What do you do on nights off?
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If you book out,where do you go?
If you prefer to stay in camp,what you do? -
go home.
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last time stay in unit ...go kia kia
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go work
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sometimes either go yishun makan...
catch movie in town...
or makan in town
if nights off...but prefer not to go..then either
do laundry...
relak with the confinees..smoke here and there
sleep early arh...
nothing serious...just a chance not to think of werk for a while -
sometimes i book out to run... serious.. do 5km/10km run.
that's when staying in camp is boring and yet you don't want to spend too much money... it's a good way to exercise. hehe... -
Go makan, what else, time too short to go home.
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initially
eat, shop, go home, watch movie, cohesion with frens, ka cheow char bor, slack in mess, talk to bunkmates.
then
eat, go home, slack in mess, talk to bunkmates
then
ORD LO!!! -
Book out, go play dota or go changi village eat supper or go TM walk walk...
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have sex
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To unwind, of course. I can honestly say I never stayed in camp during a nights off. It also kept me sane during burnt weekends, so much so I ended up volunteering to do COS or guard duty on Saturdays (but never Sundays -- too depressing). My unit's system was such that one could claim days off from excessive duties.
My old camp was at Stagmont Ring, so it's usually Beauty World to eat fast food & catch the 9 o'clock movie. Can still remember the John Woo/HK films, before the Straits Times, let alone Hollywood, cranked up the hype.
Sometimes I would take a hour's bus ride, drop off at Far East Plaza & later walk down to Centerpoint (checking out my favorite hangouts & eat something at either place), walk across to Orchard Boulevard & take the bus back. At Stagmont Ring itself, there's a coffee shop where everyone hung out & shoot the breeze &, if hungry, I'd order the wanton mee there for supper too. One must then take a pirate bus (10 cents) from the main road to reach the army camps, so it's habitual to see packed buses from 2330 hours onwards. Everyone seemed to have precisely finetuned their booking-in time, so much so the order came down to open the main gate (instead of just the side gate) at 2350 so as to let in all. -
When was this?Originally posted by blitzonic:Wind down, of course. I can honestly say I never stayed in camp during a nights off. It also kept me sane during burnt weekends, so much so I ended up volunteering to do COS or guard duty on Saturdays (but never Sundays -- too depressing). My unit's system was such that one could claim days off from excessive duties.
My old camp was at Stagmont Ring, so it's usually Beauty World to eat fast food & catch the 9 o'clock movie. Can still remember the John Woo/HK films, before the Straits Times, let alone Hollywood, cranked up the hype.
Sometimes I would take a hour's bus ride, drop off at Far East Plaza & later walk down to Centerpoint (checking out my favorite hangouts & eat something at either place), walk across to Orchard Boulevard & take the bus back. At Stagmont Ring itself, there's a coffee shop where everyone hung out & shoot the breeze &, if hungry, I'd order the wanton mee there for supper too. One must then take a pirate bus (10 cents) from the main road to reach the army camps, so it's habitual to see packed buses from 2330 hours onwards. Everyone seemed to have precisely finetuned their booking-in time, so much so the order came down to open the main gate (instead of just the side gate) at 2350 so as to let in all. -
That's a no-brainer - straight to Europa for some attitude adjustment.
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The John Woo movies weren't enough a hint? ~lol~
1986-1988, Kranji Camp. I know there are/were a few Kranji Camps, but mine was at Lorong Kerasi. The detention barracks next door was built during my active time. 21 SA & 41 SAR shared the same gate, but 3rd GDS had its own even though all three units were based in the same camp (separated by a big field on each's "backside"). Ours was SP mortar (mounted inside M113s) & 41 SAR was a proper Armour unit, so both of us were quite famous for dirtying/muddying/destroying the public roads on our way to Sungei Gedong for field training. The units have now shifted to site next to the field training areas, that much I know, with the old Yew Tee area becoming part of Choa Chu Kang housing estate. Haven't dropped by that again again since ORD, except driving along Woodlands Road once in a while.