In chronological order:

Started the Unit Induction Programme
Nothing worth elaborating about. Just briefings, lessons, and stuff.

Visited the ArtScience Museum
Met up with the usual people and went for two exhibitions: The Deep and Dreamworks Exhibition. The former is about the underwater life while the latter is pretty self-explanatory. On that day, I had to book in again later that night for guard duty the following day, unfortunately. After the exhibition, we went to Telok Ayer to have Korean dinner. I'm not at all into Korean food but I guess I liked the kimchi chicken enough.

Went for a course in Clementi Camp
It was a relatively relaxing week, but naturally, it got ruined with the bad news which came in the form of our guard duty schedule.

"Trespassed" an abandoned mansion
It technically still belonged to some royal family in Johor, but many Singaporeans just went in to take pictures and marvel at how cool the place is. Istana Woodneuk is located in a patch of forested land beside the Botanic Gardens. It was rusty, vegetated, polluted, broken apart, and vandalised. That is one of the values of this place now. I kind of got attacked by a hornet. It poked my forehead but somehow it didn't sting me. Lucky for me.

Me being me, I took a few pretentious photos and we climbed to the roof and Elijah walked on top of walls, which I tried but went into panic mode and gave up. It was a mini adventure.

Revamped our company in camp
Did some painting, a lot of shifting, arranging, carrying, and stuff. Of course, also did guard duty again.

Went for an overseas university exhibition
On this day, I realised that I absolutely have no proper reason to attend university anymore, since I'm sure of what I want in life, and university plays no part in it.

Stayed over at Wei Jian's house
This would most likely be the last time we hang out before he fly to Brunei for a year. On that day itself, I got dismissed from camp late, so by the time I headed over, it was close to midnight. We watched Dark Water, which is actually a pretty good horror film. Usually, I don't enjoy horror shows for their story, but this was pretty okay, because it was more than a 'this house is haunted but my husband doesn't believe it' plot. I fell asleep as they played Fifa after that, and then woke up again when they started to play Fatal Frame, which is a horror PS2 game. It was simple but good time spent.

Hanged out in general
There's not really a need to elaborate.

Attended an exercise involving several countries
Went to PLC to attend this exercise, since we were done revamping what we could revamp in camp. Of course, also did guard duty again.

Met up with Man Kit
Went to buy something with him at Chinatown. Talking to him reminded me of how ignorant I was about the army and I would rather continue being ignorant and not be in here but let's persevere for another 13 months.

Celebrated Zi Wei's birthday in his party
Birthdays are always a reason to get together, and our dear gay boy has turned 21. It was nice, meeting up with the DTVM people again, witnessing Joey and Hira being ridiculously protective of Nam Nam, talking about holes, and trying (once again) to walk really slowly so that everyone else could catch up but failing anyway. In the party itself, it was a lot of alcohol, though we didn't drink much at all, and Cards Against Humanity. 'Yeast' is officially the funniest answer to me, and everyone now thinks I'm some sick dude who enjoys putting 'children on leashes'. Didn't get to hang much with Zi Wei himself, though, because there was so many people.

That's it for the month (+1 day). I guess this month was pretty good, but I still wish this month (and every other month) could've been a lot more joyful. There's so much to be grateful for this month. I should be.

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