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Heroes Die First
Saturday, March 31, 2007
- 6:07 PM
Feeling quite accomplished today. Ha. Went to camp in the morning to get some work done...half way my driving instructor called me to bring forward today's lesson to 3PM instead, which I agreed. So after work in camp, I took a bus down to AMK for a quick lunch and hurried down to Yio Chu Kang to meet my driving instructor for lessons.
And finally, I got to touch a bit on parking today! Unfortunately, if it was not for the shower that came so untimely, I could have practised a bit more. Nevertheless, it was fun and I didn't knock down any poles lor. Haha. But I can already imagine how difficult it will turn out to be once I get my license and will have to learn to park my vehicle into a lot without any poles. In fact, I think I am starting to rely too much on the parking poles. Yikes.
This morning I met my encik in camp. And he told me that he just got 14 extras due to an earlier incident which involved his reckless initiative to go ahead with some activity in the absence of a supervising officer (in layman's term, a more superior officer than himself) when it was required as dictated in military directives. I do feel sorry for him, afterall my boss(the supervising officer himself) went MIA on the day of the conducted activity without any prior notice. On the other hand, his recklessness/or you would call it dumb heroism really deserves such an apt punishment. I guess he learnt his lesson the hard way.
Most often than not..or at least in my shallow perception, heroes are the first to die.
Pretty gal spotted. En on friendster! Heh. Ensie, we were supposed to go Sushi long long time ago, but I guess we both forgotten. =P
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And finally, I got to touch a bit on parking today! Unfortunately, if it was not for the shower that came so untimely, I could have practised a bit more. Nevertheless, it was fun and I didn't knock down any poles lor. Haha. But I can already imagine how difficult it will turn out to be once I get my license and will have to learn to park my vehicle into a lot without any poles. In fact, I think I am starting to rely too much on the parking poles. Yikes.
This morning I met my encik in camp. And he told me that he just got 14 extras due to an earlier incident which involved his reckless initiative to go ahead with some activity in the absence of a supervising officer (in layman's term, a more superior officer than himself) when it was required as dictated in military directives. I do feel sorry for him, afterall my boss(the supervising officer himself) went MIA on the day of the conducted activity without any prior notice. On the other hand, his recklessness/or you would call it dumb heroism really deserves such an apt punishment. I guess he learnt his lesson the hard way.
Most often than not..or at least in my shallow perception, heroes are the first to die.
Labels: A Day's Account, Army
Ensie
Sunday, March 25, 2007
- 10:19 PM
Me went to surf on Friendster this evening.
Pretty gal spotted. En on friendster! Heh. Ensie, we were supposed to go Sushi long long time ago, but I guess we both forgotten. =PLabels: Friends
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Question
- 10:05 PM
I try so hard but why can't I meet your mark?
Surely we can come to a compromise...
Surely we can come to a compromise...
Labels: Random Blabbers
Restore My Soul
- 12:13 AM
So stressed-no hope
Where do I go now
Seems like all of life's tests
Take me further from you
It amazes me- how you rescue me
From a world that moves so fast
So completely -You receive me
into your arms at last
With a single prayer
You restore my soul
When life's not fair
I know where to go
To renew my stength
To keep goin on
No I'll never be alone
With a single prayer
You restore my soul
Lord you give me strength
To know when I'm weak
And to see your guiding hand
When I get down on my knees
piece by piece
you make me whole again
We all need some strength. Amen.
Apple IPOD
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Peaceful Warrior
A moving tale about the power of the human spirit, Peaceful Warrior is based on Dan Millman’s perennially best-selling autobiographical novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. In the film, Scott Mechlowicz plays Dan, a talented-yet-arrogant college gymnast with Olympic dreams and a golden future. The athlete thinks he has it all: bookcases of trophies, endless friends, fast rides and disposable relationships. But all that is about to change.
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Pigging out at the temporary put-up Chinatown Hawker Centre tonight. So like the HK longan almond pudding...it's heavenly!
And I like my hairdo tonight most especially today.
Goodnight.
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...it's times like these I get really sick of life. RAWRrrr.
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And nothing seems to have changed much, really.
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Where do I go now
Seems like all of life's tests
Take me further from you
It amazes me- how you rescue me
From a world that moves so fast
So completely -You receive me
into your arms at last
With a single prayer
You restore my soul
When life's not fair
I know where to go
To renew my stength
To keep goin on
No I'll never be alone
With a single prayer
You restore my soul
Lord you give me strength
To know when I'm weak
And to see your guiding hand
When I get down on my knees
piece by piece
you make me whole again
We all need some strength. Amen.
Labels: Music
In Awe of MP3 Players
Sunday, March 18, 2007
- 11:48 PM
Apple IPOD
Samsung YP-T9B
Creative ZEN Neeon 2
I am really quite impressed with my abstinence from any purchase of MP3 players despite the really bad urge. Guess I'll be saving on the few hundred extra bucks then.
