why?

its my last day and i want to get back my IC, is it so difficult? well, its has been proven to me that, yes, it is. why must there always be some cock up every now and then, even when i'm leaving this place.

i reach camp, the office is lock, so i cant get my key to unlock the bunk, so that i can get my clearance form to get my IC. so i did these:
1. called meryvn cause i thought he was the COS.
2. asked hamzah where hisham was cause he is the COS.
3. looked around the company line and smoking point.
4. went up to his bunk to find him.

so finally i found him, bathing in the toilet. got the key, went to the bunk, get the clearance form and headed to office to get my IC. i stepped in and before i can ask anyone, this guy asked if i'm ORDing today (i thought to myself, finally something is right, taking initiative my man). but hell no, the nest thing that came out from his mouth was the catalyst of irritation. he told me i cant get my IC cause the person issuing it just took half day leave/off and is not around. and that person happen to be the last guy i need to find to sign my clearance form. KNNBCCB. the 1st word that came out of my mouth was F***, and that guy told me i was not the 1st today.

immediately called hafiz and zongwei to tell them not to come down but hafiz didnt pick up his phone cause he was on the way.

so somebody answer me,
1.why is it the only guy that can issue us the IC and sign our form be allowed to take leave or off when no one else can replace or take over his work?
2.why did he even take leave/off in the 1st place if there will be people coming to find him?
3.is there no other way to get things done in this place?

somebody come let me in......

so i've been searching for jobs for the past week, and i must say its not exactly easy based on the fact that i'm just a diploma holder with no experience. went for 3 interviews and 2 of them were asking me to become a financial planner/insurance agent. well, the great eastern one was not bad considering they wanted to groom someone to manager level but i still kind of wanted to study and defintely not money or result orientated now. and the odd one out, looks like a sleazy company trying to sell some health products which the interviewer doesnt want to tell me what until the next interview, and the interviewer looks more sloppy than i am(at least my goatee looks better). plus his 'ang mo' is power half past six man.

so the week past with only selling invest/insurance seemingly the only choices i have, but that's not what i want. crap shit man. so i continued searching the web for more jobs, then i figured, maybe i can search the companies i want to work in and check their career option. checked MTV, adidas, nike, espnstar and even mediacorp, and what they have are mostly hands-on stuff, if not they require some degree or exp. MTV had an interesting position: traffic scheduler, maybe will apply but need cover letter. here comes another problem, i cant write a good cover letter, maybe i just dont know how to write a good one cause i have nothing to write. personally not much skills aquired through my 2 yrs in NS except some leadership skills and man-management. its 'lan pa pa lan'

so what i can do now is try to aquire more skills, trying learn adobe photoshop and image ready, plus brush up my Office skills. hopefully attempt to write a better cover letter so i can apply for better jobs, if not i'll wait until sebas finishes his papers(which is also Sat, and we'll be flying off to bangkok). thus wait till next week when everyone is free to help me, maybe by then i'll get a job(not sales related!!).

life of searching for jobs and knowing if you dont get one, you'll definitely be eating air. plus the inconvenient interview calls and appointments makes it difficult to plan for anything. fark

another day of cock ups..

so i started my day at the gym after don replied me like 2am in the mornin, expecting me to be watching the last match of the day, however i did not. fortunately he was awake ehrn i sms him at 10...so we went for gym.

we worked out for like 2 hrs...longest we ever did. the plan was to headed down to peninsula after lunch cause we wanted to book the airasia tickets and hostel, but don showed me some tour ads and an airasia ad showing 30 flights. so he thought we could just call from my home instead of going down if the tour agents have better prices.

so i was calling and he was surfing the net and playing games.....when i got a greast price from one of the agents, we were shocked...$258 for 4D3N flying SQ..can you believe that..farking cheap. but then i called back..realised got $91 tax and there wasnt any seats available, happy for nothing. in the end still have to revert back to the old plan: budget air plus hostel. travelling like true savers.

ended up spending like 3 hrs trying to get the bookijngs done cause we need the passport expiry and tong doesnt know his. by the time he got to us, the page expired and have to retype all the shitty details again. nothing is more irritating than typing the same thing over and over again with your com getting slower and slower. was going to meet sebas for dinner at 730, in the end 730 then managed to leave the house.

so i reached cine at 815, thought bas and yida would be eating, then i realised yida was eating at home, so paiseh man, made bas wait for so long. so we went straight to BK for dinner cause we watching Harry Potter at 840. then yida called saying he's waiting at the cinema, then we realised...shit its 840 and we're still eating, i stuff the rest of the burger in and grabbed the coke. so we went up to looked for yida and i went the toilet. caused it's a one cubicle toilet i was queuing outside when i heard bas's voice from far, something's wrong. i got out of the queue, knowing something's wrong. he told me yida is at toa payoh!! WTH..that's super far, i thought he was at lido or something still can walk over. guess its another case of him misinterpreting bas's msg wrongly.

