THE FAMILIAR STRANGER

2009-02-13T22:29:00.006+08:00

1feb

these photos are abit outdated huh =.- house visiting to lp , sm , ll , my , kb house . my as in really my house . lols ...

8feb

surprise wasn't a surprise at all . ll wasn't abit shocked . diaos ... but nevertheless it's not bad . only if ll can act to be surprised dao then can i brand it as a success .

supper @ xinwang cafe before whisking to sembawang park for some relaxing session ...

2009-01-28T19:34:00.015+08:00

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR ! ! !

actually i didn't really feel that recession is coming . i still draw the same allowance from saf . but it's the amount that i received from angbaos that makes me think so . 20% drop seh ! i even receive one with 50% drop . oh my tian =.-

but u think i care ? maybe yes but to a lesser extent this year . becos this year is a special year . i got special things to take care of =) ...

my reunion dinner was 1day earlier on the eve of new year eve . lols get it ? not bad cos the dishes are to our liking ... it's some lok kok restaurant but trust me , the food taste great !

new year was getting monotonous each year . but no stunt this year ; i got all the names correct . my uncle's parrots gave birth to 2 baby parrots , one on xmas eve and the other 2 days later . they are so tiny and ugly . lols . he wanted to give me one but my mama say no =.- boo !

no more photos becos i took none on the 2nd day of new year . very surprising becos i always like to take pictures of the kids . so ya dunhv lo ... hehe ...

that's all . bye !

2009-01-23T20:44:00.010+08:00

a sweet ending , finally ...

i gave it a try . and yes , i succeeded !

WOOTS ! ! !

i still cant believe that . really ! it's a dream come true ...

but it's only the first step ; the journey is a never ending one .

you have my words , that i will walk with you together , this journey =) ...

2009-01-10T12:47:00.008+08:00

that fish sia yee yen . come and go like wind . one moment she's back , another she's off . went topone ktv with them last week . from 11 to 6 leh . sang until very tired !

ate at ministry of food . gastric struck me and i jus anyhow whack something into my stomach . ended up feeling hungry when i'm back in camp . lols .

i've already finished cleaning my room for new year . lots of things went to the bin . i even played with the idea of removing my ikea shelf out . but it was sorely missed becos there's simply too much to squeeze into the cupboard .

cant describe my feeling going into 2nd week of 2009 .
it's unbelievable . i'm walking on moon ...
just hoping for the best =) ...

2009-01-01T20:22:00.008+08:00

goodbye 2008 ...

hello 2009 !

spent last moment at , of all places , vista park =.-"
but with the same people , we always get to laugh like hell . the jokes are very ultimate !
jus looking at the stars can make us laugh like siao ...

dine at jp . almost couldn't get a table of 8 ...
bangalah alot . can see them , cannot see them , can see them , cannot see them =.-
they picnic all around . they made a nuisance of themselves . they are hazards ! lols . i dun discriminate them . but too many of them arhem arhem , u know la . no need to say ...

now now now , let me see what i'd wished for last year ... nothing !

yeah wish for nothing , i get nothing , doesn't that means my resolution came true ? lols .

read through the very last post of 2007 , and a sense of deja vu strikes me .

the gamble had already started , and cards of my life are now in my hand .

i decided to give it a try .

if at the end of the game , you lost more than you gain , you know at least you tried till the very end ...

at least i tried ...

2008-12-29T00:24:00.005+08:00

2008-12-26T16:43:00.012+08:00

mon i went for my voluntary tooth extraction . previously it's all due to wear and tear . haha ... the tooth that i extracted are brand new okay . somemore i had to extract 3 =.-

not that painful after all . jus the local anaesthesis feels slight uncomfortable only . with the needle poking into the gums . yucks ...

they wrapped me until it looked like i'm having some operation like that =.- still cover my face as if i can see my open wound . all i can hear is the grinding of the tools and kiaping of tooth and sawing of my gums and suuing of my blood . lols ...

after that is all freaking not well la , when the anaesthesis wore off and my bleeding nv stopped . the pain is still bearable , like a bad toothache . but it's the bleeding that i couldn't tahan . i bleed all the way from outram to paya lebar , from paya lebar back to woodlands , from morning till night . i bet i lost 10% of my blood jus like that =.- and i dunnoe why vampire like to drink blood . it tastes so yucky =.-

a&e in the evening to stop my bleeding . but my bleeding stopped when they cleaned up my wounds . $90 for 5 packs of guaze . that is sucking more of my blood . lucky i'm nsf . hahaha ...

xmas eve

merry xmas

连环图 of the greedy arielle targeting the logcake . lols . i spent a hard time to trick her into becoming my fren . she was tired that night . so cute !

2008-12-23T18:17:00.008+08:00

a freaking tiring week =.- i'm with aches and bruises all over .

for 2days , i stood under the damn sun , washing and scrubbing and cleaning our machines . the most intersting thing is , it wasn't us that uses the vehicles . those no-life regulars used them and nsf washed for them #$%^&*(*&^$#@# ...

the next day , we had a boring and lame family day at sentosa . telematch was held on boiling sand , magic show just sucks , food looks pretty ... anyway , we won the telematch . we beat boat people to the tug-of-war . they all have muscular body , we have flabby arms . lols . we won using strategies okay - my strategy ! they pull and hold on my command . so shiok . and i'm the one who send them to finals . so everything is my credits , and i'm claiming them . wahaha ...

sun very happening la . we took a ride on singapore flyer . my papa is feeling rich =.- one min on the ride cost $1 u see . view was not bad . but my camera went flat .

not a bad trip after all . but second trip will need some consideration and big discounts to entice me . our package includes free one-way river taxi from clarke quay to flyer and a ride on open top bus to see xmas lighting along orchard rd . quite worthwhile though .

i get to visit the sustainable gallery at marina barrage . it looks like vivo city inside =.- very interactive showcase of how spore transform herself entirely . nothing much after that . it's my second time there .

i managed to capture one ghostly picture though . must be some lonely spirit having forgotten to go back . lols ...

2008-12-16T20:36:00.002+08:00

my car was rear ended on last sat . i spent 4hrs doing polishing and that is what i get =.-

spore taxi drivers are the most irritating people on the road .

i always avoid them together with jb drivers as much as i can . they always drive slowly on the overtaking lane , weave in and out like there's no such thing called signal , brake whenever there are ants crossing the road , and the list goes on ...

my father jus screwed one idiot upside down inside out last week when he stoned at the junction when light is in our favour . we honked and overtook him . what i saw pissed me off . he was holding a freaking handphone !

as for my case , the taxi driver admitted he's totally at fault . he assumed that it was okay to drive off when he saw cars beside him moving . i didn't move becos another idiot in front of me stoned , again ! and there goes - banged ! that bang causes my wire to break , and i went out shouting at him .

my poor car is now bruised at his backside . that idiot compensated but no amount is sufficient becos even repair wun bring it back to original condition .

from now on , no tolerance will be given ! taxi idiots , watch out !

some cheers to bring up my mood .

syz is in the midst of preparing her 11th album . woots !

it's been almost 2years since her last album . what a long wait ... finally there are some news . i thought she's gone for a long leave .

and now is jus a shorter wait . after all i've waited for 2years ^^v ...

2008-12-16T10:36:00.006+08:00

my sis was back from south korea .

she brought back with her hell lots of things - food , drinks , clothing , gifts , cosmetic , even umbrella -.-" ...

her luggage easily outweighs herself . even my full battle order in camp loses to it =.- i wonder how she lugged them all the way back from korea to shanghai to spore .

the house is still messy with all her stuff . together with lots of glasses and stuff brought over from my auntie house , my house suddenly become ___________ ( fill in the blank ) .

cny is coming . time to clear up ...

2008-12-09T09:15:00.012+08:00

sad sad sunday . pulau ubin trip was supposed to be a huge event . in the end only 4 of us went there =.- who to blame ? the frogman .

everything was on schedule and we reached there before 10am . the weather turned out to be very good for outdoor activities ...

we spend some time loitering at the town area before springing into bike action ...

when i first visited ubin , the meeting point was still an old , lok kok basketball court ...

and this volunteer centre is the island's only community centre in the past .

we visited ketam bike trail , dunnoe what quarry and some other unmarked dirt track ...

and happened to come across one republic polytechnic branch office . lols . very 'state of the art' huh , with lecture rooms , car porch ... wahaha .

stopping for lunch . face off between titans . haha . they ain't happy with each other for years ...

chek jawa ...

smile !

this is nice !

power ! how the operator managed to parallel park this boat ?

wasn't a bad day after all . shall go there again next time ...

2008-12-01T13:57:00.004+08:00

i did alot of lame stuff last few days =.- shall not mention them ...

my week was terribly wrecked by sore throat . i did some remedy immediately after i sensed the soring is coming but it's of no use . it doesn't help when i couldn't resist the temptation of french fries , macdonald , fish and co ... now tonnes of phlegm is still stucked in my throat . lols . going to purge them out as soon as possible .

sat went to eat dinner at tung lok signature . it's my grandma's birthday banquet . the restaurant settings were rather classy . as for the food , arhem arhem ... once is enough .

we could have created havoc in the restaurant when my sis found a long strand of hair in her tiny bowl of shark fin . even the waitress saw us pulling the strand out and she was like huh what the =.- service wise was not bad lah . if not gone case . 27ppl multiply by 60 bucks is 1620 and i think total bill is near 2000 . $$$$$ lols ...

champagne gold camera is simply classy . just bought ixus 870 and it really wows me ! sleek body , great technology , marvellous combination . i kept playing with the face detection function . it was liked how a fighter jet tracks it's target using radar . and the servo auto focus is the so-called lock on function .

it's the 2nd ixus that i had and must say that canon has the best range of compact camera . simply a notch better than the old and lost lumix . wahaha ...

2008-11-26T20:01:00.003+08:00

sheng introduced free mobtv subscription for 1 week .

and dunnoe for what reason , i went to download the drama 再见荧光兰 ... it was one of the few drama that i had deep impression in .

dunnoe why i just find fann wong is more compatible with wang tian cai than with christopher lee . hahaha . no offence though .

some drama that i wanted to watch but cannot find includes 一号凶宅 by zoe tay , and one vampire drama by 周初明 , if anyone of u can rmb ...

back to the past ...

2008-11-26T19:43:00.003+08:00

my sis recently jus went to the demilitarised zone that separates north korea and south korea .

she uploaded the pictures and showed us what it was like visiting there .

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=185555&l=4e403&id=737935164

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=185566&l=12e4f&id=737935164

some writeup can be found at her blog http://myprincessdiary.blogdrive.com/ .

she act cute alot , and lots of typo error . so please bear with it ! lols ...

2008-11-25T15:53:00.002+08:00

i'm crazy . we are crazy .

we travelled 50km .

not by car . not by mrt . not by bus . but by bike .

we cycled 50km . we cycled to ntu to visit our new school =.-

considering this is our first ride since entering army , the result was very good .

pulau ubin , here i come . no . here we come ^.^" ...

