Night Owl Chatterboxes - Part XLVII!
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yours must be the time when they still housed you in those long zinc huts right ? .... the one on the clifts ? ....Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:My time, PES A, definitely got BMT. Blardy hell......
(But, truth be told, I actually somewhat enjoyed P. Tekong.)
that's long since been abandoned now ... I'm not sure the status now, but my time I managed to go poke and roam around the place .... including the infamous 3 door bunk and medical center ...
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whats the story about that 3 door bunk?Originally posted by Fatum:yours must be the time when they still housed you in those long zinc huts right ? .... the one on the clifts ? ....
that's long since been abandoned now ... I'm not sure the status now, but my time I managed to go poke and roam around the place .... including the infamous 3 door bunk and medical center ...
is it at the old rocky hill camp area?
or near the ammo storage place? -
3-door bunk = Charlie Company...
i was in Echo Company.. OC had a red beret and all he said was "i believe in tough training"
he also led by example sometimes going Log PT and run the SOC with us
actually, he did a lot of that.. and led the bloody company all the way in the route marches and ran with us for our IPPT and SOC tests too -
when your commanders lead by example the men will be more motivated to follow..
rather then just hearing "hurry up la" etc etc which is what most commanders do nowadays.. -
you know where the old BMTC school two is ? ... that's where it is ...Originally posted by stellazio:whats the story about that 3 door bunk?
is it at the old rocky hill camp area?
or near the ammo storage place?
I forgot which one is the 3 door bunk, we stumbled onto that by chance ... there you'll know it when you see it, there are tentera crests, tailismans, crosses, islamic script carvings all around in the bunk ... and a roughly painted door along one wall ...
the abandoned medical center is near the road, in a little depression ... -
Don't quite remember if they were made of zinc (perhaps the roofs were), but they were long, with horizontally slatted walls for ventilation, and separate huts for washing/bathing.Originally posted by Fatum:yours must be the time when they still housed you in those long zinc huts right ? .... the one on the clifts ? ....
that's long since been abandoned now ... I'm not sure the status now, but my time I managed to go poke and roam around the place .... including the infamous 3 door bunk and medical center ...
This was back in '86, though. -
they didn't tear down the place?Originally posted by Fatum:you know where the old BMTC school two is ? ... that's where it is ...
I forgot which one is the 3 door bunk, we stumbled onto that by chance ... there you'll know it when you see it, there are tentera crests, tailismans, crosses, islamic script carvings all around in the bunk ... and a roughly painted door along one wall ...
the abandoned medical center is near the road, in a little depression ...
hmmm i don't know of any such places cause most of tekong seem to be quite new to me at least from what i see.hmmm. -
Charlie Company.. the story was that they went out for an exercise.. and one recruit went missing..
the whole of Tekong stopped and everyone was mobilised to search for the guy..
they found a headless body..
they brought the body back to company line..
the bunk was then haunted and a few recruits got possessed after that... and a taoist priest finally came and said that the spirit could not get out of the bunk because of crests and all that on the two doors.. so they had to make another door.. after the spirit went off, they "sealed" the bunk again with crests, crucifixes and all that.. -
When did this happen?Originally posted by the Bear:Charlie Company.. the story was that they went out for an exercise.. and one recruit went missing..
the whole of Tekong stopped and everyone was mobilised to search for the guy..
they found a headless body..
they brought the body back to company line..
the bunk was then haunted and a few recruits got possessed after that... and a taoist priest finally came and said that the spirit could not get out of the bunk because of crests and all that on the two doors.. so they had to make another door.. after the spirit went off, they "sealed" the bunk again with crests, crucifixes and all that..
I do not recall hearing any rumours or stories about hauntings or ghosts during my three months on Tekong. Perhaps I was "fortunate."
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tomorrow i'm on duty.Originally posted by the Bear:kopi.. when you free to hand over?
i'll get from you.. he needs it from next week?
tomorrow you free?
sunday free. -
the only stories i heard was about the ammo storage area..
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I think it may be after your time ....Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:When did this happen?
I do not recall hearing any rumours or stories about hauntings or ghosts during my three months on Tekong. Perhaps I was "fortunate."
but surely you've heard of the haunted jacob's ladder along the U shaped SOC course ... I actually had direct experience about that ... -
i don't even know whats jacob's ladder.Originally posted by Fatum:I think it may be after your time ....
but surely you've heard of the haunted jacob's ladder along the U shaped SOC course ... I actually had direct experience about that ...
and soc course, i think there're quite a few around tekong right? -
Originally posted by Fatum:I think it may be after your time ....
but surely you've heard of the haunted jacob's ladder along the U shaped SOC course ... I actually had direct experience about that ... 
Do tell!! -
that one's special ... it's U shaped ... with the bend pointed towards the clifts ...Originally posted by stellazio:i don't even know whats jacob's ladder.
and soc course, i think there're quite a few around tekong right?
what's with the ammo area ? ... the pontianaks caught on tape ? ... -
the condensed version is that me and my buddy saw two figures looping across the soc clearing obstacles in the pre-dawn twilight and ran straight out over the cliff as they came to the bend ....Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
Do tell!! -
Originally posted by Fatum:the condensed version is that me and my buddy saw two figures looping across the soc clearing obstacles in the pre-dawn twilight and ran straight out over the cliff as they came to the bend ....
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did ur ask ur sergeants or officers about any story regarding that?Originally posted by Fatum:the condensed version is that me and my buddy saw two figures looping across the soc clearing obstacles in the pre-dawn twilight and ran straight out over the cliff as they came to the bend .... -
sunday what time and where?
after 3:30pm i got to go work
Originally posted by kopiosatu:tomorrow i'm on duty.
sunday free. -
that was a private "excursion" .... we were not supposed to be in the area .....Originally posted by stellazio:did ur ask ur sergeants or officers about any story regarding that? 
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okiez, going to rail mall again for a brewski ...
tata ! ... -
Perhaps the School of Commandos was using the obstacle course on Tekong that morning.Originally posted by Fatum:the condensed version is that me and my buddy saw two figures looping across the soc clearing obstacles in the pre-dawn twilight and ran straight out over the cliff as they came to the bend ....
Were the figures clad in PT attire? -
that was the story told to me by the CSM.. and also the lot before that, a Charlie Company friend of mine, said their CSM said the same thingOriginally posted by Meia Gisborn:When did this happen?
I do not recall hearing any rumours or stories about hauntings or ghosts during my three months on Tekong. Perhaps I was "fortunate." -
*me mysteriously appears in a puff of smoke*
14000th post!
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where the heck is kopi?