Festivities Along the Corridor!

LOL!

Thats right!

Festivities is round the corner along the corridor because I am already halfway there!

HAHA!

Had my first Chinese New Year celebration on Wednesday with almost the whole company when the original plan was to have with it with only the IS people!

The dinner cum Lou Hei was at Farmart, some bird-don't-lay-eggs corner of Chua Chu Kang and Lim Chu Kang.

Then came Friday...

When the entire HQ Armour, including my unit of course, was involved in the Chinese New Year celebration with the bosses and big bosses and big big ballsbosses of HQ Armour.

Played 3 rounds of BINGO! which none did I took part. Then got to lou hei again with my platoon mates but this time the lou hei quality lousier but more violent. Edwin Ng got veggie strands on his head! LOL! But I must say the food catered seems really not bad though I only ate the Ice Kacang because thats the only thing we get to make ourselves, as in add in the ingredients ourselves! LOL.

After that, my platoon mates went to PS with me to celebrate my 20th BIRTHDAY at Manhattan's Fish Market!! They finally got rid of the non-existent butter cod and replaced it with something called Cherry something.

I realised I really have an ability to quickly forget things that ain't appealing to me. Like the Cherry something.

LOL.

Then at night, my family brought me to the long-ago-wanted-to-go restaurant called the Prima Revolving Restaurant at Harbourfront area. LOL. My parents kept telling me that they brought me there once when I was much much much younger. And the restaurant is still revolving after so so so many years! PLUS POINT: you don't get dizzy with the spinning. LOL

And the dinner is really a 1x expensive one. Though the food is exemplary.

Today woke up.

Really wished it was 2010, because I will ORD on my birthday next year which is this date. HAHA!

Found many SMSes left by my loved ones and writings on my Wall. Once again, I really thanks everyone for remembering this date and spending the effort to SMS me or write on my wall. THANKS ALOT, especially when I saw SMSes and writings from friends whom we rarely communicate with each other in Nan Hua Sec.

There were some really LOL SMS such as one from Meiting which wished my a Happy 18th Birthday! HAHA! After I exposed her, she aid she meant me to be always as young as 18 years old. HAHA. I AM! LOLOLOL. I mean mental age. HAHA!

Another one is infuriating because I got tricked! LOL! because Chrsitine wrote a sms with a FULL STOP in the middle and blank blank the middle part, and I really thought it was a full stop. So only reading till there, I replied her and THAT EXPOSED ME!!

ARGHH!

When she replied me, I shouted OMG! in my room lah! And laughed silly myself. LOL.

Wei Hong, you cannot believe yourself man. ZZZ.

And tomorrow is still to have the usual Reunion Steamboat on the Redwood table and maybe some visiting at night.

Monday will be seeing most of my relatives = most of my angbao! HAHA!

Tuesday most probably is rest already because I need to book in at night!

Then on, only you will know when I will blog again, because when I blog again, you will see it here. LOL! HAHA!

Enter February, there will be a 2 day course, equipment test, 2 weeks of exercise.

Lets all let Mr March wait for us to catch up first ba!

Sneak Preview at 2009!

BAM!

I believe my first 6 months of 2009 is going to be a blockbuster, topping box office all around Singapore.

Why?

Because the past week has been a simulation of what I will be doing for the next 5 months. And who knows what will happen again after June 2009.

But despite my tone, I am quite certain everything will pass quite fruitfully with at least an overseas trip in bag.

Anyway, went to my Aunt's husband's funeral yesterday night. It was somewhat not as sombre as what I thought it would be. Perhaps I only felt sadness fromhis immediate family. Somethings doesn't tally with what I thought a funeral is always like. Quite glad that my cousins took it well, perhaps because they were all mentally prepared for some time already.

Love, I garner, is really really such a profound intangible.

It is has many identities.

It lets one misunderstand the wrong identities.

It keeps one guessing if it is true.

It makes one irrational.

It makes one seek for cheap thrills.

It makes one sacrifice.

It makes one keep a portion of conscious for the loved one.

It makes one think of her whenever he sees something related.

It makes one's insides burn when they are not together, just like how Dumbledore felt when he drank the potion in the cave that was hiding the Horcrux.

I believed everyone has loved something or somebody at a certain point in life. I don't know about others, but I felt it has a life of its own. It grows. It has roots like a fungus, hard to rid of it and it grows again at every chance it has.

Someone said it well, try to rediscover what it was that brought you two together in the beginning, and see if it's still there today. if it's gone, it's time to move on.

For me, I guess I tried to move on, but realised that I am still rooted to the very start.

And to the readers, do believe that nothing is too late, except for latecoming.



And I can't believe I typed that chunk of incoherent.

