i do nt really like to socialize a lot. Obviously they will bound to ppl hating you or you hating some of them. Somehow along the way in bmt/ptp phrase, other platoon member do nt like me at all. Hahaha. Thanks to my intel that told me about it. All i can say here is, that wasn't me wanting to perform. I was just acting under someone orders. 

Every platoon will have a officer, platoon

sergeant  and 2 normal sergeant 

My platoon sergeant was a pain in the ass, but thats their role. Even though i know that, but somehow i still detest him. Due to the fact that i always felt that he was picking on me. However, the reward that he gave us, was the motivation factor that we trained hard for ippt. (Vending machine) The two other sergeant have their moment of good and bad. Our officer wasn't there for most of the time due to some medical reason but i can see the effort he put in to know every single one of us and motivate us.

Army has a set of system, and commander abide them. Willingly or unwillingly, they have a role to play. Being as a recruit means you are very new/noob. From knowing nothing about command, till you passed out with the knowledge of handling your weapon and being physically and combat fit. This is what bmt phrase all about. They are to

Mold you from nothing to somewhat a solider, to prepare you in the future unit. It wasn't all fun that i experienced. The bitterness of losing your freedom, still suck. Not everyone inside are good to you, this is where you learnt to protect yourself from them. Luckily for me i had enough work experienced to let me see people well. Yes, i do agree that it took aways 2 years of our life totally and the next partial 10-15 years of our life. Let put it in a positive way that you are there to learn new skill, to meet new friends. I guess it make the journey less harder.