It's Off To Tioman!!

Today's the day!!
going off to tioman tonite...
meeting at concourse at 7pm, den leaving for mersing.
gona make 3 dives on sat and 2 more on sun.
den come home liao.

so dun miss me... but dun think got ppl miss me la.
the ppl who read this blog got other ppl to miss...
hahaha...

miss snooze ah, tehpeng back from reservist liao or not? he went taiwan rite?
think i read from one of ur entries.

mngern, also got her dan-dan to miss... he, on the other hand, is going to amsterdam, home of narcotics.
hahahaha...

not sure who else reads dis, dun think i've given me blog addy to a lot of ppl.

oh well... it's off to tioman i go!!

WEEEEEEEEEEEE !!

*SPLASH*

think i wana get a career dat lets me go diving as often as i want...
hmmm...

The Fortune Teller Guy

Was at raffles place waiting for an appt at oub centre when dis guy came up to me.
he asked me if i wanted to have my fortunes told. i said no need and went on reading my book.
den he went on, looking at face, saying dat i have problems in love and career. which in a way is true since
i AM single and unemployed.

so he went on and said dat for abt 10 or 20 bucks, he can help me read my palm and tell me how to improve things. i was like, "wth?! go away la. i not interested." but i, being the nice guy dat i am, juz kindly said,
"不必, 谢谢." so he went away and i went up for my appt.

went home after appt and went for my 2nd pool session. was quite fun. think i'm gona enjoy diving.

Lunch w Jarood (Like WTH?!)

Sigh... looks like i cannot escape the clutches of evil jarrod.
shortly i posted the prev entry, jarrod (shall call him j from now) im-ed me and asked if i wanted to lunch.
said ok since i had nothing to do anyway...

so planned to eat at ikea. on my way while walking past queensway, i saw beckham and frens.
here's the proof:



hehehe...

so lunched at ikea, and walked abit there coz j was looking for foto frames to put up his fotos taken when he was in england.

came home after a walk through all the displays. took a cab home from clementi.
thought i'll take a foto while in the cab.



oh... forgot to tell you abt my diving class. there are like 4 of us in my class. 2 singaporeans, 1 korean and 1 american.
so cool rite? but the only female in the class, e american, isn't going to pulau aur with us... so it's an all guy thing.
*yuck* but i found out there'll be other leisure divers coming along as well... i hope get to interact with them...
and i hope it will NOT be a highly testosterone-charged outing...

yeah... going for my pool session later... so exciting. *splash*

Back to Saturday

Thought i'll blog abit about sat.

saturday was quite a day... like i said Davin and Mary-ann's wedding day...
went down to church at abt 9.30am, met up with the caterer and got the arrangements finalised.
the buffet line was not set up as initially planned due to some reasons.
so the layout of the tables for everyone to sit at had to be changed.

spent a little time freeting over what can be done, den with some help from nick, i managed to get everything set up with some pare time for me to get dressed in my suit ensemble...
since got opportunity to wear my suit, juz wear lor... otherwise get the suit and dun wear, quite wsate money rite?

so wedding went on very well... the choir did a fantastic job. so did jarrod who was cantoring.
slick move on friggy's part to kill some time for his sermon by asking the parents for advice on a good and blissful marriage. hehe...

everything went on as planned and i was home taking a short nap before heading down to merchant court for the wedding dinner. met up with jarrod(AGAIN!!), friggy and cheryl to go down together. managed to get a lot. but heard from some frens dat they were informed rather rudely by the hotel staff that the carpark is full and they had to find alternative parking at the other buildings nearby.

so dinner went on... food was quite good. service was alrite only. slightly sub-standrd if i wana be mean.
but it was an auntie who served us so shan't be mean... will be understanding.
ppl who know me will know of my need for impeccable service at f&b outlets.

at the end of the wedding, as we were walking out, jarrod(AGAIN!! looks like i've got to dis-associate myself w him for a while before ppl start to think we're a couple or something) was like telling us what davin's chinese name was, coz we were kind of wondering before the dinner.

jarrod: so his name is davin chor han ping.
me: huh? davin chor humping?
jarrod: NO LA!! HAN PING.
me: ohhh.... oops.

anyway... i found out dat during the mass in the morning, the couple had expressed their plans to have 4 kids.
2 for the religious order, 2 for themselves. so the whole nite after the dinner, we were telling them to dun bother with the talking and thanking and juz get started on no. 1 of 4.

so dat was roughly it... wat a day... another fren getting married. that makes it 3 from church dis year.
let's not count the frens from work.. i've lost count already.

went for my diving theory lesson last nite. not bad.. ez stuff since i've read the notes already.
going for my first pool lesson tonite... YAY!! but gota swim 200m (hich i can do) and thread water fro 10mins (which i can do abt 15 years ago) i hope i survive the threading water bit...

so wish me lots of luck that i'll live ot see tom... hahaha.

