Reading the blogs of my recruits kinda gathers all my bits and pieces of little good memories i had during my BMT. My buddy was a great buddy who helped me through all that physical shit i could not do. He was exactly the opposite of me, he was strong and tough and big, just charging down every obstacle thrown to him. On the other hand, i was small and quiet and just waiting for things to happen to me. I can still remember the times we spent sharing our dinner packs in fieldcamp just to get a taste of every flavor, the times we spent in our basha talking about our lives at large, the tough times we spent mugging the various drills so as to ace our tests.(WOAH SHIT WHEN WAS BMT SO ACADEMIC)

Looking back, those were great memories free of duties, responsibilities and what we did was just to survive and have fun. It was kinda like a childhood phase of our life in NS, where we had no power at all, but we had the most fun.

Next week is fieldcamp and i wonder if i can make it as memorable an experience. I dun think its a issue of how tough it is, but more of, how much they are take back from this fieldcamp. The different things that I need to teach, so much that I need to pass down that Im afraid i might forget something in the process. Sigh, the pressure of stepping up to take charge of training the platoon is so much sia.

Lets hope its a memorable fieldcamp for everyone.

wow found the inspiration to try out one post after reading all my recruits' blogs :P its been like 7 months since the last post and here i am sitting in Pegasus Coy office typing out this post as a 3SG haha. Many things has happened in these long long 7 months, I have taken one full batch of poly kids and successfully survived without much scratches.

One major thing im quite happy about was my appointment as the ARMSKOTE IC HAHAHA. Ever since from BMT, i was always involved in armskote and naturally as i progressed up through SCS, it began to stick to me. The iron door, the racks, the hectic-ness of the send/draw arms process were memories that defined my entire NS career. I can safely say that I have experienced the full armskote package NS could offer, from being an armskoteman in BMT, to armskote IC in SCS and now armskote spec in Pegasus. While some may think it is a dangerous and 'suay' duty to get because of the chances to screw it up completely, it is an exciting opportunity for me to complete my NS cycle with no regrets.

Back to the present, today is like, dunno which day of confinement. I suck at dates and remembering what happened on specific dates so heck that. I know its been at least one week of confinement with the female platoon and woah, definitely there is a difference between this batch and my previous batch. Maybe because last batch i was a total newb and thus relied on the experienced specs to take charge. This batch, I felt more courageous to try and do stuff with my platoon. After all, we started off this batch with a lot of changes and a crazy amount of effort put in to set the standard. Of course, the last reason (as expected) is merely because of the girls. I guess that it does make a difference as i subconsciously try to do more for them xD hahaha gender works wonders for motivation lol. No matter what they are still, Im still sticking to my principle to treat them as equals. I really do not like the rank system in the SAF, especially when im taking like ppl 5 years older than me now. Even if I have more experience in army knowledge than them, there is no need to treat them like underlings. I prefer a student-teacher relationship thanks, not a recruit-commander relationship.

Oh well, in the end gotta see how things go. Hate it if they take advantage of my stand and jump ard my head... then in the end must revert to whacking people (like the first batch -.-)

MIDNIGHT SIGNING OFF~

Its been a while since i thought about this space...

Ever since entering the army, its been 4 months of training as INFANTRY and right now, im still training as an INFANTRY sergeant =.=

Its not like infantry is bad or anything... but after 4 months of fire movement and rushing hills, I thought I will finally be posted to somewhere more fun (think engineers or Arty) since after all, rumors are that most infantry spec are PRs and furthermore, my company was not the hosting company, thus, chances are low.

Not really as seen right now.

sooo sighhhhhhhh.

Still, life is kinda bearable in army actually because of the little things we get like LAPTOP WITH INTERNET and GOOD FRIENDS!

I guess I should be like using my little bits of free time productively, but as usual, self motivation doesnt last for me, doing things for other people with other people is always more interesting and fulfiling.

Maybe I will try to update this little space once in a while, but since we arent supposed to publish any army related stuff, its best for me not to talk army at all and stay out of trouble for these 2 years.

