Jeffirean Stories
Friday, January 30, 2004
Another week has passed. this marks the last day of january at home since tomolo I am on duty.
Today an accident happened during our working hours in camp. Gordon was injured on his hand (a deep cut by dirty, rusted metal) while carrying a metallic cupboard. i wasn't at the scene initially when the accident happened hence Charles told me this was the event sequence.
1. The documents in the cupboard was to be mustered and removed from the cupboard.
2. The yet-to-empty cupboard was offered to Mdm Jas
3. She didn't want it (neither the documents inside which were supposed to be under her purview)
4. Hd Log then ordered the cupboard to be kept in the store.
5. Half the cabinet was emptied but the remaining documents were still damn heavy..
6. A trolley was loaned to carry the DOCUMENTS (as told to me)
7. The trolley was used to carry the cupboard with the documents inside instead...:(
8. The trolley toppled in the corrider, nobody was hurt with their quick reflexes (being unable to hold on to the falling cupboard) except for Gordon..he was the last to remove his hands from the falling cupboard..
In my view it was veri brave of him to do so because if everyone let go so quickly at the same time when the first sense of the toppling was felt, the cupboard would have fallen in any direction (which can be very dangerous). Every milisec delayed, the risk of being injured gets higher, but also at the same time, every milisec delayed makes sure others' fingers get to safety first, as well as forcin the cupboard to fall onto the safest direction....and in this case, the strongest person in the grp was Gordon, and hence he muz had tried to slow down the fall of the cupboard to let everyone move their fingers away...
Sighz. What happened has happened and no use blaming anyone. Let's just pray Gordon gets healed quickly and with no future problems.
Lessons learnt :
1. Our senior WOs and Offrs and DXOs have no sense of care for their subordinates. When the cupboard fell, the sound was so loud but nobody bothered to come out and take a look. They did not look worried too, and was very quick in wanting to find someone to blame again.
2. Remove all things in the cupboard before moving if the cupboard is heavy.
3. Get more strong men....
4. Never try to use your toes to support the bottom of the item you are carrying when you are putting the item down.
5. Be steady and keep cool when an injury happens. Inform someone quickly, especially someone with experience and knowledge.
6. Never overestimate yourself.
Tomolo it's my duty.....sianz.....
Regards
Jeff
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10:00 PM
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
3rd day of the post CNY week gone. A great week cos nothing much to do and there is much progress for my understudy's coaching. Had a great weekend as I won over the week, Sat: 3tickets out of 5, Sun: 3 out of 5, Tue: 2 out of 2. I hope this continues with my on form prediction...haha
Todae played table tennis during LIFE game. Veri long neva played table tennis, so tried to jio people go, but nobody wanted to go due to rain or they didn't bring their PT kit. In the end managed to persuade Winston to play with me! He is quite a good player, so I think he can represent HQ SA for us.
Joe told me he is leaving us cos he posted to 6 SIR. Aiz. What a waste cos he is certainly one of the betta football player ard.
Another good news is that my aunt is helping to get a new phone at a lower price cos she's extending granpa's contract and can get a new phone at the 2yr plan price.. I opted for Nokia 3100, so let's hope everything goes smoothly as planned.
Okie, let's hope today can continue winning so as to pay for my new hp!!!
Regards
Jeff
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8:15 PM
Monday, January 26, 2004
Today is the last day of the CNY weekend. The highlight of today was that I lost 4hrs of my time waiting to buy a new phone only to find out the fact that a new phone like nokia 3100 (w/o line) cost $458. Even with my $100 discount letter, I still think it's very expensive. So I thinkin of getting a 2nd hand phone, but my mother doesn't like the idea. What to do? I not sure what I ought to do, so I asked Guiqiang cos he happened to be online and he said he rather save up to buy a new phone. Well, I tot I would ask a few more ppl for their ideas first before deciding. Tomolo we will be back in camp, so can ask all my frens before deciding on my next move.
Yesterday was at my 4th Aunt's home. Nothing much, only played blackjack for 2 rounds and lost $2. Then watched soccer there with my bro.
