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42SAR ORD Parade
Tuesday, May 31, 2005

This was part of my draft for the post I'm writing now but I've decided to 'jump the gun'.

Sorry if it's filled with all the army jargon.. it's late can't be bothered to explain. You girls/foreigners go figure out yourselves haa..


Going back to camp was not as nostalgic as I thought it to be.. on the contrary it turned out to be rather exciting.. haa to see old friends and superiors.. (who all said I grew fat).. Though last minute KwanAik, Xueying, Peihao and Kangwei didn't turn up.. was glad that my batch Raj, Yuming and Robin did.. all the ex-OCs came back.. Surprised to see Eric Kong as the new OC J.. to see B2 slim down so much haa..

So it's rather confirmed that I'm their S2.. I was introduced to the S3 CPT(NS) Lin Pin from ATC.. supposedly my working partner for the next 13 years...

And more stun is the weirdest people were thrown as PCs.. Danesh (used to be DyS3), HengSoonLee (used to be MTO), CheeAnn (used to be DyS1)... and Weilong's my IntSpec haaa so it's back to my old team of specs and drivers.. Quite happy with my branch. Though we already pakah to all chu stunt during ICT and all smoke out haaa

The dinner at cookhouse was FANTASTIC!!! Yah it's probably the best food I ever ate in cookhouse ever in my life! Went 2 rounds haha.. they were all trying to stop me coz I was too round haa..

Well.. while all the other PCs/future OCs went back to their company lines to talk to their men (the specs all ORDed already).. I reclused back to my air-conditioned branch and had a nice chat with my only guy left.. Wilson my driver.

Heck care all the security in the camp I brought a camera in and started snapping away like a typical Chio would.. quite a pity I didn't take a photo with all the ex-OCs and with ex-S3 and S2! Yes the greatest regret is I always never get to sit down and have a proper chat with S2 all these gatherings.. from Army Open House to ChoonKiat's wedding to BranchOutings to ORD Parade... Dunno why I have this strong urge to have a good long talk with him.. maybe it's to make up for the non-proper-handover of the branch to him before I ORDed.. maybe it's the J Coy CPT incident long ago.. hmm.. or maybe I just want to know more about the branch before taking over from him again.... Well.. but he's still such an elusive character.. haa so typical of a scout.. =)

Well.. so the photos are... here!



Near midnight I received a mail from B2.. with the mailing list exactly the same as the mail I sent out a year ago when I ORDed to all the 42SAR commanders.. he probably just 'replied-to-all' with the following....

I'm sending this to touch base with past and present Comds of 42 SAR's 6th mono-intake.
Thanks for all your contribitions & effort to smoothen-out the Bn's tough journey.
I was also glad to see many of you returning for today's ORD parade. It certainly served to remind us of the strong spirit that we had built together over the years.
The future of 490 SAR rest in all your good hands.
Till we meet again for the 1st ICT in WY 07.
Best Regards.

G

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BUSY BUSY BUSY
Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Phew.. I just submitted my SWOC storyline proposal. This week has been a crazy week.. terribly busy. It's crazy trying to juggle 3 camps actively while working in the day.

There's so many things I want to say but just can't find the time to blog. And looking at the time now it's time to sleep... so probably tomorrow.. hope I'll find the time.

Don't give up on my blog haa.. continue popping by.

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Another boring blog post about my uneventful day.. that's the life of an office worker
Thursday, May 12, 2005

You would be surprised how healthy singaporeans are..

Tonight would be my ONLY night this week (other than monday) I won't have to go sell my life to Starhub.. hence I took the golden opportunity to hit the pool..

And I was expecting a nice, cool, relaxing swim.. kinda hoped to destress after a day of unproductive phone calls. And hopefull get some exercise for the week as well...

And voila! My my my Clementi Swimming Complex was PACKED! The pool was like filled with people.. people from all walks of life.. of all ages.. aunties, uncles.. young punks like myself.. children.. working adults (like myself again).. even old men. And mind you it was like close to 7.30pm when I arrived at the pool.

So the 20 laps were far from relaxing.. since I had to dodge and change lanes and even swim under people to avoid ghastly collisions. Need I mention that the pool water would naturally be.. er.. filthy? It least it was.. salty. Yucks.

Swimming without goggles hence left my eyes freaking uncomforatble the whole night.. and I actually endured American Idol, 镜中人 and An Eye for a Guy with my eyes half closed.. trying to squeeze tears out to clense my eyes..
Well.. it definitely feels better now.. after eyedrop-therapy.. lots of eyedrops in fact.
Now wat happened to my goggles......?

I just checked the SRC website.. I guess I'd never go back to Clementi Swimming Complex after work again.. after this horrandous experience. Cool that the SRC pool opens till 9pm. Moreover it's free.. and of course.. nearer to my home. Ha.

But of course Mr. Moneyminded-Me has committed myself to Thursnight, Frinight, Saturnoon and SunDAY to Starhub telemarketing.. But after having the night at home today.. I kinda have to urge to just abandon this Starhub job.. I mean.. I already have a rather stable day job and aimlessly calling people I don't know to sell starhub services is like damn demoralising.. especially when I can't clinch any sale while the guy opposite me can.

