Life as a Transcab Operator Part 3

It's my 3rd consecutive midnight shift in a row over in Transcab and I'll never understand how a full-time midnight staff can endure such a life. Staying awake while everybody is sleeping and sleeping while everybody is up and awake. Thank goodness it's all just temporary but there are still 2 more nights like these for this week. Oh well. Time will pass, it always does.

As expected of being the 3rd most senior staff in Transcab, I've tried out all the shifts already. Morning, afternoon, midnight.. I've been through all of them before. Well, if I have to choose which one I'll rather work, I'll probably choose the midnight shift - only if it's not too many days in a row.

Morning shift is the worst, well for obvious reasons. I've never been an early riser and I have always been sore with the fact that Big Breakfast, Hotcakes and Sausage McMuffins are only offered till 11am. (I'll only get to eat them when I ton overnight/work midnight shift). And I've always felt the old chinese "zao sui zao qi shen ti hao" saying was bull shit. What's the issue as long as I get ample 8 hours of rest? (As long I don't sleep too late and end up waking up with the whole day gone)

The working hours for morning shift are 7am to 3pm. 7 godly am. What time must i be in bed to live a healthy lifestyle? 10pm? Enough said. Even Channel 8 news is shown at 10pm. Goes to show that people are not meant to sleep at 10pm.

I think majority of my time with Transcab are spent during the afternoon shift, 3pm-11pm. I've actually met quite a few people who would rather take the morning shift over afternoon shift. Though it puzzles me sometimes, but it does make a little sense when they say "You can go out after work if you do morning shift, but afternoon shift you can't." Yup quite true, but still not for me, I can't put myself to sleep at 10pm even if I count a million sheeps in my mind.

Midnight shift (11pm-7am) is undoubtedly the best. Most people would choose like say 10am or 5pm as the time they feel most energetic and awake. For me, I would say 2am or 3am is the time I'm most productive. It has always been like this actually. During my 3 years in Temasek Polytechnic, most of the assignments I have are usually done at night when my Dad and Sis are sleeping and when it's all peaceful and quiet. It's usually the time when I feel creative, and yeah, even Letty's departure poem is written around that time.

And most importantly, there are very few calls during midnight shift. Once again, for obvious reasons. So the main problem here is to find ways to keep myself awake for the whole night. Oh by the way, my manager is extremely particular about people sleeping on their job, yeah even midnight shift. It's usually sleep and get sacked kind of concept around here. (In case you're wondering how my manager knows if I'm sleeping, there are 3 surveillance cameras staring at me right now)

And the solution is to bring food, videos and games to work. It's always cup noodles for the food for its simple and cheap. (Though i've been eating the same one all the time, I'm just so boring) and I'm watching Slam Dunk for the video part. Very nice anime, I've got no idea why I left it so late to watch this anime. Jun Wei is right, what have I been doing during my secondary school years? I'll leave that for another blog post someday. And I'm currently playing Pro Evolution Soccer, Become A Legend mode on PSP. Together with the New Paper, these are the "friends" I have that keeps me going through the night.

Oh, and of course blogging. This entry helped me to burn 1 hour today. Pretty good, considering I have plenty of time to burn. What should I do now, read, watch anime or play PSP? Or just mope about the fact that it would be nice to have a girlfriend now. Hmm...