Monday, August 25, 2008
5am - The worst sound ever starts beeping away, my damn alarm clock. Certainly, very much as usual, I slammed it shut.
5.30am - Mummy came rushing into my room waking me up, did I then realize that I was about to take a bath, brush my teeth, change, pack my bag and have breakfast in just half an hour. I really hate early mornings like this, though I love the cool air but hey, I'd rather have more sleep. Luckily, I managed to catch my 6.09am bus but the chase didn't end just yet, I still have to catch my friends who would be leaving Boon Lay at 6.30am.
6.35am - Finally reached Boon Lay!! Found my friends already queueing for 249 and the queue was freaking long, so long I just couldn't stop staring. After getting up the bus, I realized how much I missed my 151, the bus that I always take to school. I'd be a spoilt son of a bitch if I were to describe why.
Alright, I'm a god damn lazy pig, loath studying, love playing and certainly, hate working. When I stepped out of that bus and looked at JPL, it wasn't very colourful, everyone with the same clothes, same colour, same sex. (excluding the girls from my course) Then as we walked closer to the gate, the place started playing music! Music... which sounded like last night's China national anthem. I thought, 'This place really looks like a communist society.' As we sat in the canteen waiting for the person in charge, the song still amazingly kept playing, then on this very moody Monday morning, I spotted a sexy pretty lady walking in, wearing all black. I never lost sight of her till she went up the stairs, seriously, I thought, in such a place? Well that really did boost my morale just a little.
After the P.I.C came and took us to a room where we could really settle down, a siren started and he gave us this look and said, "Lets go out for exercise." I stared at him with my mouth wide open, like what the??? He took us out to the balcony facing the main road where the guards and traffic police were and simply told us this, "Follow the guards." We waited for about 3 minutes then another song starts to play then I see all the workers, including the traffic policemen who were standing in the middle of the road doing stretching, very very gay stretching. I was absolutely shocked at the moment, didn't know if I should laugh or be simply disturbed. I would've used my phone to capture the moment but its a rule to not take pictures and videos in a shipyard, I think that is one of their major reasons as well...
We had all those briefings on safety and the shipyard then we hoped onto a lorry(which I have not done in decades) and went to collect our uniform and boots. To think of it, its been forever since I last sat with classmates on a lorry. 11.30am, lunch... Food was very average and yet we still had to pay them ourselves! Then we waited for our division leaders to bring us to our respective areas, the girls had the best job, the office job where they need not wear heavy boots or stinky uniform. Waited for that in charge for more than half an hour, then he points to us the location of his office, it was freaking far, very demoralizing.
After reaching the office, we settled down in a room and the guy gave us a thick book and told us to browse through it. Really? Seriously? Yea pretty much that, and it was absolutely boring. After awhile he introduced us to Mr. Liu who is the overall in charge of the HP section, then finally, someone not so cheena came in, a university student whose having a 20 over week attachment there whom fully understands my pain. He was very nice, brought us around the place to take a look at rigs and ships and workers using a very dirty toilet.
4.15pm - FINISH WORK! This day felt as if it lasted forever, making me wonder about many things, which I think I had the F-Face the whole day. The sensation when I was in the bus about to reach Boon Lay shopping centre was so good, the feeling was just like in sec 2 after Adventure Quest training where we first got a glimpse of civilisation.
artificious ' 6:56 pm
