iPhone photos 1.88 - Sending Mav off | Day 1/670 & 7/670

18 July (Saturday) 
Met Mav to interview for my group project and then spent the rest of the day crafting out a 12 page long report for Prof Comm........................................... SO BRAIN DRAINING 

fav girl came over for awhile tho :-)


what are you doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


you're such a qt but thanks for messing up my bed 

20 July (Monday) 
the dreaded day of Mav's enlistment :''''''-( 

His parents came to pick me up at Pasir Ris interchange before driving us to the commandos camp :'''-(

The moment we reached the camp, Mav was immediately ushered to the registration booth AWAY FROM US??? And I basically spent the next hour or so with his parents having a brief tour of the place w/o Mav :-(

It was also my first time meeting his mum (dad I met for dinner a week prior to this)((in shorts and slippers and a holographic bag at an expensive jap restaurant)) but it wasn't that awkward la LOL. And his parents are quite funny too??? His dad was looking at the display of army stuff that Mav will get, and he got very fascinated with this swiss army knife... And his mum was like: "you think shopping ah?" HAHAHAHA

and then after a vvvv brief tour of the facilities (actually just the parachute stimulator thing cause commandos HAVE TO JUMP OFF A PLANE EVENTUALLY WTF), we went to hear a few speeches from the high-ranking officers... Afterwards the enlistees were all ushered in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank God our seats were quite close to where Mav was standing and we watched him take the pledge/oath!!!!

But after that short 3 minutes the enlistees were ushered away from us AGAIN sobbles
And then his parents and I went to the cookhouse for lunch haha

This wasn't too bad!! Not the best but more than good enough for army food lolol

AND I WAS SO HAPPY cause midway through our meal, the commando came to our table and told us that the enlistees will be joining us soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so happy to finally see u omg

after that we were led back into the foyer...... :-(
"do you know how much time they're giving you to say goodbye's??"
"we actually have to go now already"
:-( :-( :-( :-( :-(

so bummed that we were only together for less than 20 minutes out of the entire 2 hours but just thankful that I got to send you off at the camp itself :-( 

also yes I am very aware that we look HELLA SIMILAR in this picture.....in other pictures as well la and we get that A LOT like from friends and relatives and even my OWN mum??? we've already accepted that fact from the beginning BUT I'd like to think that we got couple face HAHAHA like noPE NooOoOoO of course we don't look like siblings what are you saying??? we just look very compatible yes???

bye commandos-to-be :-( :-(((((((((((((((((((((((
SOBS WATCHING THEM MARCH AWAY WAS SUCH A TEAR-JERKER OMG


snapchat from Jingwen aiyo so sweet
WE CAN GET THROUGH THIS WHOLE ARMY PHASE TOGETHER!!!!!!!!


first army phone call from Mav later on that night ;_;
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when this post goes up, it'll have been exactly one week since Mav enlisted and things are okay la!!! There are some nights where he gets to call for like an hour while other nights (ok actually it has only been once) the calls last for like 2 minutes LOL. It's a bit sian la because Mav is only free to reply after 9pm so from morning to night, I'm basically just talking to myself. But he'll just read through everything I sent and replies them through text/during our phone call, so that's good.

I also think it makes me appreciate our conversations a lot more?? Like when I wake up to a whole chunk of messages for him, it's quite shiok de lor HAHA. And I try to time my naps properly and try to wake up before 8.45pm so I don't sleep through Mav's precious admin time (i.e. time where he gets to call me) LOL.

It's only been the first week so we're still getting used to everything but yeah, so far so good??? I guess we'll just see how this goes hahaha