moments of ups and downs

(:

2009-10-19T12:12:00.004+08:00

you're the reason for every smile I have (:

isomia

2009-10-11T03:38:00.003+08:00

Bad habit of sleeping late is coming back!! Only had this problem back in the days before I got enlisted. Haha! But that's good! I can find time to talk to FP when it's day time there (:

I MISS YOU BABY!

SAF disappointed many males last night. The pay didn't get in until 1800hours! PHEW! Saw many people cursing and swearing SAF on Facebook. JOKE MAN! Was quite shocked. I thought SAF is efficient all along. O well.

Watched many funny videos on Facebook today. Weird. Facebook is becoming more like a mini version of youtube now. Here is one of the funniest video I saw today.

ENJOY!

bLaH!

2009-10-04T15:13:00.003+08:00

Wow. 1 month and I"m back! It's so dead here now. Haha but I'm having a colourful life now.

Going to fly off soon to Rockhampton on the 20th this month. Feeling sian about it but totally have no choice. Just going to take it as an experience (hopefully a good one). After this, my ORD will be nearing. WOO HOO!

//

Was surfing around and saw this video. Nice song.

I miss you baby ):
8 more months!

cherish those around you

2009-09-05T02:38:00.001+08:00

Was watching videos today and saw this one.

It's quite nice. Do spend some time to watch it. It will somehow trigger the "sad" nerve in you.

slowly getting sick of ...

2009-08-07T15:13:00.002+08:00

Had our AHM at East Coast Park yesterday. It was the first time for many to run 21km.

It was a good experience. But sadly, I didn't see much chicks around when I was running ):
Khee Xiang and I started slow. But we slowly increased our pace. I remember it was around 1 hour when I finished my first 10.5km. HAHA and I completed the whole race in about 1 hour 30+ mins.

Went for dinner after that at Bedok interchange with Vivien, Alfred, SK and Wai Yew. And home sweet home.

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Finally I got gold for my IPPT again. Haha swee another 200 dollars! And I can finally put on my badge after buying it for so long. Luckily the SBJ mat is better than the electronic system. I got 234 on my 2nd attempt alr. Simply magical. LOL

I can still feel my knee aching now ):

Who says babies are irritating?

2009-07-18T23:57:00.001+08:00

Damn cute.

Life of an Officer

2009-07-18T01:31:00.003+08:00

So after I commissioned on 130609, I was posted to 42SAR (which is still in my beloved Sungei Gedong Camp).

I was quite sian to be posted to 42SAR at first because other units are not on standby and taking mostly recruits or first year soldiers. On the other hand, 42SAR is going Aussie this November for ATEC and taking second year soldiers, something that's quite challenging.

After the initiation of a 7km route march within an hour, SOC in FBO with a stretcher plus 2 jerry cans and camouflage drill of the vehicle, we went for an interview. That was when I was posted to Jaguar Company as a PC.

Life over there is good so far. I'm lucky to have good people around me. The working enviroment is good and the soldiers there are quite disciplined compared to the other 2 companies. Officers also have privileges like able to stay out and go anywhere without much permission. So it's good to be an officer la. LOL!

I'll be taking over the platoon next week. My upper study broke his ankle last week. That means I'm going to fight ATEC. Luckily I'm looking at it positively for now. If not I will be super sian.

Hope everything goes well for me, and of course everyone who is leading his/her own life now.

The Loneliness

2009-07-10T01:14:00.002+08:00

[Verse 1]
I'm sitting here
Thinking bout
How I'm gonna do without
You around in my life and how am I
I gon' get by
I ain't got no days
Just lonely nights
You want the truth
Well girl I'm not alright
Feel out of place and out of time
I think I'm gonna lose my mind

[Chorus]
So tell me how you feel (I'm lonely)
Are you for real (so lonely)
Do you still think of me (I think of you)
Baby still (are you lonely)
Do you dream of me at night (like I dream of you all the time)
So let me tell you how it feels (its like everyday I die)
Wish i was dreaming but its real (when I open up my eyes)
Let me tell you how it feels (and don't see your pretty face)
I think that I will never love again

[Verse 2]
I miss your face
I miss your kiss
I even miss the arguments
That we would have from time to time
I miss you standing by my side
I'm dying here its clear to see
There ain't no you, God knows there ain't no me
Don't wanna live, I wanna die
If I cant have you in my life

//

Was playing through my itunes. For those who know me well, you will know that almost 99% of the songs are sad songs.

Lol. Just want to share this song with everyone.

Been a while..

2009-07-05T17:42:00.002+08:00

..since I last saw my Montfort peeps.

Was reading through the WD blog. Saw this entry.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Futbol

If any friends of yours are to ask, why do guys like to play football, what's so nice seeing 20 guys chasing a ball, then maybe they should see the clip above. The feelings of each individual on the pitch. Then again, its hard to explain to those people who are skeptical. Maybe they should try it out themselves.

Football, it's more than just kicking a ball around, more than just putting the ball inside the net.

Heart. Soul. Passion.

You get what I mean.
After all, football brought us all together. ;D

//

Every single day passes very fast. Before we know it, we may be gone from this world. What most of us are doing now, is just moving forward yet looking back.

People said life is about moving forward. No doubt it's true, but it's always looking back that will make you learn and be stronger. That's when all the shits come flowing in your mind.

Haha maybe I need more enlightenment from God.

The Power of Human Brain

2009-07-02T01:46:00.006+08:00

It's so small, yet it can keep lots of information, make humans do evil things and make one's life good or bad.

Memories can be scars to one, yet precious to others. Most of the times, people only think of the negative things first after the positive things.

People regret things after they have done it.

The things that are left unsaid, are usually things that are more important left said. But of course, those things said are also important to both parties.

If only there's a button for us to select and erase parts of our memories, how good it will be?

I hope some brilliant scientist will come up with some powerful stuff like that one day.

(:

2009-06-29T19:05:00.007+08:00

Our entrance photo

My pretty date (:

Vincent and Zheng Wen

Linus, Yao Zhi, Vincent

Brian, Melvyn, Vincent

Section 6!

Allan, Parthi (who requested for the flash light), Vincent

With Mr. Voice of 01/09 AOCC

With the Ah Beng, Eugene

PIAK PIAK! HAHAHA

Vincent & beloved Ming Wei (best buddy!)

Last but not least, another nice picture of me LOL

*more pictures are in Facebook*

Had my commissioning ball last night at St. Regis Hotel. It was awesome with a pretty babe as my date and seeing my friends at a posh hotel. It was nice seeing those who are posted to 41SAR, especially Brian.

Went to pick Xue Fang up at her place. As usual, I knew I had to wait for her (pretty girls are always like that right? Haha!). I was surprised when I saw her. It was the first time in 5 years I saw the other side of her. I think she's gorgeous and simply awesome.

She got me a tie from her brother and a pair of shoes (damn thick and small) from her dad. I remember seeing her sms last week early in the morning, "vin. I wear heels hor. 5cm only. I'm only 164. You don't mind hor?" LOL her dad's small feet explains why mine were in pain throughout the night.

So, off we drove to St. Regis. The food was nice, a lot better than my social night. The ambience was also good.

In all, I enjoyed myself last night. I hope my lovely date enjoyed herself too.

I remember at some point of time last night, I was wishing time will stop at that moment.

Why do I want to be an officer?

2009-06-17T23:31:00.004+08:00

Was updating my journal and came across this entry which I wrote when I was still in Service Term last year.

//

Date: 301108
Time: 2000 hours

Title: Why do I want to be an officer?

Firstly, I'm from a low income family. Before I was enlisted, I told myself that I must get into OCS as it gives me a higher pay compared to others. With the money, I'm able to help out in my family's financial situation.

Secondly, being able to stand in SAFTI parade square in the No. 1 uniform has always been my dream. When I was in secondary school, I was from NCC. This particular CLT (Tiong) from my school changed me since then. It made me want to be the best in everything I do whenever possible. Hence during BMT, I worked hard along with my peers, hoping that we would get into the best command school in Singapore. And gladly, we did (though they are in other wings now).

Besides that, I believe being an officer gives me a sense of pride and belonging to Singapore. And also, I want to have a good experience in army so that I can share with others what I did during my OCS life in the future.

Lastly, I heard from my friends that being an officer will give me a higher chance to get employed in the future. I wonder if it's true. But at least when I'm working in the future, I'm able to apply the leadership skills that I've equipped from OCS.

Hence in conclusion, I believe being an officer will only do me good and let me learn and experience more things than the rest. I'm proud to be here and I'm be more proud on 130609 in my No. 1 uniform on the parade square.

Last but not least, I want to make my parents feel proud of me.

//

I didn't know I was so enthu last time.
Sadly, the passion is dying off.

130609

2009-06-15T00:56:00.005+08:00

9 months of shit in return for 1 day of pride.

Commissioned yesterday. It's a day I'll never forget. The days of being a trainee of 38 weeks finally came to an end.

No words could describe how the 528 of us were feeling when we threw our caps/berets. It was just WOW! Images of my cadet's life kept flashing in my mind.

All the photos are all on Facebook alr. So those who want the pictures, please tag yourself there. Thanks for those who came, and those who wished me your well wishes.

Last but not least, congrats to 73/08. All the best in our future endeavours.

//

Officer's Creed
I am an officer of the Singapore Armed Forces
My duty is to Lead, to Excel and to Overcome

I Lead my men by example
I answer for their training, morale and discipline

I must Excel in everything I do
I serve with pride, honour and integrity

I will Overcome adversity with courage, fortitude and determination

I dedicate my life to Singapore

1 more week :D

2009-06-07T16:49:00.000+08:00

Been into super old songs recently, or rather I'm more into old songs than usual. No idea why I prefer old songs than new ones. Listening to cantonese songs too. Haha though I don't understand the lyrics, but it just sounds good.

//

Down to only 1 week! Had our Appointment Certificate Presentation Ceremony (ACPC) last Friday. Got my sword alr! But the short lived excitement died off after a while, just like when I passed my Class 3 license.

Will be commissioning on this coming Saturday! But sadly, can only bring 4 guests for the parade. Quite sad that I can't bring my friends go. Hope will have something on that night to celebrate our end of misery of being a trainee!

Heard that my posting will be at 42SAR, which means I will be going to Australia for the A-tec at the end of the year for 1 to 2 months. Hope I won't be posted there. If not I think really can bang wall alr.

//

Finally, I let it out after a year. One thing off my mind alr.

3 more weeks!

2009-05-24T04:29:00.002+08:00

I remember hearing this song when I was young. Nice song.

//

Finally after 35 weeks of CLM, Service Term and Pro Term, I'm back in SAFTI for my final Joint Term!!! WOO HOO~

I didn't have to go for the PRB last week. Thought something bad would happen. But thank God everything is back to square now. Just hope everything goes smoothly for me. Shall keep a low profile for the next 3 weeks and not do anything stupid.

3 more weeks to COMMISSION!!!
130609 :D I love this date!

Boring

2009-05-10T12:00:00.002+08:00

Time passes damn fast when I'm not in camp. In a blink of an eye, I will be booking in tomorrow already. How sad is that man ):

Been enjoying myself for the past few days.
- Football
- Catching up with Fang and Steph (glad that both of you like your present)
- Kian Hong's birthday party

//

A couple of nights ago, Tiong chatted with me online. He told me to go and watch the video he did for the 10th year anniversary of Montfort NCC.

Woah basket I realised I look damn cock last time. Don't even dare to post it up.

Told him about the PRB thing. Once again, I was enlightened after he told me how to deal with it. Hmmm really hope the interview will go smoothly man.

//

And lastly,

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

Back from Taiwan!

2009-05-05T14:25:00.002+08:00

It's been 25 days. Touching down in Hukou camp seems like yesterday. Time really flies man. Been a long 21 days of training and 3 short days of R&R.

