Wednesday, January 20, 2010

TALK ABOUT BEING SCREWED.

And so, I did night guard with Huijie last night, and it wasn't without a hitch. Apparently, there were these 5 screwed up 38SCE Combat Engineers that switched our Details and Prowler number without telling us, and that when we DID found out, it was because the five of them wanted to do prowling and sentry together, AS A DETAIL. I mean, screw that. Your sentry friend is going to be alone, and that leaves you with four prowlers, in which two of you guys are going in opposite directions to the different checkpoints.

There isn't a rule stating that people from the same company, and coincidentally this time round, five of you all are going to take an entire detail for yourselves. It's a first come first serve basis, not the 'We-are-one-company-and-we-ought-to-be-together' kind of system. Pfft.

And that's not all, being the first detail meant that we had to, instead of the usual two shifts two hours each, we had three shifts. But thankfully, the Guard Commander was great and there wasn't any turnout during the entire night duty.

We basically entertained ourselves with our television, PSP's and books. One of the guard was actually sewing a cartoon design for his girlfriend in the upcoming Valentine's cum Chinese New Year Day. I was like, what the fuck? What a place to sew! :/

After night guard ended at 0730 hours, we had guard rest and started work at around 1030 hours. It was a well spent yet tiring day (: