ownage

with the new enlistees, we get to watch new recruits learn to march all over again!! entering the army and having your head shaved seems to imply you lose all your brains along with your hair.

for example, no normal person would march with both the right leg stepping forward and right hand swinging forward at the same time

army also has new, creative punishments

when a sergeant or sir asks you a question, you reply with YES / NO sir/sergeant.
however, being the singlish speaking singaporeans we are, we tend to say yah. to cure us of this habit, we have a wrong word punishment. if you reply with a yah, you go to the company line, ie to say the first floor of the company building and scream "YA YA PAPAYA ONE YA YA PAPAYA TWO" and so on until five.

also, when you knock it down, ie to say made to do pushups as punishment, normal companies ask for PERMISSION TO CARRY ON SIR / SERGEANT. in ours, we ask for PERMISSION TO ENJOY SIR or PERMISSION TO KEEP FIT SIR! and then he'll say ENJOY! in that weird sadistic tone of voice and you carry on twenty. ownage.

sadly, my platoon is nowhere as interesting as shifu's platoon, although we do have cases where people ask tons of stupid questions, but i'll go into that more tmr after i get back from my propaganda visit to the singapore discovery centre!