Survival of the fittest

Sometimes, working in shifts takes its toll on your body.

For my case, its abit of that, plus the very fact that my work place is beside old changi hospital. This makes buying food very very inconvenient. The front gate is located such that you will need to exchange some perspiration for some good food in Changi Village( just like some army camps where you literally had to do DETOUR around for 800m for a direct distance of 100m )

All thanks to that, i have to plan my timing strategically for meals. If i had to start work at 1pm, i had to leave the house by 1045am in woodlands, take an express bus 969 ( not really so 'express'; bus had to plough thru the veins of yishun town first ), so that hopefully ( if there's no jam in TPE ) i can reach tampines interchange by 1155pm and have my 10min lunch at the nearest food court.

After that i am under the mercy of this bus number 19, that comes once every 10-15min. This bus journey will take up another 20-35min ( if there is NO JAM in loyang avenue), before leaving me stranded at the foot of my work place ( the radar centre is located at the top of Biggin Hill ). Time check now will be about 1245pm.

I will then do a mini trek up, leaving me in beads of perspiration by the time i embrace the entrance.

Good workout some may say, but coincidentally, my 1155pm lunch would have been digested from that long 35min bus ride on 19 and the mini trek up.

So by 230pm, my gastronomic senses would start to spring alive yelling for food. Being a trainee in live traffic environment, i cant plug in and out my headset anytime for a snack because i need to maximise my training curve per controlling session ( about 1.5 to 2 hrs )

Working from 1-8pm means that i would have sat roughly for 3 such sessions, leaving me fighting my own war with my stomach as i try to squeeze brain juice on numbers and spatial awareness. Working in a 15deg environment worsens it.

When my digital watch beeps 745pm, i finally earn my right to go home. Everything repeats itself as per day travelling, except that the last bus out from loyang to tampines comes around 815pm.

This means that i CANT HAVE MY DINNER in changi village at all. No time!!!!!

Now comes the final struggle. I reach tampines interchange around 845pm ( provided smooth traffic in loyang ) to join the queue for 969 home. If i'm unlucky, i would have to stand for 30min ,hungry and weary, until i reach home at 930pm.

And the best part is, my next day would start at 8am in the morning, so i try to eat sparingly and consciously, not wanted to suffer indigestion by sleepng early with a full stomach.

Funny part to all these phenomenon is: HOW COME my flabby tummy is still there?