Sorry guys about not posting about the previous week, but there just isnt much to type about, Exercise Tigerbalm was still ongoing and sorry guys but i have no bloody idea what the exercise is about, all i know is that, thanks to them, arghhh, I am Freezing over here!!
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---Week 56---
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Monday
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As usual, in camp, staring at space, waiting for the days to go on by.
I guess the only thing extra was that we had to set up the event area for the generals tomorrow.
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Tuesday
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Some generals came over for a visit, so we just prepared the guestbook for them to sign. They had a nibble before disappearing.
My superior went on leave in the afternoon to attend to a court case dragged from the grave... Bleedy hell 09 case, 11 bring back....
=====================Topic of the week=====================
---------------FYI (For your info)---------------
For officer, their rank would be.
2LT->LTA->CPT->MAJ->LTC->(Possible endpoint: SLTC)->COL->BG->MG->LG
For Specialist:
3SG->2SG->1SG->SSG->MSG->3WO->2WO->1WO-> (not sure about this) MWO -> SWO
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Today, there was an warrant officer or Enrick (malay for uncle) in the office and somehow along the way, we were talking about signing on aka joing the army and we were talking about the salary.
He was telling me how signing on isnt as good as what they have been saying. He even gave me a list of why you should and shouldnt sign on.
Sign on IF You are an officer
Reason(s) being:
Once you are a major. Your pay can't be found outside in the working world. It will be around $4000 or so. When you retired, you will have around half a mill to spend.
For BG, their pay will be at least $9000 (if what i remember from the directive is right)
You will be able to get men to help you with your task/responsibility.
By the age of 30, officer will be desk-bounded, no need to go outfield.
-------------What about specialist/warrant officers??----------
SWO (the highest you can be....)
Your pay will be less than 4000.
When you retired, you will only have 100-120k to spend.
Your task? Your job, Cant ask someone to help you out. They will just heckcare you...
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So, then why do you sign on??
I asked the enrick and he told me, simple, because he didnt study well, so hard to find a job outside. For others or the current trend. People sign on just so that they can work and earn money to further their studies, once they have done that, they would have quit the service, after all, a spec just isnt worth it at all, you take forever to rank up, and even if you reach the max rank, your pay still suck, you cant do crap.
Just so you know, my superior has been in service for 20 years and his pay is only $2400, not including tax and all. You tell me, if you really wish to have a job that pays only 2.4k and it comes with so many red tape and restriction and crap??? If you say yes, the singapore army wants you.
Disclaimer!!!!
I have no idea if this applies to other country military so, please just treat this with a pinch of salt with regards to other country.
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Wednesday
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Gotten fk by my finance officer for being sotong. It's my fault anyway, my superior gave me this quotation and i just blindly placed it as a non-catalog item. In the time, i wasted some time checking out the catalog and ya, it's still a non-catalog item, but now with justification on why is that.
Chased after a 2 month old purchase, thanks to my superior for raising that up... Anyway, according to the supplier, there was a problem with the system that placed their product as cheaper than it should be. So, instead of 15.50, it listed their product as 13.30, haha.
Finally, settled on a 3 month old request, this one was in hitaus, mostly because previously i was unable to explain to my finance officer on why we have to buy this expensive projector compared to this projector that cost $1280. Our projector cost $1550 at that time.
Finally after being lazy for so long and calling the company, i found out that they had an extra installation charge at $480 min.
In that case, ours which has installation inside, it's cheaper overrall.
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Thursday
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Going to carry our MOS (Minister of State) stuff from office to his car. I refused to call him BG Tan, after all, he is now a minister, and not a general, after all....
Do you see people calling each other Private John, Coporeal Jack, and _rank_ ___name___ on the streets? Heck NO!! So, why should he be given special treatment??
...upcoming events...
Chasing for commander tradoc chair.. fk this is irritating.. and he only gave me 3 days to settle... fk!!!
edit: Hmm, didnt know that the sales rep was on leave and no1 was taking over her... Kinda sad but at least she's back
Gonna have to find some chair, but arghh, it's so expensive...
Today was another slack day, in the end, the only extra thing that i did was to help my boss carry his stuff from Jurong Camp back to base, that's all.
Also, fk... seems one of the retarded-ups decided that it's a good idea to waste a friday night visiting night safari. In the morning, we will be visiting old folks home which is fine, earn some karma while we are at it, but going to night safari, what for? It's dark and you cant see shit, so basically i will be wasting money going to an place to see glowing pair of eyes... If i want to do that, i just have to shine a torchlight beneath my chin will do... Waste my time... I think i will fall sick on that day.. #$%^&*
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Friday
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Damn, i should have gone for the east coast run, then i can fall out from there... But as it stands, okay la, be in camp do nothing but read forums and slack around.. In the end, my mdm and boss are chasing me for the chair, arghh, so irritating lor... Find a nice nice chair for me at 530, dont want, say too expensive, but hello!! You think leather chair are that cheap ar??!! Basket, now i am trying to find a cheap chair for him, but damn sian lor
Anyway, i guess only good news was that we were allowed to go home 1 hour earlier, so i managed to find some time and visit this ice cream shop that i saw in the paper. It's a small shop called "Frostbite" . Seems like this was the only shop that i have seen that sells premium popicle.
