My ICT is finally over. Other than being deprived of sleep, it was actually not as bad as I thought. It has been years since I was forced to wake up as early as 6 am.
The training programme ended up being completely different from what was uploaded online. During the in-pro briefing, they actually warned us not to post any sensitive material regarding our ICT on our Facebook, blogs, Twitter and whatever social networking sites we had nowadays. I'll just be briefly posting my own personal experiences and feelings about this year's ICT.
- Right on the first day, my feet were hurting like mad. I thought I had worn my brother's boots by accident so I went to buy a new pair of size 11s from the E-Mart using army credit. When I got home that night, I realized that I did outgrow my boots after all. I never thought I would still be growing at my age. It must be my feet getting fatter.
- My uniform was lacking a lot of the new badges because I was unaware of the recent changes. With the help of my guardian, I managed to have everything ready before the last day as there was a spot check before we out-processed. They also told us that there will be another new SAF uniform coming up and we have to buy that next time (it's not the crappy-looking pixelated green one).
- Most annoying thing about this ICT to me was the outfield exercise. Thankfully, it was short & sweet and, once it was over, the rest of the ICT went by rather quickly.
- Went to Jurong Superbowl on Thursday for unit cohesion programme. That was the first time I ever touched a bowling ball and probably the last time as well. I took a cab home after that and it costed $41 thanks to the peak hour charges. It was my most expensive cab ride ever.
- Watched the movie "We Were Soldiers" as it was aired after one of the lectures. Very nice. It feels so different when you watch a war movie in an army camp while in uniform. lol
Well, that's it for this year. We were informed that our next ICT is in 2011. It seems that other people get called back every year but we get it once every 2-3 years.
1 High Key, 1 Low Key down. 6 High Key, 2 Low Key to go.
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