2008-11-23T00:06:00.006+08:00

came across a song . a touching song . enjoy =) ...

the island that is written inside the song is called Galešnjak . it is located in the adriatic sea in croatia . and it's shape is just like what's written in the song - heart shaped .

2008-11-22T13:19:00.007+08:00

a cool one month away from blogging .

finally i opened the windows and let in some fresh air .

lots of very happening things struck me during this period .

but i'm lazy to think back one by one by one by one =.- ...

i started to clear my anuual leave every mon and tue . and that makes my week even shorter . i'm feeling so shiok . spend the days rotting at home , and doing lame stuff .

watch lots of movie during this few weeks , and chase after the drama ' corner with love ' at home . the drama was nice - funny and touching . i finished the drama in 4days , a record . lols ...

suddenly has the feel to wash the family car , and i washed it twice . it was very long since i last washed it , and the effort pays off when the car plate struck 4D . $$$ . wahaha ... was so stunned and happy that i kept claiming credit !

night safari on sunday was abit boring lah . halloween was no halloween when the ghosts only appear on fri and sat . i think the only moment that worth the money is when we happened to see a dunnoe leopard or what big cat charging towards us ! haha . only a glass wall separates us with the cat and the feeling was ... wth ! supper was superb , i love the colourful desserts but not the food . lols ... i do have a high standard for hawker fares . and i must say i do enjoy the companionship .

was enjoying my own world when something hit my right in my face =.-

not bad right ? this question mark is quite big ! and this is the big thing that hit me right into my face =.- argh ! ! !

when problem of such scale crops up into my life , it bounds to set me thinking , very deep thinking . i used lots of suppressant to suppress them just recently . yet now it comes back to me again , bigger this time .

i'm always wondering , politicians around the world play with the principle of ' neither confirm nor deny ' . they play it very well . and when i tried to mimic their act , i failed . this principle is supposed to generate a layer of smoke to smoke people out . but yet , it brands me as being indecisive =.- ... i do have an answer and it isn't that i'm running away , i'm jus bidding for more time .

rainy season is here ... more rain , more luck , please ...

booo . what a lousy sentence to end with ~.~ !

2008-10-19T17:16:00.005+08:00

has been a few days since i last penned down my daily stuff . last 2weeks were monotonous . my attachment finally ended . and next comes close combat lesson =.- fight until here pain there pain . my first run in months adds to the pain that i'm having now ...

last week , i finally get to enjoy my day off in months ... i spent the whole afternoon alone . lunch myself , went harbourfront myself , ate fries myself , read myself =.- ... until we met to watch movie . at times i really do enjoy doing things alone . but i've done that for countless times till i find it sian . haha ... i think even the pizza hut people will find me familiar becos i always eat there , alone .

my outing plan finally falls in place . not bad not bad . given how hard it is to get all to come together . must enjoy really becos singapore is getting too small for us to explore le . some places i explored before just ain't suitable for my gang ...

didn't update my blog for weeks . not becos i'm busy or what . i just find blogging is somehow meaningless ; i'm just blogging aimlessly ... previously i blogged for some reasons . now that the reasons are gone , i wonder is it time to pull its shutter down ?

i think ...

2008-09-30T21:38:00.004+08:00

got stung by lots of mosquito yest and today +.+
they are the most irritating species ever created !
even if u wear radioactive protective suit on ur body , they will still able to poke through and suck ur blood .
suck as much blood as u like , but dun create the itchness and bumps on my hand can =.-" i'm scratching like a dirtman who didnt have a shower for ages .
plus they disturb my most sought after activity - sleep ! after all those teaching and talking , all u want to have a nice sleep . they deny me that . those suckers . lols ...

being instructor is fun . really fun . i enjoy tekan the noobs . i even tekan one bigshot de son . lols ... shiok ar . can let me vent my frustration on them .

actually lots of things i do , are blessing in disguise .

at times when i'm instructed to do certain things that i think it's unfair to me , it turns out to be something i enjoy , even though others differ .
at times when i'm already late for some events , it actually works better than me .

so i must say , everything that comes to u , learn to enjoy becos fate brought them to u . u might not understand the reason behind now , but as time goes by dusts will settle and u will see ...

2008-09-28T23:13:00.002+08:00

the result of the first night race took everyone by surprise .

pole position massa came in last few .
starting at 15th , alonso won the race .

a great and eventful race , as there are lots of overtaking taking place and accidents occuring . never expected raikkonen to smash his car last min , and it only means my fav ferrari went home with no points at all =.= has the prancing horse gone out to have fun ? damn !

i thought the race starts at 10pm , so i went out town to makan . when clock stuck 8pm , i heard the roaring sound and i knew immediately i got the timing wrong . hurry back home and i managed to catch more than half of the race .

the first night race was bravo ! buildings around marina bay were all lighted up to satify our visual needs . i bet when the integrated resort and new financial district come out in few years time , we can easily overtake monaco and be the jewel of f1 ... =)

2008-09-28T13:35:00.002+08:00

i dun like to eat at those so called famous roti prata restaurant .

they all sux !

they became ' famous ' becos they open late into the night and night owls patronise , just like that .

2 nights , 2 different places , but same eating experience - pui ! lols .

all i can say is , good food are hard to find nowadays .

and when will my favourite teochew porridge , minced meat noodle reopen again ? ? ?

2008-09-24T20:15:00.002+08:00

not bad not bad ...
my whole company is clearing their off and leave .
only a few sway specialists like me have to go back camp and become instructors =.=

but i like the life being a part time instructor .
we just talk talk talk talk talk , the newbie just do do do do do .
they do wrong , we just tekan . they do right , credit to us becos we gave clear instructions . wahaha ...

as we are being loaned out , the lender has little control over us , the borrower tends not to control us too much . and there u have , freedom . now it's like normal office hour for me . if i want to go out back home and return only tmr , i just go . lols ...

it also keeps me busy all this while . keeping myself busy makes me happy ! i already intend to organise lots of activities from oct till year end . hope that everything goes according to my plan ...

2008-09-21T23:05:00.003+08:00

今天去唱卡拉OK 。

点的大多是男歌手的歌，老的到新的都有。

还不错。。。因为能把不开心的通通喊出来，差点喊到没声音 >.<

只希望接下来的几天，我的这场风暴会平息。。。

2008-09-20T23:17:00.003+08:00

雨过天晴了吗？

我想，或许吧。。。最起码现在我看见了曙光。

希望这次我给自己的一剂强心针，能够让我战胜心魔！

2008-09-16T22:35:00.003+08:00

i was kind .
i agreed to let my sis bring to korea my ' half ' of the camera .
i thought she might need it more than me .

she sent an email back last week .
she said my ' half ' of the camera was stolen , so does her ' half ' .
she cant do much , becos she dunnoe the culprit .

we both sian half .
we found some reprieve , as we might be able to claim insurance
but the insurance is from aig =.=" , now we sian totally .

i have to start looking around for another camera . i hate that becos it's tiring =.=" ...

2008-09-14T14:46:00.006+08:00

think no more .
say no more .
do no more .
heart , i shall follow .

people go to casino to gamble .
people find themselves a seat , and place their money , or so called chips , on the table .
people place their bets on the game .
people play with their chance , hoping to win something back in return .
sometimes they do , sometimes they dun .

if they do , well ... good for them . they got themselves some rewards .
if they dun , it's okay . they lost only money . they can call it quits and take their leave .

put me into the above situation .
but i'm gambling on a much larger scale .
the probability of me winning , 10 percent . a mere 10 =.= !
who in the right frame of mind would carry on the game ?

the rewards are handsome , but the losses ... i dare not count . and the aftermath are set to wear me down even more .

if i withdraw , i bound to suffer becos half of my chips are already in the pot .
if i continue , god knows what will be the outcome .

the stakes are just too big . i cannot make any mistake . the outcome is irreversible .
i need some clever intervention .
drag any longer and i might suffer heart attack .
and i can feel help is on the way ...

2008-09-12T16:34:00.002+08:00

i jus got to know my work schedule up till oct .

i'm going to be ' loaned ' to training wing to become a part time instructor .

so siannzzz becos instead of having nothing to do and thwang in bunk and occasionally clearing my off day and going nights off , i need to go outfield teach new people how to operate our toy =.=" .

of all people , why me ! argh ...

people keep saying my piloting skill is very good and thats why i was selected . it can be very flattering to keep hearing that but as time goes by , stress starts to crept in .

during our final exercise , i ' buanged ' the delaunching portion .

u see , that is the amount of stress i had . i dunwan to tarnish the reputation that i've garnered so far . it can be quite demoralising ...

on the brighter side , being attached to other people can be good too .

ermmm , wait ... there isn't any bright side at all . i still need to do the regimental duties and shit work ! wth ! ! ! people will go off when i'm sweating myself ! wth ! ! ! arrrggghhh ...

it is so unfair ! ! !

i think my time will be quite dark from now onwards $%^&*()(*&^%^~!#$% ...

2008-09-10T21:56:00.002+08:00

i saw a dim light at the end of the tunnel .

hope it leads me to freedom ...

calling for a 4-day break for myself and all my khakis =) ...

2008-09-09T15:02:00.003+08:00

say hello to all my frens .

i'm now back in singapore , finally .

i had been counting down since day1 . the feeling sucks alot .

i must say that we are the fortunate lot of people . in thailand , everything is so so so ' lok kok ' . i felt as in i'm back to the 50s .

the weather were so hot , frying eggs on metal surface i think there wun be any problem . i was almost baked ! it rained almost everyday . but that was at night only =.= . cant find any respite , i can only wrap myself up , looking like a terrorist . and trust me it's much cooler that way .

night was very cooling . and when there isn't any clouds , u will be in for a surprise . i was stunned when i looked up the sky one night . it's full of stars . bright stars . it's really beautiful ! i felt as if i'm in space .

as for other events , i shall not go further . it's very repetitive .

all in all , it's an experience for me .

i'm addicted to the 2songs playing now , especially the 2nd . i've been repeating that for lots and lots of time . my mum told me it had been raining almost everyday when i'm in thailand . coincidence it might be ...

i wanted to use my time in thailand to think thoroughly . i did that . but the conclusion i got - none =.=" . i couldn't see the end of the maze . and i dunnoe when i will ...

2008-08-20T22:35:00.003+08:00

wave goodbye to all my frens .

i'm leaving for thailand . how sad >.< ...

look forward to every tmr from tmr onwards =) !

till the day i come back ...

byebye ...

2008-08-19T20:52:00.004+08:00

my pc say i'm a person with no worries . everytime i look so relax .

i look so relax becos i dun think by putting in my maximum effort , the work i did will be recognised . so i jus do the minimum . as for no worries , he is damn wrong . haha . i worry alot .

liling say i'm a jovial person in real life , and very emo in virtual world .

i look so happy becos i believe i shouldn't let my own feelings affect the others . by bringing my happy side out , i get to enjoy myself , then settle the trouble later . she is not very right though . i'm emo in nature . but i always look on the bright side of life .

