Sunday, July 16, 2006

There are so many cyclops around!

Just yesterday, I took a bus trip to the airport to see a friend off to Down Under. Before the bus reached Terminal 1, it stopped at the security checkpoint. A policewoman looking very stern came up onto the bus. She scanned around while walking to the back, then she walked back to the front and out of the bus. The bus is now safe of any explosives.

What? Does she have some mutant powers or what?
" Yes, I have checked everyone's bags and the whole bus and I am sure there's no bombs in the vehicle because of my X-rays eyes!"

The bus halted at another security checkpoint before going to Terminal 2 again. This time a policeman came aboard. I suppose he is of a higher calibre mutant. The reason? He came up, said hello to the bus driver, glanced the whole bus from the front and stepped out of the bus later.

Yeah I know this might be his 876th bus that he has checked but please do it with more commitment. If I were a terrorist, I would have blown up the place without much difficulty.

It seems like the security at Kallang Stadium is even tighter than Changi Airport. Every spectator is ordered to open his bag and dispose of any plastic water bottles in sight before entering the stadium. Yes, plastic bottles.

I actually agreed with Mr Brown who labelled the SAF officers LTA Eye Power. Imagine at a training shed where the men are supposed to clean their arms and there's no superiors around. You can see some of them dozing off or basically slacking around. All it needs is one 2LT to stand in front of them, just using his eyes to look around and the efficiency would have gone up. If there is LTA Eye Power, then there should be PTE Wayang.

Of course, the magnitude of the eye power increases with the rank.

And this senario is not restricted to the SAF. It occurs in many places too. In a classroom without a teacher will be like a bustling market. An office without the manager will still be filled with keyboard typing noises, that is the employees chatting on MSN.

I have a soccer teammate who actually marks opponents with his eyes. His opponent would run out of his vicinity and got the ball. This friend of mine, with his eyes, looking at the opposition player with full of determination, hoped that the ball will be swept off his feet with his visual forces. I would really like to learn from him. He gave a whole new dimension to defending.

If he was playing the last man, he would have been marking the whole opposition team, with their keeper included.


-doubleU

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