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2010-09-18T23:34:00.003+08:00

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Block leave

2010-09-17T23:08:00.011+08:00

It has been awhile, since the block leave started. My life sucked merely because mother nature is having her period, and refuses to ping me with the greenlight to the open air.

Sunday
Finally, I cleared the Army Half Marathon that I was looking forward to. I haven't been running lately. Both Jhuang and Jwen are involved in the hectic IPPT/SOC training schedule. Cyong clears his offs like free and I had to cover multifarious activities held back there in camp. Before the half marathon, the furthest I've trained thus far was 7km. So, during AHM, my leg cramped at the 14KM mark and there goes my below-2hours. Cleared pathetically by 2Hrs 8Mins and CLS after the run. (CLS: Cramp Like Siao)

After the run, I went back home and got a wink of sleep; approximately 3hours and woke up for Ykai's birthday dinner - iluma. Nonetheless, it was steamboat. But this time, Japanese Shabu Shabu.

P.S. with cute waitresses.

Monday
Went to Kallang cage to watch Bronco-soccer John invited via Facebook. People that went: Harrison, Guang Wei, Joseph Phang, Jordan, Charles, Zhi Wei, Jerald, Chee Yeong and of course John himself. It was post AHM afterall; some of them backed out last minute.

After the game, Jerald drove Harrison, Guang Wei, Chee Yeong and myself to Old Airport Road's market for lunch. Joseph Phang, ZhiWei and some of his friends joined us via Zhi Wei's car. Nothing much happened. Went home after lunch.

At night, I rode down to Chomp Chomp for supper with some awesome guys and learnt about the final promotion list. People that went: John, Jerald; Chee Yeong, Zuo Ping and of course myself.

Jerald sitting on Zuo Ping's bike.

Zuo Ping on my bike.

P.S. got to know Platoon 5 a little more.

Wednesday
Had this random dinner at Commonwealth with: Jia Huang, Edwin, Konrad and Nicholas. It was Tze Char. After the dinner, Edwin went home and the rest of us went to Serene Centre.

When we were 5mins-walk away....

Konrad: Eh Ian stays near Island Creamery also leh.
Me: Really? I call him.
Ian: Hello?
Me: Sir ah? You stay near Island Creamery right?
Ian: Ya how you know?
Me: Oh Konrad told me.
Ian: Oh.. Yes?
Me: Wanna come down to Island Creamery? I'm with thoseiwaswith... Do you wanna come down and join us for ice-cream?
Ian: Sure..

He said he lives at 5minswalkawayfromislandcreamery and he took super long to reach.

Jho: Why he take so long ah? Got other Island Creamery anot? Later not this 1 how?
Me: Oh shit. *SMS: Wait, the one at Serene Centre right?*
Ian: Umm. Yupp!
Me: *Phew*

After Islandcreamerying, he offered to send us off to Jia Huang's place. He was a !@#$%^&* driver.

Nicholas, Konrad and myself stayed over at Jia Huang's house. Starcraft 2ed, Table Tennissed, iphone 4ed and finally went to sleep. My intention was to go SGH with Wen Tao at 0700Hrs and obviously, I overslept.

P.S. Ian passed his TP on this very day.

Thursday
I had my Orthodontic appointment after like half a year because it was high key all the way till August. After that, I went Tiong Bahru met Jerald and Shawn for lunch. The both of them went PSB academy to register Edwin Foo's course and since I stay near Tiong, I joined them. Ok it was steamboat again....

After lunch, Jerald and I went over to SGH to find Wen Tao as I personally forced him to consult a doctor. He's having stomach ulcer and thankfully it is less severe than the one I had. I lectured him and rehearsed with him a couple of times regarding his Chief Complain so that the doctor wouldn't misdiagnose him.

While Wen Tao was waiting for his Blood Test results, Jerald and I left for Bugis as he wanted to buy some clothings. After an intensive clothes-hunt, we finally went for dinner and left.

P.S. gastric ulcer was excruciating.

Friday
Bintan Trip with Jordan and Jerald - cancelled
Jurong East Swimming Complex trip with Platoon 7 - cancelled (due to rain)
I stayed home the whole day and composed a blog entry after dinner.

P.S. this sucks.

Genting Highland`2010 (RANDOM IMAGE)

Archery

Outdated

2010-09-11T10:31:00.001+08:00

Damn, I have lots of outdated presents at home that I have not given out due to my lazyness. GG

I ask sky

2010-09-10T09:56:00.004+08:00

Everywhere you go, you hear people singing: Wa meng ti, wa meng ti! (I ask sky, I ask sky)

Shell: FML

2010-09-07T15:09:00.008+08:00

I went to pump petrol at Shell and unknowingly took out my Shell card together with my Safra and Debit card upon payment. The aunty asked: You wanna pay by? FML

Sending @Jezer Goh back to camp

Sunday night, I sent Jezer Goh back to camp after dinner - after IT show. I insisted to stay at the gate until I see someone from platoon 7.

PS/ it took quite a while.

Mr Brown Show: Oh Army

Juvenile

2010-08-29T13:12:00.005+08:00

I was playing with WenTao some childish Don't-want-to-talk-to-you game. Both of us pretended that we're quarrelling and we both tried very hard not to converse. My intention was to not talk to him till ORD. LOL! Couldn't hold back and it was really funny. He wanted to talk to me so badly but he was trying so hard to hold back. HAHAHA! The face was priceless.

Well, the fullstop of that lame game was marked during some dota game when I laned with him. I can't believe I can be that childish. HAHAHA!

Genting Highland`2010 (RANDOM IMAGE)

On the little boat, crawling towards some Dinosaur Cave thing. Yes, It was that slow.

PS/ Time for some childish Digimon Theme Song.

Teenage Dream

2010-08-24T12:18:00.008+08:00

Some cool beat boxing + singing combination I saw on Tina's blog.

PS/ To improve your English, Visit http://www.bennedchen.blogspot.com/
Read the About Me to know more about the author.

