::ME::
In a place of voidness, I need colours. Blue, Red, Green.
May the colours tell of a story that will not let me regret.
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
Sometimes, it pays to be a nice guy. Well, for me, I've ALWAYS been nice. =D It must be all the good karma I've accumulated everyday.
Something good happened to me recently, actually quite a few things. It was just yesterday where I decide to wake up early before my duty and so went to the CREW room to watch some tv. As RPs, we eat out-rations, aka packet meals. So someone has to go collect from the delivery truck when it arrives at HQ. It just so happens that the only another shift mate and I were available to help out, not counting the sgts. And so, without any hesitations, I went to take the meals, however that shift mate had some smart comment to say before he trudge his way down to help. I feel that this chore is part of my job, I mean afterall, the food is for us. So I don't know why he has so much to say when in the first place, his duties are much lighter than the rest of the shift. And so, a sgt heard that comment and was a furious he gave that mate a good bloodwashing scolding. This sgt has never gotten angry for the whole 3 months I've known him. Well that's the part where I suppose I have accumulated the good karma.
The part where the good karma comes around, starts here. When I was doing my duty at this horrible place where I'm suppose to stand alone for 6 hours with no forms of entertainment or food(but at 6pm, all the superiors left and so did the rules), the sgt I mentioned just now, brought me a can of COKE. He walked all the way from HQ to my place just to pass me a can of coke. I was damn happy! This is the first time I enjoyed a can of coke with much delight. I'm a PEPSI person. And that's not all, 1 hour later, 2 shift mates brought food for me! It was the leftover food from the party officers had every friday! This is the first time they brought food to any person doing duty, because in the past, it was always left in the pantry for those who wants to eat to help themselves. Not to mention the 2 people that brought the food were not close friends of mine, merely acquaintances. I thought my train of good luck had ended until no sooner than later, one of the lao jiao came to have a lil chat with me. He went jogging and decided to drop by and talk to me! So we talked for half an hour in which if he didn't come, I could be talking to the wall lizards or my iTouch. And hence, within that 6 hours, which was suppose to be the most boring 6 hours of duty, so many events happened to my favour. I was deeply in gratitude to these people who have made my duty so much more enjoyable! I do wonder if it was planned or just pure unexplainable luck.
The weather was totally in favour with me as well. Right before the above mentioned duty, there was a slight drizzle and hence my duty was not as warm as it should have been. Then the next day, when I'm doing a different place the morning sun was blocked by grey clouds with enough wind to keep me chilled. Even my buddy doing duty with me said that it's rare to get such nice weather.
I've learnt to love doing my duty. In fact I didn't dread that I got this vocation in the first place. I do not mind the monotonous lifestyle and waking up at wee hours to only stand at an allocated spot without any form of entertainment for 6 hours. In fact, I would like the time alone where I can think through things and well, reflect. I try to tell others to start looking positive for the duty or else you'll hate doing duty and time just seems to slow down. For me, time is not a problem, more of fatigue. If I have enough energy and the fun people to do duty with, I don't even mind standing 9 or 12 hours. I just have to have some perks to look forward to, even if not, I'll just create my own perks. Haha.
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