in the end, both of us went in to watch anyway, with an empty seat beside us. crappy man.

know what, i just checked my mail and airasia havent sent me any confirmation and when i checked my booking online, they showed me some error in booking. WTF!!!! and i checked my account, the money is pending for payment, what kind of shit is this. i applied they say double booking, i called and the person say its booked and will send a mail, now? what's going on.....

new replace old

what happens when you get something newer and better than what you have on hand? you ditched the old one.

so i just bought my ipod not too long ago and my bro doesnt really want my shuffle...so now i have to get rid of it. not something i thought of before getting the ipod but what the hell, how diff can it be right, considering everyone's kinda like shopping online nowadays.

snap 2 pics of it and on it goes on the web..hopefully catches someone's attention, but who really wants to get a 512mb mp3 player??

finish......

fulfilled my last responsiblity as a commander yesterday by attempting to bring one of my 'lost' man back to camp so that he can be charged..SOL or DB whatever is best for him..

so i took my dad's car and drove all the way down to tampines and getting lost in there for 20mins, no thanks to lousy street signs. reach his place and spent like 10 mins knocking on the freaking hard door and yet no one came to answer...so why isnt he at home?? fark this...decided to just tell my PC no one answered and he can be charged even more for not staying home if he got Att C...called my PC and went home...

at around 7 pm..garry called me telling me PC and him were going down to get him..apparently he's at home...

'wa-la' he appeared before me when i went back to camp to do my clearance(yes, farking waste of time)..didnt talk to him though, maybe i just cant be bothered since he doesnt appreciate my help anyway..

MISSION 'SECTION COMMANDER' - ACCOMPLISHED

ubin

woke up early just to go ubin today with don...turn out to be a rather fruitful trip.

met up around 11..then we heaed stright down to changi to have our lunch..had chay kuay teow which was nice...but too spicy..sianzz...plus another shared plate of carrot cake..so by 130 we were on our way to the jetty, and man has the place changed...the jetty is now some sort of tourist attraction area with shops and seats and even police and their scanners...

however just before we were went on the bumboat, we kana cut queue by one couple and had to wait for the next one...crap man...

once there, 1st thing was to rent a bike...and don being don suggested getting a gd one..which cost us $6...thought it was ex...but it proved to be quite worth it...so with everything, we chiong for the roads...

we went all the way to the left side of ubin(cant remember the name of the place)...and chiong all the dirt tracks which is why i said the $6 is well spent...we climb through a fence to get to a quarry and followed by biking though muddy tracks to another quarry ehich looks inviting enough to swim...and that was also where don got his shoes and berms muddy by slipping a stone..

afterthat we went back to the town area and bought drinks and chiong down the other roads and they just get harder and harder....almost every 50m there's like a upslope....hell for my thighs...but it also provided some thrill in biking down bumpy dirt tracks....so we hit nordin beach followed by mamman beach then we headed back as we needed to get back by 6...

had power dinner at changi afterthat....chicken chop plus one plate of cockles...slurrrppp

crap

i've not been wearing my boots for almost 3 weeks now and yet i kana footrot.......and its getting worse even when i stay at home....wth is going on man....wonder when this crap shit wound is a going to heal and stop comming back...

unfortunate day

yesterday went over to don's place to help him with his assignment, best thing happened. we bought dinner back to his place to eat and when we reach his place..he realised he didnt bring his key...wah lan...and there was no one at home..so he climbed in over the gate to find a way in, then he ask me to climb over and when i landed, i tripped on my own sandals...cock man...and did a 360 roll on the floor...ultimate stunt breakfall...

next we spent like 30 mins roaming around the place trying to find an entrance to get into the house...think the parents became paranoid and lock every single window and door ever since they kana burglared once...1st we tried to 'giao' the door with my key and later a knife but the latch was to long...then don tried to climb up to his bro's room, but the window was locked...man we felt like lousy thieves....

finally gave up and we jus had dinner on the outside table, waiting for his dad to come home...after 1 hr 30 mins...at 745pm...his bro came home...

so after helping him with his assignment, he wanted to slp so i decided to go home....best...his dad took the car..wah kao...its 1245 liao...so i gambled to see if got bus to take...as i was alking out...166 went pass...f*** shit...but i waited a while more hoping for other late buses to come....but none came and in the end need to take the NR1 which stops at bishan and i had to walk home cause only had 4 bucks in my wallet...

