Guard Duty

Amid all the night shifts we had to go through, guard duty sure was packed with surprises! I was shocked on the hours I spent talking to Sergeant Zaidi... Never really talked to him before... Got to know a different side of him... Talked about everything we could possibly thought of while the rest were asleep... Religion, people, myths, relationships... You name it...

Proceeded on with the 2nd shift which was scheduled at 2-4am... Felt lethargic and everything... Urghhh... Nevertheless, me and Yong Hong managed to fight against the lack of sleep... I was trying my luck during the 2nd shift to see if I was able to meet Teian Tye on his way while he walked his 24km route march... Coincidentally, the companies did marched past the area I was patrolling... I was trying so hard to spot him in the dark... Even got reprimanded by the KPO CB officer for not being tactical while doing the guard duty... Balls to him! Gave up finding him and went back to patrolling... Halfway across the intersection of another pavement, suddenly heard someone shouting my name, "GUOBIN! GUOBIN! POP LO!!!" It was Teian Tye! Kinda cool eh? My good brother managed to find me in the dark... What are the odds? Haha!

Ended guard duty and rested in one of the bunks... We had a little chat with platoon sergeant... And then, there it came the epiphany of irritation - Platoon BEST! I've never seen someone so cheapskate like him... Apparently, he was supposed to disseminate certain information to us by Platoon Sergeant... Sadly, he did not/ couldn't and/or cannot be bothered to pass on the information to any either of us...

The information conveyed by Platoon Sergeant states that we could bring in food and some electronic gaming devices for our guard duty... However, this was not the main issue... Firstly, he told me that he tried to call Jielong for my number... Well, I immediately smsed Jielong and he said he recieved none... I attempted a few times to cross check the numbers with him but he managed to get away everytime I tried... For people who knows the platoon BEST well enough, you somehow should know that he's not telling the truth... Lies...

To "compensate" for his negligence, he bought snacks worth approximately $20 for everyone to share... That was rather nice of him even though he kept emphasizing how much the snacks had costed him UNTIL he told us to pay up... Nevermind the fact, it is CLEARLY normal to pay for what you've eaten and I gladly accept his request... BUT HOWEVER, each of us paid $4 dollars and there were 5 of us... excluding him... So you do the math... OH! realise it adds up to $20 dollars? So what did he pay for? Rendering the services of taking the effort to buy snacks for us? How about incurring some GST charges too eh?

Well, if I knew there was a catch to it, I wouldn't have eaten the snacks he'd bought... Oh wells... I wouldn't want to be indebted to him in any either way, so he can gladly take my precious $4 for all he wants... I won't be seeing him either since he's going OCS... Yeah... Let me emphasize again... O-C-S... There's just too many little stuns he'd done and he's still able to keep up with his own conscience... I gladly give my applause to him and I wish him all the best for his future endeavours... ;)