On a random note, I had a wild dream of a fantastic MMORPG game involving the creation of spells. How cool would it be for players to create their own unique combination of spells!!! It will totally be a different ball game altogether in PvP when facing people that you dun noe how to counter! A player can start off by choosing a class to play, a mage, warrior, etc. and then a standard spellbook is issued at the start to get players started in the game. As the game progresses, players will be able to form their own spells through a magic circle creation process. Each magic circle can hold up to a certain number of runes that will influence the properties of the spell and then a final mana cost is calculated from the runes used. Each player will probably be allowed like 3 created spells each to use? That will effectively break the cast of classic typing and roles of each class, enabling each player to determine their own niches and adding more variety to the game!

awesome~ End of random rambling hahahaha

Man im so full of crazy ideas that are so impossible to implement.

btw, new lesson learned: dun try anything new without guidance. You will phail badly.

seeing i suck at image editing, im screwing it and not editing the blogskin anymore. maybe im just lazy. whatever.

Was damn bored at home in the hols, so when yiwen suggested going work, i jumped immediately. Got a job at Gain City expo sales, 3 days, 5.50 per hr. Secured my place at yiwen's house to stay over so i dun have such a huge bus fare every day.

Work was mostly queue management and a variety of odd jobs. I guess it was kinda a really nice exposure since it was quite slack without a supervisor breathing down our necks 24/7, so we could actually like swap jobs. So in 3 days, i managed queues, packed goodie bags, moved stuff, packed at the cashier, became a security guard and of course, slacked a bit. wahahaha life is good with such variety.

I always thought a frontline job like queue management or cashier wouldnt suit me at all since i rather prefer not to talk to strangers if needed, but after this, i realise... WORKING IS ALL ABOUT THE PEOPLE.

seriously, after being a security guard, i realise that in the future, my job will be permanent and i will be doing it everyday without a change.SECURITY IS DAMN BORING DUN DO IT PLS. basically i was assigned to this entrance and people are supposed to enter, not exit cos the cashier is on the other side. So i have to stop people from exiting with unpaid goods. But occurrence was so rare that i nearly fell asleep from it -.- plus my legs died after 3 hours of no motion...

Other jobs actually involved talking with people like being the the QnA guy at the entrace directing people to the correct queues. (people actually thought need to queue to get in -.-) It was much more refreshing (hard on the throat though) and much less boring. Packing of bags was also really fun when u have a bunch of people all joking together while packing 1000 bags a day.

Moving on, SINGAPOREANS ARE DAMN KIASU. but im damn tired to describe, but all the queue cutting, complaining about the limit, queueing and requeuing to get a cheapo item basically sums it up. The best example was when the queue formed for the chinese afternoon paper. The bloody queue formed at 3pm because there was a scratchcard that came with each paper purchased. So there were aunties who came early all 3 days to buy 10 papers each time. The main one that was stuck in my head was when i moved down the queue to check on the people queuing because some people mistaken the queue for some other thing and is queuing for the wrong thing. When i saw a malay family, i moved in, thinking that they were in the wrong queue, because malays dun read chinese papers right? But when I asked them to leave, they replied, "Got lucky draw right? Got then i queue for it." Total fail image of singaporeans =.='''

Oh well at the end the pay will be given (hopefully) and i move on to my next job, a more rigorous and demanding job. Hope it will be fine with fun peeps to work with!

okay rushed out blogskin for the heck of it.

Been a year since updating since blogging is such a chore and i dun really have anything to say cept RAWR.

Okay feeling shitty, damn sian, should reedit the art and script after i get another chance/feeling of enthuness to do it.

RIGHT NOW JUST WANNA DO SOMETHING ELSE AKA TELL PPL ABT IT WAHHAHAA

Life epicly fails at the closing of Term 1.

Play has been a larger part of my life now since i started playing WoW with my friends. What a great decision to make in my A level year.

SSEF was a complete waste of time. Went there, waited for 7+ hours to present 4 times, each about 15 minutes long. Had to go back the next day just for results. As usual, a COP -.-

Jap Club camp was ... a looming sign of what was to come for the rest of the year.

When you have a teacher in charge who closes the camp at 830pm because not enough ppl brought consent forms, you know your future is screwed together with the camp.

Nuff said, I hate thinking about it now.

