It's coming to an end

My holidays coming to an end and so is my NSF chapter, ORD so close that i can smell it. OK that long school vacational break is going to be over so and i felt that exams was like yesterday. So sad had to go back to the life of mugging, eat, sleep and shit with my textbook always around me. Well atleast when i go back to school i will be a NSMEN rather than someone whose still bonded with the army with restrictions of not able to do certain stuff while your on the disruption period.

Yesterday went to a friend's house to try out nintendo Wii, that console was totally awesome. Never thought that the japs could create such a console that could be so interactive with the movement of the human motion. It was tiring to play games like tennis, bowling and boxing cause you really need to move your body. Well it really felt like playing in a real match of tennis or boxing. After a few minute I was sweating like i forgot to turn the tap off. I would recommend this gaming console to people who wants to lose weight the fun way hahahaha.

Did nothing much today went swimming at SAFRA tampines and almost forgot about my dad's birthday dinner if not for my mom's message i would have gone out tonight. Anyway had to cancel my appointments that i made this evening sorry guys. By the way dinner was outstanding almost could not walk home cause i was too bloated with the delicacies thats in my stomach. Cant wait to get back my pink civilian IC which i surrendered back to the army 1+ month ago. 4 more days to ORD!!!

Aches

My body is now feeling with aches all over now due to the running cum skating yesterday, i think am getting old for this kind activities. There's like abrasions and blisters on my feet, must be the uncomfortable skates that i wore yesterday. Well there is a price to pay for having fun hahaha and am sure.

Just given "my purpose driven life" book to a friend and today got a new "purpose driven life" book from my cell. Well it's just nice for the event "40 days of purpose driven life" that my church is organising. By the way if your still searching for your purpose to life, why not come down over to my church for 40 days and maybe you will find the answer that your seeking. Yup contact me at berty84@hotmail.com if your interested or can visit the above website.

Went to Ikea tampines for the 1st time, wow the place is huge. By the way Ikea having a clearance sale and the stuff there is dirt cheap hurry up before everything snatch up. Saw this food container that had a funny name called the ORDNING(it cost only $39) and am very sure it's reminding me that this coming friday is the date of my liberation from all the dumb restrictions that's making me grow stupid. 6 more days to ORD!!!

Cold......

It has been raining for the past few days, just have the feeling of lying on my bed and rot for the whole day. As it was cooling and ideal to only laze on the bed thinking of nothing but enjoy the tranquility that God's providing. That what i have been doing for the past few days of the clearing leaves period. Really wanted to go swimming but the weather has been so discouraging. Anyway got afew running kakis whose joining me for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2007. By the way anyone wants to run the race can join my training in NTU, every week 3km will be added to the training run.

Woke up early in the cold morning, had to rush down to bedok mrt station to meet my friend to have a jog at east coast. While it's sort of a training run to prepare for SCSM 07, althought i was supposed to meet him at 8:45am but ended changing the time to 9:40am. Am sure that when your driving you will still be late. It almost ended into a breakfast gathering instead of losing those layers of fats that's stuck on the body. While i guessed that God has been blessing us, cause we ran for about 4km in 40mins before it started to pour heavily.

After that had a short alpha follow-up at church, before i rushed down to jurong entertainment centre to meet up with my cell for an outing. Anyway went to fuji ice palace to do ice skating and i thought i was the latest but somehow met my cell leader at jurong mrt too(she overslept). Skating was fun but initially could not get use to skating without wheels and it was also my first time skating there too. Am sure i was the one who came out with the bright idea of ice skating when i never been to a a ice skating arena. Well it was fun taking pictures on the ice and fun learning to skate in a unglam manner. Ya for those who never been there before bring a sweater if your really afraid of the cold, cause skating there really will make you sweat. Next time maybe plan a canoeing or running outing.

Albert was so happy la after so long an outing was planned at the west side and am sure i was the last to get off from the train. It's like going to NTU from one end to another so sad, atleast there was company in the train if not rot in the train. Well not all was there today but pray they will go for cell next week, see you all there. 7 more days to ORD!!!

The day to return

Haven been blogging for the pass few days, well i guessed that you all must be wondering why. Anyway was having headaches on tuesday so decided not to think too much about what to blog about that day and on wednesday was having flu so was occupied with clearing my nose the whole day and it was terrible. Anyway 2 movies to recommend try watching rocky bilbao and letters from iwo jima. Both movie quite emo, tears almost dropped while watching hahaha.

