Back to School
A feeling of Deja Vu crept in as I sat in the classroom listening as the course instructor muttered on the scope and expectations of the course. It was like going back to school again, sitting inside a classroom as the teachers go on with their lessons. I remembered telling friends how much I missed school and I somehow had my dream come true.
Earlier the week before I just passed out from BMTC and the vocation of my new posting was a supply supervisor. Bascially for the next 4 months, I will be attending the Supply Supervisor course at Sembawang. It is going to be attending classes for the next 4 months like school last time but only this time, it is definitely not as fun as school.
My lessons start from 8am and stretches until 6pm in the evening. It is a huge personal challenge to try not to sleep inside the air-con classroom. Being caught sleeping and you face the prospect of being confined during the weekends.
But still that didn't stop people from sleeping and one guy in my class even knows the art of forming spider web with his drool as he sleeps. Try visualizing a man sleeping with his head hanging downwards and his saliva hanging like a long thread from his mouth. I leave it to your imagination.
Back when I was in Poly, time flies very fast during lectures. Because when you are feeling very boring, you can always turn and beo the girls in mini skirts and low-cut tank tops from across the lecture hall. Before you know it the lesson is already over. This is the theory of 'happy time flies'.
But here, its all talks and lessons. The only thing you can stop yourself from sleeping is take down notes. The notes I have taken this past week has already surpassed all that I have taken during my poly days. But to their credit, the instructors always try to make the lesson interesting and lively (
not that they always succeed).Though it is extremely boring, but at least I can take comfort that I get to go home everyday, unlike most of my ex-platoon mates who have to stay in and go out in the sun everyday. Compared to them, I should feel lucky.
And one more thing, the slogan for my vocation is 'We serve with passion!'. I almost puked everytime I say that.
5 unforgettable/worst/fav
5 unforgettable movies (in ranking)
1) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2) Crying out love from the centre of the earth (Jap)
3) I am Sam
4) GoodFellas
5) A fighter's blues (chinese movie)
5 worst movies (in ranking)
1) Blair witch 2
2) Dreamcatcher
3) Kingdom of Heaven
4) 7 swords
5) Legend of Zu
5 Fav Actors (in ranking)
1) Andy Lau
2) Tony Leung
3) Ben Stiller
4) Tom Cruise
5) Stephen Chow
5 Fav Actress
I don't have any fav actress. I think I am a gay. Oh no.
What's your favorite movies?
Sports Meet
I took part in the sports meet or Games Day as they call it last week. Basically all the various companies in Tekong will come and gather at the stadium and there will be various games and every company will compete against each other. Points will be counted and the company with the highest point will win at the end of the day.
The last time I took part in such events was when I was in Primary 6. The game which I took part then was Shot Put. I ended up in the bottom 3. To think that the year before when I was in Primary 5 I was the school overall champion.
Anyway the game that I participated for the Games Day was called Bull's Eye. It was like a rally race whereby there are 8 men on each team. Each will run a distance and upon reaching a point, we have to turn 10 rounds clockwise round a wooden pole and run towards a pail of balloons whereby we have to try to throw into another pail. In short, we were all made to look like idiots.
By the end of the 10 rounds round the pole, I am already in drunken master mode. Some participants even rotated themselves into other lanes.
At the end of the game as I sat at the spectators' stand, I recalled an amusing incident when I was in primary 1 or 2. I was in the class team competing against other classes in a running rally race during our sports day. We ended up champions and the prize was a file. I didn't really fancy it very much and in fact I had my eyes set on the pencil case which is the prize for the 1st runner-up. I then went to exchange it with one of the guys in the 1st runner-up position.
When I told my mother what happened when she came to fetch me outside the school, she chided me for being so stupid because the file cost much more than the stupid pencil case. She then brought me around to look for the guy whom I exchanged the file with.
Yes, she was already a very very kiasu auntie back then.In the end we couldn't find the guy and I walked home a very unhappy boy. Perhaps now you should realize where Jack Neo got his inspiration from for his movie Homerun.
And oh, just in case you are wondering how I did in the Games Day in Bulls' Eye. Well, I suceeded in playing the clown and my company even ended up last among other 9 companies and I made a silent vow to myself never to take part in such nonsense again.
That conversation
A conversation that took place on the sunny Tekong island
Recruit A:
U know the worst part in the army? It is the distance between you and your gf. I miss her so much.
Me:
Yah. Sat book out liao la...can see her soon liao...dun worry.
He:
You leh? Never miss your gf meh?
Me:
Nah. I don't have one la. So got no one to miss.
He:
Oh. Thought u have a gf. Never mind la. Still young mah. In army hard to get gf la. When you ORD you will be around 22. 22 then find gf still can la.
Me:
I'm 23 this year liao. ORD liao I already 24 to 25 liao lah.
He:
Oh. That old liao ar. Then maybe harder to find one gf la.
I felt so devastated after talking to that idiot.
