Wednesday, October 6, 2010
.:. Talk or Chat? .:.
Talk where you are able...
Looking through my NS experience so far, 5 months worth of it and 3 institututes and counting, I've realised the place we are accommadated in places a huge role in how close we are. It makes sense to say so, for the physical activities only can bond us through so much, mostly ending after afew "!@#$%^&" from each other and no more. The times that we actually get to sit down and talk in untensed environment, mostly during admin times, is the most fruitful in making the army experience a cohesive one (omg i sound like a promotor for ns).
In BMT, the bunk was a square room, with beds lined up on 2 sides of the wall, and a table in the smack right in the middle of the room. So everytime during our admin times, whatever little we have of it, we will always congregate around that little table, share food or jus talk nonsense together. That's how I got quite considerably close to bmt bunkmates.
Then next was SCS. There it was a huge rectangle room, divided into halves by a low wall partition, and a small table placed all the way beside the door. This means that most of the time the people we communicate with is only our "half" of the bunk, and wouldn't actually cross over to the other side much, resulting in a much less interactive bunk I would say. Moreover the table is so small that half the bunk can't even squeeze on it, so needless to say la, I wasn't that close to my SCS bunch. Thou having everyone from the same company in bmt really does help.
And now I'm in SI. Bunk layout, beds on either side of the room facing each other directly. Meaning we wake up and the first thing is we see the opposite bed. Meaning that now during admin time we jus "lepak" in bed, and talk with someone blasting music. So yup didn't take a while before we all got really together :)
Hence, you see why I say the environment does play a part in having good meaning conversations that really bond people. Of course the people themselves do affect one way or another too. What with a bunch of good close friends who have had conversations, or some might call it HTHT, at any possible place. School grandstand, canteen, condo pavilion, grass patches, outside of Istana, J.Co, each other's houses...basically anywhere under the sun la, too many to recall. And whoelse could this group of people be other than GOF :)
Woohoo my first post from a computer in SI.
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