They are quite expensive though, they cost either 2.50 or 3.50, but on the bright side, they are quite big
You can read this person review on the place, it will probably do justice to this store
http://thegroovini.com/frostbite/
[media]maXBBQe1928[/media]
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---Week 56---
----------------
--------
Monday
--------
As usual, in camp, staring at space, waiting for the days to go on by.
I guess the only thing extra was that we had to set up the event area for the generals tomorrow.
---------
Tuesday
---------
Some generals came over for a visit, so we just prepared the guestbook for them to sign. They had a nibble before disappearing.
My superior went on leave in the afternoon to attend to a court case dragged from the grave... Bleedy hell 09 case, 11 bring back....
=====================Topic of the week=====================
---------------FYI (For your info)---------------
For officer, their rank would be.
2LT->LTA->CPT->MAJ->LTC->(Possible endpoint: SLTC)->COL->BG->MG->LG
For Specialist:
3SG->2SG->1SG->SSG->MSG->3WO->2WO->1WO-> (not sure about this) MWO -> SWO
----------------------------------
Today, there was an warrant officer or Enrick (malay for uncle) in the office and somehow along the way, we were talking about signing on aka joing the army and we were talking about the salary.
He was telling me how signing on isnt as good as what they have been saying. He even gave me a list of why you should and shouldnt sign on.
Sign on IF You are an officer
Reason(s) being:
Once you are a major. Your pay can't be found outside in the working world. It will be around $4000 or so. When you retired, you will have around half a mill to spend.
For BG, their pay will be at least $9000 (if what i remember from the directive is right)
You will be able to get men to help you with your task/responsibility.
By the age of 30, officer will be desk-bounded, no need to go outfield.
-------------What about specialist/warrant officers??----------
SWO (the highest you can be....)
Your pay will be less than 4000.
When you retired, you will only have 100-120k to spend.
Your task? Your job, Cant ask someone to help you out. They will just heckcare you...
----------------
So, then why do you sign on??
I asked the enrick and he told me, simple, because he didnt study well, so hard to find a job outside. For others or the current trend. People sign on just so that they can work and earn money to further their studies, once they have done that, they would have quit the service, after all, a spec just isnt worth it at all, you take forever to rank up, and even if you reach the max rank, your pay still suck, you cant do crap.
Just so you know, my superior has been in service for 20 years and his pay is only $2400, not including tax and all. You tell me, if you really wish to have a job that pays only 2.4k and it comes with so many red tape and restriction and crap??? If you say yes, the singapore army wants you.
Disclaimer!!!!
I have no idea if this applies to other country military so, please just treat this with a pinch of salt with regards to other country.
-------------
Wednesday
-------------
Gotten fk by my finance officer for being sotong. It's my fault anyway, my superior gave me this quotation and i just blindly placed it as a non-catalog item. In the time, i wasted some time checking out the catalog and ya, it's still a non-catalog item, but now with justification on why is that.
Chased after a 2 month old purchase, thanks to my superior for raising that up... Anyway, according to the supplier, there was a problem with the system that placed their product as cheaper than it should be. So, instead of 15.50, it listed their product as 13.30, haha.
Finally, settled on a 3 month old request, this one was in hitaus, mostly because previously i was unable to explain to my finance officer on why we have to buy this expensive projector compared to this projector that cost $1280. Our projector cost $1550 at that time.
Finally after being lazy for so long and calling the company, i found out that they had an extra installation charge at $480 min.
In that case, ours which has installation inside, it's cheaper overrall.
-----------
Thursday
-----------
Going to carry our MOS (Minister of State) stuff from office to his car. I refused to call him BG Tan, after all, he is now a minister, and not a general, after all....
Do you see people calling each other Private John, Coporeal Jack, and _rank_ ___name___ on the streets? Heck NO!! So, why should he be given special treatment??
...upcoming events...
Chasing for commander tradoc chair.. fk this is irritating.. and he only gave me 3 days to settle... fk!!!
edit: Hmm, didnt know that the sales rep was on leave and no1 was taking over her... Kinda sad but at least she's back
Today was another slack day, in the end, the only extra thing that i did was to help my boss carry his stuff from Jurong Camp back to base, that's all.
Also, fk... seems one of the retarded-ups decided that it's a good idea to waste a friday night visiting night safari. In the morning, we will be visiting old folks home which is fine, earn some karma while we are at it, but going to night safari, what for? It's dark and you cant see shit, so basically i will be wasting money going to an place to see glowing pair of eyes... If i want to do that, i just have to shine a torchlight beneath my chin will do... Waste my time... I think i will fall sick on that day.. #$%^&*
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Friday
---------
Damn, i should have gone for the east coast run, then i can fall out from there... But as it stands, okay la, be in camp do nothing but read forums and slack around.. In the end, my mdm and boss are chasing me for the chair, arghh, so irritating lor... Find a nice nice chair for me at 530, dont want, say too expensive, but hello!! You think leather chair are that cheap ar??!! Basket, now i am trying to find a cheap chair for him, but damn sian lor
Anyway, i guess only good news was that we were allowed to go home 1 hour earlier, so i managed to find some time and visit this ice cream shop that i saw in the paper. It's a small shop called "Frostbite" . Seems like this was the only shop that i have seen that sells premium popicle.
They are quite expensive though, they cost either 2.50 or 3.50, but on the bright side, they are quite big
You can read this person review on the place, it will probably do justice to this store
http://thegroovini.com/frostbite/
