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  • Officer Rejected Request For Toilet Stop, NSF Forced To Defecate Into Ziploc Bag

    Officer Rejected Request For Toilet Stop, NSF Forced To Defecate Into Ziploc Bag

    Hi Singapore, here’s a story that got removed from TIFU, a tribute to all our NSFs with a personal story of mine.

    In honor of the usual tifu tradition I shall tell my tale of a fuck up months after it had occurred.

    I’m from Singapore, and as a rite of passage for a male citizen of this democratic society I have to go through the reluctant torture of serving my nation for 2 years as a low-waged soldier for the army. Anyways I shall spare you readers the usual Singaporean sob story of being forced into serving our nation for 2 years.

    At the beginning of our training phase it is customary to go through BMT(Basic Military Training); the period where all the usual social stigma of abusive sergeants, enciks(old men who have gone slightly deranged from opting to stay in the army) and sirs come to surface in daily conversations. During this period is where my fuck-up came to haunt me for the rest of my life.

    Day of the incident: 5 weeks into my BMT phase and blah blah blah here I am on the day where I would finally shoot live rounds on my SAR21 And we are required to be transported out of Pulau Tekong (a godforsaken island northbound of Singapore) to mainland Singapore to execute our training.

    Ferry Terminal: The entire company is currently lined up and ready to board the ferry towards the mainland. It is at this point where my sergeant told us to head to the washroom to take a dump or a piss as the ride would long. I thought nothing of it, little did I know 🙁

    5 minutes on the bus: I’m onboard the bus towards the firing site and my tummy starts grumbling.

    10 minutes on the bus: Satan started brewing a concoction of pure evil to summon his child within my bowels. I turned to my buddy on my left and started to beg him to distract me from the terrors within me.

    15 minutes on the bus: I started groveling to my sergeant to let me take a dump somewhere. He says, “HOLD IT IN, WE’LL BE THERE IN 10 MINUTES”

    20 minutes on the bus: I’ve been begging him for 5 minutes. Sergeant calls the supervising officer for his advice.

    22 minutes on the ride of my life: My request has officially been rejected.

    25 minutes on the highway to hell: I’ve started to contemplate my options: A. Release Satan’s child into my helmet B. Relieve myself casually like a fuckin’ 3yo C. Release the Kraken into a ziploc bag which kept the contents of another platoon mate’s soldierly tools

    30 minutes on the spiral to nirvana: I have voiced out my options to my sergeant and advised him that I’ll be taking option C.

    30 minutes and 30secs into this fuckup: I’m squatting on the stairs of the backdoor of the bus, carefully aiming my explosive rounds into a tiny ziploc bag with my ass out.

    32 minutes into this shameful bus ride: Bus driver decides that I’ve released too much toxins in the atmosphere of the bus and opens the backdoor.
    note: we are on the expressway now

    33 minutes: A van drove by, packed with passengers and their shocked faces from watching a bare-assed soldier in his uniform take a dump in a ziploc bag.

    35 minutes of pure shame: After 2 minutes of screaming at the bus driver for what’s left of my dignity, the door closes. I ordered for something to wipe my ass with. 5 packs of tissue were thrown to me like how my pride and dignity were thrown away.

    36 minutes of .__.: I’ve cleaned up and left my bag of shit at the back of the bus.

    End of the day: I’ve been immortalized as a legend of the company. Nothing spilled from the ziploc bag. I clinched a 31/32 for my firing. Natural marksman 😀

    TL;DR: Didn’t listen to my superiors advice, civilians witnessed a soldier having explosive diarrhea into a ziploc bag at the back of the bus on the expressway @70km/h.

     

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

  • 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Pulau Tekong

    10 Things You Didn’t Know About Pulau Tekong

    <Source: Cyberpioneer Magazine Oct 2015>

    1. Pulau Tekong first appeared in the Franklin and Jackson’s 1828 map as Po. Tukang. Tukang means “merchant” – the island used to serve as a trading station for Pulau Ubin and the state of Johor. Tekong means “an obstacle”, and this could have been because the island blocks the mouth of Johor River.

    2. Found off Singapore’s northeastern coast, Pulau Tekong is actually nearer to Johor than to the Singapore main island.

    3. The Pulau Tekong we know today originally comprised two islands. The 24.4 sq km Pulau Tekong, known as Pulau Tekong Besar in Malay, known as Pulau Tekong Besar in Malay, meaning “Big Tekong Island”, and the 0.89 sq km Pulau Tekong Kechil, Malay for “Small Tekong Island”. Th e two were merged in the mid-1990s.

    4. In the 1940s, the 17th Dogra Regiment and the Sphinx Battery were stationed on Pulau Tekong as part of the Changi Fire Command, a series of gun defences covering a possible Japanese approach from the east during World War II. Their legacy lives on with the Dogra and Sphinx bridges on the island.