It feels different whenever i go back to camp, before i disrupted from service i always had the feeling of "sianz" in my head everytime when i had to book in. Cause am always doing the same thing again again and again from monday to friday. It's like am wasting my life away and the advertisement always says "It's a challenging Career" and am sure it's really challenging my patients. Back to the main point, it's always excites me that my ORD date draws closer everytime i go back to camp. Knowing that the day of liberation draws nearer, atleast i dont need to worry about employer not wanting to employ me cause i have not ORD yet. By the way for those who dont know it 's a chargerable offence to moonlight during your service.

Well that's the thing that turn me off whenever i want to find a part-time job to ease my miserable allowance that the army gives. Then again they will give the excuses of it's everyones duty to do a part for the country, so cant moonlight while your in service cause your going to get distracted when serving the nation(what a load of crap). Well there's always a saying "DO ANYTHING BUT DONT GET CAUGHT".

Yup went back to camp to return everything that was issued to me, returned mostly the no.1 costume and accessories. Waited for like a hour for the ninja to appear, hahahaha i think should have waited in the office cause normally the ninja can be detacted by the strong scent of "aroma" that was given out whenever the ninja appeared within vicinity. Anyway all was smooth got my clearance signature too left 3 more signature before am out of there. 9 more days to ORD!!!

Have u Run?

Woke up early in the morning rushed to Raffles Place Park to sign up for Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2007. Ya today was the event launch of the SCSM 07, reached there at about 10:50am a line of working professionals were already in the queue for registering into the run. Actually i could register online but since goodie bags were given today and am on leave too so why not go there to have a look and get myself a goodie bag too.

Wow it's worth the time going there today got to see the promoters painted their whole body blue, leaving only the armpit area unpainted. It's quite a funny view when they rised up their arms, that's not the important thing. Anyway the goodie bag contains loads of stuff like a can of 100plus, supplements for strong joints, a fake nalgene bottle and some other supplements from different sponsors. Anyway zheng guo need to thank me for helping you signed up for the run, if not your missing out on the goodie hahahaha.

Yup today's the ORD function, anyway dont take my crappy speech too seriously or else you wont make it alive. After the function i got this sms "U know what's huo cong kou chu(troubles that comes from the mouth)? Pls watch wat u say next time" and am sure that am going to give another ORD speech. By the way what was said today was totally crap, i also forgot what i said already. The day is coming 12 more days to ORD!!!

Marriage or Single or aka datang for someone

Just came back from my cousin's wedding, wow it was a wonderful event to see that my god-sister married a good husband. Althought i dont really know her husband that well but from how well that he gel with my cousin's family i knew that she made a good choice. By the way it's a marriage of 2 doctors hahahaha i guess they will have loads of medicine talk in the future to come and God bless them in their marriage. Ate loads of food cause the table was not full, a table for 10 only 6 pple came probably some people could not make it.

So coincidently today at church, the sermon topic also evolved around the topic of marriage(maybe God's trying to tell me something). Today's message from persie was quite hard to understand but i roughy catch whats she was trying to say. Correct me if am wrong, summary of the whole message should be how everyone can serve God's ministry in marriage single or aka datang for someone. At different stages people can play different roll in different parts of God's ministry example singles could help out with the kids ministry (cause they got more time), while married couples can give advice to couples with troubles in their marriage.

Hopefully i get to view my cousin's wedding pictures, should had brought my brother's camera there for some photo taking session. Yup tml signing out for Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2007 at Raffles Place Park anyway 1st 500 people who signed up tml will get a goodie bag. Yeah 13 more days to ORD!!!

Masks

Do u wear masks to work, meet friends or even in front of your family? Well i guess everyone have their own mask that they always put on just so that they wont leak out their inner self. I too also have that mask, sometimes really hate to wear that piece of crap. Then again feels insecure without that mask on. It sucks to be in a world that what would people think of you, so a mask is a thing that covers your face from the harmful UV(unfriendly views) rays of the world. Hahahaha wat the crap am i writing.

Started the day with a crappy mood, played soccer but didnt enjoyed it. Dont feel that the sport is fun anymore.....maybe it's time to move onto another stuff that i can find joy in. Or maybe it's my mood swing today. Felt crappy on the way to church for alpha follow up, had to force myself to paste that smile on that face. Anyway it's not my way that i would show my a shitty face to other people there by spoiling their mood. So kept that feeling swallowed up in my stomach, it feels shitty. Anyway my religion is not like MLM and am not a saleman and i dont earn a single cent and dont miss interpret my word.

