Goodies bag, attending a party?, door gifts too?. During my time, you are loaded on to 3-tonner, like herding cattles ( only thing they don't use an electric prod). The bunk beds have no mattress & you are lucky, have good springs. First month, you do not book out & one feel like you were been sent to a concentration camp in Siberia. There wasn't mobile phones back them, 1,000 recruits share 2 public phones & if you lucky, it is working. The food given was not fit for human consumption( don't think it will even get ISO or even HACCP), morning breakfast , the bread comes from Changi Prison ( made by prisoners), can bounce if you drop on the floor, the butter or magarine is in a big goo, some days resembling the rock structure in Close Encounters of the Third Kind or you get kway teow soup, with the kway teow swimming in some water, don't ask about the fried beehoon/noodle or even rice. As for lunch or dinner, the rice is of the lowest quality in the market, the kind you feed your fowls with; the marine workers today, pooni rice are far more better; there are sand in them rice & the vegetables too & come with caterpillars. Forgot to mention, the morning coffee or tea, taste like, it had been strain through a sock & yes, it did. Never mind about the rest, I guess, many will all know, what it was...never mind about the training also.
They make it today that their sons are going in for some holiday retreat...no wonder, NS is Killing SINgapore ( where is Madmansg?):p