Are service workers hired for their service towards us, or to be a meatshield between the manager and angry customers?

I cant believe im going for chingay...
z
zzz
z
z
zz

Today was like, the 3rd training of chingay, and like less than expected people turned up cos : 1. SATS 2.Pon 3. Flu

Chingay dance this year is so damn easy, its easier than the batch dance. I thought they would add more stuff in today seeing its the 3rd session and most of us like mastered the dance completely, even going on to master the other dances of the other groups.

And one of the dances for the other group involves them acting cute.

And over half of them are over 40 yrs old. -.- What a sight...

Came back one day, felt the urge, did it.

Okay, its a rush job cos its like wat, 1am now? Im damn sleepy and screw coding, it hurts my eyes.

Not an original skin, ya i know, but cant do much on photoshop now.

Minor edits to the coding, dint like the original one that just let ur content spill all over into white space. Ugly :S Kept everything within a box instead.

Cleaned up links. Left 4 active ones -.-''' Blogging really is a trend, it comes and goes...

Okay, all settled, screw the rest, i wan sleep.

The 3 gazillion dollars movie that sold out so much that i was forced to book it early even in the second week of showing was....

so-so lah :S

Plot-wise, its one of those sci-fiction story of where they can transfer a human conscious into an alien body. So human starts a new life as alien, learning about the aliens and falling in love along the way. So when the humans decide to invade and bomb the planet, he/she/it rebels and somehow manages to win steel bomber ships when the aliens are still using bows and arrows.

Its a very nice story, but a bit too predictable and cliched. Everything was just too smooth flowing, no twists, no shocks. I guess they didnt need it when they had 3 gazillion dollars to do up the scenery.

Visuals wise, it was great seeing both the wonderful greenery of the planet and the futuristic weapons of destruction. Can see where those money went into. The world is highly detailed, with unique flora and creatures, plants that light up when u step on them, giant mimosa like flowers, creatures that interact with feeler like things.

I watched it in 3D, though it didnt feel much 3D. The director did not make full use of the 3D effects like lobbing stuff at the audience or having monsters snap at us. I guess his budget was a bit constrained xD

Overall, i would still say watch the movie, its totally great with all that details, the wonderful world and the beautiful plot that unravels slowly. The pace was very slow but i think it was worth it to spend time developing the characters and giving us all that eye candy.

Christmas comes and goes...

Nothing particularly special for me, since i dun really celebrate it much.

Still, the festive mood grants me more freedom with the Wii console and the computer, so im not complaining :D

Just got Band Hero on Wii even though the Wii isnt mine. LOL
Had fun the whole xmas eve spamming it. ( im nt very good though)

This year's Xmas was spent more on a spamfest of computer gaming with my brother and cousin, playing through the entire campaigns of Serious Sam 1 & 2.

My eyes hurt >.<

Oh how i wish i could spend my xmas somewhere with snow :D That would be soooooo coooooool! That would be like a real Xmas! haha maybe after A levels next year rawr!

5 more days to Countdown! And so much to do still! Xmas = Holiday = Cant do work = one less day to do work :(

Oh well, who would complain? :)

:(

Why is december the fastest month?

Why do we get less sunlight during December?

With only 2 weeks left of December, holidays come horribly close to ending and A levels horribly near.

Year 2 for JC will be very important i guess. After all, its the year where we all choing and mug and decide where to go.

No more playing :(

Which makes the time now even more important.

The last few weeks of joy without any burden.

Haiz.

Back to the present.

It is always hard to organise an outing to somewhere fun. Its either been overdone or just not appealing to everyone. Not everyone wants to go Sentosa and everyone is tired of going to the movies and bowling. Sometimes, we wonder what do we spend our lives on if Life was just a few boring activites outside. Even surfing the Internet has more interesting stuff than going out together. Does this mean that lifeless geeks has a more interesting life than people going out everyday?

But still people do want to go out, even if its lame movies or boring bowling or anything that has been overdone. Its the companionship that counts isnt it?

But what if people choose not to go? Absurd behaviour, but there may be reasons...

