okies important message and announcement below! so please spend time to read k? lol..
heh.. okies. so the girls are back from hk! haha seems like an exciting trip heh! (: post pics soon k! haha.. anyway the island got more people now.. haha..
very boring la.. everday log in to msn.. my list of people.. is like 0 people out of this group of frens, 0 out of that group of frens, and if there were people.. it would be like 1 or 2.. and those are also waiting for enlistment.. lol. and some friends who are either too old.. and or too young... lolz..
anyway, we might have a 6n CNY gathering at mr chong's house! still yet to confirm.. he's new furnished house! wheee! so um if you see this post.. can you reply me whether you can make it on chu san (9/2/08), third day of CNY.. whole afternoon(lunch included) till dinner..
pls pls pls pls reply k! its another rare time we'll see each other since umm the year started! and wohoo all guys can come in caps! lolz :P except me.. muahahahah! i'll bring camera!
so please reply k! thanks!
Chinny!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
NS too!
My brain has deteriorated like shit. let's start using broken english instead.
Me book in one day before sc. on the 9th. of jan. 2008. yup. Very fun at first. then start getting tiring. and boring. and sian.
ok f***. if i go on at that pace i seriously will not be able to string a proper sentence together by the time i POP. so let's practise good english!
Army has been fun. However, that is simply because we're new enlistees during the confinement period, when the sergeants are nicer to you. I expect life to get a hell lot tougher than this past 2 weeks when i book in.
Also, free time is really scarce, as shun cheng mentioned. The officers keep telling us it's not their choice, it's because they have very little time on their hands so they have to keep cramming in activities, unlike the people who book in 1 month earlier who get a one month headstart. lucky lz, rard and kel. I bet they have a lot of free administration time. For me, i get about 30 mins free time each night. Wash up my clothes, take a shower and it's lights out already. Sad.
ok shan't say too much already. i scared i get prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act. Damn scary leh.
Me book in one day before sc. on the 9th. of jan. 2008. yup. Very fun at first. then start getting tiring. and boring. and sian.
ok f***. if i go on at that pace i seriously will not be able to string a proper sentence together by the time i POP. so let's practise good english!
Army has been fun. However, that is simply because we're new enlistees during the confinement period, when the sergeants are nicer to you. I expect life to get a hell lot tougher than this past 2 weeks when i book in.
Also, free time is really scarce, as shun cheng mentioned. The officers keep telling us it's not their choice, it's because they have very little time on their hands so they have to keep cramming in activities, unlike the people who book in 1 month earlier who get a one month headstart. lucky lz, rard and kel. I bet they have a lot of free administration time. For me, i get about 30 mins free time each night. Wash up my clothes, take a shower and it's lights out already. Sad.
ok shan't say too much already. i scared i get prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act. Damn scary leh.
NS
It's been a hectic two weeks for me since i enlisted on 10 Jan. Totally...unique experience. Was, and still will be...for 1 year and 9.5 months. Regimentation is not much different from some uniformed groups in sec school, perhaps more strict. (But that may very well change after the first bookout) A 1yr 10month test of both physical and mental endurance. But certainly, I'm unsatisfied with how my brain is deteriorating. Just look at the quality of my posts.
NS is hectic. Hardly any free time for oneself, and hardly enough sleep. Frigging tired and sleepy a lot of the time. So today's early bookout (for me and 8 others in the company) rocks. =D haha damn suan. But waking up to run so early in the morning also allows us to see very nice stars and breathe in the fresh morning air.
On another note, my platoon mate looks damn like paul cheong. So is wing's section mate. so we take photos and post here after POP.
Before I end off, a few points to clarify, concerning the previous posts:
1) I did not get tekaned like mad.
2) I don't really prefer air con
NS and civilian life feels like totally 2 different worlds.
The rest is classified information under the Official Secrets Act or smthng liddat. DotA anyone?
NS is hectic. Hardly any free time for oneself, and hardly enough sleep. Frigging tired and sleepy a lot of the time. So today's early bookout (for me and 8 others in the company) rocks. =D haha damn suan. But waking up to run so early in the morning also allows us to see very nice stars and breathe in the fresh morning air.
On another note, my platoon mate looks damn like paul cheong. So is wing's section mate. so we take photos and post here after POP.
Before I end off, a few points to clarify, concerning the previous posts:
1) I did not get tekaned like mad.
2) I don't really prefer air con
NS and civilian life feels like totally 2 different worlds.
The rest is classified information under the Official Secrets Act or smthng liddat. DotA anyone?
Friday, January 11, 2008
okay 2 left..
sad.. left me and jameson (going in tmr,12th).. lolz.. ahh! okay.. jia you all the people in army! come back tell me stories so i can be prepared! muahaha..
lolz. ys said that the last 8 posts was his.. so i told him the next 16th posts would be mine.. so this is like the 2nd one.. haha.. anyway i think most of the army guys can't come out till like. er maybe 2 weeks later or 3.. so ya. wish you all dun tio guard duty on CNY.. very sian one. haha yup. dun think you all can see also..
well just a thought.. people who have go in now.. will have 2 CNY, 1 Christmas Day.. and 1 Valentine's Day inside army..
and um for me.. i have 1 CNY, 2 christmas and 2 valentine's day(1 if i'm lucky..) inside army. hmmm. well.. so ya.. good and bad..
lolz. and umm just realised people like us RP.. can't apply for relief teaching with our RP grades..cos moe dun recognise.. so ya. they want O levels or A levels.. well..
so yup finished attachment 2 days ago. wanted to blog about it..but lazy and tired.. job shadow the doctor.. he's like superman.. dun need to eat one.. have to on call like 1 out of 3 days.. sad man.. 730 to 730 is the normal working hours.. so one out of 3 days. you have to stay in hospital.. from 730pm till next day and start working again.. machine machine! i pity one doctor.. chritmas on call, new year on call, now CNY also on call. lolz.. people get 11 days of hol a year.. he get less than 4. lolz. one month supposed to have 8 weekends. they have like 2 or 3..hmm..
heh. and um the kopitiam food there not very nice. realised there was a staff canteen on the 2nd day there at basement.. but i couldn't find the lift to basement. so ya din get to eat there in the end..
umm but well i learned quite a bit. when to IV drip.. the concentration to use.. the ABCs (airways, breathing, communication) a procedure you have to check during emergencys. yea. fun! went to the wards.. follow doctors through their rounds( morning and afternoon), went to their clinics (neuro, cardiac, general, children development), and childrens emergency,and also went to look at new born babies.. learnt about jaundice.. umm did some hearing test on babaies.. and look at doctors perform checks on babies.. omg they twist the baby here and there.. like not theirs like dat.. haha XD okie well i'm exagerrating..
sometimes follow the house office and medical officer and registrar around.. they are like very very busy.. HO's lots of paper work.. very busy. heh. spent more time in hosipital than with family.. sad sad..
saw nikki and ruth( choir frens) there.. they doing some admin work thingy.. now no more le i think..
anyway, i saw lots of dif kinds of patients. renal patients.. asthma, cardiac! okay forgot the technical terms le.. well. the doctors memorise medicine names and all that la. and then all the dif types of scans.. and the dose that they have to give.. accurate man! zai!
okay. and i witnessed some hospital politics going on tooo.. staff nurses doctors and um the managers there. hahahah! i just stand there keep quiet..
heh. okay. well it was fun.. morning wake up.. drive to nuh. heh. tried dif dif routes. to beat the jam. and um beat the ERP which starts at 730 am.. lolz. there was this point on the expressway.. it was like 729.. then i got choice of CTE or PIE... but the PIE entrance was nearer.. so i decided to take the PIE cos the ERP charge is 5 dollars for CTE! zomg! ex ex! heh. so yea. i took PIE and when i passed CTE which was on the left.. i saw the "IN OPERATION". then i thought heng ar.. lucky nvr go that way..
okay if you din understand the previous para.. its okie. hahaha.. XD in conclusion i saved money. haha yeah.
so ya. okie. that's it for now..14 more posts to go! lolz. haha.. all the best army peeps.. dun over exert! really.. it takes 6 weeks to train strength and 4 weeks to train running.. according to some guy i met in the park while i was running. he was the man who initiated napha and IPPT lol.. at least that's what he said.. yeah.
yay! happy! ran 5k today! wohoo! gonna start training with you all! haha..