我逆着光 , 即使痛得刺眼 , 却看见了 ...

2008-08-18T15:06:00.003+08:00

jealousy is the curse for tolerance .

i think i'm losing this battle .

this time round the demon has the upper hand over the angel .

i'm worn out and i can feel that my breathing has become quite heavy .

something is damn damn wrong and i knew what is it . yet i can summon no strength this time round . the demon knew my pattern of coping and he successfully suppressed that .

i need some powerful jolt to come back to reality from the abyss of shit that i'm in now .

peace from within , i seek .

2008-08-16T21:06:00.003+08:00

when i was small , i had this thinking that dreams are actually images and events that are waiting to happen . that is what i heard from old folks .

now , i think dreams are all so fake . they can be manipulated .

yest i went to sleep , thinking very hard what actually had happened in the morning . and when i went into lala land , i dreamed of her . but the dream is a total reversal of what is in reality . it depicts her as coming from a poor family =.=" .

what i'm trying to say is , if u want nice dreams , just think hard of what u want to dream of and then try to enter lala land asap . it works for me . for the rest , i dunnoe . haha ...

chalet last week was soso lah . at least i can say it's a notch better than those that i've gone in the past . people go watch movie , play lan , go clubbing . me ? i stayed back to play mahjong , play fatal frame . very happening hoh =.=" . we also played frisbee , football at the open area and it was fun .

chalets are supposed to consist of such fun events de mah . that's why i quite enjoy myself . we even rented bicycles and cycled to visit ghostly places like red house , old changi hospital . hair will really stand becos these places are freaking errie , even when we are in a big group of 17 .

the road leading up to och has no light . there's only faint moonlight that pass through the thick canopy and light sticks for us . i swear that u wun want to go up on a moonless night . the surrounding buildings are full of windows . who knows if we are being tracked by ... arhem ... ' them ' ?

the road leads to a 2storey building . we did not go in becos it's the 7th mth and ... ya ... then we turned back to continue cyling towards changi village to see ah gua . haha ... saw one ' modified ' until very feminine de got onto a car . lols ... my pc say he cant imagine . so disgusting . haha ...

went back after that to sleep . all i can say is ... it has been a long time that i cycle such a long distance . somehow the shiokness is back . wahaha ...

2008-08-16T00:37:00.003+08:00

why huh ?

why why why ?

why issit so that today all of a sudden , i felt my heart miss a beat . and after that , it became very heavy ?

i saw a figure standing at a very far distance when i was on mrt . i couldn't confirm who she was but yet , this very person came right up my mind , together with the heavy heart . my vision from afar is always not very good and i hope i see the wrong person . but still , why so suddenly that i thought of her ?

why issit so that i always think the unthinkable ? last time when i had those thoughts , my brain will straight away brush them off , but why not now ?

why issit so that i bother to do all these things ? i shouldn't be the one doing . i felt like i'm now stucked in quick sand . i try to get out , yet sink deeper .

trillions of whys are flying in my head now . i need to think them out thoroughly . i need some off time ...

2008-08-06T21:00:00.002+08:00

fire was raging in my head when i was called to go back to camp . arghhh !

i made so much calls and smses to get people to watch mummy3 together .

in the end they went ahead while i dragged my feet back to camp =.=" .

damn those eat full nothing better to do de lao uncle . the buildings are so old , even older than u . how clean do u expect us to clean them up ? wake up to your idea lah !

now how do i watch mummy3 ? alone ? ya i will , and u shall now go kneel before buddha and repent before i unleash the tens of thousands de terracotta army to deal with u . mwahaha ... ohhh i'm sort of crazy . lols ...

i've cleared my physical , shooting and obstacle course for my 2nd year . woots ! nv expected to clear the obstacle course on just my first try . i've been slacking around for quite some times and it's really a surprise . 2 more test to go before i can relax for the rest of my ns ... hehehe !

2008-07-26T13:21:00.006+08:00

the movie , ' night at the museum ' i nv watch before .

but i did try to experience what is in the movie by spending my night at our own national museum and the peranakan museum .

it was fun at national museum , and a little eerie at the other .

the newly touched up national museum building captures both the essence of what is futuristic and what is historic architecture design . they blend together perfectly .

no wait . i seemed to be more interested in the building design than all the historical artefacts . =.=" sorry to say , yes i am . after all , i'm always fascinated by all kinds of colonial buildings . they are rich in history and use lots of fine details and sculpture rather than relying on glasses , glasses and glasses like what modern building always does .

okay now for the artefacts . there are many galleries within the compound , each showing different themes . from food to fashion to photography to technology to blah bah blah . some of the artefacts even my house also got . doesn't that makes my house a tiny museum ? lols >.< !

it can take up to 1 whole day to slowly scrutinise everything actually but becos i dun like so many people vying with me to view something , we took just 2 hours . museums are supposed to be quiet and not noisy as in the case like yest . i would rather pay to enjoy myself rather than having free entry .

all these bottle and cup i also got . my bottles even had the original drinks intact ! lols .

a headless bride =.=" .

projections of images onto the building surface . fantasitc . looks like the central fire station .

at the peranakan museum , everything is much better . and eerie . peranakan's culture , lifestyle , people , customs , food , fashion , jewellery were all packed in the 3-storey former dao nan's school compound .

what's eerie was that they even set up mock altar and funeral for the dead ! ohh gosh . there's even mannequin wearing qing dynasty costume that looks like zombies ! somemore they are headless ! ! ! imagine the security guarding the place having to do patrolling within the museum sees them walking around at night . oo mi tuo fuo oo mi tuo fuo oo mi tuo fuo ... haha .

rounding up , the trip was an enjoyable one . too bad all sporeans are so cheapskate . free then all chiong to go . i will return to next time round so that i can truly appreciate everything . but as i say , it's next time . maybe next month , year , or even decade . heh heh heh ...

2008-07-20T22:30:00.003+08:00

what is death to u ?

recently have been listening to lots of ghost stories . then from there , my thoughts started to wander off from ghost to death .

frankly speaking , i think everyone fears death . and i think it's normal . i fear it too .

come to think of it . everyone has to die . it's just the way how we die - horrible ? peaceful ? honourable ? disgrace ?

to me , if given a choice , i will rather choose an honourable death . there's a chinese saying - 人固有一死，或重于泰山，或轻于鸿毛。。。

to die for country , yes i will do it .
to die for family , yes i will do it .
to die for friends , etc , etc , etc , i will think before i do ( haha die also must have reason de mah . i only accept good reason =.= )

if it can touch someone's life , why not ? at least i will be remembered ...

2008-07-19T13:02:00.010+08:00

i am just so artistic ... haha =.="

yest i went for the first arts performance in my whole life .

can u believe it ?

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i must say it was a good experience . very interesting indeed .

the first performance really ' wow ' me . it was an awesome combination of ballet dance with fantastic visual effects and music background . the whole performance seemed like something that u will only see in movies with heavy cgi integrated . i'm so locked on to the dance that i couldn't care with what is happening around me . it's that powerful !

bravo ! bravo !

second performance was also not bad . it showed 2 so called ' fairies ' flying here and there around the ship which i dunn0e why they did that =.=" hahaha ... and i like the props especially so . haha ... few pieces of cloth and wooden poles and they can build a sailing ship .

the rest of the show was ... ermm ... ya ... soso loh . haha ... maybe it's becos i dun really understand what the hell they are showing . throw few stares around and i can see that many caucasians are enjoying them , sporeans acting that they understand them , and teenagers giggling around , knowing nothing . lols ...

i appreciate the visual pleasure that these performance present to me though i might not understand . it is also good effort to expose to our aunties and uncles , ah di and ah mei that actually , arts can be enjoyed by everyone , not limited to the ang mos ...

next week , it's off to the national museum and maybe the peranakan museum ...

2008-07-13T16:27:00.003+08:00

i knew one idiot by the name of max .
picture him using his name , and yes he is fat haha =p ... boo !
he got square brain . he cannot think out of the box .
another spongebob square pants in the making =.=" .

he broke 2 of my principle .
he pissed me off and gave me his attitude .
almost wanted to give him the ultimate combo meal by $%^&*&^%$$%^ him upside down and downside up right infront of everyone .
but he's lucky becos i'm too nice .

one more time and i wun hesitate to hand him his deserving combo meal ...

2008-07-10T22:21:00.003+08:00

i was bored .

i killed ants .
i flattened mosquitoes .
i chase pigeons .
i fed dogs .
i caught spider .
a damn big one .

it has red legs .
it has tatoo on its body .
we played with it .
it tried to escape .
it almost jumped onto me .
吓死我 !

i found it back .
and put it into the box .
i decided to smoke it out ...
when i return . haha ...

that is how i spend my time ... damn boring =.= !
feel free to visit me at kranji dam =) .

2008-07-07T18:19:00.004+08:00

today is the day my ah ma passed away 2 years ago .

it wasn't a short time , yet occasion jolts of memory still find its way to me .

but i still believe time will only erode the little bits and pieces away .

till then will the sea return to its state of calmness ...

2008-07-01T19:00:00.004+08:00

why is it so that i'm always the event planner for outings ?

i dun like to plan things . i like to enjoy things people plan for me . haha ...

why is it so that i'm always the treasurer for activities ?

i am not rich , and i dun have mountains of money to back me up . since treasurer always bleed money , i think those money i bleed is now running to a few hundreds =.=" .

nahzz , i'm just being naggy . why i always do all these is becos i love my frens >< . wahaha ... we shouldn't be too calculative . if i dun plan , who will ? ohh i'm just so great =) .

last week went trekking . brought them to hort park . i look like i'm tour guide and they were tourists from some ulu country . haha .

then we had our picnic in hort park . it was a very exciting time becos i dun think the park allows picnic and we just did it our way , secretly . heh heh ... anyway , there isn't any rule stating that we cant picnic . parks are for recreational activities , isn't that so ?

we found ourselves a high , secluded corner and just laid the groundsheet , before indulging ourselves in the pizzas we ordered . attracted some strange stares from other people , but who cares ... we are being creative , they are just jealous . lols .

after that we went up mount faber . all things were ready to surprise sm , but it started raining =.=" . but we still managed some surprises even though everything is down to a bare minimum .

overall , i am satisfied . are they ? i dunnoe . haha ...

2008-06-23T20:30:00.004+08:00

i just spend $4oo buying a new pda phone . it's so cool and hippy . it's called touch diamond . sparkling diamond u know ! haha ...

but , i still love my 6300 to the bits . i've grown so attached to it becos all it's function are just so useful to me . i guess i won't be giving it up any sooner . and it means more troublesome becos 3 phones are sharing 1 sim card .

my psp is black .
my pda is black .
my mp3 is black .
my tote bag is black .
my army phone is black .
everything of mine is black , so is my life =.= ...

that's what i think . do u concurred ?

