Back from ICT

Hello, ladies and gentlemen, have not updated for a long long time. Miss me?? If you are wondering where the hell i had been, just like my dad (a long story), i have been busy doing something that allows you all to sleep peacefully at night. I was away for a 5 day In-camp training.

The ICT was in ITI... Sounds familiar? Its not IT Idiot, but it stands for Infantry Training Institute. But then, ITI sounds like music to my ears, coz that's exactly what i am. Wahahaha...

Finally, i am back from ICT. Alive...

Deferment not granted. Only one and half days off granted. Why i am not surprised. Same bullshit from the same old CO. But good news is that the old CO has gone off, to be replaced by a Major(NS) CO, who is more "lor sor" than the old CO... Headache siah...

Learn lots of things in this ICT. For example:

1) There are things more miserable to losing money when you are playing a card game, big old two... "Dai Dee". It's miserable enough when you lost money in that game, but its more miserable when you use night snacks (Bread and Tuna) in the game. Ppl who lost have to consume (eat) the night snacks.

2) Footdrill. The command "ke kena lu rus" (Right dressing) invoke the following response from us..."Har, what's that??" Same for the other command, "Berhenti" (Stop) and "Dari Kenan, bilang" (Number off from the right).

3) We got recon 1 all along for our ICT. I was very surprised. I never knew we was so garang.

4) IPPT is still as siong as ever.

5) Cook house food still sucks.

6) E mart auntie attitude is worse than before.

7) No camera phone is allowed, and all non-camera phones carried by my platoon are Nokia phones, and only one fellow need to bring in a charger.

8) SAR 21 rifle suddenly seems much heavier than before. Same for our webbing.

9) Drawing weapons from the armskote comes with a "goodie bag" which consists the rifle cleaning kit, and needs to be return back to the armskote at the end of the ICT. The phase, "I work for goodie bag" does not apply in ICT.

10) Our platoon must run away when the enemy has contacted us. More easy to replace weapon than train new ppl, said the trainer... The Sun Tze saying was true... "san shi liu ji, zou wei sang ji". Of the 36 methods, running away is the best... Best defend is to attack does not apply to us... So, when we see enemy, we run away!!!

11) The most important lesson learned... The dates of the next ICT. You can start planning overseas holidays on that period.

And the best of all... We are all starving of ciggies by the second last day. One can be amazed by the amount of ciggies taken during a in-camp. Basically, the smokers were smoking when they are free, busy, awake and even sleeping. Smoking corner is basically everywhere. Yellow boxes is there for no reason. We are, afterall, reservist liao. If you wanna set up a good business, go to ITI and sell ciggies. Confirmed, guaranteed to earn big bucks.

COC on the last day. The last day is simply a day of doing nothing in the day, till evening. CO comes and goes. New CO and new RSM. All NSmen. Incoming CO was very "lor sor" during the speech, while we were standing there at the parade ground, trying our best not to faint and to chase away some flies that was buzzing around us, with the watchful eye of the RSM right behind us...

Then, its time to Out-process. That was the time when i received the msg that SK had passed away. RIP, SK. Seriously, it may be a good thing that you does not have to suffer anymore.