( to the tune of RI batch song )
lonely fear lights up the sky.. how long i wonder why.. its 3 months away..
Chinny
lolz. ys said that the last 8 posts was his.. so i told him the next 16th posts would be mine.. so this is like the 2nd one.. haha.. anyway i think most of the army guys can't come out till like. er maybe 2 weeks later or 3.. so ya. wish you all dun tio guard duty on CNY.. very sian one. haha yup. dun think you all can see also..
well just a thought.. people who have go in now.. will have 2 CNY, 1 Christmas Day.. and 1 Valentine's Day inside army..
and um for me.. i have 1 CNY, 2 christmas and 2 valentine's day(1 if i'm lucky..) inside army. hmmm. well.. so ya.. good and bad..
lolz. and umm just realised people like us RP.. can't apply for relief teaching with our RP grades..cos moe dun recognise.. so ya. they want O levels or A levels.. well..
so yup finished attachment 2 days ago. wanted to blog about it..but lazy and tired.. job shadow the doctor.. he's like superman.. dun need to eat one.. have to on call like 1 out of 3 days.. sad man.. 730 to 730 is the normal working hours.. so one out of 3 days. you have to stay in hospital.. from 730pm till next day and start working again.. machine machine! i pity one doctor.. chritmas on call, new year on call, now CNY also on call. lolz.. people get 11 days of hol a year.. he get less than 4. lolz. one month supposed to have 8 weekends. they have like 2 or 3..hmm..
heh. and um the kopitiam food there not very nice. realised there was a staff canteen on the 2nd day there at basement.. but i couldn't find the lift to basement. so ya din get to eat there in the end..
umm but well i learned quite a bit. when to IV drip.. the concentration to use.. the ABCs (airways, breathing, communication) a procedure you have to check during emergencys. yea. fun! went to the wards.. follow doctors through their rounds( morning and afternoon), went to their clinics (neuro, cardiac, general, children development), and childrens emergency,and also went to look at new born babies.. learnt about jaundice.. umm did some hearing test on babaies.. and look at doctors perform checks on babies.. omg they twist the baby here and there.. like not theirs like dat.. haha XD okie well i'm exagerrating..
sometimes follow the house office and medical officer and registrar around.. they are like very very busy.. HO's lots of paper work.. very busy. heh. spent more time in hosipital than with family.. sad sad..
saw nikki and ruth( choir frens) there.. they doing some admin work thingy.. now no more le i think..
anyway, i saw lots of dif kinds of patients. renal patients.. asthma, cardiac! okay forgot the technical terms le.. well. the doctors memorise medicine names and all that la. and then all the dif types of scans.. and the dose that they have to give.. accurate man! zai!
okay. and i witnessed some hospital politics going on tooo.. staff nurses doctors and um the managers there. hahahah! i just stand there keep quiet..
heh. okay. well it was fun.. morning wake up.. drive to nuh. heh. tried dif dif routes. to beat the jam. and um beat the ERP which starts at 730 am.. lolz. there was this point on the expressway.. it was like 729.. then i got choice of CTE or PIE... but the PIE entrance was nearer.. so i decided to take the PIE cos the ERP charge is 5 dollars for CTE! zomg! ex ex! heh. so yea. i took PIE and when i passed CTE which was on the left.. i saw the "IN OPERATION". then i thought heng ar.. lucky nvr go that way..
okay if you din understand the previous para.. its okie. hahaha.. XD in conclusion i saved money. haha yeah.
so ya. okie. that's it for now..14 more posts to go! lolz. haha.. all the best army peeps.. dun over exert! really.. it takes 6 weeks to train strength and 4 weeks to train running.. according to some guy i met in the park while i was running. he was the man who initiated napha and IPPT lol.. at least that's what he said.. yeah.
yay! happy! ran 5k today! wohoo! gonna start training with you all! haha..
( to the tune of RI batch song )
lonely fear lights up the sky.. how long i wonder why.. its 3 months away..
Chinny
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Post #401
My first post of the new year, my last post before NS.
It's been quite long since I posted. Probably because I was busy playing away most of the holidays and destroying my brain before NS could do it to me. And between going to China for holiday, uni applications, and the 1 month of holidays, there isn't much. Does time just pass quickly.
Some of us (jameson, txy, jasper, ys & me) went for dinner together last nite at crystal jade. time really passes quite fast (or my brain is screwed up). Today, 3 pple are enlisting. I'll be going in tmr. That means I have one day to play 6.49c -.-" rofl take a look at the changelog.
I'm feeling rather apprehensive about NS, as I am with all uncertain things (physics?) But, there is no use worrying about it, so it's kinda at the back of my head now. I shall go play my first game of 6.49c.
Cheers.
It's been quite long since I posted. Probably because I was busy playing away most of the holidays and destroying my brain before NS could do it to me. And between going to China for holiday, uni applications, and the 1 month of holidays, there isn't much. Does time just pass quickly.
Some of us (jameson, txy, jasper, ys & me) went for dinner together last nite at crystal jade. time really passes quite fast (or my brain is screwed up). Today, 3 pple are enlisting. I'll be going in tmr. That means I have one day to play 6.49c -.-" rofl take a look at the changelog.
I'm feeling rather apprehensive about NS, as I am with all uncertain things (physics?) But, there is no use worrying about it, so it's kinda at the back of my head now. I shall go play my first game of 6.49c.
Cheers.
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Not dead but alive (:
yoyo! moshi moshi! hello! (:
okie.. after being mia for sooo long. ya. cos
1) i'm quite busy.. not working like you all.. which i think sometimes reading the encyclopedia/wikipedia is better worth the time.. hehe >.< but of course the experience is priceless (:
2) um i prefer reading to posting, and
3) i'm the only one who is willing and able to keep this blog alive when you all go army, so yup.. by conservation of energy, i need to conserve now to post more later.
4) driving takes alot of concentration and energy so by the time i reach home.. i'm too lazy and tired to post..
yeah. anyway so ya. just a little update.. i haven got any job.. still waiting for news in rj. to see if i can get any job.. going for nuh attachment tmr.. (7th to 9th Jan) jameson says its boring. so ya. hopefully mine better..
and kelvin/redeyed/souljar's birthday is on 15th JAN! zomg! soo fast! first 19th birthday sooon! woohoo
um lishan's 9th Jan and min min's 20th Jan.. so if you all have smses to spare.. spare some thought for them and give them your best wishes! =)
anyway, wing, my hp you can keep for the moment.. hopefully we meet up soon so you can pass me.. maybe i use that phone for army. haha yup
and wang. you owe me 53 dollars! zomg. pls pls.. pay me soon k? (: thx!
umm anyway, people who are going in
9th Jan - Txy, wing, ys, occ
10th Jan - Sorry esc/wang/jameson/jasper i can't rmbr which date you going in
11th Jan - Sorry esc/wang/jameson/jasper i can't rmbr which date you going in
and 9th april --- me!
ya. okay. that's all for now.. anyway you all want another chalet anytime soon? like before a level results.. maybe end feb. all smses welcome (:
from the only male sg survivor of the 6Nations,
Chinny chin chin (:
okie.. after being mia for sooo long. ya. cos
1) i'm quite busy.. not working like you all.. which i think sometimes reading the encyclopedia/wikipedia is better worth the time.. hehe >.< but of course the experience is priceless (:
2) um i prefer reading to posting, and
3) i'm the only one who is willing and able to keep this blog alive when you all go army, so yup.. by conservation of energy, i need to conserve now to post more later.