P.S I will try to blog as often as possible, with more interesting entries than today's. LOL

First Cohesion in 2009!

YO!

Woke up terribly late today for my company cohesion.

Was supposed to meet at Vivo tram station at 10am and I woke up at 9.20am.

Brushed, bathed, packed, cabbed.

Right! I cabbed down. Or else I would have been late. Again, for cohesion.

Carried ice all the way from Beach Station to the end of Siloso Beach that is nearest to Rasa Sentosa.

Settled down and was all ready to play beach volley!! Although I really suck at it!

And I roughly played throughout ba!

Doesn't matter how well one play, it is how well one played his heart out that matters. Although there are people who felt that the cohesion did not cater to everyone.

Haha. Tut tut.

I hope that 2009 in army will be as enjoyable as 2008!

Familiarisation!

It has been a few weeks since I entered my new unit!

I guess everything has been going fine. Lots of happenings already!

And because I always never go nights-out during the weekdays, I spend all my weekends going out. Thats why I have no time to blog at all for the past 2 weekends!

Hectic Saturday I had yesterday!

Chiong down JJC to get my A level certificate.

Chiong to Orchard to meet Richard get my long overdue books. YES its books again.

Sauntered down PA to meet up with DI and I was still quite early I guess.

Went to the floating platform and helped out with PA's item.

Chiong over to Marina Square to meet people. Half way stopped by some Prudential Financial Consultant. Don't know whats gotten into me. I actually bothered to listen to her speaking for quite some time.

Hello Ms Prudential, I have no money in my coffers except maybe some 1 cents which is lost in some cracks. Stop eyeing on my pitiful monthly allowances. Tsk.

By the time I met my friends, its already quite late. zzz

I just realised, my keyboard is freaking dirty already. Got to clean it soon.

Oh yes, the darn Prudential person said Economics is freaking difficult. Darn you.

Alright, I have alot of things to pack. Blog again next week.

Oh yes, I am promoted to Lance Corporal from 1 Aug!! A little more money into my coffers. Officially a Lan Jiao Peng from then on. HAHA~!

Still got to help my dog bath!

2 days of rest at home is not enough!!

Back To Routine!

No more alternate days of duty.

No more messy weekends.

Now, there is no more weekdays!

Thats right thats right! I have received my newest posting and it is a stay-in unit. Meaning I will be in camp from Sunday night to Friday evening. Meaninging only weekend free!

Era of Saving is back!

Oh yes, my permanent unit for the next 1.5 years is 23rd Signal Battalion, back to Sungei Gedong Camp for good.

Besides the inaccessibility, I guess everything there is rather fine.

One important thing! There will only be updates on the weekends. NO MORE NUFFNANG ADS FOR ME!!

And I am going to miss out on alot of things with my weekdays being used up. Thats why I missed out on Kim Yein's sis's gymnastics competition. Although I don't know the results but still congrats on being still in one piece! LOL

Anyway, met many people over the weekend when I went to sew my uniforms.

Claudine Chai Bao Ya

Anjolene and Nicole

Rachel

Ting Yang

Oh YES! I managed to see the fly past for NDP NE Show yesterday from my house.

JAN SUM. NOT ONLY YOU CAN SEE FROM YOUR HOUSE OK!

Time for me to continue my packing. Seems endless.

Tata people! I will be back soon~!

Offs and No More OFF!!

(Now Playing: 流浪记－梁文音)

我就这样告別山下的家
我实在不愿轻易让眼淚流下
我以为我並不差 不会害怕

我就这样自己照顾自己长大
我不想因为现实把头低下
我以为我並不差 能学会虛假

怎样才能夠看穿面具里的谎话
別让我的真心散的像沙
如果有一天我变得更复杂
还能不能唱出歌声里的那个家

我就这样告別山下的家
我实在不愿轻易让眼淚流下
我以为我並不差 不会害怕

我就这样自己照顾自己长大
我不想因为现实把头低下
我以为我並不差 能学会虛假

怎样才能夠看穿面具里的谎话
別让我的真心散的像沙
如果有一天我变得更复杂
还能不能唱出歌声里的那幅画

怎样才能夠看穿面具里的谎话
別让我的真心散的像沙
如果有一天我变得更复杂
还能不能唱出歌声里的那个家

原唱: 纪晓君

Mark the date everybody!

Today is the last day I will set foot in Sungei Gedong Camp for task I have been doing for more than a month! Hope I don't have to go to the birds-don't-lay-eggs camp which is hardly accessible and mosquitoes-infested!! But I think I will miss some of my bunk mates there.

And this leads to my title for the entry! I don't have to smell the weird odour of the insect repellent OFF! every night or the vapours of mosquito coils.