The day before I was quite busy. Woke up at 9am even though I slept at 3.30 am in the morning. Nobody had woken up yet, so I just took a bite and played my WE. Tweaked a few things in my tactics and things went very smooth. Managed to beat my previous scoring record ( I dun have too good a strike record for my team) but the season hasn;t gone past the half pt so not sure how well I can end the season with. My father's sister called while I was bathing, around 12pm and my father had to go fetch them from Woodlands cos they couldn't get any taxi at all and was carrying the baby. Well, so my father asked me to go with him and I had to stop my game. Easy task to help direct my father to the correct place(well, I am a well known 'walking street directory') so in the end brought the baby and them back home. Beat my brother on WE 4-2 while my uncle and father was watching. Too bad my uncle is a soccer idiot. Anyway it was a satisfyin win and I managed to win 2 in a row. After that we went to grandma's home to eat. This yr we are so damn late. 3pm then reach there, lunch become teabreak, haha. but this yr grandma cooked very well, much healthier than before, so i ate more. then we sat for a while (my father took a long time to eat his fill) then we went to the temple to pray. This yr all the "tigers", "snakes", "monkey" and "pigs" need to pray to the 'Tai Sui" so ok, to make my mother happy I just did the necessary. After that I went to Dan's home to play mahjong. Jason was bloody late again, but ok la, that's the usual him. Then Dan was not onz for the mahjong game cos he wanted to go out, but Jason wanted to play so we played 1 round. In the end I won 2.80 and Dan won 40cents. Haha. 2hrs you know! Kevin called me while we were waiting for Dan to get changed to go for dinner, so he made the overnight mahjong game earlier one day. Since the venue is at Jinki's home, which is in the vicinity, why not? After dinner with Dan and co, we parted ways bearing in mind the next outing in a Fri nite in mid Feb where we will celebrate Pius and Dan's birthday. Okie, but that's fodder for a story next month. Then I went to Jinki's home. I was the first to reach there, and his bro and sis were playing pool. Said hi to them and went upstairs to find my bro. Haha. He was still playin his Diablo. We talked about who were coming and who were not and why. Well, soon Alex arrived so we changed the topic to all over the shop. I had a stomachache which was unbearable so I just had to go to the toilet. It was a humiliating experience cos I am like naturally immune to stomachache and they will only occur at home or in camp, so I usually clear my trash at home or in camp. Haha. Alex wanted to clear his too right after me and then he complained it smelled. Fuck, I washed the toilet and flushed it twice still kena complained. So too bad had to use the air refreshener inside the toilet. Hahaha. Then in the end I think he also neva clear but I tot I was damn uncomfortable in my jeans and tight shirt. So I took my bicycle and slippers (previously all left at Jinki's home) and rode to Jason's home to borrow some light clothing from him, a PT shorts and a t-shirt. Ah, the cycling heated my body up well and I felt so much comfortable. I must really give my thanks to Jason who is ever generous. Then I cycled back and took a bath in the same toilet. It was a great feeling. Haha. Well, might as well admit it here, the reason why i clear my trash at home , is that i got a very weird habit - after clearing trash need to bathe. So same old habit, same old practice. Washed up, still Kevin haven't arrive. Dilly dally with Alex abit with a round of Big2, talk cock and Kevin arrived finally. So we chit chatted abit and then finally got to start our mahjon around 12am. In the end I won $19.80, with Alex losing $14.90 and Kevin the other $4.90. My luck was so good sia. Slept together with Kevin and Alex in the movie room, wasn't really very comfortable at first and tried to sleep sitting on the wall but Kevin howled and made me sleep beside him. Hahaha. Ok, 2nd time I slept with someone else beside me apart from my brother. The first time was at Kevin's uncle home where I slept with Kevin and Jinki. I mean to me I am a very self conscious person so I won;t like to let ppl know how I sleep in case I spoilt my own image...heeeeee....but of cos sleepin with ur bro is a nice thing. Then the weather was great, windy, rainy, so cool! Anyway din manage to sleep enuf cos it was morning and I needed to siam back home. Din managed to do it cos Jinki's mum was even earlier (it was 0830hrs) so too bad had to sit down and eat breakfast. Jinki's mother is too kind!!!! Always let us stay there and give us so many things to eat. Aniway soon Kevin woke up cos he found that I was missing beside him. Haha. Then he ended up haviing breakfast too even though we were somehow abit reluctant. Talked about Jinki, and Jinki's uncle as Jinki's mum told us things abt their family. Then finally Alex awoke but he managed to refuse auntie's offer(for breakfast). He wanted to changed back to his own clothes as last nite he borrowed Jinki's clothes (like me want to wear light clothing) but his tshirt was missing. He said he hanged it on Jinki's double decker bed, but we couldn;t find it so we did a little search in his room but to no avail. Haha. Jinki's sleep posture is kinda funni, his bro was the same too. In the end his bro woke up, and found that the tshirst was under him (prob it fell onto his bed and he just rolled over and hid it unconsciously) anyway after we got the tshirt we left together.
