the secret army outpost

[Editor: These photos are of my reservist stint 2 weeks ago.... I am no longer serving in the army....]

it was the worst of times.
and it was the best of times (for my team, at least).

we were at the border of civilisation, looking for a decent place to, ah how do you civilians phrase it, "set up camp"?

so we walked, and we spot something interesting.
Look at the photograph below, click it to see an enlarged picture. Spot any interesting stuff?



Do not scroll down until you've given up....

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So we reached the unusual spot.
As some idiotic star-wars fan would have said, there was a disturbance in the grass.



And so we turned into the grassland and whoooo....we saw a clear opening.

alright, here's the bad news.
i forgot to take photos before we occupied the space.
in our excitment at finding an outstanding location for our military outpost, i forgotten how bloody disrupting our activities can be.

it was a clearing in the grassland, done by foreign workers. large pact of lands, with different "sections". most importantly, there were make-shift tables, flat pieces of wooden sheets, and lots of plastic chairs.

do u hv any idea how wonderful plastic chairs are?

i don't know how to explain to people who have never manned an outpost for days, but plastic chairs...whooo...they are like.....its almost better than sex.

anyway, the rest of the photos show the place after occupied by us.

so let us turn in....



so once u turn into the "grassland", u would notice that the entrance is marked like an arched door.....
can't believe whoever made this place actually took the trouble to made the arched doorway.




And you would see the main "living room". where we found the plastic chairs, the makeshift tables, and mattress. We didn't dare to touch the mattress though. god knows what had touched it....
and there were canvas sheets and wooden sheets....for our roof and our floor.
excellent!

(note the censored part is our military equipment, i don't wanna run the risk of disclosing any classified materials)




and then as u venture deeper, you would find "BEDROOMS".
yup. sections of the place, segregrated, and with canvas sheets for privacy.


why would anyone need bedrooms and privacy in a jungle settlemend, u ask.....



let me add something to the equations => wrappers....all over the floor.
wrappers of....




condoms!! NB!!!

we ventured into an illegal jungle den of vice!!
a den of prostitution!!

wah lao damn gross can.
quite sickening that we had to spend a few days in the midst of disposed condoms and tons of sperms.....
anyway, i reassured myself that no dieases can survive in the open environment for more than few seconds.
still quite gross......(though i wonder where are the prostitutes, hahaa)


and as if that is not gross enough.



i found the "toilet".
yes yes, tons of used toilet papers in a big hole.

gross.

anyway, we didn't leave the place. the advantages outweight the disadvantages by a lot.
the plastic chairs offered great pleasure, the land was cleared, there were a lot of spaces for our military baggages. and there was enough jungle to camoflague our place.

best of all, we can play BIG-2 on chairs.


we turned it from a den of prostitutions to a den of gambling!
HAHAHA
(note: we didn't gamble lah, we just play cards to spend away the time)


Anyway, the outpost was quite scary in the night.
now and then, groups of foreign workers would try and come in, and we would shout at them, asking them to go away.
typical singaporeans would have been shocked at being shouted, and would have cautiously gone away.

not foreign workers. they don't play by local rules.

they were not intimidated by us, not even when we were clearly baring weapons and on guard, shinning torchlights at them.

one guy even walked all the way into the outpost, ignoring our calls, and blatantly called out,

"tonight don't have ah?"

"don't have lah, GO AWAY."

in doubts, he would scan the area, as if trying to look for the hidden prostitutes.

Wah liew, 1 night without sex will die ah?

(note: no prostitutes turned up for work that night, we were rather disappointed)