To everyone reading this right now : IT IS TIME TO JOIN FANTASY FOOTBALL.

After a poor season last year, I am determined to do well this year. HAMMY BE PREPARED TO GET OWNED!!!!!


Speaking of owned, I myself got pretty owned on friday. I had to go to Fort Canning Park as I had to pass a CD (containing some of the work I did) to an officer who was having Cohesion with his unit there.

When I finally found the officer, the WHOLE unit (all in civilian clothes) was looking at me (in army uniform) walk towards the officer. One of them said to his friend loudly...

"EH NCC HOW COME GOT FORMATION ONE?"

Oh man, and i thought that by being in army uniform i won't be mistaken for a 16 year old.


As always, another video. This time on the founding of Singapore



still confined,
Gerbs

hey guys! there seem to be abit of a blogging frenzy so i shall contribute my small little part too.

it's been a tiring but totally fun and fulfilling 2 weeks first with all the SHOPPING (yes i really mean it) in hk then accountancy camp. since shit has alrdy touched on our very enjoyable but seriously tiring (our legs were threatening to break every night) holiday, i shall talk abt my camp.

k la actually nth much to talk abt just that i shall give u guys a word of advice. better tone up ur body now cos they will make u strip and poledance and all that stupid stuff. and we slept at like 5 am every morning. and practically every bloody cheer is in hokkien, but they're quite funny actually. and contrary to popular belief, ntu DOES have good-looking pple. quite many of them actually. and they DO speak english! heng ah. oh and one of my OG mate was taught by d.wong too but he's 2 yrs older.

kk anw as well all head off to diff unis to do diff things and lead diff lives, or go trekking in diff jungles with our diff units, we must still stay close and meet up often and be very much part of each other's lives k?

so for a start, who's up for simpsons this weekend?

hey hey

its been a long long time since i wrote anything here. since all the guys are writing something, i might as well drop by here to say hi. sorry if my english is a bit un-understandable cos my brain has been rotting for quite a while since i joined the army, but hope u get the idea.

as the only infantry guy around in our class, i feel that it is my duty to tell u that SOCJOC in brunei for u ppl in support arms is damn fun, at least u dun have to spend 9 days inside there with only 2 days of rations doing 3 navigation ex plus a survival package for JCC =) nice........ to fajoo and hasu, jiayou at combat e, see u in 19 weeks time at the parade square rehearsals (heard abt ur field pack standardisations.... bloodly insane) =) and to the new cadets nayr and hammy, have fun in ocs and reli reli treasure the time u have in service term cos its probably the best time in ocs. and nayr u better keep that finger out of the trigger guard or 14 days of rcp may jus be coming your way and ur CadetWingStoreMan hammy will not be able to save u from that shit.

i totally agree with taitai. we are so near adulthood already. no longer kids anymore. there are like alot of responsibilities on our shoulders. sometimes i jus wish i could be a cadet for my entire ns life cos after commissioning, there'll be so much responsibilities on my shoulders. 26 men's life in my hands, which i'll have to answer for, which i'll have the power to change. i'm sure hammy, as a wing appointment holder is feeling the pressure right? maybe as a first round appointment holder not that bad, but in pro term, our balls jus get squeezed all the time. all the sirs (and esp wsm) are asking to get things done in an impossibly short time frame and expect u to know everything that is going on and where all the stores are. the cadets are blur all the time and will only move fast if they get to book out. my balls got squeezed so badly today so many times i can barely feel them already.

1 plus year more and we'll be adults already (if we still havnt started thinking/behaving like one). honestly, who have thought thru seriously wad u want to do in the future, say 10 years down the road, and have made efforts to achieve it. i know i didnt, or at at least not that seriously. one of my sirs in ocs talked to us abt thinking abt our future during a meal time chat. he told us that a surey did (by wadever book or wadever college) recorded that from yale university, only 3 percent of the grads have thought thru wad they want to be in 10 years time and are making efforts to work towards that goal. and those 3 percent's earning 10 years after graduation is a few times (forgot how many) more that the rest. if u are wondering wad the hell i am talking here right, i'm jus trying to put across the point that we are near adults now should start thinking ahead liao. during my exercise cast away a few days earlier, starving and freezing to death under the tekong downpour, i thought to myself wad the hell am i doing here, wad shit i have got myself into by putting the tick in the box "i wanna be a commander in the army" during bmt. and subsequently i began to think wad i'll be in the future, and its blank. felt quite loser. dunno if its due to the extreme hunger or cold but i reli couldnt get a clear picture of wad i reli reli wanna be in the future.