I screwed my chance of becoming an officer. From a promising cadet to commission after going back, I may not be able to stand in the parade square next month. Committed 2 ORs within 20 minutes and I've to go through the PRB next week. Hope all goes well.

Although the thought of PRB spoilt my whole Taiwan trip, I enjoyed myself during the R&R. It was really fun. Went to places like Shi Lin night market, Xi Men Ding, Taipei 101, 6 Fu Chun, Xiao Ren Guo etc. I love the hot taimeis in Xi Men Ding and the exciting rides in 6 Fu Chun the most.

It was really damn fun at the 6 Fu Chun. I seldom (or rather never) play those machines that bring you up more than 10m from the ground, turning you from left to right and let you see everything in a dong ba lek position. It was a very good way for me not to think about the PRB as well.

Hmmm. Nothing exciting to write about for this Taiwan trip.

I'm just glad I'm home.

Bad bad week

2009-04-05T12:55:00.003+08:00

Got confined yesterday for playing PSP after lights off. Damn unlucky la. Always thought my bunk will never get caught cause it's at a blind spot. In the end, the whole wing got a turn-out cause of me.

Fuck really felt bad about it.

//

Missed both Raymond's and Xin Yi's 21 birthday parties cause of UO live firing and the stupid confinement. Think I really missed out a lot of fun. And also miss out some opportunities of meeting new girls to make my love life blossom ):

People told me as an officer cadet, you will tend to lose some of your free time due to trainings etc. I hope all the time I've spent is worthwhile.

//

http://ilias.webatlantis.org/2007/03/08/unforgettable-photos-that-changed-the-world/

If you are feeling that the whole world is turning their back on you, see these pictures.

Down to 10!!

2009-03-29T16:26:00.003+08:00

Another week down to 130609! WOOTS!

Came back after 2 weeks in camp. Had to be confined for a weekend cause of the 6-day field camp. It was quite okay, but very tiring too. Luckily I didn't screw things up while holding the Wing 2IC appointment.

But things got quite bad for some of my course mates. 1 of them had his 2nd ND during the field camp and may get OOC cause of it. To think of it, it's really damn unlucky. Imagine going through so much and only just 2 more months to commission and this kind of shit happens.

There was also a group of us being punished to be the luggage party. Was supposed to book out on Friday. But we only booked out the next day at about 0530. Went to the Changi Cargo Terminal to get the ops boxes belonging to the STW. And we still have to be the luggage party the day we leave for Taiwan. Simply fucked up. But at least we don't get any extra.

//

Because of the luggage thing, I couldn't sleep when I reached home. Went to play soccer at 1100.

Was supposed to go for Jin Hao's birthday party in the evening. But I overslept and woke up at 0054. At first I thought I saw 2054 on my handphone. Then to my shock, I rubbed my eyes and saw the time. Quickly called him to apologise about it. Really felt damn bad about it. We didn't catch up for a long time yet he remembered to invite me. But I didn't go cause I overslept.

//

2 more weeks to Taiwan. Time flies, but I hope it will fly faster for these 10 weeks.

Once upon a time

2009-03-15T12:38:00.004+08:00

Haha still in the mood to take photo

Towards the finishing line

HAHA 234!

SAFTI-wood stars

SHAG faces

Mr. Small meets Mr. Big

HI!!!

Haha these photos were some memories taken in my Service Term. Come to think of it, I think my Service Term is so far the most enjoyable phase in my army life. Next will be my BMT. I think Pro Term is definitely my most unenjoyable phase. Basket every Saturday book out still expect me to enjoy. Zz

//

Haven't been updating because there's not much updates in my social and love life. They are still quite boring. So if any girls out there who are having a crush on me, please tell me. So that I can make our love blossom.

Armour life is still the same. Doing the same thing practically everyday. I'm glad that time is passing quite fast, considering that there are only 12 more weeks remaining before my batch of OCT commission.

Booked out on a Thursday for the first time. Armour was "nice" to let us book out so early because we're going to get confined next weekend for our platoon field camp. O man, how nice is that. Hope the weather won't hinder any activities man. I want to quickly complete all the activities and go back to my bunk and sleep!

//

Last night, I again realised the importance of a family. I'm glad everything is fine.

1ST!

2009-02-13T23:34:00.003+08:00

Tonight was my first Friday book out in armour. Hope this will be the first of MANY. But really felt damn sian when I heard I won't be booking out for the next 2 weeks cause of live firing and field camp.

This week was quite a good one, maybe except for today. My knee recovered a bit alr, not so swollen from the week before.

Went to the Track Mess a couple of days ago. It was quite fun towards the end. Brian, Yao Huang and I were damn high. Shouting and singing a few songs. It was really fun. I think that's the happiest night I had since I came armour.

How I wish, every moment of my life will be the same-always happy and high.

Passed my SOC test today! WOO! Was quite worried that I couldn't make it at the low rope. But swee la, I did it and my timing was 8.25mins. It may not be very good, but it's my best timing so far, considering that I only pass SOC during my BMT days.

//

Next aim for next week: IPPT GOLD!

Home finally..

2009-01-17T16:03:00.002+08:00

I seldom miss home throughout my whole 20 years, be it in camps and even during the days back in China.

A few days back on my dad's birthday, I made it a point to call back home to wish him a simple "Happy Birthday". His joy on the phone could be felt. Somehow, I was thinking my family is probably really missing me all the while when I'm away from home.

Since then, I would think of my family at times (more than usual) though I don't really call back. I wouldn't know what to talk to them either.

//

Life in armour is quite tough. Hope these remaining 18 weeks will pass fast and at the same time be enjoyable for me. So far everything is going well.

Driving tank is quite fun too. Think will get the driving license next week already.

The saddest news so far is there are only 3 bookouts on Friday in my days in SGC.
-Good Friday
-2 more after Taiwan

How lovely can that be?

..

2009-01-01T20:38:00.002+08:00

Brunei! HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Haha will be back next week. Hope everything goes fine though the stupid weather forecast said there will be thunderstorm for the next few days.

O well, take care all.

And wish everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Zz

2008-12-31T14:59:00.002+08:00

3 days into my new camp, I felt damn sian already. I'm missing SAFTI for her nice bunks, toilets, convenience and no doubts, everyone whom I know there.

Sungei Gedong is a really very ulu camp. After many tries to dial for a cab, we gave up and went to take a bus. Simply fucked up. Everyone was looking forward to leaving the camp asap and yet not a single cab wants to come. Fuck.

My bunk is fucked up seriously. It's worse than those in Tekong. But luckily, I had Yao Huang, Brian and LL in the same bunk as me. So I didn't had any problems settling into my new camp.

21 weeks ahead, hope it will pass fast!

//

Flying to Brunei on Friday morning. Got to report to the airport tomorrow. What a good way to end 2008.

Second year spending my new year overseas. 2008 was in Shanghai, 2009 will be in Brunei.
Next time round will be in Europe with my girlfriend (if any) already. HAHAHA!

//

My 20th birthday was pretty fucked up. Got to book in early in the morning. Seriously sucks!

But it was nice to receive all the wishings from my friends. So I want to say a big "THANKS" again.

To those who never wish, you better remember next year!
Haha kidding.

End of Service Term

2008-12-26T00:22:00.005+08:00

OCS 73/08 SIERRA WING 1ST PLATOON!

Finally after 14 weeks together, it has come to an end. Professional Term will start next Monday.

Started to feel sad leaving Sierra while packing my stuffs yesterday. It was then I realised I won't ever be coming back to live in that bunk (#04-22) forever after I close that door. The feeling was really sad knowing that I won't ever be a Sierra cadet anymore. But still, we need to move on (if not I won't commission right?!)

We had memories as 1st platoon in the SME field camp in Tekong, all the live firings, Scorpion King at Marsiling etc.

And I really hope all of us will commission next year together, standing in the new parade square with the black bar finally on our shoulders.

//

I'm posted to Sungei Gedong Camp to train as an Armour Infantry officer. I heard the trainings will be very tough. So I hope I do get the chance to cross over as a Tank officer, at least not that tiring physically.

Was quite upset that I wasn't posted to Signals. My close friends, Kb, Wilson, Sherman, Nicholas, KK and some others are there now.

But anyway, just hope the journey ahead will be smooth and I'll be able to overcome any obstacles ahead.

Cheers!

:D

2008-12-21T05:14:00.004+08:00

Had my social night last Wednesday.

Fang was my date. Was really glad that she was able to make it. Haha she looks prettier now.

HAHAHA there was once when we were in Shanghai when she was applying something on her face slowly.

Vin: Why bother to slowly put? Just put it all over your face la!
Fang: !#@$#@%#$^$%&%^*

LOL! I feel bad now. Not only cause I said those last time, but also cause I was late that night. But never mind la, feel bad awhile only.

I enjoyed myself that night with my usual crap.

//

Just back from Double O. It was alright. First time clubbing with my army friends.

3 more days to PRO TERM!

Hmmm.

2008-12-12T23:38:00.002+08:00

I was quite shocked to hear the news from Cheryl today. I thought she was kidding at first and I thought, "Alright, it's just part and parcel of life".

It was until I went to read the article on the paper today, I had a weird feeling in me. I don't know how to describe it. Moreover, it's the first time I knew of someone around my age to leave this world.

He's not close to me. But I remembered we were in this clique a few years back as SCs in Joanna's group in BA society. Our clique had some memorable times together.

Hmmm. Rest in peace dude.

2 more weeks

2008-12-08T13:37:00.002+08:00

to end of service term! WOOTS!

Just finished my platoon field camp in Marsiling. It wasn't as bad as I thought. I think it was good for my instructors to tell me my appointment beforehand as it made me mentally prepared which made me felt not much stress.

I think the most challenging thing during the field camp was to get the cooperation of my peers to do things when everyone was very tired after all the digging.

But I was glad that I learnt quite a few stuffs during the field camp and I'm glad somehow, I enjoyed it.

And seriously, digging shell scrape, fire trench and command post for countless hours is seriously no joke at all.

//

Up next will be me holding the CWC (Wing IC) appointment. I've having mixed feelings about it. Just hope I don't screw things up for the remaining 2 weeks and hopefully things go well for me.

//

Finally get to recover my body from the field camp. Being a civilian instead of in the military for these 4 days is really WOW. No words can describe how every NSF is feeling. It's simply WOW. The sad thing is though I'm allowed to book in tomorrow, I will book in tonight to save that $34 cab fare from my house to SAFTI with midnight charge (got to report strength at 0700).

//

Played football with my friends finally yesterday. It was enjoyable until the police came. Fuck. They are coming earlier and earlier. It used to be 2plus, then 1plus and then last night, 0030hours! WTF?

I think perhaps next time we should play earlier like 8 or 9pm.

But anyway, it was fun meeting up with them. Seriously been a fucking long time since I last saw most of them.

(:

2008-11-29T15:07:00.002+08:00

Finally I got to book out with my wing! The feeling is just WOO!

Not that I love my army friends, but booking out with them means that I don't have to be confined for that particular weekend.

Served my extra last week doing guard duty. And I only booked out for like 6 hours before booking in again. I learnt to appreciate every second of my book out since then.

//

The 10 day field camp at Tekong was good. Being a CPS during the field camp wasn't as shiong as I thought. In fact it was quite an easy job. But the sad thing was I got my extra during the field camp for misplacing my magazine. Luckily it was only an extra. I nearly got a 7 RCP cause of that.

*RCP: Needs to stay in camp and report every 2 hour to the HQ

//

Upcoming programme is my platoon field camp which is starting on Monday. Though this one is only a 4 day field camp, it will be going to shag every one of us out, especially me.