14 more days to ORD!!!

2007/2007

It's that once in the life-time date again, have been receiving messages of greeting from friends about this once in the life-time stuff in the morning. Well it was nice receiving messages of blessing from a bunch of good friend. By the way 070707 also once in a life-time, plus 010101,20012001 and etc. Anyway there are still 10 more of this once in a life-time special dates left, since 14 of them had just gone pass. It would be easy to remember important things that had happened on those dates.

I still could remember 060606 was the date that I pass my driving test for the 1st time and it was the date that the movie 060606 was released. Probably next year film makers would make a movie call fafafa aka prosper prosper prosper due to release on the date 080808. Ok today went to SAF MMI(Military Medicine Institute) to have my ears checked. My hearings was alright nothing bad had happened to my ear drums during the short stay in band.

After the audiometry test, went for lunch with the ORD group and hitch a ride back to my camp. On the way back there was this driver who think that his playing "need for speed" cutting in and out of the lane hahahaha he was driving a Toyota SUV. Ya saw this car with the Singapore flag on top of his car, wow such a patriotic driver anyway national day coming too should start hanging flags now, i wonder can hang Brazil flag cause they won Copa America 2007 hahahaha.

This coming monday is the official launch of Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2007 at Raffles Place Park and am going for the run anyone wants to join me in this crazy run? Monday is also my ORD function, had to go back when am clearing leave if not will get charged by some crazy fellow and the reason that mad man would give is why ever go back to collect your ORD coin that cost only $10 buck. 15 more days to ORD!!!

My unit logo and the SAF day parade coin

Duo Jiang You Tiao

Forced to wake up at 9am by the heavy rain, had to quickly dragged myself off my slumber to make sure that all the windows was shut if not i would have a indoor pool. Well today's my first day of clearing leave period, did nothing much in the morning tried going online but electricity was cut off due to some maintenance that my block was doing. Luckily my laptop was fully charged survived through that hour of maintenance with loads of movies at hand.

Had dinner today with my friends at habour front, hahahaha i tried something stupid today i decide to take bus 80 there and the trip was suicidal, took me one and a haft hour to reach habour front interchange. Anyway i have lots of time to spare so decided to try rotting in the bus. Had dinner and bullshiting among my group, yup they kept talking about this particular sale girl at some clothes store at habour front. Ok she really is pretty, then again what's the point of looking when you dont even know her name. Is it not the same as most of us? When you had a crush on someone normally, our fear of rejection or pride just get the better of us. Then again without fear there would not be courage that eventually will triumph over fear.

Went to geylang lorong 19 for deserts, gone for the famous rochor beancurd. I ordered 1 Duo Jiang You Tiao(beancurd and deep fried bread stick). Wow the desert was outstanding, should go there for desert again if got a chance. Geylang is an interesting place to go where poultry farms are everywhere and the place is busting with people of different background. One of my friend was nearly got knocked down (when getting off the cab) by a biker who was chased by 2 other pursuer. Hahahaha then one stupid friend of mine saw the biker charging in and he say in a relac tone:" oie got bike coming." am sure he didnt instead tried to grab my friend to the side for safety. Luckily the biker stop just in time if not will be seeing people lying in the nearest hospital. Well tomorrow got my day planned cant wait to finish my army 16 more days to ORD!!!

Last Working Day

Times really flies by really fast when your unaware of it but if your aware that time is ticking it will feel like every second felt like a minute and every minutes like a hour. It's been 37 days since i went back to army, loads of stuff had happened during my short stay there. Having been through the third SAF day was sad enough for me, then again without participating in the parade i wont have the 2 days of offs given so gracefully to me and a worthless coin stating my participation in the parade.

These 37 days was really a good rest from the stress that am having from school, stress over exam results and other crap from school. Enjoyed myself in the band watching stupidity at work among some crappy people in green. This morning started with the guy who could already walked normally but still holding on to his cructch with his dear life and that was the ultimate stupidity at worked in him. Anyway it was a funny sight cause i was wondering whether his stick would break due to his overgrown stomach. Went hunting for signature for clearance before people tried doing their ninja technic (especially this technic called stealth) when am going to ORD.