2008-06-16T20:51:00.003+08:00

sometimes i wonder is being a singaporean really a proud thing =.="

we may be a prosperous country . our government provides us with everything we need .

but it's already to the extent the people take it for granted . and what follows is their ugliness , their nonchalant , blah blah blah ...

kind of sick of the way we behave . no wonder foreigners often brand us as the arrogant lot of people . i prefer to use my term , ' civilised barbarian ' =.=" . btw a barbarian can never be civilised . lols ...

a out-of-the-sudden post ... fret not . i'm still proud to be a singaporean . yeah >< !

last last week celebrate mum's bday . went to eat crab @ jumbo . it's heavenly nice lah . even better than geylang de no signboard .

i always thought their white pepper crab is the best . but jumbo de black pepper is a notch higher .

i like the spicyness and fragrance pepper offers . more spicy , lagi best . haha ...

last week celebrate ariel's first bday . she was so cuteeeee lah !

when singing bday song for her , she smiled and joined in the fun . but when the song was finished , she showed the blur-like-sotong look to us , figuring what happened . why everyone was singing and having fun at one moment , and the next moment the cheering died down ? i can see a lot of whys coming from her small head . lols . just so funny ...

her bday is also impt becos i've served the army for 1 year liao . yeah !

she was borned when i was still doing admin matters on tekong . i still rmb my sis sent me a mms of ariel the week later . hahaha ...

365 days to go ... and i would be free ...

2008-06-09T16:22:00.008+08:00

mon - shag shag
tue - shag
wed - slack
thur - shag shag shag shag shagged !
fri - shag shag shag
sat - slack

=.= last week that was my shag level . and thur was the shaggest of the whole week . 5am wake up , 12am sleep =.=

we carried 30 boats and 55 motors that single day . i can really feel my arms growing muscular with every boat and motor being carried ...

nahzz we are not going for ops , they are for ndp08 .

sat was the first combined rehearsal i think . that was why we needed so many boats .

as i've said , anything to do with water , the army will need us . so that makes us very important ! hehe ...

it was my very first time participating in such important event . and i will say every new thing fascinates me just as much .

and for the first time , i've got the chance to zoom in waters around marina bay ... marina bay u know , not any lonkang or reservoir ! haha ...

from far , seeing our boat in formation is very _________ (fill in the blank) . most people will surely ask , " wah , why got so many army boats ? "

on the singapore flyer and along esplanade , i can also see many camera flashes directed at us . i wun mind if they want to take pictures of us . just wait for me to pose before u ka-chia >< ... haha .

from my view point in water , i can observe something that i couldn't see on land . it is the change of our cbd landscape . suddenly old memories were brought back ...

clifford pier was where i used to hang out during primary sch times . now , it was demolished .

last time there was no esplanade , no singapore flyer . now they popped up .

merlion was a distance away from where it used to be .

there isn't much construction cranes in the past . now they choked up the new financial district like a small dubai .

water was much greener due to algae in water , but they were now filthy yellow in colour .

ferries that used to docked near clifford pier were nowhere to be seen .

jus hoping that the construction for the new financial district and marina bay sands can be completed on time , on target ...

now fast forward to 2012 , our new city skyline ...

2008-06-01T21:14:00.003+08:00

okay . let me repeat again . those pictures are taken from ...

the southern ridges

it is a park connector that stretches from kent ridge to harbourfront .

actually in singapore , there are many beautiful places that people dun really know . this is good becos by being unknown , their serenity will be undisturbed . and that's left to me to uncover . hohoho ...

2008-05-30T21:18:00.004+08:00

damn it .

my exxon shares drop until they only earn me $430 =.=" . from $3000 plus u know ! argh ... lucky my other shares balance out my earnings ...

this week is shag . shag not becos of my first major exercise but becos of $%^&*(&*)(*& schedule !

exercise wasn't as tough as i've thought . it's the maintenance that kills =.=" . i slept alot throughout whenever i'm free , cook maggi mee like nobody business , steal and eat ps food while he's away . wahaha ...

learn alot from them during this exercise , plus i'm the best pilot among the new specialists make this a very enriching experience ...

one down , two more to come , and i'm waiting ... lols

2008-05-19T15:43:00.012+08:00

went ' trekking ' through singapore's newest park trail , the southern ridges ( such a nice name ;) )... let me bring u through the whole trail ...

this is spore's tallest bridge . 36m high , it's unique wave design makes it look attractive .

the weather is freaking hot okay =.=" . stupid of us to go in the afternoon . i almost became lobster again . lols ... hiding under the shade ...

i think this pic is very nice . can see the 岁月的洗礼 ... or issit the bangalah cleaners nv wash =.= lols ... hoh hoh must complain !

up next is hortpark . actually in between got elevated walkway entirely make of steel . but the pic i took got nothing nice , so off they go to rubbish bin . haha ... it's a park that showcases horticulture , the art of growing plants and flower =) . i like plants and flowers . they make me feel pleasant and calm .

doing some comical shots ...

shhh ... i saw another ironman . i took this pic from behind the bushes .

a close up picture ... =.=" chey , it's not ironman . it's tin can man . wahaha =.=" ...

oppsss , tin can man discovered me liao . ironman , lets run for our life ... lols !

this pic is nice . very random ...

like desert like that . omg , desert in spore ! haha ...

glasshouse . it's a beautiful structure . imagine that this is your house de design . wouldn't it be fantastic ?

this pic is nice too . very nice colour ...

well that's end of the excursion ...

went to vivocity at night . not bad not bad . quite long nv go there liao . see see , look look , shop shop . very fun ! ! !

2008-05-17T12:24:00.003+08:00

i earned $5409.30 this week . woots ! haha ... jus dunn0e why money keeps falling onto my path . lols ...

dun be shocked ! i really earned that much this week . but they are virtual money =.=" , worthless cash that i can use to buy nothing .

i'm playing this game , virtual stock exchange , with my buddies . it uses real life stock information for noobs and the bored-es to trade and have a hand in owning stocks of the greatest company . and i'm ranked #1 becos i'm a tiny mini shareholder of exxon and i earned the most . haha ...

i think with my foresight and instint , i will make a great investor after warren buffett . wahaha ... then i will use my money to build ironman =.=" . build many many and let all my friends have one so that they can enjoy flying . lols ...

2008-05-13T16:42:00.002+08:00

ironman was nice .

how cool would it be to be able to have one in my room ?

i especially like its ability to fly . fly at such speed that nobody can catch u ; at such height that only space machine can match ; with such style that rivals the best fighter jets . if given a chance , i die die will try . but it must be safe of course . haha ...

the movie was actually ... nah ... soso nia . too much fanfare generated for this movie . actions are too few . but it showed some really cool , but u know ... fake =.=" techonology .

if these fascinating technology really matures in the future , then i think we've going to have trouble - on how to use those gadgets correctly . lols ...

these few days quite slack lah . mon , tue and maybe fri halfday . so shiok . but exercises are coming . just hope that i dun shag out . becos i'm not ironman . hehe ...

will be back . i've gone flying . watch out for me ! lols ...

2008-05-09T20:40:00.003+08:00

我不得不承认，直到今天，现在，这一刻，我才发现。。。

在我生活里，并没有什么目标，尤其是人生目标。。。

我一直以为，‘原则’足以带我越过一切的人与事。
我没错，要不然我的世界就没有规律了。
但是，它又能带我越过什么人与事？

我这才发现，我的思想并非很齐全。
至今的我一直漂浮在我无边无际的世界里，并没有长远或是短期的目标。
要是有了目标，或许我的生活会更充足一些些。

是时候该想想要怎么规划将来了。。。

2008-05-09T20:04:00.004+08:00

saw melissa lim today when sheng and i were strolling at cwp . took some time for me to confirm her identity becos she changed liao . lols , but jus couldn't say where she had changed .

heard from her some news which makes us laugh . some ' genius ' managed to break the maths record that xiong held for maybe , 6 years ? wahaha ...

that maths prodigy scored 0 for emaths p1 and p2 . she smashed xiong's record becos he scored 0 for amaths , the so-called advance version . lols ... both of us admit that we got to salute to her for being so ... erhem ... garang ! wahaha ...

last 3 days was in camp doing nothing . becos i'd honoured my words , and that is to report sick . hehehe ... didn't feel feverish until in the evening and after consultation , i was given 3 days in-camp mc =.=" . people 38.4 can get to go home . i 38.5 leh , stay in camp #$%^&&^%$#&* . at least i dun need to stay under the sun for so long and *thwang* . hahaha ...

* thwang = to jus sit down and do nothing . lols ...

2008-05-06T16:40:00.002+08:00

back from 2 night shifts of observation . no sight of him , but there are only lots of catfishes ... best is nothing happen in the next few days and we can go pack our stuff to return home .

was very tired becos i'm not suited to turn my biological clock the opposite way . morning shld be sleeping when i was only resting . coupled with the heaty stuff that i'd eaten for the past few days , i felt so sicked today .

joints were aching , muscle were tearing , head was cracking , plus the flu and sore throat ... ultmate combination =.=" !

i will see what i can do tmr . and that is to report sick . wahaha ...

ladies and gentlemen , boys and gals , i think it's time for me to close the last chapter of 20 years of my life . the next entry might jolly well be my first for the next phase of me .

so ... nothing further out !

2008-05-03T08:59:00.003+08:00

nothing beats whole family gathering together , enjoying a small celebration , and sharing some great moments ...

and last week , i had such pleasant moment .

my family had planned a surprise birthday party for me . i had no idea at all that something ' sinister ' was being executed . after all , i'm always the one helping to plan such things for my friends ...

close relatives and friends joined us and i'm pretty glad becos i dun really get to see jolin and jamie regularly . somehow this reminded me of the bbq party that my parents planned years back when i was still studying . more people were around that time and it was very fun .

although it was an advance party , it really does seems like it was on actual day itself . and smile was on my face all day long .

i have 2 words for all of them ...

appreciation , and thank you !

2008-04-19T18:49:00.005+08:00

miracles do happen , but being nervous kills any chances left ...

tue went for shooting . and i think i can only shoot ostrich =.=" . morning there were 16 targets . yet i only hit 3 .

but miracles almost helped me at night . for the next 9 shots , all of them hit the target , as if i'm a sniper . wahaha ... with scores at 12/25 and 3 shots left , i need to get at least 2 to pass .

10th was a hit .

11th and 12th fly and fly , jiu shi never fly to my target =.=" . and my score stood at 13/28 . damn unlucky .

sometimes i really wonder , if things that i do , are they right ... or they are wrong .

principles are in place . but what if 2 of them conflict with each other ?

sidetrack abit . i rmb in i-robots , there exists the three laws of robotics -
1. a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. a robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the first law.
3. a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law.

if there are something like laws of human beings , i wonder if this would be a better world to live in ...

