And the vehicles are back.

MES brought a 7 Tonner Wrecker (a 5 Tonner weighs 16.384 tons with load) across Tekong, and recovered my vehicle! Well... okay... a vehicle that overturned, landing on the driver's side, another vehicle that got stuck in the monsoon drain of the BIC area... hmm... Wah... last weekend must be a suay day for the vehicles in Tekong...

Getting the vehicles was already a chore: the vehicle were taken out at 1200 hrs. But we had to wash the vehicles (at least the exterior) and we missed the RPL at 1230 hrs. Then me, a fellow driver (he's driven 30,000km to date, trying his best to drive less details, reducing the chance of an accident, drove a GP Car with my MTWO and me to SFT to collect the vehicle), and my MT WO.

Suay lah... my fellow driver drove the second sunken Land Rover, and I drove the first one. Wah lau... of course la, my encik cannot possibly drive a Land Rover right? of course he drive the GP Car lah.

The vehicles were clean except for one thing.

ANTS.

Lotsa ants. There are ants crawling on both vehicles. most probably, they thought they found the best spot to take shelter from the sun, or found something sweet on the vehicles. Mine wasn't that badly hit; my fellow driver was practically scratching himself all over durng the journey back to ACMTL.

The extent of the damage wasn't much: the left rear bumper of both vehicles are slightly dented, but.... the mud acculumated were like thick patches of paint: difficult to wash off, difficult to scrub away. ESPECIALLY on the DISC BRAKES! Yes The Brakes!

I really regret the intent made by my infantry roving officer to drive into the soft, wet mud of the trench digging area.

Photos are coming up... Now where are the photos my friend had...

Apart from this, we ordered roti john from the CCO Canteen in Pulau Tekong... woo it's damn good. And lingering thoughts of my encik being greeted "Good afternoon Sergeant Major!" by a platoon of recruits were one of the lame jokes that filled the air of three Armour soldiers until the 1630hrs RPL.