4) driving takes alot of concentration and energy so by the time i reach home.. i'm too lazy and tired to post..
yeah. anyway so ya. just a little update.. i haven got any job.. still waiting for news in rj. to see if i can get any job.. going for nuh attachment tmr.. (7th to 9th Jan) jameson says its boring. so ya. hopefully mine better..
and kelvin/redeyed/souljar's birthday is on 15th JAN! zomg! soo fast! first 19th birthday sooon! woohoo
um lishan's 9th Jan and min min's 20th Jan.. so if you all have smses to spare.. spare some thought for them and give them your best wishes! =)
anyway, wing, my hp you can keep for the moment.. hopefully we meet up soon so you can pass me.. maybe i use that phone for army. haha yup
and wang. you owe me 53 dollars! zomg. pls pls.. pay me soon k? (: thx!
umm anyway, people who are going in
9th Jan - Txy, wing, ys, occ
10th Jan - Sorry esc/wang/jameson/jasper i can't rmbr which date you going in
11th Jan - Sorry esc/wang/jameson/jasper i can't rmbr which date you going in
and 9th april --- me!
ya. okay. that's all for now.. anyway you all want another chalet anytime soon? like before a level results.. maybe end feb. all smses welcome (:
from the only male sg survivor of the 6Nations,
Chinny chin chin (:
National Service!
Ok hello ppl, this will be one of my last posts before i get a cheap haircut =)
yup, so chinny can u blog? wah lao u whole day mia dunno doing wat one leh. trish work like every hour of her life le, so what are u still busy wif?
anyway, i just got a few photos which shld hav been sent to me last year but those ppl didn't send to me. but now that i've gotten it, i'm very happy! cuz they're very nice! yay! can go onto my wardrobe in NS le.
On that note, anybody who thinks they have a good photo of me and him/her, pls send me so i can develop and bring to tekong too! yup. pls send pls. thanks!
I estimate i can put up abt 10 photos. hopefully. so yup. whee so exciting! And yes, i'm going beach road army market tmr, anyone wanna come? I have one npcc friend coming wif me le, so we kinda know what to get liao. anyone wanna tag along?
Omg i realise i havn't made a plastic specs yet. how? shit. are our normal specs allowed? crap.
ok anyway, other than my specs, i'm damn excited! woohoo. fun.
lalala
yup, so chinny can u blog? wah lao u whole day mia dunno doing wat one leh. trish work like every hour of her life le, so what are u still busy wif?
anyway, i just got a few photos which shld hav been sent to me last year but those ppl didn't send to me. but now that i've gotten it, i'm very happy! cuz they're very nice! yay! can go onto my wardrobe in NS le.
On that note, anybody who thinks they have a good photo of me and him/her, pls send me so i can develop and bring to tekong too! yup. pls send pls. thanks!
I estimate i can put up abt 10 photos. hopefully. so yup. whee so exciting! And yes, i'm going beach road army market tmr, anyone wanna come? I have one npcc friend coming wif me le, so we kinda know what to get liao. anyone wanna tag along?
Omg i realise i havn't made a plastic specs yet. how? shit. are our normal specs allowed? crap.
ok anyway, other than my specs, i'm damn excited! woohoo. fun.
lalala
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
New Year countdown!
Whee! New year countdown was the most fun one in my life. suddenly u get to go out instead of sit and home and rush holiday homework.
so yup, went esplanade. or rather tried to. squeezed in there, then decided that it was too crowded and squeezed back out and went to marina square instead. played cards there, watched some pretty fireworks, then played more cards.
And then i went marie's hse! reached her house at 3 am. fun fun. played pool, kbox and mahjong. omg i just realised marie's hse kbox is updated every month. pro. And marie and gerald tay wants to go lanning too! yay, i probably get to play one more time before going NS.
left her hse at 11.20am, and went my relative's hse to eat and play bball. then wnet home after that and then went to work. wooh the best new year of my life. heck the working part though.
lalala
so yup, went esplanade. or rather tried to. squeezed in there, then decided that it was too crowded and squeezed back out and went to marina square instead. played cards there, watched some pretty fireworks, then played more cards.
And then i went marie's hse! reached her house at 3 am. fun fun. played pool, kbox and mahjong. omg i just realised marie's hse kbox is updated every month. pro. And marie and gerald tay wants to go lanning too! yay, i probably get to play one more time before going NS.
left her hse at 11.20am, and went my relative's hse to eat and play bball. then wnet home after that and then went to work. wooh the best new year of my life. heck the working part though.
lalala
NPCC outing!
eh this blog can by default be my blog liao lah, nobody else blog one.
so i shall post bout my own stuff! whee!
anyway, we had RI NPCC gathering on 29 dec! so fun! Played soccer, drink bubble tea, talk kok and went lanning! wooh havn't played for how long le lah. our class all mia one.
I was very happy that day. havn't talked to some of the np ppl for qte some time liao(cuz they humanities one). and my soccer still rocks! playing wif npcc ppl have always been the times when i played my best football, and it was no exception this time. 3 goals and 3 assists in 40 mins. yay. havn't played so well since coming into RJC.
and i havn't drank bubble tea for so long too. lol. dunno y. and the np ppl can really talk alot of kok.
and i finally went LANNING! how long liao lah. a levels end alrdy nobody play. yup we played lots of CS and abit of dota. fun. cuz the np ppl are either damn pro or damn noob. so the pro ppl giv u a challenge while the noob ppl giv u kills. wooh.
then i went to work after the thing and tio food poisoning. damn it man.
so i shall post bout my own stuff! whee!
anyway, we had RI NPCC gathering on 29 dec! so fun! Played soccer, drink bubble tea, talk kok and went lanning! wooh havn't played for how long le lah. our class all mia one.
I was very happy that day. havn't talked to some of the np ppl for qte some time liao(cuz they humanities one). and my soccer still rocks! playing wif npcc ppl have always been the times when i played my best football, and it was no exception this time. 3 goals and 3 assists in 40 mins. yay. havn't played so well since coming into RJC.
and i havn't drank bubble tea for so long too. lol. dunno y. and the np ppl can really talk alot of kok.
and i finally went LANNING! how long liao lah. a levels end alrdy nobody play. yup we played lots of CS and abit of dota. fun. cuz the np ppl are either damn pro or damn noob. so the pro ppl giv u a challenge while the noob ppl giv u kills. wooh.
then i went to work after the thing and tio food poisoning. damn it man.
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Ouch
I got food poisoning and i'm dying.
It's a miracle i'm even typing this thingy.
Miracles dun last long though, i'm stopping here.
Will post again when i'm alive.
It's a miracle i'm even typing this thingy.
Miracles dun last long though, i'm stopping here.
Will post again when i'm alive.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
more work
ok shit, at first i was thinking that my christmas presents were not bad one, had to draw qte a bit of money frm the atm for them.
but now that i've seen other ppl's presents i feel like mine is damn lousy. ok nvm, i'll make up for it some other festival.
For now i got loads of work to do. shit my supervisor say i need to work a lot a lot faster. ggxx.
havta try working on weekday nights le. my parents wun be happy liao. but no choice. oh well.
anyway, thanks to gen, ellen, yiting, zann and chin ee for the presents! and to gerard and kel and trish for the company too!
but now that i've seen other ppl's presents i feel like mine is damn lousy. ok nvm, i'll make up for it some other festival.
For now i got loads of work to do. shit my supervisor say i need to work a lot a lot faster. ggxx.
havta try working on weekday nights le. my parents wun be happy liao. but no choice. oh well.
anyway, thanks to gen, ellen, yiting, zann and chin ee for the presents! and to gerard and kel and trish for the company too!
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Merry Christmas!
boo! eh this place not dead lor ellen. see, still got activity. still alive. not kicking cuz dun want hurt ppl. We over here are very considerate.
Anyway, hmm, kinda sian of my job le. keep feeling like i shldn't have taken up this job. damn not easy to do leh pls. went private estates today. knn the security tight like f***. cannot even get to the door do wat survey/interview? nvm i thought of a cunning plan. I'll write to the management of the estates to get them to write in to the homeowners to ask them go online to do. hope it works.
and TRISH YOU SIAO ARH???? You want to work till you die isit? I'm sure u take up 3 jobs at one shot and plan them so they dun clash. eh you'll be damn tired one pls. and u can't back out cuz of contract. omg wth.
