In camp training: Day 1

In camp training: Day 1
0945 hrs: Woke up…
1000 hrs: Sipping coffee and blogging…
1005 hrs: Mobile phone rang…

• Guy: “Mr Yong? Good morning, this is LCP Batiar from Personnel Admin Centre.”
• Me: “Good morning, wassup?”
• Guy: “Mr. Yong, you are due to report for ICT today…”
• Me: “EH?!”

1035 hrs: Reached Paya Lebar Airbase… RP checked nominal-roll for my name… walk through metal-scanner… walk to P.A.C. building… find LCP Batiar… In-process… scan 11-B… collect A/B/C/D camp-pass + car label…

1050 hrs: walk back to carpark… drives into ‘custom checkpoint’… alight to let RP check in and out of the car… continue driving inwards… past guardpost 1, past P.A.C., past cookhouse, past Airforce Museum, stop before the taxiway, past hangar 1 and 2, stop at stop line, past mushroom counter, past guardpost 2, past 4 x Charlie 130, past US plane, past guardpost 3, past Fire-station, drive alongside scenic main runway, past Tango-Alpha gate, past guardpost 4, turn into NSMen carpark…

1115 hrs: “Hello everyone! (^___^)/~~”
1130 hrs: *Mobile canteen arrives* Buy 2 x potato curry-pok…
1135 hrs: Chit-chat and catching up…
1230 hrs: Peeling mandarin-orange…
1300 hrs: Read 3 x January editions of TODAY newspaper…
1330 hrs: Folding my coverall…
1340 hrs: Toilet taking a dump…
1350 hrs: Peeling another mandarin-orange…
1400 hrs: Return to NSMen room to realize that I missed half the officer’s briefing…
1410 hrs: Was told we can ‘balek kampung’ by 1430 hrs…
1420 hrs: Driving off already…
1440 hrs: Stopped by mushroom counter to buy snacks… then exit via Paya Lebar gate…
1505 hrs: Home!