2nd week continued..

The 2nd week was by far much xiong-er than the previous week. And with that comes more 'legendary and breathtaking moments' with the men of signal platoon..

I remember that we didn't have much to do on Monday because as usual the officers are planning and planning. So it goes without saying that the guys tried to gamble themselves crazy with bouts of in-between and blackjack~ By then WWM was attacking Digital Fortress and I was finishing up Tuesdays with Morrie.

Outfield!

Well we moved out at about 10 or 11am on Tuesday, not that sure of that timing now but I remember we went out before lunch. Oh well, Willis gave me a little priviledge for my bad back so I sat at the vehicle commander's seat in front. Ahhh~ air con just before moving out.. what a godsend!

When we reached the concentration area, it was so damned familiar and I remember this was the conc. area that 42 'pioneered'. Perhaps for ATEC or one of the countless full troop exercises but who can remember? Well as a welcome gift, the jungle soil had a stranglehold on the tonner and we got stuck in the mud. So well, we just stopped and deployed there and then. Haha!

The worrst thing was that, we were beside a swamp and we were damned sure it was like the mother of all breeding grounds for those sickening mosquitoes. Bloody hell.. thank goodness PC gave me some mosquito coils to use and WWM had a lighter so we smoked a lot there.. oh by the way the lucky ass PC didn't need to move out at all because he was attached to PNR platoon and so he was dead bored in camp and could sleep till dusk till dawn till dusk till dawn.. Arghhh..

We got ready, camouflaged our vehicles, did our line-laying job and then just waited. There wasn't much to do but to wait for lunch and when it came, it was almost 2pm. Freaking hungry if you ask me..
For those who had been through countless outfield exercises like us probably finished our job quickly and thought of little else as we waited for the dark of night. For people like BSO who had only been through AOAC, well he was forever a kanchiong spider and kept asking us to tidy up this and tidy up that. Fark man, be lucky we still know how to operate our equipment, it was nice and tidy everything was up and running so why you just go find something more constructive to do?

Ughh, bleddy replacement..

Deep in the dark..

Still didn't have much to do since CO gave instructions that external lines were not needed except for BnSA and mortar. And when we did reach mortar platoon, they were going back to camp. Paradise liao, nabey... lay so long for f***! Not to mention Ong WK gave us a lot of problems dunno chut what pattern. We were on a land rover and then he opened a dispenser pack, ran the line through the roof of the rover and then gave it to me and Willis to do rift knot. And I think everybody doesn't know how to do a rift knot except for the 2 of us. LCP K Lim is automatically striked off so that only leaves 看医生 and 贼神, with the former leaving for Canada permanently and the latter still in polytechnic.

Anyway I could see the exasperation in the brigade "pui-gade" guys and they were really quite dulan with Ong WK. Well which is no big surprise hahaha..
In the end go back to conc. area, TK and Chin had invaded the line tonner and were sleeping on the benches. K was sleeping in a weird position as usual and Willis was sleeping on the bench too. Leaves no room for me so I went to find WWM and talked kok with him until I got hungry. That's when I collected my ice-cold popsicle.. hur hur!

Weird sleeping positions..

LCP K Lim wasn't nicknamed "All Terrain Sleeping Machine" for no reason. He has the ability to doze off standing up, in superman position, seated on a chair and head on shoe cabinet as well as.... upper half body on tonner bench, legs on the ground sideways. Its hard to describe but he's sort of like doing the twist but with his eyes closed.

Well Chin went back to his BX to find a spot to sleep so that left G, me, Willis, K Lim, TK Tan(sleeping like no tomorrow) and Ong WK. With an army of mosquitoes to fight off as well as the midnight heat. Its a wonder how TK, Willis, Ong and G could actually fall asleep. The air wasn't even moving and Ong could bloody SNORE. KNNBchao turtle..

Suddenly, K went like "阿!! 我的背!!" A few seconds later amidst some struggling there was another "阿!! 我不可以动!!" The silly ATSM had finally found a position tough enough. Although he was able to sleep, he was finally awoken by the pain caused by sleeping in his ultra funny position.. -_-"

That would be the joke of days to come.. as well as TK ooh-ing and aah-ing at around 4 or 5am.. Almost like he was having an orgasm.. wahhaha!

Paradise now OUT!!

WIth the orders to RTU, we quickly packed up our stuff and kept the camou net back into the tonner. We were never happier to see the clean white sheets of our bed and plop onto them. Not before having an ultra long shower though! We reached camp at around 2pm I suppose. GX didn't come back till 5 odd and he was cursing and swearing at his commander.

None of my fucking problem!

CPL A was about to mount up his rover when his commander asked "Eh, how come don't have water? No jerry can?"
A: "Nobody asked me to draw"
Commander: "Where is my container? Don't have container how to drink water??"
A:..
Commander: "None of my fucking problem!"

His commander then went outfield WITHOUT him and left him stranded in camp, without a vehicle, without anyone to follow and he had to draw jerry cans himself. WTF! This type of shit coming out of an officer's mouth, I think we as ORD NS men deserve better than this type of shitty commander. Can tell him to go back to OCS or wherever he came from. Even if we did kok up, which we didn't, he could have treated his men in a nicer way. Bloody big fuck, I'm quite tempted to scratch his car. But nevermind ICT is over. That was one big boo-boo of ICT anyway..

Those of you who know who his commander is, just keep it to yourself. Later I kena sued ah.. then I really chao turtle liao.. appointment same as per 42SAR lor.

After the exercise, we didn't have much except for handing/taking over and some maintenance to do. Dismounting of signal sets etc..
The next few days were some lectures, talks about MIW websites and their services and another IPPT test on Thursday. 看医生 got a silver timing, bloody bugger I think he was engineered to run. (His best timing for 2.4km is about 8 minutes odd, he ran about 11 minutes odd that day)

Well we had a fabulous dinner the night just before battalion cohesion night where we played some really kok games, tug-o-war which HQ won and had some beer. As usual CO downed jugs and cans of beer like no kick. His belly really gives it away.. -_-" but at least he has slimmed down compared to the first time when we saw him.

Later on in the night, I told PC I wanted to download a song from Michael Jackson. He helpfully offered the following..
1. Jillie Bean
2. Save the world

Wahahaha!

Out-processing

We thought that it was over but it wasn't. Somehow the CSM arrowed us to go tidy up the washing bay just as we were about to fall in at parade square with our gear. We made our way there and cleared the washing bay and kept the fire hose back into its holder.
PS: The head of the hose resembled part of the male genitalia. Wahaha and the head squirted some water on Chin. Needless to say, Tk joined me with his cackling laughter wahaha!!

Back to our bunks, this guy from the next bunk nicknamed "Steamer part II" because he always looks super blur is still running around in smart 4. He doesn't seem to have any idea that we are about to out-process and the goon is dunno doing what. Really a steamer.. oh and if you were wondering who's steamer part I, its K Lim.

That's about it for the ICT.. bleah!

Oh and for those who want to cut their GIRO arrangement with the NKF, you can do it via Internet banking.
I've already decided I won't donate to NKF anymore, other TRANSPARENT charitable organisations could use my money.