Home Alone

A family holiday to Phuket, staying in a spacious chalet/resort with which my dad somehow booked for free and has room enough for 6. thats what the plan was for the whole family; plus invited 2 friends along to take the 2 extra spaces, from May 20 to 23. And i was looking forward to go for it, though always bore in mind the possibility of not being able to take leave. I told the rest to book for themselves first, and when i find out that i can take leave then i would book my own ticket. It turned out to be the right choice.

Only not long ago, after passing out from training did i get the answer - a very straightforward and seemingly bochup 'CANNOT' from the one in charge. the reason? OEMP (on job) training.
Gosh, just when i thought i had exitted trainee life, i find that i am still stuck in it, just with a bit more freedom than before and a few regimentations dispensed.

I vaguely remembered in his reply something about HPI (an equipment that i will not specialise in), and i thought thats funny, why would HPI training be so important to me when i am Launcher-specialised?
True enough, yesterday - the day my family flew off for a nice holiday without me - was spent in camp, the first half of the day sitting in the flight office waiting while the HPI people do their training, and the the later half hanging around the hangar just doing a little launcher training (still half the time doing nothing) while most of the attention was spent on the HPI crew.

I was enraged. Why on earth was i denied of taking leave when there was hardly anything on for me?! I am forced to miss out on a nice holiday that probably wont come again anytime soon, and instead be stuck in camp wasting time away. Every moment being wasted, i thought of where i could have been by then, and what i could have been doing... snorkeling, enjoying the waves, nature, or marine creatures. but its all so far away now.

Being left out did not end there. i am currently at home - home alone - over the whole weekend. And even though i do not talk or interact much with my family when they are around on the weekends, it seems suddenly so different now. the emptiness in the house could always be sensed, and as it stretches over extended periods, it builds a depressing aura that just makes me lose interest in the things i do at home. Good thing i got to go out quite a bit.

Well i hope they are having fun without me. I wont be seeing them till next weekend. I hope more opportunities would come in place of this. And I hope my TCA chief had covered his butt from something by conveniently denying me leave...