3 down/11 more

sorta uneventful day. i still don't like mondays much.

and i haven't heard from you in a week. i just wonder when i might. you could say that in i miss you.

sighh =/

feels like i've been in camp for 2 days.
1 down, 13 to go.


anyways, just out of novelty:

http://kevan.org/johari?name=joel`

so low.

in response to yesterday's post.

i'm now on 14 working days extra which means from today till march 9th i will only be able to book out after 2300hrs.

well done. and thank you, ass hole sir.





the feeling sinking in is as low as i can remember. and yeah talk about having birthdays in camp, alone, nice.

the calm before the storm

did i mention in my previous posts how busy in camp i was, well apart from yesterday, the entire week/month (or rather two months) have been just running from place to place doing various sorts of rubbish.

today on office duty, there was another screw-up. one that i would have never have done if not for the 'helpfulness' of a colleague. see, at the end of the day we lock up everything, doors, drawers, cupboards etc. so heres how it goes, my colleague has a meeting that ends late, so i keep the office open for him, he changes and while he is doing that i leave the room key in the door lock so that he can help me lock up after he is done while i lock up the other rooms. so assuming he has, i take my leave only to have my s3 (who is on duty) call up my ops wo who calls up my ops spec who calls me up to ask why i didn't lock up properly. i get screwed ard by my ops wo till i get to the part abt my colleague and then he tells me "ummm..like that ah."

thing is, my colleague happily changed, walked out and closed the door without locking it, so leaving the key where i left it, in the door lock. if it were me, i would prob just take the initiative and just lock it up since i'm the last to use the room, but i forget, its not me.

so with some luck, i'll just get screwd by my s3 tmrw, if i'm lucky, a serious reprimand, if i'm not, prob just extra duties. and i have just one guy to thank.


so the moral of the above f.stupid story is that if you depend on people, the one who gets screwed in the end is you.

first times.

well first time in 21.917 years ain't exactly a world record rite?

haha.. but well (:

i hope you liked it.

army = inequality?

getting 3 extra for being late when you're on office duty is fair, then when someone else does it and gets away with it without anything, what would you think?

stuck in office while that person is out there playing soccer is ridiculous when you're not on duty. i'm not even pretending that i'm pissed by that. its really too much.

what a 'great' start to the day huh?

need for speed

go-karting's really really fun. should head down to jb, perma jaya to do it more.

except for the bruised shoulderblade, i should be fine (; think all the swinging ard did me in. but the adrenaline rush is fantastic! ok so i'm not the best or fastest driver but on the track, who cares as long as you are having fun?

haha..skidded twice (once to avoid crashing with my friend, another while attempting too tight a turn) but kept the foot down on the gas, rewarded with sand in face and one heck of a ride (:

food was great and quite cheap too. so maybe jb outings might become more regular heh. and yes i'm putting on weight lol.

the stuff you can both laugh and cringe at

well..if getting my Ops WO to actually choke on his drink with a sentence like, "thats like, taking advantage of me lah!"

oh and i got a nice spray of coke from him too. hurhur..

anyways really overworked. 3 special projects, my own work is piling up and there's so much other shit to do as well. gee.

wow.

i'm amazed at how crazy things can get.
2 hours of sleep
1 full soccer match
13 hours of competition pool
4th placed finish

thank God for it all!

also thank God for the wonderful weather and gracious opponents and for a chance to fellowship with brethen through soccer. although we tried out best ( i still believe we can do better) they played better (:
thanks to the organizer, danny, the supporters and FEBC and all who played.



i'm also amazed at how lame and childish some ppl can get. i'm sure there'll be a tag about it on my tagboard by him/her/it.

02/02 must be Murphy's Day

hmmmm..firstly, how i did forget to bring my boots to camp then the wild "celebrations" of my colleagues at my mistake. sheesh. its bad enough as it is.

then nearly no being able to leave for my medical appointment cuz my as1 decided to play dumb to my requests. sheesh.

then i thot everything would be better on my way back, well it was till i decided to get a lil bit of pool. everything went wrong again. *rollseyes

then the bus driver of one of the tibs buses came up to me and angrily demanded i re-tap my ezlink (which i sorta suspectd that i didn't tap, but didn't really care cuz i was on a bus stamp) like where's the so-called good service?! sheesh. like as if i really wanted to cheat TIBS or the bus driver of that few cents. my goodness.