2008-04-12T22:59:00.005+08:00

清明时节雨纷纷
路上行人欲断魂
借问酒家何处有
牧童遥指杏花村

last week was qing ming jie . this week then i went tomb sweeping . everyone say i was late . but i saw many people at the cemetary . that means i'm not too late after all . hehehe ...

and i think being late or not doesn't matter . it's the heart that counts . not like some wimps' family . pui !

it's been almost 2 years since my grandma passed away ...

i can still rmb the last few days when she was around - tears rolling down her eyes when she sees all of us around . thousands of words she yearns to say but only heavy sighs can be heard . wrinkled hands trying to hold our hands though she could muster no strength ... these are some things that are simply hard to forget , to put down i guess

the many things that came along with her still lingers . but as i say , time will slowly soften the impact they bring . only the good memories will remain ...

tmr i'm going to the cemetary , again . haha . till then ...

wishing all happy days ahead !

2008-04-06T15:59:00.003+08:00

poor is the word to describe me now !

i think this is the second or third time that i'm broke to such a state . i even hold back topping up my ezlink and spend lesser on food .

but worry no more . my pay is going to reach my pocket soon . mwahaha ...

met jerlynn when i was on my way home . i hardly take 900 home and when i did on fri , jiu saw her . almost cant recognise her and i stunned when she smiled at me , thinking ' hmm , this face looks familiar . ' lols ... now i will shun 901 and embrace 900 more . hehehe ...

ps told us our events for the next few weeks . i'm going to find the limping freak called msk soon -.-" . and guess wat ... it crashes with my birthday . DIAOZZZ ...

POOM ! there goes everything ... the only consolation is that i will be issued jungle hat and sunglasses -.-" lols .

but nvm , presents and gifts will still be accepted . it's on the 9th of may . hurry up and decide what to buy for me ! lols ...

2008-03-27T21:31:00.011+08:00

the result was out .

or rather a bombshell was dropped onto me .

i was assigned to go delta . and i'm going to thailand in august -.-" . not to see transvestites or whatever shit , but for an oversea exercise .

was very sian when the news was out becos only 20% chance to go delta and i'm so so unlucky . seeing people punching their fist in air and celebrating over their new unit is terrible . i could only look into the sky blankly and shake my head in disbelief . haizzz ...

i still haven get out of the ' emo ' state till this moment . but my mindset is changing gradually ...

" only when u had experience in staying in a house full of shit will u then truly appreciate what is beautiful . even simple things like a bowl of porridge will taste like heaven . " - i learnt this quote from sgt ong lai . and it has a far-reaching meaning for me .

my skills are only going to get better after all these shit . they only help me to improve as a soldier isn't it ? maybe aft my 2 years stint , they will give me a medal for ' best operator ' ? lols ...

and my philosophy has not changed . in whatever ways , there is no way that i can run away from my ns liability . therefore i will make the full use out of these 2 years and serve my nation , maybe not wholeheartedly , but with pride and honour .

p.s. : i want to clarify one thing . dun have the mindset that my ns is very slack - that i always get to have nites off and free time ...

people get to see me only when i'm free and slacking around , but they didnt't get to see me when i'm slogging my day out in the field and doing all sorts of tasks .

2008-03-24T18:42:00.008+08:00

lalala ...

last week was the most relaxing week so far .

mon to fri , it's jus so lecture , eat , sleep , sports , and then slack . wahaha ...

i jus wanted to share a funny moment while playing soccer . we were playing 11 vs 11 , together with 2 of our unit's ' discipline master ' . one of them had the ball with them , and was deciding who to pass to . i decided to sneak up to him from behind , and steal the ball away .

with a stroke of luck , i succeeded . the next moment , i saw him falling flat on his buttock . wahaha ... he didn't notice my presence at all and was about to whack the ball when it rolled away . the outcome - he whack the air so hard that he tumbled to the ground . lols .

i cause *** to fall to the ground . woots ! mwahahaha ... so evil of me . lols . must know that it's almost rare to have this chance leh . so cant stop laughing . partly due to the fact that he was one of those who made us suffer so much during our confinement . so considered it a revenge ! yeah ...

both weekend was spent doing some catching up with pri sch frens . and yes it's over 2 weekends -.-" . but i think it's okay becos there are newcomers from both session . wahaha ... to think that some of us haven seen each other for 8 years and most doesn't have too much change in them is somehow ... amazing .

overall , i think the atmosphere is great . we played games at minds cafe , and did small chats over at nydc . but it's all limited to really small chats -.-" .

well fret not . it's just the gap that separates us all these while limit our chat to just ' small ' . if we gather more often , together with my occasional stupidity haha , i think sooner or later we will be talking more rubbish rather than withholding ourselves and keeping with the formalities . lols . and please dun forget who i am - a bridging engineer . my forte is bridging gaps , be it rivers or the invisible ...

2008-03-08T22:33:00.004+08:00

274 days , 39 weeks , 9 months ...

that is the amount of precious time that i had spent since i entered army .

and this coming fri , 14mar2008 , i will be having my graduation parade .

finally , i have attained the rank of a sergeant !

and i'm proud of myself . becos i earned it using my sweat , mental strength ... plus extra confinement -.-" ...

i wun forget how tough it is for me to get this far , to get this rank .

though it would also mean more confinements in future , but i dun care . becos the boat will stablise itself once it docks at the pier . i will take things in my stride .

right now , i'm going to celebrate my grauduation .

come all my human beings frens , feel free to attend my parade . jus give me a call and i will chop lots of place for u . mwahaha ...

2008-02-14T18:35:00.002+08:00

love is in the air ...

today is valentine's day .

and today is my first day's out since i enlisted . the feeling is damn shiok !

my current course has given me a lot of my ' first time ' . i was awarded my first confinement . i was given my first day off . i steered a boat at sea for the first time in my life . i operated a $4m vehicle for the first time , enough to buy 4 lambos with change to spare ... and i think it's not going to end ...

and wth am i rotting at home today ? becos today's day off is last min then confirmed and i didn't plan ahead . anyway , i got no valentine . so ...

nvm nvm , i will use the time to look thru the uni courses and make an application .

once again , may every single soul have a nice day ahead .

bye bye ...

happy lunar new year !

2008-02-08T11:36:00.000+08:00

finally it's new year eve . time to wear new clothes , eat good food , have some fun , and indulge myself in festive mood ...

reunion dinner was at fortuante restaurant in toa payoh . food was superb , much much better than last year's . i love the big prawns , steamed promfet , salmon yusheng and shark fin ! wahaha ...

also visited the festive market near padang and nursery at thomson . was quite a waste of time becos the festive market was i think , a gimmick to promote tibet rather than celebrate cny . stalls selling tibet culture were plenty . it was a far cry from the past when the market was held opposite marina square .

this year celebration was somehow similar to last year's . fashion paraded ourselves at grandma's house , update ourselves with the current ' news ' -.-" . i can foresee next year would most likely to be the same . haha .

and i think every year i would always chu some stunts . 2005 call wrong name , 2006 think very long before addressing , 2007 think very long also . 2008 call wrong name again -.-" . so so diao and pai seh . lols ...

at my ah yi's house , it was a different atmosphere . it was much more carefree and fun . had some catching up with my cousins and small kids ...

reached home and we turned crazy ...

my balcony is nice de loh ! machiam a small nursery .

the photos below sum up the 2nd day at my house ...

now it's time to prepare to go back camp and cut grass liao ...

bye ...

2008-02-03T17:32:00.000+08:00

what a tiring week in the army ...

had our boat package last week . it was really an enjoyable 2 days . we did some basic lessons like foward and reversing , figure-8 , machiam like the time i spent learning driving . lols ... we also learnt how to steer power boat in rivers at high speed and in open sea , where malaysia is within our sight . big ships , kelongs , everywhere . indeed another colourful experience of my army life .

but all these exciting moments were exchanged using our sweat and strength . putting everything in place is a very tough job . everything weighs just like 1000000kg , so heavy until our backs and muscles were aching after the first day . luckily , i wasn't chosen to the boat coy , or else ...

last week also marks the darkest week of my army life . i was confined ! for the first time i was confined okay . made me damn furious !

confinement is okay when someone did something really wrong and he deserves to be punished .

it only becomes a stupid decision when the wrong thing we did was to forget to bring the 1m white rope issued to us , when we had with us our 5m green rope . wth !

the stupid old freak , who already has half of his leg in the coffin , said the purpose of the white rope is for us to practise tying of rope , and i dun see why the green rope cant serve the purpose . green rope is a rope , white rope is a rope . what's the diff ? maybe he's senile or whatever shit .

we tried to defend ourselves . and yes we lost , becos these losers think they are always right ! their brain is like spongebob squarepants , so squarish , cant think straight .

ya right , u are always right ! who the hell cares ? confinement i take it as a holiday chalet where i can enjoy the scenery of my camp , eat free food , spend time relaxing and rotting . i only care when u will be knocked down by car , striked by lightning , so that i can go to ur funeral and throw u back 100000000000 white ropes . wahaha !

omg , u see . i am actually very evil . kekeke . so dun ever piss me off ! amitabha .

spongebob squarepants , spongebob squarepants , spongebob squarepants , spongebob ... squarepants ...

2008-01-27T03:18:00.000+08:00

why do some people just dun care abt how other people might feel ?

why do some people just like to do things that they themselves enjoy only ?

why do some people just cant control themselves ...

just came back from qiang's birthday chalet at east coast . from the start , everything just seems to go the wrong way .

yw cant go ... yewmun cant go ... sheng cant go ... xiong cant go ... ss cant go ... my initial list of 15 becomes 10 -.-" . and all so last minute then inform me .

and my sian-ness just dun ends there . transport got problem . present got problem . program got problem . everything also got problem . more problem = double more sian-ness ...

but one thing triggered me to burst into flame . one idiotic ass pour a tub of cold water onto the birthday boy , and the water splashed onto the cake i paid for -.-" . it's since a long time that i scolded the word idiot , but i think it truly fits him !

the cake was gone , but not his idiotic sense . he smashed the cake onto gq's face , and some of us also kena . his idiotic action really stunned all of us .

and it just dun stop here . he said " nvm , i will pay back the cake . " he really thinks his money can cover the sky . some things just cant be bought using money . noob ! ng make effort to choose . i make effort to pay and even prepare a surprise for gq . all the effort is now gone , gone at the east coast chalet drain ...

now i really think that i shld ban him from all activities until he got some human sense in him ...

2008-01-19T11:27:00.000+08:00

last week , someone told me that all of us are actually stars . we shine , so that others can see us and use us as guide . people look upon us for guidance , so let us all shine like a star ...
(fyi , the whole song has 5 verses , not 1 . most of us know only know the 1st verse . )

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky!

When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.

Then the traveler in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.

In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky.

