26 June, 2005

out processed

i arrived home from my four and a half days ICT this friday afternoon.

Here are some of the major events that occurred during my ICT:

1>> the new platoon mate: Space man Ah Tan.
He is crazy. yes! i mean it. he is really crazy!

apparently, he was released from the Institute of Mental Health a few weeks ago. He also have a pas F status; meaning he is exempted from all army training.

my first and last interaction with him was outside the signal storeroom where we were drawing some signal sets. I asked him whether he knew how assemble a signal set and he replied, while smiling, by nodding, then shaking, then, again, nodding his head.

That sent shiver down my spine, maaan! thaijames tried introducing himself before that and it was worst: There wasn't any response at all!

the following evening, we had a run. we finished at the parade square and he stood there all by himself after we all left for the bunk! lester, as a sergeant, went to persuade him to go up and he did, however, he went to stand by the water cooler for 4 freaking hours! during that time, he didnt move much and did not talk at all.

that was the last straw. ah lai, the csm, went to investigate and found out that he was crazy with history of violence and that there was a cock up somewhere during the call up.

ah!!! history of violence! inside me, i am screaming: dun kill me because i wanted you to assemble the signal sets!

luckily, he was loaded up into an ambulance and that was the last time we seen of spaceman ah tan... right?

He was nicknamed spaceman ah tan by either afro jj or mogan. we knew his surname from the uniform he was wearing. although, up til now, we aint 100% sure if that was his uniform at all.

2<< I passed my IPPT!
yeah!!!

3>> paintball
we had a very very short game of paintball at FIBUA (fighting in built up area).

4<< we are best unit for 3rd Div!
who really care anyway.

the final highlight was probably there wasnt anymore cock ups after the spaceman ah tan's fiasco for the rest of the ICT. well, that was pretty fun. sonovabitch.

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