Anyway Donn (who ORD this friday) didnt managed to get someone's signature for his clearance and the reason was his hair too long. Hahahaha what the crap give him a break man when his only coming back for only 5 days then it curtains for him in his chapter of this unit. Well not going to bitch about this when more bitching is done at cpl v's blog (probably that someone was wearing a helmet or some headdress causing that crap of hair too long). Anyway the whole incident was settle without Donn going to the barber for that particular autograph.

Yup am very happy that today's my final working day and am clearing my annual leave. By the way my ORD function will be this coming monday, guess that the function will have loads of crap and bitching will be unleash that day. Anyway need to thank staff for enduring the 5 ORD corporals crap and other loads of rubbish. Now need to think of something to fill my time now if not rot and die at home. 17 more days to ORD!!!

1 day minus 1/2 day = ?

Since i was the first to arrive at camp decided to go HQ to draw the office key (such a nice senior corporal rite). While drawing keys, there standing just beside me was an idiot who made me went through the July parade. I wonder how he manage to walk up the slope to HQ while holding on to his cructch.

Anyway here's what happened (from a reliable source) one fine day that idiot went for a parade at some place. Then suddenly he felt that a scorpion (or is it a centipede anyway some insect la) crawl up his leg. Luckily he manage to squash that insect to death with his leg when called to attention. After that he went for operation on his leg of that. Super cao keng rite, by the way can see him walking normally with his pair of legs and the cructch his holding on was probably used to kill any insect that might attempt to crawl up his leg again.

Ok back to what happened in the morning, i think that idiot was talking to me i guess. I just didnt bother to look at him or to respond to his remarks cause it's pretty irksome to see that piece of shit beside me. Did u know that a tuning fork was place inside his ears (ask band "the letter before b" for more infor), that why he got perfect pitch. Anyway he didnt even went for that parade for the 1st year la, then comes 2nd year now i need to do his job for him. Whats the point of joining parade band when u CANT march, take up other people's chance to get into the band.

Anyway my day was not ruined because of him, the day ended well quite early if u know wat i meant. Went prata place for lunch with 4 other ORDING corporals, anyway there's one corporal that came back for like 5 days only then it's sayonara for him. I sucked at swimming i think should practise that. Most likely tomorrow will be my last working day then it's 18 more days to ORD!!!

Alone...

Off day today felt like shit today, with nothing planned today cause it's a off day. Basically rot at home in the morning before deciding to catch a movie in the afternoon. Thanks to my brother's free movie pass manage to watch "My wife's a Gangster 3" at GV yishun. Chose that place cause i will confirm get good seating but quite sad la had to watch the movie alone where inside the cinema are all couples (maybe should go get a girlfriend hahaha). Anyway the movie was funny laugh like mad.

Maybe because it's monday now suffering from the effects of monday blues everything seem to move so slowly. After the movie went to tampines again, did window shopping anyway metro having a closing down sale and the place is flooded with people rampaging the place like world war 2. Had dinner alone at white sand, well food tasted like food. Yup 19 days to ORD!!! Cant wait till it's over.

Busy Sunday

Today was a busy day for me, I think the busy sunday i ever had. Went to church in the morning then back to work at camp and rushed for a family gathering at my aunty's house.

1st service in church was totally different from the normal 2nd service which i attend. Hymns was sung and theres a choir made up of people whose probably much older then me, am only 23 still young. Well felt that singing hymns was a little bit boring, but then what really matters is the attitude towards worshipping our God. Some of us might think singing hymns equals old fashion out of dated or playing loud christian rock music will irritate God's ears. Well it does not matter what music or song were used in praises but the the right attitude towards worshipping. Cause everyones different cant make everyone follow the same style of music. Creativity a God given gift will be much wasted then, if there's no variety of music in life.

Went to the turf today, it's been a long time since I went there to play. Dont get it wrong went there to play music not play on the odds of the horse that the turf club was offering. Anyway I didnt really went there to play music more like went there to help out in carrying mineral water and watch the band matches into the horse shit infested grass track. Most of the time was spent rotting at the holding area and i were so bored that with two other corporals decided to guess which horse will win the race so winners gets anything or watever.

The whole turf club was full of punters wasting their money away in races that finish in 2-3 mins by the way there were loads of races today. Can really see two kind of people there the super low class punters (sitting at the railings cheering for the horse that they place bets on) and the super high class punters (usually in the air con lounge viewing the horse from above betting in thousands which are peanuts). Anyway will be the last time going there, cause the place smell like horse shit and the PSI index there is like 500pts.