Vocational Obstacle Course

2010-08-19T18:32:00.005+08:00

Goh Jian Hong, John Tan, Matthew Chua, Kok Kein, Edwin Foo, Lai Xin Hua, Shawn Lee and Mathew Teo were tasked to test out the all new Vocational Obstacle Course quite some time ago. (some call it Section SOC)

It is a course that will be implemented for the future generations NSF/NSmen. In fact, I think they'll probably add this into our reservist syllabus. Which I think it's something to look forward to. It was really fun. (Excluding the casualty evacuation part)

The course started off with a 1km fast march in SBO + Organic equipment. And finally, we arrived at the foreign looking obstacles that we were to clear. The obstacles were really easy to clear despite having to carry our organic stuff because everyone was really helpful and somehow the team spirit was there.

After the obstacles, we needed to casevec casualties. 100m via human lifting, 200m via stretcher. Casualty evacuation was shag. And Edwin was the one on the stretcher.

My forearm was flexed to the maximum and I was about to let go the stretcher that Edwin was lying on. My grip was lousy, my palms were sweating cats and dogs. I needed tremendous arm power back then to compensate my gripping strength like the last time during SOC. Fortuitously, I hung on. I don't know why.

Edwin is an important friend? Or was it because that there were female officers looking?

JianHong and Matthew carried me as well, I felt so fat and heavy. They were struggling.

Other than the casevec thing, it was really fun. Once again, good job everyone.

Genting Highland`2010 (RANDOM IMAGE)

At the themepark. This was taken by a random tourist.

PS/Vivian was sweet.

Combat Shoot 2nd attempt

2010-08-16T10:28:00.004+08:00

My colleagues are doing their Combat Shoot now. I helplessly couldn't do anything for them but to pray for their safety and hope my platoon mates ace their shoot.

PS/ When I mention my platoon mates, I'm referring to Platoon 7 men and Platoon 6 specs.

Genting Highland`2010 (RANDOM IMAGE)

Queueing to purchase themepark tickets. Edwin and Collin were discussing about the rides.. I think.. They are Genting regulars.

Abstraction

2010-08-15T20:51:00.004+08:00

The Youth Olympic week barely started and yet, my mood meandered abruptly. In fact, it had difficulty escalating once it hit a certain point down there. I think it'll be a gloomy week for me again.

I don't want to be petulant in this entry. Or rather, I have no mood for that.

Relationship....

Friendship....

Kinship....

Pernicious objects on these 3 ships clustered and stabbed me all at once. It is doleful, but life has to go on.

Youth Olympic Games 2010` Singapore

2010-08-14T22:48:00.008+08:00

Rings of the world united on the largest floating platform in the world.

Today's the birthday of the Youth Olympic Games. The opening ceremony was held at Marina Bay floating platform where the stupendous torch was illuminated. It was a spectacular extravaganza - probably better than our National Day Parade 2010 which I've watched a hundred million times.

Apple's future plan

PS/ Thank goodness they didn't play the Oh yea oh yea song.

Standard Offsticle Course

2010-08-11T18:39:00.003+08:00

Passing the Standard Obstacle Course is like a big deal - at least for now. You get random night's off, you get random offs.

Last night, I went back to camp with Jezer, Zuoping and Cheeyeong. Jezer's today's BOS, Zuoping booked in for godknowsreason and as for Cheeyeong and I, we went to pace our colleagues for SOC.

Alvin and Jerald passed, congratulations. As for Collin, I do not know. I paced Collin for the first run down and Tom took over after the low ramp. Technically, the timing he leaped off the ramp should minimally get him a pass. Hopefully he'll do 22Alpha proud :)

Random thought when I was pacing: If Edwin wasn't there to pace me, I wouldn't have passed. I want to include this entry with this because this is something I want to remember. Thanks Edwin and also people who supported me with their heart, soul and eyes - Charles, Boon, WK, Chuck and JH.... I hereby, once again thank you people many much.

Genting Highland`2010 (RANDOM IMAGE)

Goldenmile - Pre embarkment photo on the Grassland bus.

PS/ The feeling of failing SOC sucked. I want help as many people as possible.

Sony Walkman W Series

2010-08-10T21:43:00.002+08:00

Just bought a white Sony Walkman W Series.

PS/ I booked out just now, and I'm booking in right now :) Hope there will be more SOC passers tomorrow!

Jezer and Waikit's 20th birthday.

2010-08-09T01:45:00.010+08:00

First of all, congratulations to Jing Feng upon promoting to CFC @ brunei. You definitely deserve it. I'm not CFC btw. Please stop flattering me (saying I'm CFC-to-be) because it'll only make me feel that I've achieved nothing for the past 19 months.

Secondly, I went swimming with Konrad today. I was a lousy coach but I definitely saw progress. I was happy and at the same time rueful. Kon lost $20 because of me. Hate myself.

Next, I went to meet the Tampines people for dinner (Tze Char) as it was Jezer's birthday. Went Kallang Leisure Park right after dinner for a movie. And before the movie....

We went to starbucks to chill out as Kallang Leisure Park isn't a very exciting shopping centre to begin with. Shared a cup of Java chip with ZuoPing.

And ya, this is my current bed buddy @Zack Chua Zuoping. I missed the last train and he sent me home despite being so tired after a long day. Thanks!

The birthday boy - Jezer Goh Jun Ye.

PS/ Thx Sgt Eugene for nominating me for CFC. It probably won't happen because I'm not CPL for 6 months yet but still, it is greatly appreciated.

PSPS// Konrad, I didn't waste my time. You're making great progress. I'll be seeing a swimming-Konrad soon!

PSPSPS/// The Genting roller coaster girl kept appearing in my dream. She was a random girl I had a crush on @ Genting Highland.

PSPSPSPS//// Happy be-lated 20th Birthday to Jezer and Waikit. All the best! And may the both of you accompany me to Australia. HEH!

Sentimentality

2010-08-06T22:02:00.003+08:00

"Why am I feeling so depressed?" I asked myself. I couldn't find the answer until today, when I reflected upon my NS journey. I found it.

