my entries are getting shorter and shorter. haha.

ORD lo!

I passed today. woohoo.

I started the new year by losing money. haha. but im certain it's a good sign. somehow. RICH 2009!

alrightey time for new yr resolutions..
I should tidy up my desk. it's cluttered with books and cds and all my stuff. makes me look v busy. and also makes me look damn long for the things i want.
I should arrange my wardrobe too. Too many shirts that i don wear anymore. shirts that looked cool and hip in the past are like.. childish? i dono. i'll feel weird if i wear them out.
I should start managing my money. this month of festivals and block leave has made me a very poor man. and considering that my monthly paltry income is going to dry up too, it's either i don spend as much or my future part-time job has to be fulfilling. i really can't imagine how it's like when uni starts. tt's when i'll rly have no income whatsoever. Bread and water everyday!
I should exercise regularly. if i can change any part of me i'll ask for a higher metabolism rate. seriously. sadly im the sort who can't get myself to have the self discipline to exercise on my own. i always need a companion, who is hard to find these days. i don wanna end up wearing XL shirts and size 40 pants anytime. no, not even size 36.

oh well, new yr resolutions as they are. at least i got 364 more days to complete them. =p

happy new year 2009.

One day on an island called poolull turkung a sergeant was chit chatting with the botaks.

"so botak, let me ask you a question."

"YES PLATOON SERGEANT!"

"how do you spell record?"

"RECORD. PLATOON SERGEANT!"

"ok. er, spell it again?"

"REC-"

"ah wait. that's you." flashes a toothy grin. "ok continue"

silence for a while. "-ORD."

"ahhh. tt's me." flashes a wide smile.

ahhh. tt's me. merry xmas. :D

If i cut my hair every 3 weeks,

and each time i cut it's $12,

and my NS lasts 1 year 10 months,

but not considering the first 9 weeks i only spent $8 thanks to the Tekong-Promotion package,

when I ord,

in 3 more months damnit,

I would have spent,

about $356 on my haircuts.

Wonder if SAF can reimburse me my money. they can have my hair.

hello. here's an entry to remind me years down the road, when i have nth better to do and read back on my blog entries, on how shitty this month is going to be. Nov 08 here we go.

- some stupid exercise going on this mth. supposed to start on the last 2 wks of nov, but we being patriotic, being singaporeans, being nth better to do, we decided to start earlier than others. we start now!

- i gotta 'look after' the vehicles at night. cos they will wake up and cry and i'll need to make a bottle of milk to cool him down. and then change his diapers. what the hell.

- wkends gone! babysit vehiclesit every alternate day. and when the exercise rly rly starts, we can't go home! have to be ard in camp in case we are needed. in case in case, in case u leave house u get hit by car, don go out la.

- alot of ppl are ord-ing! but not me! at least i don need to see their happy gloating faces.

give them lah.

ytd i did guard duty and i only slept for 3 hours. it's nt any 3 hours, it's 12-3am hours. the ridiculous got-sleep-like-nv-sleep kind of 3 hours.

today on the way home my eyes felt like closing.

then on the way to ubi driving centre for my driving lesson at 1pm, my eyes still felt the same.

isnt it dangerous to be driving on the roads when i'm feeling so slpy? what will happen if i crash? what will happen to me? what will happen to the other driver? what abt my instructor? what abt the other road users?

alas, all of us were ok. except the car.

stupid car broke down after barely driving it for 1 minute. not any 1 minute, it's 1.00pm-1.01-pm 1 minute, the ridiculous got-drive-like-nv-drive kind of 1 minute.

guess i shld slp after all.

I finally got my ass down to a legal driving instructor's car this morning. Everything went pretty smooth except i cldnt drive v fast. too many careful learners around the place. they were probably learning how to step on the accelerator while completely forgetting that they are driving a manual car. oh well i don blame them.

and to my surprise i watched Mamma Mia today. and to my surprise it was pleasantly good! i'm not an ABBA fan but the whole atmosphere was pretty good throughout the movie. however it was qt painful to watch meryl streep act like a teenager, dancing and running around.

oh, and pierce brosnan probably sings worse than william hung.

on leave this whole week! smiles smiles smiles.

And with a flash it's gone.

My birthday's over! now have to wait another 364 days.

'Nth fanciful' was the word for ytd. nonetheless, still gotta thank my friends for celebrating it for me. :)

im wondering if i shld enrich my blog. like writing entries that has more meaning and revelations. and not just random entries that bombard my employers and superiors all the time. yet it feels too personal to be published on this platform for the whole world to read.

Not tt this blog is attracting any attention anw. haha.

but i still gotta say, i hate SOC. Standard Obstacle Course. i still don understand why my unit has to do that. we are signallers!

tsk. ask all infantry ppl to go jcc la.
tsk. ask all guards ppl to scale mount everest la.
tsk. ask all commandos to go outer space la.

