Thursday, August 25, 2005
The One with the temp. Posting

If you are wondering where I am blogging from, let me tell you. Currently, I'm sitting in this super stylo chair infront of a super stylo computer in the Officer's Mess slacking. And in case the two words "officer's" and "mess" doesn't ring a bell, let me explain. It is this bar/restaurant/resting area ( fully air-conditioned except for the smoking section ) in SiSpec Tekong. And just if you are wondering why I am in this "heaven" instead of slogging my heart/brains/muscle out in the Coy line, let me enlighten you. I've been temperarily posted here to help out with the stewards here ( what they call themselves ), a.k.a waiters or bar tenders.

Yesh! That's right. I'm a waiter again.

Seems like be it civilian life or army life, I'll still be a waiter of somesort. But for now, I'm not complaining. In here, there's relatively up-to-date computers with Internet access, lots of T.Vs, an over-active air-con and of coz, no "Sai Gang" a.k.a shit work. Life here ( the first few hours ) is a breeze. Basically, you just sit and relax till a pig/boar with an enormous appetite for alcohol comes in.

However, I shan't count my blessings too early, for you never know what will be coming your way. ( or in your way ) I had a lesson, a stinky one, yesterday. It could be easily the most unlucky day for me.

Tuesday:
To start off, I woke up at around 7.00, which is considered late because I'm suppose to book out at that time for my Physio at NUH. Can't really blame that on luck since I didn't really get much sleep the night before, considering that we ( the sentry personnels ) only reached the coy line at 3 am. And that is after a long, excruiating ride from the west of the island to the east. And to top that, 8 of us were squeezed into the back of a land rover ( dimensions : Length: 2m, Width: 1.2m, Height: 1m ) which also contained numerous jery cans, and trashbags full of rubbish. What's more, the fastest the land rover can go is 50km/hr. Yes, from the west ( NTU ) to the East ( Tekong ) of Singapore. Bad experience. Back to what happened on my way to Physio. So I was like late for my book out, rushing for the bus to the terminal when I realised that the off-pass isn't issued to me yet. So had to wait for my immediate superior to arrive first before I can leave. All these are not the unlucky stuff, the "shuei" thing is that I stepped on dog poo. Spent the whole trip on the Fast-Craft in that cramp toilet trying my best to get ride of that stench. ( no hands involved!!! ) What's worse, due to some "accident" while in the toilet, ( which clearly points to the way my brain functions ) I drenched the whole shoe, inside and out. One cannot do anything right on boats, with the constant rocking of the boat. So so I started my day late, with a squishy shoe with dog poo attached to it. How promising a day can be.

Anywayz, lucky thing is, nobody really noticed the stench ( at least I hoped nobody did ). Mainly because of the expertise that I've shown in cleaning shoes with dog poo on it ( I just can't seem to highlight the "without hands" detail ). Finished my Physio asap, due to the fact that I didn't want to stay in a place too long for fear of people being able to identify and pin-point with eagle-eye accuracy where the smell is coming from. So decided to catch a movie before booking back in ( for I've 5 hours to spend ) Reached Tampinies ( is this how one spell it? ) Mall and went to check out the movies showing at that time of the day. Found out that the only movies that I can catch and at the same time not be late for my book-in is.... drumroll..... Must Love Dogs. Ironic? Definitely.

Anywayz, it's a super lame-o show, so people, don't go watch it, unless you've got a free movie pass/ watching it at clementi or simply have too much money to spare. ( if your reason for watching the movie is the last one, please me aware that there's this save-a-poor-ns-guy donation drive going on and that all proceeds will be used wisely. ) Just don't watch the movie. Just a note that in the movie theatre, apart from the mother-son, the 50+ couple and 2 secondary school students. ( and of cos me ) there's this hot eurasian girl watching the movie alone! Too bad my face only reached her chest. Sheez~


Oh, if you are free, go to the page below, funny stuff
http://www.antimult.ru/antimults/antitoons/001smokekills/view.htm

gonna stop for now, or that uncle in the pantry will start chasing me around with a butcher now.

ciaoz~

p.s: I simply have this feeling that somewhere in a Coy line called Foxtrot, there's this Tamil OOC from my same JC cursing me.