Labels: Shopping
Touched.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
- 9:00 PM
"That message you sent that night came really helpful."
Those succinct words from my boss came of a really big comfort to me somehow.
Those succinct words from my boss came of a really big comfort to me somehow.
Labels: A Day's Account, Random Blabbers
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Life just revolves around army these days...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
- 10:49 PM
Followup on yesterday's episode. My boss, so-and-so, applied for a full-day leave. Reason being "I need to cool down"...maybe just as so I guess.
Hehheh. Was having my routine breakfast buang-ing session at canteen today when two familiar faces walked into the canteen- guess who, CherHern and Khng! Haha. What a small world, or rather how small can SAF get?
Apparently they are on course for the week, some logistics course to send them for promotion. And according to Khng, manpower specifically allowed non-combat soldiers who have A-level and above qualifications strictly and a minimum of 3-As distinctions to qualify for the course...which eventually promotes these people on-course to a specialist rank. WTF, so elitist.
Took Tan's detachment for training tonight cuz he had guard duty. POOTS* and Jermaine (my former primary school classmate) happens to be in the detachment. Hahah. Fun. Tomorrow gonna help out again for training.
So happening these days in my wing. My new 3 NSF officers are posted in to office yesterday but currently they are on course. Looks like the wing is gonna get more noisy these days!
Night. Going to orh-orh.
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Hehheh. Was having my routine breakfast buang-ing session at canteen today when two familiar faces walked into the canteen- guess who, CherHern and Khng! Haha. What a small world, or rather how small can SAF get?
Apparently they are on course for the week, some logistics course to send them for promotion. And according to Khng, manpower specifically allowed non-combat soldiers who have A-level and above qualifications strictly and a minimum of 3-As distinctions to qualify for the course...which eventually promotes these people on-course to a specialist rank. WTF, so elitist.
Took Tan's detachment for training tonight cuz he had guard duty. POOTS* and Jermaine (my former primary school classmate) happens to be in the detachment. Hahah. Fun. Tomorrow gonna help out again for training.
So happening these days in my wing. My new 3 NSF officers are posted in to office yesterday but currently they are on course. Looks like the wing is gonna get more noisy these days!
Night. Going to orh-orh.
Labels: A Day's Account, Army
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Wing Meeting
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
- 9:46 PM
So sad. Guess it's my raw emotive nature working again.
Had a meeting in the evening back in camp just now. I guess everyone felt it the same after the meeting, that quirky depressing feeling...especially seeing how my 2IC reacted in front of the whole wing. I don't wanna go into details what happened but nevertheless I feel very helpless seeing how little I can be in the organisation.
And it really upsets me to see the fallable nature of human. How people(me included) would stoop to the indecency of lying, twisting their own words just to cover their ass. I know this sounds really mushy, but in a cold environment such as the one I am working in now, we would really need a bit of love and care, minimally concern and mutual respect for one another.
I also learned to be confident once again, but humble in the wing. I apologised to my 2IC, in front of the entire wing, for a rude behaviour which I displayed to him earlier on last week. It took a lot of courage but I am glad I did it anyways.
I wish I can be better...better than the person I am. Yeah, you are hearing from a perfectionist ironically who can never be satisfied with his own performance anyhows.
Okay back to what I wanted to say. So upon the journey home, I sent out an sms to all my wing NSFs (3SGs and 2LTs), saying "Mortar guys, jiayou! We have a long way to gooooo..." hoping that my words of encouragement could be of some effect (positive I hope) to the rest. And I sent out specially to my two bosses in chinese, "Sir, 加油！". Something as subtle as the two words I used sent out just like that, sth instinctive which I did that even made me felt surprised by my own actions later upon retrospecting.
I guess I do make such pleasant albeit bold actions once in awhile; and I guess it's good to nurture this kind of "good human nature" esp. when dealing with people. Not trying to be boastful or anything...but yeah hope you get the point.
So did I just up my karma? LOL.
Lastly, I also learned/experienced the true meaning of "silence is golden". It's better to leave some things unspoken sometimes.
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Had a meeting in the evening back in camp just now. I guess everyone felt it the same after the meeting, that quirky depressing feeling...especially seeing how my 2IC reacted in front of the whole wing. I don't wanna go into details what happened but nevertheless I feel very helpless seeing how little I can be in the organisation.
And it really upsets me to see the fallable nature of human. How people(me included) would stoop to the indecency of lying, twisting their own words just to cover their ass. I know this sounds really mushy, but in a cold environment such as the one I am working in now, we would really need a bit of love and care, minimally concern and mutual respect for one another.
I also learned to be confident once again, but humble in the wing. I apologised to my 2IC, in front of the entire wing, for a rude behaviour which I displayed to him earlier on last week. It took a lot of courage but I am glad I did it anyways.