My PC told me I'm the PS for the defence operations. FUCK! It's seriously fucked up and every one feels pity for me.

Even my PC said, 'Good luck to you Vincent".

I was feeling so fucked up. I got to prepare the stores etc.

This is definitely one challenge man. Just hope my mind will continue to work when I'm tired.

//

I miss football
and my friends.

Zz.

2008-11-09T16:08:00.003+08:00

A couple more hours before I will reach the west of Singapore, a place where I dread going (at the moment).

In another 26 hours, I will be heading to the beloved island (Pulau Tekong) I left about 2 months ago for my 10 day field camp.

It's good that my body has recovered in the past 2 days. Went to watch 007 with Kw. Then went to catch up with Zk, Pk and Km.

AHHH! Hope the following 10 days will pass fast. The only thing I'm looking forward to is next Saturday and the last day of field camp.

I just hate field camps.

WAHAHAHAHAHA!

2008-11-07T22:37:00.003+08:00

Shuttle run: 9.5s
Pull up: 17
Sit up: 50
SBJ: 234
2.4km: 9.25mins

//

I was happy that I got my Gold finally until I was told I will be the new CPS for my upcoming field camp in Tekong on Monday.

For those who don't know, CPS stands for Cadet Platoon Sergeant. Basically, it's doing lots of shit work.

Actually, I'm quite worried about how I will fare especially I will be assessed by my PC during the field camp.

AHHH! Just hope things will go well.

Haha

2008-11-02T16:40:00.000+08:00

Shuttle run: 10.0s
Pull up: 17
Sit up: 49
SBJ: 230
2.4km: 9.38mins

Haha!

Finally..

2008-10-28T19:12:00.002+08:00

Today was the first time I played football with my army friends. It was quite fun. Been a super long time since I last kicked a ball.

//

Went back to camp for my extra duty. Time passed super fast inside. Did nothing much the whole day except to get the meals from the cook house.

If only the coming 8 months pass so fast like yesterday, I will be super happy.

And the sad thing is, the shits will start again tomorrow.

Random

2008-10-26T19:50:00.004+08:00

Was thinking back of my secondary school days. Indeed, time flies.

It has been 4 years since I left Montfort. Been there for 10 years. It was full of ups and downs. But nonetheless, I'm glad that I made good friends especially through the last 4 years in Montfort.

Now that I'm in the army, I kind of lost touch with them. I believe all of us are busy with our army life. We only have weekends for ourselves.

I'm always looking forward for a gathering. Be it for football, meals or even a drink. Just missing those times we used to have because after I'm in OCS, I seldom catch up with them.

//

Suddenly thought of this friend whom I was used to be close with in the past. But somehow, we drifted away further and further. And I realised it's been a really long time ever since I last talked to him.

Well, I just hope everyone in our clique will be the same like before. With innocence and ignorance, we just did everything with joy.

But I know, the chance is slim.

//

Maybe I'm writing this entry due to me being in army, I'm nostalgic about my life before I entered the army.

Please God. Let me find joy in serving my NS. Especially for this coming 8 months.

Sick

2008-10-25T10:54:00.002+08:00

Been coughing a lot for 3 weeks. I don't know why I haven't recover when I'm going to finish my 3rd bottle of medicine soon.

Sian it's affecting me a lot especially when I feel drowsy after taking the medication. Then it makes me sleepy during lessons. FUCK!

O ya! I lost my bunk keys when I went to the MO last week. I got to sign 3 extra and pay for the key.

Just simply hope the remaining 8 months will pass fast.

2 more weeks to field camp.

Sians.

CLM and 1st week of Service Term

2008-10-11T14:09:00.002+08:00

My first 2 weeks in OCS was quite good. I was posted into Hotel Wing for CLM.

Everyone was bonding well and I felt comfortable with them around. My buddy was a very nice guy. And coincidentally, he was from NCHS. The thing was my team played with his team when we were in Sec 1. Lol again, I was proven that this world is really small.

I did a few things that I didn't try before in my life. Such as the 5m confidence jump into the pool. It was very fun. Then I also went for this Chemical Defence thing. We wore a full protection suit with a mask (we look like Counter Terrorist in CS) and went into this room filled with tear gas. We did some simple physical exercises inside and at the last stage, we took off the mask and shouted out our NRIC, rank and name. The gas will make you cry like hell and your mucus will flow like a water tap. It was really a nice experience.

The sad thing came this week. From Hotel Wing, we were transferred to Sierra Wing. I was transferred from Platoon 3 to Platoon 1. I was fucking sad. When we were starting to bond well, the administrative people broke me and my friends up. I ended up in another platoon with not much people I know. Felt kind of outcasted at first. But luckily, as time passed, things got better.

People said the system in Sierra is very slack, which I agree to an extent. It wasn't the Cadet Officers who are slack, it's the instructors. Since when do you people see us waking up the officers for first parade? It's really fup.

Did my IPPT. It was the best performance since BMT days.

Sit ups: 45
Pull up: 16
Shuttle run: 9.8s
SBJ: 221cm
2.4km: 9.4mins

As you can see, all of them all Gold standards except for my SBJ (AGAIN). Did lots of MRTs to build more muscles around the knee. So hope I can get a Gold by the end of Service Term which is in December, which I believe I can do it.

POSTING!

2008-09-19T15:42:00.007+08:00

A dream come true.

Hope I will stay injury-free in the following 9 months.

Christian, The Lion

2008-09-15T14:33:00.002+08:00

Never forget who was once good to you.

Most of the times, when people quarrel, they will only think of the bad things they did to each other but not the times that bonded them together.

I mean it's common. But maybe, some times if one would think the other way, maybe misunderstandings can be cleared.

A new beginning

2008-09-15T00:37:00.007+08:00

Finally, 9 weeks had passed by in a blink of an eye.

I will say I left Tekong with mixed feelings. I felt really really happy to leave that island as a recruit, knowing that I won't be going back to that place, at least for 2 months. But it's really sad to leave that place too.

Strangers became friends, Ladang Ave became my second home.

I'm glad that I've made some really good friends in there. The people, including the commanders, around me are nice, except for one (I guess you guys know who he is).

BMT is really a good life time experience. For mine, I will say it's almost perfect. I will never forget the times and memories we had. Hope everyone will get the postings they want.

No doubt this is the end of our BMT, but it also marks a new beginning of a new phase of our army life.

//

After I POP, my best buddy, Kw, was enlisted yesterday. Coincidentally, he was also posted to Hawk Coy. And even our section commander is the same. How coincidental can that be man!

Seriously, I hope everything goes fine for him.

All the best dude.

//

It's Mooncake Festival today. I didn't realise it until I walked pass the park and saw the kids running around with lanterns and burning candles.

It was then I realised I didn't do that for a long time. The last time I celebrated the festival was many many years ago. I think that was when The Condor Heroes was still showing on Channel 8. That was like almost 10 years ago.

I wondered how Fang celebrated her birthday on Mooncake Festival. Hmmm hope she had a nice one.

//

Zk's scan results were out. He has a crucial ligament tear in his knee and needs a couple of surgeries. The doctor said it will probably take to a year for him to recover fully.

Hmmm. Hope he will recover soon. We will miss your presence on the pitch.

//

I learnt a couple of values in life today. Shan't talk much about it. But it certainly thought me to think better as a person.

Counting down!

2008-09-07T01:45:00.005+08:00

I will be freed from Tekong in another 4 more days! My POP is on Wednesday. Having mixed feelings about it. I will definitely be happy to be out of that stupid island but at the same time sad that I'm going to leave my friends I knew 9 weeks ago.

Seriously, it's very hard to become friends from strangers. Though it was only 2 months, most of us bonded well.

//

Gonna blog about what happened this week. It really pissed me off!

There is this guy (name him A), who joined some of us to blanket some people in our section. Seeing that he joined us, all of us had the impression that he is able to take this type of fun on him if it happened on him. But seriously, we don't have any ill intentions to injure people on purpose. We only do it for fun. Like light punches and not seriously whack him till he bleed those kind.

Last Sunday, we had one on another guy (name him D) since it was his birthday. A joined in too.

On Wednesday, we planned one on A. Seriously, none of us whacked him. One guy took the blanket to cover him, 2 pressed on his hands and D and I took his legs. But he was retaliating by kicking violently. So we gave up and quickly ran back to our beds.

What shocked us the next was that A went to his buddy's bed and whacked him up. And he went out of the bunk after that. My buddy and I realised something is amiss and suspected that he may be going to complain to our commanders.

But seriously, WHAT THE FUCK MAN!

Then we quickly ran after him.

What I saw was him walking towards the direction of the officers. He told his buddy that he went up for a walk and get a drink. Fucking hell! Who on earth will put coins in his shorts before he goes to bed when he didn't even open the cupboard to take out his money?

He told us he was sick and that he will definitely be able to take the blanket if he's not sick. But fucking hell. His stories got lots of loopholes. If he was sick, why didn't he tell his buddy about it? Why did he have to whack his buddy after we ran off to our beds?

This incident was reported to our CSM and OC.

FUCK! I know we are wrong not to think of the consequences before we act. Besides, we were supposed to have SOC the next day. But seriously, we were only having fun and didn't have the intention to injure him.

I heard rumours that his mum called and complain. That's the shit that I cannot understand.

ARGH! FUCKING PISSED! MY BLOOD ALWAYS BOIL WHEN I THINK OF THIS INCIDENT.

//

Enough of those shit.

A piece of good news. I was the 2nd best in my platoon. So I hope my chances of going into OCS will be high. Hope my IPPT results and that stupid incident will not affect it.

Army life is seriously fup.

//

And Christabel is a really nice and cute girl. LOL!

Updates!

2008-08-31T02:16:00.003+08:00

WOOTS! I'm back from Tekong once again. Been a very long week for me cause I was confined and I had to stay in today to redo my IPPT when others booked out at 1345 on Friday.

Had my Sit-test on Monday. Did the 12km road march. Everything was good. I kinda enjoyed the 3 days. Luckily I was not as stoned as my field camp. My peer appraisal was alright I suppose.

Then did my 16km road march right after my Sit-test. It was not as tough as the 12km march.

My IPPT was slightly better. I passed it this time round, but not very good though.

Sit up - 42
Shuttle run - 9.8s
Pull up - 12
SBJ - 216
2.4km - 9.48min

My SBJ pulled me down again. Basket every station is 5 points except for SBJ.

//

I'm damn sick now. Been coughing non stop since Sunday. My throat hurts like fuck also.

AHH! FUCK!

//

1 more week to POP!

My army life

2008-08-24T01:26:00.002+08:00

In an blink of an eye, it's my 6th week in BMT already. Everything has been going on very fine so far.

I have finished my field camp, live grenade and BTP.

Field camp was alright. My rifle was being stunted (stolen by the sergeant) when I was helping my friend to refill his water bottle. How lucky I am. This explains the early book in at 0815 later on. I totally hate it man.

Live grenade wasn't as exciting as I thought.

As for BTP, I was only a shot away from being a marksman. Wasted.

Going to have my SIT test from Monday to Wednesday. Hope I will do well.

And please, let me pass my SBJ.

I did well in other stations.

Sit up - 45
Pull up - 12
Shuttle run - 5 points (I didn't see the timing)
2.4km - 9+ minutes

AHHH! If I fail my re test, I won't be able to go into command school, let alone OCS.

SIAN!

Another new chapter

2008-07-27T04:44:00.004+08:00

Finally, I'm back at home after 2 weeks in a lovely island (Pulau Tekong).

I enjoyed myself in the past 2 weeks. Trainings were not that tough in the confinement week. Luckily for me, I managed to settle in well and everyone in the platoon, or rather section, mixed quite well. Hopefully there won't be any conflicts among one another.