AND AND AND I am clearing my offs now! though I would prefer to save it first, no choice. But still,






H-U-R-R-A-Y





I am out of Sungei(pronouce soon-i, not sun-gey) Gedong Camp. And I am getting my unit posting soon. Wish me a lucky fairy.

Oh yes, some people out there might ask why I chose a new blog song. HAHA! Just listen to it and you will understand. The meaning behind the lyrics is really quite touching. So I used this version because I cannot really find the original singer's. Heard this song quite long ago, forgotten about it until I watched the episode when the singer was eliminated during the show and they was showing the past songs she sang.

Come to think of it, I even considered putting the Too Late To Apologise song on my blog because I have been singing it these few days in camp! HAHA! I think I am going to irritate people because I have a hunch that I will keep singing it tml when I meet my friends. Its too late to apologise, ITS TOO LAAAAAAAAAAATE~! *screams*

Now that the girls are back from Taiwan safe and sound (cliche), it is going to be noisy again. HAHA! Really really, the presents are not important (like real). ALL I wish for is for you all to be back home safely. *pukes*

On the past few off shifts, went out with Richard again because he was comtemplating buying a new MemoryStick for his PSP and in the end, we realised that it is actually quite unneeded. Ate the always-heard-of chicken chop rice at Far East. Finally got a taste of it. We ended up in bookstores again looking at books that we know we will be tempted to buy. And we always give in. *plays the music of the Temptation Island show I watched eons ago* I really have to start learning more cantonese from him but his accent is too heavy lah, I think. Very difficult for me to catch.

Soundwave! Almost forgotten that I will be watching Soundwave tml at the Esplanade with Koon Hui and Esther and Jan and still need to collect the cumbersome tickets from JieYim. The show has better be nice though its records for the past few years has been dismal. Its 24 dollars for a ticket!!

On a random note, I think I am going to the Cold Storage at Holland Village later. Heard that they sell the metal chopsticks that I am looking for. People people, its time to stop using those sufferable wooden chopsticks and turn to the metal ones. Besides saying NO! to cigarettes because I have been offered one too many times in camp, we should start NO! to those ignorant hawker aunties who gives free wooden chopsticks with every order.

I think I listen to my own blog song too many times until I felt a dementor near me.

Anyway, have you guys seen an advertisement that was advertising a product that reduces dark rings around your eyes at the bus stops? I think the advertisement is rather frightening because it makes me think of Shutter. Must the advertisers make the panda stuff toy sit on the lady's shoulders? Reminds me of the scene when the lead in the show had a sudden increase in weight and realised that a ghost was sitting on the shoulders after taking a picture. God-like show.

alright. bobby needs me now.

Ciao~! (See see?)

New Entertainment!

I know I know! I didn't blog on the last time I booked out from camp! But I should be pardoned because I was out on a mission! LOL

Everything went like this. I suggested to Richard (BMT goody friend) that we should go sun tanning because the sun was simply fabulous at that time when I called him. And he, being the lazy bum, refused to face the sun like some vampire. LOL And he also didn't want to go to Queensway SC because its too far. I thought there was no place in Singapore that is near for him.

So we met in Wheelock Borders. He really looked pissed because I 'caused' him to wake up too early. -.- BUT the main mission for the day is to source for a PSP! Haha! And so we were in Far East because I had unreliable sources saying that there is a shop that sells PSP at a lower price.

We really met all sorts of shopkeepers there.

From old Ah Beng who self proclaim that all this stuff are real to ah peks who talk with his hand half covering his mouth and seemed to treat us as non-existent. This is what I call desensitised uncles. Someone who answers so many queries everyday but yet none bought anything from him.

We learned how to spot real and fake Sony Memory sticks (4Gb)!! By using your naked eye, the words on the true blue original Sony memory card will look greyish and less bright than the fake ones, on which the words are purely white in colour and bright. One thing is that the fonts and font size are the same!

If you are using a PSP, you can go to check the memory card information. Real Sony ones will have Magic Gate supported while fakes do not support Magic Gate, although I don't know what that is. Can it be eaten?? ZzzZZZzz

One thing to take note, fake Sony memory cards cracks and breaks easily. Really easily. Especially at the comb-like part. Somemore, even fakes have difference in quality. Some fakes are better than some. Ironic!

Anyway, back to the story.

So in then end, we went to a ulu shop and found what we want! We really spent alot of time in Far East because of indecisiveness! LOL.

And today, stupid Richard don't even want to reply my sms on whether we are going out today! I think he is just scared that I will drag him to Sentosa! HAHA!