Ever since i got sucked into the world of Mousehunting, ghost trapping and fishing, I have developed a habit, like all the others on the Mousehunt forums, to split life into 14 minutes. Do only what you can do in 14 minutes to be back on time to sound the damn horn.

haha. So this post has like 14 minutes of my time :)

It actually pretty much organised my life, although to say that it has improved would be too big a statement. By having 14 minute timeslots, you push yourself to complete things that you never thought you would complete within that timeframe.

Things I have done within 14 minutes while waiting for the horn:

* Write a blog post.
* Read the papers.
* Watch some videos on YouTube.
* Go buy something downstairs.
* Do the laundry.
* Finish a GP Essay (did it once, but it was crap)
* Read 2 chapters of a book
* Organise my computer files.
* Renamed my entire Music library
* Took a nice long shower
* Stared at the screen (seriously)
* Read blogposts.
* Counted my money 0.o
* Ironed my sch uniform for the week.

and so on.

When Life gives you 14 minutes away from the computer, you use it well :)

Im so junking my computer now~

My current old specs:

Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
512 mb ram
GeForce 6200 256 ram

This set is so old i forgot the date of manufacture -.-

Upgrade to:

Athlon X4
4 gb ram
HD 4850 512 ram

Finally, a computer that can run word doc, firefox and music player without lagging!

LOL

Oh dear.

I kinda forgot I HAD A BLOG!

The hectic days of study, the geek periods of staring at facebook, the long days where i thought i had nothing to do on the net...

I should have realised. Maybe a blog is too hard to keep, a bit too long, a bit too much insight (yes my brain is rusty and stays rusty during the hols), a bit too much time. But still, there are many joys derived from typing a blogpost and reading someone else's blogpost that I havnt forgotten.

Im back. Without a vengence. Im putting my blog on critical life support status for now, i wonder when i can make time to type more and more stuff. For now, I have the luxury of time, having done all my work, household chores and played all my games.

My skin reminds me of the time back then, in Sec 4 (actually thats last year only, not back then -.-) when life was a simple matter of eat shit study watch anime sleep.
Jump around, talk cock, no SAT, no A lvls, no future to think of, basically a little kid's life.

Anime is still damn nice to watch, i think it beats channel 5 long running series like heroes or lost, simply because they are short. Short and sweet. Dont you hate it when you miss one episode of a channel 5 show? Ya i do. It takes too much time and effort to follow on the fuzzy complicated plotlines.

Oh please.

I prefer the simple storyline that anime usually offers, a straight line with maybe a few twists in between, peppered with nice tidbits that enhance the characters. I like to keep my entertainment slightly brainless. Its more relaxing that way.

Okay back to the main point. Where was I? (wait ar i scroll up to check)

Oh ya, talking about my blog skin and stuff. Another part of the blog i noticed was my tagboard. Ahhhh. Im surprised people still visit, considering i have been in coma for like 1 month. At least i know i have some readership :) hahaha I hope i dun disappoint them :S

I laughed at myself when i saw the last part of my blog. It was the song lyrics that i put up cos i really liked it haha.

Dont say Lazy.

And i have been doing the exact opposite >.< How bad of me :+

Okay, giant long piece about my blog -.- Enough already, time to move on to...

Life.

The holidays. 2 weeks already. 1 chalet over, 2 more to go. Thats probably the only other 2 highlights of my holiday.

Oh wait, there still Countdown~ haha being part of the organising team does have its benefits. Makes me feel busy, makes me feel alive, makes me think im using my holidays well. Even if sending emails everyday isnt exactly what people call fun, being part of the big overall project gives me my joy. No matter what, I want to do it, I will love doing it :)

Except on the day itself, i think im assigned to Ops room, so im gonna miss out on stuff outside :(

Oh well, holidays are gonna be something that i truly enjoy this year!

After promos, you lose all motivation to do anything. Be it mug or fun.

Why?

Seems like pressure produces motivation.

Sigh.

Touch the untouchable
Break the unbreakable
Be the drill that pierce the heavens!

Okay too much gurren lagann.
Awesome anime ^_^ too epic already. Makes gundam looks like some shit.

Final shit of PW finally finishing. Left stupid OP which isnt as tough as ramming final report.

Haiz, then life approaches the climax where everyone takes the promos and see whether you will be lucky enough to go for orientation all over again.