After the family gathering, finally reached back home and it was KO for me before blogging out the days happening. Ya who wants to go to my church 40 days of purpose driven life and contact me at berty84@hotmail.com. Update of my army days 20 more days to ORD!!!

It jus snapped

Woke up this morning, still lying on my bed decided to grab my guitar and started strumming. It's feels cool to play my guitar while lying on bed anyway my guitar is just within my grabbing vicinity. Started to play song that just comes to my mind practised hammering and tried running my fingers on the strings.

After that went to watch tv for an hour, before decided to pick up the guitar again. I was suprised to see that the D string of my guitar, that i just played awhile ago, had snapped. Well it's a first time that the string just snapped, didnt expect it to be so sudden. Guess the constant tuning causes tension to build up on the strings which finally gives way, resulting it to snap and leaving a string hanging on the guitar.

In engineering term, when tension or we call it stress(force over area) acting at the both ends of the D string becomes too great for the material of the string. The string will starts to elongate and when stress is constantly added to the string, the stress will reach the ultimate tensile strength of the material of the string. Resulting in the terminal failure of the material causing the string to rupture or in lay man term snap. Is it not the same like us? When we are constantly at pressure, sometime we might bottle up that frustration and when that frustration just reach it's maximum things just exploded. Sometimes leaving behind problems unsolved or a scar in our life. So a solution to it is go buy a new string.

Ya went to peninsula plaza got new guitar strings from davis guitar. Walk around suntec before decided to rot and die in bus no. 10. The ride from suntec to tampines was about an hour, it was like me staying in camp office stoning my life away. By the way today was an off day too. Reached back home, a good friend of mine throws a physic question to me lucky i know how to do although i was stunned for awhile. I guessed it's the knowledge that i attained from rigourous mugging during the normal semester in NTU. Anyway now my guitar looks funny with the new string in the middle of the rest of the old strings.

Signs of ORD!!!!

It has been clinically proven and tested by many people that when a NSF nearing ORD(operation ready date) draws closer this symptoms below begins to shows up:-

1. Uses ORD often in a conversation. e.g greets people by saying ORD lor , ask question to new birds(rookies) like "when are you all going to ORD" and etc.
2. Put a smile on their face even when the superior scolds them.
3. Always on a hack care mood.
4. Try to siam trainings and work.
5. Starts asking for incentive offs from superiors.
6. Goes to the dentist to remove wisdom tooth. Because MC up to a week is given for every pair taken out.
7. Starts clearing weird leaves example medical leaves.
8. Trys mean n ways to downgrade pes status.
9. Pass down their knowledge of How to CAO KENG(malinger) to the new batch coming in.
10. Finally try to piss people off, who are not going to ORD that soon.

Today was like any normal day in camp, did nothing much but laze around in the camp office and freeze to death under the air-con. Anyway work like yesterday and today only cause was on mc on Monday n Tuesday, and tml am on off. But this coming Sunday will be going to the turf club for a performance anyway most likely wont be playing maybe only use my eye power to watch over things.

Finally did my medical FFI(Fit For Infantry) review, wow i almost fainted when the medics wanted to draw like 10ml of my blood la. Didnt dare to looked at the needle when it was poking into my skin, anyway the medics there are quite professional la even ask if it hurts anot. Anyway the doctor there didnt even read my medical history properly, straight away the doc ask me when did i had high blood pressure. I need like tell him that theres a column in that piece of paper stating past family medical history, so WAKE UP YOUR IDEA MAN YOUR A DOC CANT MAKE A SILLY MISTAKE LIKE THAT(maybe he was wearing his helmet earlier).

Well before ending work, went around with 2 other ORDING candidates looking for vcd player to play a movie. The search for the stupid piece of machine tooks us like haft an hour la, but at least manage to enjoy the movie if not rot and die in office. Hahahaha by the way 23 more days to ORD!!!

Pay Day...

It's been quite awhile since i received my internship allowance from the army. While for those who dont know basically the army pays their conscripts (forced to serve males) allowances, so that the conscripts can use the money to spend on stuff like non-camera phones, pay for cheverons membership (hardly go), pioneer maginese (didnt know rite) and other crappy essential items for army survival (etc FHM).

Anyway i got a pay rise cause am in the new army scheme, got 50 bucks extra pathetic rite. Actually better then nothing, later complaint somemore they might ask me go sign extras. Atleast am left with 25 more days to ORD!!!

