The day spent in camp was short but busy. Half of my platoon wasn’t around. Nothing much to do today except for the normal shit work. I was sleeping so soundly on my bed when we were all called down to soak our No.4 uniforms. If u wonder what is it, it’s a way by the SAF to lessen the dengue cases occurring in army camps. We have to soak our uniform in a special solution which acts like an insect repellent. It can withstand 4 washes before wearing out. Just when I thought I could go back to my sleep after the soaking, I was being assigned with Kok Boon to go help do some armskote work. Kaoz.. Never ending work. I had to re-pack all the rifle cleaning kit accessories, all 60 of them. Took a total of 2hrs plus to finish the job. Hate those reservist men. Whenever they come back for ICT(in-camp-training), they’ll leave a whole lot of shit for me to clean up. The last batch that came in took my rifle for a live firing range, dirtying my wife. Thank god my company had already passed down the M16 rifle to the new company this time round, or else I will have to clean the rifle again.

Read the papers this morning. A horrific car accident happened at Upper Paya Lebar Rd 2 days ago. A Mazda MX5 Miata hit the road divider; overturned n flew to the other side of the road. It crashed into a black BMW n a van while it was flipping in the air. Miraculously, the driver survived, but the passenger died. The casualty is a 22yr old young lady. She’s the salesperson for Mazda Motors n was test driving the car with her last customer of the day when the accident happened. They were barely 5min into the test drive when tragedy struck. Hai.. Such a pity to die so young. Had she left the showroom earlier, she wouldn’t have died. She was actually in a rush to attend a wedding dinner with her bf that evening n was quite reluctant to test drive the car. She nv made it to the dinner with her bf. She’s the only child in the family. One life lost, but the devastation surrounds everyone that’s related to her.

Hai.. It’s heart wrenching to read such a report on the papers. I guess rear wheel drive cars are very difficult to control. The Mazda MX5 Miata is capable of reaching a top speed of 191km/h. Seen the movie Initial-D? the reason why the Toyota Trueno AE86 that Jay Chou drove can drift so easily is becos the car is rear wheel driven. U can nv see the Nissan Skyline GTR that Shawn Yue drove drift so easily cos its body kits are too heavy n the car body too long. The Mazda Miata is so small n light, it’s no surprised it flipped in the air so many times after hitting the road divider.

3 days off at home. May be meeting Zheng Rong n Daniel to do some catching up. Zr just came back from Thailand last week. Poor guy, always have to go for overseas training. Ha, who ask him to be a commando officer?

Alright, to my platoon sergeant, my platoon mate Dharmy n all the Hindus in the world, Happy Deepvali~!