Well, last night was the PBSM installation. Was I a fool? An idiot? Just plain stupid? for the 2nd year in the row, I missed watching everything there... why? Cause last year I was forced to do security.. not enough people last year for my place to do shift. This year? I did security AGAIN! This year I volunteered though. Why? Because I pitied the security guy.. so kesian couldn't get anyone to do the canteen.. so I volunteered, and CP came along with me. Difference between last year and this year? Last year MANY more members came.. this year so few only. But what I don't understand is.. why weren't we off duty until it was over? People doing the front gate were off duty like, 2 hours before us.
We too had some sort of 'shift'.. between the QM room and the front entrance of the canteen. Basically, you can't see anything from the QM room.. just a bit more than the canteen entrance. We did duty from 6.30pm until about.. 10.45pm. Like the other guy doing security, he said why do WE have to do duty?? Front gate maybe, and other places maybe. BUT WHY THE CANTEEN?? NO ONE WAS THERE! Oh well.. anyway CP, another guy and I helped to clean up the canteen seeing we had nothing to do and the head of security said we couldn't go off duty.. we mopped, picked up the rubbish etc etc. Why? Partly because if we didn't do it, the maid will have to do it all on her own. And also because I felt we being stupid enough already might as well be more stupid and clean up while people were enjoying themselves in the field. We stopped cleaning up when the canteen was in a considerably better condition than before. Got rid of the rubbish everywhere and mopped all the muddy patches up. Imagine if the maid had to do it on her own.. she didn't have to do anything anyway.. hehe.
After that.. everyone was talking about how fantastic this and that dance was.. sheesh. Looks like only 3 of us did duty the whole time.. anyway, CP and I slept over. Out of 44 people who signed up to sleep over, only 31 remained. We slept at 2am.. I tried to sleep earlier but CP and KY wanted to talk.. and the light was on so I couldn't sleep anyway. We finally slept at 2am.. woke up once at 4.23am. Hehehe.
I woke up at 6.25am.. before my alarm rang. Used the toilet, cleaned myself up. Whistle blew at 6.45am.. we were briefed about today's events then rested for a while.. after that carried chairs and tables from everywhere to everywhere. My hands still feel funny.. but carrying chairs and tables are pretty much okay, sweat quite a bit but still.. Hehe for staying overnight we got the booklet.. hahaha!
Anyway, I actually told myself not to do security again this year.. somehow that wasn't meant to be. But still pretty nice, got to know new friends.
Conclusion? I'm BRAINLESS. But although others in my shoes would not have enjoyed themselves.. somehow I don't regret this installation at all. Sure, it was a lot of hard work today, and yesterday was pure torture watching everything from the canteen.. but somehow I learnt many new things. Perhaps pitying the security head and the canteen maid was the one that made this 'good' feeling?? Who knows?
God bless
Joanne Lim
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