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i'm a jc driver!!

S1 Branch-Manpower Office. This office which i am attached to always seems overstaffed, but everyone has a valid appointment, i wonder why. i described to my mum what i do there everyday: stone and rot, go for toilet breaks, go for breakfast and lunch breaks, read storybooks, talk cock and laugh until 5.30. oh did i mention i ask for work to do? and the worst thing is, there is NONE to be done! good thing, there is a jolly band to hang out with there. but i must admit the people there are weird. for me to find somebody else weird, that person must be weirder than me. right? their kind of weird is that they have at least 2 personalities. one moment, they are extremely caring, educating you in the style of work, how to slack off and other techniques. the other moment they will insult you(for fun i guess), and you'll be wondering HUH?

anyway there's no need for me to establish a presence there. they have done so for me. sembawang has only one Medical Officer for army personnel and his name is Dr Seow. Apparently, EVERYONE thinks i look like Dr Seow. and often fantacise that i'm him. so they will come look for me for MC. it doesn't help that the S1 ppl also introduce their 'doctor' to other personnel when they drop by. i pointed out that the similarity between me and him was the number of pimples on our faces! that's all!! but i heard he's a very caring doctor. and so optimistic, he declared me fit for driving despite my valid reasons for wanting out.."you never know until you try...instructor beside you at all times, you'll be very safe.." lucky my S1 declared me unfit. so for now, everyone should think of me as a nice guy, cos Dr Seow is one very nice guy.

i noticed weird looks and giggling from that bunch today. they asked me questions like 'do people throw stones at you when you go out" or "have you been assaulted while on the streets?" it didn't take me two moments to reply nonchalantly, "oh you mean i have a kiam pah face?" then they all giggled again. some guy wrote 'K_CK ME PLS' and handed it to me, asking me to fill in the vowel. i just told them, everyone i knew thinks so too, and they probably were amused again. some guy kept saying i dun look like a jc student. i found out that he thought i looked like some 'below O level standard of education' dropout or whatever.

but many others tell me 'you have the standard jc look. one look and i know you're from jc. it's obvious.' and i know that's not a very good thing. but i can't be too concerned with it, neither can i do anything about it. except acting both dumb and smart , which makes me appear dumb if you know what i mean. i'm letting them know i'm somewhat weird by giving incoherent responses. and its very deliberate. it's sometimes classifiable as dry humor, the things we laugh in common. for now, they're expecting me to play out the typical jc stereotype. haha. i'll see how i can keep up to that image of mine. and as usual, i've an aj senior and a cat high senior there, not that i know them, but it always helps. that's the good thing about army. somehow you'll find people that belong. even my section on tekong, has an aj and a cat high guy. its amazing.

lastly, they told me a jc driver is super rare. i used to tell my sis how the ITE graduates get thrown into drivers, the whole bunch of them. laugh, and get your just desserts. but i'm kinda proud of it now, at least i'm doing something none of my friends are doing. i'm like 70% sure i'll get revocated to a clerk though, cos army still sticks to educational level deployment. but a great guy in the office told me the conventions have been overturned recently. the ITE and ragtag mishmash now end up in the combat units, those requiring supposed higher education to understand, but i dun think so. while there's been a pioneer batch of jc drivers. at the end of the day it doesn't really make a difference so yeah nothing big. that's the reason why chee wei's the few jc guys in 3SIR, and the rest are the geylang-frequenters and such. i feel fortunate. not cos its slack, but cos my office has this thing called ren qing wei. i like my office. its one of the most comfortable and cosy ones. i've seen sparse ones. many of them. and i know office politics is something that is kept to a few and to a low level.

to summarise what i basically do everyday:
i reach 15 min before reporting time 7.45 am
i look at everyone coming back from fall in parade 8.05 am
i stare at random people 8.30 am
i go for breakfast 9.00 am
go back office relac one corner 9.25 am
(shred a few pieces of paper if there's any)
go for a super heavy lunch 12.00 nn
go to the learning cafe and sleep 12.20 pm
wake up go back office 1.30 pm
look for anything to do, be it pasting, filing, hole-punching, SHREDDING AND MORE SHREDDING! 1.45 pm
realise there's nothing to do, start talking nonsense and laugh 2.00 pm
feel excited that i'm going home in 30 mins' time 5.00 pm
go home! 5.30 pm

and it repeats everyday..and get this...not that i wanna slack, but there's really nothing to do! its kinda pathetic, that i beg for work to do. LOL.

"plak!";
x 7:15 pm

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