When a frame of my life I cherish approaches the end, I tend to blank out. I'll gawk at my surrounding(in fact, everything around me), ranging from my peers, to the dried leaves fallen on the ground. I want to remember everything for I am greedy.

I want to remember how the mud splattered when we bashed through the vegetation during field exercises. I want to remember the painful IV sessions I went through in medic course. I want to remember how the ORDing commanders gave us our heads-out RO. I want to remember how annoying Mr Bala was. I want to bring home infinite memories.

Time surges forward, and never the opposite. I know that it's impossible to experience this ever again. This feeling corresponds to the feeling I felt during my last lap in medic course. I couldn't help but to isolate myself, mimicking a video camera, hoping to capture the most beautiful moment... No, in my case, hoping to capture everything.

Well, Edwin told me that moving on is part and parcel of life. Yes, inevitably, I'll be moving on...

Signing off,

Matt

2 Digits

2010-08-01T03:27:00.008+08:00

The number of days to Operational Ready Date (ORD) had finally decreased to 2 digits. Cheers!

Saigang (shit work) after saigang. Life is all about saigang when it comes to post-atec period. It ranges from fun pack packing to bird shit scraping. Well, it doesn't matter. I tried to help people whenever I could. I sacrificed my sleep-in-bunk time and helped because if I didn't, Jeremy and Nicholas will be gobbled up by @#$!%&* I don't need reconition like CFC or soldier of the month. I need appreciation.

Everyone was sitting down packing NDP fun packs, I was standing up (in fact, walking non stop) loading the packs into the container with the Papa Sierra-s. People can just throw the packs around, and expect me to walk here and there to pick it up, arrange it nicely, count, and then load when that person's job is just to zip up the bag. And when I started sweating, I received comments like: Don't step garang leh.. I cannot take it leh...

4hours-ready-to-rock-and-roll duties started. Afew days back, we were told to clean the vehicle shed. Traces of artillery bombardment from the birds were detected and we needed to rectify the situation. The usual lazy ones empowered us with their sparkling eyes and claimed that it was difficult the scrape this scrape that. WaiKit told me to help them out and there it goes: Wah.. wayang only... comfirm CFC liao lor (in a sarcastic manner).

It was so tired trying to keep smiling, faking that I'm glad to help you cannot-be-bothered people. It is really @&#*$% to see Jeremy and Nicholas doing work for the whole family.

Sometimes, I ask myself: Am I helping people because I'm trying to be a good soldier? Did I do it out of pity? Or am I doing it because they're my friends? Will I do the same thing if the people suffering are not my friends? Nevermind.

Had this super random dinner with Shermi and Rachel at T.G.I Friday, Heeren. Shermila will be flying off to England soon so I thought I should catch up with her. O level days.... Nostalgic..

Genting Highland`2010 (RANDOM IMAGE)

Glow in the dark bowling @ Genting Highland. I didn't play though.. Just a spectator. They had fun. They really did.

PS/ Once again, 99 absolute days to ORD! 71 more working days to ORD! Minusing my offs and leaves..... hmmm........ :3

Grandslam

2010-07-31T00:47:00.007+08:00

Combat shoot: Marksmen
Individual Physical Proficiency Test: Gold
Standard Obstacle Course: Passed

*BAM!*

Genting Highland`2010 (RANDOM IMAGE)

After the dinosaur boat ride @ Genting themepark

PS/ Hope we can all attend starlight together.

Effort

2010-07-25T21:03:00.005+08:00

Today,I went dipping into the pool again. I decided that I needed to put in a little extra effort in my swimming as I am really weak - weak enough to fail SOC at least. Somehow, my thighs are aching now. It don't usually happen. Is this aging? I don't know.

Genting Highland`2010 (RANDOM IMAGE)

PS/ I am extremely lazy to compose a lengthy and wordy entry about the genting trip. Picture speaks, words don't.

@Pizza hut after checking out from the hotel.

PSPS// Ok, one photo per blog entry. Ciao.

Corporal First Class

2010-07-23T22:50:00.005+08:00

The usual me wouldn't give a shit about army. But somehow, all of a sudden, I cared alot! Events happening in camp, unexpectedly, escalated great significance in my thoughts.

Yesterday, I failed SOC once again! Heh! But at least, I cleared the swing trainer!! (Something I couldn't clear for the past 1 year +!) I was contented. I wasn't that shag when I was running... No, I was shag - Or rather, my arms were!

I used up 19.862431% of my arm's power on Parallel bars; 79.62314% on Swing Trainer - my upper limbs worned out instantaneously right after. When my palms sweat (ESP during tests), I need a massive amount of arm power to conpensate the loss in gripping strength. And ultimately, after the generous compensation, my arms nua-ed. Needless to say, I waved goodbye to my awesome colleagues at the station where the ropes dangled. BYE BYE GRAND SLAM! :D

PS/ I enjoyed the SOC training!
PSPS// It is never fearful when one fails, it is fearsome when one gives up!

I addition to SOC, buddy SNG and Edwin Foo got promoted to Corporal First Class! There are countless things I want to learn from them. (Especially in terms of attitude and character)

I have a serious attitude problem and my character's generally bad. This 2 CFCs here are probbably the toughest-to-piss-off in my circle of friends. No matter what, they handle things calmly with a smile on their face. They never complain or whine about little issues here and there which is totally substantial. I want to change... I want.

Ok Konrad won't be online so soon as he recently moved his house so I'll upload a sneak peek of Genting`2010

PSPSPS/// The Sorcerer's Apprentice was awesome!

Post-Genting`2010

2010-07-19T16:57:00.002+08:00

Came back from Genting 2 days ago. Waiting for Konrad to send me the photos before I upload them on Facebook & Blogger.

PS/ Image speaks, words don't.

Pre-Genting`2010

2010-07-14T16:51:00.003+08:00

I will be setting off to Genting tonight at approximately 2230hrs.

