The three weeks of torment has finally ended. To others, they might enjoy it for it was a break from their work. They were being paid as normal to slack and basically needed not use their brain at all. I felt the opposite because I was running my own business and the opportunity cost was high to halt my development.
This further made me realise how tough it was to become a young entrepreneur in Singapore.
I could not stand wasting my day rotting around and not able to proceed on my website development. The travelling distance was a major turn-off. This time, somehow Terry was allocated to the next batch even though we had attended two sessions together without deferring.
I was definitely luckier than most people. Not many could have an easy life when they put on the ugly green skin.
There were two car owners and I managed to get free lift. Apart from the first week that I caught the car near the gate, I started travelling down to Hougang to get my free ride. I get daily tea breaks at the canteens. The people were very friendly, which made the experience even better.
Two weeks ago on a Wednesday, I received an email from Mindef to confirm that my reservist deferment was successful.
It was quite a waste since this reservist would last around twelve or fourteen days, which was considered as a “high key” one. I had to complete at least seven “high key” and three “low key” reservists in order to ROD and wipe my butts from the trouble.
I was quite shocked for I always thought they would probably give me around two days time-off for my exams, which crashed with the first few days of the reservist.
Anyway, what I did before that was to get Weitat to scan the letter from UOW to prove that I was a student there and then I logged into NS.sg to submit a deferment application, and dropping them an email with the scanned letter together with my timetable. At the website, I indicated that I was in the third year and the school fee cost me SGD15,500 per year.
Another confirmation letter by post was received a couple of days later and I was glad to set my mind peace.
Since I had lost my password and did not even know my user ID, I called them to retrieve back the password. It was a computer operated line and I had to press numbers until the second stage of the game, I got lost. The terms they used were aliens to me and I decided to drop them an email instead. A man rang me up very soon and asked for my details to identify myself before telling me he would email me my password. I checked my email and realised they had already emailed me.
I finally logged into the NS Portal website and update my particulars. I went to check my medical status.
Booking Type : Medical Review Sub Visit Type : Medical Review Date : 17/05/2007 Time : 14:25H Venue : STAGMONT MEDICAL CENTRE Self-Initiated : No
I’m going back to Stagmont Camp again. Hopefully by then the MO is not a fucked up one like the previous hamster-look-alike.
