you know when you've been here for too long.

you know when you've been here for too long:

1. when you've seen the squadron maintenance group become commercialised and have seen through the full transition phase.

2. when you've seen your boss end his tour.

3. when you've seen an instructor who was the lowest category become the 2nd highest category. (erm basically his teaching classification got upgraded bah.)

4. when you write in your flying log book marking the 13month that you're here.

5. when you find that 50% of your socks have 2 holes in them. and 90% have one hole in it. and these are military rated songs mind you! lol...

6. when canned food that you brought from singapore expires.

7. when chocolates that your darling sent to you expires and you still ain't got the heart to finish them all.

8. when almost $500/- worth of medicine is about to run out.

9. when a bottle of 500 capsules of cod liver oil begins to look really really empty.

10. when you've used more than 6 bottles of mouth wash.

11. when your flying gloves has got wholes for your finger nails to breathe.

12. when looking at how the french talk to you like he was speaking greek and you understand what he's telling you and whatever japanese you try to tell him, he still understands what the heck you're saying.

13. when after eating so much catered singaporean food that you decide to stop catering from them and soon realise that the next caterer kinda sucks too and you go back to the previous caterer and find that you live quite a sucky life.

14. after going through the catering cycle, you find out that eating at the specialist / officers mess is actually damm good. whereby you get a starter, main course, dessert, standard baguet, free flow of softdrinks, after meal coffee for only $13 sing. when macdonalds costs $14 for a 9 piece mcnugget meal.

15. when you find that your underwear has started to rip.

16. when the leather jacket that you bought from zara has seasoned!

17. when you've transited from GMT +1 to GMT +2 to GMT +1 and soon to GMT +2.

18. when you've started flying wearing immersion suits and up to now you're still required to wear immersion suits. (think of yourself in a big big big condom. nothing goes in. nothing comes out... what? water lah... you drop into the sea your body won't get wet one)

19. when your internet subscription contract expires. yes 1 year.

20. when the bulbs in your multiplug to show that your button is switched on blows...

21. when your darling and friends ask you for the hundred gazillionth time (note: intention is to state how much you want to see me. :P) "when are you coming back?" and the answer that you can reply to them is proves to be impossible for 5 times already.

and that is when you know that you've been here for too long.

any points for me sirs? if not thank you sirs.