Okay, in short, here is what I recomend to all potential kengsters. If you can carry on training, carry on training. I learnt from bitter, bitter experience that it is sometimes worse to be service personnel than combat personnel.

Story of my NS Life:

Point of Downgrade: I was serving my 3rd last week of BSLC in Tekong in Nutcracker when I struck a huge rock with my changkul and tore a major ligament in my arm. I was sent to CGH and downgraded within two weeks.

Fast forward 1 week: As an OOC in SISPEC, I was seriously treated like SH*T! U wake up half an hour earlier than the rest to set up safety and water points. You stay up an hour later than the rest to maintain the radios and signal sets. Yet, when the coy books out early for good performance, you find yourself taking the bloody last fastcraft out of Tekong Holiday Resort.

Fast forward 2 months: I was sent to 42 SAR as a clerk. Same story, except WORSE. On top of all the Sai Gang earlier mentioned, I was often sent to the Ossifer Mess to EFFING Shell Prawns, Scale Fish and Kill Crabs for the Officers Quarterly Mass Chao Geng celebration. Those Cheesepies would puke on the floor and order us to go over and clean up. NBCB... In addition, the clerks in my dept were a mix of Homosexuals, Ku niangs and Kengsters who play politics, porh the Chief Clerk and push weekend duties to me. It practically made life in BMTC feel like heaven. Plus, 42 SAR is in farking LIM CHU KANG JUNGLE!!!

Fast forward 4 months: As the Battalion's despatch clerk, I got the chance to make friends with the CPC clerks in CMPC, who told me how to get an upgrade and secure a posting back to SISPEC. I made friends with the CPC captain, who decided to post me back to SISPEC after I told him my story. I actually PAID for a private specialist to certify me combat fit and I went back to Tekong, the Happiest man ever to go to SISPEC.

Fast forward 7 months: Secured Coy 2nd best and got selected for OCS conversion, where I eventually commissioned as a Combat Engineer PC 13 months from the time I OOCed from SISPEC.

Moral of this EFFING Story: Service vocations aren't as peachy as most think. Often, service personnel are despised, looked down upon, mistreated and unfairly allocated Sai Gang ++. If you can Chiong Sua, pls dun downgrade. Dun waste the precious time in Army being someone's nosedig slave when you can do something for yourself by working out, getting fit and doing the best of the time you'd have to waste in this effing army anyway.

With this story, I've probably sexposed myself to all of the 27 and 29 BSLC pple le... Believe me. A life of a clerk can be REALLY TOUGH.

Best of luck. Be inspired.