*NEWSFLASH*

If KY/PF/IVY/YS is reading this, please be informed that there is a high possibility that I might not be able to meet you all while you guys are on the way to the airport because my newest state-of-the-art Golden Arrow Sensors sensed that I will fall victim to Golden Arrows on Saturday.

If so, there might be a chance that I might not even be able to make it to the airport by 1215 on Sunday. It all depends on luck then!

No matter what, I will inform you guys again on Saturday.

*NEWSFLASH*

And today, I have spent some time zhng-ing the PSP version. LOL and watching all-time favourite Bobby Ouyong's Forensic Scientist 2. And doing all the things that I need to do, like blogging!

Oh yes. The stupidest thing happened this morning. Samaritan Teo was half dragging and half carrying the 3 bags of rubbish and 1 ration bag for about 100m. When he is left with 25 more metres to go, a bag of rubbish broke open. And very very unfortunately, that bag contains nothing but Me Tai Mak(老鼠粉). Lots of it. So there was a unsightly picturesque trail of Mak on the road. I really tried to pick big chunks of it up already!

I wonder if I will get into trouble tml. Maybe they might ask me to eat up all the leftover food in future so that there wouldn't be anymore such incidents in future. LOL JOKING LAH. Those people are so nice, I hope.

WAIT. KEEP STILL THERE!

I just heard 4 gunshot-like audio signals. I hope they are not culling anymore crows in my area again. The last time they did it, a dead crow fell onto the back ofmy Dad's lorry. The sight was unsightly.

Time for me to continue with more entertainment!

Ask me for the links to watch it online!

Lizard Galore!

WOOTS. I am back from camp, yet again!

Finally brought my bedsheet and pillow case home to give it a thorough wash to rid it of the greyish shade and weird stains, though the few small brownish weird stains is still there. I really thought that the bedsheet wouldn't dry up in time for me to to bring back camp tml and use. But it is dry like dry biscuits within hours. Maybe this is one good side of global warming. LOL JOKING LAH~!

Was feeling rather siao on today! Even though I had night duty again yesterday (badly woken up at 3 am!!), I still went to have a good run after soaking the bedsheet and pillow case. Stamina really is CMI. At least at SI, there was something that pushes me to run even with aching tendons. I really miss SI and the warrant officers there!

Washed up and had breakfast. Was drinking Vitasoy and eating some cake-ish thingy that we all had eaten before when we were young. It was bought by my brother's girlfriend and seriously, it looked rather nice to eat. So, eat lor. Vitasoy plus nice cake-ish thingy plus good 'ol newspaper to read, relaxing isn't it.

A few hours later, my mother returned home. I think she was enticed by the packaging of the cake-ish thingy and she, unlike me, took out the packet from the plastic bag and suddenly,
















AHHHHHHHHHHHH! *a spine-chilling scream*









I thought my dog pee-ed at some forbidden place lah. So I went to the living room and took a look. My mother was holding on to the bag of cake-ish thingy and asking me if I ate anything from there.

THEN I SAW A FARTING BIG LIZARD SLEEPING COMFORTABLY UNDER ALL THE CAKE-ISH THINGY IN THE BAG LAH!

Can you imagine how nice the cake-ish thingy are? Even the lizard risk being killed to be able to lie with all the cake-ish thingy. Seems like I made a right choice to eat it! I guess this is what will happen when even houseflies and mozzies are not enticing. The kingdoms of houseflies and mozzies really need to buck up and pull up the wings.

My mother was still laughing, saying I shared saliva with a lizard, large one some more.

The next thing my mother said is to buy the cake-ish thingy again and leave it there to attract more lizard because she really hates the lizards. Once, she bought those sticky pads that attracts lizards to it. After a few days, you will find dismembered pieces of the lizards stuck on the sticky pads because when the lizard is stuck, it kept moving trying to break free until it tore its body. And the bad thing about it. Hordes of ants will come out to claim the lizard. So the sticky pads will have a trail of dead ants, sacrificed themselves for the rest to be able to reach the lizard.

Come to think of it, I should have kept the lizard in the bag and brought it to my current camp. I think the lizard will find the mozzies at night to be challenging. Tough wings to crack. The mozzie coils are bad for health. WE NEED NATURAL PREDATORS OF MOZZIES IN CAMP!

Come on. Don't. Don't be jealous. You people out there might not even have such a close encounter with the lizard, moreover I met a big one. HAHA! I should have taken a picture of it for safekeeping! Wasted.

For now, the lizard is safely lying together with the rubbish in the rubbish chute.

