Late Nights...

17-19 Jan 2005

Had a long talk on MSN with wt and ql from sunday night till monday around 4.30 am. We talked about some interesting stuff. (too bad it's classified.) Right, ql? Besides talking about impt stuff, actually also thought that by staying up late (after 2.30am to be exact) then i could circumvent the toothache attack during its "prime" time. Unfortunately that proved too naive and unscienticific. Way too off. So in the end slept at 4.45am but e "alarm clock" woke me up at 5.45 am. No choice. Very shack, but can't possibly sleep with e bloody pain. Bo bian could only drag myself to camp early on a Monday. I reached my camp at 7 am. Probably the earliest time in 1 year. -_-

Then monday night, came back from work, straight away peng on e bed from 8 pm to 6 am. A whole 10 hours. What makes it totally unprecedented is that my toothache dint actually sneak up on me in my sleep tat night. 10 hours of uninterrupted, painless sleep. Dam, I needed that so much. Talking about sleeping away the Monday blues.

Then I Almost the same thing happened for tuesday night, except ql slept earlier cos she was too tired, so in e end tok to wt till 3.30 am. (in case you are wondering, she din have lessons e next day that's why.) This time strangely, dint really have e "infamous mid-dream assault" too. Had e menace gone for good? Nah, i cant be that lucky. Cross fingers for tonight ba.

Anyway, was dam fricking blur today. Went selarang Dental centre in e morning. After collecting my referral letter left my beret at the reception area. Come back already, when about to eat lunch, scanned my military IC (we are supposed to do that to register our meals) then realised never take utensils. Got to requeue all over! Luckily queue was not that long. However, the messing officer came by when he saw that i wasn't able to scan my IC properly. But too xeh to explain to him properly too (I scanned it just now, stupid) He kept thinking I got my fren to scan my meal for myself just now, then now i want to eat again. Haiz.

On e bright side, had a good time working with my NSmen clerks. They were a funny and cheerful, yet hardworking lot (though from time to time they went up to our bunk to slack...) They quite nice sia...treat me to tea break too. (or maybe i nice to them by helping them.. haha : ) well the world's about helping one another isnt' it? Plus The Platinum Law derives that to receive, you first must give. Guess this might explain what's happening. Like this feeling of being appreciated though. ) Then they kept asking me what i will be doing after army, cos they know i going to ord soon too. Come to think of it, dunno e past few days got tell how many people i got a place in nus, in chemical engineering sia. But each time i tell people this, I remind myself of the seemingly perpetual problem of "Selection". And the latent pressure is building up internally as March draws near sia. D.E.A.D ... Doctor, Engineer, Accountant, Director (businessman) which one should I choose? "Dam e procrastination. Wake up your idea and make up your mind!"

Anyway, my understudy who was supposed to take over my work extended his MC till today. That makes him the record holder in terms of MC %. (10 / 11 Days ) Then my colleague Terence kena more shit from the SI at my centre. Wish I could help him. But at least I am gratified that he is looking to me for advice and always helps me by asking my work. Only thing i would say he got lesser discipline (than me...i got e best...haha...just joking) and more distractions...manga, creative zen mp3, computer games, many other things except camp work. Just hope that e old man will go easy on his mind games and unnecessary criticism. Cant he see that those tactics are far from relevant nowadays? People, especially those working the lower appointments, need appreciation, rather than criticism to work. I mean, if his ego too big to give sincere appreciation, at least dun make others' job more difficult but criticising but not counterproposing. Well, maybe one day I will be able to change all this. Maybe. Can dream on liao. Zzzz. haha