just another weekend...

since i slept at 4.30 last night, only woke up at 11 today. left soon after to cut my hair and went to surprise her at her house. same reaction as usual. but at least this time i managed to bring her away from what would've definitely been a scary experience for her. haven't gone to meet her at her place for a long time now. just hope it works now as well as it did that while ago. after that went to PS, supposedly to eat at the kopitiam, but we ended up eating carl's junior. it was like 90% my fault hahaha but at least i still enjoyed it, although it was definitely more pricely than say a bowl of yong tau fu hahaha

after that accompanied her to cc's new house. really quite nice i must say, just that... really alot of glass hahaha yes it may look aesthetically nicer, but it'll definitely be hard to clean and maintain so much glass, and the amount of heat that'll be trapped in there during the hotter periods of the year can already make you sweat. overall i would say that the house will need alot of maintanence hahaha

no formula 1 race for the next 3 weeks. and by the time the current season ends, it'll be the end of october, which basically means that when this racing season ends, i'd be pretty much neck high in wallaby prep. soemthing to look forward to, since after wallaby it's ORD LOH!!! hahaha

really hope she likes the presents i got for her...

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

that was cool...

well performed for my grandma's birthday dinner tonight. must say that... even though i thought i was prepared for it, i still made quite a bit of mistakes hahaha but at least i didn't stop! the most important i guess. being able to play a piece and allow others to enjoy it is really a real pleasure. maybe i can do it more often! just need to find a singer though, and really need to take more time to practice all the songs for sure

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

screwing with the mind...

quite alot of changes are happening in my brigade suddenly. guard mounting is back, roll calls on sunday, tuesday and thursday nights, staff parade for COS, RT on saturdays for those who can't pass ippt. basically it just makes our life that much harder. because even though i as a sergeant can pass ippt, i would have to stay back and train those guys who can't. no one expects a S3 to do that right. and flag lowering will never be as easy as it used to be anymore, and no more slacking at night while on COS duty. such things have't existed in the brigade for a really long time, so i'm wondering how come they're suddenly bringing it all back. as my friend mentioned, it's probably all part of wayang. i think being an army regular is the best occupation on earth for you to wayang. because promotion is really quite easily earned here, if you suck up to the right people and work properly, it really is quite easy. but that doesn't mean i want to be a regular, because the politics that results can really kill you. there really is quite some conflict present between senior specialists and junior officers, in terms of opinion and experience. obviously the senior specs know more than the junior officers (i.e. below the rank of major), but the officers always have the final say over the specs. like my oo said, the army cannot trust specialists, only officers. we're just the higher level grunts who help the officers get things done. just compare the number of officers in my company to specialists. it's like 3 to 16 hahaha the army is really a very confusing place.

past week been spending my time attending a bms course. thought i'd never touch this shit again after i left SI, but low and behold here i am again, sitting in an aircon room in front of a laptop learning the mechanics of the 3G army, and playing solitaire, minesweeper and freecell while listening to lessons taught by ST engineers. it's actually here that i finished my first freecell game hahaha honestly before this i didn't bother to try to complete it because it just put too much pressure on the head, but somehow this time around i've finished it at least 10 times over the past week. ahhh the things you can do when you're learning something that's 80% not related to your jobscope =p

something weird is happening to my computer... somehow it's running at 100% on both cores for i have no idea what reason for... it's quite scary. but then again this computer has been kind of funny since we got it. i'm guessing it's not completely fixed up properly yet. but this problem is making my music lag man... sucks to the core (pun intended)

was going through my friends' friendster profiles the other day, and i just had a look at some of my CI friends' profiles. then i thought back on the times i went to ATC with my area. it was both really tiring and really tough at the same time, but at least i was interesting.

hmmm my dad just came home and my dog was running away from the car like she's never seen it before... right...

anyway about ATC... was thinking that if i went back now, honestly i'd feel really compelled to wear my army slacks and boots, simply because that's the way it should feel when you're out in the jungle, now that i've gone through the magnificent 3G army transformation. of course i won't wear the full no. 4 lah, that'd be completely insane, but must admit much better equipped to survive out in the jungle now hahaha but then again ubin isn't much of a jungle anymore, with all the urbanisation going on thanks to the PAP. maybe after i ORD can go back for one last time, but that's only if there are enough of my friends who can make it back with me too. oh and speaking of npcc, i'm hoping i can go back to sji this year to catch the annual parade. don't know what to expect anymore honestly, but i won't be surprised if the standards aren't as up there as they used to be (did i just contradict myself totally???) but i wouldn't mind catching up with some teachers, provided they remember me, and just relive the atmosphere when the national anthem is played, and when the bugle is played for the outgoing sec 4 batch. hopefully on 7 august i'll be free, since it's a saturday.