fabric and studs

got a sms from don yesterday noon asking me to go out cause he wanted to buy some new fabric, well i was relieved...finally, i going out instead of nua-ing at home for the past few days or even the next few days. so i took my bath and headed out to meet him...took a bus down to sunshine and found out the shop he wanted to go to was closed, think not his day...so we headed down bencoollen area there for him to look for fabric, i didnt even expect the place we went to sell anything cause its like out of nowhere.

we went into the 1st shop we saw and flipped through a 'button album' cause he wanted to buy some buttons and man, did the owner sell lots of buttons. he had almost all sorts of buttons by most brands like Chanel, Guess..... but nothing don wanted. so we browse through some fabric and he ask me to pick one so that he can make me a shirt...COOL!!... next time can save money liao hahaha...ok i didnt choose anything but he said he'll make something for me.....

we went on to other shops to find better fabrics and amazing we went into a shop that sells great fabric..i mean the prints and quality were great for clothes made for young adults like us...best of all...the lady boss provided a few sets of samples for don to take home for reference...man...that's SERVICE i tell you...i've been to many shops and everytime don ask for samples, the owners will show those damn reluctant faces...some dun even want to cut out a small piece for him...there's even one shop that charge him for the small sample....anyway that shops name is 'Seng Heng' and is moving to pearl centre i think...

sebas met up with us at 'seng heng' cause he went to smu in the morning...after that we headed down to bugis st cause dear told me they have lots of nice studs there...so we walk down the busy st...and it was damn crowded...we basically were just weaving through the shops and ppl until the last shop before we left...don ask if i wanna check out the studs...saw 2 pairs i liked and got them...how's that for shopping...5 mins...

next was dinner, and we saw an interesting event. we sat at this table which was fill with plates and whatever and we waited for the cleaner to come but he just didnt...so after like 15 mins the cleaner finally came and after cleaning, he left a few sets of orange plates and bowls on the table without clearing them and went to clear another table...then i realised the cockery belong to the stall just behind our table but the owner was just waiting for the cleaner to clear it for them! when the cleaner left our table, the owner ran after him and told him to clear the table...what logic is that?? would it have kill the owner or his wife to clear the plates themselves?? pls ponder...

after that we went don's place to 'pa' game and that's pretty much the end of an fulfilling day instead of nua-ing...

Rush to wait n wait to rush

Ya, i manage to extract the studs out...n hell it hurts. took me 10 mins to take one out n out in the stick...fortunately reinserting the stick doesnt hurt.

went back to camp today, found out that there's heighten security implemented and even i was not spared. after staying in MAJU for 1 yr, today was the 1st time i had to surrender my camera phone...wth...going to ORD and these kind of treatment?? i was suppose to have my LOA but they had not issued it to me, so i was phoneless for more than half a day...powerless....

i was back for my dental FFI, intructions: book in by 0830, transport leaving at 0900. and so i booked in at 815...but we wait for so long that i fell asleep....till 1030!!!! our dental appointment was suppose to be at 1030...the best part was that when we went down to the vehicle...it was a mini van.. well a mini was okay but the problem was that we had 16 people n the capacity was only 10... what else can go wrong... but we were fortunate that and 5 tonner was willing to drop us off at SAFTI...after all the discussion...we left at 1045...

we went straight to the dental clinic and hey, saw our follow spec from Charlie coy waiting there....n he's been wating for 30 mins.............................n yao saw his friend and he's friend waited for an hour already...so we figure...since they have waited so long...let's go for brunch... we were in a foreign land(SAFT MI) and we didnt know where's the canteen and guess what.. lau asked a CONSTRUCTION WORKER!! and he's not even Singaporean...he's a Blanga...amazingly the worker knew where the canteen was and there we were...OCS canteen...and man were their food expensive...i think to suit their allowance...

i had bee hoon,egg and fish cake and it cost $1.80....think the egg is golden and the fish is salmon......

after makan we headed back only to wait for another 30 mins....by that time, yao's friend have already wait for more than 2 hours....and the appointment last a mere 5 minutes...can u believe this...5 freaking minutes.....they jus wanted to see how many teeth we have fillings in....worse was the admin lady there...telling us to shut our gap cause we were noisy....i mean we would have been quiet if everything was more efficient...

everthing finished and we headed back to camp...since we were there we decided to go for our body check...and we waited again.....for like 1 and 1/2 hours......n the consultation took last than a minute..not that i want to complain that i took last than 1 minute but the fact we had to wait........crap man....

like what shiek said,'it's an icing on the cake....when you ORD,the organisation shows that they are still inefficient'