well the only good thing to come out so far is that danny managed to get the police academy field so the match is on. and yes team manager can also be quite stressful.

mia-ness

hmmm its been awhile since i've updated. its the same i guess, everytime i get to my blog i just forget everything i wanted to say.

today's just another of those days.

anyways i guess i should be contented a lil. 3 break clears in 2 weeks is still 3 break clears. and sarah's becoming a pool addict ;)

no, my room's a warzone and its like my blog. i just don't feel like doing anything abt it even though i so want to. sighh =/

how fridays should (not) be spent

well packin and loadin and unpackin and unloadin stores should NOT be the way to spend a friday.

but...


riding on the back of a 5-tonner travelling along the ECP at 55km/h, eating Changi Village nasi lemak, taking in the view of the sea and listening to your fav tunes in your iPod... thats the way to be spending your friday (:

Blessed New Year!

To anyone reading this,

want to wish you a Blessed New Year (:

had another post but i'm still writing it. will release it when i'm done.

and like wow two years and running..

blessed Christmas

yeap its that time of the year again..

may you have a blessed Christmas and may the spirit of giving, love, joy and peace be in your hearts and lives always. God bless!


btw, sarah (: blessed birthday too!
and to those who are gettin baptized tmrw, count it a double blessing!

tired - part 2

haiz..

gee i guess some pple just don't get a break don't they?

like just an hour into my duty, (which so happened when the csm wasn't ard so i could get some much needed rest,) i was summoned back to the bde office and given instructions to go to plc to lay phone lines for their exercise. wow. -_-!zzZ

so off i went with another of my colleagues and it was a waste of time. left office ard 9plus got there by 10 and then after that proceeded to sit there, have lunch, and wait till 2pm when we finally got to work. bad part abt that waiting ard was that we couldn't sleep as it is an open area. wouldn't have minded the trip and time wasting if i could catch some sleep.

anyways laying the line was alright la. wasn't as difficult nor as fun as i expected heh. that done, went back to camp, took over my duty and thank God (as everytime on duty) it was uneventful. however, didn't really get to sleep till it was abt 12 so i guess it was just 6 hrs of sleep.

proceeded to cancel my physio (actually i haven't but they were too busy to take my call to reschedule..TWICE) as my rsm did say he wanted me and another guy to go down again. ended up not going so i started on this "big" project, which was a photo montage for the outgoing formation commander. one of my colleagues (who's good at photoshop and photography) was like telling me to not do such a good job so that they'll pick his. *rolls eyes* thing is i saw his design today and my only comment is, good photographer, good photoshop-er, but er..bad designer. really bad.

i don't really care if i'm a noob photoshop-er but i think i did a better job (not bragging) but throwing photos on a brown-lined textured background ain't exactly interesting or pretty to look at. anyhows i have come to the conclusion that i'll just do whatever i think is best and leave it to the committee to decide.

anyway for the record, this week i prob had the least amt of sleep..
sunday - 5 hrs, monday - 6 hrs, tuesday - 4 hrs, wednesday - 6 hours, thursday - 3 hours, friday - (prob) 6 hrs, saturday - (prob) 6 hrs. total = 36 hours over 7 days. zzz!

tired - part 1

counting tmrw would be 3 24 hour duties in 8 days.
yes it could be worse like 3 in 5 days..

my upperstudy is USELESS. bloody *@($!# thinks he's my "supervisor". he's only a freakin lcp and he tells me i have to do his work. friggin son of a (#$*%. supposed to hand over dockets on fri and what the friggin hell was he doing? typing his damn resume while i was doing a home visit with my as1. then monday and i was on duty the whole freaking day and he was still doing his resume and chatting on msn. and when i asked him what he did on monday, he told me, "yeah i did some work." yeah rite. i bet the only work he did is to take down the NSmen's name/ic/number on some paper and leave it somewhere and forget abt it. and today? right after i came back from handing over duty, he was rushing to get the dockets to the medical centre for a FFI that was on-going that morning. looked so flustered and worried that he couldn't find them. no brainer. when 2/3 of them were in the medical centre already and he didn't bother to look in the handing/taking-over file. maybe he doesn't even realise it exists. then he tells me, "eh what are you doing? thot you would have prepared already on fri? i'm not supposed to be doing that anymore, i'm supposed to supervise you." F*@$ you! the only pple who are fit to supervise me is my as1, my chief clerk, my rsm and prob my s3. 1.5 hrs canteen breaks and sitting in front of the i-net com and typing his damn resume, which so happens to read like, "i work well with people, and am willing to work hard." maybe it should read "i don't work well with people, and am willing to make others work hard, while i supervise."
well it could be worse. but i would hate to have today's DO and duty clerk to do an incident report and follow-up on someone being sent to hospital after getting beaten up.

