this week was just army half marathon preparation.. dam suay.. kena the bag deposit point.. 12,000 bags to jagah.. and the space given is like kinda small.. the yellow sector at the floating platform.. luckily captain jacky thought of joining six 5-tonners and tied nylon strings to hook on the bags.. i was in charge of making the tags..
i made all the tags in one day but on that thursday, they say the numbers made were wrong.. not that i typed wrongly but safra gave the wrong numbers.. and i gotta re-do everything.. well.. i need to think out the number ranges, laminate, cut into small pieces and punch holes.. the worst saikang one can ever get.. luckily got laminate.. can re write everything on the other side with permanent marker..
everything went well on the day itself except for the time people came to collect bags.. rowdy and ugly singapore people.. some even spewed vulgarities and screamed for their bags.. we actually opened two lanes for the collection but they all chionged for the other lanes and all 8 lanes were jammed to the max..
i know there are number tags i made to guide people to finding the bags.. but there are some peeps who brought such big bags that it overlapped to the other bags.. how to find?? 12,000 bags.. i thought they were reminded not to bring such big bags.. why they still bring?? racked so much brains from the planning and then run up and down to find peoples' bags.. instead of appreciation, we got scoldings and kaobei-ing from the people.. really can't take it lying down.. why not they put themselves in our shoes and come and do the bag deposit point?? i think people won't come up with such a brilliant plan because the space given is so, so limited.. i know some of the men put the bags at the wrong tags but because, the budget given was 0, i can't make colour tags.. if not it will be much better..
however, captain jacky was very encouraging.. he said whatever don't kill us will make us stronger.. actually he's the one who got all the scoldings and shit form the public at the counter.. we were just exhausted physically from all the searchings and stuffs.. he also helped out in the searchings of course.. really liked working with him.. he's like so open with other people's ideas.. he's so funny, full of ideas, witty and not mentioning a welfare person.. he's gonna be my oc this december.. look forward to working with him again~
the whole crowd only cleared out at 11am.. didn't sleep the entire night.. reported on 11pm plus the night before, went out to eat.. captain jacky's treat at xin wang.. 3plus the people come put bags.. 7am came to collect bags til 11am.. 4 bleedy hours of frantic search and i dare say it's more siong than my operations or what i usually do as a mortarian.. damn exhausted lo.. i can even sleep when 3 people are in conversation with me, when i'm standing and when i seeing people play arcade games.. that's HOW shagged i am.. come to think of it, i take it as a challenge and we all overcame the shit and we are stronger than the time before we did the bag deposit point.. that's the important thingy, we all experience some new hell and learn something valuable..
