Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Exciting nightI ended up doing the paperwork the whole day today, and when my superior walked past to see what I was busy with, I showed him a glimpse of how my exercise monitoring system works, and he was duly impressed with what I've done and wants to nominate this for WITS! Hmm.. I thought it was just a mere assignment, now it's a WITs project?
It was flattering and I was pleased with my own work for now, with all the new formulas that I've been writing in excel, =) I believe this is actually my first time writing such a complex EXCEL program, the first attempt at producing what Cpt Eugene suggested wasn't very viable, so I decided to come up with the ATR myself.
I was the BDO today, and here I am in the Ops Room after dinner doing paperwork, working on my solo-written program for that battery I was feeling good about the program because of it's complexity and the fact that I wrote everything from scratch! Using functions I never used before, yeah.
What made the night exciting was that one of the bunks at the upper levels had a damaged lock and as a result, the occupants were both locked in and out! They couldn't open it from the inside and neither could they open it from the outside, so I went up and after accessing the situation and trying various ways of prying open the door, I got permission from HQ BSM to break open the door by force! So it was my chance of a lifetime, to really force open a door, so I got to kick open the door! It surprisingly managed to withstand 2-3 of my kicks, but those were half-hearted because I thought the door was relatively weak, so I focused a little more and then BAM! The door broke open and the lock flew apart. It was very exciting! And they even suggested using a door breaking tool...
The duty officer for the day did his job, talk about all the bizarre things that occur in camp when you are on duty, it's not very often that you get to use violence and brute force for real and actual purposes! =) Who says NS is boring?
-MK
8:44 PM