Will be back this saturday. Ciao~

Factory Worker

2010-07-12T13:03:00.008+08:00

I have been working intensively as a factory worker, day to night - last week. Not for the whole of last week but in fact, it actually felt like a whole week. Well, we NSFs are cheap labour so why not? Use us to pack National Day goodie bags, use us to cover medical orderly @ Padang... Yada yada yada.

The Inevitable Arrow

Some other coy dude got mobilized and I have to stand in for him for last saturday's NDP. Last week wasn't a week for me. Everything was going against my will and I kinda used up all my luck during ATEC 2 for dying numerous times during the evaluation. I don't even want to mention what happened but all I can say is FML. Nevertheless, the gloomy me had to wake up at like 5am in the morning to prepare for the Combined Rehersal cover. And It stretched all the way till approximately 2300hrs. Once again, FML.

Cheeky Bastard Adrain.

Will be setting off to Genting this wednesday... No before that...

Platoon 6 and 7 will be booking in tonight for RUNS tomorrow. A run to train up for AHM and also to run the goodie bag chain.

Talking about running. I ran around 7km last night and I saw Lejon Chua Jia Wei whilst running through Depot Road.

And ya, I'm glad that I'm allowed to go Genting which is a pre-4NTM trip for all of us. Glad that I didn't back out at the very last minute :) I hope the trip will saunter me off the reality track that I was stumbling upon; temporarily. Hopefully, we will come back in One Piece.

Something interesting I saw at Stomp.com - Bukit Batok clinic says it won't issue World Cup MCs - what a cheeky doctor.

Speaking of worldcup... CONGRATULATIONS SPAIN! THE CHAMPION OF FIFA WORLDCUP 2010, SOUTH AFRICA!

PS/ If the world really ends at 2012, wouldn't FIFA WORLDCUP 2010, SOUTH AFRICA be the last worldcup? Hm..

Inpersonation of Ris Low. The Noose

NDP`2010

2010-07-04T11:28:00.011+08:00

Reminiscing the NDP days last year did bring back nostalgia in me. Even now, whenever I look at the Floating Platform, images of my involvement flashes rapidly through my thoughts. Especially the year 1 sergeants and officers. They rocked. My 2009 involvement was really special. The rest of the troopers did marshalling while I did covers,"covers" and phototaking.

During weekdays, I covered the guard duty personnel (The soldiers from our battalion that guards the floating platform). When it comes to weekends, I "cover" my company with 20 tablets of paracetamol. And in addition to that, I walked the whole city area with Zack to snap photos of B coy's participants.

2009

OC briefing me a his instructions of what kind of image he expects and when I should execute the shots.

And so did Coy 2IC.

2010 - I grew. My responsibilities grew as well.

This year, I'm involved with heavier responsibilities. 46SAR paramedics are to run Medical Post 2 @ Padang, every saturday, without fail. Good thing is, there's rotation now. So I'll be free during some saturdays compared to last year (Which was more intensive but nevertheless, more boisterous).

This is my team! With colleagues and juniors.

and of course, the typical armband medic shot that you usually see during medic's POP day.

And that summed up this entry.

SOMEHOW, SOME HOW, SOME-HOW
Somehow I love this AD. It is somehow heart warming and it somehow made me feel like I'm in the movie theater.

SCOUTS

2010-07-03T12:32:00.002+08:00

Thank goodness I rejected the Scout offer during BMT or I'll be dead by now.

PART 1

PART2

SIM registration

2010-06-30T19:13:00.009+08:00

Disclaimer: Contrary to popular belief, any similarities to actual people or events are purely coincidental. (Koped from The Noose)

Approximately 2 years ago, I fell out of my education journey while I was surging towards polytechnic back then after my O levels. I said I was surging towards it because I was so excited about poly life - You know when you finally get to wear home clothes to school, slack off and PON school as and when you like?

Nevertheless, I made a crazy decision - which is to enlist first (to be a pathetic trooper) and then pursue private education after serving the nation. (As I had completely no interest in my poly course) After enlisting into the army, I realised that I enlisted with the JC kids of my batch. We will be ORD-ing this november and the JC dudes have to wait for around 9 months before they can start schooling in uni. Local Uni I mean...

To the best of my knowledge, none of my sec school mates that went polytechnic are eligible for local uni. Of course If I went poly, I'm probably one of the CMI-s that'll slack off during lessons or even PON lessons. And so, I'll probbaly end up in a private school then. Not that I'm conceited. I'm just contented.. I made the right decision to save my 3 years of youth in poly.(Some even went for private degree courses that aren't relevant to what they've studied in poly) I find it a total waste of time (Especially for males like us who have to serve National Service) I'll be starting school this coming January right after I ORD and will be ascending up to Bachelor/hons @ 2012 If everything runs smooth & provided planet earth is still healthy.

Skip that historical shit. I went SIM HQ Campus yesterday with mom. (Of course to register) I was wondering if I would bump onto CHIK in school and apparently, I DID! Somehow, I dashed up the escalator for no reason. I just felt like it, I don't know why. And because of that, I saw CHIK between 2 pillars from my point of vision. And somehow he turned for no reason as well. OMG! We were fated to meet? Cuz if I didn't hasten up my pace up the escalator, he would have entered the lecture room and we wouldn't have met each other.

Anyway I'm striving for Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Management (External), awarded by The University of Manchester - ranked 26th in the world in 2009. (NUS was ranked 30th in 2009) It won't be easy, just a motivation. Hah. Signing off with Lady Gaga's Alejandro.

PS/ I'm not trying to say University of Manchester (External) is better than National University of Singapore (Local) unless you're talking about employment in United Kingdom.

PSPS// Manchester UNITED ftw!

The first 4G phone in USA.

2010-06-28T02:24:00.009+08:00

Did a little research on handsets that I may want in the near future as ORDinary life isn't far-flung away. I found this...

Official intro

Some review

1st 4G Andriod phone that finishes off iphone 4 with ease. Andriod is Google's operating system - It means owning. For more infomation, visit www.sprint.com/evo
Google is reaching to apps developers to develop cool apps to run on this phone which is something to look forward to.