My buddy is from BS too. But weird, I have never seen him in school around before. Good that Wilson is in my platoon too. At least I have someone I know before enlisting.

1 week into BMT, I was admitted to the sick bay. My right eye was very red. I wanted to get eye drop from the MO only. But the stupid medic asked me to stay inside the sick bay. And sadly, I was inside for 5 days. HAHA! My BMT is only 8 weeks!!

The food in the sick bay SUCKS! PORRIDGE FOR LUNCH & DINNER -.- KAO!

But I missed quite a few activities like the Technical Handling Test, First Aid Test and 2 SOCs.

Many things ran through my mind when I was in the sick bay. Thought of my family, friends and I missed football a lot.

After every recruitment talk (there are 3 by the way), I will feel kinda lost. I have not idea what I am going to do after these 2 years. Though I'm thinking of continuing my studies, I'm thinking whether to sign on. The lucrative salary is really attractive. But no worries, the chances of me signing on is actually quite low. It's just the thought of what I want to do in the future that is troubling me.

Going to throw the grenade this coming Thursday. Hopefully my sore eye won't return and that I will be perfectly alright. If I'm on status this week, I won't be able to throw the grenade, which is like the only time I will throw a grenade in my whole life (unless war comes).

Got to book in in another 13 hours. Looking forward to the next book out!

My journey with you (II)

2008-07-08T23:52:00.005+08:00

So finally, it's time for an entry for my TB10 peeps.

Been 5 months since we graduated from NP in February. Some are still working, some just started school and some (Sherman, Jia Quan and I) are waiting to serve the nation.

I realised most of them have became more mature, maybe except for me. LOL.

Alright, shall start writing about them.

1. Sherman

I'm glad that I have this idiot by my side. Those weird topics that the girls talked about seriously make me feel sick. But PHEW! Luckily he's there for me to crap with.

Not forgetting the times when I pinched his sexy nipples and his aftermath DU LAN FACE :@

O M G! You guys should really take a look at that face. Like an ah gua acting MAN! LOLS!

Good times on the pitch with him too. Fucking fierce on the pitch la. Maybe he's really not an ah gua. HAHA!

2. Xue Fang

My sleeping partner in Shanghai. I will miss those times we had in China (when you were complaining about your day at work, when you used don't know what shit to tickle my nose while I'm still in lala land, when you and the 2 girls gave me a surprise on my birthday, when I accompanied you to get your stuffs for work at Cheng Huang Miao, Qi Pu Lu and other places, when I had to put my integrity aside to lie with you that our company are going to mass purchase something from the store and needs a sample).

I remember we became close after several late night MSN sessions back in Year 1. Haha I didn't know why the hell I went to click on 'fang' on my 'NP - TB10' list back then. But it was really nice chatting with her.

She was also once in my 'Featured Friends' on Friendster, which I think was an honour for her. But seriously, until now, I don't understand why she still doesn't want to create a Facebook account.

I WON'T FOGET YOU FUCKING MADE ME CHANGE MY NETWORK TO CHINA TO VIEW SOME WEIRD GUY!

I also don't know why I chose the same IS modules with her which ended us up being classmates once again in Year 3. Fucking got to wait for her at the bus stop for ALMOST EVERY SINGLE TUTORIAL!

And she always forced me to go town with her after IS to alter her stupid clothes at Far East Plaza.

O YA! She cheated me to go all the way to Queensway, saying that she wanted to get a sports bra. BUT FUCK! After waiting for don't know how long, she didn't get one and we went to have bak tuk teh instead.

Nevertheless, nice memories with you. Hope you will be slim and FREE OF MO PENG & Q MO soon!

3. Stephanie

My RUMOURED GIRLFRIEND!

KAO! Seriously shouldn't have done that act during the BBQ back then. Everyone (especially YI XIU) kept putting us together since then.

So sorry that I bluffed you to come all the way to Hougang just to play pool. But it's okay! I believe you enjoyed the moment that we shared on the bus. LOLS!

4. Yi Xiu

Her boyfriend has to be tall and must wear specs!

That's why she cares about Ray more than she cares for me. DISAPPOINTING!

Haha but anyway, that's not the point. The point is I think she really got over Andy already. She doesn't seem to have any reaction when I say 'ANDY' already.

But anyway, all the best in her love life.

5. Shy

MY BEST BUDDY!

Haha the only times I spent with her alone was on the bus back from Bukit Panjang to Woodlands.

ALL THE BEST WITH AH BEN EH!

//

It's just 1 more day away.

Quotes

2008-07-04T02:24:00.001+08:00

Sometimes it's hard to love someone because you're so afraid of losing them

The hardest part of dreaming about someone you love is having to wake up

Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are those...it might have been

The part that hurts me the most, is knowing that I once had you and then lost you

How come the one i wanted to share my dreams with, took my dream from me

There are times when I cant decide whether to see you or not, I want to see you because I miss you but there are times when I don't want to see you because every time I do, the fact that you don't see me the way that I see you hurts me even more ...

I hate missing you most of all. When I'm sad and alone and all i want is to see you. And you never really realize all i want is to waste some time with you. But the problem is you don't want to waste any time on me

//

Sometimes I don't mind being a single. But sometimes I really wish for someone to be there for me. Someone to share my joy with. To comfort me when I'm sad. That someone might just be myself

My journey with you (I)

2008-06-24T03:06:00.003+08:00

Was trying to finish choosing the photos to develop for the BKK trip I went last month.

Then I was looking through all the pictures I took with my Montfort and NP friends. I was surprised there were so many pictures that I had in my computer.

Spent some time looking at those pictures we took in chalets, outings and during my OIAP.

After which, I started thinking how I grew close with everyone of you. I thought it would be nice to blog my memories I had with my friends.

//

1. Raymond

If I'm not wrong, the first time I talked to him was when the school had an Inter-class street soccer tournament. He told me to choose Kelvin and Jiew Kwang. LOL that was what I remember from my vivid memory.

Slowly, we grew closer during our NCC days. We participated in the Orienteering competition and we got SILVER!!! We also went through ups and downs during our NCC days. Those pumpings we had, the songs that we sang together on the bus back.

Besides that, we also played soccer back then in our school uniform almost everyday. No doubts, that bonded our whole clique together.

We went to climb the Mount Ophir together too! My god! I remembered Kelvin and I actually teared when Ray couldn't join us as his passport was expired or something. Haha and no one could understand the happiness in us when we suddenly saw him the following day. Songs were sang in our tent, we spoke Hokkien and many stupid shits. Haha!

Then came the working period we had at Aerolog. It was a really tiring job.

After which, we went BKK together! Haha we shared the same room. Had lots of fun during the trip. Not to forget that we don't close the doors when we were in the toilet. LOL!

2. Zun Kit

This stupid guy, that I always bullied. Haha! Really glad to know him. Always there for me when I need a listening ear.

Those NCC days brought us closer. Remember those times when I always squeezed his tits. So sorry that you are always folding your arms when you are standing. Like what Ray said, I caused your phobia. LOL!

We were also always on the phone back then, talking almost everything under the sun with endless topics. I remembered we could talk until 4+ in the morning. FUCK! We were like a gay couple that even my mum kept asking me whether I'm gay -.-"

3. Jarett

O my! My long time buddy since 4 years old.

I recalled that we were damn happy that we were in the same class when we were in Primary 3 and 4.

He's really a good friend. A guy that everyone likes.

4. Peng Kian

Got to know this guy during the NCC days.

Our first encounter was during our Sec 1 annual camp. LOL we were fucking talking about how those sick looking teachers looked like while they were fucked. It was damn funny. Since then, we became close buddies, even up till today.

Always there for me too when I needed company. Won't forget the drinking sessions we had FREQUENTLY (more will come in the future). Carlsberg and Heineken were our favourite companions during supper. HAHAHA!

5. Koon Boon

Actually, I knew this fella since primary school. It's just that we didn't talk at all. Our mothers are friends. And I thought he's damn dao last time when I went his place. He was only busy playing his Gameboy (Pokemon was in the trend at that time), and I was left sitting alone.

It was when we started playing soccer together that I finally talked to him.

He was lean last time. HAHA but I don't know what the hell happened and my dear Kb became like a BALL!

He's in the army now. Hope everything goes well for him in there.

6. Daniel

I remember everyone was quite anti-daniel at one period of time during secondary school. HAHA! It's quite funny thinking back.

But now, he's a fucking joker. Never fails to bring up the atmosphere.

//

Next post will be writing about my Poly friends. No worries, you all aren't forgotten.

Stupid

2008-06-22T01:47:00.003+08:00

I think this was quite funny.

//

家香家香家香 (JIA XIANG JIA XIANG JIA XIANG)
面面面 (MIAN MIAN MIAN)

家香家香家香 (JIA XIANG JIA XIANG JIA XIANG)
面面面 (MIAN MIAN MIAN)

家香 (JIA XIANG)
面 (MIAN)
家香 (JIA XIANG)
面 (MIAN)

OHHHHHHHHHHH..
家香面!!! (JIA XIANG MIAN!!!)

And I think that commercial is damn stupid. I wonder why they actually did such an advertisement.

Particulars of Ho Kai Wei

2008-06-21T03:32:00.002+08:00

Name: Ho Kai Wei

D.O.B: 21 October 1988

NRIC: S884****X

Hobbies: E Sports, Watching porn, Sleeping, DIGGING HIS NOSE

Status: Single

Occupation: None (Pre-enlistee for National Service)

Nickname: Ah Ho, Dick Hole (Ho)

*If you want to take a picture with Ho, please go to http://www.zoo.com.sg/visitor/animalphotography.htm for an appointment.

UPDATES!

2008-06-16T00:16:00.005+08:00

Been slacking every single day until today, when I finally started working again at the Jurong shipyard. Damn. This means I have to wake up at 5am every day again.

And sadly, I didn't catch any sleep since last night and I can't sleep now (again).

//

I had a new hobby while I was rotting away at home. And that is bathing. Whenever I had nothing to do, I will just go and bath. But of course, not more than 3 times a day. I read it somewhere before that bathing too many times will harm your skin. You may think it's not a lot. But what I was doing at home was just eat, sleep and computer.

//

Had 2 dreams that took place in Bangkok. Those were really weird dreams.

But anyway, the second one was about me being a terrorist, trying to bomb a primary school in BKK. Li Nan Xing was also in the dream and was the cop who tried to catch me but in the end was being influenced by me to assist me in my mission.

This is how it goes..

He was also the cop who body searched me at Changi Airport and found my handgun on me. I was arrested by him. But slowly, I managed to psycho him to return my handgun to me and allow me to pass through the custom.

And I don't know how the hell he followed me to Thailand and trying in vain to stop my plan. And again, I managed to psycho him again to help me plant the bomb this time round after exchanging some punches.

In the end, the explosion was not caused by the bomb he planted. But was because of the loose cables in the transformers and panels room.

And how did I escaped? Like Mas Selamat, I jumped over the fence with some super power and ran off.

Many perished.

Haha stupid dream.

//

I'm feeling so alone.

I'm looking forward to army, at least it can occupy my mind with shits.

But, at the same time, I'm feeling sian when it's just 24 days away from me.

Okay, haha super contradicting. But anyway, hope I will enjoy my army life.

DOUBLE O!

2008-06-05T03:21:00.003+08:00

AHHH!

Just came back from Double O. Went there with Raymond, Zk, Pk, Kelvin, Jarett, Bleo, Prasad, Daniel and last but not least... KOON BOON!

LOL. Went there to 'celebrate' his enlistment which is later in the day. About 7 more hours.

I think he's gonna be getting a hangover tomorrow when he's in Tekong. He drank the most. Everyone toasted him.

It was really fun just now. Been a while since the whole of us went clubbing together. And it's the first time Pk and Zk join us. Woots!

