Overzealous Recruit

On a late afternoon last December 2010, Coast Guards spotted a bespectacled young man, with a typically shaven head, swimming towards the sunny shores of Singapore. They immediately identified him as a new recruit from the Basic Military Training School, Pulau Tekan. The Coast Guards wasted plenty of time before recapturing him.

Coast Guard 1: "We playing dai dee when we saw that recruit swimming breast stroke. So we played 6 more rounds la cos i was losing money ma."

Coast Guard Sergeant: "Our immediate decision was to inform BMTS of their recruit's action. The Chief of the school told us not to recapture him until he was 50m off Singapore's shores. And so we waited until he was 51m off the shores then we catch him lor."

The young recruit was identified to be a very bright student from Zhonghua Academic Institutes (ZAI). Intellectual as he was, this recruit (name could not be revealed at this point) suffered from a syndrome that prevented him from understanding social cues. His failure to interprete social cues resulted in taking words literally.

Phrases like "Can i have a minute with you?" or "Go screw yoursef!" are such examples in which this recruit would take literally. Metaphors and similes were not part of this recruit's mental capacity.

Therefore on that very fateful day in BMTS, in his struggle and transition into military life, said recruit realised he forgot to bring his jockey cap that day.

The Jockey Cap

Journalist Investigator Yussof probed further into the case to unravel the motivation of the recruit's long distance swim back home; apparently his Sergeant "told him to do it."

Recruit: Sergeant i forgot to bring my jockey cap.
Sergeant: Recruit, u want to play punk issit? You want me to go to your house take for you issit? Still stand here for what. Go swim home and take it!

And so he did.

Yussof manages to get a picture of the recruit.
With his Jockey Cap.

Ironically the recruit's posted vocation is Seaport Operator. Life is a joke.

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