Sunday, July 2
I'm back! Actually I booked out on Friday and reached home during early noon. This ICT, tho low-key, is rather packed and maybe I'm getting old but I thought it was quite tiring.
Day One: Woke up at 5.15 am or so to prepare to go in-camp. So early... But we're supposed to book in by 7am, and it's good to be early to get the best beds. I was glad I was not caught by RSM for my hair coz I thought it was still a bit thick and sideburns were a bit long. Anyway, Day One was nothing for us men. Basically we just slacked the whole day in our bunks... This must be a real slack ICT, or so I thought...
Day Two: Woke up horribly early for IPPT, even before the sun rose. I was amazed at how they automated the whole IPPT test stations! At the pull-up station, the sensor knows if u straighten your arms a not. And the shuttle-run, aaah, everyone seemed to get better results coz the timing appears to start a little bit later after the taker runs. But then, no one should ever fail this anyway...
And of course, I managed to maintain my silver. =)
Day Three: Outfield in the noon... No one likes outfield. We always have so many stores to take care of and to clean after outfield. And feeding the mosquitoes in Lim Chu Kang, pretending camo cream is facial mask and applying them, digging holes... And enduring someone's showing off of power by shouting and screaming (not to me, heng)...
Day Four: Ok fast forward to end of outfield. Return to camp? U're wrong, man. After enduring a whole night of outfield with hardly any sleep and food, we had to attend a COC (Change of command) parade. What's worse, we had to rehearse under the hot sun and wait for goodness-knows-how-long under the blazing hot sun for a certain high-ranking officer to come. He expected the whole batallion to wait for him when he's not even the main character?? RSM even dared to say, "The weather is very kind to us today." Well of course, if it rained there wouldn't be any parade at all which would affect the high-level more than us...
Day Five: WTF?? I still can't believe they put a 5BX with a 3km run super early in the morning. Can't they just let us rest after outfield and after a stupid COC parade under the blazing hot sun?? And once again, someone (the same someone as the one in Day 3) was wayang-ing once again... "Company let's sing song!" Huh? Reservist still sing song? Before one starts to think that he is really on, how about it if I say that the CO is just in front of him and us... No need so obvious right...
Anyway I was really glad to out-pro! I was totally worn-out and deprived of sleep! And besides, I couldn't stand many things too. I must say, though, that the standard of food seemed to have improved. Except for one or two CMIs, the rest of the meals do not taste that bad.
