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For this, i have been thinking for quite sometimes. What i want to do after i complete my national service. At the moment, beside having most of my commmitment in NS, i am a part time student at Singapore Polytechnic.

Currently, i am taking Adv Dip in Strategric Marketing. Something that is too new to me. Ya… before that, i have a dip in Civil n Structural Engineering. So this course might not be related to the one i took at 1st thought but i realise that when talk abt business, it is indirectly related to one another. e.g. i can be a supplier which deal with supplying cement to my client. So business comes into the picture beside the knowledge that i have in civil engineering.

When i complete my NS by the time of Apr 06, most probably will be looking for any part time or full time job that permit me to continue my part time studies till Dec 06. Hopefully i can work in retail shop like Giordano as i hope to gain experience being a manager in a store. want to know how they operate in such retail shop as i hope to major in this field. That’s related to the later part of my life..

By the time of Dec 06, i will return to HK to furthur my studies. Hopefully i will be able to get into HK Poly University. Simply coz it offers courses that are related to textile which my family business is doing now. Also, it offers fashion design which i hope to know some friends from there if i am successfully enrol into their institution. That coz my aim is to set up my own retail shop in the future. In my family business, i have my dad n uncle as the experienced seniors who can guide me in term of the processing of textile, etc. They have closed relationship with China n i may want to take this advantage n my own creativity to come out with something that can boost up the business. That’s the dream that i am aiming. Of course, in the mean time, i got to work hard in my adv dip… Otherwise, w/o a good academic results, i doubt any Uni wil accept.

Recently, I found out that I have become someone’s nightmare when i sleep and that’s my younger bro who share the same bedroom with me. Sigh.. where to begins? On tuesday (14/06/05), my bro n younger sis invited their friends to stay overnight at home and on that day, i had my 2nd live firing in NS. The day before (Mon, 13/06/05), i went for my 1st night class at SP immediately after i book out from camp. So, somehow after the live firing which end at 1500+ and by the time i left my camp was 1830+.

When i reached home, my face said it all… tiring, hungry, desperately need a shower and the comfort of an air-con room with bed… BUT when i heard that my sibling friends are coming to stay overnight.. i said to myself ‘Oh my god… my peace is gone!!!’. anyway, i didnt bother abt that and went to sleep at 2230hrs.

But the next day, my bro and sis told me that their male friends who slept in my room said that i sleep talked and snore a little in the middle of the night!!! huh?  that’s something that didnt happen to all this while and  yesh.. i must admit that when i enlisted to NS… my younger bro did said that i snore… Sigh… sad… maybe in camp my mind is so occupy with too many things that once i sleep, within a few minutes, i am already asleep. But maybe that’s coz of my appointment in my unit as well. my responsibility in my unit is higher than any of the driver there and i only have one of my friend to share the burden.. so.. maybe that’s y. but what i cant accept is when i sleep talk that night, i was talking things that happened in my unit… sigh… i mean what my bro told me was i was saying ‘hey get the van out’. Oh man… ya.. i am in teh motor transport unit.. so asking my men to do this things is common but not till te extend that at home when i am resting, my mind is not… as for snoring. maybe i am really too tired and that’s maybe partly the reason… hiyo… better get this weakness clear soon before it affects my daily life… really… sad. maybe the only solution is going for a long break??? but where can i find enough annual leaves to cover???   

I think this is the most embarrass moment in my life. I have enrolled a part-time advance diploma in Strategric Marketing at Singapore Polytechnic. Not knowing that there is a change in the new semester starts which begin on 30 May 2005, i no doubt thought that it begins in July!!! Sigh.. sad sad… Only when i feel very strange how come no letter has been send from SP, informing the detail of my course.. what class it is… so i wait and wait till on Sunday, 12 June 2005, i decided to visit their webpage and surprise to find out that the semester has started two weeks ago.. hiyo!!! I was like.. ‘Oh man…’. and what my father reaction is purely laughter… Honestly, i am waiting for the semester to start.. but didnt know that nowadays, technology has advance so much that everything can be found on the net. Sigh… hopefully i can manage to catch up with the rest of the class.

I think this is very common and it happens to us everyday. When we meet someone new, how can you judge him/her? Most pple will think of first impression. The way he/she presents himself/herself, the way he/she speaks, the way, he/she dresses up, etc. This question was actually brought up by one of my driver when we had a qaurrel on friday (10/06/2005). How i judge him.