And zann you go MOM for? sorry havn't been online tis few days. so nvr see ur post. but yah, happened that i wanted to go mom on sat but decided not to in the end. mayb i shld hav. i kinda out of supplies for my job liao. i ran out of cards to put at ppl's doors if they're not at home. pls lor, to actually run out of those, u can imagine how sian i am le. to be exact, i've gone to every house on my list le. but i've completed abt 20%. HOW FREAKING SIAN IS THAT?
Anyway, a few interesting things abt my job.
positive stuff:
Flexible hours. woot this part the best. i've been writing letters and playing diablo at home cuz of this. except weekend must work like crazy.
You get to see ppl from all walks of life. The ultra poor and the rich. I've alrdy seen the ultra rich so i dun need to see it again le. lol.
One of the units on my list is a lan shop. lol. haha omg. unit number 01-06. lan shop lor. wooh gonna tell my supervisor and see how.
Xun Yong thinks my job is damn freaking good cuz of this statistic.
Number of chiobus interviewed: 1
One only, out of like hundreds of houses. but xun yong still thinks it's a damn good deal. cuz the chiobu is single and our age.
Came upon this house which totally put a smile on my face which lasted almost the whole day. This woman insisted on inviting me into the house, offered me tang yuan cuz i visited on sat which was dong zhi, and gave me a yakult when i departed. ownage lah. excellent service award.
Negative:
Job nature. The nature of this job is that you really can't do much on weekdays. So you end up having to piah like siao on weekends to try to cover up weekday quotas. 2 days cover 6 days work? crazy. i completely behind quota like crazy le.
Walk and walk and walk. I walked like siao into estates which i've nvr been to. cuz every block has like on average 1 person to interview. Walking through estates, climb up, climb down, knock till knuckle pain(some hses no doorbell one). Finally covered abt hundred plus hse le.
People ignore me. really. I've visited hundred plus. How many have i done? 40? ji hong leh. I can press doorbell when there're ppl at home and they wun open the door. Some open the door and dun even want to giv 2 mins. pls lor my survey is how short and i write how fast. And worse still nobody ever calls back from those cards i leave at their doors. pls lor. considering MOM is allowed to sue this ppl, i seriously want to suggest that MOM sue some ppl. fine them. make it headline news and it'll act as deterent sentencing. knn, now ppl see MOM also dun giv shit abt it.
Ok lah enuff angsting. wooh i can't wait for gen's present! er but i havn't finished her letter yet. oops. abit too busy.
yes and sc, play d2 soon leh. my druid and my pally invent space abit screwed up le. esp MY DRUID! needta transfer items to my storage acct. which is this lvl 12 druid. lol.
ok lah, i go settle some christmas gifts liao. bye!
oh and my parents are back, nvm bout that samsung charger.
and someone pls blog!
Anyway, hmm, kinda sian of my job le. keep feeling like i shldn't have taken up this job. damn not easy to do leh pls. went private estates today. knn the security tight like f***. cannot even get to the door do wat survey/interview? nvm i thought of a cunning plan. I'll write to the management of the estates to get them to write in to the homeowners to ask them go online to do. hope it works.
and TRISH YOU SIAO ARH???? You want to work till you die isit? I'm sure u take up 3 jobs at one shot and plan them so they dun clash. eh you'll be damn tired one pls. and u can't back out cuz of contract. omg wth.
And zann you go MOM for? sorry havn't been online tis few days. so nvr see ur post. but yah, happened that i wanted to go mom on sat but decided not to in the end. mayb i shld hav. i kinda out of supplies for my job liao. i ran out of cards to put at ppl's doors if they're not at home. pls lor, to actually run out of those, u can imagine how sian i am le. to be exact, i've gone to every house on my list le. but i've completed abt 20%. HOW FREAKING SIAN IS THAT?
Anyway, a few interesting things abt my job.
positive stuff:
Flexible hours. woot this part the best. i've been writing letters and playing diablo at home cuz of this. except weekend must work like crazy.
You get to see ppl from all walks of life. The ultra poor and the rich. I've alrdy seen the ultra rich so i dun need to see it again le. lol.
One of the units on my list is a lan shop. lol. haha omg. unit number 01-06. lan shop lor. wooh gonna tell my supervisor and see how.
Xun Yong thinks my job is damn freaking good cuz of this statistic.
Number of chiobus interviewed: 1
One only, out of like hundreds of houses. but xun yong still thinks it's a damn good deal. cuz the chiobu is single and our age.
Came upon this house which totally put a smile on my face which lasted almost the whole day. This woman insisted on inviting me into the house, offered me tang yuan cuz i visited on sat which was dong zhi, and gave me a yakult when i departed. ownage lah. excellent service award.
Negative:
Job nature. The nature of this job is that you really can't do much on weekdays. So you end up having to piah like siao on weekends to try to cover up weekday quotas. 2 days cover 6 days work? crazy. i completely behind quota like crazy le.
Walk and walk and walk. I walked like siao into estates which i've nvr been to. cuz every block has like on average 1 person to interview. Walking through estates, climb up, climb down, knock till knuckle pain(some hses no doorbell one). Finally covered abt hundred plus hse le.
People ignore me. really. I've visited hundred plus. How many have i done? 40? ji hong leh. I can press doorbell when there're ppl at home and they wun open the door. Some open the door and dun even want to giv 2 mins. pls lor my survey is how short and i write how fast. And worse still nobody ever calls back from those cards i leave at their doors. pls lor. considering MOM is allowed to sue this ppl, i seriously want to suggest that MOM sue some ppl. fine them. make it headline news and it'll act as deterent sentencing. knn, now ppl see MOM also dun giv shit abt it.
Ok lah enuff angsting. wooh i can't wait for gen's present! er but i havn't finished her letter yet. oops. abit too busy.
yes and sc, play d2 soon leh. my druid and my pally invent space abit screwed up le. esp MY DRUID! needta transfer items to my storage acct. which is this lvl 12 druid. lol.
ok lah, i go settle some christmas gifts liao. bye!
oh and my parents are back, nvm bout that samsung charger.
and someone pls blog!
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Crazy work rate!
Wooh i worked like siao today. completed abt 2.7 days worth of work. my supervisor wun scold me liao =) yay.
cuz previously i completed 1 days work in 4 days. cuz of 4E outing, and meteor shower. then my supervisor abit disappointed. now i hav 3.7 out of 4 days of work completed(i worked on sunday, which doesn't count as a day). nearly on schedule le. wooh.
And meteor shower was not bad! actually quite good! yup cuz i saw the best meteor(commonly refered to as shooting star) of my life! It was this damn bright meteor which was burning BRIGHT BLUE! and it was so strong it actually shown through the clouds! lol whoever said overcast skies cannot watch meteors man. haha. anyway, my prayers were very well answered. It didn't rain the whole night, and the sky was clear for the majority of the night. The clouds kept clearing up! so yup.
Kinda saw less meteors this year than last year. abt 20 plus only. Less quantity, more quality though. but i suspect the lack of quantity is due to ecp's lighting. Changi is darker than ECP. er dun ask me why i chose ecp, shun cheng. I know it's not the best of locations, but it's the best location to attract more ppl to go. of which most ppl pangsehed me in the end, so i shld have chosen Changi/Ubin on hindsight.
Anyway, thanks to txy and jasper who came! Hope you guys enjoyed it. not a very strong showing by the heavens(could have been better, prolly cuz ecp bad lighting), but got qte good quality ones.
And now that i've done Geminids twice, i dun think i'll do that again in qte a while. Being the best meteor shower arnd, it's way too gd and therefore easy to watch. Wanna try the perseids as soon as i can, then mayb quadrantids and then lyrids. harder and harder to watch. but they shld all look the same. but i still want the experience nevertheless.
kk getting late le. 12.10am le. still got work tmr. so i zhao liao. bye.
P.S who got samsung charger? i need. cuz my parents lup the charger overseas. my hp no batt liao. one night overnight at ecp killed it qte badly.
cuz previously i completed 1 days work in 4 days. cuz of 4E outing, and meteor shower. then my supervisor abit disappointed. now i hav 3.7 out of 4 days of work completed(i worked on sunday, which doesn't count as a day). nearly on schedule le. wooh.
