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Am officially a civilian once again, complete with pink IC and all... Cost me almost $50 in taxi fares to make trips between SAFTI MI, Nee Soon Camp and CMPB to get everything settled, but thank goodness everything went smoothly...

Social night was the last event for Tango Wing... Met with my friends for perhaps the last time for quite a while... Its funny though... Army was something which I didn't completely like.. Though training was always fun if we weren't getting tekan-ed, I hated the feeling of always looking at your watch waiting for the next book in and what not... Yet, with my friends having departed to Brunei a couple of minutes ago, part of me feels like joining them, as I had when I first gotten my disruption notice.

So what does one say about those with which one would have fought if there had been a war?

Kenny: My buddy and a complete foil to my character (cheerful versus morose, calm versus gan jiong so on and so forth haha). Thanks so much for the last 14 weeks... I guess living with someone in the same room for so long does give a friendship like no other huh? Haha... The fastest runner in the wing, many were the times when he left me in the dust during IPPT training or endurance runs. How we would argue about what military symbol was what, whether Chinese or English songs were better. How I slammed the cover of the GPMG onto his thumb by accident and nearly caused a casualty haha... How we shivered together at night during Platoon field Camp, but always managed to share at least the same groundsheet or patch of ground. Hard to imagine life without such a buddy eh? haha... I could write a whole post bout my buddy (just as I could, probably, about my teammates from SJ), but not now..

Peng Fei: Who joined us after CLM. He replaced Bertram as Section Commander, but boy was he capable. Thank you for always coming to check that my LAW or radio set hadn't slipped my vertebrate and offering to carry stuff for me =) Just looking out for our welfare in general and always supplying your mess mug to drink from during field camps haha. It was always a comfort when he was in charge cos he just did things so well. He really deserved being second best cadet in the wing =)

Eric: Whom I initally thought was such a good boy haha especially with him being one year younger than us! And he turned out to be the one who would creep into my room at night to scare me, or to come and armlock my head when I was using my computer haha... Nevertheless, also a capable worker and a great comfort to have around when things got sticky. Will always remember his smoke grenade at section field camp...

Marvin: Who reminded me of Marvin the Paranoid Android in Hitchikers guide haha... Marvin and Eric always reminded me also of Hobbie Klivian and Wes Janson respectively from the star wars universe... Will always remember him coming to wake Kenny and I up at night during PFC much to our consternation haha

Ben Chen: Who looks so much like me, especially with camo and helmet on that everyone kept calling both of us wrongly haha... So hardworking and always putting the rest of us to shame haha... Will remember how he directed us to throw six smoke grenades up the hill... which promptly rolled back down and exploded in front of us =Pp

Zhenrong: Who liked to walk about in various states of undress back in wingline, but a reliable worker with such a great sense of humour which I'll miss... He and his imitation of Wing SM can kill literally! He n Daniel Hap kept us all awake during patrol field camp with their antics through the day! But a strong work ethic and being such a good leader meant that being third best in the wing's well deserved!

Of course, also miss Jeremy, Kanan and Hap who OOCed due to injury, as well as the SISPEC crossees who proved themselves in the mud and rain of PFC as well..

Like Zhenrong once mentioned, though I think he may not remember, "If there was a war I would have trusted all of your equally". We've done a lot together yes? CASEVAC, the field camps, the live-fires and all... Seeing each other go through gruelling leadership appointments and etc, all culminating and summarized in the course video shown on social night =)

Its time to prepare for orientation, university and so on... And the Chief of Medical Corps has asked me to reconsider my rejecting the scholarship.... He told us even more good things bout it, but I also know even more bad things bout it, so now i'm just even more confused!! ArghH!!

Welll the post is beginning to become a little disjointed now, so i'll stop here first... Regards!