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday!!

it's TMG's 23rd birthday today...
made reservations at hard rock cafe.
kinda planned a little surprise for her...

told her only jarrod and i were having lunch w her...
but in fact, i got a couple of other frens to wait for her there as well...
guess it was a pleasant surprise.

the appetiser was good. esp the onion rings... absolutely yummy...
the bacon cheeseburger and the bbq cheeseburger were fantastic.
cant say the same for the roast beef deli sandwich tho...
the beef was juz too dry and was tough to chew...

walked her to the car after dat and she opened my present.
i had kinda spent the last 3 weeks working on a cross stitch thingy.
but i couldn't find a nice small foto frame to fit the stitch...
so i went down to this shop in clementi which does framing.
luckily they managed to frame it for me in 2 days.
but after adding the cardboard border, the thingy was so not wat i had in mind.
but she liked it anyway and i'm glad she likes it.

so went home, and lazed around. got a surprise when she called me.
she was asking me abt the birthday card i wrote her...
and we talked abit abt wat plans i have regarding the new career.
like i said, i really hope i can get the IT auditing job at KPMG.

oh well... gona be preparing my resume for a Air Accident Investigator.
hope i can be like those investigators on Air Crash Investigations showing on NGC every tue nite.

maybe some day, you'll see me on tv... :)

Hair Cutting Day

Went to Salon Scissorhands get my hair cut today.
ppl living in clementi for at least the past 10 years will know of it.

it's been about 10+ years since i've gotten my first haircut there...
i'm such a loyal customer rite? hehehe...
still remembered the first day i went there... 4 Dec 1994.
it was also the first day i started work part-time at the then Hyatt Regency.




(Left) Before - long floppy hair, so warm and irritating
(Right) After - short styled hair, so comfortable and not irritating

Tomorrow's gona be a big day... coz i'm in charge of food !! hehe...

Yesterday...

Went swimming w jarrod again...
looks like this weekly swimming thingy is going well...
swam like 10 laps... quite siong leh.. but it was alrite...
we're planning to swim abt 12 laps next week.

after dat, went to his house to help him move his furniture in his room...
he wants to re-arrange his room to make it more study-friendly.
had planned to go ikea to look for his stuff after dat... but while waiting, i started playing xbox.
had lent him my set since i wasn't really playing and he was kind of like looking for something to do.

so in the end, din have time to go down to ikea, coz i had to go home and den leave the house again for another career presentation.

boy, dat was the longest one i've ever sat thru... reached there at abt 7pm.
they started at abt 7.15-7.20pm i guess... and when i left at 11pm, the CEO was still talking to the people who had the stamina to stay on !!
but i was very impressed with the CEO's success story...

he started his first business while in NS. enlisted at 18, juz b4 his 19th bday, he made his first million selling floppy disks. amazing la...
by the time he started uni (he was a comp science student), he had a citibank banker managing his money. *gasp*
owns a ferrari and plans to buy one more. he's so sought after that microsoft was so desparate to get him that they're willing to buy over his business and give him MS shares worth twice the value of the business they were buying over. *double gasp*
so now he's starting a franchise model, called Aces@ YourService, think you would have seen the ads in the classifieds everyday...
so you buy the franchise, they train you, give you support by despatching calls to you in addition to your own marketing and soliciting of clients. i think it's a fantastic concept, it's something i would love to do in some aspects, tinkering with the pc, setting up networks, etc, servicing the home-users and SMEs.

but i got no chas reserves to 'tahan' in case business doesn't pick up. so think i'll give it a pass, but gona meet up with the manager next week to see what else they can offer. really hope to get a job with KPMG.
think i wana start being a salaried worker first. build up some cash resources.

den met friggy and jarrod(again!) for supper. caught up with friggy a bit coz haven't been able to speak with him since he got back from his pilgrimage. guess he's now in ORD mood liao... slacking away... hahaha...

oh wells.. gota go now.. got hair to cut. and maybe nails to pamper... hehehe...
i'll think abt it while getting my hair cut...