Well was on medical leave today, my ankle recovering well hopefully will be up and running soon. It's so boring to stay at home although i rather stay at home then go to the place where alot of green men can be seen. Playing guitar and surfing the net was basically what i did for the day, well it beats rotting and stoning in camp. Ya am also giving guitar lessons to my friend hopefully am a good teacher hahahaha. Anyway if you all dun mind that am a rookie at playing guitar can always feel free to ask me about playing basic chords or other basic stuff about guitars.

Was reading a book, the book described that the church as a ship and that the cell groups or connect groups are it's life boat. This i totally agrees cause when someone stops going to church or losing faith in God, it's usually those small life boat that's goes to save the one that fell into the water. Well cell groups are important in a church where fellowship can be strengthen and help people in christ whenever their faith for God seem to be decreasing.

"For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.(Matthew 18:20)"

MC day again

Today felt weird, didnt want to go church today but in the end dragged myself there. Maybe due to the injury on my ankle from yesterday's game. It really sucks to get injured because some idiot decided to ramp your ankle instead of the ball. Then again without that injury would not have gotten my 2 days of MC.

Ya went church today, and felt God talked to me. He said:" go talk the that china girl, that alighted at the same bus stop as you. And tell her the direction to Charis Methodist church." Well in the end i did not anwered what God wanted me to do, although i knew what He wanted but i was afraid that i might scare the shit out of her e.g "Hey God told me to tell you how to get to Charis Methodist church." Anyway i was thinking what's the chance of meeting someone who was going to the same place as me and she might think am crazy.

Ok you all might find it strange but it's the truth, anyway the amazing thing happened that girl actually came to ask me for direction to Charis Methodist church. Although I didnt responded to the calling but in the end that event still happened. Ya anyway i walked with her to church and told her about some stuff about my church. Hahahaha i forgot the important thing i didnt ask for her name. Well hope to see her in church again, although she is not singaporean.

After church went for lunch, today the group was small cause most of them are at aussie Hillsong conference. Hope to go there once to have an experience of the church there, see how different is it from Singapore's. After lunch decided to claim my MC from changi hospital A&E department. Wow the waiting is like 3 hours la, but the good part about it is the 2 days of medical leave the doc gave. If you ask is it worth the wait, i would say YES. Of coz the wait is long by it's for a good cause for example i can rest my ankle, sleep whole day, watch tv, dun need to wear beret(makes u stupid), no stoning in camp and most importantly relac one corner at home(ok this phrase sounds mud). Ya update 27 more days to ORD!!!

Pain...

Thought that today would start out great, had made my plans for the day. Should start with soccer in the morning, followed by gathering at settler's cafe and finally cell group. In the end due to some idiot who didnt use his small brains, cause in the game of soccer u need to like kick the soccer ball and NOT THE ANKLE. Most likely that idiot left his brian at home before going to play soccer.

Ok i know am a christian and anger is a sin but then am still human not a robot, if am so forgiving about that then i would already be like Jesus. For He is so forgiving that He died on the cross for our sins. Then anger really will consume you when your not careful, thought of revenge and getting back at the other will keep flashing in your minds.

Today is like a torture for me cause i need to like limp all the way from Outram MRT station to settler's. Did catching up with secondary school friends and had a wonderful time doing stupid stuff hahahahaha. And Melody so blur like before, den the rest still about the same but kenneth you need to remove that stomach.
Ya cell was great today, and we got a new friend in cell today. Pray that God will guide, teach and continue to come to church or join our weekly cell groups. Most of the cell member went aussie for Hillsong Conference. Well the day ended with me limping back home.

Bday...a year older now

Am officially 23 years old now, cant believe that time really flies. Secondary school days was like yesterday, now am a NTU student cant believe that i could ever make it there. Anyway have been spending my last 3 birthday in army that like not really fun at all. No birthday off given, haiz guess need to wait for another year to spend my birthday officially as a civilian.

Once again i rot in the office and stare at the clock waiting for book out. Anyway 50 bucks really drop from the sky hahahaha joking only actually thats my hong bao given by my mom. Can say that today is really peaceful, nothing much happen but manage to share christian thought with a colleague in army. It's good when the office is empty, can sleep with no one disturbing and bring my guitar to play. By the way it's energizing to play Hillsong music in the morning.