And meteor shower was not bad! actually quite good! yup cuz i saw the best meteor(commonly refered to as shooting star) of my life! It was this damn bright meteor which was burning BRIGHT BLUE! and it was so strong it actually shown through the clouds! lol whoever said overcast skies cannot watch meteors man. haha. anyway, my prayers were very well answered. It didn't rain the whole night, and the sky was clear for the majority of the night. The clouds kept clearing up! so yup.
Kinda saw less meteors this year than last year. abt 20 plus only. Less quantity, more quality though. but i suspect the lack of quantity is due to ecp's lighting. Changi is darker than ECP. er dun ask me why i chose ecp, shun cheng. I know it's not the best of locations, but it's the best location to attract more ppl to go. of which most ppl pangsehed me in the end, so i shld have chosen Changi/Ubin on hindsight.
Anyway, thanks to txy and jasper who came! Hope you guys enjoyed it. not a very strong showing by the heavens(could have been better, prolly cuz ecp bad lighting), but got qte good quality ones.
And now that i've done Geminids twice, i dun think i'll do that again in qte a while. Being the best meteor shower arnd, it's way too gd and therefore easy to watch. Wanna try the perseids as soon as i can, then mayb quadrantids and then lyrids. harder and harder to watch. but they shld all look the same. but i still want the experience nevertheless.
kk getting late le. 12.10am le. still got work tmr. so i zhao liao. bye.
P.S who got samsung charger? i need. cuz my parents lup the charger overseas. my hp no batt liao. one night overnight at ecp killed it qte badly.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
hello, and bye again!
here are some pics from australia to show ya'll wad i've been up to. cant really blog much about the trip here cos i've not much time and i need to pack for ns. it was a fun trip, lovely weather, lots of nature stuff, and yummy food haha.
sitting on the edge of a cliff
i dunno where this is haha, some park near perth? my uncle brought us here.. i think it's some memorial to australian soldiers in the world wars.
i'm in the sky! ignore the incriminating evidence at e corner plskthx.
at the top of a 61m tall tree haha
on the way up! quite a scary experience to climb actually..
this is ah, a red tingle tree, with hollow trunks, i think, from fire or something
sitting on the edge of a cliff
i dunno where this is haha, some park near perth? my uncle brought us here.. i think it's some memorial to australian soldiers in the world wars.
i'm in the sky! ignore the incriminating evidence at e corner plskthx.
at the top of a 61m tall tree haha
on the way up! quite a scary experience to climb actually..
this is ah, a red tingle tree, with hollow trunks, i think, from fire or something
okay, not as detailed as ys' post i know, but it'll have to do. a picture speaks a thousand words anyway. so i have 6k+ alr woo. eh and btw ys, i dint see much stars while i was there =\ pity. okie, take care peeps. enjoy ya hols!
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Geminids meteor shower
There's a meteor shower coming up, and i'm kinda going to watch it. Anyone interested?
Saturday, December 08, 2007
MIP' 07
Ok this blog very stagnant. gerard overseas, shun cheng overseas, chinny got trish and i'm freaking bloody busy. dunno what the rest doing. havn't even had a rest yet. then work and NS coming up soon. shit. havn't even gone to friends' hse like i planned b4 A levels.
oh well, anyway, i was completely swamped for two days right after prom, and anyone trying to contact me would have had a hard time. WHY? cuz i was at MINDEF, in some classified area where they simply disallowed all forms of image capturing device. That includes camera phones. So i gave my phone to them for the first day, and just simply didn't bring it along for the second day. total of 21 missed calls and 6 smses to my phone. lol i didn't know i was so popular. haha. actually they were all mainly from MOM and my job agency one, to chase me to sign a contract for the job.
Anyway, on to the MIP. It stands for MINDEF Internship Programme. and it just ROCKS. yes, big time man. cuz it was actually more of a scholar recruitment drive than an internship. which is true. The head of infantry division said at the end of the programme that yes, they're trying very hard to get us to sign up for the SAF Overseas Scholarship, and that they make no secret out of it. pretty much explains why abt 65% of people there are from RJC, 30% of people there are from hwa chong, and 5% from other JCs. lol. so yup, and they did a great job. superb man. let me wow you all.
So the first day was abit sian to me, cuz i had to rush home from prom, arrived home at 3, throw everything down and went to slp. woke at 6, showered, and rushed off for boon lay mrt where i'm supposed to be there at 7.30. ended up there early, while a few RJ ppl were late(can tell y), so we had to wait. knn. shldn't have rushed. so after that, we boarded a bus which brought us to SAFTI(Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute). Basically, that's where OCS is located, and where most of the guys probably want to get into. so they gave us two coolio shirts, and a personalised MIP cap. then we sat in the ocs auditorium, where we watched a few of the army tv commercials, those that u sometimes see on tv one. some qte cool, some abit rubbish. then sat through 2 talks where it was damn funny, cuz some RJ guy(name withdrawn to protect identity) fell completely aslp, and then he SNORED! it was damn funny. and kinda embarrassing. actually i was aslp too, but i woke up because of that snore. then we had refreshments, sat through some Q and A, then went for lunch. where we ate the same food as the OCS cadets. not bad lah the food, except that they were damn overly sweetened. drink tasted like sugar water, and food was like the chef accidentally dropped a whole bag of sugar in. Met some seniors who were in OCS, as well as saw 1 girl. girl in ocs. in uniform. coolio, 1 more female officer coming up.
so after lunch, we headed off to 201 squadron, part of the air force. where it was raining damn heavily, so the trip became a bore where we would sit and wait for 30 mins a time, for them to come up with something. cuz their original plan was that they've already requested airspace and wanted to fly their F-16s for a scrambling demo and a live engagement demo. so we ended up seeing abit of their surface to air missiles, of which one of them, the RBS 70, is portable. means u can bring the missile anywhere to search for lz and shoot him down. cool right? till you hear what they mean by portable. to operate it requires three men. one, the gunner, the other 2, i forgot what they do. so to make it portable, the RBS 70 can be taken apar6t into 3 parts, each person carry one part. and... ... the weights are...
missile head and firing barrel - 26kg
stand - 24kg
other parts(decoder, firing trigger, laser etc) - 34kg
gd luck to anyone who becomes an RBS 70 crew. train hard. knn, 20 kg of rice i nearly cldn't lug it home le. those other shit will just kill me.
then, we headed off to tengah air base. anyway, the air force is damn cool. they have radar surveillance over singapore 24/7, and they monitor everything coming close to and into singapore, and check whether they are clear to fly in or out anot. they brought us to their head command operations headquarters, where it's like those u see in the movies, dark rooms and stuff. and there on the screen they have the ID of every plane in the vicinity of singapore. so while we were in there and explaining how they operate to us, i observed SIA 527 coming into sg and landing at changi, and SIA 928 taking off and leaving sg, many other planes around too, but too many for me to monitor. the air force monitors them all. and they have abt 8 anti air guns located around singapore to shoot planes down. wooh. I-HAWK(40 km max range(yay shoot msia)), Rapier(6.8 km max range), RBS 70(5km max range), Mistral(5 km max range), IGLA(5 km max range).
and now, to the dinner. It OWNS big time. like 10 times better than prom lah. catered from shangri-la hotel, we had lobster rice, scallops, mussels, chicken kebab, har kao, dumplings, many diff types of sushi, laksa, mutton, vegetables, many diff kinds of cakes, fruit punch, cocktail with slight bit of alcohol and more. i cannot rmb all le, got too much. and they were all damn gd. after that, a few of us, koped their lounge for kbox and pool. lol. and then when we left, they gave us a goodie bag, which had this glass thingy that's damn nice. shun cheng saw it when he came my house. damn rocking man. so after that they dismissed us at choa chu kang! wooh right beside my house! but MINDEF is fair apparently. one day in the west, so i die the next day. meet at tanah merah at 7am, dismiss at pasir ris at abt 10pm. ggxx.
ok so that was end of day 1, reached home fairly early at abt 9 and started to settle my MOM stuff. then went to slp. so yah, day 2 now.