Anyway, there was this small article on the Straits Times yesterday claiming that we might have found a new source of crude oil which is produced as by-products by bacteria, just now how ethanol is produced from yeast. And if it feeds on the Brazilian sugar canes, a barrel of crude oil might just cost USD50!! It is really something to look forward to amid all the noise about having not enough crude oil production as demand is outstripping the supply. Isn't that the purpose of abolishing subsidies and raising prices so that demand will decrease because it is no longer worth it to consume oil, though we learn that it is a commodity we are all too dependent on. I suddenly thought of Ms Lai. (Shall not post her cute picture here)

We shouldn't really be too concerned with the oil thing actually. What we have forgotten is the core of the current problem. We are facing global warming because of too much carbon dioxide being released into the air. Yes, we need carbon caps, we need to reduce production levels to that of many years ago. However, we also need to constantly replenish the lungs of Earth. Have we been focusing on reforestation? Are we all giving it up because we all deem it as something which only produces effect in the long term?

Ironic isn't it? It is precisely because trees help in the long term, that is why we should start now. By the time carbon caps are taking its effect, we will realise that the lungs are working. Reducing carbon production is not going to work well, because it is a reduction, not a ban. Allowing the nature to take its natural path is the one more certain way of preventing a catastrophe.

Everyone should watch An Inconvenient Truth and National Geographic's 6 Degrees.

And why am I getting so anal about the global warming thing?

Because I cannot get to have a good sleep in camp due to the thermometer bulb blasting temperature. I will keep tossing on the bed to get to a new cooler spot. Just when I was about to fall asleep, the guy sleeping on the upper level of the double decker bed starts his choosing of the cooler spot. So the double decker will start to shake like people shaking their bombom. And the most irritating thing is that there is a wall fan! But it only turns for 5 degrees before it turns away again! So it is practically only blowing cool air to the lifeless aisle.

I must try to fix that tml when I return to camp.

I MUST!

It Was A Black Friday!!

Fridays the 13th have never been a bad day for me, at least in contrast to what everyone say.

There was no spoilt doorlocks, no banana peels for me to step on outside my house, no dead rats/birds on the to camp, no traffic jams, no vehicle breakdown, I didn't forget to bring camp pass, I didn't kena any bird shit. None of that sort.

AND someone else got the morning Golden Arrow.

I was a happy man!

But somehow, the day felt weird. It was warmer than usual in the afternoon, my head felt a bit giddy a bit headache-y. I really wondered why.

Checked my phone. A missed call from the Golden Bow. Within half an hour, I realised that I kena the Night Golden Arrow.

What pisses me off is that there are people who have not done their share and yet the cycle is deemed completed and it was my turn again!

I really lost my source of optimism yesterday until night time.

At least for the past half year, I have managed to tell myself to look at things in different perspectives and savour the benefits that is hidden. Yesterday really made me feel like being demented. LOL like many dementors flying past me.

So there goes my first bad Black Friday.

Anyway, one happy thing to look forward to: Dad's Day Celebration!

Finally one good day for my dad to relax a bit, though he still have to drive me to camp tml! HAHA! But he has always been the one organising celebrations for the -days during the year, until a point when we might panic a little on how to celebration his day. HAHA!

I hope the dinner is a night one.

Have you not planned for a Dad's Day celebration?

Recently, I took a good look at my parents and really looked closely. I really felt that that have grown older, more wrinkles, more white hair. Take a good look at your parents and spot the differences. It makes you want to provide them with a good life in future, no matter what has happened between you and your parents.

Anyway, anyone care to share how you guys celebrated or intend to celebrate this day with your Dad?

It's a short post today! Many things to do. Go jogging, calculate my meagre income, prepare for the dinner, feed the dog etcetc. Plus I have less things to write due to the Night Golden Arrow. Actually I do have thigns to write. But maybe today is just not the day. HAHA. I am ironic, or ironicer. LOL

Sour Grapes

*NEWSFLASH*

Singapore's Ministry of Defence has declared a three-day time-out (12-14 June) on all physical and endurance training activities in the army, navy and air force.

This follows the deaths of two servicemen within two days. 20-year-old Officer Cadet (OCT) Lam Jia Hao Clifton, a pilot trainee with the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF), died on Wednesday, one-and-a-half hours after he collapsed while he was undergoing jungle orientation training in Brunei.

A day earlier, 20-year-old army recruit Andrew Cheah Wei Siong died after he fainted while taking part in a two-kilometre walk training activity on Pulau Tekong.

Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean said the time-out will allow the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) to review and re-focus on training activities to ensure that proper procedures are in place before training resumes. - CNA/ir

*NEWSFLASH*

Personally, I feel that there will always be fishes who can escape from the fishing nets. LOL Just like how Mas Selamat escaped from a detention centre. Nothing is perfect, right? The training methodology can be changed and refined numerous times but it certainly cannot cover for all people, for everybody has different physical weakness. Of course, changes have to be made and I can understand the feeling of the deceased's family members. But the presence of conscription has always and will always be a controversial issue, though we all know its presence is a must to deter aggressors. So, I really hope the family members can understand the dilemma the government is facing.

