Wednesday, October 10, 2007
I learnt a new thing today. It was quite random though. Haha.
We were walking along the road, heading for lunch when we saw a car driving past with an American flag in front. So what would you do if you are a normal pedestrian. Normally you would point your finger at the car and talk among yourselves, wondering who's inside that car. But then, I learnt something new today. Our chief clerk was walking with us and she mentioned that if we were in uniform, we were supposed to salute when we see such a car with a flag. If not, according to her, the person inside has the right to stop and book us, which probably means taking down your names and unit and reporting them accordingly. So here's some new knowledge to all NSFs like me. Remember to salute when you see such a car. According to my chief clerk, those are cars for ambassadors and foreign officials, hence the salute required.
I went with my parents to buy a new mattress for my bed today. According to my mum, we were regular customers of the shop since we moved to Toa Payoh. That was like more than ten years ago. Well, it was a furniture shop at Geylang East there. Geylang East, not Geylang. Geylang East is near Aljunied fyi. Then, while at the shop, I saw this little Indian boy who was with his father in the shop. The auntie was speaking to him in mandarin and I heard him reply back in mandarin! Then he spoke to his father in tamil what the auntie told him. I thought he had learnt to speak mandarin from school or his friends. Turned out that he took tuition to learn it! I was quite impressed at him being able to understand and speak the language.
That should be all for now, work's as usual, doing my routine stuff everyday, looking forward to using my offs though, hopefully next week. Meanwhile, back to my FM08 gold demo...
hellmos signing off...
[edit: amendment, according to another source non other than cpl leongjx, we are supposed to salute when we are wearing our uniform and headdress. That's all for amendment =P]Labels: mattress, salute
My mind's unweaving/ 9:48 pm
