Not Straight Enough

Almost a year in this organisation, the way signed-on military personnel does things still never fail to amuse me.

Like during a recent exhibition of our equipments to some foreign VIP, we had to place our equipments in such a manner that it aligns with the brick tiles on the parade square.

With that comes repeated pushing of the 4-tonne equipment (manually, of course!) under the scorching mid-morning sun, while wearing the military-issued helmet (that won't serve the purpose of protecting you from any head injuries anyways since the act of pushing the equipment will not, within my imagination and knowledge, cause any form of head injuries) which makes your head feels as if it is steaming xiao long baos for Ding Tai Fung restaurant.

Then you get agitated and volatile, and will starting hating the nation for making you endure such shit.

Then you make yourself promise that you will never, EVER help to defend this nation when Malaysia finally decides to commence their military attack instead of just initiating another verbal warfare.

Then, you will realise that this foreign VIP won't be so intellectually-challenged as to notice and comment how our equipments are not aligned according to the tessellations (I need to google this word to check its spelling!).

After all, this is a display of our military capabilities (or the lack of it) and not some "Who Is The Most Anal Person?" contest.

And you realise how unnecessary the alignment was and how ridiculous our high-ranking officials are as to insist on the alignment.

And then you are amused, once more.