Life of someone

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as-Salam-u-’Alaikum. Selamat Hari Raya Di Aldilfitri to all my muslim frens and to their families.. Eat more ah!~ and collect more green Angpows.. haha.. have a good raya~ waiting for ur invitations to go makan at ur homes anyway enjoy ur raya~

At long last~ yesterday went back to camp to collect my Pink IC!~ the long awaited day of 16 oct 2006 has finally arrived and i’m finallly done with the agony of having to book in evry monday morn, and book out every fri evening >< at last can always head back to my warm bed at home every night….

Well, lemme think.. wat have i actually learnt thru out these 2 yrs of my life.. hmmm.. :

1) learnt how to ‘Smoke’ my way thru things…

2) how to siam ’sai gang’ meaning shit work…

3) how to make everything look so damn nice when auditors come >< = more ’sai gang’

4) how to sleep when pple are working??? (hmm.. some of my plt mates managed to do that.. got hell lotsa shit when we got caught ><)

5) Smoke… as in ciggs… very very bad thing.. trying to quit..

6) how to handle tons of stress… and handle the tons of sleepless nights deploying the system.

and a whole lot more…

And most importantly, its learning how to work with people, how to motivate people….

Like people always say "serving NS is a waste of time, nothing is gained from NS."

Well, I say "Whether you would wanna learn anything from NS depends on the individual, you could either try to siam everything, don’t learn any skills, don’t do anything in which u end up not learning anything, OR to open up to everything, take anything that comes in your way during NS and learn how to overcome the problem. Learn how to work with people, understand people and learn things from them."

4 months in BMT was fun and laughter and thinning haha, 4 months in 160 SQN as trainee was hell, and the 1yr 4 months of ‘normal’ NS life was ok with a few hiccups here and there…

Here are my thanks certain people:

1) LTA (NS) Ngoh Chun Rong for being the best PC ever, motivating us and helping us fight for what we deserved and leading and winning the best fire unit for AAO 2005/2006.

2) LTA Chew Weijie for taking care of us when chun rong left.

3) CPT Joseph Peh and 2LT Kui Jieren for taking care of us when weijie left

4) SSG Amanda Giam for teaching me all the skills on the system and skills in life and how to handle people, work with people.

5) SSG Melvin Tan for being a very good superior and good friend haha.. fun guy to work with… Exercise Tutuchat II!! waiting for u to invite haha..

6) The ORDed Sergeats of A2. Thank you for ur guidance during my course time, Zhixun and gang.. haha cept for the fact when jeremy starts talking, he’ll never stop -.-

7) A2 - best mates and friends to have… Times where we pratically shared weal and woe together. Will miss all the good and bad times we had together… this will be an experience i’ll never forget.

Thanks to everyone else who have help me during my NS life whom i did not mentioned. Thank you

Take care guys and stay safe.. hope we get recalled for the Live firing next year.. me wanna go aust with you guys!!

At long last I can say, FINISHED no.. DONEDED with my National Service.. Time for me to ORD!~

Ahh!! its been a long while since i’ve last posted something, haha.. been too lazy to write… or rather nothing interesting.. haha.. but when i logged on to friendster and saw my fren’s post haha.. something to write liao

First things first!!~ CONGRATULATIONS to Mrs Hong aka Sharon Lee~ congratulations on ur ROM *waiting for your wedding dinner invitation* 让我们用最热烈的掌声恭喜这对夫妇. haha.. congrats again..

hmm.. what’s actually the correct period of our lives to get married? Early 20s? mid 20s? late 20s? or even early 30s to mid 30s? haha.. i guess i will never think of the term marraige till i’ve started a relationship lol… well, my cousin and his gf is talking bout marriage recently.. or so i’ve heard. well hope everything will work out well for them..

Recently decided to go back to playing FFXI, glad to see most of the old timers are still there, haha.. now my turn to become new bird haha.. Sigh.. dunno whether was it right for mi to go back playing FFXI….. now all my daily time spent is on gaming alone.. kinda bad.. and i still dun wanna look for work!~ how am i gonna survive thru next month.. this month can still like relax a while? lol

Well, 7 more days to ORD!~ this week gonna be hectic cos i have to bring everything back home… hopefully zhihan has the car on wed haha.. can ask him tompang mi back home thanks in advance zhihan..