PS/ iphone 4 is not 4G though.

Post-ATEC 2 thoughts.

2010-06-27T12:27:00.004+08:00

Last week, was a lengthy week. Staying out is something that most NSFs thirst for - but staying out in the field is ultimately a different story. It's not that Ex Quicksilver is physically demanding but it's a complete mental affliction.

Thank goodness! EX QS was the final blow that SAF gave me for my tedious NSF days. No more nasty fieldcamps.. No more combat rations.. No more blood donations.. No more camouflage cream.. No more!! As much as I want to believe, let those horrid days be memories, not reality. Days I want to reminisce upon, when that sense of nostalgia sets in in the future.

THE SO CALLED FTX2

2010-06-13T17:06:00.006+08:00

FTX 2 was relatively slack and flimsy. Or rather, we shouldn't even call it a Full Troop eXercise as many were not even involved. To my astonishment, I didn't feel miserable during the exercise at all as I always do. It was very tolerable and in fact, kinda fun - especially at MUTF. I was totally a cheating Medic I swear ((:

Booked out early on friday, planned to go IT show. But sadly, Jezer booked out a little late and we could barely make it to the show on time. So, we went to Cineleisure to cheer on JiaHuang instead. He was performing on stage with David and some dude. They were in the semi finals and fortuitously, they made it to the finals ((: Congratulations!

Fortunately, I did not hit the IT show for some godknows reason - or I would have bought a phone via impulse. And of course if I did, I'll probably bring the phone into camp which screws with the military law. And if a theft case happens again... - GG!

Theft case after theft case, how forlorn is the human race? Your buddies went out to the battlefield to chiong and suffer, !!YOU!! (whoever you are) stayed back in the coy line like a pussy to filth your blemished hands. Do pussies steal? In fact, evidently, they do. I didn't assume, it's obvious.

Fuck that, fuck you and fuck your mum for giving birth to you. Your lowly existance brought pain to others especially to platoon 7. SO, FUCK OFF!

iphone 4 isn't that bad. It just needs flashplayer to wrap it up perfectly.

UPCOMING FTX2

2010-06-07T13:52:00.006+08:00

Woke up in the morning - felt feverish. And the first thing that hit my mind was: Oh shit, why am I sick again during this FTX2 week? Went back to sleep again. - And apparently, I woke up with my temperature declined to normal. Thank goodness!

Also, I've registered for the Standard Chartered Marathon via GohJianHong's debit card @ the inet room as we were given orders to ride on a Blue Pegasus through our weekend. SCMarathon $45 registration ends friday so we had no other alternative choice.

PS/ PSed many interested parties as GohJianHong couldn't possibly pay for everyone in advance.

As we galloped on the Blue Pegasus through our beloved saturday, we sacrificed our good old weekend before our FTX2. Anyway the ride was pretty much of a sightseeing experience. You see Mercedes Benz drifting through slippery gounds and orangey cones at the lower deck of your vision; you see seacrafts sailing on the polluted sea meandering on the horizon; and of course aircrafts! YES, AIRCRAFTS! FML

Random picture of the week

I was taking a picture for my platoon. YES! MY PLATOON!

PS// All saturdays of mine will be burnt from 19th June onwards. All the way till the Nation's birthday! Once again.... FML

Family birthdays. Mum and Dennis`2010

2010-05-30T17:14:00.005+08:00

Yesterday was Mum's birthday, as well as my cousin Dennis's. Uncle decided to treat the family to Sakura but it wasn't very accessible. So, we ended up at Xiao Xuan Feng (Tiong Bahru Plaza - some chinese restaurant) and had our dinner there. Had lots of sumptuous food from the authentic chinese cuisine and It's the first time I'm eating properly after a week + of shit in my oesophagus. It's still hurting a little but it's very tolerable.

Haven't been exercising since 2 weeks ago and my whole body is feeling uneasy. It's like withdrawal symptoms I swear! I need to exercise or I will... omgwtfbbq...

And WenPu PSed us and signed up for the marathon himself. The rest of us, have to sign up ourselves and we're clueless of how the procedure should be done. If we sign up online, we need a rich person with credit card to do the payment first, which is rather insurmountable to find suchha kind soul yo. And now we're thinking of asking the interested parties out tomorrow and do the registration together as tommorrow's their off in lieu. We'll see how it goes. Ciao~

Some cute shit I saw from Zuo Ping's blog.

HTC HD2

2010-05-29T12:28:00.003+08:00

HOLYSHIT

2010-05-27T16:17:00.009+08:00

Hey casey

FTX ended?

my diagnosis was esophageal ulcer

godlike pain 4:05pm

Casey

you fucker

worried me like hell

you and cheeyong

im glad its not your heart

but the esophageal ulcer shit..get it checked

can turn cancerous

can, not will 4:06pm

HOLY 4:07pm

Casey

yah so PLS TAKE CARE PLS 4:08pm

I will 4:15pm

Casey is offline.

Esophageal ulcer.

2010-05-26T08:39:00.004+08:00

I've been suffering for the past 1 week, Esophageal ulcer. The pain is excruciating and the involving region is at my upper abdominal, near my chest. It also resembles chest pain (some kind of squeezing cum burning pain) and pain scale is 9/10. Initially, I thought it will recover on it's own but due to the hydrochloric acid (PH2)- in the gastric, it's rather impossible; and if I didn't seek treatment, internal bleeding will probably occur. It started since thursday, the day when I went vehicle shed to do OVM with Collin and Gordon. The pain was relatively tolerable back then and it worsened day by day- all the way till saturday night, when I finally decided to consult the doctor as I couldn't even eat or drink!

I hesitated, as the following day was book in day (I mean, early book in day). Seeing the doctor will totally make me a typical fake-illness-NSF (Chao Keng) that wants to dodge (siam) activities (And of course, we're having Full Troop Exercise for the whole of this week!) in the army. Nevertheless, I proceeded as the pain scale shot up beyond tolerable level. It was doleful and censurable- My comrades are suffering out there in the field, and I'm here, lying on the bed being a pussy. The very least I could do is to pray for good weather in my current forlorn state.

