About our Friends...

Today Emma left us for Australia and Gan for her friend's place in Hougang. Emma's from U.K. and Gan is a Malaysian but she is based in Japan. She does anime. I learnt something new abut anime production. A 30min anime can take up to a year to produce. Man! If i didn't remember wrongly, in 1 sec there are 24 frames...which means you have 24 pieces of drawings for a 1 sec exposure in the screen. Anime fans out there better appreciate every sec of the show you watch.

Lee and Eliz is leaving tomorrow. They are heading to Malacca on the 11am bus. They have been such nice people. I feel that i have known them for ages. They will come talk to me when they see that i am painting at the backyard alone. Lee is such a comical fella and Eliz is a very sweet and kind hearted girl. She loves animals and obviously loves Lee. Heehee...

Oh well, it's gonna be quiet again when they are gone. Ryan would be the only one left i can talk to now. He's nice too. Very easy going.

Since i have made friends with our wonderful guests, I would not have accommodation problems if i were to travel. Haha....that's the perks of having this place huh? Lee and Eliz offered to house me in their homes and Gan wrote down her address in Japan and told me to look her up if i were to drop by.

So....in Melbourne I have Wille, Newcastle I have Hongkiat, England I have Lee, Wales I have Eliz and Japan I have Gan. Wonderful!

To all my / The Hive's friends, thank you all so much!

(After all the nice words i have used, hopefully you guys would throw in some freebies when i do pop by huh? heehee) =p

Great week!

At the time of this entry, The Hive has got 5 guests. Fantastic people i must say.

Wait....not only do we have fantastic guests but also irritating mosquitoes flying around and draining my blood. I have been out at the backyard doing my painting and thus the doors had to be opened so i would be able to hear the door bell or telephone.
By sitting at the backyard, you would need tremendous patience and endurance. The flying around of the mosquitoes tests your patience and the itch challenges your ability to endure and not scratch.
And because the door is opened, the idiots would fly into the lounge area. For a while we had peace when we managed to kill all of them in the lounge recently and now it is starting to take over it's lost territory. Would there be a day when all the mosquitoes in the world be extinct? I would rejoice and i bet many would be with me. These pests do not contribute to the eco-system. At least cockroaches nibbles on rubbish.

I wanted to talk about the guests but i'l leave it for another entry. Mosquitoes just killed my mood.

Out~

[An apologetic entry]

Did anyone miss me? Haha...

The Hive is now occupied by 7 people.

3 really fun loving people, Anna, Kevin and Audrey
Trevor and Elana - warm, friendly and easy
Boon - My guest from Malaysia. He's here for the 2nd time in 2 weeks
And the award winning long stayer (23 days!) - My friend's friend's boyfriend

I wish to apologise to some of them

To Anna, Kevin and Audrey: Sorry i didn't fufill my promise to show you the way to New Park Hotel. I had to attend to some urgent matters and could not get back in time. I felt really bad and was praying that you guys would be able to find your way there. I supposed you did find your way? i am really really SORRY! Does it mean that with your smiles i can safely say that you guys are not pissed? Hopefully not ya?

To Trevor and Elana: I hope you are comfortable in the cubicles. I was expecting you to demand a private room as it was what you had booked but you were very nice and were ok with the "capsule". I thank you for your understanding and God bless the both of you.

It is these kind of people that made me want to give the best service i can squeeze out of myself. The kind of satisfaction you get when you see smiles from happy guests is indescribable and pricless.

I hope The Hive Backpackers' can be of service to all of you again...someday. We wish you well in your travels and all the best in your life's endeavours.

Greatest achievement of the day!

This is the 1st time after 4months i did myself proud. After not running for about 4 months, 200m is a great achievement eh? And it's not a JOG mind you... i RAN!

I had receive a call from Japanese lady (i gathered that through her accent) earlier in the evening who asked for the direction to The Hive. Manage to tell her to head for Boon Keng even though we had some communication barrier. I thought she would reach in maybe an hour but no one turned up. Guess she lost her way and ended up in another hostel.

A call then came at around 10. It was a lady....and sounded like the Japanese lady. Whether she is the Japanese lady or not it doesn't matter. She said she is at the 7-11 near Boon Keng MRT Station and asked how to get to the hostel. I tried to explain but gave up.....and yes....due to the communication barrier.

So i told her to wait for me. I would pick her up at the 7-11. Since Lin sui was near the area (he was on a mission to buy dinner at MacDonald's) i asked if he could meet up with her and bring her back. He was ok but he can only do that after he completes the mission. After much consideration, i cant afford to let her wait for too long. The sacred task is mine to accomplish!

I ran...and i emphasise RAN 200m to the 7-11. The traffic lights were in my favour and i ran non-stop. There she was...waiting outside the convenience store like i told her to. The rest is history...or rather...it's nothing interesting.

This might be the last run for the next few months? hehe....c'mon...i'm busy at The Hive.. give me a break!

The Reason

The 9th time I have attended the Commissioning Parade after my very own. Likely that this would be my last for the next 10mths.

I went back to Wingline and the feeling of being at home is still there. I went to the staircase outside the duty room where i would usually stand and stare blankly. Either that or i would be talking to my cadets or colleagues. Did the same pose i would usually do and Nizam took a picture of that. Memories locked forever.

Sat at the benches along the corridor. That was also where i would go when i was so stressed up with my work. I would sit there alone and someone will eventually end up sitting beside me. Be it my cadets or my colleagues or my boss. In the mornings after the runs with my boss, we would hang around the benches and chat. That place seems like a place where it creates an environment where there's no barrier, age or rank.
I went into the office i used to work in. It seems so big suddenly. The place where we were scolded, the place where me, Wille and Jas would sit there and bitch about everything, the place where i spent hours without sleep settling admin issues for our Taiwan trip, the place where my colleagues would come in and ask me out for meals, complain to me, rush me for certain things....that very place.

Sorry I had to keep talking about some other place when this blog is supposed to be dedicated to The Hive.

The Hive was set up because we wanted to retain the feelings i mentioned earlier. We were like a family. The Hive was meant to be another place we can call our own. Spend times like what we used to do. Hopefully it will be a place for 48/02, 52/03 and 56/04 to come together and do some catching up amongst their own batch.
That will be wonderful....wouldn't it?