logic?
hello blog... im 20 now. i celebrated my birthday at the end of last month and im thankful to be so blessed by my family and friends. i wish that turning 20 would finally symbolise the start of my adulthood and thus, things that happen to me would finally start to make sense...
well sadly i was mistaken coz i realised that saf still doesnt make sense. much less than other things i consider crazy. for example, man u buying michael carrick for 18 million, or the cab fare increase...
i will attempt to describe one of many incidents that happened in camp which has made me totally dumbfounded... seriously.. some of the things that happen in saf totally transcends explanation and logic... this week, i was told to report for something called "pre-ict(in camp training) preparation"(note the kind of english used)... the reason for coming to this "pre-preparatory"(f*ck army english) or whatever course is to allow us to prepare for an upcoming ICT for reservists... this is basically a two week period when reservists come back to refresh their combat or whatever skills and catch up with old friends and make the canteen vendors happy... it seemed fine as i am an active serviceman and therefore should be on the forefront of army technology, thus qualifying me to be one of the servicemen who would do demonstrations and guide the reservists along as they do their thing...
however, i was scheduled to attend bronco driving course, a course conducted by an external unit which happened to start on the same day as this ICT that i was supposed to prepare for. it was therefore obvious that i had to miss the ICT to attend the course as i was earmarked for it and therefore it took precedence over ICT. naturally, i realised that it didnt make sense for me to continue in this "pre-preparatory" course as i was attending a course which would prepare me for something that i could not even attend. therefore, i decided to approach a few superiors, telling them about my situation... i even took pains to explain that attending a preparatory course for something i would not even attend would mean lost production time as i could not resume my normal work in the workshop and that making me spend time in this thing would only waste my service time and work hours... it all seemed perfectly understandable... well at least from a normal logical point of view... somebody else who was in my situation actually got what he deserved, which was to get removed from the "preparatory" course and sent back to the workshop to do work...
alas, it wasnt meant to be... you see, logic in the army is warped... my superiors decided that it was good for me to still attend the preparatory course as it made up for "lost time" in the actual thing... as such, it was fair that i attend this to "balance" whatever that i would miss...
it felt like a slap in my face... logic has lost to laziness... something as simple as taking a lousy name out of a name list could not be done because it was "too troublesome" to approach the commanders... as you can tell from the tone of this entry, i am not taking this well as i simple cannot fathom the warped logic behind the abovementioned example... ok enough said...
83 days to freedom...
well sadly i was mistaken coz i realised that saf still doesnt make sense. much less than other things i consider crazy. for example, man u buying michael carrick for 18 million, or the cab fare increase...
i will attempt to describe one of many incidents that happened in camp which has made me totally dumbfounded... seriously.. some of the things that happen in saf totally transcends explanation and logic... this week, i was told to report for something called "pre-ict(in camp training) preparation"(note the kind of english used)... the reason for coming to this "pre-preparatory"(f*ck army english) or whatever course is to allow us to prepare for an upcoming ICT for reservists... this is basically a two week period when reservists come back to refresh their combat or whatever skills and catch up with old friends and make the canteen vendors happy... it seemed fine as i am an active serviceman and therefore should be on the forefront of army technology, thus qualifying me to be one of the servicemen who would do demonstrations and guide the reservists along as they do their thing...
however, i was scheduled to attend bronco driving course, a course conducted by an external unit which happened to start on the same day as this ICT that i was supposed to prepare for. it was therefore obvious that i had to miss the ICT to attend the course as i was earmarked for it and therefore it took precedence over ICT. naturally, i realised that it didnt make sense for me to continue in this "pre-preparatory" course as i was attending a course which would prepare me for something that i could not even attend. therefore, i decided to approach a few superiors, telling them about my situation... i even took pains to explain that attending a preparatory course for something i would not even attend would mean lost production time as i could not resume my normal work in the workshop and that making me spend time in this thing would only waste my service time and work hours... it all seemed perfectly understandable... well at least from a normal logical point of view... somebody else who was in my situation actually got what he deserved, which was to get removed from the "preparatory" course and sent back to the workshop to do work...
alas, it wasnt meant to be... you see, logic in the army is warped... my superiors decided that it was good for me to still attend the preparatory course as it made up for "lost time" in the actual thing... as such, it was fair that i attend this to "balance" whatever that i would miss...
it felt like a slap in my face... logic has lost to laziness... something as simple as taking a lousy name out of a name list could not be done because it was "too troublesome" to approach the commanders... as you can tell from the tone of this entry, i am not taking this well as i simple cannot fathom the warped logic behind the abovementioned example... ok enough said...
83 days to freedom...
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