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Minor update on the last couple of months of some-exercise and sort-of-dieting: a total loss of about four kilograms (disregarding fluctuations), or about a pound a week, without too much discomfort. On track then to make about 65kg - which is about as light as I've been since Basic Military Training - by the end of the month, and once I get there... we'll see what's next. Felt less beaten up than usual after futsal yesterday already. And on BMT, my younger brother enlisted today, which just so happens to be his birthday, and just one day after the release of the A Level results. By the way, it seems an A* grade has been added atop the old highest grade of A, and A** grades proposed, because too many students were scoring As for top universities to distinguish between them. Well, if they don't manage this properly, we might have the grades of A*****, A****, A***, A** and A* as the passing grades in half a century, with A meaning "Almost Passed".  AT ATTEN-SHUN, SUR! Back to dear old Tekong. It would be the first time that I returned as a non-recruit, or certainly as a non-NSF, and my impression was that it hasn't changed much. Not that time has left the island untouched - for one, an extra pair of steps have been installed at the end of the balancing logs, perhaps to reduce the probability of getting a nasty knee/ankle injury from the standard dismount (see 0:03 of the clip here for an example), which by right ends with both feet hitting the ground at the same time, but by left, sometimes doesn't? Oh, and from the NS website above, the SOC now consists of just a 50m dash followed by the obstacles and finally a 600m run, a rather large discount from the 700m initial rundown (which I would say makes a big difference) when I first encountered it seven years ago; of course, this is already far easier than in my father's generation, which I'm told was fifteen kilometres with a bloody fullpack and not just Standard Battle Order, uphill both ways, or something. Maybe it'll eventually be reduced to controlling drones with the Wii, and maybe that is indeed the future - why spend years doing thousands of push-ups and marching hundreds of clicks, if an overweight gamerboy somewhere can simply wiggle his controller and put a load of lead into those muscles? And if this doesn't sound realistic, I have a lot of dead Afghanis who want a word with you. Well, other changes include the combat uniform, from the classic camo print (which IMHO lookes better) to a newfangled digital one, in addition to shifting the rank patch from the shoulders/sleeves to the chest, which I guess is a godsend especially for short recruits, who will no longer need to salute everything in sight. The tour of the barracks soon concluded, and other than some improvements to the SBO and duffel bags, the change of the PT T-shirt colour from grey to brown, and the introduction of garrison sandals, the seldom-used recreation rooms and bunks were more or less the same from my time. A combined briefing by the commanding officer in an auditorium then followed, and amusingly the first three questions fielded were on the issue of attending the local universities' open houses (NUS will be holding its in a week, for one), to each which the good Lieutenant Colonel spent minutes endeavouring to say "cannot" without actually saying the word outright. To be fair, they are willing enough to allow recruits to attend interviews, from experience. The parents finally got the hint, and the commanding officer mollified them somewhat by making his new recruits promise to call their parents before their girlfriends; this got the kind of technically-correct but less-than-convincing "Yes, sir!" that soldiers swiftly learn to give the first time round, so he had to ask the lads again. After the oath-taking, lunch followed, and I was reminded that cookhouse food seriously isn't all that bad, if one is hungry and keeps an open mind. No Western dishes, to my disappointment, but the large chicken wing was very edible. I saved the orange for later, and added it to the bottle of mineral water, three-pack of Oreos, packet of tissue paper (to reserve seats in the cookhouse?) and ballpoint pen that SAF kindly gave to visitors.  SAF ORANGE REPORTING, SUR! The draw came through last week, so it's $1984.50/$2100 now on pretend punting. Today: $100 on Manchester United (-1.5) vs. Wolverhampton Wanderers (at 1.90) Next: Taking Stock
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