ok jus said alot of crap hope u all arnt bored to death by all my nag like post. dunno why i've become very whiny/naggy over the months. sometimes i think like a 5 yr old and sometimes i think like a 50 yr old. wierd things army does to ur brain i must say.

its almost 3, had a bowl of wantan mee, cheese burger meal, fish and chips for supper after book out =) ex cast away makes u reli hungry haha.

signing off

As Father Time Marches On

I just celebrated my 19th Birthday about a week ago. Yes, I’m at a ripe old age of 19 already. By next year, I’ll be hitting the big two-o. Another one more year, and I’ll be officially declared an adult. Add another year to that, and I’ll be a full-fledged woman who will have to be responsible for her own economic survival in a ruthless corporate world. I know it’s scary to think about it, but in a few years’ time, we’ll all be forced to morph into independent individuals who can no longer fall back on our parents or our school for support.

I can’t say whether we will be ready to take on the world then. (can we ever be ready?) But one thing’s for sure: we have come a long way since our childhood days. I can’t help but marvel at how far I have developed from that mousey little girl in primary school, who was so used to being chaperoned by her aunt. I think I’ve done a lot of growing up in the past decade, and in particular, in the past few months. Looking around me, I see the same remarkable growth in all my peers. And mind you, the growth is pretty visible; we are certainly growing up before our very own eyes. Our conversations no longer revolve around the trivial, but broach on mature topics ranging from relationships to careers to our goals in life. (fine, we do indulge occasionally in the silly romantic scandals, but then again, what’s life without a bit of harmless fun and gossip?) These many tell tale signs all point towards our growing emotional maturity, especially in the months after we have bade the comfortable and familiar environment of the school farewell.

Truth be told, I think we should congratulate each other on how well we have matured and give thanks for the protective bubble that our prestigious school has sheltered us with. We may sound childish cracking face jokes and shying away from the night scene. But at least, we’re not going round kissing random people or chain-smoking. I think our ability to draw the line between enjoying ourselves and being crass is an achievement in itself.

However, this is still not enough. As father time marches on, he presses us on to further mental and emotional development, challenging us with the harsh reality of life. In the coming months (and for some of us, a few months ago) we will be (or would have been) confronted with even more unpleasantries of life: the fact that we have little choice over our lives, and the fact that we will have to do some things, whether or not we like it, whether or not we think they are right. We have to learn to make major decisions and to be responsible for them, and we also have to understand that certain choices, though not always the easiest, may perhaps be the best. We may find ourselves at a lost at how to deal with these manifold issues. But as a friend reminded me, we have something inherent inside each one of us to help us through this uncomfortable period, during which we shed our last streak of adolescence for adulthood – our memories.

I remember feeling extremely upset each time I returned home from my new college. Many of you should know by now that I haven’t chosen the college because i like it – on the contrary, I find myself disagreeing, to a large extent, with some aspects of the school culture – but rather, because it offers me an experience closest to the corporate world. However, each time I returned home from the place, I felt only immense pessimism as I came to realize how all my worst suspicions (and some additional problems i have not quite foreseen) have been confirmed. After my last visit, I returned home, as always, sullen and unhappy. But then, I happened to meet an old classmate online, who kindly reminded me of the fun times I shared with the class. As our conversation lapsed into nostalgic reminiscence of a not-so-distant-past, I felt my mood lift instantly.

So I hope we can all help to remind each other in the coming months that no matter how many extras you’ve been given, how 'xiong' your training is, or how lonely and empty you feel studying away from home on a harsh winter’s night, we can always look inside our vault of treasured memories, and find something worthy to smile for. =]

P.S: Sorry for the long and unnecessarily emo post, but this is as much for me as for you. Cheer up anyone who is still upset/uncertain.

P.P.S: My heartfelt thanks to to the person who cheered me up that day. I think you know you are. Thank you.

P.P.P.S: Let's meet up soon, i feel like baking something nice for the class with my new power mixer! =D

KBOX OUTING

okay sorry to disrupt the intended series of blog entries on hongkong but i miss everyone too much! (thinks the class girls hahaha) so anyway since most of us are unemployed and such now can we go for kbox on tues afternoon? either klunch or 2-5. or maybe saturday will be better?! whatever it is spread the word around and comment in our tagboard or something lar! I MISS YOU GIRLS! plus i am going to be damn devoid of social life from the week after next u can ask me why when u see me i will be very :(:(

p.s. sorry shit i know u cant do tues but i am sure u will have fun in taiwan right ;)

hongkong!

