Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Tolerance Tolerance ToleranceIt's always bad when your superior officers are hanging around you with nothing to do and you have no where else to go but to withstand and endure the excruciating onslaught of verbal nonsense that serves to corrode your brain away in the armed forces only good at wasting time.
Officers who are bored will come up with all sorts of incredulously-stupid and totally idiotic subjects to infuriate the hell out of you because you can't do anything about it but cringe in despair, desperation and distaste.
And you can't do anything about it but answer in the least disparagingly-inordinate manner while maintaining your composure with responses favorable to your superiors ears no matter how BIG the lie is.
It's my third day on site, quietly protecting our country's skies while everyone goes about their daily unsuspecting routine, and protecting all the diplomats and various heads-of-state politicians on their hand-shaking overseas trip here for their summit meeting.
I settled in for a routine day that in the passing, working on my SATS and taking cat naps in between. When night fell, my superior was obviously bored and kept irritating me asking me about my relationships which are very sensitive. He kept pestering me, wasting my time the whole night in the process but I kept diverting the issue but with BSM spurring him and stroking the fire, it was a constant effort from me to edge away from the issue. Damn damn irritating, up till now, he hasn't done anything and not gained any form of respect from me at all.
I learnt a bit about him in the process, he is a callous, useless, couldn't-care-much-about-others in life and is a superficial, selfish person. His academic qualifications are probably mediocre from the way he puts it, all in the passing with no passion in that particular field, that was probably why he signed on the first place, I highly doubt the integrity of his academic qualifications.
He even openly declared that he despised "researcher", citing them to be "re-search", meaning to search for other people's works and put it as their own. I found myself aggravated by that highly degradatory remark. What the hell, without research, how are you going to advance in science at technology?
Speaking about that, turns out that he is quite a techie, which again is quite an oxymoron. Without development, research, do you think are get to use your $2000 laptop, or your 3.5G pda hand phone?! Yet he claims he doesn't care or bother, someone has to do it, someone will be doing it.
I find this lackadaisical, couldn't-be-bothered attitude very infuriating, and my respect for him has gone beyond that of non-existent. I felt like retorting but held back. What are YOU going to achieve? You speak like you have goals and visions and dreams, yet all I see is another average family-man who cares more about himself than anything else. With a poor attitude towards everything else not directly related or affecting him. I see a person who skimmed through his studies and fabricated results from non-existent subjects of interest with the minimalist and superficial of understanding. I see someone without a proper goal or any form of substantial achievements whatsoever criticizing someone else.
Lets see, in years to come what you will become, maybe a colonel? Wearing that flashy uniform with shiny epaulettes on your shoulder? Doing what? Bossing around others and not achieving anything else in the process while you try to skive off work by delegating what is yours to others.
I was glad he spent the night in his flashy car, complaining in the process of the incessant mosquitoes. These are heartland mosquitoes! They're not even jungle-hardened, and you, a senior officer... a military man... ...complaining?!
I slept an unpleasant and fitful night in an uncomfortable environment.
9:15 PM
