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Family
The house seems awfully quiet now. Getting very fidgety and uncomfortable probably because I'm not very used to there being no noise at all. Typically there'll be sounds of some random MMORPG coming from somewhere in the house, the sounds of an electric guitar, even the sounds of quarrelling. But now its completely silent.
The reason: my bros are on mission trip. Good experience for them. Quite a few benefits for me as well. I spent 3 hrs mugging without any disturbances just today, and after this I'm quite confident of going on for another 3 hrs.
But I gotta say... I miss em heh. Just isn't the same without them around.
Went to see them off. Quite a couple of YE people came down as well. Marcus, JS, Sandra, Felice, Esther and Gerald. Great to see that. Supporting your friend for missions is really good.
Pics of Thursday:


From left to right: Daryl and Darren (my bros), JS and Marcus.


The mission peoples! Bethea, Aunty Lai Mui, Aunty Audrey, Aunty Jenny and my bros.

The rest of the mission peoples left in the afternoon.

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NS

Woot first time using this label. Made me realise that I'll never be using some of the labels I currently have again. Examples: X'PEIA, guitar. Quite saddening hmm.

Anyways, went for NS checkup on friday. Let me walk you guys through what I went through.

PRE-Checkup:

1. Got my hair cut just for the checkup. Actually quite a smart thing to do. Quite a couple of the guys I were with got scolded by the photo-taking soldier guy heh.

"Brush the hair off your forehead lah!"
"Must see your ears ah. Not good enough go and tidy it up again."

2. No jewellery allowed.

Aww man had to leave my cross at home. Just didn't feel right without it.

3. No camera phones.

Therefore I was phoneless. No music, no pictures, no chance to call home after I was done. I felt weird.

4. Bring all your medical documents.

Carried everything in a yellow envelope thing. Kept slipping out of my grasp, had to hold it close to myself to ensure that it didn't drop.

Ok so I was ready.

Checkup:

Went quite well. The first few stations not many problems. Lots of tests that were quite interesting IMO. There was this clipboard thing you had to pass to the soldier in charge after each station. When I looked at it I was kinda happy cos I was ultra healthy.

The blood test was good as well. Waited quite long to do that one cos there were quite a lot of guys in the queue. When it was my turn the guy just said hi, sat me down, took one look at my arm. My arm happens to me ultra veiny so no prob. The guy inserted the needle, and the blood started filling up the test tube. I was looking at the whole process.

"Cool!" For some reason I had to exclaim that out loud haha. The guy beside me (just about to go through the same thing) stared at me as if I was some freak.

There was this other station where your heart rate was measured. The equipment used was quite interesting also. A few suction cups attached to your chest and some clips attached to your hands and feet. When I saw that I exclaimed the same thing as well haha.

Yup so in the end I got PES B. I think thats quite good for me, cos I wanna continue contributing actively to YE even while in the army. So not PES A = good I think. I think I got PES B cos I was underweight. 9% body fat, BMI between 15 and 20. But thats good! I think God made me skinny for a reason...

POST checkup:

Took a bus to the hawker centre outside my church. Felt quite good being in familiar territory. Wanted to pay a visit to church, but decided that too much mugging was due.

The NS man guide they gave after the whole thing is super useful! Contains workouts that help train specifically for certain segments of NAPFA. Thats good...

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