We opened 2 bottles of Jim Beam, bought 2 jugs I think, and a shot. Quite cool. Been drinking for the past few weeks.

My head is feeling so heavy now.

All the best to Kb man.

Chomp Chomp

2008-06-03T01:32:00.004+08:00

Been a long time since I had lots of food in front of me and ate so much.

Kelvin won some money last week, so he treated Pk and I at Chomp Chomp.

We ordered lots of food. Chicken wings, hokkien mee, char kway teow, stingray, satay and not to forget the big big mug of sugar cane juice.

It is a lot to us cause there were only 3 of us there.

Really enjoyed the nice food.

//

Beloved Kb is enlisting this Thursday.

Sad man, I'm so gonna miss his cute belly which I always touch. LOL!

*My cute Kb

Same for Rm, he's going in the following day. And followed by Bleo in the following week.

Then in a blink of an eye, it will be my turn in less than a month's time after Bleo enters the army ):

I used to be looking forward to my army. But I realised it's damn sian waiting for the day to come. I can't imagine the first night in Tekong, looking at the ceiling. I bet it sure feels worse than my first night in Shanghai.

37 more days.

Shagged.

2008-06-02T02:48:00.004+08:00

Haha been a long time since we played field football. Played against Sherman's team today.

Sadly, we lost.

But on the other hand, we enjoyed ourselves. It was quite fun in the second half.

My jersey is so big that less than half of my lower arm got sun burnt. LOL and that was a silly move back in 2002 or 2003. I think almost everyone of us got XL for our jersey, with the thinking that we would grow.

LOL basket! I never grow much and I still look damn super puny in my jersey.

//

Went KBox with Pk and Kelvin Tay just now.

It was quite fun. But damn. Almost 90% of the songs were sad love songs.

//

When a guy tears, it hurts a lot more than he bleeds.

Life

2008-05-26T02:34:00.003+08:00

..is so unpredictable and fragile.

I believe everyone knows about the recent Sichuan earthquake that took many innocent lives away.

Official figures (as of May 25, 12:00 CST) state that 62,664 are confirmed dead, including 62,161 in Sichuan province, and 358,816 injured, with 23,775 listed as missing.

//

I was playing pool with Pk and Kelvin Tay just now. Suddenly, I thought of the Shanghai days when Nono, Zwen and I would go and play pool at Ding Xi Lu.

Then, something came to my mind. I realised that all the people working at the pool shop were from Sichuan. Somehow, it affected me.

I wonder how they are feeling now.

I remembered when I first heard of the news, I didn't think much of it since natural disasters are common nowadays. But after I realised there are people whom I actually know are involved, I finally feel the emotions in me.

Let's hope all those affected will be fine and may God bless all who lost their loved ones and homes.

The Square Root of 3

2008-05-13T17:15:00.001+08:00

By Dave Feinberg

I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three

The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine

For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic

I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality

When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three

As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer

We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands

Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed

BACK...

2008-05-13T01:54:00.002+08:00

...from BKK last night.

Haha the whole trip was fun. It was also the first time the few of us had gone for a holiday trip together. Hope more of these will come next time.

Didn't buy too much stuffs, but spent about 1k (including hotel and air tickets). But of course, I remember to buy some stuffs back for some of my TB10 buddies and my own peeps.

The 5 days passed very fast.

When I reached Changi airport, memories of the day I came back of Shanghai came back. It felt so nice. And somehow, I miss the Shanghai days again.

Think I will post some pictures after I get them from Jarett.

//

Anyway, I'm free now. So people, feel free to ask me to go jogging or gym.

58 more days to army!! :D

Gone were the days..

2008-05-06T23:15:00.002+08:00

..when everyone met up after school to play football.

It's sad that everyone has moved on with their lives. Often, I believe everyone, would love to go back to the days when they were still in their school uniforms and still ignorant (or rather innocent).

It's so hard to just organise a football game among our own. It definitely wasn't like this in the past. No matter how last minute it was, it was easy to see more than 15 people playing. Now, it's considered a miracle if 12 came down.

I'm disappointed to see this happen. I wonder how will things be like down the years.

It's more than merely kicking the ball, more than sweating.

It's the time that we share together on the pitch, the joy we have and you can practically really see smiles on the faces when we play.

How I wish, WD will come and play together again.

It really has been a long time.

Looking forward

2008-05-03T12:47:00.003+08:00

...to this WEDNESDAY! :D Haha the thought of it just makes me smile (:

//

Finally I'm not working at the air freight centre already. And this means my long lost beautiful sleep will come back to me from tonight on!

Kiss good bye to my just-formed eye bags.

Just got my pay yesterday. Seriously, I think it's time for me to do some financial planning. If not I think it will be gone in a flash, just like last time.

//

68 days more

And it continues...

2008-04-20T03:46:00.002+08:00

Another chapter of my life is going to begin in July.

Received the enlistment letter a couple of days ago. I was quite happy when my dad told me that I receive the letter from CMPB. I have this thinking that it's good to go in earlier, so that I can ORD faster.

I wonder how it is like in the army. Definitely looking forward to it, but sian at the same time.

From Winnie's blog
Here lies a dilemma.
A necessary decision, an unwanted choice.

//

Good news! I'm going to end this job at the end of this month. MEANS FREEDOM!!

Finally can rest. Think I'm going to enjoy my last 2 months of civilian life before going into army since I didn't really have much rest since I came back from Shanghai.

So tired now.

Buddy's Birthday

2008-04-13T02:19:00.003+08:00

The Cute Birthday Boy

The Gang

Buddies

Ray & Kb, with the present everyone shared (a Braun Buffel wallet)

Me & Zk

Celebrated Ray's birthday last Sunday. Went Kbox in the afternoon, Swensens for dinner, Arab Street for some shisha and some football action at night.

It was really nice hanging out with them. But it was sad that some of them couldn't make it. Glad that everyone enjoyed themselves that day though it was a long day.

I wonder how my life will be without them. This bunch of people really play a significant part in my life.

Hope everyone will be in the same platoon in the army too. Think it will be damn fun. Haha

Living Zombie

2008-04-12T02:59:00.004+08:00

Finally I have time to blog. So sorry man my avid fans. WAHA!

Been working almost everyday. My working hours are damn hectic. From 2030 hours till up to 1030 hours the EARLIEST! Nowadays it's till 1130 to 1200. I'm really tired.

Finally told Tiong that I'm going to quit this job after this month. And I'm going to rest.

My life now is damn screwed.

Work: 2030 - 1300/1400 (after I reached home - journey takes 1 1/2 hours)
Sleep: 1300/1400 - 1800

Sometimes things got worse when I can't sleep in the afternoon when all the construction work produces so much noise and it's really hard to sleep in the day.

Fucks.

Music

2008-03-26T00:23:00.003+08:00

Only yesterday, I realised I have many songs in my laptop that I never listen before, especially those in My Received Files. So I clicked one by one and decide which song to keep in my laptop.

After that, I clicked on other songs in my iTunes. O my, memories flowed back.

Every song brought me back to the different past. Some to my secondary school days when I was still ignorant, some to when I was still in a relationship and some while I was in Shanghai.

I wonder how my life will be like in the years ahead. And I wonder what songs will bring me back to the memories I will have in the future.

Another chapter closed

2008-03-25T01:08:00.003+08:00

In a blink of an eye, 3 months have passed in 2008. And 3 years of my poly life has ended just like that last month.

When I first knew I was one of the few who got into NP in the chalet back in 2005, I was damn sad. Sad that my good friends like Raymond and Zk were in SP. And that I was going to be all alone in NP.

I remembered I went down to appeal in SP with Pk. But somehow, I was glad that the appeal was unsuccessful and I remained in NP.

My Year 1 with TB10 was great. It was nice knowing nice people like Sherman, Jia Quan, Xue Fang, Yi Xiu, Stephanie and Shi Yin. Although everyone didn't mix around much on the first day of the orientation, every body somehow grew close as time passed. Seriously, I think without them, my time in NP would be very different.

The first time I saw
1) Sherman, I was like,
"O my, why is he so gu niang when he talk?"

2) Stephanie
"Is she a maid? Why does she looks like a guy?"

3) Yi Xiu
"Kao! Damn noisy"

4) Shy
"CHAO AH LIAN!"

It's funny when I thought back of the first impressions I had of them. No offence. But I didn't know you all at that time, so I will have more negative impressions.

After Year 1, I went to another class, TB03. I managed to settle in quite fast when I thought it may be quite hard. Met new faces. Met funny people like Ryan, King, Mua Hwee, Joel, Meng Yong, Sherly and Pei Xuan. Though we weren't really close, but it's nice mixing with them during breaks and when doing projects. I will never forget how serious Meng Yong was whenever we had our meetings.

My memory of Year 3 was quite vivid. I don't remember much about it. I only know I always skipped lectures and yet I got 3.56 for my GPA. Haha and that I didn't do much for my Integrated Project too.

But the memories that I had in Shanghai will always be with me. The times I had with Fang, Eve and Evern were great. We managed to live together in harmony and it's really nice living over there. The life there is really relaxing. Can eat and do whatever and whenever I want. Moreover, the things there are very cheap. Really miss the life there.

//

Like I said, time flies. I'm going to be enlisted in a few months' time. Though I don't have a sense of belonging to NP, but I will sure miss the times I had with my friends for the past 3 years.

Finally.

2008-03-15T15:18:00.003+08:00

Watched this last night.

Like many people said, Step Up is somehow better than Step Up 2. Only the ending was nice when they dance in the rain. The rest of the story is kinda boring.

//

Played at The Cage in Kallang after the movie. It was nice playing football again especially it has been such a long long time since we played. Though we dominated, I still think it's like wasting our time going down there. But it was fun though.

Damn tiring.

//

I'm BROKE! DAMN BROKE!

(:

2008-03-12T01:27:00.003+08:00

Camilla Belle (1)

Camilla Belle (2)

Watched 10,000BC with Kw at Cine just now. Camilla Belle was quite hot in the show. Nice bod man. But I thought the show was alright only, quite over rated. It's not as fantastic as the trailer seems.

Wanted to catch P.S I Love You at first. But the tickets were sold out. Quite surprised cause it was out since Valentine's Day. Ahh wasted. Heard it was a very nice show.

//

Slept damn long last night. Was on my bed after I bathed which was I think 1pm till 8am this morning. It's like 19 hours.

Been a long time since I last had a nice sleep like that. Slept only for the most 4 hours for the past few days. Real shag.

Accompanied my mum to the market in the morning since I woke up early. Been ages since I last went to the market with her. It felt good, really good. Had breakfast with her and we had a long talk. And before I knew it, it was like 1pm already. We sat at the coffee shop for about 3 hours. Felt damn filial :$ LOLs!

I'm so damn tired now.

Tired

2008-03-09T13:32:00.004+08:00

Interesting picture. I wonder how heavy I will weigh if I become like that fella. ZOMG!

I think the fats at the stomach will go all the way down until the dick is covered. LOL picture the scene in the movie, Norbit.

Haven't been doing much sports ever since I left for Shanghai. Played soccer like less than 5 times since last August. And all I'm doing now is just work, sleep, work, sleep and the cycle just goes on.

Been working for the past few nights. Very tiring. Doing OT every day and that means more than 12 hours of work every night. And I'm still blogging now when I have to wake up at 6pm later. How nice is that LOL

I find it nice to look at planes flying around in the sky. It looks even nicer when it's flying in the day. And guess what? I think the place to get the best view of the planes is in the canteen toilet.

//

Kw passed his TP on Friday. LoL lovely next time we can drive around when we have $$.

The thought of driving around with buddies is really WOW. I wonder how it feels.

