朽木百哉のブォグ

The 8th ICT is over for the men and just 2 more days for the commanders like myself.

Though short, the slideshow at the closing certainly brings back memories of what all of us had gone through together.  Despite being tough, I can't find more words to express the trememdous effort made by everyone in a way or the other that made us who we are in our own identity.

Today was filled with fun through array of games such as archery, fastball, dodgeball and a watersports event, before we had a very interactive session with CGO, where points raised by fellow NSMen have been duly noted (and hopefully effectively addressed and worked on thereafter).  Some have got promotions too and the best news for those who have MRed and are thereafter the Freemen.

2 more ICTs and all of us will finish this journey.

Let's hope everyone will continue staying in touch in a good way or the other.

Rest day for all of us.

The continuation on planning of the trip while nursing a loss of voice from the mild overheating at the dinner on Friday's nights off hangs over, but at least some progression is made.  Just a little more to make the picture complete.

Since tomorrow's a cohesion event for the ICT, most of us are not staying in camp tonight as there's no breakfast catered for us tomorrow so I decided to go back to camp in the morning.  As the usual long drive to the West, I have to retire early for the night so as to wake up at 5am tomorrow.

IPPT for the 2nd run catered for the failures who didn't make it on the first attempt on the 2nd day.  Fortunately for me, I only needed to do the broad jump to lock in a pass for this window which I couldn't pass at the earlier attempt.

Aside that, most of the time were spent on the administration before we ended the day after lunch.  Programs had been pushed forward so as to free up the afternoon.  Bunks had been returned to the training department so they have catered for those who may want to stay in at the end of the day for next week.

A few of us stayed up a little later than usual to chat since its the last night in the bunks for the men who will be outproed on Monday and we had a good time chatting about how our NS life was (for me as an ex-regular), common sports such as marathon, badminton and that we can arrange to meet outside NS times for such activities.  Weiqiang was humorous in his ways when he shared his unpleasant encounters with cyberfriends, while. Kim Yong and Terry shared about the various people they have met during thei active days.   I too, shared about those unusual people that have crossed my path.  It's the past and I'm glad that the bad ones are out of my life.

An afternoon for everyone to spend time with their loved onces before we all meet again on Monday.

I was making my way back to office after a morning appointment and met up with Huiting, a long time friend who was in the advertising sales business and we walked together since her bus stop was near mine.  We chatted and she asked if she can also go to my office to make sales which I told her that she could try if and it'll be good if she can close her deal.

When I reached my office block (it resembled Everitt Building), I bumped into some colleagues whom I greeted casually while telling Huiting that she'll need to obtain a visitor pass from the security counter before going up.

Soon, I found myself making mt way to my office (a call centre which brings back some memories); as it was also my first day, I found an available seat and settled myself there (no one seems to be guiding me for the day as it seemed a busy morning); the team leader's name was Motsu or something but he was not Japanese - seems like a nice guy though after hearing one of the team members requesting to change shift.

Eyes opened, 7:45am.