SAFTI

alright well here's the story...i was assigned to go to banquet on friday...i wanted to skip it and take a medical leave BUT i was tempted not too! if i attend the banquet function i would receive an extra off day and i get to save money on seeing the doctor...good right? well...here's what happened!

the reason i wanted to take a medical leave on friday was because of this event called 'Safti' it's a event held almost every 2 to 3 months for the soldiers who have completed their NS (national service)...NS is compulsory for ALL singaporeans. This function consists of about 500 pax! as u can imagine the amount of students needed to cater to such a function. LUCKILY, my batch has done service for Safti and the call-back to banquet was to assist in any way possible!

so 5 of us from rosette; me, frances, jason, charlize and zeke. OCBC; mei chew, honey, meng jing and lynn were called back. me, jason, zeke, frances, lynn and honey had to handle the pantry area were we distribute wine, port sherry, coke, sparkling grape juice, bread and other miscellaneous items that were needed to run the operations. Doesn't sound that bad right?

WELL...here's the problem...

me, zeke, jason and fidarous had to do the loading and unloading of items. remember it's 500 pax, so you can imagine the amount of cutlery, plates, glassware, linen, beverages, trays and other items needed to run the operation! DAMN DAMN DAMN!! it was so tiring doing it the first time...imagine doing it THREE, that's right THREE times in one day: everytime my shirt got soaked in sweat, singapore weather just adds to the fucking problem! jason and zeke only did it twice cuz they left at around 10:30pm...i could have left to but i didn't have to report for work the next day so i volunteered to stay behind and help the SFT, i felt bad cuz there wasn't much ppl helping him to start with.

so we get back to school at around 12pm...unloaded the truck, smoked for awhile and started to work again! re-organizing the banquet store was like hell cuz it's so small. wash-up was busy with the cleaning, just basically everyone had something to do. i was sorting out the different glassware...it took about 1 hour to complete...by the end of like 15min everything started to look the same!
imagine this: banquet goblets, multi-purpose goblets, vip goblets, vip white wine glass, vip red wine glass, muslim goblet, alcoholic port sherry glass and non-alcoholic port sherry glass ..OMFG! it was hell i tell ya!

anyways...because i stayed back and worked for 16 hrs..my trainer is giving me 2 off days to compensate..good right? well i don't know..it was damn tiring...i reached home at around 2:45am and i showered for 1 hr and sat in front of the TV for like 2 hrs just stoning there like an idiot smoking and de-stressing with a beer.

i swear if it wasn't for the off-day i wouldn't have gone...at the end of the night i'm kind of glad i went cuz i met some new friends and i get 2 days off...but the after shocks of the loading and unloading is really killing me right now; sore back, sore groan (from squatting too much) and my two big toes feel numb (lol)!

imagine ur pack of cigs ending up like this...





that's what happened at the end of the day...IN MY FUCKING POCKET...luckily it didn't ruin any smokes...i would have suffered...i smoked the whole pack in 1 day and i opened a new one when i reached home...as u can see...i was STRESSED OUT! lol!

there's another Safti coming on the 16th of June..should i go and get 2 more off-days, making it 4 in total? haha...post comments..thx! see ya..take care...i know it's quite a long post.