Argh. But it's so not like me to quit like that. I'd probably slog it out till the end of this week to see if the financial rewards are worth it.. aye.. but I really really want my nights and weekends.. after all.. it's the HOLIDAYS.. and I.. yah.. have comm stuff to do.

Well.. I'm heading to dreamland soon.. kinda tired now.. after the swim.. and have to prepare for another dreadful day at work. On the bright side though the people at my workplace are rather nice people.. (with the exception of maybe my supervisor who snapped at me and my cubicle-neighbour (a chiobu) for talking at 1.35pm (5 mins after lunchtime).. ) Luckily there was Tat around.. so it wasn't so difficult knowing the people around... and yah.. i'm still in the process of registering Tat's name as Gabriel... or so that's what he's so fondly called there.

Amoy Street food centre's food is totally fantastic! Can't wait to try out every stall there.. though it's always freaking crowded during lunchtime. And yes.. there's also the place to have my daily dose of pretty office ladies.

Still, I'm not really looking forward to tomorrow.

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Slogging it out...
Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Hereforth starts my life as a full-fledged white-collar.. 9-to-6 office worker in the jungles of the corporate jungles of Tanjong Pagar. Life of on-the-dot starting work and stopping work.. demanding bosses.. targets.. deadlines.. PR skills.. colleagues with people you usually call aunties or uncles... fear of losing job....

If this is a preview of my not-so-distant future after graduation.. I really should start enjoying my university days.. though I wonder how.

Guess what? I'm taking 2 jobs now.. one from 9 to 6 at Tanjong Pagar and another from 7 to 10 at Bugis.. which is like 3 MRT stations away.. So I'm working like 11 hours a day? Wonder how long I can tahan though.. Have a good mind to drop the night job.. after all.. it's commision based and I think I kinda treasure my night life in front of the goggle box... But the prospect of earning double-income sounds all too enticing...

Today especially has been a rather sucky day. In both jobs and love.. Well.. just take it that I fell asleep on my 1st job and I'm not sure if my supervisor noticed.. (guessed she did though) and I didn't manage to clinch any sales in the 2nd.

I'm going to sleep soon.. don't wanna let history repeat itself.. kinda malu if i'm given the sack like on the 3rd day. haa..

And if any of you wanna suscribe to CableTV or MaxOnline.. pls give me a call.. haha...

Sigh.

tigong bobby for a better day tomorrow.

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Mothers Day
Monday, May 09, 2005

Waking up 8am to cook meatballs (swedish.. the ikea type.. don't salivate...) with my brother for my mom is quite an achievement.. considering I only had like a few sms' worth of guidance from SQ the night before. Whoa they were delicious!! I mean though it's a mother's day breakfast thingy but I think i ate more meatballs than anyone else. haha..

Had to drive down to Toa Payoh to collect the flowers from Chye's Mom's shop.. and my father insisted on following.. which kinda pissed me off a bit. Like hello? I'm going to take off my P-plate in a few weeks and he still doesn't trust me with his car?? And it's only Toa Payoh not Johore or something..

Which kinda lucky that he did coz by the time we collected the flowers it was close to 11 and I had to go for my telemarketing training at Bugis.. so I droppped off there and he drove home.

So I embarked on my first step towards money making... and spent a boorrriinnnggggg 6 hours learning about Starhub products, services and promotions... how to be a telemarketer... blah blah blah... and it was only 3 guys there.. one 85' guy who just-finish-poly-haven't-enter-army.. one 84' guy who just-orded-from-the-police-force-going-to-liverpool-to-study-law and yes.. yours truely, the oldest. Which meant I couldnt' sleep and had to endure the gruelling hours of training....

It was bugis.. it was raining.. sweet memories.

Anyway.. on the bus back home I received a call from Tat's boss (finally) that I could start work at 10 tomorrow! Yeah 2 jobs! So if I really biah I would be working from 9-6 at Tanjong Pagar then 7-10 at Bugis! Money money money...

Buffet at Harbourfront.. yes I wonder why I always have to go there for buffet.. yes and I wonder why I keep on having buffets... well wat the heck.. it's Mother's Day.. and my father's paying.. told him I broke already... so yeah.. prob there goes my past week of swimming.

My mom was asking about the chengzhan's blog thing and suddenly asked me if I had a blog.. haha I quickly said no and changed topic. Kinda weird if we have parents reading our blogs right? Hmm...

Yeah and I told them about staying in hall next semester... and they kinda did not object. So I guess the deciding factor now would be grades.... tigong bobby.

So at 10.30 after dinner I headed down to hall and flushed out my room... my final goodbyes to D409.. the windy but dusty.. niceview but smellyatnight.. convenient but privacyless little abode that I resided in for the past 1 year...

And some asshole stole my chair that I left in the lounge.. must be some integrityless freak that destroyed his own chair and took the one in the lounge to replace.. (ok la it's my fault too that I left it there) but if you know who please ask him to RETURN TO ME! It's kinda obvious if a room has no chair.. and I don't wanna pay some stupid amount just because someone stole my chair!!!

