At 2120 hours.. I received an SMS from an unknown number..
(Fm: MINDEF) You have a National Service Call-Up Notification. For more details, go to www.ns.sg or call 6444 7636. For assistance, call 1800-eNSNSNS(3676767).
Wa.. didn't expect it to come so abruptly. At least it should come via a snail mail or something more formal right? Well.. just went to the website to check.. and Voila!
THE ENLISTMENT ACT, Cap 93.
ORDER TO REPORT FOR SERVICE UNDER SECTION 14
OF THE ENLISTMENT ACT, Cap 93.
You LTA CHIO WEI HAN, CLEMENT are required under
Section 14 of the Enlistment Act, Cap 93 to report for service at 0730 hrs on 11/06/2007
at Sungei Gedong Camp for the purpose
of Annual ICT (490SAR 1st LK ICT) Your service will be up to 15/06/2007 2359 hrs.
Hd NSSC
for Proper Autority
Was sian diao at first.. a bit excited that my1st ICT is finally here.. a bit relieved that I'm in 490 SAR where all my friends are.. a bit apprehensive coz I forgot all my Int stuff.. and a bit comforting coz I'd be getting some money out of this haha.. after all I get paid better in NS than now. Which also means IPPT is coming... start to really train lo!
Was talking to Zuther abt NN and SJO.. and he told me what I did when I was dead drunk the night before leaving Leeds. Apparantly I very obviously gave NN's crush for SJO away by very obviously asking him who he likes and then asking him again after asking SJO out of the room. Wah biangz.. I can't remember I did that at all! So paiseh la..
Moral of the story is: don't get me drunk.
Just settled my weekend plans.. in a very last minute stunt originating from a sudden urge to go Wala Wala I just jiooed the Block to go Walawala tomorrow evening. Haha.. might just end up to be me Kayping and Gabe but oh well.. need to chill out man.. can't just stay at home the whole saturday. Probably before that going to buy a pair of Asics shoes to replace the old torn ones that I've been happily running with every since my army days..
And guess where I'd be spending my Valentines Day?
Block D Rooftop - Block Supper.
Haha sian. But.. cheap (free for me) and good =)
Ok la.. I just spent the whole night loading the stupid Heroes Episode 1 video on ouou.com only to hang on me when it finished loading. Damn stupid Chinese servers.
It's snowing in Leeds now.. Well.. it snowed the very day I arrived in Singapore.. meaning that I didn't get to see snow my whole 4 months there.. So everytime I see my Widget reflecting 'Snow' in Leeds I have the tinge of regret and disappointment.. and some jealousy seeing all the MSN nicks announcing to the whole wide world how beautiful snow is...
But now I've grappled the fact that I'd never get to see snow in the next manymany years to come.. except on TV or in pictures.. and to imagine what it'll be like falling on your face and melting once it touches the warmth of the body...
Now I feel happy for all my friends who are experiencing this magical moment in that part of the world I still miss so much.
As for now.. I'm going to maximise my weekends by sleeping as little as I can! Going to dig food now. Ciao!
Signed off at
12:26 am
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Another week has passed...
Friday, February 09, 2007
.. and I'm getting the hang of things at my job.. both on IA and in hall. Time passes faster with more tasks to do during IA now and my fellow IA colleagues are really a fun bunch to be with. Bosses are fine and workload is just right... so I guess the only prick is the waking up early and the going back late..
Another 5 more months to the end of IA.. seems like it's as 'long' as my whole SEP. I know that it'll be over soon.. but it's still a long way to go. I don't want to count down to the end of IA because it means it'll be the start of scary scary Year 4 of Chem Engine where I'll have to go back to NUS and face FINAL YEAR PROJECT and PROCESS LAB II.. both of which sucks big time.