unfortunately this time around my amber period starts on the 7th! coincidences abound! lasts for 3 weeks till 28 aug. and another coincidence... the last time i had my amber manning, my sister had a short break from school and went overseas with my parents, and this time around, during my amber period she'll have a break again and i think they'll be going overseas again. oh well, just bad timing i guess. life goes on

got quite alot of things to do this weekend. got to practice the song i'm supposed to play for my grandma's birthday dinner tomorrow night. far from good enough i must say, need to cut my hair for muster parade next week. need to exercise. need to... rest hahaha yeah that's all for now. till next time then...

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many: with webcams? going to be really... messy hahaha but yeah that'll be interesting, assuming you actually come online the same time as we do hahaha US and singapore quite different timezones =p

fuzz: good to hear from you man. linked your blog to mine again =) take care man

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

fair share of fun and scares...

feel like going to church now is becoming more and more of a drag... maybe it's the environment that i'm in nowadays. spent 6 years in catholic schools, where they pray every morning and where people who are non-christians also pray at times, like at sec 4 where most of my class went to the chapel to pray before the start of Os. the religion influence is there and majority of people can feel it. but now in army, people never talk about religion, so maybe religion for me is based mostly on the environment i spent the most time in. or maybe because the army is simply a place where religion is non-existent, since in the local context, wars are fought not because of religion, so there isn't much mention of it in any army related document or strategy. guess it's more up to me to put it more into perspective

in the afternoon met my classmates for my belated birthday lunch. had it at fish and co at wheelock. for the first time in a long time, more guys showed up than girls hahaha mainly because the girls are all studying for exams. many and cheryl came for a while and left early to study somemore. must be really stressful. the only girl who was relatively carefree was chip hahaha since she's working now =p at the end they brought out a cake and honeslty, i was really surprised. didn't know they had bought a cake, many was really stealthy about it... should sign on with the army hahaha since she is half MAN. thanks alot for the cake guys. really appreciate it =) see you'll on 5 may for sentosa =)

after that just walked around town a little bit. dropped by the NS40 exhibition... not much lah, since i'm in the organisation hahaha walked through taka and heeren, where jerome bought a belt and vig bought a cd (again), while chip and i just followed them hahaha bumped into tang shangwei on the way back from all the shopping the the NS40 thingy. last time i saw him was in sispec. arti spec... good to see him again. but for 4 days of work they only get 1 day of off hahaha what's new =p

didn't meet her today, and that resulted in another argument. sadly they're happening more and more often nowadays. not that i want them to happen, but somehow misunderstandings between us keep coming up. i just hope she doesn't think that i'm better than the person i am, and as a result keep feeling disappointed. i'm just doing what i think i should do, but i have to admit, i've got to do something about my memory. i'm not remembering stuff that i should be, which is somehow causing conflicts between us. really need to do something about that man.

anyway for now, saying so long for now to josh and derek as they head off to taiwan early tomorrow morning. take care of yourself guys. it'll be tough, but after that ORD will be within sight. just look forward to that and don't let your unit down man. see you'll when you get back =)

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bang: i hope you get wassuped by all your guys man hahaha

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

my fingers need a miracle

next saturday night is my grand ma's birthday dinner. thank goodness it's not the same day as the t19 sentosa outing. but the thing about the dinner is that the cousins are supposed to sing a song for her, and i was chosen to play the piano! don't know why they chose me seriously since amelia is seriously a much better piano player than me. so i've got one week to work out the score, get used to playing with an organ and then play it in front of a bunch of relatives. sure playing my immortal would've been harder at rockafella, but then i'd been playing my immortal way way before rockafella came around, so in a way this is harder since my confidence level is far from up there where it needs to be. and i don't know how much time i'll have to practice this week, since i don't know when that bms course is supposed to start and how many nights i can come home this week to practice... don't think it'll go very well though. just have to try my best

and my hands are itching like mad!!! looks like i got some bad skin infection or something...