Anyway, booked out TODAY!!! Although I do that every other day. HAHA!

Have been watching videos of Jam Xiao on Youtube since I returned home. LOL All the way until now. HAHA. Some of the songs he sing is really very very very nice. Especiallyn the one he was competing with Lai Ming Wei for the Highest-Pitched voice. His ending attempt was so intriguing.

Back to topic. Was in mood today, so I went to cut my supposedly long hair and bought a big basket of crimson seedless grapes at Holland Village Cold Storage without even deciding if it will be nice. LOL It really feels good sometimes to do something without even weighing the consequences, just going with your heart. Oh yah. So the sign there wrote a price per 100grams. So after taking one basket of grapes, I was walking around searching for the non-existent weighing machine.

And I found a machine, really! It has a touch screen and a silver box by the side. I thought the weighing machines nowadays have became so advanced and I was just a step from putting my grapes on the silver box until I touched the screen and it showed me lists of recipes and cooking tips! -.- HOW CAN A WEIGHING MACHINE TEACH YOU RECIPES!?!? But there is seriously no machines around that produces the sticker showing the price!

So I decided to act dumb (live longer) and go to the cashier and try to pay money. HAHA! And it worked! Because the cashier's conveyor belt (something Peifang is buying for her Dad because she said the belt she bought for her Dad is not big enough!! AHAH!!) has a in-built weighing machine! RAHH!

COLD STORAGE GOT NO MORE STICKERS SHOWING PRICE!

Went home feeling like a sour grape then, as in not like the fox-didnt-eat-grape thing but the feeling went juice splurts out of a grape when you bite into it, just that the juice is SOUR.

So I continued to watch the videos like nobody's business while eating sweet grapes! There was one when Jam was invited to SPOP. That is one of the few rare times when I felt Quan Yi Feng didnt compere well enough. Jam Xiao was like even more awkward lah! The most hilarious video is the one below in 康熙来了.



Really a pity that I don't have that cable channel.

Still got videos where he was invited to shows like 棒棒糖 when those 棒棒糖 guys really cannot sing for nuts! I think they were disturbing Jam Xiao and the Youtube comments for them was really bad! The other funny one was when he was interviewed by 国光帮帮忙.

Until just now when I was bugging Tracy to tell me more about FASS de system. LOL. Now I need to start deciding what exposure modules I want to do and have high chance of being able to do well! Mentioning about university makes me think of Economics and reminded me that Credit Suisse estimated that inflation for June might reach 8.5%!!

Making plans for the future already Wei Hong! Well Done! No need clap. Crap. I still got 1.5 years to go. ZZzZZZzzzZZ

Maybe I should post the funny videos of Jam Xiao here! LOL. Beats you reading tonnes of words I have typed.

Enough for today. Farewell my people. I will miss you all. (See, I didn't use commonly used word like Bye because my blog is going INTERNASIONAL, sia lah!, with visitors from US, Turkey, Germany, Russia. High standards. HAHA)

THANK YOU. YOU. HAHA!

Time of The Golden Arrows

HELLO EVERYBODY!

Had exceptionally more things to do yesterday in camp because people are practising how to use their bow and arrows. So I got some injury and more are expected on the way.

BUT BUT I got to say the experience of going out is rather enriching. At least I got to talk with people in depth and realised that there are people who still favours minimum wage policy although it wil be detrimental. Maybe he doesn't realise about the bad side (backside, HAHA!) of the minimum wage policy. HmM. Talked alot of rubbish together. Like the petrol ban because my friend there rides a motorbike, why is there a difference in development of Singapore and Malaysia, if foreigners led to less jobs for locals etcetc. Although he is a Malay himself, there wasn't any element of racism and we were truthful with what we felt. I call this constructive exchange. LOL

Anyway, was hyper tired on the way home but today I got a hyper nice Bus Captain!! And it really made the day. He may be bald, but he greets everyone who board the bus and checks the aircon every now and then to make sure we are feeling comfy. Some aunties who are going to the markets seem to know him very well! It is SMRT's good fortune to have such good employee, although I still detest their furry seats. Traps dust that can fill up one Krusty Crab.

Took MRT from CCK to my house. I really felt that no matter how developed Singapore is, how good our education system is etcetc, we cannot deny the fact that we still face the problem of juvenile delinquents. There was this trio on the same pole as me, talking about how they hate people staring at them because of their outlandish hairstyle and how their friend got into hospital because he got hacked by a parang toh, with a sense of accomplishment! LOL. My point is, Singapore faces declining birth rate (not sure about now), so every child born is becoming increasing valuable to the country as the people is the asset.