Of course, to me, he is the worst kind of pple i have in my unit. I need not need to be his friend who stay with him 24hrs a day to judge him. His performance, his work attidute, the way how he communicate with pple, the way he presents himself to me are more than enough. Definitely, there are many more. But my reply to his Q ‘Peter, you dont know me well enough’ is simply is, i dont need a long period of time to know you. Your history of problems n the no of extras and confinement you got has convince me to come to the conclusion that you have a lot more to improve in whatever ways it suppose to. I have spend a lot of time to accept you as my friend but I think after that incident, as a 2IC, I have give up hope to do so. I should have been like what Yeo has told me.

To that, it brings me back to real life. With above example, I can imagine in the future, when i apply for job, that’s how teh boss will judge. What he/she needs is just that few minutes of interview and he/she can conclue how well I am. So, that’s go the same in NS. How my officers judge us will all depend on the first impression we give him. So no doubt, i think that the incident happened on friday does make me feel disappointed but a lesson has been learn. It is, in this society, there are pple worth giving that chance but to some pple, they dont even deserve that chance.

Friday, 10 June 2005

This is another day that i got to shout at my own driver. I dont know why but that is a damn screw up case n something that can be aviod. But yet, this kind of thing still happen in my unit.

All started by this driver called Kenny Lai. All thanks to him.. so much nonsense he gave to MT Line. I can tell, almost all the senior drivers in my unit dislike him. There are plenty of reasons for it but as for now, let me share with u pple what actually happened today.

At 1500++hrs, Base Duty Officer (BDO) got one last minute injection of a flight tomorrow early in the morning. So he needs his driver (who is my unit’s driver) to prepare his Minibus for tomorrow. So he called back to my engineer in-charge who plans for all details for drivers in MT Line n asked him to do him a favour by asking any driver to get his Minibus wash up as he was not in Mt Line at that moment. So Kenny was assigned to this task. Time was abt 1500++. So he had at least 1 n half hrs to get this task done. How he do it is up to him.

But when BDO driver came back n found that his vehicle was not wash at 1640hrs… He told me abt the incident n he told me that Kenny himself forgot to wash. When i asked Kenny, he told me he forgot to wash. So i said since u forgot, then well, i also forgot to let u go back at 1700hrs n i raise my voice n tell him to get it done n to be check by the engineer.

Before he cleaned the veh, he asked some new drivers to help him. So i thought it’s okie. fine. But when i saw him talking on the phone n walk in n out, that’s really pissed me off. I told the new drivers need not wash the veh. Pack up n go n at the same time, i shouted at Kenny. ‘You go n wash the veh alone’. Can see at that point he was stunned. I dont want him to misuse  the new drivers. That’s his problem when he forgot to wash the veh at 1500++hrs. He got more than enough time to wash n can ask the new drivers to wash with him as well. Why ask the new drivers to cover up his carelessness. They were already ready to go home n i dont want to drag them back.

In the end, when i came out from the engineer’s room n saw him, thinking of asking him how’s the process of washing. He gave me a pissed off face. As if i am the one wrong. So that’s how we started quarreling.

I asked him ‘What? Ask you to wash early u dont want. Want to drag till abt going home then pple ask u to wash’ n he used that kind of ass**** face n look at me n said ‘I forgot to do cannot’. I immediately said ‘Cannot’. Then that’s where he came out all the nonsense reasons like ‘Not all pple are perfect, they tend to forget things once in awhile’ and he asked me that. I think when he was saying that, it attracted my MT Line officer (MTLO) attendion as our voices were loud. So, he came into the picture n asked what happened. So i tried to explained the whole situation n half way through he wanted to cut in. I shouted back at him ‘Shut up!!!’ n he kept quiet. Then after that, that’s where he told my MTLO all his nonsense n he dared to challange me. So i said ‘Come lah… you ah beng’. He can replied me back n said ‘Me ah beng?’.

A lot of nonsense which i was damn pissed off. Really.. i really hated it. Though i looked through his testi given by his friends after i reached home, there are some goods n bads. But the last sentence he told me was ‘Peter, how long you know me n judge me like that?’. For that, I can do without any much thinking n said 101 reasons why i think he is so bad in many ways. Really, I am telling the truth. His first impression has already spoil it all. With his performance from the time he posted to Mt Line Changi Air Base till now. For someone like me, there are many more drivers who are much better than him in many ways n deserve more credits n appreciation than him. If i want to say more abt it, i think it will definitely not enough space here. But though i know, we must try to accept pple the way they are but when someone like him already has given me such bad impression, how can i still ‘Forgive and Forget’? Please… I am only serving 2 yrs n 4 mths of NS… I really appreciate what i have in NS. Being so lucky to be posted as a driver n come to Changi Air Base which has an easier life than those in Army units. But are all this a test for me to counter in order to succeed in life? Only when i enlisted to NS then i really can see different kind of pple. I really must thanks NS.