I have been driving lorry for a while for the past 3 nights at work. My confidence in driving is coming back. Driving a lorry is kinda different from a car. Can't really check the blind spot and the vehicle is bigger.

//

Fuck. Man U lost to Portsmouth last night .

$$$

2008-03-05T22:51:00.002+08:00

Woo finally got my pay for last month. Been a long long time since I use a $50 note to pay for something. Finally I think I will touch a $50 of my own tomorrow.

Damn tired. Didn't sleep last night. Cause went to get my pay this morning. Thought it would be better if I just keep myself awake in case I will be more tired if I slept just a couple of hours.

Ahh. I'm a panda now.

Past few days.

2008-03-04T00:30:00.003+08:00

Had fun for the past few days.

Kb, Ray, Daniel

//

The long planned soccer match against Sherman's team was cancelled. I was really looking forward to this game, especially it has been a long time since WD has really played together as a team. Besides it was planned a long time back when I was still in Shanghai.

So was kinda sad that I couldn't play and even more sad when it was cancelled. But it's okay. Think the match will be fixed in May when most of us will stop working.

//

My knee is getting better alr. Luckily it wasn't a big injury. I used to injured both of my knees.

Just had a minor sprain last Thursday due to an accident during work. Damn it. Luckily, with God's grace, I think I will recover by the end of the week.

//

I'm GETTING MY PAY FOR FEB THIS WEEK! =)

List of items I want to get:
1. Dumb bells
2. Dust bin
3. PSP (if possible)

Haha. But I doubt I will have much money left after I pay back my debts ):

Any sugar mama out there?

FUCK!

2008-02-29T07:06:00.001+08:00

I'm really sad that I won't be able to play this Sunday.

FUCK

(:

2008-02-25T11:31:00.004+08:00

WOO HOO!
I passed my TP last Friday on my first attempt. Only got 4 demerit points throughout the test.

I thought I would fail at first.

1. At vertical parking
Tester: Eh your car is a bit slanted right?
Me: Eh yeah, I know. Sorry.
Tester: It's okay. Move out now.

2. After parallel parking
Tester: Turn right at the junction.
Changing from the left to right lane.
Tester: What are you doing?!
Me: I thought you said turn right at the junction?
Tester: NO! I said turn LEFT!!

3. At parallel parking
Tester: Eh your car is still a bit slanted.
Me: Is it? Okay, sorry.
I swear the car is not slanted at all

4. On the road
Tester: Go back to the school now. You know the route back right?
Me: Yes. Go straight and just turn right .
Tester: Okay good.
Changing from left lane to the middle lane cause of hazard in front.
Changing back to the left lane.
Tester: What are you doing again?
Me: I thought must change back to the left lane every time? Those instructors said if never keep left will get 6 points.
Tester: BULL SHIT! When you are behind the wheels, you drive with your brains. This type of thing must depend on the situation. The traffic is clear now, just stay in your own lane.
Me: Orh okay.

5. Lane changing
Changing from right to left lane, slowing down preparing to turn left, but didn't change
Tester: What are you doing? Why you still don't want to change? The cab is stopping down for you because you have the 2 'L' plates on your car. He's helping you and you still don't want to change.
Me: Orh okay, sorry.

I didn't carry much hope of passing on the way back. But in the end, I got 2 points each for insufficient acceleration and failing to check the rear mirror.

//

Had a conversation with Ray a few weeks back. It's something like that.

Me: If only I got a car, I will drive you to .... (I forgot the place)
Ray: Ya la, if only I got a car I will also drive you. And you don't even have your license la. Talk so much.

HAHAHA but now! I got my class 3 already!

//

My first road experience after I got my class 3 was driving the tractor last night. Need to get the documents from the terminals and go back to Schenker. It was nice except that the speed is really S L O W!

My ride. LOL

//

Soccer match this coming Sunday up against Sherman's team. Haha been a long time since WD play on the field. We play street soccer more than field after secondary school.

O well, just hope everyone can perform well that day.
Definitely looking forward to it.

what a day

2008-02-20T21:00:00.004+08:00

Slept damn early last night at about 10pm. Damn tired.

Went for another revision this morning again. Really looking forward to Friday. Hope the next entry about my TP will be a =] one. LOL!

Headed to gym with Zk after that. AHH super tired now.

//

Just read a random blog. Basket. I think the phrase "LIFE IS NOT FAIR" is really true.

I've seen a lot of tall people with "not so nice" looks and rich people with fucked up attitudes. And these rich people are born with a silver spoon, not getting rich with their own abilities.

Aite, I'm just envy of them.

FUCK THEM!

BACK!

2008-02-18T12:44:00.004+08:00

HEYS! AH VIN IS BACK!

Been busy working for the past few days at Changi Air Freight Centre. The job scope is easy and the money is good. But the bad thing is I'm working night shift which changes my whole sleeping habits.

Had chalet with the peeps last week. It was fun. We had 4 cars parked outside. Cool eh?

Aite, here are the pictures.

Setting up the bbq

I don't know what the fuck Leonard is doing. But check out the 3 faces behind

HAHA nice pic!

Santa Claus in Singapore?

2 fatty pigs LOL

Jiew Kwang, me, Pk

16 years and counting

WHAT'S UP!

Look at Jarett -.-"

Bernard, me, Jarett

Me, Pk

My buddies

Look at Rm's face

I look drunk when I'm only drinking GREEN TEA!

Really stupid LOL

The 3 days passed quite fast. But I had fun though. It's been a long time since we had chalet. The last time was at Coastal Sands in Sentosa which was like 2 years ago? Moreover, it's been a long time since I really spent time with my friends after I left for Shanghai last August.

//

Went for my checkup last Friday. Got into Pes A. Hope I can get enlisted asap so that I don't have to waste time. Maybe I will call MINDEF later to ask about it.

//

AHHH!! TP THIS FRIDAY!!

Will be going for revisions from Tuesday to Thursday. Really hope I can pass it on my first attempt. May God bless me with His grace.

a big ZZ

2008-02-06T21:53:00.001+08:00

3 days since I'm back from Shanghai.
Singapore has changed.
Prices of many things increased.

About another 2 hours to Lunar New Year.
Don't really have the new year mood now.

I guess I'm just tired.
From work last night, morning this morning, town this afternoon, and reunion dinner just now.
I'm sure I'll be totally worn out after I'm back from soccer later.

It's nice to see my friends and family doing fine.
Still can't believe "the movie" of 5 months plus ended just like that.

Haha aite, HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR ALL! (:

...back

2008-02-04T23:37:00.000+08:00

LOL I'M BACK IN SINGAPORE!

Reached my homeland at about 5.10pm yesterday. Went shopping in DFS. O MY! Actually, although I sound quite sexcited, I'm so missing Shanghai now (especially my house and colleagues).

Of course, I'm glad to see my lovely TB10 at the airport too!

Went to have dinner with my family for the first time in 5 months. Then met up with my peeps for the first time in 5 months too at night. It was really nice to see my family and friends again.

In short, I'm just glad I'm back home (:

I feel so...

2008-01-30T14:07:00.000+08:00

GIVE ME AN O

.............O!

GIVE ME A M

.............M!

GIVE ME A G

.............G!

WHAT DOES IT SPELL?

OMG!

WHAT DOES IT SPELL?

OMG!

Haha tomorrow will be finally my last day at work. Feel sexcited (stands for 'so excited' from Kw) yet leaving with a slight heavy heart. But o well, I'm going back THIS SUNDAY!

However, I heard some bad news about flights being cancelled for the past few days due to the super heavy snow in Shanghai. But I called the airline company last night. The person told me so far from yesterday on, the flights resumed and will contact us again if there are any updates. O well, just hope the weather will be fine.

My final report is going fine. Still left the 2 recommendations for the company, the conclusion and some touching up on the whole report.

Gonna have a chalet with my peeps soon from 13-15th next month. Looking forward to it man. First time having our chalet at Aloha instead of the usual Coastal Sand.

//

O my. It's my mum's birthday today. Think I will call her tonight and wish her a happy birthday. Hope her health will improve and may her strike 4D soon so that I will have some money. HAHA!

Aite, back to my report!

2008-01-27T03:47:00.000+08:00

Just came back from watching the football game.

It's cold in Shanghai now. Been snowing heavily since morning.

I thought I like winter a lot before I experience it. But after I came Shanghai and really experience it, I realised it's not as 'exciting' as I thought. I think my favourite season should be autumn. Cool weather.

But nevertheless, it's still nice seeing snow falling from the sky.

How I wish there are 4 seasons in Singapore.

Zz going to wake up early later to go to my office. Got to have a conducive environment to settle my report. AHHH REPORTS SUCKS!

2008-01-26T22:39:00.000+08:00

AHA o my. I thought I won't be getting an A for my Final Assessment.

But guess what?!

I've an A+ for it!!

I just need a low B for my Final Report to secure an A for my whole OIAP (if I didn't calculate the marks wrongly).
But anyway, just hope I can have the urgency and discipline to finish it soon. Haven't start much on it though.

Things can really change abruptly in just a day, or even in a second.

2008-01-23T13:50:00.001+08:00

BOO

Time flies. HAHA 11 more days I'm going back home. So happy (:

I'll be getting my final company assessment results soon. I don't know why I got this feeling that I won't be getting good grades for it this time.

FUCK

But anyway, just hope I can still continue to get my A (or even A+) for that and my final report. These 2 are the remaining 60% of my internship.

So far, I've A for my 3 periodic reports and first company assessment, and A+ for my interim report. Got 33.6% out of 40%. I need another 46.4% of the 60% to achieve my A for this OIAP.

I'm still considering whether to apply for the local universities. Cause I think it's kind of pointless when my average GPA will be only 3.2 (if I get 4 for this semester). And to get into a local uni, I need to get at least 3.5. Anyway, my senior told me that the results for last semester DOES COUNT. So study hard my friends!!

Moreover, I don't have much CCA points to support my CV. If that's the case, I will be having a hard time considering what will be my next path in life. To continue studying after my army or to just enter the work force? But anyway, I still have army to go through, 2 years should be enough for me to think all these through.

O ya! My peeps and I came up with a blog. So feel free to view the blog. It's still quite new and so far only Raymond and I posted. But I believe more posts will flow in as time passes.

http://www.wdevils.blogspot.com/

Aite, shall end here and go back to my work.

2008-01-17T22:57:00.000+08:00

Got a new bed in my SG home now. LOL DOUBLE SIZED BED (:

Finally, I saw snow for the first time in my life on Sunday. Though it was small, but it's still nice and fun catching it.

17 more days to home YIPPEEEE

2008-01-11T15:43:00.000+08:00

There are many things that are worth our time to wait to happen and things that won't happen even if we wait till the day we take our last breath. O well, will the thing that I'm hoping going to happen someday?

Finally, it's just another 23 days left before going back. And since the past few days, I've tried noticing everything around me in China. I wonder how much I will miss this place when I return back to Singapore. But still, I'm still looking forward to HOME (:

On the other hand, it's just another 42 more days to my TP test! WOO! I'm definitely looking forward to it more than my beloved chicken rice. Haha hope I will pass on my first attempt!! So people, wish me luck man.

F
U
C
K

I had this stupid dream that I failed my TP last night. My peeps were in that dream as well, all consoling me cause I was so so so sad. But that place wasn't at SSDC. It was at some ulu place that I dreamt before. The lights were yellow and very dim. And once again, I dreamt that I could challenge gravity by flying around and vent my anger.

Been busy for the past couple of weeks. Not much time to slack. I think it's because they know I'm returning soon. Haha but it's good anyway, makes time pass a lot faster.

3 more weeks only!! Everytime when I think of the number of days remaining, I would smile to myself. HAHA sounds damn stupid I know. But it's just (:

2008-01-03T00:25:00.000+08:00

Life is full of ups and downs.