Is my illness inevitable? Or did I purposely ingest something that will cause this ulcer so I can skip FTX? We cannot avoid comments from others can we?

Initially,I was warded (for three days) for observation only. They used the baby scanning thing (the 1 with the funny gel) and diagnosis was gastritis. But my description didn't correlate with the gastritis's signs and symptoms. So, they sent me for Oesophago-Gastro-Duodenoscopy (OGD) the following day. It's a procedure whereby they put some camera tube through your buccal cavity, down your oesophagus, and capture image of the upper digestive tract. (all the way to the duodenum) It can also emit some funny heat rays to stop internal bleeding. I saw the image myself, it looked something like the above. (without the superfluous juice)

Talking about misdiagnosis, the 1st doctor that saw me in the morning thought I was there to CK and he gave me some muscle rub and told me to go home. He told me my diagnosis was muscle pain and that was totally retarded. I obviously know that there's something to do with the gastrointestinal tract and he, The Great Doctor, can "explicitly" diagnose me wrongly. Mum was furious when I told her about it and she wants to sue the doctor for negligence. But her son persuaded her not to, as sueing a doctor is probably not an easy procedure.

ANYWAY, it's hurting less now but eating is still a painful process.

Derrick's wedding dinner @ Concorde Hotel

2010-05-16T12:12:00.003+08:00

Yesterday marks the day when my cousin, Derrick, got married. I'm so looking forward to his very first Ang Bao during Lunar New Year, next year. (I'll be receiving it as Mr. Mathew btw. No more LCP Mathew/CPL Mathew or whatever)

Venue was at Concorde Hotel.

To my stupefaction, my ex colleagues were there as well. (awesome people I've met when I was working at my uncle's company.) Sally's weight fell significantly, I dare not imagine what kind of nightmare she went through. GET WELL SOON! Cecilia looks fine, at least in my perception; Amelia (Casper's cousin) is obviously still kicking asses at SIM; Alan's hair bear resemblance to a DB prisoner; the drivers in addition, did put on some weight. Indeed, "in addition".

My cousin, Derrick's a captain in the SAF and there were sword bearers involved in the event. They marched in confidently into the ballroom, and stood along the red carpet with their sword pointing perpendicularly upwards like you know, NDP? And it was my first time witnessing this. (The knighted were in No.1 uniform btw)

Dinner was sumptuous and of course scrumptious. I couldn't even remember how many courses there were but prior to what I've said, there were obviously innumerable dishes. Well, congratulations Derrick and Ee Shan!

Random Video of the week.

PS/ I bought 2 Levis belt yesterday and one of them was engineered for the horizontally challenged. The minimum waist size must at least be like 40? The sales assistant asked me "Do you want me to trim any of the belts for you? I replied confidently: Err, no prob... It's fine... I've tried them both. FML

Combat shoot (Year2)

2010-05-15T16:39:00.002+08:00

Finally, I accomplished something I've always wanted to achieve. My marksmenship badge :) Frankly, it's not for boasting or whatever you call that- haolian. It's to show the people, medics can accomplish things too. We're not always Fat, lazy, BOBO (The Army term of saying one's inability to aim and shoot properly), feeble and etc... Congratulations to Platoon6 Sect2 and Platoon7 Sect2 for attaining a detail worth of markmen :) It's a weird way to put it but whatever.

Put the shooting part aside.

I had this 7KM run this week and it was really fun. My timing was beyond what I had imagined and I was elated :) I've been asking people around me to join the Standard Chartered Marathon with me but all replied: siao! Jonathan Boon was different, he agreed and finally, I found an accomplice.

Pizzahut-ed with Jezer, Boon and CheeYeong last night. As always, something funny happened again. Boon totally got punked by CY and Jezer and it was really funny. Boon was taking his time, walking towards the bus stop while CY and Jezer were already @ the legendary Sungei Gedong bus-stop. The bus came, Jezer and CY just ignored the fact that Boon was still on his way and boarded. HAHAH! They came out with some godamn funny excuse and we totally laughed our asses off at Pizzahut, Lot 1!

The next week will be the last week and we'll arrive at our 'beloved' 1st FTX mark.

Random Picture of the week.

Jasper's birthday party. Spot me :D

Once again.

2010-05-09T12:35:00.002+08:00

Once again, I'm goddamn bias.

21 Romeo

2010-05-08T15:00:00.004+08:00

"22Romeo, 23Romeo, this is 21Romeo; Radio check over."

Kin Wai sprained his ankle last week during our leisure time in camp - Also known as admin time (the only period recruits look forward to). Lieutenant Wang offered me a job; The runner role, which I couldn't resist. Being Kok Kein and Edwin's 'colleague' was definitely fun and of course a once in a lifetime experience. PS/And now I know why Kok Kein and Edwin can run so fast.

Once again, I did charity... Standing in the midst of the undergrowths, seducing mosquitos to take in my blood to express my gratitude for accompanying me through the high key period.

Well recently, our exercises never failed to declare casualties.. Like seriously.. Last week we had mass wasps attack, heat injury and leg cramp (me) incident; this week we had physical exhausion as well as bee attack. Series of unfortunate events happening during the suckiest phase of NS life. I hope I can survive this, unharmed.

Booked out yesterday and went Lot 1 for a cute-funny-random dinner with Boon, Jezer and CheeYeong. We mocked at CY and BOON regarding their height and stuff like that... Gossiped about people back in camp... And talked alot of nonsense... It was a rather entertaining and monumental dinner I would say. PS/Not forgetting about the 200m dash outside Sungei Gedong Road.

Random Video of the day.

22 Romeo

2010-05-02T02:38:00.003+08:00

I'm back home. Yes! Finally back home! After tonnes of shit back there in prison. Imprisonment starts last saturday for Cheetah's sake; did standby duty on wednesday; and finally summing up the week with 2D1N fieldcamp with loads and loads of bullcrap.

