Wednesday, March 04, 2009
14:17:00
So I'm currently in the shop, finally getting a break.It has to be said, the lunchtime period is the busiest by far. People take advantage of the one or two hours they have for lunch to drop by the shop to pick up a few spare parts or to drop off their bike for servicing or whatever. Rushed off my feet for a full two hours, I'm not kidding. Not even a second to sit down.I'm going to be helping out in the shop till next Friday, as my parents flew off for a little holiday of their own in Taiwan just this morning. I woke up at the godforsaken hour of 4.15am to see them off. Not that I mind; they're my parents, mind you. But when you just spent the previous day also working and only getting to sleep around 12-ish, you're going to be hell tired the next day.Truth be told, fatigue hasn't quite hit me yet. Then again, I think I'm running on pure andrenaline at the moment. I bet I sleep like a log when I hit the sack tonight. It's just as well I'm not going to work tomorrow (the only day besides Sunday that I won't be, for this period), and that I'm only meeting Abby and SK in the evening. If we were meeting in the morning I wouldn't be able to make it. But hey, Abby doesn't wake up till 3 in the afternoon anyway, so there was never any danger of that happening =DAnother thing that's helping me keep awake is radio. Not local radio, radio on da intrawebz. I interchange between AbsoluteClassicRock (a British station) on iTunes and listening to a huge playlist of classic rock/blues music on www.last.fm. I can't stress this enough; once you go to radio on the internet, you'll never, never, go back to local radio. Well, for me, anyway. I just prefer the topics they come up with for discussion on Brit radio, and the music selection (from both sources) is just so, so much better than what's available on local radio, even the more bearable ones like Gold 90 (sure, go ahead and call me an old stick in the mud =D).I've already heard so much stuff from Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple and all these other legends, and I just can't get enough of it. Not just the usual stuff that Singapore radio plays from these guys either. Not just stuff like 'Smoke On The Water' or 'Voodoo Chile'. The variety is awesome. These stations really are for me.Lunchtime's over and there's significantly fewer customers now. I thought I'd have to write this post in chunks while I got up every few minutes to tend to another customer, but I managed to do it all in one sitting.It's gonna be one helluva week and a half. Then again, if everyday were like today I wouldn't mind too much. It could be much worse, that's for sure. My job sure as hell ain't easy, even if getting it is/was. Just as well it pays good, eh?Cheers mates.