CNY itself was damn boring. Late again as usual we went to grandma's home (AMK) to eat lunch. Same old fare, but no tempura prawn this yr. The aunts all scuttered to distribute ang pows, but this yr only got 4 of the kids and 1 baby. My big aunt's 3 children were yet to be seen. Uh...dunno where they go. Then we went to my father's workshop to pray. My bro and I played some football to pass the time. There was an old tyre on the side of the road on the fencing, so i told my bro to place it up so we had a hole to shoot at. Whoever hits the hole wins $10. Since he's a much betta player than me, so he offered it at into the hole for $5 and hit the wheel for $1. I was okie with it. Anyway after numerous and numerous attempts I managed to get it in twice but he only managed to hit the wheel ten times. So my father prompted us to get ready to leave and the mini game was over and I won $10. Hahaha. Ok just a sidenote, David Beckham practised his freekicks late into the night with a tyre hanged on the crossbar. So that's how he got his deadly freekicks now. Then we skipped a visit to my far relative cos we were late again so we went straight to my my 4th GrandAunt (wow, so big a family) home. They didn't have enough people at first to play the yearly blackjack so we watched tv first. My grandaunts all mistook my bro to be the elder bro so had to explain abit here and there. Then they all asked me where i was so I said i was in army. Then they asked me how long more so I said half yr. Then they asked me if I am going poly so I said i am goin university. haha. they were all kinda stumped. Anyway my uncle (3rd grandaunt's son, my CHS senior) had got his degree already so I am not the first graduate in the family. The people slowly arrived and they went on to play their blackjack again. I din want to play cos I quit since the yr b4, cos except one yr at my 4aunt's old home, every yr i lost money so betta dun play. play mahjong betta, at least to me it's 50% luck and 50% skills hahaha. so watched tv all the way till 10. and went back home to watch football....
so that's how the CNY went for me...surprisingly this early sleeper Wenhui is online now.....SURPRISINGLY. cos he said he lost e password to his icq no, moreover he usually sleep early. not to mention tomolo we r reporting back camp....hahahahahahaahaha. what is wrong with me....or i think my luck quite good..hahahahahahaha.
oh ya, just read Jinqi's blog. Veri interesting. She's like a double personality. I think I am also double personality. With people around I am one person, when alone, I am totally another person. Well, some things only certain people can find out. So if u want to find out what kind of another person I am, take ur time to guess.
regards
jeffire
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12:58 AM
Thursday, January 22, 2004
20 mins to the chinese new year! yeah. endured a whole week of crap in the office. yesterday i received the biggest insult in my whole NSF life. was accused of 'acting hardworking', 'deliberate going back late' and many other ridiculous things. luckily i kept my cool and neva throw anything nor shout. when i shout ppl know i am damn loud. so be careful. anyway, just want to clarify that nobody in his right mind will like staying back. much more i was posted to hq sa so as to save time and money instead of having a much betta life in cpc. i seriously wonder if my decision to leave cpc was the right one as the veri reason of leaving was to upgrade and go to combat. i only got abt 6 mths left, but i am still the same. worse still, i did not manage to lose anymore weight but instead gained more weight. curse it. how i wish i could turn time back and i would have stayed in cpc to toll with all the guys there. at least i would have been much happier though busier. everyone in cpc treats me so well, much more in hq sa, even when i am well known for being hardworking by the nsf and even chief of artillery. too bad. some people just cannot stand competition. anyway these ppl someday they will see where they have gone wrong and perhaps heaven will reward us, the hardworking guys with something sweet in the end. the chinese saying goes 'bitter first sweet later' well i hope that's true. but the good thing in hq sa is i managed to mould myself into some sort of a leader, and i think i am quite respected, though not very likable. haha. whatever the case is, ns ends six months after and i do hope i will leave the saf peacefully.
well, lost a straight 11 Winning eleven matches to my bro even with the best lineup i ever had in all the winning eleven series i ever played. in all i should have lost abt at least 37 out of the 40+ matches we played over the week. what a damaging record on my footballing repetoire. sigh. so i guess i have to retire from playing with my bro. aniway for the record sake i put down my line up here and perhaps u tell me how can i lost so many matches.
forwards: chiesa, crespo, tristan, pauleta, emile mpenza
midfielders : cha doo ri, shunsuke nakamura, neved, steven gerrard, rafael van der vaart
defenders: espanionza, chivu, naybet, hatem trabelsi..
so how....what can i do to make myself happy?
it's chinese new year in 2 mins time. i betta post it up before anything happens.
let's pray the new yr bring me more good luck..hahahaha. esp for strike!! cos i need some cash to buy a new hp ....so u noe la.
