Look out for wild boars.

"My sergeant is a wild boar,
I want to be one toooo,
Kick my basha, kick my buddy's tooo--o!"

- Platoon 4 Song.

What a lame excuse...that our basha was smashed by a wild boar? It didn't take us long to figure out that it was indeed the 2 'wild boars' consisting of Haresh and Lui who were going around kicking down the bashas. And for what reason? None whatsoever.

And so these were the harsh realities of life in Platoon 4. We would always look over to the greener pastures of Platoon 5 and how they were sleeping at 9pm during outfield while we were made to clean our rifles by candlelight. To make it worse, we were all dirty from the insane crawling near shitholes we had to do an hour earlier (another story).

So yes, I'm extremely convinced that the wild boars of Singapore reside not only at the fringes of civilization in Ubin and Tekong, but also on the mainland and they come in a mix of various colours (Haresh & Lui) and sizes (Haresh and Lui, again.). However, the most peculiar sighting was the one that was spotted around our parade square on a hot Saturday evening, but that would make another story for later. =)