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Ramblings
I officially exercised for the first time in three weeks! Woo hoo. Yeah. The past few weeks were busy busy busy that I didn't have time to go for the PT training in my camp every morning... and also because the past three saturdays were spent in camp doing either guard duty or OT, and sunday as usual was spent on tuitioning, I din really have time to like exercise.
So today I made a point to not arrange any tuition tonight but instead to go play badminton with jan and ly at bukit panjang. Yeah. Badminton. One of my favourite sports. Good cardio exercise, hand-eye coord training as well as quick reflex training. I love badminton so much... It's like one of the best sports man! And I had a ball of a time playing it tonight...
I must keep my fridays free man. yes I better do that haha. But anyway I feel so good now cuz tmr and sunday is the first full weekend I would have had in the this month... I finally can get some alone time as well as go out and play finally. Finally.
Acty next weekend is complete too... may even be long if I don't have guard duty on Labour Day. And maybe I may take my off next friday making it a looong loooong weekend muhahahaha.
You can't blame a tired man for resting right? I am already beginning to show signs of exhaustion u noe... I very poor thing one....
Ok ramblings and ramblings. I just feel like I have to let it out. hehe.
Terence pens his legacy at 11:00 PM
My form of escapism
Ok so the week has reached its midpoint. Yay! Just thurs and fri to go and the weekend is here! And I have no OT or guard duty this weekend so at least it's complete (not to say long at the least). Oh well, there MAY be OT on sat but at this point of time it's a very small maybe so I praying hard and crossing my fingers tight.
Anyway I just came back from tuition followed by supper at bukit timah market with ly tt's why so late haha... to heck with my sleep man! In fact I gave tuition yesterday evening (tues) as well as this evening, and am going to do so tmr evening too... And as usual sunday is mainly devoted to tuition, and for this sat only, I'm going to have a long catch-up lesson with one of my students (he has been putting off lessons for the past 2 weeks so A LOT of catching up is needed...)
Yep. Tuition tuition tuition. It seems everyone who has been coming to blog of late would be seeing the T word quite often... I'm kind of letting it dominate a large of my life. Heck. I'm in fact spending more time at tuition than at home (tt is if you exclude the sleeping hours). Of course most time is spent at camp la... so sianz.
I've been thinking right, why am I flooding my life with so many tutees? Is it the sense of achievement that I derive from telling myself that I am doing something constructive and useful with my time and not letting NS hinder the otherwise purposeful life I would have had? Maybe. Is it the money that I make to enable myself to buy the things I want, and also in the process not being dependent on my parents? Myabe too.
But this week, and in fact the past week has taught me much (or at the very least reminded me since I have had really busy tuition weeks in the past) about tuitioning. I realised that hey, in the blink of an eye wednesday's already passed. I mean tuition has taken up my evenings such that the days roll on so quickly and before I know it three days have passed. In fact months pass quickly in this way too, since long "tuition" sundays come so ever quickly (highlighted ever more with the need for me to prepare my lessons for my students every so once in a while). Four sundays later (or 5 for this month) I would have realised that hey, a month has just passed! So quickly!
Maybe it's my form of escapism? To allow myself to not only delude myself into thinking I am making my life as meaningful as possible but also to allow me to tide pass these 2 blasted years of NS as rapdily as possible. I remember once when I saw my JC classmate Yun Hui, who lives in the same condo as one of my close sec sch frens Janelle, hitting the gym at his condo clubhouse one day during the weeks leading up to the A's (I was there to mug with my frens in case you were guessing what I was there for). And I was like "Har? You're not studying ar?" And he was like "Gym is my form of escapism from all the books and stuff."
Which got me thinking and subsequently kopping his line.
So there, I believe giving tuition is my form of escapism from %$(*& NS.
Oh and Yun Hui got 3 A's btw... so there. It isn't any much of a detrimental escapism, or concept too perhaps for that matter.
And am I going to keep going as tough as it is and as much a toll it is taking on me? yes yes yes. Why? Because it it will help my time fly by these 2 years, why not right?
Anyway my office is now like a warzone everyday, with my depot's DCC having a war with our HQ side. Lot of emails and phone calls flying and zooming by to and fro everyday. It's hell in an air-con environment. I hate going to office everyday now... It's terrible. I'd rather stick to the after-camp life I have now...
So many things I want to do. but half of saturday has been taken up. Sunday is needless to say la hor. :(
Am I doing this to myself?
Terence pens his legacy at 12:33 AM
Yet another crazy week for crazy me
Yet another hectic week man. Sometimes I feel like I'm doing this to myself but heck! Youthfulness is meant to be worked out man. Baby you've gotta work it out! For yourself and other worthy causes of course, not for unnecessary parties like the SAF (which I sadly had to for these past few weeks... altho I can feel the whole episode coming to end soon...)
So after that long 47 hour thingy I went thru, my body and mind battered and bruised and whatnot later... I kind of went through another long torturous session again... albeit not as straining as the sunday that just passed...