What a morning, first time my home lift break down early in the morning. hahaha.. somemore i stay on the 12th floor.. At first i dont know abt it till my mum, who always leave home at 0630 for morning jog at east coast park, say: ‘Son, u better hurry up with your breakfast and bath fast. The lift break down’. at that time, i was slowly eating two slice of bread as my breakfast n upon hearing this… i was totally awake… just finished my bread fast n rush to bathroom to do my bathing n put on my cloth. all done in 15mins. by the time i left  my house was 0640.

as i have to catch the 0650 bus no 12. so, quickly i just rush for the stairs n keep going till i reach ground floor. by then, i feel little bit giddy. maybe coz too fast.. hahaa… but still managed to reach the bus stop on time. wow.. hopefully my lift wont give me anymore surprises like this in the future. even if that happens… please… wait for me to ORD.. so that i dont need to wake up that erly in the morning.

Didnt come online yesterday (060605), coz i was too lazy to. In camp, i have million and one things to do n it seems like there is no stop. sigh… anyway, yesterday, something big happened in my camp. one of the driver from RP unit met an accident. already handling one of the case on last friday (030605) n the report is abt to complete, then come this case. The accident is a major one. The way, the veh smash onto the lamp post which made it collaspe n the collaspe lamp post cut the tire of the veh to make it burst… the incident happened on a slope. after much investigation, my conclusion to this case is drive carefully esp when encounting the bent on a steep gradient slope. this has reflected that in the new work yr, our base counldnt achieve a 100% zero accident. sigh.. what a sad case. though everything will go fine… but.. two cases just come out… hopefully, my driver’s unit will keep it a zero accident-free for this work yr.

I think this sunday is the worst one.. not coz i got to any detail or need to book in for tomorrow early detail. but i think this is the day i slacked the worst… early in the morning, i woke up and went to Marina South with my parents and elder sis for a brisk walk. follow by breakfast at Maxwell rd hawker centre. ate a large bowl of congee… that’s not all, my mum didnt cook for the lunch as my dad and mum were going for a function organised by my mum’s friend. some kind of hi-tea with some dancing… so… my sibling and i orderred KFC meals for lunch and in the end, after eating the two pieces chicken, i cleared the rest that left over… !!! hiya.. this is the killing part.. immediately after that, i went to my elder sis rm and fall asleep. coz she switched on the air-con and teh afternnoon was hot that day… sigh… sad… dont knwo how much weight i will put on like this… somemore, now i cant jog for too long… otherwise my knee will feel a sharp pain… sad sad… think better go and do some walking at East coast park later… 

I think it has been 12 to 13 yrs i havnt go back to HK ever since i mirgated to S’pore. Cant believe that time flies so fast and right now, i am serving my 2 yrs n 4 mths of NS. As for now, the balance is abt 10 mths to go. Wow… cant wait for the day my encik hands the Certificate of Service to me. Anyway, back to my topic.

I have lost quite a lot of things when i first come to S’pore. My childhood memories, relatives, friends, the environment, weather, food, etc… Too many to name. I think esp my friends. Coz i have totally lost contact with them and right now, i think it is quite impossible for me to find them as i dont knwo their whereabout. Somemore, i lost their contact numbers when i moved out from Katong Park. My parents rented that place at first coz our apartment was still under construction. So rented a unit at Katong Park. When i first came here, i still managed to contact them.. esp a girl.. hehee… she was the class rep back in my primary sch in HK. So used to keep in touch with her until sometimes, i think i lost her contact. sigh… But hopefully next yr when i finish my NS, i will pay a visit to my primary sch in Hk to see if there is any hope to get their contacts.

Of course, comparing both Hk and S’pore, beside the level of education, i would say HK is better than S’pore. It has 4 seasons, the food there are cheaper and the living standards there is lower than S’pore.  More amusement parks, like the all-time famous park Ocean Park. Then now DisneyLand is about to complete in Sept 05. The night life there are more interesting. And dont forget about shopping. Teh design of their clothing are more variety than S’pore which i find it quite common. Maybe coz of the season. Then, it is near to China and Japan, so other things like comics, animate from Japan will have more variety too.

Beside those i mentioned above, Hk definitely has its plus and minus… so do S’pore. On the other hand, in term of government, w/o any explanation, S’pore wins Hk by so much… almost close to Corrupted-free, efficient, rich reserves, good ties with other countries, a good network in term of transportation, education, CPF, etc… So i would not just pin down S’pore alone. ‘She’ has her good points too. But if i prefer, maybe when i am get old, S’pore will definitely be a good place to stay. Other than that, if in term of now, when i am still young, HK would be a better place as there are many opportunities as China starts to open their market. So slowly, the awake ‘Dragon’ will prove too much to take when time comes.