As your bright and tiny spark,
Lights the traveller in the dark, -
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

2008-01-12T23:34:00.000+08:00

lols . i discovered one thing . i nv blog abt my army life for 1 month liao . but that is very good . cos army life is boring life . keke ...

this 1 month , i joined the engineer training institute and also left them , joined bridging engineer to become trainee for yet another 9 weeks . trainee for 28 weeks liao still trainee -.-" . damn sian . some of my motivating factors were lost along the way .

some admire us to be able to have such an enjoyable army life . but sometimes i also admire others to be able to have a relaxing life . haizz ... when can i pass out as a sergeant ? where is my 3 strips ? lets wait bah ...

new year eve , i went to marina bay to catch the fireworks . it was a very last minute trip . spectacular it might be , but it seems the type of pyro they used is nothing different from national day and last year de -.-" . hope that when the ferry wheel opens and the formulae1 is here , we will get to see more spectacular ones ...

my stint at eti has ended . reported to new training wing to continue my specialised phase . the instructors are all very strict with us . no nonsense de training everyday . it's mentally stressing becos equipments we handle are expensive and work we do are dangerous . yet they only provide us with abt 5 hrs of sleep a day .

they keep stressing the importance of safety . but why issit so that they themselves fail to see that a real danger is lurking around us , waiting to prey on us when our focus is lost ? dun they know that many accidents happen becos fatigue sets in ?

now i wonder if they really take care of our well being . welfare is not just materialistically ; it is also abt mental welfare .

now i am tired ! out ...

2007-12-31T17:35:00.000+08:00

The person who chose the life of happiness do not think about the past or care about what the future lies . You only care about what makes you happy now .

The person who chose the life of meaning will wallow in the past and obsessed with the future .

What kind of life do you choose ?

Life’s like a jackpot machine to me .

Sometimes , it can be quite tiring to keep trying and trying , knowing that you might not get back as much as you’ve put in .

It's a gamble .

When you didnt get it right the 1st time , you get disappointed but you dont know whats wrong . You have no one to blame and no one to rely on for the strength that you are in for this game .

YET , we often have this will power in us that we will make it right the next time round .

It's not easy .

Just like in life , you need abit of luck because sometimes , even when you’ve tried a thousand times , you still might not get it right.You need abit of luck to get you alittle further .

But hardwork usually paid off in the end because if you persevere , you never quit .

You will keep trying and trying where every one elses stop , believing in yourself that you will hit the jackpot one day .

And if at the end of the game , you lost more than you gain , you know at least you tried till the very end ...

adapted from http://swaymyways.wordpress.com/ ...

couldn't object but to agree with her ...

sometimes luck is the only key that can unlock the door to success .

i dun have luck . but i do have perseverance .

jus hoping that it dun wears off -.-" ...

ohh ya , can i chose somewhere between meaning and happiness ?

becos i think the present is more important , to me .

i pretty indulge in the past .

but i'm not obsessed with the future .

shopping is fun !

2007-12-30T19:26:00.000+08:00

last week marks the temporary closure of my family's most patronised teochew porridge . hai ...

today marks the closure of our most patronised zi cha tua . hai hai haizzz ...

most of the good food stalls have all gone . gone were the days we went zooming around in lorry for nice food . nowadays all the stalls have either renovated and their usual taste are gone , or the chefs have aged and decided not to continue .

how i wish those stalls can remain as they were in the 90s ...

but nvm . we will find more good food in the meantime to satisfy our taste bud , though that is hard . very hard . lols ...

yest went for a shopping spree . it's been dunnoe donkey weeks since i shopped until so shiok . lols ... raffles city was where we hit first . changed really alot . maybe it's becos i've never been there for long time liao . then we moved on to marina square .

although didn't buy alot , but what we bought are all expensive items okay . one of them is so big until it requires a lorry to transport home . and that is a coffee table ! really excited to see the new table coming next week . plus a new fan and new paint , we are ready for chinese new year ! wahaha ...

merry merry christmas ...

2007-12-25T15:40:00.000+08:00

☆。★。☆
★。☆。*。☆。
★。＼｜／。★
* MERRY XMAS *
★。／｜＼。★
。☆。*。☆。*
*。★。*。★

had a small gathering last night at sembawang park . it turned out to be something like a picnic . lols ... ordered pizza and brought all the way there , hoping to find some place to sit down and enjoy the breeze . who knows it was unusually crowded and we had to lay newspaper on the ground and 'picnic' -.-" . luckily i can find lots of newspaper in the boot . haha ...

couldn't finish those food and drinks , so dumped everything inside the big and always tidy boot , making it so untidy for the first time -.- . spend time walking rounds in the park , machiam like we are the patrol team of the neighbourhood . lols ...

bored , we shifted to canberra park . it was a new park . i dun even know its existance . haha ... enjoyed ourselves there until we decided to exchange the gifts . i got myself a hand massager from ng lols ...

it was a moment to cherish . kakis gathering together in small group is always better than going to orchard , having to squeeze with all the bangalas and childish youngsters and be on the alert for snatch thieves and trouble makers .

nothing to post leh !

2007-12-23T17:39:00.000+08:00

so boring recently . even more bored to post becos nothing interests me . so jus anyhowingly posted this short story loh . >.< haha ...

An elderly Carpenter was ready to retire. He told his Employer-Contractor of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by.

The Contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The Carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career.

When the Carpenter finished his work the builder came to inspect the house, the Contractor handed the front-door key to the Carpenter. "This is your house," he said, "my gift to you."

What a shock! What a shame! If he had only know he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none to well.

So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than the best. At important points we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we had realized, we would have done it differently.

Think of yourself as the Carpenter. Think about your house. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Build wisely. It is the only life you will ever build. Even if you live it for only one day more, that day deserves to be lived graciously and with dignity. The plaque on the wall says, "Life is a do-it-yourself project."

Who could say it more clearly? Your life today is the result of your attitudes and choices in the past. Your life tommorrow will be the result of your attitudes and choices you make today .

2007-12-02T23:23:00.000+08:00

everybody listen up , i'm now a coporal ! lols ... coporal mind u . 2 stripes with a roof . wahaha .

i'm so proud that i'm a coporal now . people in other coy earn their coporal the easy way . we bravos earn it the tough way , the true army style .

and finally i left bravo . had been looking forward for this day for like ... centuries ? now that i've graduated , i will leave with pride and no memories of it . pride becos i survived their tough , no nonsense training . no memories becos really there is nothing memorable for me to think of . bravo has no welfare to talk of . and when there is no welfare to talk of , then pls shoo !

last week was a tough week to get by . becos we were all in graduation mode and every single day seems to pass so slow . and the only major event is the 28km finale march . it was an interesting one becos it's a night march and we are the pioneer batch to try out the new route . i also dunnoe how i tahaned it out . i was so sleepy and my legs were damn sored throughout the march . my eyes kept closing even though i was walking . lols ...

fast forward >>>

and my lottery draw result is out . i'm going to combat engineer -.-" . wth ! combat engineer is a very shiong unit . jus hope that i can later branch out to cbre . although cbre training more shiong , but the life after that will be smooth and easy . plus the higher pay it comes with . yeah !

shall end here ... i'm cpl teng . good nite everyone ...

words of enlightenment ...

2007-11-24T16:26:00.000+08:00

life is all about ...

trusting your feelings and taking chances ,

losing and finding happiness ,

appreciating the memories ,

learning from the past ...

and realising that people always change .

2007-11-18T16:37:00.000+08:00

i also dunnoe why everytime i drive , i will meet many i.d.i.o.t.i.c and b.r.a.i.n.l.e.s.s drivers who think they own the road .

one s**ker almost made me point my finger at him today .

cut into my lane still dare to challenge me . u loser .

and i reciprocated him by honking hard , staring back and cutting in abruptly .

boo ! u moron !

from now on i wun be kind to these i.d.i.o.t.s . watch it !

an unlucky week !

2007-11-17T23:03:00.000+08:00

this week is somehow my last shiong week in sispec .
our field camp finale , grandslam , is finally over . woots ...
after all grandslam was quite easy , at least for me , becos my assessment was done in the earlier fieldcamp .

ex wanderer was a success . we made plans to ensure that we find all checkpoints , and our plans worked .

army shit aside , we meetup again late fri night for a small session . initially can meet liling and gang for their session de . but i heard wrongly that their meeting place . park i mistook as pub -.-" . i was also surprised when i heard ' pub ' . so time was wasted and they had to go home becos they are cinderellas ...

we stopped to buy some tidbits and drinks before we vroomed to sembawang park . session lasted until 4am before making our way back .

did i say i almost lost my wallet and hp becos i forget to pick them up before i left ? luckily xiong reminded me . but the most unlucky thing was i really lost my 11b . and nv did i notice until the next day becos a lao peh peh having finished with his morning exercise , came knocking on my door with my card . i presume i lost it when i was in vista park last nite .

what sheer luck i have . phew ! if not i will be in deep shit . lols ... and there goes my clean record of having not lost impt items for years liao ... darn it .

ever changing world !

2007-11-11T19:53:00.000+08:00

people changes , so does everything in the world .

why cant just let everything remain unchanged as it was like before ?

i yearn to go back to the past ...

old mates gathering .

2007-11-11T19:48:00.000+08:00

had a gathering yest at east coast chalet .

the environment is rather calm , a perfect place to relax . but the room was not -.-" !

i think the chalet itself is run by indians . front desk , indian served us . booking bbq pit , indian served us . price of everything , also indian price . everything is so expensive .

reaching our room , we were greeted by a stuck lock , followed by faulty aircon , smelly toilets , sticky floor , disgusting bedsheets , yucky furnitures , and the list goes on ...

we were at our best again . complain ! ! ! lols ...

situation improves , and we being setting up stuff , and waited ...

and blah blah blah ...

finally all arrived around 7pm and blah blah blah somemore ...

i dunwan to go into details . chalet shld be a relaxing one but i just dun feel at ease during the whole chalet . was kind of tiring . i also dunnoe why lols ... shld have done something stupid last night - like going missing for 3hrs or whatsoever wahaha ...

and i'm not happy at how things are being done -.-" . difficult things make it look so simple and simple things they make it difficult .

forget it . there are much more things that i can focus on . dun waste my already depleted energy over such things ...