Won’t be updating much for a while.. cos most of mi time spent will be on FFXI.. so probably updates will come when more interesting things happen ard me~

just came back from KL… spent a whole week there.. or rather spent 3 days in genting and spent the rest of the days in KL itself…

had tons of fun with the guys in genting haha… gambled, played in the outdoor themepark, had tons of coffee drinking haha..

the trip to genting was nice… cept when the auntie started talking -.-.. blah blah blah blah.. wah lao.. buay tahan… all of us so pissed.. wanted to sleep also cannot sleep… knn.. haha… all of us cursing and swearing under our breath.. buay tahan.. aunties always lidat one.. tok tok tok tok non stop lol.. onli after our stop in Yong Peng then she sleep then stop liao… anyway

1st day when we reached genting, checked in our bags then went for breakfast.. at mcdonalds lol.. was the onli thing that was open.. the rest still not open… after breakfast, some went to the casino already lol.. they couldn’t wait.. while i went and looked for my parents who was also up in genting… well.. everytime i go KL, my mum and dad would probably be ard… be it in genting or KL itself.. anyway… brought some guys up to the hotel my mum was staying in.. and they knocked out straight away.. went to bed -.- weaklings lol… then went for lunch… and the rest is history.. hahah

oh ya one honourable mention was Mingrui hahah..

he changed from one person to another when he was eating lunch at the hotel  room with us.. the reason being he saw Winnie lol.. Winnie was a colleague of my mum.. so she went up to genting with my mum since she was on leave also.. well she quite nice lah.. haha.. mingrui went from noisy type to quiet type.. sit one corner and started eating quietly haha.. all of us saw the change in him and he became the joke of the day :p..

haha.. most shiok part of the genting trip was when Sia, Chan, mingrui and Me was sitting down at the starbucks after our shopping haha.. really is tok cock sing song play mahjong.. one drink after another.. one smoke after another.. quite shiok esp. in that kinda weather.. really love the weather in genting.. hmm will put up the pics after i grab them from the guys..

i went down to KL after they left from genting.. well.. nothing much to do in KL cept for shopping.. managed to get a new pair of shoes and 2 t-shirts from genting itself..

hmm.. the rest actually hard to type, say it out in the blog lah haha.. or rather too redundant..

well hope to get the pics from the guys and i’ll post it up.. lets all have a look see

ciaozz…

At long last… finished with my last outfield exercise for my NS life… No more deployment and redeployment for at least a few yrs till i go back for my ICTs.. 

Come to think of it.. i ended my last outfield at the place we started moving out for ops exercises.. SPEC Hill.. of all the deplyment sites that i went to thru-out my NS cycle, i liked Spec hill the best.. nice night view.. nice weather in the early morning.. clear skies for ops.. everything there is just so…. right…..

Gonna miss moving out with the whole bunch of guys for exercise… talking cock at night till the wee hours of the morning, all of us trying our best to meet timings, tracking all the F-16s etc.. the fun times we’ve had… the pain we’ve endure together as a platoon….

one thing thats bad is that we’ve never got the chance to take pictures outfield.. so many restrictions -.-…

this marks the end of one part of my NS life.. my NS will really end when i ORD.. looking forward to that…

nothing else.. i guess.. just wanted to ‘feel’ for my last exercise it had been fun going for exercises..

Something interesting happened to me when i was taking a cab back from camp yesterday. When i hit balestier road, the cab uncle was telling me the old places along balestier road. he continued all the way till he drove into whampoa when i reached home

"u know ah, last time this one here was a hoover theater and president movie theater. ah here hor last time used to be a primary school." etc etc etc

Well, it was kinda a nice experience to listen to someone who actually remembers wat was around the place about 10-20 yrs ago.. wat he said reminded me of when i was young. things i used to do, places  i used to go around my place with my grandma and grandpa when i was younger.

The emporium that i used to go with my grandma to buy snacks when i walk to cut hair at my 4th grand uncle’s place. The president cinema theater that was always packed with pple before the newer cinemas started springing up in orchard areas. The shop houses near the market that was selling comic books, chinese boss that was selling Mee Siam/Lontong. The open field that was in front of my block of flats with a few very big trees that was at least 10 yrs old.

haha talking about all these places suddenly reminded me of the old cathay cinema where the last show i watched was "A few good men" with my parents and i remembered i was so bored of that show.. haha.. cos it was all talk and no action.. i actually felt like crying as i tried to get my parents to get me outta there haha… i was like 8-9 that time??? haha… wat funny times.. well if u get mi to watch it now i would say its a fucking good show…

Places such as chinatown and the maxwell market also underwent renovations and improvements for the community there by the government. but wat if they didn’t renovate the place?? would it retain the singapore flavour?? hmm.. how should i put it… somehow some places still feels wrong to me after the renovations.. it seems to have lost the old singapore feel to the place.. esp. markets.. markets/hawker centres such as adam road, maxwell, tiong bahru etc have all been upgraded and somehow lost the old flava of singapore.. wonder how many pple actually remembers these places……

well hearing the uncle talk about these things and myself taking a walk down memory lane was really fun and feels good to actually remember these kinda things. things i did and places i went with my parents and grandparents when i was younger…

Anyway, I would like to pay tribute to a peron who has greatly helped with the conservation of animals, educating people about animals thru shows in animal shows on animal planet etc. Crocodile Hunter Mr Steve Irwin. He passed away on monday due to an accident while filming a show about dangerous animals of the sea. He was stabbed by a stingray to his heart and pronounced dead at the hospital.