Third Sergeant

Had tonnes of checklists to do; during my standby duty. There's this third sergeant (Paramedic Spec) who recently got posted in and was assigned to be treatment spec. He thinks that 3SG is some big fuck major or something. He likes to order medics around to do things for him. He has this suck up face that delivers a "punch-me-please" message. And you just have to hold it back cuz it's never wise to use violence in this certain organization.

Ok, skip that shit.

Binding and syncronizing with the nature wasn't bad back there in India but it's never not fucked up when it comes to Singapore's rainforest with tremendous humidity. Besides, you can easily spot a battalion worth of mosquitos, raging towards your comrades; sucking blood out of them.

And also, I was assigned 22 Romeo role for the first time and it was really fun. My legs were weak; or rather, ARE weak I suppose? It flexed up and cramped the shit out of me when I had signals and a general purpose machine gun mounted on my weak shivering body. My comrades exaggerated my cramp and sent me back to the urban prison right after my pathetic fall. Felt really guilty, abandoning Charles out in the field with a couple of wasp stings he sustained earlier during some supposed swimming session. He's a nice young man afterall.

Many more shit happened but this isn't the right mood to speak my mind.

Signing off with a random picture.

Leave in lieu?

2010-04-20T16:28:00.003+08:00

I took leave for today; for a couple of reasons. To take care of mum, to attend some lesson and maybe to make up my weekends that will supposedly be burnt.(That's if I want to count that in) I was rather happy; knowing that people around me trust me alot more than I thought. (after many kawa incidents and so on...) I will NOT abuse those trust/trusts people gave me. If I'm sounding jubilant about this little victory it is not because I personally have anything against Kawa. You know it.

Well anyway, I met a friend last night at Aljunied for a meal and I owed that person $4.50 due to my negligence. For Ban Mian and Waffle. You know who you are, you can't hide and I can't mention names. For you should know why. Haha!

PS/ I hope I won't end up being the plaintive.

Random Photo

Company Mission Exercise.

2010-04-18T18:33:00.008+08:00

CME this week... I mean Cheetah's CME this week. I'm one of the lucky dudes that got involved. Needless to say, it stretches out to my precious weekends, AGAIN! Probably won't be touching my notebook for the next couple of weeks. (That's if my CME messes with my weekend next week.) The suckiest phase of army life is about to begin. So looking forward to it.

The Birthdays...

Nothing much happened. Went Ian's birthday party two weeks ago, KeatMing's birthday @ Settles cafe last night and practically stayed at home for the whole of today. And of course, Happy belated birthday to Ruzaini!

Singapore's kinda small. I watched Date Night last friday with KaiSheng and Kelvin, the Marists. Or should I call them the Ex-Marists. Whatever. Went Cine Leisure to meet them, you know the basement where the ATM machines are located (As KaiSheng was drawing money). And guess what, I bumped onto Collin and Tony Tan (Marist).

Yes Singapore's indeed is a small island.

Went to the Cathay yesterday to watch Kick Ass. Bumped onto Arthur.

Supposedly, I would've met Konrad at Ian's birthday party but a tragic incident happened. I WENT TO ASK HIM IF HE'S GOING. LOL! And ya, Ian and Konrad were secondary school mates.

No doubt, my paramedic coursemates were there as well. Photos are kinda outdated but screw it.

Of course, there were many more of us but Victor insisted to use his camera to take the group photos and now he couldn't find his memory card reader. FML

And also, Zack passed his TP like 2 weeks ago? Around there... And he bought over his WR200 from Siang without my presence. Like wow? I gave ZP his number and TADA, the bike was with Zack last night at town. LOL! What an astounishment!

Well, I'm still missing India.

Finally, our exercise was fetured in news. (As expected)

HTC HD2 vs iphone

2010-04-17T03:31:00.005+08:00

Recently, I've been eyeing on ZiKang's iphone, Collin's itouch. People generally find apple products 'imba' and sleek and thus, no one bothers to look around in the market. (for example what HTC has to offer.)

PS/ I had many problems with apple products when I was younger. My ipod nano-s spoil for god-knows reason even when proper care was given. Yes, apple iphone/itouch is good but it's not as 'IMBA' as what people think.

The Random Day.

2010-04-10T16:40:00.005+08:00

This thursday, was what I called the random day. Rendezvous with random people (Linus, Joseph, Collin, JianHong, CheeYeong, JiaHuang) at random locale for a random meal. It cost me a bomb as Hanabi wasn't cheap to begin with; don't even mention that I owe Joseph a meal for pacing me. (2.4km year 1)

Picture of Irony.

Joseph and Linus were smiling like 70% of the time. WHY? Yeah, you should know why. I took a lousy picture whereby the non-ord-personnel were smiling and the ording ones were doing the opposite.

Somehow, you can just feel it. Being physically beside them, you can just feel this aura; telling you that Hey-I-Don't-Give-A-Shit-About-Anything-Anymore. And I yearn to emit the exact tantamount aura ASAP!

Random Ping Pong Game

Went JiaHuang's house next as some of us had nothing better to do after lunch. And we randomly set up the table tennis table and started playing PingPong.

Random Mcdonalds Dinner

People that knows me should know I hate fast food and will never deliberately visit any of their outlets at any cost. And I did!

And this was after many many hours of pingponging as you can see from the background, the sun left for europe already.

Well, when I was eating, I received an astounding random phonecall from KeatMing. And I felt honored. Someone that ORDed actually remembered me, someone who wanted to make me section 3 2IC.

Was this enough? No.

Went SHEESHAing with Collin, ZhiWei and Glenn accompanied with a couple of bimbo-s. And then, randomly went LAN gaming with them. Till like 5-6am in the morning...

Random enough?
I pretty much summed up my fortuitous day, during my off in lieu. Rushing out to IAN's birthday party now.

Missing India.

