Back in Singapore

Back in Singapore again after 34 days of detachment in Korat, Thailand..

3rd Sept 2010 Fri - Went to Paya Lebar Air Base early in the morning at 6am as I got a flight to catch.. sitting in a C130 Cargo plane for 4 hours is no joke.. Where everything is packed.. I couldn't move my legs and had to stay in the same position for 4 hours.. Glad that I reach there before time.. but it wasn't a good day.. 1st day reaching there and got to work till midnight.. what a good day to start on the 1st day..

It was quite a detachment I would say.. not my 1st time going to Korat since my last Korat det was 3 years ago in Sept 2007.. But it was the 1st time going there as my own trade.. and it was really an experience as my system is going to use in Korat for the 1st time as no one has ever done it before in the history of Korat.. and also really something happened and I as the only guy who knew the system well got to go find out the problems when 3 problems came up.. Everyone was like waiting for my answer what to do, how to do.. as I said this was also my 1st time involving this problems.. but all went well just that a lot of shit need to cover and clear.. Worked 4 days of long hours just to clear these problems.. Everyone was cursing and swearing what bad luck we had.. But I think these problems could have done a better way if there are more of our trade guys around.. Anyway its over and I didn't want to involve in the next detachment if there is another same case again..

Working wise I won't say its all bad.. There is times that there is really good days we could go in and wait and then go back to barrack and rest..

For off work events.. I had 5 weekends over in Korat and it seems like 5 months over there.. not much things for me to do over there.. the main activities there is sex and booze.. lots of it.. I think their sex industry is booming because of us.. For me who is married and don't drink at all, going there is somehow a torturing.. The only things I did there was going shopping (very limited every weekend going to the same place but still manage to buy good stuff for Jerlyn) , going for sightseeing once (because no one wants to go and its too far for me to go alone), going to Internet cafe (the only place that I can kill my time), eating (which i find good and cheap thou I don't eat spicy) and also visiting 7-11 for tit bits and drinks ( I think I went there at least 30 times).. And the Internet sucks big time.. they are still using 2G network instead of SG 3G network.. So I really glad I am back in Singapore with my love one now..

6th Oct 2010 Wed - Wake up early getting ready to board my plane back to SG.. took 3 and a half hour to reach back SG.. Looking out of the window to see if I had reach SG already.. After reaching Paya Lebar Air Base, we still got to wait for our main luggage.. waited about half an hour before the luggage came.. Thought that the customs should be quite fast but it took another half an hour.. The guy from the customs was so detail that he even check everyone laptop one by one to see if there is any pornography inside our laptop.. One guy was caught with pornography in his laptop and his laptop and passport was confiscated.. the other guy brought in pork floss which is illegal in SG had his passport taken too.. Finally came out and saw Jerlyn just arrived in time.. She gave me a surprise that I thought she would not done it but she did.. It was a challenge for her and she overcame it.. I'm proud of her.. Miss her so much..

Overall for the whole detachment I would say if it is 2 weeks that should be enough for me.. And I stayed there for 5 weekends.. really going to explode at the last week of the detachment.. If I was there any longer I will sure go crazy..