The rag machine has started.. just came back from hall collecting cans from all the blocks.. took the chance to unofficially meet up with the rest of the main comm members. Good bunch of people to work with. Can't wait for the FULL comm meeting where I'll get to meet all the raggers at one shot. Feels weird that I'm vice-chairing such a huge 50+man comm (and growing for sure) when I'm not even staying hall and I'm on attachment. But ever since the last defeat.. through my whole bout overseas.. even as I type.. the burning desire to sweep all the shields back is raging within me.. and that I'd be working together with Tat and Kaiyuan gives more motivation to carry on. It's a huge commitment.. and a scary one. At the back of my mind I know of weak links which could jeopardize the whole process.. I have heard warnings that friendships could be at stake.. and I definitely do not want to screw up.
The tinge of fear among confidence makes it a scary paradox.
Oh well.. but one good thing for sure is that I've started exercising! Haha. Wa lau I put back 1.5 kg of the 3 kg that I shed on the other end of the globe within 3 weeks! This is madness. So I'm on the jogging routine and gym-if-they-jio-and-yaohui-goes mentality and I hope it keeps up! Sense ICT coming up so I better get that Gold for IPPT! Haha =)
But I feel my body slowly wearing off.. my shoulder joints crack a lot and have an irritating pain while my knees are still aching even after 4 months of not running. My teeth hurts only when I'm eating sticky sweet stuff. Time to see a doctor/dentist.. when I have the time.
Just watched Prison Break... I just can't stand watching weekly episodes. Sometimes I just feel like piling up all the episodes and just watch them in 1 shot when they whole season ends. But I can't wait haha. Though now the cliffhangers are less intense than those in Season 1.. it's still.. irritating.
I've been watching House 2 everyday though.. 1 episode on the way to work and 1 episode on the way home.. on my fantastic little iPod. Makes my journey to and from work less undesirable. At this rate I'm going to finish watching the season next week! Hmm.. anyone has other dramas to share?
Sleeping now. Have been late twice this week (but luckily boss doesn't really care haa) but I don't hope to be late tomorrow...
I really don't know how to spend this weekend. No plans as yet. Sad.
Oh.. and yes.. Valentines Day is coming. Maybe the first V-day in years I'd be spending at home. Anyone game for a date?
Signed off at
2:35 am
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Get the Rag Engines oiled...
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Signed off at
1:33 am
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Friends
Monday, February 05, 2007
Soon I'd be hitting the sacks which means the next morning when I wake up again it'll be a brand new work week. As much as I wanna maximise my weekends I don't wanna screw up my Monday by making it bluer.
Working life sucks. Though the job itself is manageable and maybe sometimes slack and fun coz the other interns are wacky people as well, the idea of waking up early to go to work, spending the whole day there and knocking off late leaving very little time for myself is terrible. Doesn't help that I'm staying in the West and my company is all the way in the East. Weekends are precious, next time I must pack it with activities.
Met up with MafBrothers for dinner on Sat.. supposedly to celebrate Toad's and my birthday. Haha now the trend is organize-your-own-birthday celebration.. no more punks no more fighting which is good. Wa we are all so old already. But I haven't seen Jeff and Bong for so long it was nice to meet up. Oh well, both of them are in the working world too so that explains why always never see them.
Suddenly had the urge to jump back into the Friendster bandwagon. Maybe the boredom at home made me realise how important friends are to me. I really wanna move back to hall.. just that I have no money and can't find a reason to convince my parents to let me. So anyway I just spent my last hour or so adding a whole long list of people onto my Friendster list.. starting with UK peeps and deeBlockers.. if I get real bored I'll start testimonialling soon...
I'm still in the process of backdating my travelogs.. Left with probably the Norway part and the Prague part.. if can check back previous months if ya wanna read up on 'previous' backdated posts...
Yay! Going back to hall for CMB concert tomorrow!
Yay! Going back to hall for Rag photoshoot on Tuesday!
Can I do my attachment in Sheares Hall?
Signed off at
2:16 am
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which I just bought. ASICS TN711 GEL DS TRAINER XII 0189!!! Well it's time I bought it.. my old DS Trainer which ran me through countless IPPTs, ARRs, morning and night runs and a biathalon was giving way after 4 faithful years and I sure do hope this pair lasts as long. =)
Representative photos/logo of MAFBrothers, SWOC Councillors, Leeds friends and deeBlockers. The greatest friends I've ever made =)
