Saturday, September 29, 2007 @ 11:20 PM
Work, Work, Work!!!
I have been quite tired lately. I guess I have been working too much. Just by looking back at my working schedule, I have been working like mad for this week; Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and tomorrow, Sunday! Wow!! Now I have to take extra rest once work is over.
Well, I was working at Yishun Swimming Complex on Friday and it was a surprise when my coach called me to bring his clothes along to work as Jacklyn was working part-time later. It was also a coincidence as she's handling the Wading Pool whereas mine was the Teaching Pool. Anyway, everything was quite fine. Jacklyn was working for the first time so I had to give her some advices on what we normally do, as well as what I normally would do.
Anyway, I get to learn some facts about the history of this swimming complex. It was opened in 1988 and this means, its 19 years old, same as my age. Cool! Next was my coach had worked in this complex since its opening. Come to think of all the various facts provided by our colleague, I realised that this complex is the place where I started to learn how to swim, where I got my certificates such as Bronze, Silver and Gold for NASSA... also with the 100 laps that I had swim when I was young... Haha...
Anyway, nothing serious occured but there's a funny incident. First, a boy with his slippers on was standing near the pool. With the slippers having contact with the water, Jacklyn had to warn the boy to take off his slippers. Soon, it was the boy's sister doing the same thing. It was my turn to tell the gal to stand back abit. Alright, she listened. Her Mother was like nagging at her but I smiled back to tell her to calm down. Next, it was their Dad doing the same thing AGAIN. LOL!! You can see the mother was going to drop dead after all 3 of them did the same thing. Haha... Poor Mother...
Well, today I was having my duty at Yio Chu Kang... Everything went fine till evening when this family had their toy ball stuck on the rooftop. They did something wonderful by trying to climb up. The mother was carrying the kid up, letting the kid to climb up the roof. Diao!!! Alright, my whistle keep ringing non-stop and luckily my colleague was there to help me by confronting them. It was quite crappy at the end of the conversation. The lady was saying that we should be planning how to get the ball down and if we dont try, how would we know that it wont work. Yeah... You wont try, how do you know it wont create accidents and we will be fully responsible for it? What if this flawless plan has a 0.0001% mistake and the mistake happened? Are we lifeguards responsible? Gosh!! Planning... Why dont we try draw out a mindmap and type out a report first before we use the plan...
I guess I shall stop here now. Man Utd is currently leading and this means they are still 2nd in the league table. Great! Haha... Tomorrow's there's work again, and Monday is V.E. camp... Gonna be away for 3 days and training will be hectic?? I hope not.. Hehe...
Before I go, I learnt something new today. If you see a gang of people playing wrestling like mad, try this quote if you're a lifeguard.
"Do you guys need a referee??" I guess they would look at you like timid mice and halt their actions. LOL!!