    5. Historically, Pulau Tekong was occupied by the mainly Malays and a few Teochews and Hakkas, with the population peaking at nearly 8,000 in the 1980s. Most were farmers, fishermen and shop owners selling sundry goods.

    6. Today, Pulau Tekong is used exclusively as a Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) training base, and is home to the Basic Military Training Centre (BMTC). BMTC consists of two camps – Ladang and Rocky Hill – and 28 companies to train newly conscripted recruits.

    7. Though Pulau Tekong is no longer inhabited by civilians, the memory of kampong life lives on as training areas such as Permatang, Selabin, and Sanyongkong were named after the villages that used to be on the island.

    8. On 29 May 1990, national servicemen spotted three Asian elephants which had apparantly swum 1.5 km across the Straits of Johor to the island. A joint effort by the Singapore Zoo and Malaysian Wildlife Department eventually recaptured the elephants and they were relocated back to the forests of Johor by 10 Jun.

    9. On 18 Mar 2004, Pulau Tekong was the hiding place for one Malaysiana and Two Indonesian armed robbers who fled there from Johor on a morotised boat. After an intensive three-day manhunt by the SAF and Singapore Police Force, all three were caught and charged with illegal entry and poessession of firearms.

    10. Pulau Tekong is home to one of Singapore’s hot springs. Located in the northern area known as Unum, it features warm water and a boardwalk with a “Pulau Tekong Hot Spring” sign.

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

  • Happy Family in the SAF

    Happy Family in the SAF

    How I met my mother-in-law

    While most people would have first met their wife-to-be, followed by their in-laws, Captain (CPT) Rudie Imran did the reverse. He first met his wife’s mother, 2nd Warrant Officer (2WO) Saloma Binte Johari, as a young lieutenant while serving in the 2nd People’s Defence Force (2 PDF) Training Centre. 2WO Saloma was the Chief Admin Supervisor there.

    As fate would have it, his father-in-law, 2WO (Ret) Mawi Bin Mohd, was serving in the SAF too. Yes, it is a little complicated so we let the family do the talking instead.

    How did you meet your wife?

    CPT Rudie: It was at a unit event celebrating Hari Raya. 2WO Saloma’s daughter (who is now my wife) was one of those who were asked to perform and I was also performing. We dated secretly for a few months before I told 2WO Saloma!

    2WO (Ret) Mawi: We knew! People would come up to tell me “your daughter going out with this young lieutenant, you know!” Before Rudie she had other boyfriends too but I told my daughter “now is study time, trust me, you will get a better man.”

    What’s the best thing about having family who are also in the SAF?

    CPT Rudie: They understand what is going on and why I have to stay late in camp sometimes. But it also means that I can’t lie about having to work late then sneak off to do other things, because my in-laws’ network is so wide, they would surely find out!

    2WO Saloma: For my son, Sadali, I used to take him along to unit healthy lifestyle runs on weekends and sometimes I would bring him along to work. So when NS came around for him, I think he didn’t get too much of a shock!

    CPT Rudie: During big events like SAF Day and National Day Parade, it can feel like the whole family is involved too. We would call each other and ask for help on certain things.

    Does being in the SAF mean that you expect more from your children?

    2WO Saloma: Our standards were higher in terms of discipline. We expected them to show respect and also be responsible for their own things.

    2WO (Ret) Mawi: I used to set out certain tasks for them which they had to complete daily. If they didn’t do it and went to bed instead, I would wake them up in the middle of the night to finish the task.

    How has being in the SAF influenced your family?

    2WO (Ret) Mawi: There aren’t any specific SAF influences but we do bring back stories to tell our children. For example, I was deployed to East Timor (now called Timor-Leste) in 2002 and I saw how bad conditions were over there.

    When I came back, I told my children about how the people lived in East Timor. I particularly remember the mission: We had to climb mountains to receive satellite signals to call our families.

    CPL (NS) Sadali: Hearing these stories makes us appreciate what we have here.

    2WO Saloma: The main thing is discipline and knowing the right things to do at the right time. Without these, everything will go haywire. Luckily, our children have been quite easy to manage.

    PNR: What is it like having parents in the military?

    CPL (NS) Sadali: Like being on Pulau Tekong! People always think that if your parents are in the military, your upbringing must be very strict but it was not that bad, really. In a way, being strict is also a good thing because we all grew up fine.

    2WO (Ret) Mawi: How I learnt to relate to my children was through the NS boys (Full-time National Servicemen) and NSmen (Operationally Ready National Servicemen) under my charge throughout my career in the SAF. Getting to know new people all the time was one of the perks of the job.

    2WO Saloma: We manage soldiers and we see some of the issues they have, and we can share with the children when we come home.

    Source: http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/resourcelibrary/cyberpioneer/topics/articles/features/2014/oct14_cs.html#family2