tomorrow having another class outing, since josh and derek will be going to taiwan early monday morning. hopefully fish and co is still nice hahaha

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

happy birthday with bites...

i'm 20!!! my god!!! i don't feel a damn thing hahaha seriously alot of people say that reaching 20 is like some milestone in life before hitting 21 because your age now starts with a number 2, but i guess i'm numb to the whole thing or something, because i'm seriously unaffected by it i guess hahaha i just used it to get half day off today hahaha

was involved in exercise tiger balm from monday morning till thursday afternoon. was attached to ops wo for the whole thing. his main job appt in this exercise was area management oic. by that, he mainly opens and closes gates and overseas more important areas used for training, like the heli insertions on the 2nd night. quite cool lah, see super pumas and chinooks do blind landings in the dark. as usual bumped into 3 sig doing trg again. every time i'm on exercise they're out there training lah! best signal bn doesn't come easy i guess. first 2 nights slept a total of 3.5 hours in the back of a rover, mainly cos i had to man the radio and we were moving around alot. only on the 3rd night when everyone rested had a rather solid 5 hours of sleep. was only interupted now and then by the rover parked next to mine, since they left the radio on with speakers on full blast with no one in the damn rover!!! pissed me off so much, but i seriously couldn't move from the floor of the rover.

the weird thing about gedong is that... in the day there are no mosquitoes, but you get swarmed by flies. but at night the flies go away and the mozzies come out to wreak havok. i guess in a way the mosquitoes are smarter, working at night when it's cooler hahaha but at least flies don't bite. they just keep hovering around you =p

no one knew it was my birthday on wednesday. in a way also good lah, cos i don't wanna get any special treatment outfield. not fair to the rest, but like i said, i just used it to get half day off today hahaha i feel so evil. anyway thanks to all the people who msged me on wednesday night. that was the best night of all the 3 nights there, since i managed to get the most sleep, and all the well wishes made me feel better even though i was already half asleep.

somehow over the past couple of weeks been feeling like i'm falling sick. but just keep taking medicine every time i feel even a little bit off. during the past exercise was really bad. nose kept running at certain points. don't know if it's my sinus acting up or i really am falling sick. but can't afford to leh... so busy nowadays. if i fall sick i'd be really screwed. on another note... i haven't shaved since saturday... really hairy on the face now hahaha

actually realised that i've spent my last 2 birthdays away from my family. last year this day i was in the army for the 3rd day. being bald and running around on tekong like a dog, and now one year later i'm a spec at an armour brigade. honestly it was the most interesting year in my life so far, going through bmt, sispec CHARLIE and SI with the infamous 1WO John Andrews. have i changed for the better over the past year in the army? only you can tell me...

just the other day i was telling my bunkmate how much better it would be to get 50 more bucks in our monthly allowance so that we'll have 710 instead of 660. at least got a 7 in front lah, and today it came out in the papers that from july onwards we'll each get 50 more bucks!!! WAHAHAHAHA so cool man... 50 bucks can do ALOT of things man. transport is more than covered for the month already. shiok!

got really nice presents from my parents and wendy. they got me a nice shirt while wendy got me a really cool pendant (if that's what it's called) and a nicely decorated box. thanks folks and wendy. hope she does well for her exams man. been studying really hard, making up for lost opportunities in jc, but better late than never i say. good luck to the t19 girls too. uni life is stressful i agree, but it can't be as bad as the A levels hahaha so RELAX! YOU ALL CAN DO IT! =)

lots of people are flying recently. 4 of my guys went to brunei for attachment, another friend will be flying to thailand for attachment to crescendo, xuanrui is in taiwan now, josh and derek will be flying on early monday morning for atec in taiwan, and many is flying the US in may for 3 months. she'll be really different when she comes back man. the US is a very... influential place. just hope she'll be fine.

will be going for a 2 week BMS course soon. thank goodness it'll be held in my camp, otherwise i might just well go crazy. next couple of months will have major activities as well, so good enough to keep me busy. might have to settle one thing in camp though, will see how that turns out

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bang: yeah man god of war 2!!! quick go buy leh!!! wanna play man! hahaha

derek: seriously... very appropriately chosen words for the situation hahaha although they do have some other really funny codewords. they even use condom man!!! hahaha just that maybe you haven't seen it before =p

sis: just goes to show that heaven does exist on earth hahaha

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way