ICT = In-Camp Training
Last Sunday, Beach Road, Golden Mile market upstairs: With my no.4 uniform in hand, I tried explaining to the old auntie at the sewing machine that I want her to remove the three-striped rank from the sleeves and replace it with the rank that has one rooftop on top... she cut me short by saying in Mandarin, 'ni yao wo fang second sar-ren'. Of course, she SEWS RANKS, she would be familiar with 'em as any NSF soldier.
2 weeks worth of Reservist ICT for me, and I'm fast counting down to the end of the first week. Venue is Pasir Laba Camp, and we are all on course. Our training is classified. But I think it is all right to say that we have to undergo 24 hours of intensive Malay language class. Last year, it was lower primary level Malay for us, and we barely scraped through the oral test, now it's upper primary level Malay, and they are REALLY throwing us into the deep end.
The class keeps pleading with the unrelenting Cikgu for canteen breaks and early lunch break ("Cikgu, it's only 5 mins to 1pm, if you let us off now, by the time we walk to the cookhouse, it will be 1pm already")... bugger, this is the same reasoning given to me by my Sec 3 students in school!
Thanks to Fazleen who helped me with my Malay homework!
Last Sunday, Beach Road, Golden Mile market upstairs: With my no.4 uniform in hand, I tried explaining to the old auntie at the sewing machine that I want her to remove the three-striped rank from the sleeves and replace it with the rank that has one rooftop on top... she cut me short by saying in Mandarin, 'ni yao wo fang second sar-ren'. Of course, she SEWS RANKS, she would be familiar with 'em as any NSF soldier.
2 weeks worth of Reservist ICT for me, and I'm fast counting down to the end of the first week. Venue is Pasir Laba Camp, and we are all on course. Our training is classified. But I think it is all right to say that we have to undergo 24 hours of intensive Malay language class. Last year, it was lower primary level Malay for us, and we barely scraped through the oral test, now it's upper primary level Malay, and they are REALLY throwing us into the deep end.
The class keeps pleading with the unrelenting Cikgu for canteen breaks and early lunch break ("Cikgu, it's only 5 mins to 1pm, if you let us off now, by the time we walk to the cookhouse, it will be 1pm already")... bugger, this is the same reasoning given to me by my Sec 3 students in school!
Thanks to Fazleen who helped me with my Malay homework!