I have the utmost respect for these animal conservationists. without them, we would not be able to see some animals in the future. without their help, we would not learn about the animal kingdom. Tons of things would not be learnt or show on the tv without them going all out to help animals and then filming about it….

My Condolences to the wife and kids of Steve Irwin.

well enuff of my rantings… hope to have something interesting to update soon

So wat if fann wong makes a mistake  on Peschardt’s People on BBC world last week.. So wat if she pronounces "longevity" as "longetivity". So wat’s up with singaporeans who watched the show and felt that fann could have answered more professionally or more proper…

Please give her a break!! Does it mean that if u are a celebrity, u are not allowed to make mistakes, pronounce words properly or anwer questions shot by Peschardt more Intelligently etc??

Ever since the show was aired last week, the whole bloody week, the papers were talking abt the responses that fann gave, pple were sending letters to SPH talking bout fann on how she should have answered.. or wateva..

Lets try and see wat happens when u are doing a show with a person from england BBC somemore.. and outta the blue u get asked by a foreigner questions that u might have to take 5 mins to answer "Properly" if u asked me the same questions on national tv or something haha.. definitely hafta think.. cos Government concerns… well if i anyhow answer i guess the government won’t do much to mi?? haha.. but if u are a celebrity.. of course its more difficult to touch on questions such as "Do young pple approve of singapore being too restrictive or do they want greater freedom?", "Will young pple have the patience to wait (on singapore being more relaxed)" and whether singapore’s so perfect that it gets on your nerves?

Dun blame her if she could not answer properly cos of the following reasons that i feel its harder to understand the quetions:
1) Fann is more of a TCS 8 actress meaning it could take a while to understand and answer the questions.
2) Michael Peschardt is a brit.. meaning he has the accent and everything. wonder how the average singaporean will do with the heavily accented english-speaking briton. it doesn’t mean that if u study british english, u are able to listen to questions are by britons easily.
3) When u are asked if singapore being too restrictive among young people, do u know how tough isit to answer questions abt singapore’s restriction on things such as freedom of speech etc.

Aiyo… just give the girl a break.. the whole week i been reading papers, at least a small portion somewhere will be talking abt fann’s performance on the show.. wassup with singaporeans……

Anyway.. enuff of my rantings..

Eh Mats!!! Must find one day go eat nasi campur at Jalan Pisang Hjh Maimunah Restaurant!!! seriously Sedap!!!! Esp. during ramadan cos i believe after break fast in the evening surely the food much more nicer hahah…

Would like to say congrats to Mingrui for winning gold for the taekwando safsa!! Congratulations!!! must buy u a drink sometime haha.. *calls for a celebration*

enuff rantings for today…… gotta go sleep.. tomorrow hafta go for the Army Half Marathon fun run.. fucking hell.. waste my sunday morning……

Just came back from a friggin nice dinner at Arthur’s place!!!! Thanks very much for the food again Art, seriously its nice :). It was a 3 course dinner..

1st course was a appitizer and a soup. Appitizer was a tomato salad?? diced tomatos with a dressing… kinda french dressing though with tons of garlic.. quite nice IMO. the soup was cream of pumpkin and it is very very nice.. not too thick or too diluted?? haha dunno whether correct to use diluted.. anyway it is very nice.. smooth and taste was just nice.. my dad makes a very thick pumpkin soup… compared to art’s one.. not so jilat.. haha..

2nd course was the main course.. dunno wat to call it haha i shall call it pan fired dory fillet with a meat sauce spagehtti?? hahaa… the fish was nice.. i liked it very much.. very light, fluffy goes very well with the spagehtti. spagehtti was very nice too the sauce wasn’t too thick and its very nice..