Another Day Gone...

Another day gone...
wanted to swim today.. but woke up, saw dat the sky was all dark, i decided not to.
so stayed home and read the papers... the first time since the week started.

den met jarrod, davin and marianne for lunch to discuss their wedding plans for sat...
davin and marianne's wedding dat is... jarrod's not included... not some threesome wedding, u perv !!

anyway... so yah.. i'm in charge of the caterer. i.e. food !! yummy...

davin's kinda stressed out... chill out man !! but marianne's like everything's cool...
such contrasting emotions...

den went down to peninsula plaza to collect my pants... tailor-made a pair of pants...
wanted it a bit flair... so looks kind of like a bell bottom... i'm so into retro *gush*
but the flair din quite come out the way i had hoped for it...
but it's alrite... next pair den... :)

den went down to informatics at jurong east to check out their IT courses.
almost had a shock of my life when i found out dat the Certified Ethical Hacker course costs $2699 UP.
now offer $1999 exluding GST and $50 registration charge.

but the guy who was attending to me told me abt their IT bundle package.
before i go there, i wana talk ab the guy a bit...
he's so gay la !! he kind of sashay when he walks... he's got the limp wrist symptom,
he goes like "oh, hi xxx, you here for the blah blah blah... "
and he cannot speak clearly lor... he was like rushing thru watever he was trying to tell me...
i had to take some time to register wat he was saying...

anyway.. back to the IT bundle he was telling me abt...
for a special price i can sign up for the bundle which includes:
a Certified Ethica Hacker course,
a Certified CISCO Network Associate course,
a Microsoft Certified Professional course, and
a Security 5 course, which basically deals with network and security issues.

full cost of 4 courses is $7000+, now bundle price $3299.
now isn't dat amazing...
and with my UOB credit card, i can pay it in 12 interest-free instalments !!

sounds pretty good... will take it up IF KPMG will hire me...
i hope they will respond to my job application FAST !!

gona start my scuba diving classes next monday evening...
so exciting... better go read up the book again...
will let u know if it's fun...

Busy Day

Had a busy day to day...

went for like 3 job presentations with AXA, Financial Alliance and Oilpods.com.
apparently i'm in the final round of selection for AXA.
now they're pushing for me to take up the required CMFAS papers to attain the necessary licence to be a financial advisor. den they'll pay the fees for the papers if i pass them all the first time. den only need to really work for them for only 6 months.

the financial alliance presentation was alrite... but i wasn't too impressed.

the oilpods one was pretty good. the business model is good. but where to find 8 ppl every month who have about at lest $10k to invest? CPF still can la... but cash ? hmmm... dat's a prob...
guess will have to find out more... soon i hope...

suddenly, the career as a financial planner seems pretty attractive. but dun think i wana work for a specific insurance company... think i'd rather work in a independent firm. den can recommend cliets funds that really work in their favour.

think now is a good time to really pia. no gf, no house to worry abt, no wedding... juz pia.
mayb pia for a good 5 years plus... hopefully earn enough to live fairly well... drive my dream car.
can give parents money for their expenses.

how? how?

i'll juz blog abit abt yesterday...

went to meet a fren who's at IPP, another independent financial advisory/planning firm, to find out more abt working there.

den went to FTC to find out abt their CFA and ACCA programs. was informed dat there was a CFA preview dat evening. tot i'll go for it, so went down to plaza sing to catch a movie meantime... coz left the school at abt 3, preview was at 7.30pm.

caught sin city... show wasn't too bad... bits of nudity here and there... juz tits mainly.
pretty cool.. coz the movie is mostly in b&w except for some bits that had color.
eg. opening scene was b&w had josh harnett talking to some woman... duno who...
she was wearing a red dress and red lipstick... dat's all the color there was for dat scene.

knew it was r(a) but wasn't expecting any nudity, den when i saw dat there was, den i realized why it's r(a),
den when i saw jessica alba, i tot she'll end up stripping too coz she was acting as a stripper...
but no such luck... too bad guys... no alba boobies for u..

so anyway... enough of dat...

so went for the cfa preview, was mainly abt wat the program was abt and wat packages ftc has to help students clear the papers. and apparently they have a very good track record. the school has got a 80% global pass rate. while the percentage of candidates who pass the first level is only abt 34-36%. so guess the bulk of those who pass are from ftc.

so yeah... den went home lor...

i've not been home before 5pm for the past 2 days liao...
oh well... busy looking for job mah !!