I wish I can be better...better than the person I am. Yeah, you are hearing from a perfectionist ironically who can never be satisfied with his own performance anyhows.
Okay back to what I wanted to say. So upon the journey home, I sent out an sms to all my wing NSFs (3SGs and 2LTs), saying "Mortar guys, jiayou! We have a long way to gooooo..." hoping that my words of encouragement could be of some effect (positive I hope) to the rest. And I sent out specially to my two bosses in chinese, "Sir, 加油！". Something as subtle as the two words I used sent out just like that, sth instinctive which I did that even made me felt surprised by my own actions later upon retrospecting.
I guess I do make such pleasant albeit bold actions once in awhile; and I guess it's good to nurture this kind of "good human nature" esp. when dealing with people. Not trying to be boastful or anything...but yeah hope you get the point.
So did I just up my karma? LOL.
Lastly, I also learned/experienced the true meaning of "silence is golden". It's better to leave some things unspoken sometimes.
Labels: Army, Random Blabbers
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For All Things Adidas*
- 11:14 AM
Labels: Shopping
Blars?!?!
Sunday, March 11, 2007
- 9:45 PM
Eddie the shopping whore relives. Okay...or maybe not.
I know I have really got to save up these days. An army boy like myself need not spend too much on exorbitant items unnecessarily; I must say I have already -quite successfully- subdued the metrosexual inside of me. And did I mention I really wanna get my hands on the new Adidas sling bags? ...but I have been trying really hard to restrain myself from splurging on material goods. How contradictory.
Lukily I am still surviving on residual cash from my angbaos which I got during the CNY season.
So I made myself a good deal today by heading down to NLB to feed my soul with some good books, but alas I ended up flippin' through the pages of gossip magazines and a bit of IT gadget mags. (What a failure!) Oh well sometimes I really abhor myself for the lack of discipline in doing things right. Have been pigging out a lot too, think I need to get myself into shape once more at gym or sth. Bleah.
Area around Suntec Convention Centre and Marina Sq has been really crowded with the ongoing IT Fair that ended only this evening. I got myself a 2GB storage drive at a mere 25 bucks, how's that.
See? I only chiong cheap stuffs these days lor.
And Jo introduced me to a CD stall at Chinatown which sells CDs at very good prices. So I bought myself a JJ World Tour CD+DVD! Haha haven't watched.
Okay. Tonight's the second episode of Ugly Betty. Watching it makes me feel silly, but I'm watching it anyways. It's been quite some time since I've been catching up with American series. The last one should date back as long as Ally Mcbeal. Haha joking!
On off the next two days. Anyone keen to ask me out for coffee?
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I know I have really got to save up these days. An army boy like myself need not spend too much on exorbitant items unnecessarily; I must say I have already -quite successfully- subdued the metrosexual inside of me. And did I mention I really wanna get my hands on the new Adidas sling bags? ...but I have been trying really hard to restrain myself from splurging on material goods. How contradictory.
Lukily I am still surviving on residual cash from my angbaos which I got during the CNY season.
So I made myself a good deal today by heading down to NLB to feed my soul with some good books, but alas I ended up flippin' through the pages of gossip magazines and a bit of IT gadget mags. (What a failure!) Oh well sometimes I really abhor myself for the lack of discipline in doing things right. Have been pigging out a lot too, think I need to get myself into shape once more at gym or sth. Bleah.
Area around Suntec Convention Centre and Marina Sq has been really crowded with the ongoing IT Fair that ended only this evening. I got myself a 2GB storage drive at a mere 25 bucks, how's that.
See? I only chiong cheap stuffs these days lor.
And Jo introduced me to a CD stall at Chinatown which sells CDs at very good prices. So I bought myself a JJ World Tour CD+DVD! Haha haven't watched.
Okay. Tonight's the second episode of Ugly Betty. Watching it makes me feel silly, but I'm watching it anyways. It's been quite some time since I've been catching up with American series. The last one should date back as long as Ally Mcbeal. Haha joking!
On off the next two days. Anyone keen to ask me out for coffee?
Labels: A Day's Account, Random Blabbers
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Peaceful Warrior
- 10:19 AM
Peaceful Warrior
A moving tale about the power of the human spirit, Peaceful Warrior is based on Dan Millman’s perennially best-selling autobiographical novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. In the film, Scott Mechlowicz plays Dan, a talented-yet-arrogant college gymnast with Olympic dreams and a golden future. The athlete thinks he has it all: bookcases of trophies, endless friends, fast rides and disposable relationships. But all that is about to change.
Labels: Movies
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I like my hair
- 12:58 AM
Pigging out at the temporary put-up Chinatown Hawker Centre tonight. So like the HK longan almond pudding...it's heavenly!And I like my hairdo tonight most especially today.