I believe people come into my life for a reason and of course, I enter their lives for a reason too.

Life is full of crap
And sadly, crap always happens.

Luckily, someone entered my life and always make me think on the bright side whenever I'm looking at the opposite side.

Saw this phrase
Some people actually do not live for themselves, but they live for others.

Somehow, I think it's true to quite a huge extent.
I hope I can also help to make a difference to anyone.

Just want to feel more useful in life.

2008-01-02T09:38:00.000+08:00

Your view on yourself:
You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You are a true romantic. When you are in love, you will do anything and everything to keep your love true.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You are ready to commit as soon as you meet the right person. And you believe you will pretty much know as soon as you might that person.

The seriousness of your love:
You are very serious about relationships and aren't interested in wasting time with people you don't really like. If you meet the right person, you will fall deeply and beautifully in love.

Your views on education:
Education is less important than the real world out there, away from the classroom. Deep inside you want to start working, earning money and living on your own.

The right job for you:
You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success:
You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.

What are you most afraid of:
You are afraid of things that you cannot control. Sometimes you show your anger to cover up how you feel.

Who is your true self:
You are full of energy and confidence. You are unpredictable, with moods changing as quickly as an ocean. You might occasionally be calm and still, but never for long.

Was reading Shy's blog about this personality test. Haha o my I think it's true to a great extent.

You guys can try it too. http://www.quizbox.com/personality/test82.aspx

2008-01-02T02:53:00.001+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 EVERYBODY!

Woots! A brand new year means a brand new start for everyone. Hope all the bad things that happened in 2007 won't happen again in 2008. And may all the good things happen to me from this year onwards! LOL!

New year celebrations sucks to the core this year. How I wish I was with my peeps back in SG to chill out. The fireworks in China sucks to the core too. Waited bout 2 hours+ for a stupid cab to get home. One word to describe my mood last night - SUCKS

Been sleeping at about 6.30-7am for the past few days. Damn I think I will be tired at work in the day later. It's 3am now. GG already.

Alright, here are my 2008 resolutions:
- PASS MY TP!
- Hope my friends taking TP will pass too
- Save up more
- Hit the gym
- Grow taller (if possible)

That's all folks! (:

2007-12-31T06:00:00.000+08:00

This post is dedicated to my peeps that I've mostly known since my secondary school days and everyone who wished me a Happy 19th Birthday.

I happened to have 2 birthdays in 2 consecutive days as my lunar birthday happened to fall on the 30th Dec this year.

I just saw the powerpoint slide that Raymond sent me. It's one of the MOST TOUCHING stuffs that I've ever since in my life. Trust me peeps, I was really touched to see it. Tears were around my eyes while reading it. I believe a lot of effort was put in.

Many pictures were in there. Even pictures of me and Jarett when we were in kindergarten were in the powerpoint. I also laughed when I was looking at it. Zk also made a photo collage in it.

THANKS A LOT MY FRIENDS. I hope everyone of us will stay through thick and thin as our lives go on. It wasn't easy for a group of strangers to become friends like us. The days we enjoyed crapping during secondary school days, the times when we played soccer and the moments where we had outings (watching movies, sentosa and many other more) will always stay in my life.

You guys had played a huge part in my life and I believe you all will continue to play a big part in my life as life goes.

Over here, I would like to thank everyone (not in any specific order) :

- My sister (who reminded my mum to wish me)
- Kai Wei
- Raymond
- Zun Kit
- Koon Boon
- Peng Kian
- Kelvin Lee
- Jarett
- Daniel
- Kwan Yong
- Kok Ming
- Rong Ming
- Leonard Seah
- Christabel
- Fang
- Stephanie
- Shy
- Yi Xiu
- Sherman
- Evelyn Lim
- Evern
- Xin Yi
- Pei Xuan
- Alicia
- Hui Li
- Grace
- CC
- Zw

... and also many others who have wished me but names not included above.

Honestly, I thought I won't have a nice birthday this year, especially when I'm in China.

At first, I thought o my. My lovely house mates have forgotten my birthday (over excited that their bfs came over). But had a surprise. But out of the blue, Eve and Fang came over with a cake. Guess I lost the ability to anticipate surprises already. Got a pair of new jeans! YAY (:

Steph called and wished me. Another touching moment man. HAHA! SMSes came in after that. Quite surprised cause I thought no one will know my overseas number.

I would also like to thank my colleagues in OAV and Qi who wished me happy birthday (though I think only Cherry will see this).

But after receiving all the wishing, I really felt good (I can't think of any word to describe my feelings now). Though everyone wasn't physically here with me in Shanghai, I felt as if you all are near me. I'm glad that I have everyone of you in my life and I hope somehow, I played a part in your life too.

Once again, THANK YOU BUDDIES! (:

2007-12-26T11:05:00.000+08:00

HO HO HO! MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL! (although it's Boxing Day now)

And also HAPPY BIRTHDAY KY!

First Christmas spent overseas. Had simple dinner on the eve and yesterday. It was nice.

So so tired. Lack of sleep for the past few days. AHHHH!

2007-12-21T11:38:00.000+08:00

Suddenly, I was missing home. I thought I won't miss home all along.

I remember I had this dream 2 nights ago and the next morning, I suddenly miss home. I couldn't remember what the dream was about. But I sure do miss Singapore more and more now.

It's just 44 more days left! WHEE (:

Was thinking of my family and friends.

I wonder how my friends in SP did for their Napfa test. Hope all of them at least got a silver.

I wonder how my friends in NP are doing for their projects. Hope all of them are coping things well.

Was chatting with people whom I didn't talk to for a long long time these few days. I had this 'weird' feeling in me. It's like WOW you remember me, clicked on my nick and even bother to say hi. It's just a nice feeling.

Haha okay! I'm super bored now. Hope I will have things to do in the afternoon (:

2007-12-20T11:12:00.000+08:00

HEY FANS!
I'm back from Beijing. Will upload the pictures when I get all the pictures from Zw. HAHA!

We reached Shanghai Railway Station at 7pm and reached Beijing at about 7.15am. O ya, forgot to mention, our train got 4 beds. There was this girl (quite pretty and hot) and this Caucasian sharing the room with us. Therooms were kinda small. But I still managed to get some sleep.

BUT FUCK! We missed our train on the last day and we didn't manage to come back Shanghai on time.

DAY 1
Went to check into the motel and walked around the places near it. Ate you tiao and soya bean milk for breakfast. It's so nice especially in the cold weather. Went to Tian Tan after that. It was alright, not very fascinating. The whole place was very big and it took us a few hours to walk around the whole place.

Met up with Kok Wee after that. Went to shop for stuffs. Bought a scarf, gloves, Abercrombie bag and socks at Xi Dan. Everything there was cheap. Then just walked around till night.

DAY 2
We went to the 13 Tombs. It was nothing much there also. But it's said that the place has a lot of yin qi. So we went over to a temple nearby to make sure that we won't carry any unlucky things back.

Went to climb the Great Wall after that. It's quite tiring especially going there in this season. But we sweated while we were climbing. Saw lots of Singaporeans there too. Zw and I took off our clothes at the submit. It's real crazy to do that. HAHA but it was fun. Many were looking at us as if we were aliens. Then there was this Singaporean also took off his clothes and we helped him to take a picture too.

Headed to the Underwater World next. I must say that Singaporeans are very fortunate that we have one of the best places of attractions in the world. Comparing Singapore's Underwater World with beijing's, it's like comparing a Ferrari and a CherryQQ. It's simply a waste of money.

Went to Hou Hai (their Clarke Quay) at night. The scenary was nice but the place itself wasn't that nice was expected.

DAY 3
Bought some shirts, card holders and some other stuffs at Xiu Shui Street. The things sold there also also very cheap.

Went to Yi He Yuan after that. The place there was also very big. I wonder how long they took to build the whole place. The lake turned ice too. We can even see people walking on the ice.

Haha! Here's the funny part. Zw and I decided to walk on the ice too. Luckily he was the first one in line. Before he could experience any fun walking on the ice, the ice broke on his first step. HAHA I didn't know whether to feel sorry or laugh at him. In the end, I just laughed it off. It was damn hilarious.

Met up with Kok Wee and Eveleen after that for dinner. Something stupid happened again. If you know those auto matic doors that will keep turning like a merry go round, you can imagine how this happened. Alright, here it goes. I was following the circle and suddenly, BANG! My face hit flat on the stupid door and the thud was very loud la. My nose hurt for quite a long time and I felt giddy for a while. DAMN IT! Haha it was stupid ):

Went to Eveleen's place after that for some drinking. We planned to go clubbing after drinking but our plan failed. Haha cause Zw wasn't feeling well after drinking a lot in the last round of our games and he puked on my sleeve. HOW LUCKY I AM! I was losing in a lot of games and drank a lot at first. Luckily we changed game to Dai Dee and I won.

The bet was
5 cards = 1 big gulp (1/2 cup)
11/12 cards = 1 1/2 cup
13 cards = 2 cups

GUESS WHAT?! I WON! Kok Wee got 10 cards and Zw has 12 cards. Poor Zw had to drink a lot. And Kok Wee and I were laughing around like mad. It was damn funny also. Zw's bad day. LOL!

So we headed back to our motel after that with both of us getting the effect of drinking about 3/5 of the bottle within 30-45 mins. He was KO and I was high. LOL!

DAY 4
The plan was to go to Tian An Men to see the flag raising and Mao's body. But we decided to go back to our Lala land. But we still went there in the afternoon. It was cold cause I didn't have my big feather sweater after he puked on me the night before. Only wore 3 layers of sweaters. But it's still cold when the wind suddenly came. OMFG.

Went to the Gu Gong and Forbidden City too. Some places were under renovation and there wasn't much places to walk around also. Many places look the same. Like the Tian Tan, Yi He Yuan, Gu Gong and Forbidden City.

Went back to Xiu Shui Street to do some shopping again. Bought some T shirts to wear in Singapore. Then met up with Eveleen for dinner again after that.

It was about 7.05pm when we came out of the restaurant. Our train was scheduled at 7.38pm. We only managed to get a cab at 7.20pm. After much haste, we reached the Beijing Railway Station at 7.35pm. The stupid aunty didn't allow us to go in and in the end, the train just left in front of our eyes. I was fucking pissed with her. And that was the first time I looked at someone in her eyes and scolded FUCK YOU in China. FUCKING HELL it was really fucked up.

I know it's our fault not to reach early. But there was still sufficient time for us to run to our cabins. Zz FUCK IT!

In the end, we took a lousy train back to Shanghai. Haha but it was a nice experience anyway. Reminds me of the amazing race that Kevin, Lyn, Jia Quan and I participated in Year 1. Haha crazy running with many people looking at us.

Alright that marks the end of my Beijing journey in the past few days.

45 more days back to Singapore! (:

2007-12-14T01:50:00.000+08:00

Just came back from a dinner with Sue Tan, one NP staff and some of the interns in Shanghai also. The dinner was nice. Ate quite a lot and dessert. Been a long long time since I ate good food in China. Went to Starbucks after that. I ordered Expresso without knowing what it is. And everyone had a shocking face when they saw me ordering that.

Yu Hong was the only one who was talking stuffs with Mrs Tan and the other tutor. The rest of us were playing our game. HAHA it was real fun and enjoyable.

WOO GOING BEIJING TOMORROW till Wednesday. Hope it will be fun. The temperature is really low. I went to check and the lowest for the next 6 days is -8 degrees. OMG I can't imagine how cold it is and how much I will shiver there.

Was thinking back of the secondary school days when we played soccer. I remembered I like to act as if I was seriously injured when it was only a minor injury. But it was for a while only and since then, I seldom act as if I'm in great pain. Haha the next few 'actors' I could think of was Rong Ming and Tong How. LOL it's nice thinking back of all these memories.