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12:03 AM
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
My misery continued with many matters not going towards what i hope it should be. Firstly, the gathering i organised, on the surface it was very fun, but overall my view is that it was a loss making venture, added to some discomfort for some of the people. I mean the fire took a long time to start, causing people to be waiting needlessly. The whole thing was also loss making. Some people who agreed to come did not turn up as planned. This made the budget go wrong. I guess I will never do such a thing again for my unit guys. I don't see the need to, since many people dun bother. Secondly, I lost my handphone right after the same gathering. My handphone is so important in my life. I missed messaging my brother happy birthday. Many things were missed out too. I wonder where my handphone is. I thought I lost it at home, but probably it was lost at McDonalds, perhaps I dropped it while eating as I don;t remember taking it out while eating. Shallow pockets perhaps. The other possibility is someone stole it from me. However I have absolutely no idea WHY the person in the group would do it. The biggest suspect is Soo KS, but to me a more logical suspect would be Charles. Yet, i guess a 100bucks is not worth losin a good friend. Anyway the phone is cursed and whoever uses it would lose alot of money. Hahahaha. Thirdly, I failed my drivin test due to stupid reasons. I guess the main culprit was when I drove through the road along the market in AMK, there were jaywalkers whom I did not give way to. Notwithstanding that, my usual mistakes of moving off in the wrong gear, stepping too softly, were all there. Lastly, the 2 days of off did nothing to help me, I went back to office finding so many things needed to be done, and a big meeting on thu, the Army HR Conference was to be held in our camp and we were all tasked to do big saikangs. Life sux. Today's a Wed, but we had no LIFE game to go, tomorrow's a Thu but no LIFE due to the meeting, and Sat RSM has cancelled our LIFE because he wants all of us to clean the whole unit. Why can't we clean after LIFE? Dumb..
Lost money, lost handphone, lost my bets, lost my time, failed my test.
This is one of the worst month I ever had. To think it's the new year.
I hope the ushering of the Monkey will bring about better luck. I do pray so.
God, or whoever is the almighty one, spare some thought for me. I have always worked hard, though sometimes I slacked, I feel that I have always been a good person. I only have good intentions for me to be well to do....
may life be better soon..
jeff
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11:01 PM
Tuesday, January 06, 2004
Today is such a bad day. I mean, my pockets are running empty. I wonder how I ended up like that. Even ended up going for a movie, but not being able to pay. hahahhahaahahahahahaah
i now vow to make sure i will neva end up like this again.
regards
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10:24 PM
Saturday, January 03, 2004
Hahahahahaa! One whole mth has passed. I muz be super lazy t to have not update this one whole month. this dec was a hectic first half and a super boring 2nd. until xmas, i was busy with everyting and a got of work, and of cos so many duties cos of soo ks this idiot. in the end i missed xmas eve this yr but i got to enjoy all the way until 30 dec, which i tot i ought to be back in office to clear work. i think i have done all wat i can do to go back to office, since i was owed 1 day lve when i was activated on one of my on leave day to do duty due to soo. well...ok so now in all i got 4.5 day off to clear. i will take 2.5 days this mth i think. 2 days for driving on the 12 and 13 and half day on the weekend of cny.
how did i spent my xmas and new yr eve? oh i spent it with my 7seas bro at my big bro jinki's home. well, xmas was simple, stayed there from afternoon till night den my dad fetched me home. it was a great night with my bros and the sis. on new yr eve, we got the full strength of the bros, but we didnt gather too well due to some new ppl ard. first time saw alex gf. quite a nice gal but quiet, icy type. haha. perhaps she is quite new to the bros, that's why. however i think she is like a 'thousand gold' and perhaps not gd in the kitchen. anyway as long as alex and her together happy good enough liao. i dunno when they will tie the knot but hope it shud be down a few more yrs! haha.
played plenty of soccer last week and this week. last mon, on the 29 dec, i decided out of the blue to go downstairs the street soccer court to play. at first there was nobody at the court but there were 3 guys practising shooting at the field. so i juz practised my juggling and to my surprise i juggled pretty well, broke my personal record perhaps. then later a pair of malay guys came and they were practising shooting at each other at the court. den the bigger guy asked me to join him. haha. my shooting suxs. but soon a few more big guys came, and asked us to play street soccer. soon more ppl came and i joined e team of the pair plus 1 indian guy. then we played quite well. i think i played marvellously that day, helping the team to stay on consecutive 3 matches with my 3 goals and a few assists. but we were knocked out with a defensive error due to fatigue. then i realised my mom was calling me. so i called and to my horror she didn;t have the keys with her and so she was kaopeing me to go back home. by the time i reached home she oredi climbed in thru my room's window. that was a shocking revelation to me. well din tot that my mum can climb window hahaha. todae also played some soccer but din play veri well. my dribblin sucked, my control sucked and my coordination sucked. i dunno what happened, perhaps not enuf sleep or perhaps no inspiration cos there wasn;t a soccer match on tv for days..
hope i can play betta soccer veri soon!
regards
jeff
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