I woke up damn early to get to stupid tanah merah at the other side of the island, where we were given more freebies upon arrival. we were given this navy cap, which i realised soon after that they were the exact same cap that the navy personnel wear. wooh so i'm kinda part of the navy, i hav part of their uniform now. lol. from tanah merah, we then headed for changi naval base. where we saw some navy tv commercials in their auditorium, including one new one which has not been released for public viewing yet. so yah, that one was abit, how shld i put it, corny and cool lah. watch out for it some time later. some building thingy. yup. after that, we had refreshments, which was better than prom as well. from 4 seasons hotel. wth, REFRESHMENTS better than PROM food? army budget goes to food man. we were right, xy. haha. after which we went on board the navy's newest formidable class frigate. yup, their newest and most powerful warship, with its stealth capabilities and anti-submarine, anti-surface and anti-air abilities. their weaponry on board are damn zai. they have 6 of them, and i sailed aboard one of them, which is kinda cool. when they sail out with that huge gun and missiles pointing, they signal a horn blast and the ships in the straits move aside. lol. basically, the navy has damn good life and damn gd food if u get posted on board the frigate. It's huge, it's spacious, they send their chefs to hotels to learn how to cook gd food, they have recreation rooms, and stuff. yah. and i came upon this door thingy that had this three letters on it. WTH . yup wth? i asked one of the navy personnel, and it turned out to be Water Tight Hatch. lol. ok cool short form.
so after that, we came back, and they served us lunch, which as expected, was catered by a hotel and better than prom food. four seasons hotel again, and rocks once again. after which, we left the navy. they also gave us some goodie bag. and then headed for the army. and they brought us to the commandos. which gave us the most exciting and enjoyable part of the whole programme. they took us to see their weaponry, as well as let us take a joy ride on their LSVs(light-strike vehicle).very cool experience, cuz their LSV, unlike a car, does not have a windscreen. so going at high speeds is damn shuang, when u really feel the wind on your face. And we saw their guns too. and rmb the AWP from counter strike? yup i picked up an AWMP sniper rifle, thinking it was damn cool. but freaking hell. It was damn heavy lah. yeah i'm strong enough to hold it, take aim, and fire. but holding it steady is a different story. lol. anyway, the scope is damn cool, everything becomes very clear. tried to pick up an even bigger sniper rifle and gged. cldn't even hold it up properly. omg i need to start training. so i picked up the SAR 21, the normal Singapore Assault Rifle which every soldier will be using, luckily, it turned out to be quite light. 5 kg only. that stupid sniper rifle must be like 15 kg lah.
so after that, we were brought to take a joy ride on the commandos RIBs(Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats), which is the best ride of my life man. and i can tell you smthing. RAIN HURTS. yes, rain is very very painful. cuz it started drizzling lightly, and then the RIB started choinging at abt 45 knots(80 km per hr). My eyes and face died lah. One friend of mine tio a nosebleed lor. The rain felt like very very sharp needles on your face. and there is a lot a lot of rain. so erm fag. anyway, the RIB is cool. they took us on manoevres where the boat was tilted at more than 45 degrees, and it didn't capsize. thankfully. lol. Fun and painful ride.
Went to visit the infantry after this, where we were given the chance to battle soldiers from the 3rd SIR(Singapore Infantry Regiment) in a skirmish using real SAR 21 rifles with blanks. And we WON! shit aren't we good? we have no training and we beat soldiers who have training! we are damn zai. I shall just don't mention that we were 28 guys vs 7 soldiers. woohoo. lol.
after the skirmish, where we were actually given more refreshments and a free shirt, we went to visit infantry's weaponry, where they showed us how they are trying to integrate technology onto every soldier as a 3rd gen saf thingy. they all have this handset(inspired by nokia, the engineer said, lol) which is connected to this tablet pc they carry, which marks their position with GPS, and they can do lotsa stuff on the comp. they also placed cams onto the SAR 21 rifles, so that the soldiers can see round corners without looking out. just have to stick the gun out and shoot. cool.
so after all those things, we went for dinner. which once again, was overly good. almost as good as first day's dinner, with pineapple rice, bbqed stingray, bbqed mutton, bbqed chicken wings, chicken kebab, and a super big buffet with lots of nice stuff. can't rmb them le, got too much also. haiyo, the food really dan good lah. wish we can get that for NS. lol. after dinner, we went into the auditorium for the end of the programme, to get our certs and badges. and it is here that i heard the best speech ever made in my life.
The head of infantry, BG(Brigadier General) Chan, gave us a very powerful speech. On why the SAF tries so hard to get us to sign up with the SAF. He said that the SAF is trying very hard to get us(those who went for the programme) to sign up with the SAF, and they make no secret about it. but why is that so? I'm not a tape recorder, so all i can is to give you is excerpts from the speech, which he made without a script. 佩服
"Why do we try so hard? Can anyone tell me why we try so hard?"
(on the saf getting people to join them)
"How confident are you that Singapore will still be here in 2050? How many of you are confident? Why are you confident? What if I tell you that i'm not confident that Singapore will be here in 2050?"
"If you do not know why Singapore will still be here in 2050, then you'll never know why we try so hard."
"There have been 7 countries in Southeast asia with similar racial composition as Singapore. 6 have been subsumed under the tide of history. The last one is relatively young, called Singapore. What makes you think it will not follow suit?"
"Why is a country's sovereignty so important? Why is the SAF important?"
"Why do you think Malaysia asked us to talk in the ICJ(International Court of Justice) over the Pedra Blanca issue? Because they are nice people? because of international laws? Or is it because they're scared of the SAF?"
"Let me tell you that international laws are useless, and countries will not talk, unless you have a strong deterrent force. Let me give you an example. Brunei had a dispute at this place called Mischief Reef, which was this oil patch in the middle of the ocean. A neighbour had claimed it to be theirs. The next morning, that particular neighbour moved their forces in. And brunei lost Mischief Reef. Just like that. Did the neighbour bring Brunei to the ICJ? Did they even asked to talk? No. They took it just like that. And Brunei couldn't do anything."
"Let me give you another example. Recently, a country discovered an oil field. A neighbour came, and said that half of it was theirs. They stared the country in the eyes, and the next day, that country lost half the oil field. Anyone knows what that country is? East Timor. Anyone brought them to ICJ? No."
"So do you really think Malaysia chose to talk to us at the ICJ because of international laws? Let me tell you, Malaysia brought us to the ICJ because they're scared of the us. The SAF. The army known as the best in the Southeast Asian region. Every day, 24/7, we have ships, surveillance radar, soldiers, watching over Pedra Blanca."
"But why can't we run to bigger countries for help? Why can't we be the 14th state of Malaysia? or the 39th province of Indonesia? or if you think those countries are not good enough, even better, the 51st state of the USA?
"Why is it that the SAF is already the best in the region, and yet we choose to continue to try to develop? Why is there a need to spend 1 third of the government budget, 5% of GDP on defence?"
"Because, if you want your identity, your sovereignty, your family to sleep peacefully at night, your loved ones to stay safe and sound, then you have to have a strong SAF. We are a small country, and to survive, we need a strong SAF."
"In history, it has always been that big countries will gobble up small nations. especially small nations surrounded by big countries. My mother said that in her lifetime, she has learned 4 national anthems. The British, the Japanese, the Malaysians, and Singapore's. Do we want to learn a 5th one? Do we want to be the 7th nation to be subsumed under the tide of history? The choice is up to you."
Ok those were smal excerpts which i can remember, word for word. The full speech is just PURE OWNAGE, ask any RJC guy who was there. gives a whole new perspective to serving NS. lol. so after that, we got our certs, they pinned our badges for us, we got more goodie bags, and then went home. pasir ris at 9.45, reach home at the other side of the island damn late le. but it was a fruitful day, and a great experience. so to sum up, some random things that can be taken away from this trip:
NS has heavy loads to carry man. if you dun wanna train your running, at least train your arm and back strength, you'll need it.
The SAF is damn cool, their weaponry is damn far ahead of malaysia at least. For example, we have 5 submarines, they just got one.
The SAF short forms can be quite cock.