It's Over...

5 years, 7 months , 2 days...
dat's how long it lasted...

well... it was kinda over abt 3 weeks ago...
but i guess today's kinda official...

it's come to an end... but not without the possibility of getting back together...
guess it's the ambition bit that blew it.
dun think i can ever find the answer for the ambition question, so guess getting back is gona be difficult, but dun think i wana harp on it any longer.

gona get down to working out what i want to do for the next few years.
and hope things will work out.
duno if it's time to let go and move on or keep working with the hope of getting back together...

think i'm one of those who cannot move back once i've let go and moved on from a relationship.
but i dun think i'm prepared to let her go...

why cant i get my results now and give me a boost?

i love you... and thank you for the wonderful memories.
and i hope the right guy comes along for you...

I Cannot Live Like This

Went down to expo today for a career choice fair. wat a scam... cheat my feelings.
the website indicated a lot of industry players present at the fair and all...
in the end.. the fair only took up half a hall, about 1/3 of it was the police, scdf and moe.
another half of the exhibitors were selling motivational books, some education group promoting their courses, and the rest were mostly insurance groups looking for ppl to join their team to sell the company's products.

on a sadder note...
i cannot live like this anymore... the torture is killing.
she may enjoy her new found freedom (not to be meant in a bad way), she may be having a ball of a time, but i'm not.
i'm almost practically living in misery thinking of her, missing her and wondering why the hell do i have to wait for 2 months. from the way i look at it, i will not have the answer even after 2 months.

i really duno wat to do for my next career. i KNOW I dun wana do sales, coz i know i'm not aggressive enough to earn big money from dat. i i KNOW i dun wana insurance, reasons being the same as sales.
i KNOW i will like the challenge of the hotel industry and will like to give it a shot. i KNOW i wana try teaching but i cant wait until sept for a school to call me.

so now wat? i'm thinking of doing an internship with a hotel. ritz carlton hopefully. den by the end of it, i hope to be able to gauge if i wana do it full time. if it doesn't work out, it's on to teaching then.
how's dat for a plan?

read from hecate, which was linked from mr brown (yes, i'm a blogder(= blog reader)), about the sweetest conversation she overheard between her parents:

Basically my dad confessed that throughout their 23 years of marriage, he has never really given my mom a good life. Yet my mom, upon hearing this, just said that she doesn't mind, and that she has been there with him through the good and bad times, and that whatever they have, be it good or bad, its always shared between the two of them, and that she never regret her decision to marry him.

makes me wonder if this will ever happen to me... duno if things will work out if i know for sure cannot lead a very good comfortable life.

think this is really getting to me liao... guess i could last 2 weeks...
think 3 is too much for me...
guess i really must love her a lot...
is there ever too much?

Nice to see you guys...

Din do much today...
met up with adrian and john for supper...
they were my sec sch classmates...
had some drinks, talked abt the good old days...

the 3 of us were super buddies back then, esp in sec 3...
coz we were the 3 musketeers of skipping school... so naughty rite?
hahaha...

we will be in class at assembly in the morning but after recess, we were gone.
so we will always go to either john's or adrian's house to hang out.
if it was adrian's house, it'll be to play computer games.
if it was john's house, it'll be cup noodles and campbell soup. john's house got no games to play...
hahaha...

talked abt our teachers...
we still can remember our sec 3 chem teacher, Mrs Lai L.
(shan't name her... protect her reputation)
she's the 'best' teacher we ever had... the one and only incident we remembered best:

MrsL: alrite class, if u have any questions, juz come up to me to ask... i'll be at the table.
Classmate walks up to her to ask her something.
MrsL (in a shrill voice): WHY U SO STUPID? SUCH A SIMPLE THING U ALSO DUNO!!

win liao rite? where to find this kind of 'dedicated' teacher? last i checked she's still teaching in my sec school. for those who know which school, good for u... for those who dun, too bad. :P

anyway... john is asking me to help him improve his WOW character, since, quoting him, you're so free.

well... it was nice meeting up with them... everyone still looked the same as 11 years ago when we graduated. except maybe a little chubbier :)

oh well... seems like i've got a long day tom... my hp calendar for tom is filled w lots of stuff.
most prob gona go expo for the career choice exhibition... but it's at bloody EXPO!! so FAR !!
i'm gona alight at expo mrt with a flat butt.
maybe i'll be one of those "i-cant-see-the-ppl-who-need-the-seat-more-than-me" passengers.
we'll see...