3rd course was a dessert. hmm.. cake with vanilla ice cream. actually not much of a cake.. haha.. kinda choclate chip cookie/brownie feeling with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream!! although the cake was kinda too sweet for my taste.. but it still nice.. went well with the vanilla ice-cream…

all in all the dinner was good… Kudos to Arthur and Alan.. thanks so much for the wonderful dinner…

well.. just came back from a platoon chalet this morning.. it was fun haha… good food and good company with the platoon haha.. got to see everyone yesterday.. long time never see them cos was on leave for the past 2 weeks

really had a fun time.. one thing i like of having bbqs is that i like to be the one penging the food haha.. the fun thing is that.. i can just eat the food while cooking haha… very shiok feeling eating and penging the food at the same time

It was a well planned chalet i suppose.. haha.. onli thing missing IMO is the ALCOHOL!!!!!! no hard liquer nvm.. but at least have beer ma ><

where’s my ang mo liang teh!!! so damn thristy yesterday.. nb..

anyway.. all in all very fun time i had these 2 days.. thanks to everyone who help in the preperation of the chalet… and thanks again to art and alan for dinner today ^^

hahaha.. never thought i’ll be doing this.. lol… never expected i would be typing a blog for myself.. Suddenly decided to ‘write’ a blog after i went downstairs for coffee just now earlier in the afternoon. I started thinking abt wat i want after my NS life (not say that i never thought before :p).. everyone seems to have everything planned out for their future..

Some of my friends are studying in either local or overseas Universities.. (Have fun Sean!!). Others working.. either applying to companies or working at their father’s place. Well, others… well some others like me.. dunno wat to do yet.. but i guess that it’ll all work out well for them.

How bout me?? I kinda have no ideas for the moment.. haha still remember when khai and zal came over the other night on a weekend, wanting ato watch a movie.. ended up in a conversation on wat the hell am i gonna do.. Khai’s happy cos he got into NUS for a Archi degree. Zal continued on for Civil Degree in NTU. Then they posted mi this question.. "Oi, wat the hell u wanna do sia?? after u get out of NS?? at least me and khai will be studying so we could still think abt it when we’re in Uni. U like too laid back.. never thinking on wat to do after NS?? And there i was saying.. "oh".. "Probably work.. lor…."

And then it hit mi… i never really planned for anything for the future as yet… i’ve been telling everyone who ask mi this question this answer "hmm.. Probably work??" same old answer everytime. Whoever asks mi… be it parents, friends or relatives.. all i would give was just "Probably work a bit then…… study??" i dunno..

I’m too laid back kinda guy.. I dun like to think too far.. I like to live my days as it goes by.. and i bloody damn know that its wrong.. but i’m this kinda guy..  like the chinese will say 看一天，过一天.. but for god’s sake I farking damn know that this is incorrect.. i wanna earn enuff to pay for my own stuff, to give enuff money to my parents every month, to buy the things that i want without having to think whether will i have enuff for the rest of the month… earn enuff to start a family??(probably too early to think abt this now… now still young haha.. should see the world more"

At the moment there’s so much things that i wanna do! things such as travel the world on my own with my camera… taking pictures of every place that i visit, or work at las vegas?? haha.. kinda nice?? or maybe be a chef?? go to japan and learn the culture and food of japan??? or go to italia and learn how to cook dishes?? france maybe??? Or maybe be a bouncer at a club?? haha… kick pple who create trouble outta the club?? I REALLY DON’T KNOW!!! there’s kinda so many things to do and i really dunno wat to do!!!! dunno where to start… dunno who to really ask… i dun wanna end up working my ass off.. just to have that 1-1.5k a month and dunno where i end up…

My mum keep telling mi to get a degree.. else i will get no where… And i know in my heart thats so damn true… but i just dun have the heart to study or do anything… for the moment that is…. i’ve got frens who has lobangs for jobs and asking mi whether i wanna take the job.. but i just feel so uninterested… I’m too lazy to even type my own resume… how the hell am i gonna earn money for even myself…

I really dunno wat the hell i’m thinking of doing for the moment… all i’ve been doing for the past 2 weeks are either go out with frens playing that is or sitting in front of the computer watching drama shows that i’ve downloaded.. Refuse to think of wats gonna happen 2 months later.. refuse to exercise.. refuse to do anything… other than sit in front of the computer listening to music or playing games… There’s no motivation in mi.. there’s nothing i feel like doing except to slack or relac one coner..

i’m so confused… derailed… dunno wat to expect for my own future… DUNNO WAT TO DO!!! arghh… this is so killing me… *sigh*

well i guess whoever’s reading this might be suprised??? esp. for friends who know mi as a person who is always smiling… and always happy.. crapping about when i work in camp or else where.. or in skool itself…

Heck.. i feel like just walking ard singapore and just wander.. i dunno….. i have no bloody idea

Nothing much else to say for the moment………………………………..