then to top it off, tonight headed down to century to talk to a couple of guys abt joining the tourney on sat, then ended up having dinner. then got a bit delayed and sidetracked and then it had to rain at that moment when i decided to leave. so waited till it was abt a drizzle and then one of the customers had to have her phone stolen by some kids or so we think. so all the regulars got "mobilized" to help find it. sheesh. short story, we searched and couldn't find it but well high chance its gotta do with those kids. well police came, took statements, still taking statements when i left ard 12.15am -_-
and yes sarah..what were you doing out so late? heh.

anyways "tired - part 2" should be out on thurs/fri if time/energy permits.

wow just when you thot it wouldn't be busy.

its wierd that when no one is ard that you will seem to be busiest. crzy i tell you.

so lets look at the forecast of events for week 48 starting: Nov 27 to Dec 3:

Nov 27: book in late to camp to prepare for deployment of marshallers on the 28th
Nov 28: deploy and ensure everything is set up by 0715. this is later followed by 1 x 24 hour ops duty.
Nov 29: finish duty and resume office work. Oh yes, NSmen FFI screening. yes, that is the only 'free' day.
Nov 30: another 1 x 24 hour ops duty. zzz. oh and NSmen medical review too. time to use the clone machine for a bit.
Dec 1: finish duty, back to office. Grandfather's birthday at night, i'll prob end up sleeping there.
Dec 2: just the day i thot i would have nothing. considering that i would have not much sleep over the few days, there's still the draw for the tourney to do. shouldn't be too hard.
Dec 3: chalk! "fun" 9 ball tourney *nods* 1200-2200 *GAHHHHHHHHHHH*

forgot to add, when those times i think i will be free, i might just get attached out to high command of EX switchblade, meaning irregular hours. to add on to that, i have to do a montage for the Change-of-Command for Comd Tradoc to be finished in 2 weeks. and no, i didn't volunteer for that.


the good part about all this is: if everything's done well and properly, i should have a lot of days off, but no time to clear it. ain't life grand?

wierd huh?

I had this strange dream last nite. A dream i could not shake off even after i have woken up.

It begins on my way out from church, walking to an unrevealed destination. Why would i be on the other side of the road (going towards Jurong) under the fly-over near my church, i do not know. My laces kept coming untied and i hate to stop every few paces to tie them. Sounds nonesensical, rite? Here's when it gets bizarre. I spot a 10ct coin on the ground, proceed to pick it up and then spot a $1 coin slightly behind that. As i pick them up, i spot yet another and another and another, and i just keep picking them up. Some stuck in the ground, so i had to dig a lil. Motorists gave me curious stares, as they spot a young man kneeling, diggin at the ground. I just ignored them as they zip by. I had a large pile of coins when i dig and see this thing which is not a coin. I continue to dig around it and suddenly i stop. I realise what it is. Its a skeletal hand and then i start to see the rest of the outline of the skeleton. After this, the rest just simply doesn't connect.

I dunno what this means nor what it is trying but it has kept me thinking. My dad might be asked to retire soon, and if not for his govt job, his medical bills would have been un-manageable. Thank God for seeing us through thus far but i have to think abt the future a lil. Without the medical benefits, i dunno how it'll turn out. So i'm thinking of getting a part-time job. Work 4-5 days a week to bring in some extra money to help out at home. I'm no longer a child and can't say that it is not for me to provide. So if you have any ideas for jobs i could take up, please do tell me. I'd be willing to hear you out. Thanks.

I'm afraid.

I'm afraid.
Afraid of falling.
Falling so many times.
Times i bleed my heart out.
Out there where people see me not.
Not my will, but Thine.


you know the song, "Did you ever talk to God above?"

someday, God willing, that prayer would be answered.

till then.

nanonanonanonano....wheeeeeeeeeeee

yeah... (:

nano today, capone next month?