speaking of a series of unfortunate events. yesterday’s night trapping was the most boring session ever, yet. with only twenty or so mosquitoes caught, you can imagine what else can we do for the rest of the period (from 6 pm to 12 midnight.) it wasn’t only us, the other pairs also didn’t have much luck with mosquitoes. weird.. maybe all migrated liao. luckily at around eleven, a durian picker chanced on our catching area and offered us a few tasty D24-quality durians, before continuing to pick more for his own.
the point is, reached home at around 1 or so. supposed to have a full day off today but because my upper study is not around as well, and my boss is on reservice (this is when i start to miss him), i have to play one man show and turn up in the morning, because our branch simply cannot close shop for the day. was rather freaking tired already, but couldn’t rest because i exchanged cos duty with someone at the last notice (this morning actually). and had to finish up my officer’s work, trying to understand the formulaic jargon of microsoft excel. frustrating experience. not to mention the equally irritating ad hoc complaints.. no offence to the complainant but under such circumstances i’d wish i receive no calls, or just some simple pest complaints without the complainant adding to my workload by constantly urging me to solve the matter immediately.
the frustration doesn’t end here. upon reaching home to enjoy my half day off, i got a call from my camp telling me that i took home the office keys. had to go all the way back to camp.. 
to return the keys. after that supposed to watch Initial D with James (my camp mate) at jurong point. intended to take mrt but decided to hitch a ride from another campmate. because neither of us have travelled to jurong east mrt before, we kinda got lost pretty bad, and when there wasn’t much time i dropped off at the bus station hoping to catch the bus to jurong point which was at boon lay actually. then realised, upon boarding the bus, i was travelling in the wrong direction. got down, took awhile before flagging a cab that solved my travelling woes at a hefty price of five bucks. dammit.. was hoping i could save some costs by using my Movie Money, since the movie should then cost only $5.50 for me.
thank goodness the bad stuff ends after that, haha.
initial d was not too bad. except jay chou can’t cry for nuts. havent been watching any movie since star wars episode III, so it’s a good start to end the movie-famine era i’ve been experiencing. after that, went for dinner with yulinda and the rest of 3J, at pizza hut. had quite a good time, but was also quite tired. a number of us, 5 actually, took 156 home together. it was a wonderful trip, haha.
tmr is saf day, dedication parade. will attend it, after that, claim yet another half day off. this time, i’ll make sure i enjoy my off to the fullest. (probably sleep through it all!)
to some extent, at least. only i felt a little guilty because what was supposed to be a mutual talking cock session became a one-sided self-despair-saturated whining affair to a good listener. yea, it’s hard to find a good listener, although there are a few whom i know, thank god!