After returning to camp on Mon, I had guard duty la... So anyway because there was still so much shyt left over from saturday night, or should I say Sunday morning, that another DCC friend and I who has duty on Mon worked overtime, and again it was the kind of sleep deprived one again haha. Yes all the complains and ramblings and all... I can't help it la. Must get it out haha. So ppl will know my pain and suffering and hopefully cast light on the service sectors of the SAF. It's not slack ok??!! Well at least not all depts la... some other depts in my camp are so eng2 (hokkien for free) that they even have time to play soccer at 4pm while the Dcc-ians are slogging our guts out and vomitting blood all over the keyboard.
And the response we get? "Aiya, you all work in air-con office all day mah. Never go out and sweat still complain!" Boy would I gladly trade places. A bucket (in fact less) of sweat in exchange for a container (yes the shipyard kind) of brain juice... Very easy choice, unless, that is, you'll choose to lose the brain juice over the sweat then I think the sweat's all the more worthy for you but hey...
So anyway I stood sentry from 5.30pm to 9.30pm trying to shut the impending OT but to no avail. The mosquitoes and bullfrogs only made things worse. Um hmm... Then after that back straight to the office from 9.45pm to 1.15pm tip-a-tapping on that blasted terminal and flip-a-flapping those damned vouchers...
And then back to sentry at 1.30am (where we slept like logs on a wooden bench a la old times where our grandparents (and even our parents) would complain about having to sleep on wooden floors and how uncomfortable it was and all... yes we went RETRO.
5.30 went back... to office not bed. Work work work (like the poor peon in WCIII) and then finally at 2.30pm my body told me it couldn't take it anymore... Yes it actually SPOKE TO ME!!! This so testifies to my state of health at that time (and now too? lol)
So we requested to be let off early to "go home and rest" but of course we (the other friend who worked OT too) went to JP to enjoy ourselves after such a long dayS. Coffee bean for me and also we scouted ard for a DVD-rom drive for me muhaha...
Home. Shower. Dinner. Then....
No not rest.
TUITION!
Yes money comes first I guess? Hahaha...
Then tues and wed night I had tuition too...
Thursday OT again! I dun wanna talk about it but it was a really *(^*&%&*-king evening la... Everybody was visibly strained and they still wanted us to work OT. But we keft at 10pm anyways la... Din have to work till late as we had earlier been led to believe...
Hmm ya... then Good Friday. Oh GOOD Friday. You din come at a better time. Finally some R&R for this deserving gentleman please? Was supposed to have a double bill (tuition) in the morning but (un?)fortunately they cancelled and so I had a morning to myself albeit less cash in the pocket. Afternoon was JB galore again with LS... The only spoiler was that we had to queue for an hour and 15 minutes at the Msian customs. Really hot, inefficient and downright cheap. Again not a very good topic for discussion. The expletives would have been overwhelming.
So moving on. Guard duty yesterday. (Yes. Why does everything have to stack up against each other? Good rhetoric qn. I have no answer to that myself...) And came back home today. Actually I kind of 逃过一节. (is it this jie2?) The DCC-ians were supposed to come back today to do OT. I crapped that I was tired form doing duty yesterday till this morning so I could escape muhaha.... I was so tired until I could still give tuition from 12 to 5.30 hahaha. If my campmates see this they'll flip man.
Yep. That's another crazy week for crazy terence. Next week: NO GUARD DUTY AT ALL!!! YAHOO! WOOHOO! *HOO! (You fill in the blanks yourself I'm too lazy to type it all out... :S) But of course, my students (and the money) coming first, mon to thurs evenings are all taken up by (all together now, 1,2,3...) TUITION! Friday is badminton day yeah! Have not had a session for TWO ice ages now...
Signing out... trying to fuel my week ahead! Ciao!
Terence pens his legacy at 11:38 PM
47 hour boot camp...
Atrocious April is about to turn Amiable. I guess I have just survived thru one of the more taxing weeks of my life. Even worse than baby-sitting crying one-year-olds or having and even more painful than having to report your whereabouts to your parents or gf every hour of the day (not that I know how the above two feels but hey... they sound rather cham right? haha...) Yup... so at least april is gonna get better since it cannot get any much worse than that...
Whoo... a really tough 47 hours I survived... Ok so I had tuition on thurs night la... and it was supposed to be from 8 to 10 pm la. But my dear tutee msg-ed me to push it half an hour later. Ok nvm so I went at 8.30. And he wasn't even back home either! Like WTF??! So nvm I waited till he came back at 8.45 and after he showered and changed it was like 9pm... so I tutored till 10.45 lidat and we were both quite obviously seh after that time already....
Got back home at 11.30 plus. Slept at one...
Fri: A lot of work left undone since stocks in my ammo depot dun tally and when they dun it's my tai3 ji3. Wish I could "tai4 ji2" it away lor... sadly but no chance. Hmmph. I worked my ass off trying to figure out the whole darn bloddy thing that I worked non-stop from morning till 9pm that night.... alone slogging my guts away in the office even after everyone has left at 5.30... Then straight over to the mosquito-ridden, bullfrog festering (and consequently much much noise from those *beeped* up frogs going "ker-ker-ker-ker-ker" the whole night...) sentry post which we all love so much. Yay. So happy... what a way to celebrate the finishing of my work finally at 9pm. Woohoo!
