Annoying Half Marathon

Weather has been pretty cold for the past few days, with occasional thunderstorms pouring through Singapore island. It's all due to the workings of the southeast monsoon winds. Such winds are supposed to be weak, bringing little or no rain at all! Must be mother nature wrecking havoc once again, trying to punish us for hurting Gaia. Oh wells. I just find it real shocking to have so much rain pouring in the month of August, and even more so to realise that the weatherman has fore casted thunderstorms for this entire week coming. Of course, I wouldn't mind as the coldness will always be appreciated in sunny, tropical Singapore. Yet to have rain on important activities or events, like the fireworks festival, or AHM, is certainly undesirable, all the more unwelcome!

Still, I'm glad that AHM is finally over. It was no fun at all doing fatigue duty on that day. Having to camp overnight on the site, it was one kind of hell as there was no comfortable place to sleep. Fatigue sets in greatly but I just could not fall asleep as the grounds were too hard, and there were just too many mosquitoes stinging me. Then when the run was about to start, rain had to pour so heavily, the grass patches turned very muddy. Why I mention this, is coz the water point was setted up on the grass patch. And so yeah, you can imagine what horrible conditions I have to work in. Then, the time came for us to give out water to the runners. Oh man. There were seriously way too many of them, we just weren't able to satisfy every person's quest to quench their thirst! Furthermore, it was really demanding on a body that has only slept for an hour through the night, to be carrying tens of KGs of water around, pouring them into cups, and giving them out to the runners! I felt as though I had ran 21km on that day as well. Lol.

Yet the tiredness didn't matter. What matters was to see my friends running on that day, and it's precisely why I was so unhappy for the whole day coz I only managed to catch 3 in the end! I was looking at water more than I was supposed to look at people! Haha. Had this objective to want to be able to spot out all my friends and say hi to them. But in the end, I believe many just ran past without me noticing! Hai. Too bad then. Was damn sian after that. Only saw Bryan, Justin and David. Of all people, I have to see David! Arghz! Oh wells.

This is another short post coz I don't have much time left. Gotta get ready to book in. Hopefully I'll be able to get Friday off! Till then.


Please let my face stop twitching! It's becoming a real bother! :(:(:(

Bump!

I'm doing this just to bump up the post count! LOL! But I seriously don't have the mood to blog. Mind's a whirl now. There's so much to do, but so little time to accomplish them! Arghz. Which is why I'm cutting everything short, even this post now. Reason is coz I have to book in tonight, for AHM on Sunday. And it's not for the 7 hours of sleep so as to prepare us for the run, since we had already done it last Friday. It's more like staying over at the running grounds in the city for fatigue duty tomorrow. Damn sian. I just hope the entire event will end quickly, and hopefully be able to return home by mid-afternoon. I really need the time to complete my work! Oh wells... May my hopes be realised! :x


Have faith, not fear!

New York! New York!

Alright! I have made up my mind for the destination of my holiday trip in 2009! Yup. The title says it all! New York it shall be!! :D And of course, many other places in the east side of the US as well. Will talk more about it soon. This is soooo exciting!!! WOOTS!!! :)

Idiotic TPO

TPO is seriously the worst organisation you can ever think of working in. It's totally inefficient, has an undesirable affliction to wasting human resources, and is simply screwed-up inside out, upside down! Dumb is easily the ultimate word to describe it! Arghz!

I am absolutely pissed off with TPO today alright. I was about to leave the house at around 1pm, to meet Cindy, a friend whom I haven't seen for a long time coz she was in US studying and had only returned recently. Just when I was all ready to go, Alex (not blaming you) dropped the bomb and told me I have to return back camp that instant. Reason?! To sign some stupid stuff that amounts to paying some fines for wasting food. What got me more irritated was that I was only informed at around 1.15pm, but was expected to be in camp by 2pm, or else face weekend confinement. It's utter nonsense I tell you! Totally dragged my mood to rock bottom as I had to inform Cindy and disappoint her, and then unwillingly make my way back to camp. Thankfully John gave me a lift. Yet in the end it didn't really matter how early or late I had to be there, coz the forms for signing weren't even ready when I arrived! Arghz!

A day that was meant to be rewarding, which I had to expend my precious leave for, had gone to perfect waste in the end. Though I was late by half an hour, I was expecting to just sign and then vanish instantly! To my dismay, I had to bloody wait for another 2 hours before the forms were ready. The worst part was realising that I actually didn't have to sign anything because all my meals were accounted for! It meant that I had practically wasted my entire afternoon thanks to the efficiency TPO practices. BLOODY DAMN IT! ARGHZ! I am so freaking pissed I would have just burnt down the entire camp just now! Screwed up BQ. Screwed up upstairs. Screwed up TPO!

Ok. I shan't rant anymore. Not in the mood to say anything good for now. Shall stop here. Arghz!

Keeping Calm

No mood to say much actually. Am glad that NDP is finally over, coz it means my precious Saturdays will not have to be burnt anymore! But then again, the end of something marks the beginning of another thing. Outfields will be coming, preparations for the dreaded trip to India will be on the way. Foreseeing even tougher life ahead. Not to forget the SOC which will probably haunt me for quite sometime to come. Arghz.


Take a deep breath, calm my senses. Things will work out fine.


It's just 6 more months only!

Uneasy Feelings

Liberated from camp, only for a moment! Damn freaking sian over what had happened today, and what is to come in the following weeks! For a moment, it seemed as though everything was very nicely planned; I'd have range this coming Thursday, thereby missing SOC training (which is seriously useless) in the morning. Obviously, this ain't gonna happen anymore. I was in the utmost fury when I learned that the conducting battery actually did not indent rounds for my battery people! Which means we will not be able to have our range on Thursday. Which means we'll have to attach to the other battery for our range instead, and theirs will be held on the 22nd! It's a Friday, a book out day! Damn it! Wonder's what kind of horrid timing will we then get to book out. Plus there's the fireworks festival on that day itself, which I'll have to miss. ARGHZ!

What's even more outrageous is the precious time wasted in camp today! It's suppose to be a off-in-lieu due to Saturday's NDP rehearsal. But because of the used-to-be range on Thursday, I had to drag my soul unwillingly back to camp on Sunday night. The worst part is having to go for the practice today, when there's no need to coz we can actually join the other battery's practice! I seriously wonder why TPO has to be so inflexible at times. Arghz! If we hadn't gone for the practice today, we would not have to waste time waiting for the entire cohort present to complete their practice, and henceby be able to book out much much earlier! Maximum Sianity! Makes my blood boil everytime I think about it.

Nvm! At least I still get my one day off. Get to sleep on my comfy bed tonight and only have to book in tomorrow afternoon. Oh wells. Having conflicting issues running in my head once again. Good and bad stuff are happening all at the same time; Have no idea whether to be excited or depressed. Hai. Just hope the bad stuff would quickly dissolve away, leaving behind all the good stuff for me to look forward to. Kae. Till then.