Goodnight.
Labels: A Day's Account, Random Blabbers
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Home.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
- 11:56 PM
Labels: Misc.
I'm Making A Difference
- 1:36 PM
Labels: Misc.
Some things are best left unsaid...
Friday, March 09, 2007
- 7:26 PM
ORD!
Thursday, March 08, 2007
- 9:45 PM
Something to cheer myself! An ORD countdown-timer!
I'm Dyinnnnggg...
- 8:39 PM
It's true.
My body is breaking down into an inexplicable disaster.
And as the poison contaminates the blood that flows within me...
...I'm slowly prepared to die.
...
AHHKks. Choy!
But dunno why leh, my skin is developing some kind of anti-reaction to some drugs(as in medicine lar) I took earlier on days ago. Getting meat bums on my skin like those of mosquito bites, then they expand to form massive lumps all over my body. Now I look like I have elephant skin! Hohohohohooo, reminds me of Woon whenever I talk about elephant skin.
But putting that aside, I think I'm relatively quite an optimistic person given the situation I'm already in. Work in the wing remains as sucky as usual. I don't understand why people are so enthusiastic about the oncoming of the 3G ARMY. Things don't work out ideally as the way it should most of the time in ah-heem...S.A.F. but I've been learning it the hard way most of the time. Like how my 2IC always say, "in this wing, we have no choice...but to learn to adapt to changes quickly."
On a side note, Kenny may be right about me lately...that is, perhaps I have lost the passion I once used to have for work in army. Ever since the last course, I haven't been really motivated to work in the force. Just trying to 混日子 each day. I can't really be so ON as an NSF, I can only give what the nation expects of me...that is to serve my obligations upon conscription until ORD (we can talk about reservist later on.) Therefore I shall only put in -as how Kenny would describe it- my "$700 worth of effort", in startling contrast with most of the regulars in the organisation (which I dare not speak about especially with the coincidental rise in the defence's budget recently), who earn so many times more than an NSF's measly average allowance, but work so little. Of course by saying this, I have no intention to disqualify exceptional cases in my statement, only there are too few for me to encounter unfortunately.
Anyway. I don't know what I am arguing about honestly. It's coming to nothing fruitful my discussion here, as far as I am concerned. I'm just crabby with work lately so I guess it doesn't hurt to lament about nonsensical stuffs (such as army life itself hahahaha)...so tata I shall get going before my itch raids me pretty soon. =P
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My body is breaking down into an inexplicable disaster.
And as the poison contaminates the blood that flows within me...
...I'm slowly prepared to die.
...
AHHKks. Choy!
But dunno why leh, my skin is developing some kind of anti-reaction to some drugs(as in medicine lar) I took earlier on days ago. Getting meat bums on my skin like those of mosquito bites, then they expand to form massive lumps all over my body. Now I look like I have elephant skin! Hohohohohooo, reminds me of Woon whenever I talk about elephant skin.
But putting that aside, I think I'm relatively quite an optimistic person given the situation I'm already in. Work in the wing remains as sucky as usual. I don't understand why people are so enthusiastic about the oncoming of the 3G ARMY. Things don't work out ideally as the way it should most of the time in ah-heem...S.A.F. but I've been learning it the hard way most of the time. Like how my 2IC always say, "in this wing, we have no choice...but to learn to adapt to changes quickly."
On a side note, Kenny may be right about me lately...that is, perhaps I have lost the passion I once used to have for work in army. Ever since the last course, I haven't been really motivated to work in the force. Just trying to 混日子 each day. I can't really be so ON as an NSF, I can only give what the nation expects of me...that is to serve my obligations upon conscription until ORD (we can talk about reservist later on.) Therefore I shall only put in -as how Kenny would describe it- my "$700 worth of effort", in startling contrast with most of the regulars in the organisation (which I dare not speak about especially with the coincidental rise in the defence's budget recently), who earn so many times more than an NSF's measly average allowance, but work so little. Of course by saying this, I have no intention to disqualify exceptional cases in my statement, only there are too few for me to encounter unfortunately.
Anyway. I don't know what I am arguing about honestly. It's coming to nothing fruitful my discussion here, as far as I am concerned. I'm just crabby with work lately so I guess it doesn't hurt to lament about nonsensical stuffs (such as army life itself hahahaha)...so tata I shall get going before my itch raids me pretty soon. =P
Labels: Random Blabbers
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More To Life
Monday, March 05, 2007
- 8:18 PM
"There's gotta be something more to life...
...Than chasing down every temporary high"
...it's times like these I get really sick of life. RAWRrrr.
Labels: Random Blabbers
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04A11...A Year After.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
- 11:02 AM
After one whole year since we last met...
...A gathering finally.
...A gathering finally.
And nothing seems to have changed much, really.
Labels: 04A11, A Day's Account
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