take care all,
nitezzzzz
ZZZZZzzzzzz

我好想她

it's been about 3 weeks since it all happened...
i really miss her... though i got to see her on sunday during lunch with jarrod.
wouldn't get to see her if not for jarrod's lunch.

no matter how i look at her, she's an angel. ever beautiful, ever gorgeous.
no matter how i look at her, i can find no fault with her.
no matter how i look at her, she's the girl whom i want to spend my life with.
can't imagine spending it with someone else.

i've been asked what will i do if i were to lose her. my answer was "i will die."
i thought i was doing fine, kinda preparing myself for the worst case scenario.
but seeing her on sunday juz made me realize that i'm not prepared for it.
somehow, i think i will die...

upon seeing her, i juz wanted to go over and hug her and tell her that i love her.
but i know it's juz not possible rite now.

i have always believed that love is about changing for the better,
and if change is not possible, to accept him/her for who he/she is, faults and all.
of coz it's got to be tolerable faults...
dun think anyone will want to spend his/her life with a spouse-beater,
or compulsive gambler, drinker, or ________ (fill in your answer here)
dat belief still stands... and it probably will for the rest of my life...

i will want to do anything to make things work out... but it's not up to me to decide...
dear god, give me strength to go through this...

Happy Commencement

Both Bas and TMG had their commencement today.
Congrats to you both!! Officially graduated from NUS liao.

Bas's was in the morning session, TMG had hers in the afternoon.
Wonder how will mine turn out when I get my results in Sept.
Hope I get to graduate. *crosses fingers*

Thinking of another possible career path - financial planning.
Sounds pretty good. It's a skill that anyone should try to learn and manage your own finances.
And while you're at it, manage others' finances and get paid for it.

Oh well... we'll see how it goes. Teaching still looks like my first priority. But I kinda sick of waiting for schools to call me when they need me. Gave a call to SCGS to check but no vacancy, emailed Cat High and they replied that they too have no vacancy.

Went swimming this morning with Jarrod. Swam 7 laps. Did a bit of tanning...
Now I'm kind of a little red all over. Guess it'll clear up by tom morning.
Lost a little weight... about 3 kg. YAY!!
Guess it's a combination of exercise and not having lunch coz I'm too lazy to go out to buy.
Ultimately, what's important is that I lost weight. Hope I don't put everything back on.
Gona watch my diet a bit now.

Bought some books to read - War of the Worlds, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Secrets of Angels and Demons.

You're probably thinking, "Oh, he's reading them now coz he watched the movies."
And guess what? You kind of correct. Coz I didn't manage to catch HGG the movie.
Though I think I read the book before. Couldn't find it, so I bought a copy to read.
Bought WotW coz wanted to see how the book was like, since the movie totally sucked at the end and there were quite a bit of unexplained stuff. Guess I'm hoping to find the answers to the questions that I have.

Secrets is one of those 'Breaking the DaVinci Code' kind of books. But this one aims to distinguish fact and fiction for Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, which in my opinion, is a pretty good book, though not as good as The DaVinci Code.

So yeah... kind of leading a bummer's life right now...
So wish I have a job now... kinda bored of the bumming lifestyle liao.
But with no degree, how to go do teaching?

Oh well... guess I 'll have to live each day as it comes.
Take care, and I'll see you again.

Compressed posts.. hehe

Thursday, 7/7, Day of the London Bombing

Saw the news about the bombing in London.
Very sad that there are people who are so blinded by their ideals that life seem to hold no meaning for them.
I'm glad the Britons are suc resilient people. Felt really heartened to read about the Londoners determined to go about their lives in their usual manner, not willing to back down and concede to the terrorists.

So guess it's Terrorists 0 - 1 Londoners.

On to something less saddening...

Went to a few schools to register myself with them as a relief teacher.
Went back to my alma mater, Catholic High. The school has changed quite a bit in terms of layout.
They've expanded quite a bit... more classrooms, so equals to more students.
A couple of staircases were built as well...

Met up with one of my maths teachers, Mdm Ng. Amazing, she could still remember me!!
Apparently I was her second batch of students from Cat High. Either that or I was her second batch of students. Guess it's not THAT important.

