Family Day with friends

First and foremost, thankyou for pulling me through this tough week.... I had the feeling that YOU would as YOU have done mostly, but somehow I actually am guilty of doubting that I could come out of this weeks situation intact, but somehow YOU worked your magic in yet another creative save !

Today is FAMILY DAY.

Or atleast that was what SAF told me lar. I was let off work at like freaking 4pm, which is TOTALLY rare, now that the new encik is here. Ended up wowing my time away at KFC chinese garden with carrot. By the time I headed back home was like 1930++ liao.

Reached home at 8+pm, then bathe change and play with Tiger for awhile before I chionged off to Commonwealth the meet 2E friends. Actually I feel kind of paiseh cause I have always been either late, smoke them or go off early... ... 1st time was sick, 2nd time (ord cum bdae) was leave early, today was LATE ... I know that I do not get along pretty well with you guys, but I thankyou all for being so accomodating anyways.

Anyways, I spent more time catching up with friends then with family... tomorrow morning another meet with NP buddy. Not to mention I'm working with my NP friend EVERYDAY haha !

(WTF... my EL chui liao ... I actually had a hard time putting the above passage into words.... and just now [plus throughout the week], I realised that I had a hard tiem expressing myself because at many times, I could not find the correct terms ....) bloody hell.... I guess EL like any other language, requires practice and regular usage... given that my current life requires me to use crappy EL nowadays, its not surprising....

big mistakie !

Today I got into my first "incident". I drove into a parking lot for my duty. When I reported to the officer in charge, he told me to park my vehicle closer to where the activity was conducted. When I reached my vehicle, what had previously been an empty space behind me was taken up by a civilian car !

I honked the horn a few times but the driver did not appear. I waited for 5 minutes, before I decided to move off. I made the decision impaired by the fact that the officer was waiting for my vehicle as well as my impatience to move off asap (the sun at that time was fucking hot, the kind that gives you a headache if you stay under it for too long, and the kind that turns soft leather seats in the minibus into freaking hot grills).


I thought I could squeeze through the civilian car and exit smoothly ! I failed to notice the freaking uncovered drain hole nearer to the exit .... I reversed and subsequently drove the back left tire of the van into the drain hole. Engaging first gear and moving forward did nothing to help, and the wheel was left dangling in the ditch on its axle

The rush of fear with a combination of adrenaline was UNFATHOMABLE ! But surprisingly, I think partly due to army conditioning, I did not panic (I am damn sure I would have fucking panicked and called back to the office if it happened before NS).

My first thought was try to jack up the back wheel so that it would be out of the ditch and then drive off with the fucking jack still under the cabin ! Damn stupid I tell you ! I immediately ditched that idea and began thinking of new ones. My next would be the try to push the vehicle forward, and SOMEHOW manage to roll the back wheel over the covered drain slab and out of the ditch. This ofcourse would require someone to drive forward while I pushed.

Miraculously, the owner of the civilian car appeared at this very moment. His first move was to appologise to me and get the hell out of there. Just as he was reversing, I walked up to his car and asked him to help me. Luckily he agreed. His plan was more sound, he wanted to jack up the minibus and place a stone slab from another part of the drain under the wheel, following which I will continue to bridge my way backwards or forwards till I reached solid ground.

Just then, a group of his buddies (they looked like regulars) came by to see what was happening and to say hi to him. He managed to rope them in (at this point I was beginning to feel a great sense of relief and embarrassment, but LL suck thumb need their help). With 5 men, they lifted the van BY hand without the jack and another placed the slab under the wheel, at an angle, such that all I needed to do was to full lock right whilst moving forward and more the 3/4 of my wheel would be out, and I would be free form the bog WITHOUT needing to bridge :)

The whole episode lasted a good 20minutes but I was finally out of the ditch (both literally and metaphorically :D ). I reported the the officer and he said nothing of my late coming. Anyway, I definitely learnt a few important lessons today. I believe God was teaching me something and I can only be thankful to the uncle and his 6 friends (though if he did not freaking park there in the first place i would not have done what I did ...)

Random crap

- I was fucking tired after BOC after lunch.

- I was damn happy about the 90KM I clocked for the BOC (though Nat had to tell me that the going rate was higher, which meant I could have tuang'd like atleast 10 more KM)

- The office radio played my fav Corrinne May track this after noon whilst I was on Ah Siao's desktop.

- I did not even remember "Desmond" Kwek calling me to wake up at 3.30pm for CAT C2 assessment

- I dreamt that I shouted at my dad

- I was generally pleased and thankful at how the day played out

- I THINK I made a friend on duty

- A car nearly slammed into my minibus (bastard was coming out of the side road at the T junction along the pier and his fucking head was looking the other way .... stoopid fck*) [ofcourse my driving at about 14kmph above the speed limit was also part to blame i guess]

- I missed Tiger damn much whilst I was on the shuttle to Lakeside

- I did not catch much at the talk at Holy Cross cept' for the part when Father Cary talked about the Indian lady who was baptised and St. Paul willing to speak out.

- Interestingly, History Channel made a reference to St Paul tonight, saying that he was one of the Christians who were excuted by some saddistic emperor named Nero (which is the same name as my CD Burner software)

- I enjoyed Brain's company ;)

- OH YEA ! and I was talking random shit with carrot on the MRT, this time about what is the most painless way to suicide, the old indian lady next to us wasn't too happy lol.. (I suggested jump from a damn high building and black out b4 I reach the floor, he suggested lethal injection + slping pills or air in the veins haha)