12
Sep
Sterile, very sterile
I wonder if anybody has ever thought of this: Being in the armed forces, opportunities abound for those colourful descriptions of the various human body parts. Why is this blog so devoid of the actual army experience?
Firstly, let me assure you, that I am in no way some weirdo who does not spew sailor-grade swear words. In fact, they come out of my mouth as often as any one else’s. However, as any child-protection agency can attest to, this is one of the most sterile blogs they would ever see — from a military personnel.
I have set this goal: to get people to read about my writings (ok, typings), so I figured that vulgarities cater to a too exclusive audience, so I thought I might want to come clean on my writings. There is another reason for my doggedness for proper writing: If you have been following my musings ever since the first post, you would have realised that I was mulling over re-taking my “A” levels. I doubt that the script marker would have a high opinion of writings of that level.
Besides that point, one of my agendas (yes, that practical word. I have an agenda!) is to expose a crack to the military world, and maybe help change some misguided conceptions regarding military personnel. Like how some people think of people wearing army uniforms as smelly, when the various camps enforce compulsory showers before an appearance in the public…
But I guess certain stuff that I do would have to be kept under certain amounts of cover — who knows what sensitive information I might reveal accidentally on this blog? Ah… the realism of doing intelligence work.
on September 13th, 2004 at 1:34 am
I approve. If you use vulgarities all the time you forget how to write any other way. Writing ‘clean’ forces you to be creative and think about word choices. It’s much better practice.
Also, if you keep it relentlessly clean and then suddenly throw in a rude word, people really sit up and take notice. It’s much more effective than if you use them all the time!
on September 13th, 2004 at 2:50 pm
All that sand bag lifting!!!! What do you do 19 year old’s in the military do for fun?
(Hi, Badaunt! No way am I following you!)
http://ojo.tblog.com
on September 14th, 2004 at 11:57 am
Well, after all that physical exertion in camp, we sleep. And sleep… and sleep. Of course we have the radio turned on in the bunk, but we usually listen to Tamil stations because we cannot agree on which station to tune in to…
Then there are the guys who are temporarily excused from physical activities… they try to impress by doing chin ups on the bars on our level. (Defeats the purpose, don’t you think?)
When we book out from our camps, we… sleep. Guess we army guys have no life, eh? It’s just my rifle, my buddy and me…
on September 14th, 2004 at 9:32 pm
Ojo, you’re from India, right? I want to know for the followup post to the ‘atheist’ one. Hm, should ask you on tBlog. You might not see this…
(And if you did follow me here… HOW?)
I don’t know if you noticed, but Pkchukiss wrote the funniest answer to my question (on my other, parallel blog at http://presentsimple.blogspot.com/). He’s worth keeping an eye on.