I AM TIRED ! ! !

wait to rush ... rush to wait again -.-"

2007-10-27T13:03:00.000+08:00

wah very long never write a decent entry liao . now i shall start by doing a mid-course review for my life in sispec .

a simple conclusion - life s**ks to the core okay ! to be exact , it's the life in bravo coy i hated the most !

always making us wait for nothing . and after all the stupid waiting , rushing us to get something done . no wonder there's a saying that in sispec , it is always ' wait to rush and rush to wait again ' lols ... it's time to change the motto liao lah -.-" .

we can spend almost 20% of our day waiting and waiting and ... hai , really fed up , but what can i do ? jus open my palm , then clench my fist leaving out the thumb , bring it close to my mouth , and suck thumb like a baby -.-" .

other companies always train the easy way out . for us ? we will do at least double of what the rest do -.-" -.-" -.-" . i'm not complaining , for i knew that training hard is for our own good . but do please consider the fact that we also need some rest in between mah .

other things that i hated is the @*&^%#$ attitude that some trainees had . i dunnoe if it's the mohawk standard i'm trying to uphold or i'm born to have such good qualities haha , but they always dun have the initiative to fall in early and like to take their own sweet time . i dunnoe what the hell bmt had instilled in them . going to become cpl still have so ^%^$**#&( attitude .

i hate this type of people to the core . brainless bunch of immature , senseless , yet to grown up adult . based on your sucky attitude , if i were to decide your posting , i will give you shit okay . tonnes of shit ! humph .

i jus wish that the remaining 5 weeks pass quickly and i can escape from these shit people and sucky place with a cpl rank on my arm . hehe ... i will have no memories for sispec , not to worry . after all , bmt is still the best . my best experience will be with mohawk coy ...

can-a-nauts joke ...

2007-10-13T00:19:00.000+08:00

a funny joke to share with all :

dr.m was thinking about sending a malaysian into space . three potential can-a-nauts were called for an interview - one indian, one malay and one chinese .

dr.m interviews the indian first : " so , muthu, this is a dangerous mission . how much do you think you should be paid ? "
muthu replied : " one million ringgit . "
" why so much ? " asks dr.m .
" very dangerous mission , datuk . maybe i no come back ! " replied muthu .
" that's understandable , " says dr.m. " thank you ... please ask the malay guy to come here . "

so the malay walks up , and is asked the same question .

" alamak , 2 million ringgit only lah datuk , " replied the malay candidate .
" two million ? that's twice as much ! even that anneh ( bro in tamil ) before you asked for only one million . "
" you see , datuk , " explains mat . " I have 4 wives and 15 children ... with so many of us , it is a big family to leave behind when I am gone ... ! "
" i see , " says dr.m . " okay , can you ask that chinese guy to come then ? "

the chinese guy comes in and dr.m asks , " ah chong , as you heard , this is a very risky mission , how much do you want ? "
ah chong smiles for a while , and says , " 3 million linggit only loh datuk . " m appears shocked .
" what ??? 3 million ! Why so much ? "
ah chong beckons dr.m to come closer , where-upon he quietly whispers into his ear , " datuk , one million you keep , one million I keep , and then one more million to send that anneh into space ! "

lost ...

2007-10-07T14:45:00.001+08:00

a lot of things running in my mind now . and i cant put them in words .

suddenly my dictionary seems so empty , so messy .

all of a sudden , it seems that i am lost ! lost in the vast wilderness after being struck by a huge piece of rock .

random pictures ...

2007-10-07T14:16:00.001+08:00

06 oct 2007

23 sept 2007

20 sept 2007

the truth of life ...

2007-09-29T15:07:00.000+08:00

chanced upon an article from people's blog . something to think about . here it goes ...

* a columbine high school student wrote :

the paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings , but shorter tempers ; wider freeways , but narrower viewpoints ; we spend more , but have less ; we buy more , but enjoy it less .

we have bigger houses and smaller families ; more conveniences , but less time ; we have more degrees, but less sense ; more knowledge, but less judgment ; more experts, but less solutions ; more medicine, but less wellness .

we have multiplied our possessions , but reduced our values . we talk too much , love too seldom , and hate too often . we've learned how to make a living , but not a life ; we've added years to life , not life to years .

we've been all the way to the moon and back , but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour . we've conquered outer space , but not inner space ; we've cleaned up the air , but polluted the soul ; we've split the atom , but not our prejudice . we have higher incomes , but lower morals ; we've become long on quantity , but short on quality.

these are the times of tall men , and short character ; steep profits , and shallow relationships . these are the times of world peace , but domestic warfare ; more leisure , but less fun ; more kinds of food , but less nutrition . these are days of two incomes , but more divorce ; of fancier houses , but broken homes .

it is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom ; a time when technology can bring this letter to you , and a time when you can choose either to forward this message and make a difference or just hit delete .

diaos . new nicks for me ...

2007-09-23T18:08:00.001+08:00

i've got 2 new nicks ...

1. botak sister bin ahmad gigolo

2. botak ahmad bin sister

one by ng and one by liling respectively ...

another entry to be submitted soon , i think , by wsm .

pls vote generously for the name that i shld adopt -.-" . lols ...

diaos ... ha ha ha !

2007-09-19T21:37:00.000+08:00

MEMO TO SHIT

Memo to all employees:

In order to assure the highest levels of quality work and productivity from employees, it will be our policy to keep all employees well trained through our program of SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING (S.H.I.T).

We are trying to give our employees more S.H.I.T than anyone else. If you feel that you do not receive your share of S.H.I.T on the course, please see your supervisor. You will be immediately placed at the top of the S.H.I.T list and our supervisors are especially skilled at seeing you getall the S.H.I.T you can handle.

Employees who don't take their S.H.I.T will be placed in DEPARTMENTAL EMPLOYEE EVALUATION PROGRAMS (D.E.E.P.S.H.I.T). Those who fail to take D.E.E.P.S.H.I.T seriously will have to go to EMPLOYEE ATTITUDE TRAINING (E.A.T.S.H.I.T).

Since our supervisors took S.H.I.T before they were promoted, they don't have to do S.H.I.T anymore, and are all full of S.H.I.T already. If you are full of S.H.I.T you may be interested in a job teaching others. We can add your name to our BASIC UNDERSTANDING LIST of LEADERS (B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T).

For employees who are intending to pursue a career in management andconsulting, we will refer you to the department of MANAGERIAL OPERATIONAL RESEARCH EDUCATION (M.O.R.E.S.H.I.T). This course emphasizes how to manage M.O.R.E.S.H.I.T.

If you have further questions, please direct them to our HEAD OF TEACHING,SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING (H.O.T.S.H.I.T).

Thank you, BOSS IN GENERAL, SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING ( B.I.G.S.H.I.T).

P.S. Now send this S.H.I.T to 5 people who need S.H.I.T in their life, just not the same person who sent you this S.H.I.T. They have already had their fill of S.H.I.T. Thank you for your time!

Sincerely, The Director Under the Main Bureau of Super High Intensity Training (The D.U.M.B.S.H.I.T).

an injured knee .

2007-09-12T21:02:00.000+08:00

went out quite early today . had a street soccer match in amk . strange becos i dun think anyone in the group stays in amk , yet they chose amk -.-" .

the game went smoothly , but not me . joined for the first few games . but the injury to my knee got worse . couldn't even bend my knee sia . no choice but to withdraw and sit aside . but sitting aside for a while only , i started to feel feverish . not under sun at all still can kena fever -.-" diaos ...

and i realised one thing . i haven board any mrt train for at least 5months liao . wahaha ...

a closed chapter ...

2007-09-11T20:46:00.000+08:00

today marks the end of my bmt . but it does have another meaning . it is the start of my real training as a soldier .

like what i told my friend , the 2-weeks break we having now is not for us to relax . it's for us to be prepared and get ready for more tougher training .

whatever -.-" . i am always ready ! wahaha ...

nothing much to say about . the parade went smoothly . our side had no corkup at all . just that my mama cant find me in the formation until the last min -.-" ...

a little bit sad that we had to bid farewell to each another becos we might not be going to the same unit after all and they had been good section mates , but glad becos at least i can stop seeing some of the cocky face that i dun like . but nonetheless , i will maintain in contact with them ...

chatted with one of my fren jus now . it's a case of grandparent passed away . suddenly jolted back some of my memories . hai ... thinking back there is still some form of unhappiness . but the event was a past tense . 天下没有无不散之宴席 - life has to be carried on , and i think i've done it ...

my collection of cds ...

2007-09-09T12:33:00.000+08:00

just completed my 24km graduation routemarch last wed .

it was a gruesome test of my mind and endurance . somemore the distance we had walked was not as stated . we carried ourselves for abt 27km , not 24km -.-" .

the burning sun in the afternoon made the whole activity even more challenging . but i can see that all of us put in effort for this march . becos lesser people fall out as compared to the 16km march .

during the march , a lot of things went through my mind . but one particular thing made me thought over and over again . and i think that thing somehow made me endure through the whole journey .

sang alot of songs throughout the march . and then i discovered actually i've forgotten lots of songs that i have as compared to last time when one word or phrase and i can rmb the whole song -.-" . dunnoe is i'm older liao and memory lapse or it's becos i'm to shag to think ...

now i'm going through the stacks of cds i had . shall play some songs by sun yan zi from her 2nd album ' my desired happiness ' . it's the very first cd that i bought , in 2001 . and subsequently i became one of her fans .

enjoy ...

after a month of silence ...

2007-08-25T22:39:00.000+08:00

didn't blog for the past one month simply becos there is too little time for me to sit in front of my computer , savour a cup of warm milk tea , and start thinking of what to write ...

many events took place during the last one month . i went for my fieldcamp , situational test , range , 16km march . and since these are some of the major events of bmt , basically it means that i can ' keng ' all the way and still pass out as a private . haha ...

but hey hey hey ! ! ! am i such a weako whose main aim is to ' keng ' all their way through bmt ? of course not ! i'm strong , not a weakling . wahaha !

i wouldn't say all these events are taxing , but neither are they easy shit . and from all these events , i get to know another side of my platoon mates - both the demonic and angelic side of them . how we helped each other in times of difficulty , how people from nato grouping ( no action talk only )flexes their mouth muscle and throw their weights around ...

it really further strengthen my thinking that humans are very , very hard to understand . u think u know them very well ? think again !

! full stop !

woots ...

2007-07-22T16:00:00.000+08:00

i'm top5 fastest runners in my platoon . yeah !

and my timing is 10:20 .

my ultimate target is 9:40 , the gold standard ! ! !

haiz , but overall i still fail -.-" . just becos i missed the chin-up standard by just 1 stroke . only 1 u know . argh , damn it !

and 1 more thing ...

my platoon is the cleanest platoon throughout the whole company during random spot checks .

and becos we are the cleanest section in the platoon , that makes us the cleanest section ! ! ! yeah yeah yeah ! ! !

honeymoon gone , now hell starts ...