Oh well, life must suck at a certain point right?

Time for some random paragraph siaaaa

The pitter patter of the rain caused the dog to look up. It was a greyish day, dark clouds crowded the sky, the wind gently sweeping the leaves. The dog sniffed around, its weary eyes searching. This was its final duty. Its master stood patiently with the lease in hand, his fingers tapping away inside his dusty black cloak. A thunder crash - and light illuminated the sky as the incoming storm signaled its arrival. The dog's nose perked up as it picked up a scent. The right scent. It set off immediately, trudging towards its final destination. The master followed silently as the lonely pair floated down the empty street.

its...

1 MORE MONTH TO PROMOS!

By this time, even the most playful / heck care people would have come to realize that the something in 1 month's time determines their life next year.

Its time to start dusting that dust off your notes and start reading.

Life comes one full round. After all that mess and worrying, it seems that I ended up where I am at the start, back at where i decided what i wanted one month ago.

Staring back at the same stretch of road, i wonder why did i choose that in the first place, knowing that the other path would definitely end up elsewhere, while the unknown path lay dark and hidden.

Maybe it was because I was bored. Or maybe because I wanted that. Or it was just fate. But in the end, what is done is done. The wrong cannot be righted, what's gone cannot be changed. Lets start on the road well travelled, and head down that usual path.

But no one is ever happy with an alternative, the heart lies cold on the floor, devoid of all aspirations. Disappointment serves only to bring more disappointment, and as I trudge down the bright road, my determination flickers and my energy dissipated. For all I can see is my own shadow, following in my footsteps wherever i go.

Whatever.

Ack dying ever since blogging became something that i had to rack my brains for...

Im not used to spamming paragraphs after paragraphs of arguments, neither am i witty with short sentences.

I just type whatever comes to mind in my fuzzy ocean of thoughts.

Nothing much to say about school. Its been a bore. National day was...

Never mind. Nothing interesting.

Today was probably more hectic than the week combined. Normal school day plus jap club plus srp meant triple the energy needed to survive. Sadly some had to come from chem lecture and prac.

Jap Club was just a slacking session while we watched a school life romance movie called Koizora (love of the sky or smthing along that). As usual, jap stuff isnt exactly PG-13 (though yudong assured us this was) and there were many scenes which made Ben Aw hold up his file in agony in an attempt to shield himself from the corruption being shown (not that he is likely to succeed from gettin out of Jap club all pure and innocent). Oh well, at least it was slightly better than Maiko Hannn which was quite epicly not PG-13.

Nagged my way to SRP cos yudong was SLOW in transferring stuff. Im growing old from all these nagging. SRP was considerably enjoyable cos it was just a meetup to discuss stuff. Quite interesting to hear some new stuff from mentors and our project got some more scope. After all that rushing and pressure from the stupid progress report which threatens to end it once and for all for us, it was good to see it being finished. At least we wont get canceled (like a unpopular manga).

Ate cheap Macs at NUS again. Love their Macs. $5.50 for upsized Mcspicy meal at all times~

Got home, realized got shit load of work including SRP which is due tomorrow. Spent half the time poking and nagging Yudong to not get distracted and submit his paragraph while the other good dog obediently did his work and submitted a 1.5 page report when the entire report was supposed to be one page long. -.-

Meanwhile Delia went researching for our Abortion presentation and got traumatized by all the gory vids of abortions and fetuses on youtube. It isnt all that bad, but it really leaves a yucky feeling in ur stomach after watching it. :(

By the time YuDong finished his paragraph (his inertia is damn bloody big) it was so late my brain just finished rotting and i dint feel like summarizing anything at all. So the next best option: Set everything to font size 8. Voila, a nice 1 page report~ haha done.

By this time im feeling pleased with myself, having done some work, had a nice streak in mousehunt, packed my bag, finished SRP stuff and i actually typed so much for this post. Wow.

Im going to sleep now. Its good to sleep on happy thoughts. :)

Music

lyrics here

Yak Jun Xiang

21-09-1992
THIS IS AN ORIGINAL BLOGSKIN WAHAHAHA

Anime
Dabbling in stuff
Card games
Get a life