LOL this is getting so serious. HAHA!

Let me post something random then~!

Professor Parkash Chander

National University of Singapore, Head of Department of Economics

And seriously, I did not choose NUS in the end because of somebody. I find it rather nonsensical. 'Nuff said. Some jokes should be thrown away after its expiry date.

Now, my brother juat came along and asked which university I chose. And he was surprised that I chose NUS. Only now then he tell me he felt NUS is the weakest among the 3 universities. And he didn't want to say that when I asked for opinions so long ago. There is just this consensus among my family members this time round. I think they have agreed to let me choose whatever I want so all of them refrained from giving their opinions on choices. Now that I have chosen, he ask me why I choose the weakest. I rather he tell me from the start where he thinks I should go. And not to always give a half-hearted answer whenever I asked for opinions. Part of the reason I chose NUS is the fees, half of which he will be paying.

This really wrecked the day, although it is ending.

If I make a wrong decision, it will be entirely my fault, period. Because my sister, my brother and his girlfriend have already told me they felt NUS is not good for its economics. And I still chose it, albeit at the very last moment. Perhaps their perception of what I am going to do in future is different from what I had in mind.

Most often, encouragement doesn't come when you need it the most.

OPTIMISM!!!

That was 2 months of inactivity!

HELLO MY BABES AND HUNKS! *WAVES*

BYEBYE!

HAHA! No lah no lah! I willl not end this entry until I have successfully painted my 2 months of interesting monotonous life! YAY :)

Anyway, I ended my last post with my posting and so I shall continue from there!

Ok. Come to think of it, days are really passing fast. I have already finished my 8-week course for IS Signallers at Stagmont Camp which I think I will save everyone the agony of reading the happenings.

Lets not fill this entry up with all the army stuff. Maybe I shall talk abt the trilemma that I went through during this period and I am sure there are other people out there who has or will go through the same phase as me.

University

Starting from late April, many of us in the platoon was starting to get anxious in whether the universities that they have applied to has accepted them or not. almost every other day you hear news of people getting acceptance letters and worse, if they got letters from the university that you have applied too. Of course, there are some academically outstanding ones who got a place in places like Imperial College, Columbia University etcetc which makes local university look so minute and mediocre.

I am very fortunate and humbled to be accepted by the 3 local university in Singapore with my not-very-fantastic-results as compared to many of my fellow platoon mates in Stagmont.

Initially, I applied for all the 3 universities without an aim because I have not much of a preference at that time. So I thought I can give myself more time to think through everything and then decide on a uni.

And there I go, with the advent of the acceptance deadline drawing near, I am still rather unsettled on one university. Partly because I still spent most of the time enjoying the remaining days in camp. Mainly because each university has its own merits and demerits.

Nonetheless, I have choosen to go SMU's School of Economics AND GRAB THAT SUMMA CUM LAUDE! WHEE~! Of course, I would most probably be quite lonely there because I have no friends going there! NVM. Its all about survivability! haha!

Master Plan for next 1.5 Army Years

Over these 2 months I have also drawn up plans to upgrade myself! but those are top secret plans which I shall keep it until it matures! HAHA! Alot of factors need to be considered like my future unit and financial status etcetc.

( NINCOMPOOP. Someone from my opposite block thought that I was peeping at them and they closed the window lah! )

Rants

Passed my signal course, of course. Accepted by all 3 local universities. Increased army allowance. New working environment. Oil price hike. No guard duty for the next 1.5 months. Worsening inflation. Reduced subsidies for petroleum in Asia. Dr Chee Soon Juan. Pedra Branca Singapore's. Chosen SMU School of Economics. Outing with BMT mates. Drinking with JC clique at Clarke Quay. Sichuan Earthquake. Missed Mother's Day with my mother. Canterbury Clearance Sale.

There are so many things that happened recently that makes me wanna laugh and cry. I guess everything will simmer down soon after I have convinced myself about my uni choice. It is always difficult to type an entry after a hiatus.

I WILL UPDATE REGULARLY.

Professor Roberto S. Mariano

Dean, Singapore Management University School of Economics

Anyway, Happy June 2008 everybody!!!

The Chronicles of PES C BMT!! (Part 1)

*Sorry for the lack of or no pictures!!*
*MUST READ for people going army soon!!*

Days before Enlistment:

As a matter of fact, I was really not feeling any anxiety or worrying about what might happen in camp. Perhaps I was busy preparing the stuff for army, spending time with family(extremely important) and taking a last look at NH Dance before I go in.

