1st ICT Completed!

Mon - Our final day of CCIS training in the morning before the Individual Vocation Proficiency Test in the afternoon, which was quite a joke really but I shan't go into details here. Spent my free time reading the TYS for fun and also in preparation for tutorial and getting inspiration for the block test, much to the amusement of some of my platoon mates.

Tue - Navigation Exercise where we went out to Lim Chu Kang area for a stroll in the jungle. We were supposed to go to various checkpoints and perform various tasks, kinda like our MMM during orientation. Except that instead of young kids you get mature men, instead of a concrete jungle you have a real jungle, instead of playing games you get serious tasks, and you don't have people cheering at every little thing that gives them bonus points. Ok, maybe it's not really like MMM...

Anyway most of the things we needed to do involved setting up of antennas which I've never done before in my NS days cos before disruption I was dealing with ancient WWII equipment in my camp and even during my few weeks in School of Signals (10 years ago) I also don't remember setting up much antennas and we mainly dealt with radio sets. After disruption I only recapped some stuff on radio for our 1 overseas exercise in Taiwan so I was quite blur during the Nav Ex but I tried to learn as much as I could and I think I managed to pick up and remember most of the stuff so next time I think I can do it! Got a little bit of sunburn cos the weather was scorching hot and we walked around for hours in the sun but I guess it was good to get a bit of Vitamin D!

Wed/Thu - Deployment Exercise where we went to Ama Keng. It only involved our own signal company so it was still quite relaxed, esp. for our CCIS team since we only had to set up our laptops and server and we had help with that and also we took turns to man the 1 remote set placed with us.

There were swarms of mosquitoes in the training shed we were in, no kidding! We stared up at the lights and you they were buzzing with mosquitoes. Occasionally somebody would hit the laptop screen and there would be dead mosquitoes on the screen. Quite disgusting really but anyway think they were all males cos somebody said only the females suck blood and they were also moving very slowly, enough for some of the guys to swipe their hand and grab them in their palms.

Went back to camp in the morning and we got out by early afternoon thankfully so that we could go home and get a good rest!

Fri - Settled some admin stuff and waited around (as usual) before we had our lunch and then it was out-processing time!

So today marks the end of my 1st In-Camp Training and overall it has been a pretty good experience and a good break from work since it allows me to take my time and slow down my pace of life. No brisk walking from place to place. Instead, I sauntered around the camp most of the time with my platoon mates as there was no rush to complete anything. =)

There were also some random funny moments such as the cookhouse where either someone has some serious spelling problems or has a great sense of humour cos on our drinks container we had drinks labeled as "Lai Ci" and "Mangga"... K, back to my TV show and getting ready to go back to school tmr to get some things done!