ICT Over Soon. Holiday Over Soon!

Yeah man. Every ICT feels like a long holiday. A well-deserved break from the normal routine at work. 3 weeks just flew past so quickly. Don't really feel like going back to work argh!!!

Today was the cardinal event. No more NE tours. We went back to Tampines SAFRA for bowling event from 10-12pm. Played 2 rounds. Woot got 161 and 135 points.

Then as suggested by Heng Yong, we went to this Ssikkek Korean BBQ buffet restaurant at Tampines 1 for lunch. 12 big burly and hungry men just out from a grueling and tiring 2D1N exercise on Mon to Tue can really whack a whole truckload of food. There wasn't much variety of meat to choose from, mainly pork belly bacon and some other marinated pork, chicken and beef, plus some sweetcorn dessert, vermicelli, some seaweed soup, kimchi soup and watermelons as fruits. There were bottles of Dasani mineral water for each table as well. We also ordered some soju as well and in the end our bill ended up as $240.11 for 12 people, so roughly about $20 each. Pretty worth it if you ask me.

Some of the guys went for Part 2 of the day's program. Won't go into details lol. I went home to sleep cos was feeling so lethargic. Somehow I think I still need to sleep more due to the lack of sleep during the 2D1N outfield exercise on Mon and Tue. That was really super siong sia. Someone even slept for 17 hours after the exercise lol.

Raphael as usual was quite an entertainment for us during this ICT.

The 8th batch guys (our xinjiaos) were very creative with their names.

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First Ever Company Event: Bowling

My first, as well as the company's first. There was shuttle bus to bring us to Mount Faber SAFRA for this bowling competition. Our department's team comprises of all of us except Da Chin. And then because there wasn't enough players for some other teams, therefore it ended up with every team to be made up of 4 players instead of 5. So our boss, Dominic, sacrificed himself and joined another team.

We had a small table of food prepared for us. But the moment we entered the bowling alley, we saw SembCorp's food spread was much better than our's lol. No wonder their share price is much higher. After the short dinner, we started warming up for our games with a few throws. Then the actual games started at 7pm.

Our first game's total team score was not too bad: 369 pts. And I barely made it past 100. Wah really rusty lol. Second game all of my teammates deteriorated but I got a 137 lol. Final score is 374 though. Too bad we didn't get to win anything. Cos anyone who got a double or turkey actually could get toblerones and vouchers respectively. Too bad I'm too rusty lol. Didn't even get anything, not to mention no top three trophies.

The trophies so cute eh? But..Milo!? Toblerone???

Our team name is "Risky" cos nobody came up with a name, so they just anyhow named it.

Round 1 results

Round 2 results

Our boss gave out prizes to this team with the lowest score.
They get T-shirts with the words "Team Longkang" lol.

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Some Outdated Updates

Haha I actually forgot to post about my ascent to the highest building in Singapore during the Swissotel Vertical Marathon on the 21st of November 2010! So here it is again.

21st November 2010, Sunday

So I finally entered this challenge. Always wanted to participate in a vertical marathon but couldn't find the kakis to do it. The previous years Hongming went but bojio! Finally this year he remembered to jio me and therefore we went together. This year there's only the two of us. Previously he participated with one or two friends. Chian San also participated in it, as I realized after I already registered for the event.

HM and I met then went to Swissotel The Stamford to get ready for our climb. CS was at an earlier category and he started first. He was wearing something unusual for such an event and caught the eyes of the organizers. They invited him on stage to interview him as to why he wore such an outfit. He said he decided to wear something different since this is a fun event, or something along that line. There was a another man in the 50+ category dressed in full Venom costume.

I clocked 15:50 for my climb. HM clicked 14:50, exactly 1 min faster than me lol. Eh but I was interrupted by CS while on the 6th and 60th floors cos he called me! Slowed down my pace hahah. Shall attempt to break my personal record next year, if I'm participating again hehe. Well the registration fee of $40 is quite steep actually. HM says the fee is increasing every year. The goodie bag and the shirt aren't really worth $40. So probably will reconsider participating next year hahaha.

9th December 2010, Thursday

Ok not quite an event but it's something interesting. It's cardinal day at SAFRA! Looked forward to it since the starting of ICT. We get to enjoy good food and play some games of bowling or pool or LAN-gaming this time (choose one only). Of course I opted for bowling. Managed to play up to 5 games hahaha! That's because most of the guys left after playing one game. I live so near so what's the hurry of going home when there're free bowling games to play? In the end Sam and I were the only survivors playing up to 5 games each haha. Then Kenneth and I went to Blic to have some ice-cream before we went back and enjoyed the rest of the afternoon off.

Hehe my scores were 123, 147, 147, 129, 153.

Reservist shiok right? But nobody sees the kinda siong things we do inside T_T... This year we did a 2D1N FIBUA at Neo Tiew Village. After reaching the place then I realized that it's the very same place that I went during my year two FOC in Hall 4. It was a place for nightwalk. It's actually open to the public! Quite a fun overnight stay actually. We did FIBUA and watched some of our guys play with trip flare and handheld rockets (it's handheld flares actually). We saw all the 10+ flares being shot into the sky on a rainy night, all lighting up the sky and floating down like being on parachutes (I think they really are on parachutes). Too bad I couldn't take pix or videos lol. Then the next morning we had a company level FIBUA movement. That was damn siong but rather fun.
The next 2D1N exercise was in base. Shall not disclose too much info lol. This not as siong as FIBUA physically but we hardly got any sleep throughout the night. Zombified the next morning...

Friday 10th December we outpro-ed. Kinda sianz cos had to go back to work in three days' time already. Kinda glad that the siong part was over. Indeed reservist was a good break from work and a good catching with all the good old buddies of FDS-PLAB.

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