Luckily there wasn't much activity and so I could doze off for a while at sentry... Went back to admin area at 1.45am and slept from 2 to 5am. Continued sentry duty all the way till 9.30... came back to admin area and I IMMEDIATELY, without any rest of sorts, went back to work (of keying vouchers)... and it wasn't till this morning at 6.30 am that my eyes ever saw prolonged darkness... yes it was work work work all the way till 3.30am... and because we had a "shuttle rover" leaving at 5.30am, I decided to not take that short 1 hour plus nap (lest I feel even more terrible after I wake up, I've tried...). Throw in many bugs, errors and noisy unnnecessary chatter into the pot and you get the perfect vilest poison-in-a-bottle you can ever concoct..
Yup so that about sums up my really looooooooong day. Sucky noe. My body was stretched, mind wasted, spirit mulled (cuz acty at 3.30am my work wasn't finished yet... the stcks still dun tally with the numbers in the system...). I really dun how to react to the day(s). Really stressed that and weary cuz I have been stretched so thin or happy that my body and mind could survive this ordeal...
Next week, I dunno... guard duty again tmr as I have said, and then on sat again... but on the 22nd (following saturday after next) I'm SO gonna let loose. Just I dunno go out or play the whole day or sth. The playful side of me has been suppressed for so long it needs to come out. Fast and Good. Like a bomb.
Terence signing out... ticking away...
Terence pens his legacy at 1:03 PM
Atrocious April
Yet another week has passed... and a rather lazy one in fact. For starters, I didn't stick to my rule of exercising at least thrice a week as I have religiously kept to doing over the last 2 weeks. (yes it's hard to believe but it's true haha...) Probably because I went to the gym with LS last sunday... and so my muscles were aching on monday and I decided to give them a rest la and go for PT on tues. Then suay suay I had to fall down from our shuttle bus on monday evening leaving a big bruise on my right knee cap lah. So suay :S. Then I didn't go for PT on tues lor cuz everytime my knee bent it would hurt.
Then Wed I had guard duty and considering the fact that I h ad tuition on thurs which I would directly go for after book out on thurs, I decided not to attend wed's training as well... so as not to tire myself out on thurs. Turned out I still managed to get a good rest on thurs morning after duty and so I still had a wee bit of concentration and energy left. But work couldn't be completed on thurs... which was qute scary since the thought of OT lingered precariously...
Thankfully it din materialise... and I was still able to go for my lesson. My first with a new student acty... had to leave a good impression mah or else if it's off to bad start, I can forget about future ups in the ante haha...
Turns out the guy kept asking for tuition to be pushed back to later timings. Haha. I'm not the only "irresponsible" person k? But the mom wasn;t around when I went la so acty enough with all this showmanship! The chap was quite nice too la, so good money, good "company" too?
Then I took a half day off on fri. A well deserved one I should say. I had tonnes of re-runs to watch and I was quite exhausted from the week's work. Partly also cuz my partner was slakcing so much. So I just piew off on fri and left him with all the shyt leftover from thurs to clean up. neh neh ni boo boo. Haha. Got a really good rest...
Then yesterday was the start of the disgusting/stupid/irritating long slew of guard duties for the month of April... 4 weekday and 2 weekend duties... and weekend duties are 24 hours summore.... so suay. All the way to this morning lor. Then rushed home. Showered and attempted to out on my contacts, then dropped my left one and couldn't find it. So I gave up. Oh and for the record I think it's a gone case cuz I still couldn;t find it after I came home.
Tuition... long long.... then finally some form of refuge from the stressful week... a VERY VERY sinful meal at Cafe Cartel with LS... I hada hawaiian prok chop (with the usual free flow of bread and iced water of course) and the both of us gluttons shared a strawberry bonanza... all in a very cozy setting in the 3 quiet tables at a nearly unnoticeable corner of the restaurant... nice spot for a good chat away from the noisy banter of others there...
Yup... that concludes my week...
And thinkign about the guard duty and my upcoming week provides no consolation to the already very sad life I have.
Tmr: Work as normal, visit grandad in hospital
Tues: Guard duty till wed
Wed: evening tuition (two 1.5 hour lessons from 8 to 11 PM)
Thurs: Hopefully able to get a half day off and if I do, afternoon tuition at Cashew and evening tuition at Springdale (the new one)
Fri: Guard duty again till sat
Sat: Have to work overtime in camp (in fact my whole dept cuz of a change in the computer system and all the keying processes in our ammo related stuff we all have to come back and learn cum key)... all the way till sunday afternoon then I can go back and rest...
Next mon: Guard duty again till tues
And just when i thought the week after next could be a relaxing one, I have guard duty again that saturday (15th...)
The only consolation? After the 15th, I only have one guard duty left on the 24th...
You almost can emphatise with me right?
Terence pens his legacy at 12:04 AM
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