1 year ago...

As promised, I shall write a post which commemorates my first year of NS.

1 year ago, on this day, I spent my first night at the 3rd level dorm of BRTC, starting the first of 7 weeks at Basic Rescue Training and National Service. Well, I should say I receive a great good fortune from the day I start my NS.

If I never went to CMPB to request for an early enlistment during late Nov 2006, I would not have enlisted at the very start of 2007. If anyone else here asked me why I chose to enlist early instead, I could say that I graduated from NP in August 2006 and did not wish to wait soo long, as most of my peers were already enlisted in the year of 2006. Upon I made that request, I was told by CMPB that there was no space for the Jan'07 intake, and I was given a letter stated I was scheduled for the Mar/Apr one instead.

However, miracles did happen... thanks to the power of daimoku.

Boxing Day 2006. 2 years anniversary of that Tsunami Disaster. I opened my letterbox and I was delighted to see my Enlistment letter and the letters from SCDF !!! Well, I wished I could have went to the Police Force instead but SCDF's not really a bad place to go. Meanwhile, I had only 2 weeks to prepare for the start of NS life.

January 09 2007 passed on and then there went those 7 weeks of staying in BRTC, where Friday evenings were the best and Sundays were very dreadful and low-life condition when I went back to Jalan Bahar, meanwhile making friends like Samm, Caleb, Jeremy, Andrew, Solikin, Ahmad, Lawrence, Jimson, Neo... the list goes on, while most of us went through Clerk Course and then, the posting to Ubi HQ.

After everything, I was posted to National Service Personnel Dept aka NSPD and I was there since. Raymond is there, my pri sch friend who stays around the same neighbourhood and he's leaving for Australia soon... I was located at the Computer Room (Some says the CONDEMN Room... No Thanks to My Senior whom I was replacing and I don't wish to say Names...), doing all those disruptions/Exit Permits stuffs for NSMen. Caleb is also there, posted to the Compactor Room which looks like a better place ??? While I also met nice friends like Gabriel, Gary(HiaDi), Xinyao, Jiazhao, Yaomin, Jeremy, Fabian, Marcellus......

There were struggles on and off NSPD, well I don't wish to further explain all these stuffs at this hour or else it would look more like a review of 2007 and being EMO. However, I was also given an opportunity to study ACCA part-time, all Thanks to my Office-hour schedule. There were also happier times, such as the Cruise trip.

I remembered what Chang Quan encouraged me before enlistment -- Set resolutions, what I want to achieve before I ROD. There are lots of things for me to undergo human revolution, to achieve, to fight for in 2008, like I mentioned before.

Well, may the Year 2 of NS be a joyous, wonderful and achieving one in terms of all my personal life.