Smoke Break Canceled at Tekong Ferry Terminal

​Confession by Saiful Bahri

My story happened in 2009, two nights before the fasting month. At Tekong of course, where else?
 
 I was fresh out of SISPEC. Assigned to do the TFT (Tekong Ferry Terminal) guard duty, a 'rite of passage' for all new specs posted there.
 
Like all guard rooms, there were monitors for the CCTVs installed around the complex. Amongst them was this one CCTV facing the old jetty.
 
It wasn't even late at night when my senior spotted something. Then he called me to confirm what he saw. I came over to take a look. We saw a very, very 'pocong' like being at the jetty just hopping about. I say 'like-being' because it was a blurry figure.
 
Then my senior did the unthinkable. He pulled seniority and asked me to go outside to check the 'thing' out. I said no of course. I didn’t care if he was going to charge me for insubordination.
 
So we decided to ignore it. Two hours into the incident, I wanted to go for a smoke break. I took a glance at the monitors to see if the "thing" was still there or not.
 
It was no longer there at the old jetty, instead, it was now hopping in front of the CCTV monitoring the carpark, which is right beside the smoking area. Needless to say, as smart readers and educated Singaporeans, that smoke break never happened.