my ambivalent attitude

Friday, March 03, 2006

What a way to end the week! The events that took place today attested to the old proverb "It never rains, but it pours".

In the morning, we had to bear with the bickerings caused by the rivalry between some of the specs, which lasted for around half an hour. (The time could be put to better use elsewhere, especially when we had a timing to meet) When eventually they reached a rapprochement, no clear instructions were passed down as usual and I exercised my own initiative to start work. It was hard work, considering it was the first time a full CP setup was required. I was worn to a frazzle by noon. But this was not all.

Teddy, Weili and I followed Alex out for a store run in the afternoon. Alex insisted on riding in Derrick's car while I was innocently arrowed by Teddy and Weili to act as the vehicle comd?! (Though I soon learnt that the job of a vehicle comd consisted of basically nothing much, but still, what if something happened to the unimog on the road?? I certainly wouldn't want to associate myself with SOL or stuffs like that) I don't know whether it was my problem but we ran into a spate of bad luck soon after. Unimaginable happenings followed, things like the engine could not start after we exchanged our passes at MINDEF. The driver lost his visitor pass.

Thankfully, all the problems that surfaced seemed to find their solutions after a while. The engine miraculously revived and Weili saved the day by recovering the missing visitor pass that was accidentally misplaced in one of the boxes containing phones. However, to add to our frustration, some uncouth rich idiot had to blare the horn of his loser sports car and point his middle finger at us!

At last when all our errands were completed, we reached camp only to discover that the rest of the platoon were still in the process of tearing down. Left with no choice, we had to assist them and only booked out at 7:45pm!

scribbled at 10:10 PM