WTH(Navy): Water tight hatch
OOTW(the SAF in general): Operations other than War
VSV(the commandos): Very Standard Vessel (lol)
I-HAWK(the air force, anti-air missile): Improved - Homing All the Way Killer (LOL)
The SAF gives a lot of freebies. I got 2 towels, 1 pair of sunglasses, 2 bottles, 1 pouch, 3 notebooks, 1 pencil case, 1 case of badges, 1 multi-purpose knife, 1 laser and torch, 1 glass globe and 1 bag. wooh.
ok that's all. I had a hell lot of fun and food, but now my fingers cannot take it liao. so that's all!
yong sheng
oh well, anyway, i was completely swamped for two days right after prom, and anyone trying to contact me would have had a hard time. WHY? cuz i was at MINDEF, in some classified area where they simply disallowed all forms of image capturing device. That includes camera phones. So i gave my phone to them for the first day, and just simply didn't bring it along for the second day. total of 21 missed calls and 6 smses to my phone. lol i didn't know i was so popular. haha. actually they were all mainly from MOM and my job agency one, to chase me to sign a contract for the job.
Anyway, on to the MIP. It stands for MINDEF Internship Programme. and it just ROCKS. yes, big time man. cuz it was actually more of a scholar recruitment drive than an internship. which is true. The head of infantry division said at the end of the programme that yes, they're trying very hard to get us to sign up for the SAF Overseas Scholarship, and that they make no secret out of it. pretty much explains why abt 65% of people there are from RJC, 30% of people there are from hwa chong, and 5% from other JCs. lol. so yup, and they did a great job. superb man. let me wow you all.
So the first day was abit sian to me, cuz i had to rush home from prom, arrived home at 3, throw everything down and went to slp. woke at 6, showered, and rushed off for boon lay mrt where i'm supposed to be there at 7.30. ended up there early, while a few RJ ppl were late(can tell y), so we had to wait. knn. shldn't have rushed. so after that, we boarded a bus which brought us to SAFTI(Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute). Basically, that's where OCS is located, and where most of the guys probably want to get into. so they gave us two coolio shirts, and a personalised MIP cap. then we sat in the ocs auditorium, where we watched a few of the army tv commercials, those that u sometimes see on tv one. some qte cool, some abit rubbish. then sat through 2 talks where it was damn funny, cuz some RJ guy(name withdrawn to protect identity) fell completely aslp, and then he SNORED! it was damn funny. and kinda embarrassing. actually i was aslp too, but i woke up because of that snore. then we had refreshments, sat through some Q and A, then went for lunch. where we ate the same food as the OCS cadets. not bad lah the food, except that they were damn overly sweetened. drink tasted like sugar water, and food was like the chef accidentally dropped a whole bag of sugar in. Met some seniors who were in OCS, as well as saw 1 girl. girl in ocs. in uniform. coolio, 1 more female officer coming up.
so after lunch, we headed off to 201 squadron, part of the air force. where it was raining damn heavily, so the trip became a bore where we would sit and wait for 30 mins a time, for them to come up with something. cuz their original plan was that they've already requested airspace and wanted to fly their F-16s for a scrambling demo and a live engagement demo. so we ended up seeing abit of their surface to air missiles, of which one of them, the RBS 70, is portable. means u can bring the missile anywhere to search for lz and shoot him down. cool right? till you hear what they mean by portable. to operate it requires three men. one, the gunner, the other 2, i forgot what they do. so to make it portable, the RBS 70 can be taken apar6t into 3 parts, each person carry one part. and... ... the weights are...
missile head and firing barrel - 26kg
stand - 24kg
other parts(decoder, firing trigger, laser etc) - 34kg
gd luck to anyone who becomes an RBS 70 crew. train hard. knn, 20 kg of rice i nearly cldn't lug it home le. those other shit will just kill me.
then, we headed off to tengah air base. anyway, the air force is damn cool. they have radar surveillance over singapore 24/7, and they monitor everything coming close to and into singapore, and check whether they are clear to fly in or out anot. they brought us to their head command operations headquarters, where it's like those u see in the movies, dark rooms and stuff. and there on the screen they have the ID of every plane in the vicinity of singapore. so while we were in there and explaining how they operate to us, i observed SIA 527 coming into sg and landing at changi, and SIA 928 taking off and leaving sg, many other planes around too, but too many for me to monitor. the air force monitors them all. and they have abt 8 anti air guns located around singapore to shoot planes down. wooh. I-HAWK(40 km max range(yay shoot msia)), Rapier(6.8 km max range), RBS 70(5km max range), Mistral(5 km max range), IGLA(5 km max range).
and now, to the dinner. It OWNS big time. like 10 times better than prom lah. catered from shangri-la hotel, we had lobster rice, scallops, mussels, chicken kebab, har kao, dumplings, many diff types of sushi, laksa, mutton, vegetables, many diff kinds of cakes, fruit punch, cocktail with slight bit of alcohol and more. i cannot rmb all le, got too much. and they were all damn gd. after that, a few of us, koped their lounge for kbox and pool. lol. and then when we left, they gave us a goodie bag, which had this glass thingy that's damn nice. shun cheng saw it when he came my house. damn rocking man. so after that they dismissed us at choa chu kang! wooh right beside my house! but MINDEF is fair apparently. one day in the west, so i die the next day. meet at tanah merah at 7am, dismiss at pasir ris at abt 10pm. ggxx.
ok so that was end of day 1, reached home fairly early at abt 9 and started to settle my MOM stuff. then went to slp. so yah, day 2 now.
I woke up damn early to get to stupid tanah merah at the other side of the island, where we were given more freebies upon arrival. we were given this navy cap, which i realised soon after that they were the exact same cap that the navy personnel wear. wooh so i'm kinda part of the navy, i hav part of their uniform now. lol. from tanah merah, we then headed for changi naval base. where we saw some navy tv commercials in their auditorium, including one new one which has not been released for public viewing yet. so yah, that one was abit, how shld i put it, corny and cool lah. watch out for it some time later. some building thingy. yup. after that, we had refreshments, which was better than prom as well. from 4 seasons hotel. wth, REFRESHMENTS better than PROM food? army budget goes to food man. we were right, xy. haha. after which we went on board the navy's newest formidable class frigate. yup, their newest and most powerful warship, with its stealth capabilities and anti-submarine, anti-surface and anti-air abilities. their weaponry on board are damn zai. they have 6 of them, and i sailed aboard one of them, which is kinda cool. when they sail out with that huge gun and missiles pointing, they signal a horn blast and the ships in the straits move aside. lol. basically, the navy has damn good life and damn gd food if u get posted on board the frigate. It's huge, it's spacious, they send their chefs to hotels to learn how to cook gd food, they have recreation rooms, and stuff. yah. and i came upon this door thingy that had this three letters on it. WTH . yup wth? i asked one of the navy personnel, and it turned out to be Water Tight Hatch. lol. ok cool short form.
so after that, we came back, and they served us lunch, which as expected, was catered by a hotel and better than prom food. four seasons hotel again, and rocks once again. after which, we left the navy. they also gave us some goodie bag. and then headed for the army. and they brought us to the commandos. which gave us the most exciting and enjoyable part of the whole programme. they took us to see their weaponry, as well as let us take a joy ride on their LSVs(light-strike vehicle).very cool experience, cuz their LSV, unlike a car, does not have a windscreen. so going at high speeds is damn shuang, when u really feel the wind on your face. And we saw their guns too. and rmb the AWP from counter strike? yup i picked up an AWMP sniper rifle, thinking it was damn cool. but freaking hell. It was damn heavy lah. yeah i'm strong enough to hold it, take aim, and fire. but holding it steady is a different story. lol. anyway, the scope is damn cool, everything becomes very clear. tried to pick up an even bigger sniper rifle and gged. cldn't even hold it up properly. omg i need to start training. so i picked up the SAR 21, the normal Singapore Assault Rifle which every soldier will be using, luckily, it turned out to be quite light. 5 kg only. that stupid sniper rifle must be like 15 kg lah.
so after that, we were brought to take a joy ride on the commandos RIBs(Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats), which is the best ride of my life man. and i can tell you smthing. RAIN HURTS. yes, rain is very very painful. cuz it started drizzling lightly, and then the RIB started choinging at abt 45 knots(80 km per hr). My eyes and face died lah. One friend of mine tio a nosebleed lor. The rain felt like very very sharp needles on your face. and there is a lot a lot of rain. so erm fag. anyway, the RIB is cool. they took us on manoevres where the boat was tilted at more than 45 degrees, and it didn't capsize. thankfully. lol. Fun and painful ride.