Spoke a bit about how I've been, how I planning to go into the teaching career and wanting to relief teach to gain some experience, and also bitched a bit about the very protective parents of today.
The very parents I hope to scold, lecture, and dish out corporal punishment to, so that they will see that 'little angel' at home is actually a tyrant in school... hehehe... *keeps fingers crossed*

Friday, 8/7, Day I did Nothing at Home

Did nothing at home I think. I'm not sure coz I can't seem to remember what I did. So since I don't remember doing anything, I must have done nothing... Hahahaha...

Met up with a now ex-colleague from the squadron. Was planning to go Wala wala to check out EIC, which according to my friends, is very good. But by the time I arrived, it was pretty packed. Didn't go in coz not sure if Bro Billy wanted to go up. So I waited... by the time he came, it was even more crowded, with an even longer queue at the stairs.

So we figured, we'll just sit at the bar, order a pint of Hoegaarden each, drink and talk cock. Think I need to dirnk a little more often... After one pint of hoegaarden, which in my opinion is a good, smooth beer, I was flushed and kinda feeling that 'alcohol has kicked in' feeling. I won't say I was high coz I wasn't, neither was I drunk... guess it's the first stages of alcohol reaction by the body.. Oh well, who cares ?!

Went to Swensen's after the pint, coz Billy was hungry. Silly Billy (hehe.. had to do that) didn't have dinner though he said that he'll be having it before he met up with me.

So had some food, then went home. Guess things didn't quite work out the way I had hoped, but it's alrite...

Saturday, 9/7, Sports Day

Went swimming in the morning. Planning to get started on a exercise regime, so swimming is my current choice at the moment. Gona swim every Sat no matter what. "I must, I must, I must reduce my bust waist."
Played mahjong later in the evening... won $75. biggest win so far in a single outing...
Unfortunately of the $75, $50 was lost by my bro and he needs to pay me back in instalments...
@#$!^&%$*& brother...

But got no choice, bro mah... I so nice rite? :D

Sunday,10/7, Still Sports Day...

Jarrod's back from UK. His hair is so long liao lor... Almost couldn't recognise him...
Went for lunch and 'swam' some more...

Won about $14 today... what a contrast !!
But let's not be greedy... at least I still won $$.
Hope my winning ways will continue.

Also helped Amelia with her Physics today...
Managed to help her understand electromagnetic induction and electromagnetism.
Shows I got the calibre to teach...
The schools better call me soon... like tomorrow... :)

The day when I FINALLY collected my IC...

Hello hello...

As you can see, today is THE day...

And I am now the proud owner of my pink IC.

Will put up pics of my 11B's 'long lost' brother when I get my camera back from my bro.
It was a wise decision to have not waited yesterday, because according to my friend whom I was meeting today, there was a massive jam of people who were collecting their ICs.

Back to today...

Met friend at 9am, then we went to get our ICs.
We were the only people around at that time collecting our ICs so no jam... Yay !!
Things went pretty smooth until we were told we had to show Head Admin Section our interview booklet.
So went to ask the clerk there to get our booklets. He told another guy to do it, while telling us to wait.

After about a minute, we figured we better go check on them... and true enough, stupid NSF hasn't even started looking for it yet. What an idiot!! See la, typical military clerks, no one bugs you for it, you take your own sweet time. By the way, these are the people who are giving admin support to those who are defending our nation. Hmmmm.... but that can be left for another day.

So yeah... so got our booklets, got our release forms signed and proceeded to another lady to return our whatever privilege cards before we can get our ICs.

My friend forgot to bring his wife's CSC card, which is some card that issued to a civil servant's immediate family so that they can also enjoy subsidised medical care at our polyclinics and hospitals.
So my friend just said that he lost it and paid $12 for it, instead of having to go getting from his wife and coming back another day to collect his IC. $12 for his pink IC, not too bad in my opinion. I would have done the same.

Anyway... here comes the irritating bit. After he made his payment, he was told he had to wait for 1/2 for the receipt to be printed. Another classic example of the efficiency of the military... seems like I'm really slamming the military rite? Maybe it's the 7 years of suppressed dissatisfaction... Hahaha...

So both of our went back to the canteen to have our REAL last meal at the cateen while waiting for the receipt. So yesterday's last meal does not count. After our breakfast, we went back to the office, and guess what?