AHHH 51 more days I think (if I never remember wrongly) WHEE FOOTBALL SOON! (:

2007-12-06T22:40:00.000+08:00

AHHHHHHHHHH!

Haha I realised I have learnt things and become more blur ever since I came to China.

Things I have learnt:
- I learnt how to cut my toe nails! (:
- More Chinese words
- How to tarhan coldness
- Understand more about girls

Why am I blur (stupid)? :
- I forgot to add in the detergent to the washing machine all the time
- I placed my stupid keys under my key board and I'm left with NO KEYS FOR 1 day HAHAHAHA
- I didn't close the toilet door at bout 6+am and EVE SAW SOMETHING NICE WAHAHAHA (just my back view)

HAHA okay those are crappy stuffs to share. WOO I'm so busy these few days. Don't even have time to slack. It's also getting colder in Shanghai too. It's cold when the wind blows and you will go BGRRRRR..

Going to Beijing next week. AHH it will be a lot colder there.

O Kw just passed his Class 2B.

2007-12-02T21:56:00.000+08:00

HAHA! Okay I'm finally back to update my blog. Just went to Jay's concert last Saturday with my 3 lovely darlings. It was a lot better than I expected it to be. But overall, I enjoyed myself that night.

Charlie & his ANGELS

Jay, the one that Evern goes gaga every now and then -.-

With his stupid guitar

Purple fringe = AH BENG!

Golden suit and mike

him again

4 chicks were all around him

The lovely fireworks

WOO here are some pictures of the Suzhou trip that I went.

The poor kid was tied to the tree

The 5 of us

AH VIN TOOK THIS ARTISTIC PIC! MUAHAHHA

Nice eh? Not taken by me though

Us again

LOL me and eve

Me & the mad one again

Haha first time uploading so many pictures in an entry. It's so troublesome. I wonder why people can spend so much time uplaoding so many pictures. Power!

9 MORE WEEKS!

2007-11-17T01:58:00.000+08:00

YEAH! Another week down (: 11 more weeks to my homeland.

Just came back from PartyWorld with my colleagues. It was fun. Everyone in the team went except for Jackson who just flew back to Singapore at 12am. How nice man. AHH never mind in another 2 months plus time, I will be also flying back. Listened to many songs that I have never listened before in my life. And saw some songs that actually have very nice lyrics.

Went to Suzhou last Saturday. It was fun too. Took pictures. Will upload them after I get them from CC.

LOL so so tired. Been slacking much for the whole week practically. Got to submit my interim report on the 26th. Fuck -.- Sick of reports! Don't really know what things to write for it. AHHH hope can think of some crap to finish it asap.

Life is really fragile. MY's friend had an accident and could have been paralyzed. But heard from him that the friend is recovering. Always in life, people only know how to cherish things around them when they are about to lose it.

Just like being in a relationship. When you realised the one you love is going to leave you after treating her bad, you will go all the way just to woo her back. And often, people tend to look for substitutes after that. They will look for their ex's attributes in the next guy/girl, which is totally unfair to the other party.

AHH must be too tired that's why wrote all these. AHAHA shall rest already.
ADIOS AMIGOS

2007-11-08T00:04:00.000+08:00

WOO it's so cooling in Shanghai now. Have to wear a jacket to work every day already. Heard winter will come in another couple of weeks.

Was quite relaxing during work these few days. Cause only have one translation to do. So I went to read my old entries when I'm bored again. Surprisingly, I didn't know I could write so much stuffs in the past. Had the nostalgia feeling when I was reading those posts. Memories flowing. My family, secondary school buds and poly peeps. And I realised I mentioned fang in my entries before. LOL and added her in my featured friends in FS. HAHA don't worry fang, you are still my buddy though I seldom mention you in my blog and when you are not in my featured friends.

About 69 days in Shanghai already (I think). Things are going on fine. Getting on well with my 3 lovely house mates and my colleagues. But we have to do some multi media shit. I don't know why the school wants us to do that. I don't think students will not be influenced by videos that we make. I think it is more of their own thinkings that will let them make their own decisions. I didn't see any video before I made my decision to go for this OIAP. And this means we will be only wasting our precious doing on those stuffs.

90+ more days before I step the land of Singapore again. Think I will be flying back on the 3rd Feb next year. So people, be glad that your beloved AH VIN will be back ;) HAHAHA

2007-10-29T22:07:00.000+08:00

I think that having dreams (the ones that everyone has when they sleep) is one of the best thing that one can have in his life. I think it is because I used to dream of things that will not come true when I was a young boy. Flying in the sky, running away from dinosaurs, being the Red Ranger fighting with monsters and swimming in the air. These are some dreams that I had before.

I just think it's nice cause I can actually feel how it is like doing all those things while in the dream and these things do not happen in real life. O well, who can swim in the air? So I think it's a pity for those who do not have dreams when they sleep.

I'm having a bad sore throat and a bit of flu now. O my. I feel so bad that the other 3 girls are also down with sore throat and flu too. Hmmm so hope with God's grace, we will recover asap before winter. It's not good to be sick overseas. Simply SUCKS.

Went to Hangzhou on Sat. We went to the Ling Yin temple to pray for safety and health. The air in Hangzhou is a lot better than Shanghai and it's much more cleaner there. But didn't went around much. Road was hogged for about 2 hours due to the hazy conditions. And one of the places we planned to go was closed FOR THAT DAY for an event.

Finally played some football yesterday. But it was bad. Was on medication but still went to play thinking that I may make it. Felt giddy halfway through so I rested a while during HT before continuing. So I decided to be the goalkeeper. HAHA! To my surprise, I played fairly well in front of goal and didn't concede any after the break. The Westerners were good man. Good pace and technique. There's this girl who played quite well, scoring with her head and volley. I thought it's quite amazing for girls to play that way.

O well, just hope everyone recovers soon and I will be in for badminton or soccer this weekend!

*cause I only see you in my dreams

2007-10-26T01:38:00.000+08:00

Another milestone (250th) entry.

It's a very tiring day. Didn't really slept well last night over at zwen's place. Woke up early in the morning to get stuffs for the bbq. Once again, we were late and Kiko waited for us for bout 20 minutes.

First time bought so much stuffs in a supermarket. Imagine China's stuffs are so cheap and we can spend up till 2k worth of stuffs. After that, we went off to Shiri's place to prepare the food. It was the first time I really marinate the beef, pork ribs, chicken wings and other stuffs. We just hum tum everything and the kitchen was kinda in a mess. Luckily Ah Yi was there to help us clear the place.

Before the bbq started, I was afraid that everything would go wrong. But it turned out otherwise. Everyone liked our food. LOL O MY! And dear Vincent was the one standing at the bbq pit cooking all the food. WAHAHAHA! I don't dare to eat the food I cooked. So I waited for bout an hour until everyone was okay after eating it. Phew. No one got a stomachache. LOLs.

Went back to office to return the rubbish bins and other stuffs. Played pool at the same place again. And home sweet home after that.

AHHH so damn tired. Adios amigos (:

2007-10-22T23:41:00.000+08:00

Been quite free when I'm work at times. I will go blog hopping around but sad to say, the people around me seldom update their blog like I do. So I will go and read my old posts. Quite shocked to see the way I typed last time. It's so so disgusting. Luckily the way I type is better now.

As I read, I saw the 'old' Vincent. I don't think there's not much change in me. But I realised many things have happened through these years and there are many people who left their footprints in my life.

Everything has its two sides. Some things that happened before may be gone, but all of these will be left as memories.

Been watching Prison Break nowadays. It's so nice that I'm addicted to it. After that, I will be watching Heroes and Sex in The City. China has lots of cheap stuffs man. I'm beginning to like it here, but at the same time, still looking forward to Feb.

So so tired.

*you make a difference in my life

2007-10-14T04:13:00.000+08:00

Just back from a pub. But it's more like a club than a pub. People were dancing around except that the dance floor is smaller. It was fun, quite enjoyable. But though everyone drank, no one get high or drunk. There was this girl from the US. She's cute man. But I left early with the 3 of them. AND THE ZWEN TOOK A PIC WITH HER! Basket! LOL but never mind.

Went to have Jap food at Babydoll. The decoration and seats are all very nice.

I'm starting to love the cooling weather now more. I hope it won't decrease a lot (though I know it will). But it will be damn cold in the morning and when I'm bathing. OMG I will be shivering every time when on the way to work and in the toilet.

Alright, more updates when I'm free.

2007-10-09T00:13:00.000+08:00

WOO it's a cold cold day. Finally experienced the typhoon rain. My nice umbrella is out of shape after a big war with the strong wind. But although it was cold, it's very very nice. The whole place is as if air conditioned.

I hate the rain, but I love the wind. Making me shiver when it blows. WOOO.. LOL hope winter comes soon.

2007-10-05T17:38:00.000+08:00

My lovely family LOLs

True friends

Poly MATES (*not friends)

True FRIENDS + Poly *MATES

7 BAO GU ZHENG

Us + Aunt & Uncle who had been nice to us

JOKER Face in the cards

Okay, it's the Golden Week now (though it's finishing). I LOVE this whole week though I have been at home most of the time. Because I can finally spend time at home ALONE WITH FANG!! OMFG it's like a wish come true. We did lots of stuffs. Like HAHA you guys know it!! FINALLY after the first day of the Year 1 Orientation when I first set my eyes on her. OMG! I knew she was the one -.-"

HAHA I can finally sleep well this week. www.tv-links.co.uk was my best friend for the past few days. Been watching a lot of movies. AHHH finally back to my homely life when I'm in SG.

LOLs! For my lovely Poly *MATES who are reading this, you all know I'm joking right? LOL all of you are more than mates la. Don't worry. WAHA.

... and for my buddy RAYMOND. I'm so sorry to put your nice picture. But I think it's really so cute that I should share. HAHA you sure look cute in that picture.

Alright, I'm off.

2007-09-28T22:40:00.000+08:00

Indeed after much random thoughts last night, I dreamt of my family and friends.

Part 1, I dreamt of my mum ranting at me again. I woke up in the middle of the night, and thought about my family for a while.

Then I went back to sleep. I dreamt of the times when we were on the field playing football. It was nice waking up thinking back of the past moments. But like what Ray said, all left are memories only.

Had some nice chocolate ice cream at Awfully Chocolate. It's really nice. And home sweet home after that.

2007-09-27T22:27:00.000+08:00

28 days since I have been in China. Mixed emotions while staying here. For my good resume in the future, I have to stay here. But it's really ... to be here. Somehow, I realised everyone in one's life is important. Kinship, friendship and love (even though I'm still single) are real important stuffs. Just random thoughts.

Shits are slowly happening I guess. I'm just looking forward to reach home every night for my bed to rest. Luckily, time seems to be passing fast for me so far. But hope what Nic said won't come true. She said the first 2 months will pass very fast. But time will be crawling when you are in the 3rd and 4th month. But o well, I will be looking forward to that as well. Cause when I'm in the 4th month, it means I'm only 1 month away from home.

I will update when I got the time.

2007-09-18T22:46:00.000+08:00

3rd of the 22 weeks in Shanghai. Time flies. Hope February comes quickly.

Things have been going on well for me, especially with the people in my company. I can recognise more and more ugly handwriting in Chinese already. This is a very big achievement cause I need to translate them to English.

Went to a Jap restaurant for lunch today. I think it's the best Jap meal that I ever had. So people who reads this, feel free to fly over Shanghai and find me for a meal. LOL I will welcome you with big arms.

Tyhoon today. Rain and big wind. Nothing much actually. But it's safer to be at home so that my umbrella will be in a piece.

I need sleep )=