Thank you Lord for giving me life 23 years ago, thank you for leading and guiding me to you all these years for you said " You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breath. Everyday was recoded in your Book. (Psalm 139:16) And I commit my time to your hand that you will guide me in your path. Thank Lord in your son name Amen.

ZZzzz...Tired

Didnt do much stuff in camp today, basically rotting my life away today. Have you ever try sitting on a chair, stare at the clock and asking yourself why the clock is moving so slowing. Every second feels like a minute, every minute feels like an hour. Thats like the worst kind of torture I almost need to face everyday, staring mindlessly at the clock waiting for when the tea-break and fall out going to come.

Well everyone went for parade, so am like the only one in the office. Taking lunch is like taking medication, it makes me feel drowsy. So i doze off while reading the Bible, wow it was a powerful nap. Felt energized after the nap, anyway the nap was short like 20 mins dont say i cao keng huh. Maybe i should bring my guitar to camp tomorrow, atleast i can do IP (individual practise) when the rest goes for parade.

Anyway 30 more days to ORD. Ya and tomorrow is like my birthday, quite reluctant to go to camp when my birthday is a working day and no off is given. Hope that something good will happen tomorrow like suddenly got $50 bucks drop from sky hahahaha.

"Love your neighbours like yourself. (Galatians 5:14)" Thats like what i cant really do for now, how can you forgive someone that easy when that person done something bad to you. Well should strive to achieve that stage.

Off day

My first off day since i resume my service in army. Did lots of stuff today, i finally decided to get myself a guitar tuner hahahaha should have brought the tuner a long time ago. Finally can use that new tuner to tune my guitar, usually i would go to the net to find the tuning note den tune by feel now no need to stress my ears liao. By the way the tuner cost 15 bucks from davis guitar and i can clip it onto my guitar damn cool la.

Have to say that my toe hurts like it had been ramp over by a truck but it didnt hinder me from going for my movie "transformers". The movie was a flash back for my childhood, remembered that the kids back then in primary school used to show off their autobots toy. I could onli stare at their toy sad rite. Anyway why is megatron not a gun, devastator so small and why Bumblebee not a beetle but a Chevy Camaro. Overall the movie was great with the special effects combined with some sarcastic remakes on the US government hahahaha. Well hope that the old transformers cartoon can be retelecast again on the tv.

Heres a sentence from Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life, " We sing , "Onward Christian Soldies " on Sunday, then go AWOL on Monday". Some of us only have God's fire burning on Sunday but when Monday come somehow the gas that fuels that fire seems to be turn down. Well that should not be the way but the gas should be alway turned at the max for Him. Guess it's the same in army where some people swear the SAF pledge but goes AWOL during service. Lastly 33 more days to ORD!!!

1st of July SAF Day

Just got back from SAF Day parade, anyway it's the 40th anniversary of army. Dont feel the excitement that i had from the parade last time when my batch mate were still in the band. Well i guess it suck to be the last to ORD, anyway joel i saw your PAUL in no.4 at the parade as audience. Felt that i wasted most of my time waiting for the parade to end.

But this year was quite different normally i would be in the parade playing my horn, this time round am sitting at the grandstand watching the parade. Actually it's quite different when your the spectator, can see the soldiers standing in the parade suffering hahahaha. Well i been through that before. By the way i was in no.1 too and i did join in the parade as a bass drum stand carrier basically carry the drum stand in for the drummers to place their drum so they dont need to carrier that heavy shit throughout the entire parade. Then before the march past, i need to remove the stand before the band marches off.

I felt that the whole parade this morning wasted my entire sunday. Firstly fall in 8am, then go SAFTI for morning rehersal till about 11am. Then break till 4pm to change to parade uniform, then parade start at about 5pm. Its like i wasted most of the time waiting could have gone to church or a movie then suffer there. Everyone was like sleeping in the squash court like some captive animal in a glass cage very funny la.

But then the food the organiser provided were great had western lunch with puddings and cookies for desserts. Later in the afternoon there was tea break snacks chicken pie with soft drink. Then dinner was KFC chicken with a can of cold 100 plus. It like the first time i see KFC dinner provided quite a moral riser after a tiring day a good meal will cheer me up. Anyway it's confirmed that this parade is my last parade coz am going to go for excuses not to take part in any other parades. The main cause for this is my bleeding toe wow the pain is like sensational la, can feel the pain everytime i walk. So hope that i get a super long excuse so that i can ORD in peace. And most importantly 34 more days to ORD!!!