Thursday, September 04, 2008

1 More Day To O.U.T!

Out-pro, that is. Short for out-processing. It's the processing of our completion of our ICT. 2.5 weeks passed in a flash. It's been really fun to do ICT, I would say. You get to meet all sorts of people, including your old army pals. No wonder nobody complained about going back for ICT. In fact everyone don't really feel like going back to work!

Today we did our last hours of guard duty. And that's it! Back to civilization for all of us. Tomorrow will just be a day of admin stuff and buffet lunch. Woohoo!

While me and Choon Wai were doing duty, he suddenly felt like going to blade at ECP, therefore we decided to just go on and do it. I wanted to ask a few people to join us, however it was too late notice to successfully get any friends to join us. Therefore we went home to prepare and CW came to pick me up and off we went to ECP. We had McDonald's breakfast and then proceeded to rollerblading! It's been sooooo many years since I last touched a pair of blades. As far as I remember, it should be back in year one or two when I was still studying in NTU. I borrowed blades from MrToe, aka Zihan. It's been at least 4 years man. I went to one of those shops renting blades to get a pair. $10 for 2 hours, quite a decent price. Once I put them on, I proceeded blading around. Hoho my skills are still there. Can move forward, but dunno how to brake properly. Ahahha! So we bladed all across ECP until we reached Bedok Jetty. And as we expected, no pretty babes around at all. What a bummer. And it started raining when we tried to make the return trip. Quite shiok to blade in the rain anyway ahahha. Then CW fetched me back home in his Mazda. Cool man. Should go for more blading sessions.

3rd September 2008, Wednesday

Woke up about 9am in the morning. Went back to the photo shop to get my NS Certificate of Service photostatted again. The URTO girl, Deng Shiqian, wasn't there, but an auntie was. I told her about my half-photostatted copy and she explained that the girl must have used the wrong settings. Therefore she made another two copies for me to replace the two which are half-photostatted.

Then I made my way to the SIA Training Centre situated somewhere in Changi area. Didn't take too long to reach the place. I changed my IC for a pass at the pass office and went in to find the room I was supposed to go. Anyway this is the first time I put on a tie for an interview. I was thinking that since SIA is such a renowned company, I should definitely put on a tie to wayang a bit. And so it seemed that all those guys I saw at the interview wore ties. Luckily I brought a tie along lol. Super mafan to put on a tie man. I chatted with a few of them and found that one was a girl who just graduated from NBS of NTU. My interview was scheduled at 10:40am, however everything seemed to be delayed and therefore I only entered the interview room at about 11+am. There was a lady who was from HR and an older gentleman from dunno which department. So I was asked the usual questions blah blah blah and then I was brought to a theatrette to complete a 2-hour essay and precis (summary). It's been dunno how many years since I last wrote a summary. And I ABHOR essays! Totally HATE essays. Don't see me writing so much since I started this blog, but this is all boliao things. But essays, have to be comprehensive, precise, blah blah blah. Oh well, I still put my heart into doing the questions. Even exceeded the time limit by 5 minutes or so. I chose the topic of "Discuss the problems of an aging population and the things that can be done to overcome the problems." or something like that. I had to choose one out of three questions. I chose this one because it's the most writable topic out of the three, and because there has been so much news generated because of all the baby bonus. Would be stupid not to write about that.

So after the test, it was already 2pm! Hungry like mad. I went to the Bedok Interchange hawker centre to settle my lunch before I rushed home. Then I changed and chionged back to camp and immediately went to take over duties. What a rush for the whole day.

After duty, it was 7pm already. A few of us went to the cookhouse to have nightsnack. Kway Teow Goreng! Shiokz. Then we went to the mess for the last night in this ICT. Almost everyone was there. All the officers were playing one of those FPS army games, including a few of the other guys. I ordered a jug of Tiger beer which poured nicely into 4 mugs. Then Galvin, Hong Kiat, Choon Wai and I toasted to a wonderful end of ICT and for a greater future ahead. LOL shiokz. Then Boyi and I played pool once again. I won 2 sets and later on Bernie, one of the guys whom I did duty with during the 4 days of RSAF Openhouse, and also the boss of one of the pubs at Boat Quay, challenged me to 2 games. I won the first set and in the last set, I almost lost to him. However he made a stupid blunder which made the cue ball jump into the air and off into the floor. This move made ALL of the guys surrounding us jump out of their seats. Everyone laughed and couldn't believe he could make such a blunder at the last ball. I also buay tahan the twist of fate and therefore ended the game. Then Pek, one of those C Shift guys of our batch challenged me and I die horribly. He was freaking good. And this went on and champions kept changing. We then hung around until the mess closed. That's was the last night we're gonna enjoy ICT lol.