2007-07-14T15:26:00.000+08:00

1 month into my enlistment le . already quite used to the life inside army . becos everyday is the same old word to describe . boring ! ! !

morning must wake up by 5am . this is so sh*t when usually i wake up at 11am -.-" . somemore wake up le must start to sweat like hell with 5bx and running . so in army , it's all about sweating . after one exercise , i can squeeze out 2 glasses of freshly made sweat from my totally soaked pt attire .

and becos we sweat so much , we are made to drink tonnes of water . erm , not drink bah but gobble . 1 litre of plain tasteless tap water each time . it suxs but no choice . rules are rules , have to follow .

the exercises are actually quite simple , just some agressive running and playing with weights and stretches . i have no problem with weights . and initially i thought running would kill me . but it turns out to be piece of cake for me . i'm actually some of the fastest runners . and i dunnoe that my stamina is so good . wahaha ... i'm flying ! but the exercises are getting tougher and longer really -.-" . and i will make it ! lols ...

now comes to food . actually the food is kinda okay when i first went in . at least they dun taste s*cky . but that's until the 4th monday when i ate spaghetti . the yucky food turned my health upside down , causing me to have diarrhoea for 5 straight days -.-" -.-" -.-" ... after that incident , all my comments given for the food are all 'lousy' , and they will have to wait long before i upgrade to 'not okay' . hehe ...

well , actually it's really boring inside army . i'm always looking forward to my bookout day . becos the day is my freedom day . though short , i can get to see my family , my frens , my everything . so please , have a heart and jio me out so that i can have an enjoyable off day ! rofl ...

suay - ness

2007-06-14T11:41:00.000+08:00

was indeed very suay yest -.-"

12june - during evening , i had some coughing and i just thought it's no big deal .

13june - morning time had slight sore throat . it's during afternoon that it full erupted to become high fever , headache , suan-ness in my bone joints . becos my enlistment day is on 15june , so bobian have to seek help immediately . if not first day have to mc , not very good what ...

14june - whole night did not really sleep well . was rolling here and there with blankets covering me from head to toe -.-" . wake up early in the morning just to eat something before popping 2 anti-suan tablets .

hope today will be a good day ...

a day at the bird park ...

2007-06-11T17:33:00.000+08:00

i will let the photos do the talking ...

spent a good sunday walking around jurong birdpark . an entertaining tour becos it has been at least 10 years that i last visited the park .

saw the parrots that my uncle owns , and it only makes me more envy . i swear i will earn lots of money to buy parrots and build a cage for them ! and only parrots ... hehe ...

初体验 ...

2007-06-09T16:07:00.000+08:00

held our last celebration prior to ns yest .

celebration as it was , i think it was more likely a normal gathering for us becos we always eat in restaurants together .

yest actually going to eat seafood at geylang but becos some losers cannot eat live crabs , we changed to sakae .

go eating with them has some pros and cons . pros becos they know the menu well and will do the ordering . cons becos whenever they cant finish the food , they will push to me -.-" ...

was damn full like the time at dimsum buffet becos they ordered like nobody's business . so full le still can order all the fruits and dessert .

after that went to clarke quay . boon said he's bringing us to a bar to chill ... hmm , chill ? ya it's really chilling becos he brought us to eski bar , where the environment is like a fridge . it's temp is a low 7.4 degree . but just nice becos the weather was hot and we were made to walk from clarke quay to boat quay -.-" .

but i like cold , so i was like sitting near the cold vent while they went hiding in a corner . did some stupid stuff there like waiting for the ice to melt , posing for camera , blah blah blah ...

cannot stay there for too long becos your hand will start to numb , we hurried off and strolled back to clarke quay .

12am , that's when real singapore night life starts . and you can see all sorts of people over there . it's fun and an eye-opening experience for me ...

conclusion drawn : it's only for the riches . haha !

no interesting topic to blog ...

2007-06-07T13:17:00.000+08:00

wednesday

yong yong finally asked us out , for lunch . ever since he eat vegetarian , he hardly ask us out liao .

specially cycled to sunplaza to have kfc -.-" . we are bunch of mad-dies becos everywhere also got kfc and we chose sunplaza . crapped alot as usual before pedalling down to civic dbs bank .

and down there , i came up with an idea . to catch morons who steal bicycle seats . we intend to lock a bike there and wait patiently at 3 different routes for the moron to escape . but the operation eventually died becos even i voted against it -.-" . haha ...

but i swear the operation will happen one of these days before ns . it will be codenamed operation ' catching moron , hidden dragon ' . roflmao ...

tuesday

nothing much actually . i'm engaged as a part-time personal chauffeur today . for my elder sister , younger sister , father , mother , and even my brother -.-" . whole family in fact .

sunday

went for dimsum buffet at miramar hotel in the morning .

the hotel building itself is quite rundown . but who cares when the food is okay ... and since it's a buffet , we were like a bunch of hungry ghosts and ordered most of the dimsums . when anything failed to come , we would keep pestering the waitress to bring up those items .

we had our retribution becos last few dishes we can hardly deal with them le . so full were we that we had to walk around time and again to fasten the digestion .

i almost mimicked what a merlion is capable of doing , to throw out everything in my stomach , akin to what a merlion sprays water at the merlion park -.-" .

after our ordeal , we went to the reddot design musuem for a walk . my sister said there's a flea market every sunday . and yeah indeed so there's one . but there's only like 20 stalls selling those you would ' see but not buy ' de stuff .

some nice stuff on exhibition though . they were winners for reddot awards . furnitures , appliances , lightings ... you name it , they have it . and the whole building is so design-oriented that their toilets , letter boxes , cafes , even security office are so coolzzz ...

one interesting place that you can spend 1 hour at . hehe ...

saturday

went to computer fair at suntec in the afternoon to buy 2 gadgets , printer and camera ...

had wanted to buy both things from canon becos of their slick design . but after some consideration , got printer from epson becos their ink is damn cheap . for heavy usage , epson printer can save more . chose camera from panasonic becos it has wide-angle lens ( 28 mm ) . definitely shioker than normal 35 mm lens ...

after buying , i found that my bank reserve ran empty -.-" ! wanted to back out from paying for my 50% share but my sister forbids . now has to start worry when money will drop from the sky liao ...

defending the lion city ...

2007-05-30T15:19:00.000+08:00

i had borrowed this book countless number of times from the library , and frankly speaking , i read through the whole book as many times .

what surprises me is that the content written in the book was quite accurate ... and i dunnoe how the author , tim huxley , managed to get all this info ... for some of them are quite sensitive . in fact , anything regarding our armed forces are sensitive .

one part that surprises me is that he managed to get the orbat info very accurately , 80% of them . and how do i know ?

recently went browsing through mindef website and found out that some parts had been revamped . they actually released some orbat info which we might not get so easily ( i presumed some more info are still being kept as secret ) .

now i hope to own one becos this book from nlb is like ' kiam chai ' like that . although this book was published in 2000 , i think it still has its value , becos i can use it for my own reference . will have to go down to kinokuniya to buy liao ...

another book ' southeast asia - threats in the security environment ' that i borrowed , it sux alot . i thought this book might be great becos it was first published in 2006 , and there might be new info which i've never read before .

it disappoints me becos the content was so ' antique ' ( in the sense that the info given are old info that i've already known ) . and the author keeps on copying and pasting the same chuck of info from chap1 to chap10 . what a waste of paper for publishing this book -.-" ... the author might have better future in writing children's abc story book .

suay day !

2007-05-29T19:48:00.000+08:00

damn suay sia .

cycled out to ' dabao ' chicken cutlet for dinner .

on the way back , i took a different route to my void deck .

while engaging a turn , i lost concentration for a while . and my bike just banged into the wall -.-" , with a loud ' biang ' ...

what makes me more ' malu ' was that there were 2 passer-bys and they saw the accident . wah piang -.-" -.-" -.-" !

luckily at the point of impact , i jumped off the bike ; just taking a slight knock on my shoulder .

luckily my bike suffered no big damage .

luckily i managed to save the chicken cutlet ...

interestingly interesting ...

2007-05-29T14:26:00.000+08:00

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a site that tests your reaction and coordination speed ...

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sian - sation ...

2007-05-28T13:40:00.000+08:00

was bombarded with 3 ' mo ming qi miao ' smses this morning ...

first , yong yong asked me wanna go cmpb . diao -.-" . i know he wanted to go for another checkup . as a friend , yes i would like to accompany him go . but the place is like , so ' ulu ' . have to take mrt , bus , and walk . if u taxi-ed there , then it's fine . hehe !

second , tx asked me to organise one more partyworld . diao diao -.-" -.-" . thur asked her go , she cannot . it's not that i dunwan . it's that getting people is difficult , especially the same group . and i dun print money . everytime bill balance i have to foot you know ...

third , elder sis asked me specially to know whether i've applied for the ndp07 tickets . diao diao diao -.-" -.-" -.-" . this year's parade at marina bay leh . how can i missed this opportunity to be among the 27 thousands audience ? i already submitted the application on the very first day liao ...

well , that's all . will have to sian-ed the whole week again ...

badminton day

2007-05-28T13:26:00.000+08:00

another sunday , another badminton day ...

met 3pm at sss old house . the court was empty when i reached . but moments later , a group of primary sch kids came and occupied the court . damned them . they brought everything along ; i had only 3 rackets and shuttle . they 4 person ; i'm the only one . how to fight ?

they said they every week uses the court , so they have the right . go to hell bah ! next week i will ' jalan ' the rest to meet at 2pm . and u idiots shall sit by the side and play ' lon jiang pah ' bah !

slight change in the players' line up . nsf hui is substituted by nsf qiang .

had 3 tiring games , 2 best of 5s and 1 best of 7s .

and i discovered one thing . my ' mo qi ' with lp sux alot . haha . with him , i lost . with the nsf , i can win -.-" , though it's all nail biting finishes ...

didn't pull my muscle like last week , and not as tiring like before .

now i declare every sunday as a badminton day ...

so high ...

2007-05-25T13:47:00.000+08:00

never have i been to partyworld and have such a wonderful moment before .

had been planning yesterday's trip long before . it wouldn't be a success if not for the cooperation that all of us put in .

thanks yong yong3 for taking off becos he is the pillar for creating the ' high ' atmosphere , but credits to me4 also to play along with him . wahaha ...

thanks ll5 , ng4 , sm2 becos without them , there will be no audience to our crazy performance .

thanks to yy1 and mosquito3 for giving us a chance to laugh at becos of ur craziness .

actually we were not singing , but just yelling throughout the whole session . and becos yong yong and me are quite well versed in mandarin pop , almost every songs we were the background music .

and boo to those holding the microphone , becos just the guys and together with our high capacity throat , we outshone them in most songs with our high decibel voice . we were really so ' high ' that some moments we were standing and shouting !

luckily , we were entitled to 20 drinks to soothe our throat . if not ...

aproaching the end , we had our last song , 恋爱 ing ... mustering up our last bit of energy , we yell like hell broke out .

dead tired after screaming like mad for the past 4 hours , we just refused to lift our ass up and leave . sat around and crapped for 15 mins before requesting the waitress to take a group photo for us ...

i guess this would be our last k-outing before we enlist into army . it's a truly 6-star moment !

back to the low-profile me ...

2007-05-23T14:21:00.000+08:00

after some self-reflection on things that i did recently , it seemed to me that most were creeping over my own sets of standards . some were even in conflict with my principle .

it's time for me to shoot myself down , and not allowed me to fly too high .

after all , i'm introvert ^ 2 . haha ...