Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Neither long nor short
So, I was pondering when the hell I was gonna update this wilting blog of mine and tadah, here I am right now updating it. Kinda felt bad leaving it alone for such an extended period of time.
Anyways~, just a quick update of what I've been up to recently. Over these past few months, I was busy preparing to take on this very frustrating situation that certain people have to go through at some point in time. Basically, it can be summarized in two letters, primarily 'N' and 'S'. Yeah, NS. It really sucks but what can I do? I'm like forced into it before I was even born! It's dictated I tell you. Dictated! Geez.
But, oh well, since it's already begun, what else can I do but to acknowledge the fact that I can't run from it. No use cursing the dark when you've already walked into it. Just have to look on the bright side, like the song that goes like this:
'Always look on the bright side of life, do doo~ do doo do doo do doo~'.
Basically, it all started out with us being 'exiled' to a 'deserted' off-shore island infested with nothing but people in camo for 5 days. For me, I was considered to be lucky cause it was like a stroll down the beach, whereas the norm would be to remain in exile for 3 to 12 weeks of vigorous training. Following that, we returned to 'civilization' and were posted to different units. For me, I was assigned a clerk position. More specifically, an Admin Support Assistant or ASA for short. Till date, it's been only 3 days since I started work as an ASA and I gotta say, it's kinda...boring. I'm just gonna hope that the boring-ness is not gonna stay for long or I'd have to live with it for 2 whole years!
Oh, and speaking about 2 years, every senior that's spoken to us has this to say, 'Two years isn't a short time. But neither is it long.' Hmm...makes perfect sense. I guess it's just nice, eh? Not. What, do we look like toddlers to them? How on earth is that supposed to make us feel better? Or rather, was it even intended to? Well, now that's something to think about...
Back to my life as ASA. Since I'm new and all green, I'm studying under a senior who'd be leaving sometime in June. If things go well, I'll be his replacement...or someone elses. Either way, I'm just there to replace someone who'll be leaving soon. As for the working environment, I can only think of the word 'freezer'. It's like they have the air-con linked to the North Pole or some place cold. It's simply freezing. However, compared to the burning weather outside, I'd prefer to stay in the 'freezer' all day long.
Other than the freezing office, the people working there are a mix of all sorts. Big, fat, short, tall, skinny and small. Besides, we're all around the same age so it's a lot of fun watching them trying to slack through the hours from 8am to 5.30pm or the funny talk they have sometimes. Like for instance, today, one of my colleagues was messing around with the barcode scanner, using it to scan the barcode on his computer while my senior was trying to key in something. Basically, it went like this. My senior was keying in some numbers then *beep* and some random numbers overwrites whatever he keyed in. My senior, Vadi, goes like,
'Hey, I'm trying to find this guy lah...'
and the guy, Mason, was like,
'Oh, I didn't know. Just trying it out.'
My senior continues keying in his stuff when all of a sudden *beep*...then...*beep*, keys in, *beep*, keys in, *beep*, keys in, *beep*...cycle goes on for quite some time. Later that afternoon, the same guy was playing with the scanner again. This time, the lady in charge, better known as 'Auntiesaurus', heard the beeping sound and asked my senior what he was doing with the scanner cause he was the only one with it. In his attempt to cover up for Mason, he told her that he wanted to check if the scanner was working fine cause it blacked out for a moment. Of course, that was a plain white lie. Everyone else who knew what was going on were giggling their guts out, having deceived the 'Auntiesaurus'. The fun doesn't just stop there cause another of the senior clerk knew about it and was asking Mason what he did. Surprisingly, he stuck to my senior's story and threw all the blame on him, like,
'Aiyo, Vadi, you very naughty ah. Keep playing with the scanner. Very fun meh?'
Truth be told, it indeed was very fun. Not the scanner of course but the entire happening. All in all, you'll encounter these sort of events umpteen times per day so I guess it really isn't all THAT boring. For the scanner itself, I'll have a hands-on session next Monday so I'll get to see how fun it really is. Let's hope it doesn't turn out to be a bummer. XD
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