I didnt run 21km today.

I was supposed to, and i wanted to, but i ended up running only 10km. all thanks to some idiot who told another idiot that i'm not running so that idiot didnt bring my number tag to the place. without a tag i cldnt run in the 21km category. idiots.

it was rly a waste lah. waste of time. all the i-run-12km/14km/16km-the-rest-run-10km runs week after week, the no-you-cannot-take-leave-on-mondays-and-fridays-becos-you-have-to-go-for-ahm-training-runs etc. all these for nothing.

not like running 21km now on my own helps. tt's besides the point alr.

screwed up place.

the muddy padang didnt help matters. MUD-DANG.

sacrificing my slp, booking out late on a fri, esp on the eve of nat day, having to endure rubbish food, rubbish officers and rubbish organization,

all these for nth. crap.

damn sian. just cos we ORD after jan 08, we have to change our uniforms. change to this super new and ugly uniform. it is so ugly that it can beat the crap of the sch that starts with R and ends with V. so much for urban warfare man.

i feel so pat hetic riotic.

i havent had this feeling for a damn long time alr.

the feeling of unprepared-ness. like a day before some biology block test and i know i havent started studying yet.

the feeling of procastination. knowing i shld jolly well pick up my notes and start to pollute my brain before i regret it but yet sitting on the sofa doing nothing seems like a better choice.

got driving ftt tmr ah! or shld i say in 8 hours' time.

aiya heck lah. slp first. tmr morning then hug buddha's leg.

I haven't watched The Dark Knight.

and now it's becoming like a pest, appearing everywhere, reminding the pathetic me that i havent watched it. Bus stops ad, big LCD screens at bus interchange, TV mobile, newspapers, even the yahoo website.

idiotic.

at least i watched Batman Begins on tv just now. cheap thrill.

i hate batman.

last month i did guard duty on every alternate day for like 2 weeks. i had wkends sacrificed, sleep debt accumulated etc becos there werent ppl ard to help cover the duties. i reflected this to my superior.

they said nxt mth wld be better.

this month i was given another wkend guard duty. (it's not right for an insignificant corporal like me to get wkend guard duties for every mth). On top of that i was given the saturday duty for some outfield exercise when there are 5 other days in the week. so that means 2 consecutive wkends destroyed. i reflected this to my superior again.

they said nxt mth wld be better.

4 weeks ago i was complaining about my pathetic predicament in the army because of some parade and some operation and how it wld affect my life.

Looking on, it didnt seem that bad after all. in fact now that i'm getting used to this life, it's going to be changed again. friends are coming back; i'm supposed to feel encouraged by that. ironic.



i can't watch euro 08 finals on a nice tv with great graphics because of the parade! have to resort to tuning some lousy tv and hoping our neighbouring countries have great tv station signals.

now it's black and white.. now there's colour!... arh too much colour!... EH NO SOUND!... shit.

it's the 2nd biggest parade after ndp.

so excited!

i can alr imagine what the guy will be shouting at us during the rehearsals nxt wk.

"LEFT. RIGHT. LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT LEFFFFT!

SEMULAH! come on guys. Do it once, do it good.

Do it again!

LEFT. RIGHT. LEFT RIGHT LEFT! LEB RIGH LEB RIGH LEB RIGH LEB RIGH LEFT!"

can't slp man.

Shit week.

Monday:
Book in.

Tuesday:
I'm told, together with a few of my friends, that we arent activated to find the most wanted man in singapore. instead we are involved in saf day parade. images of the uncountable rehearsals, hot afternoons under the suns and semulas flooded my mind.

Wednesday:
We were told that due to the shortage of manpower, the few of us will have to shoulder all the guard duties of our company for this month. that means doing guard duty on every alternate day, starting ytd. there goes my wkends, there goes sleeping at home at night, here comes 3 wks of ultimate sian-ness.

Thursday:
My talk-cock friends got pulled into the search party. i'm left with just 1 person in the whole company, someone I'm not close with. Ultimate sian-ness multiplied by 100. depression sets in.

Friday:
Guard duty.

Saturday:
I just booked out. gotta book in tonight.

Sunday:
Who knows?

guess the shit doesnt just end here. all of them will be gone for more than a month. i have to go thru the stupid parade kinda like alone. great.

when shit falls on you, how delightful it is to find a clean spot on your body.

I've only been back for 3 days...

..and i'm alr sick of the food downstairs! argh.

i want 布丁奶茶! 炸鸡排! 炸水饺! 芒果冰!

1 year ago in Apr i enlisted.

1 year on, to celebrate this anniversary, my employers decided to send me to taiwan! 28-day-28-night holiday to mark this special occasion.

Yay.

So gonna be spoilt for choices on which temple to visit.

bye bye!

taiwan!

im going taiwan!

TAIWAN!

TAIWA...wah sian.