Friday, May 13, 2005
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Oooh today's Friday the 13th, but a somewhat good day for me! Haha..
Let's see, reached camp at around 0745hrs. Went to office, changed into uniform. Then idled. Yup, that's what we do during the non busy seasons in our office. Today's highlight has definately got to be the HLS run. Well, it's my branch together with 2 and 3 to organise this week's run, so of course i got to get involved. And at the same time, it was really awesome to know that i've gotten to know the rest better, ppls like paul, ray, joel, derren, YX and edward. Also got to know zhikang a tiny bit better when i was helping him with some claims. I really hope to get to know everyone in the building better. It's really great having friends and knowing more ppls. Now i have to work on getting to know the 1, 4, 32 and engineers better as well. But anywho, unlike me, some people just choose to make a bad name for themselves instead. Ahem, i'll bet you know who i'm talking about. Yes, Al. You see, i really don't know what's with him but i think he's really got an attitude problem. I tried to talk to him today, explain the HLS thing nicely and start things over again. He didn't have his PTKit which i advised him to either borrow or use his points to get a set. But no, so he rather stupidly went to see warrant J, and was then told to carry out duties (under the hot sun) in his number 3. Bah, what could be worse than standing under a 34 deg sun in your number 3?? He was doing water point, whereas the rest of us were marshallers. Yay! today was my first time marshalling. I got to wear the bright orange vest (felt important wearing that), hold a funky red flag (got bored after a while), and use a (very heavy) walkie talky! The walkie talky part was fun. There was a misunderstanding about checkpoints so i ended scaling back and forth the carpark about twice, but that was alrite, i had a great workout doing that. And we just chatted and fooled around with the talkies. OH! I nearly forgot. Al tried to pick a fight with Edward! Haha. Ray said, "pick a fight with edward, he never die b4 ah?"..which i thought was totally hilarious, cos Edward's this quite big sized almost ah beng fella. But he's really quite a nice fella la. I'm quite surprised that i, being quite a different person from him, can get along pretty well. So yeah. Ed seems to dislike Al for some reason, so during the afternoon when we were unloading the storeroom for the HLS stuff, Ed didn't know Al couldn't lift heavy things so he sorta hinted Al to help, in a casual but slightly "DuH" manner. But of course Al as always, took it the wrong way. And challenged back. And Warrant J and ray thought Al was scolding me!! Haha so they asked me to rest at the side and let the rest do the work! Haha i mean, okay i was pretty much happy doing my stuff but Al had to be himself. Bah, no comment. Yeah, then later on at the cookhouse where we went to get ice and water, i challenged myself at carry 2 HUGE jerrycans of water back to the land rover. 3 words, "don't pray pray!" Carrying just one with one hand is enough to make you go off balance, which is why i took 2 Haha. But i must admit, it was a great workout for my arms, which i have been trying to tone up. Oh well, all in a day's work. So yeah, the ride on the land rover was quite enjoyable la. Joel sparked an ice war by slipping one down ray's back Haha. Then paul got it, then i got it. Actually wanted to carry on on joel, but his tshirt couldn't so i just dumped the ice. After the run it was pack up time, and it was really just great hanging out with the bunch, cycling round the TC in the winding corridors. Don't know why but it reminded me a lot about the road safety park. Overall, i'm just glad to say that this has been a fantastic day, and i really thank God for allowing me to meet such nice ppls at my camp. Well, i don't know why but lately, i'm starting to feel sorry for Al. You know, he's really a bit...insecure? I dunno, maybe not. But he seems to have gone thru some cases before about not fitting in and stuff. I mean, who could blame him, with an attitude like that. But maybe he should just learn and humble himself just a little while. Nobody really means any harm, it's just the way he carries himself. It's just so..unfriendly and cynical and just plain horrible. Sure, i forgive him for making my life in office crappy since he came, but i really hope he'll see what he's been doing and really change for the better. U know i really don't like seeing anyone having no friends. And i don't want to be the cause of it. So if anyone happends to stumble accross this blog entry, i just want you to know that i'm trying to make life as comfortable for the both of us. End of story.
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