Our commander's prepatory course ends this friday. This means, playtime's over! Here comes our posting...again... -_-" I really wana be a coy line specs and I've weighed the pros & cons...
SME (Subject Matter Expert) Specialist
Pros:
Touch & go...alot of admin time to yourself. You go to a company and conduct a lesson and your day's done. Field camp you get to go back bunk & sleep every night, coy line specs stay with the company. Come back, coy line specs do the rifle inspection and settle the stores.
Cons:
No lull period...Non-stop work. You are always attached to at least one company or doing some sai kang for HQ and other events.
Not much interaction and influence over the recruits' lives.
Company Line Specialist
Pros:
You get lull periods.
More rewarding to work with and change lives of your recruits
Cons:
COS, CDS, DOS and other duty posts covered only by 8 3SGs in a company. This means, every month at least one or more weekend will be burnt doing these duties -__-"
Less admin time, later book outs compared to SME specs.
I'm really praying that I'll be a company line sergeant. Because I don't wanna be stuck with a whole bunch of 3SGs in SME and see their attitude problems day in and out. Just look at the performance of CPC and you'll know what I mean...And, same-rank personnel are harder to scold and correct, unlike recruits who are (forced to be) teachable.
So I'd rather stay in a bunk of 4 specs than a bunk of 16 specs...this means in your SME bunk sure will have one asshole, one-of-a-kind character person...And you'll either have to change him, remove him or put up with him for 1 year 3 months!
So yeah, I'll either be an evangelist (SME), touch & go; or I'll be the pastor (coy line spec), stay and nurture the members. I vote PASTOR! :D Haha.
All in all, pray that I'll become a coy line spec :)
Anyway, today was a major piss off for many of us...We were stuck 1 hour in Tekong Ferry Terminal (TFT)..Not because the ferry had no more space...but because some stupid old man in white shirt wanted to board the ferry and another ops room personnel said that we were not allowed to board the 3pm ferry because there's a 4pm ferry INDENTED for us...
NO FERRY WAS INDENTED. From what we know from our Encik. They could've just let as many of us on the 3pm ferry as possible...We were all really pissed.
But my anger subsided when I saw 3 of my company mates from 2SIR taking a break from training in the Tekong Jungle...they came over to where we were sitting in their camo-on faces and rifle and told us about how they little they slept the past 2 nights due to navex exercise and missions...
Upon hearing their story, my anger was abated because I came to realise that all we were doing is waiting for 1 hour for the next ferry to book out while our other spec friends are STUCK in Tekong chiong-suaing! Haha. One of them told us "Whoa, I really want your 9Div badge man..."
O well, sucking your thumb due to screw ups in SAF (which is uber common) is better than chiong-suaing overnight in SBO. Haha.
And yes Xue Ming & I had a great time yesterday too. Ok, I think he had a better time...Because we went shopping around for his stuff. So I was like his fashion advisor...a really tired one... HAHA! Here's a little snippet of that scene...
While walking home Xue Ming suddenly decides "Aiya, I think I wanna buy that shirt la..." -_-" was my first reaction...but then again, how often do I get a great friend over to my place on a weekday? So might as well spend that time with him :) Off we went to G2000...
While in the queue to the fitting room he decides he likes another shirt..."Jonavan help me take that shirt there, size 15" *Xue Ming walks into changing room and takes 10mins to change to his top...and he opens the door* "Nice?". This is repeated 3 times cos he tried on 3 different tops. HAHA! But I still really enjoyed shopping with him :) He's like me when it comes to shopping, kinda girl and indecisive and all...Haha.
Then we watched "Hitman". Action-packed and sensual. Whoa...It climaxed to the last few minutes of the show....When we realised that I didn't download the movie properly!! The last part was cut off!! So we didn't watch the ending and were left in utter suspense... -.-" HAHA!
And as usual, we chatted at night till 1am+ HAHAHA! We had to wake up by 515am btw...Haha! Talk first sleep later ma...HAHA! Must spend quality time together...LOLS! How often do we talk that richly about ourselves with our friends other than in sleepovers? Haha.
So yup, was a cool evening with Xue Ming :)
It's his 21st tomorrow, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY XUE MING!! :)
And once again, do keep my final posting in prayer!! Coy Line Spec FTW!! :D
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