Totally FUCKED UP Day!

Just when I thought NS couldn't be anymore worse, it actually got worse! Just when I dread going back to camp this morning, everything turned out to be like a scene from a nightmare.

I reached the air base at 7.45 as usual this morning but today there was an unexpected long queue in the pass office and as if that wasn't enough, the bloody people in charge were taking their bloody sweet time to issue security passes. One of them was even eating a fruit and taking all the time in the world just to issue the already long and impatient queue a pass to enter the camp. By the time I got my pass it was like 8.15 and I was supposed to be up in my office by 8am. From increasing my walking paces to runniing, suddenly my phone rang. I saw the number and instantly regconize it as the office number of my commanding officer (CO).

As the phone was something of a 6 or 7 year old faulty 8250, I simply picked up and said something like "I'm on my way, will reach in 10" and that was just all about it. When I reached the bloody office, I was panting and sweating like I've just completed some marathon. I looked into her office and gave her a "I'm here" look before hurrying off to complete what I was supposed to do every morning.

I didn't feel that a storm was just a stone's throw away to be honest. Then she called me in and I swear it sucks like having to eat rotten tomatoes when ur boss is a bloody woman - unreasonable woman!

The moment I walked in and sat down, she raised her usually 'extremely soft voice' to something like a 10/10 voice tone. She said something like I lacked dicipline and think this is some hotel or something, checking in at whatever time I feel like and not calling her to give any notice pior to that blah blah. I think there's more but these are what I remember the clearest.

Still panting and sweating from all the running, naturally those words and extremely fierce look didn't bode well with my snappish and hot head. I shot back, argued and fought for my own stand in a very loud, rude, and pissed off tone. I said it wasn't my fault because its not like I reached the office at 8 or something and was I even supposed to expcect that they messed up at the pass office? I knew very well she'd say something like: "no matter what its ur responsibility to bla bla bla", so I had in place this extremely nice sentence for her: "hey u know what? I don't give a damn about ranks in the army but I do give a damn about integrity and character".

Before she said anything out of her shell shocked face, I added fuel to the fire by saying: "And if u think ur gonna be unreasonable just because ur one of the high ranking officers, well.....(I showed her my middle finger without saying anything)".

She was taken back before flying into a rage, screaming for me to stand up and hurling all sorts of blah blah blah at me. Not like I took in any of those words anyway, I merely acted dumb. I added that yeah I'd be the first to admit something if its my fault and maybe in not copying down her number and thus being unable to inform her is my mistake, it wasn't like I took my own sweet time to walk here when I knew I was late after collecting my pass.

By now the room is like about to explode I swore. I knew I was walking on a thin line with my actions and words. It wasn't a wise thing to do I knew that fully well but I wasn't gonna let people walk all over me either. Screw the army!

Afterwards, everyone who heard or saw what happened told me that nobody in the department/building dared to even raise their voice when speaking to her let alone show her a middle finger. They were all like speechless and kept saying things like "wah lao u power la u, salute u bla bla". It's not like I'm trying to be a hero. There's no nice ending to trying to be a hero in the army. U've got to play it smart and act dumb sometimes but there are also times u've got to stand up for urself. If u don't, who is gonna stand up for u?

And my entire day turned rotten just like that. Things got slightly better towards the end of the day when everyone's cooled down. But just when I thought the worst was over, in came another fuck face idiot into the picture.

I was checking out of camp as usual through the security point, those that you place your bag and whatever you have through the sensor shite where they scan your stuff. I collected my bag without a hitch and just when I was about to step out to add some colors to an extremly blackish day, this 'obviously-trying-to-pick-on-me' fella stopped me, gave me the 'hi newbie' look just because I'm still a skinhead (botak) and demand to check my bag. Naturally he found my camera phone but I argued that I didn't use it and there wasn't even a sim card inside as i was using another phone. I said that I was gonna bring the phone for repairs/service later on as it's faulty which is true. But he'd have none of it and told someone to settle it.

My phone got confiscated just like that. Yeah I know camera phones are phobited from the camp but usually the checks are conducted in the morning when people are checking in isn't it? Why the hell would someone wanna conduct a check just when everyone's like getting out of camp? I swear after I wrote down my statement in the office, he gave me the 'serves u right newbie' look. I couldn't stand it any longer, I snapped and told him "hey don't be a smduge face mofo". I think he snapped too the moment he heard it. What followed was some shoving and pushing, the usual 'hand-bags' stuff when people sqaure up to one another. Other officers seperated us and luckily the rest were kinda nice and so the whole thing didn't last any longer than that.

The worst thing is that I couldn't even bring my bloody phone for repairs now and god knows how long they gonna take to return me? Alan said maybe after I ORD and i immediately told him off. Come on, why would they wanna keep a spoilt phone for 2 years until 2008? That was not going to happen, not when the phone belongs to someone called Floyd. Period!

Little wonder they say army life is a totally screwed up and fucked up life. So much truth in a short sentence yeah? I seriously dread going back to camp more than ever, starting from tomorrow........argh!