Jeffirean Stories
Wednesday, December 03, 2003
Hey,
Time flies again.
First thing was that the SPH Commissioning went on successfully without any glitches due to our branch. Phew, Chief was on tv and it was the same old Chief we always knew.
Second thing, I took a 3 day break and found myself playing FFX the whole of the 3 days. Ok, the first day I went back to camp for Life game with the chaps and had a good workout with the basketball. The second day I was at home rotting . The third day I got a shocking news which was that our branch was not allowed to go for external LIFE run. Man, I was so saddened by the news cos I wanted to organise a soccer game at the street soccer court for the guys. However the dream was dashed. Nonetheless I went back to office to see what I was required for. Well, it was just a list or 2 for the Groundbreaking ceremony....another invitation we were going to do. Anyway I took the chance to clear the ranking results and we submitted them on time this year. Hurray! My big job was done for the whole year and I believed I could start relaxing. Well, how wrong I could get...
Third thing, ok, it was an usual Monday. I made a record 9 consecutive winning weekends. Hehz. Unfortunately the deficit still stood at $201.20 and I have decided to go all out to cut it all to zero. Let's hope my good record continues and maybe I can clear the deficit.
Tuesday was the same old thing. Boss wanted to see me but luckily, i was to see him after LIFE. Afterall, I had absented myself from swimming training for dunno how many donkey times. Well, anyway, I just had to go exercise and relax myself....did a 12 laps and took a break trying to learn freestyle. It was really awkward. Hahaha. I guess I made a fool out of myself. During lunch we were talking about Derek's successor, whether it was to be a female regular or not...the speculation went rife and Derek was praying for the best to happen....haha. I dunno what Mdm wants to do, but sometimes she doesn't flex her muscles....i wonder it's' because of rank? Anyway, after lunch we were all summoned to prepare for today's officer ranking and it turned out that I had to go borrow all the stuff. In the end got reprimanded by Mdm Kat for being last min. Well, why must it be always me who get the scolding when I am not supposed to get involved so heavily.....grrrr....anyway in the end she still had to loan us all that stuff and the briefing went well. This time we took the opportunity to sneak away before GJ did since he had to clear up, lock up and clean the office. Hahaa.
Today everything went on well, except maybe a few people got screamed at by me. Being shorthanded, I was heavily involved in lotsa clearing and cleaning and serving. Man, I wonder why the Log guys all stood there during the lunchtime not knowing what to do. Take the initiative!!! Anway I started by screaming at Gordon to hurry up and bring the utensils cos the big shots were all waiting for lunch to commence. Mdm Kat escaped to the covers of the canteen very quickly, leaving for us to fend ourselves. I took the serviettes and did a la the western food stall style, wrap the utensils in the serviette and gave it to the officers. Den I made the guys take some food for boss, new boss and Chief as new boss had instructed me so. The guys did it and brought the food up on my behalf. I am very sure they were very unhappy with me. I know I did not ask properly or politely, but I was very fed up with them standing around like wood blocks...Den they were waiting for to siam the show parade by going for lunch and stating the reason that their lunch couldn't be delayed any longer after having to serve the food to the big shots. How wrong they were. In the end, we all had less time to eat lunch. I screamed at Charles for not arranging for someone to be there to keep the tabs on so as to clear up immediately after the big shots had finished. Man, I think he was extremely unhappy. I am not sure why most of the NSFs have such an attitude....issit because NS is so much of an unwelcomed liability? I am not very sure why issit that going for lunch and taking up every second of it is of utmost importance rather than to make sure the job is done quickly, early so that we can have a peace of mind during consumption of lunch....I really felt so as the latter reasoning...but it was only me who thought so. Nonetheless, I tried to contact Ah Heng when I got to the cookhouse only to realise that he could not leave the ops room because Derek was not around. I tried Justin who was the conference IC but his hp was engaged at that precise moment. I tried Sirong then but he sounded unhappy, reluctant. What I could do was that I quickly had my lunch (I din speak a word to Charles nor Ian who sat beside me) and went back. When I arrived, the area was empty less the mess left by the officers. Ok, so I started cleaning and Sirong came along and joined me in the cleaning up, followed by Mdm Kat herself. I called Justin again because I din want to wash all the plates, trays and utensils myself...in the end Justin took upon himself to clean all the plates, I went to rinse the utensils and trays. After that, Charles and co returned to find that we had cleared 80% of the mess and now we left it to him to retrieve whatever store he ought to and also to trash whatever unneeded. In the end, Leslie, Chris and I went to return the utensils, trays and the soup. I threw the soup and the trash together away while they helped to returned the utensils. Then we went back to help Charles move store, and I took all the drink containers up to the teabreak reception area. They were heavy, man. I went to check out how Justin was doing in the washroom, well, he was doing fine but the greasiness couldn't be removed. In the end they took some serviettes and wiped the plates with them. Jeremy Chew was ordered to help out but he ended up making a mess out of it due mostly to his reluctance and also to his spoilt attitude. I guess all rich kids are like that. I also told him I nominated him for the most talk cock personnel plus he was quite free. And in the end he retorted that he was a hardworking personnel and had done many many things. He said that even though he knew our branch was real busy, I shouldn't had diminished his efforts...well, my view was that someone who comes later than us and goes back earlier than us plus all the teabreaks, smoke breaks he took, i mean, so did he mean all these contributed to his reputation for being hardworking? Well..we all know the answer so let's stop talking about it. Anyway I am tired now and the whole day was just shit and more shit. The new boss thanked me for the efforts while I just couldn't say anything because I felt that I wanted to finish my work earlier rather than to waste his and my time talking. I know I am being rather unfriendly here, but to me, I still lack the human touch. I think I am like boss in this case.....we are all super dedicated to getting things done because we know all the things keep coming to us....
OKie, yesterday made a huge loss and today I took a huge gamble...I really do hope I can win enough to at least not lose for today and hopefully yesterday's loss gets covered....haiz..
May tomorrow be a bright and good day for me...!
Regards
Jeff
So much to say, yet so little time and energy....
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