The dumbo officer who was printing the receipt was no longer in the office. Lights were switched and no one seemed to know where she went. Who needs soldiers when we have the best ninjas around in our camps all over the country? *Poof* and they disappear. The epitome of 'gengsterism'. It's gengsterism, not to be confused with gangsterism.

So we told the lady who was still holding onto my friend's IC and told her that the officer had disappear and if she could collect from her when she returns. Being the nice lady, she agreed, though we could see from her expression that she would rather jump off the building than ask the officer for the receipt.

So, thank you.

So ends my life with the military...
Gona start a new one with MOE...

What's with my association with the govt sector?!
Seriously, I have no idea. Registered with MOE as a relief teacher yeaterday and they have granted me provisional approval to relief teach.

So will be waiting for the schools I emailed today to reply to my enquiries.
I hope I get a school which can let me teach like everyday. Like a full-time part-timer.
Otherwise I've got to learn to survive on water and air.

Pray for me ok?

The day when I ALMOST collected my IC...

Hey all !!

After that pretty thought provoking entry, I thought I'll just talk abit about what happened today...

2 July was an important day... not only for my friend, Michelle, who celebrates her birthday on that day,
but for me as well.

Coz it's my ORD date !! For the un-initiated ORD stands for Operationally Ready Date.
Sounds so nice right? It's amazing how our gahmen makes simple things sound so important and fantastic.
So I'm now offically an Operationally Ready National Servcieman (NSman), previously known as Reservist.
But everyone still uses the old title. Easier to relate to the older generation. Just imagine...

Me to Dad/Mum/Whoever from the previous generation: I'm now a Operationally Ready NSman.

D/M/Wfepg : Huh?

Me: I'm reservist now.

D/M/Wfepg : Orrrr...

Nsman is not to be confused with the 18, 19 or 21 year olds who are enlisted to serve NS.
They're called NSFs (National Service Fulltime).

If any bit of the imformation I posted is wrong, do let me know...

Anyway... back to the story...
I woke up bright and early at 7.10am in the freaking morning... the earliest so far in about 11 weeks.
So met colleague, went down to camp with him, met up with some of our buddies,
had our final meal at the canteen, and happily went to the admin office,
all excited to see our prove of civilian-ship (if there's even such a word).

Unfortunately, bleddy people in charge were not around coz they went for a Base-run.
Of all 365 days of the year, they HAD to run on 4 July, knowing there are people who ORD on 2 & 3 July.
Aren't they all smart?

So we were there waiting for an hour, still unable to collect our I/Cs despite numerous people coming back.
We asked around and we were told that our I/Cs are locked in a drawer and the person holding the key is on urgent morning leave and will only be back at around 1.30pm.

We were like, "WTH?! Isn't there some backup key somewhere that you can open the drawer and give us our I/Cs?" The girl who told us the news just said, "No, sorry."

For people who have been in the military, you will know that this is bulls***.
The SAF is so kiasu that there is always a backup somewhere. But we couldn't do a thing about it.

It was 10.30am when the announcement was made. I was like " Huh?! I gota wait 3 hours for the stupid officer to get back?" Didn't want to wait around for so long, so I went home.

So this is the day when I ALMOST collected my IC.

Dang.

Going back tomorrow.

Hope it WILL be the day i COLLECT my IC.

What is Love? 什么是爱?

I've been thinking...

If I were to ask you what is it about your partner that you love, what will you say?
What if you could not give specific answers, does that mean that you do not love the person?

Let's say you could not give specific answers, but you know deep down in your heart that he/she matters to you,
that when you cannot contact him/her, not knowing where he/she is, you get worried,
that no matter what, the first person who comes to mind is the other person,
that most of the time, the other person's feelings matter first, before your own,
that you are willing to try to be the person he/she hopes you will become, even though you know you probably might not succeed.
that he/she is the person you will want to spend whatever free time you may have,
that without him/her, life seems somewhat empty...

Guess that list goes on... think you get the idea.
Can't think of anymore at the moment...

But does all that make you seem pretty dependent on the other party?

Send me your thoughts...

Hey there!!

Greetings and salutations to whoever chances upon this...

Recent events have somewhat prompted me to start a blog.

I guess it's the need for me to voice out my thoughts to someone and blogging is probably the next best alternative to speaking with a friend, since I am pretty selective about who I tell my problems to.

Which is probably kinda ironic since I'll be posting my thoughts, life events, problems online for the world to see.

But sometimes problems are easier to see and solve from the 3rd person perspective.

Well... guess this is it for now...

Cheers