Parents being parents, they will occasionally pop the questions on whether I am worried, whether I am afraid of life in army. And sons being sons, even if they are afraid/worried/nervous/not feeling well, they will just say everything is OK.

With a mentality that things inside might get a little tough, I, subsequently everybody, bought more than enough stuff to bring into camp in case we will need it. Certain stuff will be elaborated on later on.

The point is to spend ample time with your family because the 2 weeks of confinement adjustment period, when you do not get to book out for a weekend, is quite draining for some of my friends in army. They are simply too attached. Not to say that being too attached is wrong. Moreover, the first inspiring quote I see is:

BMT
It's not what you left behind,

It's what you gain in the days ahead.

Enlistment Day (25/1/2008):

Everything seems especially slow that day. Wake up slow, movement also slow. Lucky I already got everything packed into my Crumpler the day before. And my Crumpler almost exploded on the way there due to the amount of things I bought. HAHA. NONONO. I think its due to the smallness of the the Crumpler space. And I am not the worst. There are people who brought luggages, some with the mentality of going to a chalet. Anyway, things were loaded onto my Dad's lorry and we set off.

I did get more anxious regarding the army on the way there because no matter how much you have prepared yourself for it, there is still an uncertainty. It is something like us going to our kindergarten/Primary school. You dunno what is going to happen there. Anyway, there was just silence between my parents and I. Perhaps, all 3 of us were worried. HAHA!

Reached the familiar SAF Ferry Terminal at Changi area. It's familiar because my juniors and I cycled past it just last month. Past the security check and sat down there waiting for the ferry to come. Things start to turn for the better when I saw people like Kester Ng (primary school classmates and super duper good friend), Sun A Yong (NH friend) etcetc at the Terminal.

Boarded the ferry and the trip to the island named Pulau Tekong was unusually slow. Everybody did have a big bag. HAHA. So I am saved, because the rule to having a smooth BMT is not to be the first or the last. But the thing is, my alarm clock rang on the ferry! I was flustered at that time because I thought having an alarm clock was an exaggeration. Luckily the clock was buried deep inside my bag and not everybody heard the ring.

The snaily ferry reached Tekong and I was separated with my parents almost immediately. LOL. And the first item that was taken away from me was the PINK NRIC! AND IT MEANS THAT I AM NOW A NSF!! Sat down with everybody on the ferry and waited quite long for instructions. In the end received a GREEN IC, dogtag and the notification of my company. Then we were taken to another place to sit and be briefed by a person who was funny to me. He was later known to my company CSM (Company Sergeant Major) MSG Kelvin Wee.

WHY was he funny? We were all standing up, practising the oath with him. So we need to read sentence by sentence after him. He read super loudly and seriously and he was very proud to shout GOVERNMENT (pronouced by him as GAR-DER-MENT). The combination of his expression and the mispronunciation was hilarious. But I was in the front row and had no choice by to CONTROL!!

Soon, we were brought into the Auditorium, sat down and watched our parents streaming in. PARENTS! Never ever go in and walk around trying to find your child and after finding him, you laugh hysterically. It is really dumb and lame. I am really lucky that my parents are experienced people so they knew what not to do.

Then we were brought to lunch! Before we could reach cookhouse, we need to walk through the company buildings which are klike a maze because all the buildings looks the same! Walked and walked until we reached the crowded cookhouse. The first taste of cookhouse food is always the best! I still remember that lunch was chicken rice and its really better than some of the ones outside! It is not as bad as some of you think. And the best of it. THE FOOD IS FREE!

Good times dun last. And its time to be separated with my parents for 2 weeks. They left Tekong and we were brought to our company building to leave my civilian stuff in our room. OMFG! THEN, I SAW MY FIRST GHOST IN TEKONG!!

to be continued...




ANYWAY, I have received my posting!!

I have been posted to the Signals Institute to be trained as a Signal Operator aka Signaller! My new camp is the Stagmont Camp at Chua Chu Kang! So I guess it will be like going to PJC from my house. Heard its quite near Lot 1! HAHA! Plus it is a stay-in course. So I will get to save money involuntarily! Just hope everything will be fine. Though I need to bring everything I had in Tekong back to Stagmont. LOL!

Coming Soon!

Amid all the saddening and shocking news such as the death of Lydia Sum and the escape of Mas Selamat Kastari,

MY POC WILL BE ON 110308!!

BLOCK LEAVE!

MORE SLEEP!

AND THOSE INFINITE POSSIBILITIES!

YAY!

Of course, its impossible that I have no entries of things that I have done. So The Chronicles of BMT is coming soon! STAY TUNED ppl!