It's a rather hasty entry this time.. coz dun't really feel like describing much.. gotta sleep now to prepare for my 1st day at work tomorrow morning. Sigh and I haven't solved my swimming-every-day alternative....

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Play play play
Sunday, May 08, 2005

Kinda lost momentum to blog.. so maybe just keep this a short one..

I'm now red like a lobster thanks to Sentosa.. nono.. looking in the mirror I probably am the Phantom Menace stripped off his black stripes.. that's how red I actually am.. hmm.. hope it evolves into a nice tan...

The prospect of starting work on monday seems good.. but still waiting for tat to confirm my place there.. working 9 to 6 means my swimming plans are thwarted! Any bright ideas? Going for evening swims? Wonder wat time SRC is open until..

If you're reading hopefully to dig out wat happened on Friday.. get lost.. hahaa..

Branch outing was quite a blast! Though to my disappointment S2 didn't come.. it was some great catching up with all my guys.. new and old.. Oh and I highly recommend Suki Sushi at Cineleisure Orchard.. 2nd level.. $22 bucks for table bbq buffet and sushi buffet and free flow of drinks and 'frying' your own ice cream! Yah it's this cool bbq device that can be flaming hot for your BBQ needs and at the click of a button.. become cold to the touch to freeze the liquid ice-cream.. damn cool (pun intended).


This is my s2 branch..


Aah and they didn't go iceskating.. they went karaoke instead.. joined them only for the last 1 hour.. since i was early (coz job hunting ended early) which tickled my singing vibes. So.. karaoke anyone?

Now that i've played enough already.. maybe it's time to start proper work.. for a start I should get the SECC website in good shape.. it's now like.. yucks. Haha.

I'm very tired now.. probably going to sleep coz need to do my mothers' day stunt tomorrow morn.. heh.

Or maybe I'll just OC myself to sleep.

Nitez peeps

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THREE MONTHS BREAK!!
Tuesday, May 03, 2005

IT'S OVER!!! FINALLY!!!

What a buang semester.. it seems to be deja vu but every end of the semester I seem to tell myself I'm going to buck up next sem.. but at the back of my mind I know that I won't.. so well.. the perk is what lies ahead is a THREE MONTHS BREAK!!!

Looking back.. yesterday was really an emotional day.. kinda resurrected my livejournal blog last night coz there were a lot of things I wanna say after my studying in YIH.. But if you happen to notice that there's no difference in my livejournal blog.. it's coz I've made my entry private. Yes. This blog has become so much of a public thing that I can't say certain things here now.. so.. if you wanna read my innermost thoughts.. go get yourself a livejournal account and beg me to add you as a friend. =)

In the meantime.. this blog will still account all my rants.. rubbish and day-to-day canter.

My parents have also been awfully nice yesterday too.. bringing me grapes and soyabean all the way to YIH after their grocery shopping.. my mother made ginseng chicken and had my father deliver it all the way to hall for me.. aww... and they made sure i woke up today for my CEP paper by calling me.. my mom at 2pm and my dad at 3.. *so touched*

Swimming tomororw.. yay... I told ya I would swim everyday.. and I'm going to start TOMORROW!

Then I'm going job hunting with..... Cheryl. Haha. Dun ask me why... just so happen that both of us wanna go town tomorrow afternoon.. So decided to job hunt. So cool.. working together with my lab partner for the next 3 months heh.

THen I'm going branch outing. Was supposed to go ice-skating in the afternoon with them but backed out anyway.. seems to be only all the new guys that will be going.. with the exception of maybe S2 and Daniel.. luckily I managed to jio Weilong for the dinner.. and Nick's back from europe.. so 2 more people I can talk to then.. =)

Wanted to chiong tomorrow... but no one wants to go. Sigh. Well.. but guess what? Haha my class going to zouk next week. And if my class goes.... *beamz*

You won't believe this but I actualy gave Francis a piece of my mind regarding his ridiculous blogpost. No la didnt' scold him but just told him not to read too much into things.. wonder how he took it though.. afterall... i'm advicing him from experience...

Nothing much to say now.. hope to update this place more often now that I'm so damn free...
Seeya.

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Rotiboy delight
Monday, May 02, 2005

Today I sank my teeth into my first, freshfromtheoven, piping hot Rotiboy while in Clementi Interchange.. and it.. was...

~~~HEAVENLY~~~

The crispy crust crumbled upon contact with my teeth.. releasing the ever intoxicating aroma from within.. and within seconds the bread melted in my mouth without even chewing.. sweet.. with a hint of coffee so subtle my taste buds were craving for a second bite. And the second bite into the heart of the bun revealed the savoury side of the bread.. it wasn't an intentional filling.. it was the flour of the bread itself.. moist, smooth and blended impeccably with the sacchering crust. It was certainly a treat meant for angels.. and for a moment.. I was one.


I bought 2. The other one was in my room the whole night.. and at 4am I couldn't resist the temptation to devour it. Heated it up in the lounge toaster and the same delight was savoured once again.. yum yum...



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And with the smell still lingering in the room.. I guess it's time to sleep....

Waking up to a *wonderful* =) mugging day tomorrow.

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