Went to visit the infantry after this, where we were given the chance to battle soldiers from the 3rd SIR(Singapore Infantry Regiment) in a skirmish using real SAR 21 rifles with blanks. And we WON! shit aren't we good? we have no training and we beat soldiers who have training! we are damn zai. I shall just don't mention that we were 28 guys vs 7 soldiers. woohoo. lol.
after the skirmish, where we were actually given more refreshments and a free shirt, we went to visit infantry's weaponry, where they showed us how they are trying to integrate technology onto every soldier as a 3rd gen saf thingy. they all have this handset(inspired by nokia, the engineer said, lol) which is connected to this tablet pc they carry, which marks their position with GPS, and they can do lotsa stuff on the comp. they also placed cams onto the SAR 21 rifles, so that the soldiers can see round corners without looking out. just have to stick the gun out and shoot. cool.
so after all those things, we went for dinner. which once again, was overly good. almost as good as first day's dinner, with pineapple rice, bbqed stingray, bbqed mutton, bbqed chicken wings, chicken kebab, and a super big buffet with lots of nice stuff. can't rmb them le, got too much also. haiyo, the food really dan good lah. wish we can get that for NS. lol. after dinner, we went into the auditorium for the end of the programme, to get our certs and badges. and it is here that i heard the best speech ever made in my life.
The head of infantry, BG(Brigadier General) Chan, gave us a very powerful speech. On why the SAF tries so hard to get us to sign up with the SAF. He said that the SAF is trying very hard to get us(those who went for the programme) to sign up with the SAF, and they make no secret about it. but why is that so? I'm not a tape recorder, so all i can is to give you is excerpts from the speech, which he made without a script. 佩服
"Why do we try so hard? Can anyone tell me why we try so hard?"
(on the saf getting people to join them)
"How confident are you that Singapore will still be here in 2050? How many of you are confident? Why are you confident? What if I tell you that i'm not confident that Singapore will be here in 2050?"
"If you do not know why Singapore will still be here in 2050, then you'll never know why we try so hard."
"There have been 7 countries in Southeast asia with similar racial composition as Singapore. 6 have been subsumed under the tide of history. The last one is relatively young, called Singapore. What makes you think it will not follow suit?"
"Why is a country's sovereignty so important? Why is the SAF important?"
"Why do you think Malaysia asked us to talk in the ICJ(International Court of Justice) over the Pedra Blanca issue? Because they are nice people? because of international laws? Or is it because they're scared of the SAF?"
"Let me tell you that international laws are useless, and countries will not talk, unless you have a strong deterrent force. Let me give you an example. Brunei had a dispute at this place called Mischief Reef, which was this oil patch in the middle of the ocean. A neighbour had claimed it to be theirs. The next morning, that particular neighbour moved their forces in. And brunei lost Mischief Reef. Just like that. Did the neighbour bring Brunei to the ICJ? Did they even asked to talk? No. They took it just like that. And Brunei couldn't do anything."
"Let me give you another example. Recently, a country discovered an oil field. A neighbour came, and said that half of it was theirs. They stared the country in the eyes, and the next day, that country lost half the oil field. Anyone knows what that country is? East Timor. Anyone brought them to ICJ? No."
"So do you really think Malaysia chose to talk to us at the ICJ because of international laws? Let me tell you, Malaysia brought us to the ICJ because they're scared of the us. The SAF. The army known as the best in the Southeast Asian region. Every day, 24/7, we have ships, surveillance radar, soldiers, watching over Pedra Blanca."
"But why can't we run to bigger countries for help? Why can't we be the 14th state of Malaysia? or the 39th province of Indonesia? or if you think those countries are not good enough, even better, the 51st state of the USA?
"Why is it that the SAF is already the best in the region, and yet we choose to continue to try to develop? Why is there a need to spend 1 third of the government budget, 5% of GDP on defence?"
"Because, if you want your identity, your sovereignty, your family to sleep peacefully at night, your loved ones to stay safe and sound, then you have to have a strong SAF. We are a small country, and to survive, we need a strong SAF."
"In history, it has always been that big countries will gobble up small nations. especially small nations surrounded by big countries. My mother said that in her lifetime, she has learned 4 national anthems. The British, the Japanese, the Malaysians, and Singapore's. Do we want to learn a 5th one? Do we want to be the 7th nation to be subsumed under the tide of history? The choice is up to you."
Ok those were smal excerpts which i can remember, word for word. The full speech is just PURE OWNAGE, ask any RJC guy who was there. gives a whole new perspective to serving NS. lol. so after that, we got our certs, they pinned our badges for us, we got more goodie bags, and then went home. pasir ris at 9.45, reach home at the other side of the island damn late le. but it was a fruitful day, and a great experience. so to sum up, some random things that can be taken away from this trip:
NS has heavy loads to carry man. if you dun wanna train your running, at least train your arm and back strength, you'll need it.
The SAF is damn cool, their weaponry is damn far ahead of malaysia at least. For example, we have 5 submarines, they just got one.
The SAF short forms can be quite cock.
WTH(Navy): Water tight hatch
OOTW(the SAF in general): Operations other than War
VSV(the commandos): Very Standard Vessel (lol)
I-HAWK(the air force, anti-air missile): Improved - Homing All the Way Killer (LOL)
The SAF gives a lot of freebies. I got 2 towels, 1 pair of sunglasses, 2 bottles, 1 pouch, 3 notebooks, 1 pencil case, 1 case of badges, 1 multi-purpose knife, 1 laser and torch, 1 glass globe and 1 bag. wooh.
ok that's all. I had a hell lot of fun and food, but now my fingers cannot take it liao. so that's all!
yong sheng
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Enchanted
Giselle:
How does she know you love her?
How does she know she's yours?
Man:
How does she know that you love her?
Giselle:
How do you show her you love her?
Both:
How does she know that you really, really, truely love her?
How does she know that you love her?
How do you show her you love her?
How does she know that you really, really, truely love her?
Giselle:
It's not enough to take the one you love for granted
You must remind her, or she'll be inclined to say...
"How do I know he loves me?"
(How does she know that you love her?
How do you show her you love her?)
"How do I know he's mine?"
(How does she know that you really, really, truely love her?)
Well does he leave a little note to tell you you are on his mind?
Send you yellow flowers when the sky is grey? Heyy!
He'll find a new way to show you, a little bit everyday
That's how you know, that's how you know!
He's your love...
Man:
You've got to show her you need her
Don't treat her like a mind reader
Each day do something to need her
To believe you love her
Giselle:
Everybody wants to live happily ever after
Everybody wants to know their true love is true...
How do you know he loves you?
(How does she know that you love her?
How do you show her you need her?)
How do you know he's yours?
(How does she know that you really, really, truely-)
Well does he take you out dancin' just so he can hold you close?
Dedicate a song with words in
Just for you? Ohhh!
All:
He'll find his own way to tell you
With the little things he'll do
That's how you know
That's how you know!
Giselle:
He's your love
He's your love...
That's how you know
(la la la la la la la la)
He loves you
(la la la la la la la la)
That's how you know
(la la la la la la la la)
It's true
(la la la la la)
Because he'll wear your favorite color
Just so he can match your eyes
Rent a private picnic
By the fires glow-oohh!
All:
His heart will be yours forever
Something everyday will show
That's how you know
(That's how you know)
That's how you know
(That's how you know)
That's how you know
(That's how you know)
That's how you know
(That's how you know)
That's how you know
(That's how you know)
That's how you know
(That's how you know)
That's how you know!
Giselle:
He's your love...
Man:
That's how she knows that you love her
That's how you show her you love her
Giselle:
That's how you know...
(You got to show her you need her
Don't take the one you love for granted)
That's how you know...
(How do you know that you love her
That's how you know that you love her)
He's your love...
(It's not enough to take the one you love for granted)
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