As you all probably know it by now, we are back from hongkong!! It had been an exciting yet exhuasting trip. We may not have eaten a lot, but we certainly have shopped till we dropped (:

Personally, I think jetstar is quite an okay airline if you are just taking short trips and well, you yourself arent too tall. There isnt much leg room, but more than enough for a 1.58m girl/boy. haha. Food's quite good on board, but would be even better if it was free.

We went to a few places-mongkok, ocean park, tsim sa tsui, central and the peak. Our hotel is located in mongkok, which is in kowloon (if you dont know), very near to women street where we did most of our bag shopping on the 1st day.

We visited Ocean Park on the 2nd day. I never knew that Ocean Park was that huge! There were many rides, but unfortunately i think we only took like 4 of them coz it was just way too hot to move around. There's this ride that's called space wheel (??). Basically it sits two in each carriage and then spins you in circles (think centripetal force). Being the nice girl that i am, i volunteered to sit with Jilyn and endured her screams throughout, i repeat throughout, the whole 1 minute or so ride. It was quite funny actually, her screaming was almost continuous, just occasionally punctuated by her breath intake. LOL oh, we also went into the aquariums (air con!) where we saw pretty interesting specimens of jellyfish.

Highlights on the 3rd day would be Madame Tussauds Wax Museum and the Peak. The wax figurines look so darn real! Took a lot of photos (: oh, but jay chou was fugly. They made a replica of him when he was just new in the industry..i.e. the fugly hair. Quite disappointing.






OMG, i really really love the night view of hongkong at the peak. So pretty! Okay, you guys probably cant see that clearly from the pictures, guess you would have to be there to experience it!




The last few days were just shopping at tsim sa tsui and mongkok. i'm a lil too tired to blog abt that. maybe someone else continue? Bin? Jilyn?? or cass??

Next stop: Taiwan (:

cheers!

Interesting Video

Kind of depressed now as i will have SEVEN continuous weekend duties (or 3.5 weekends). So that means bye bye rush hour 3, simpsons movie (pls DO watch me though) and hello deathly hallows, the alchemist and cold mountain.

Can't really be bothered to explain why i got it but u can ask me.


And to those concerned, a CRAB, no matter how cute, is not a BAG.


A video from JEOPARDY!, where they will provide the answer and u give the qn. E.g. They will give "Its capital city is KL" and u have to say "What is Malaysia".




Till Aug 11th

Bye

life

woah its been a long time since i last wrote anything here. i guess to help hammy keep this blog alive i shall post something.

my life preeety much kinda sux rite now. i mean.. fajoo is in the same wing as me.. and i screwed myself 10x over by choosing to come to combat e. with all the rumours i heard, life for the next 19 weeks sounds like hell, but hopefully can get used to it fast lah

u guys in ocs should really cherish your time there man. i rmbr the times we used to clown around and the instructors will sort of just sit there and let us do our stuff.. but here its like everything is about image. must act mature.. do the right things so other pple will be impressed by officers. damn, i almost forgot im only like.. 19?..

haizz. life is unfair lah. the logistics officers get the same cadet pay as us and get to stay in air con bunks. the signals officers get the same cadet pay as us and dont get treated like shit. the air force officers..... arrrhh dont even wanna get started there. but i guess i got myself into this shit by choosing to come to combat e so i shouldnt complain so much

crap, i think im sounding damn depressed. hmm.. maybe on to more interesting stuff. i just came back from brunei, which is superrr shack but damn fun. hahaha. we had to like carry our field packs and walk around in the jungle, and even climb a mountain just for fun. i rmbr this super dangerous slope which my team took even though there was a damn nice track which common sense told us to take. (-_-) the slope is close to like a 80 degree angle.. u know the show vertical limit? yeapz we could have filmed vertical limit 2 if we had a freaking camera with us. haha. but in the end my team made it back 1 day earlier than scheduled lah... errr unlike someone else. hehehe

oh man just watched harry potter yesterday and i think it sucked. the story sounded the same as all the previous ones, but this one was even worse than the last ones. to make things worse, chio chang is not chio at all lor

kkz thts all for me now. cya

p.s. just jking fajoo. luv ya =X

Update! Update!

hello so6a ^_^

ok not much to update, just serving national service in the same wing as ryan~i havent had to write his name in my extra duties book yet, and he didnt accidentally pull the trigger on thursday so all congratulate him heh

nice simple army life with not much time to communicate with the outside world and watch manchester united's pre-season games haha

(yes i havent dotaed in more than a month gerbert and i am in no way suffering from withdrawal symptoms) maybe more so itchy hands and feet for bball and football but oh well.

we just had our first bookout YAY and i have no one to watch transformers with zzz
looking forward to meeting tmr for harry potter~

probably moving near the end of the month or so so dont pop by my house its messier than usual now heh

hows everyone?