Saturday, September 20, 2003

Stagnation

Okay, it's officially the weekend. And as usual I have nothing substantial to do. Needless to say, I'm perched in front of my laptop typing this entry with sweaty hands and with no clear mind what exactly to type. Am I experiencing writer's block? Damn.

Had quite a "blast" (negativity) the last couple of weeks while I was doing standby. There was the stupid, waste-of-time Exercise Concorde where prior to that, we were activated twice and got faulted for the most ridiculous, superficial, redundant and insignificant errors. I've supposedly got 2 extra duties because of my oversight. More reasons to hate the army.

More recently, some asshole from another company lost the bolt carrier in his rifle. Which naturally left the whole bloody battalion into a frenzy. There was even a stupid rule that no one from the battalion was allowed to book out until the matter had been resolved. Of course I felt it was unjust and that the person losing the bolt carrier should take matters into his own responsibility and not pull the whole battalion down with him. Especially when it comes to sensitive issues like booking out and burnt weekends. Thankfully, the authorities finally came to their strictly limited senses and relaxed the rule. But then again, because of that incident, there have been (again) more stringent rules being applied to the drawing and sending of arms, which naturally means more time wasted. Moreover, it does not guarantee that rifle parts won't be missing in the future. Such is the inadequacy, inefficiency and brainlessness of the SAF. I will not launch into a personal tirade of vulgarities at my lame-ass (correction: fat-ass) CSM here. Oh well, did I just contradict myself? I'm feeling so paradoxical these days. Hah.

Going to Nee Soon camp this coming week to build again a ridiculous redundant bridge. Heard it's some heavyweight. Urgh. Manual labour. Makes me rethink whether cancelling my insurance policy was a sound idea. Furthermore, the building of the stupid bridge is some trial project launced by the heavyweight assholes of SAF. Shows that my parents are paying their luxurious salaries for nothing, them formulating such dangerous projects. They really should be retrenched. I mean who would bother doing such crappy manual work when machines are the age now? Although they did mention about using machinery like cranes and forklifts, I doubt they'll be of much use. We'll definitely end up using our hands to carry stuff than pressing the control buttons on the machines. I just know the SAF too well.

Gv complained @ 10:26 AM

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