by comrade commissar | Thomas | @ Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 7:32:00 PM | permalink |
I was awoken by the bustling outside. Eh? I fell asleep on the sofa. In my groggy half-awareness, I made out alot of activity going on over at the main room, and then I heard someone sang out an pseudo-enthusiatic "count on me singapore!~" along with the singer on TV. I'm missing out on the National Day Parade telecast! I'm blinded for afew seconds walking from my dark "sleeping" room to the brightly lit main room. "Eh, what did I miss ah guys?"My question goes in and out the ears of the entire bunch of people who were utterly enthralled by the sights on the TV. Finally one of them manages to concentrate enough to mutter to me that the Armour Convoy segment has already ended, but I could help myself to the plentiful pizza and coke at the table. And so a still somewhat stoned me joined the rest in front of the TV set, absent-mindedly grabbing and munching on a slice of Canadian Pizza's Meat Lovers, while re-zoning out watching to the millionth-and-one remake of previous years' NDP theme songs being performed. The pizza's really good though. Just when I was getting into the mood of things, almost fully awake now, and chatting about NDP-related stuff and Singapore in general, my buddy nudges me. "Eh grab your rifle. We have to leave in 5 minutes time."Oh yah ah, our guard duty patrol shift starts soon. I wolved down my current slice of pizza and grabbed another one. We left the guardhouse and the pizza that we secretly ordered 10 minutes later, armed with 2 SAR-21s, a searchlight, and 10 rounds between us, and stepped out into the night to |
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