2010-04-05T01:37:00.022+08:00

The number of days I am back in Singapore after the India trip can be easily counted by 1 of our upper limb. And even so, I'm starting to miss India already.

I miss Delhi.

I miss Jhansi.

I miss the aridity.

I miss the doldrums.

I miss the peacefulness.

I miss Butterscotch.

I miss the desert fan.

I miss the cookhouse.

I miss WeiXiong, Nantha and Casey.

I miss the medical centre.

I miss sickbay.

I miss the bunk.

I miss the chips.

I miss the sand.

I miss the thorns.

I miss the poop.

I miss the cows.

I miss the sheeps.

I miss the fireworks.

I miss the fun.

I miss the dancers. (Especially the one in green)

I miss the food.

I miss Agra.

I miss Taj Mahal.

I miss the Hotel.

I miss the buffets.

I miss my packet.

I miss the air stewardess.

I miss buddy. (Ye Kai)

I miss Rebecca Koh.

--------------------------- I MISS INCREDIBLE INDIA! ---------------------------

Concluded Incredible India 2010.

2010-04-02T11:32:00.026+08:00

Away from civilisation, a million miles away from an island called home. The aircraft took off, the aircraft stopped. And in a blink of an eye, I was found wandering in this huge piece of land, India.

My Incredible !ndia trip was mirthful, at least alot more pleasant than I imagined. I captured 300 over photographs and obviously it's out of my limits to upload them all.

Touched down at India with my packet. YeKai's my buddy throughout the entire trip (: A very benevolent buddy I would say. Right after touching down, we proceeded to some Paradise Banquet place for Supper and stayed overnight till the train's ready for boarding. I was a little paranoid, thinking that food in India is incongruous and therefore consuming it will definitely grant us some heavy discharge of liquid through the anus. And thus, I didn't finish the food.

So far the meals served are all Buffet, OTOT eat up, drink up and whatsoever.

A photo with JiaHuang and buddy before everyone knocked off for the night. And next, a train ride to Jhansi for some exercise.

Train ride was pretty long. The boundless hours burnt in the train made me wonder, how many Singapore-s have we travelled through. Anyway, the ride was pretty much of a sight seeing experience. Many didn't give a damn and slept throughout the trip.
The train's toilet's pretty cool. Basically a hole. What goes in, drops onto the track directly. Pretty awesome eh? They call it the Indian Style.

After arriving at Jhansi, we took a crazy bus ride to a certain place for a certain exercise. Traffic there was beyond imagination. I was flabbergasted. We had zero road accident count and I'm not even exaggerating. Traffic's really in chaos. You see motorcycles everywhere with 3-4 people on it, WITHOUT HELMET, weaving in and out of vehicles. They don't treasure their lives don't they?

Next, Taj Mahal, Agra. Wonder of the World.

After our arrival @ Agra (6 hours bus ride), we had our pre-Taj Mahal lunch at this Jaypee Palace Hotel (5 stars). And wow, no joke. It's no doubt 5 stars.

After an intensive security check, we finally manage to enter the Hotel for lunch. And of course, Buffet again.

The hotel was luxurious, magnificent and probably costly. Totally didn't expect such accomodations.

Before we leave for Taj Mahal. A photo outside Jaypee Palace Hotel.

Finally, I cuddled one of the Wonders of the World. Taj was really beautiful at the exterior, it's said to be symmetrical at all 4 sides of the tomb.

It was built by a muslim, Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of his dear wife and queen Mumtaz. The mausoleum is a part of a vast complex comprising of a main gateway, an elaborate garden, a mosque (to the left), a guesthouse (to the right), and several other palatial buildings.The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, is a mesmerizing sight. This beautiful marble structure is considered to be aesthetically perfect in its design.

At the mausoleum itself with the peeps. Credits to Mr Yap.

Molesting Jezer.

Had a short F&E at tdi mall near our Jaypee Palace Hotel.

And it's time to check in with buddy. Dinner was the same Banquet at the dining hall in the afternoon.

From the lobby to our respective rooms. 2 pax/room.

The accomodations were fantastic. A super shiok sofa for malays to lepak one corner and also, watch television :D

A desk for business personnel to do work I suppose? It's quite condusive I would say.

The typical hotel bathroom. It's considered damn grand in India already.

How about some bubble bath after 3 weeks of exercise in rural area? How shiok is that?

A room balcony with pretty romantic vibes. Also a hot spot for smokers to smoke. Incredible India's so incredible that it makes non-smokers smoke!

Balcony view during the day. I swear the night view is 99x chio-er but camera couldn't capture a good one. :(

Was astounded by the catered breakfast as well. Grand buffet that serve authentic food world wide. Take all you want, what you want. F.O.C.

I took mince lamb stew, egg mayo (goddamn good), hot dog and potato (goddamn good).

Lotus Pond restaurant for lunch.

Nick trying to take picture of the food.

At the Indian gate, Delhi. There're water features there and you can see naked boys playing and bathing in the filthy water that stink real bad. I was a little revolted. I swear.

At the city walk mall near the Airport. It's one of the best malls in India. But honestly, nothing impressive. Vivo city's better. Don't even mention ion orchard.

Exterior of the SELECT CITY WALK mall.

Within the mall itself with ZK and YK. Bought some souvenirs, nike dry fit and a necklace to finish up my Rupees. And that kinda summed up the F&E shopping that we were all looking forward to. Disappointed..

Our last meal at India. Wasn't disappointing, atmosphere was pulchritudinous, food was delectable.

Some display in the restaurant.

A little packed? But still, the food was replenished very quickily so there was no problem getting my desired food.

Yea, no problem.

And the meal kinda summed up my story in Incredible !ndia.

On the aircraft before taking off. Flight was delayed terribly and I was sick. Suffered through the whole journey even until now.

PS/ This entry was summerized laboriously.

PSPS// Good bye Linus and Joseph. It was great working with them. Happy ORD-ing!

PSPSPS/// Learnt many valuable skills and knowledge from DR CASEY. It wasn't a wasted trip. Really.

Advance party embarkment

2010-03-14T12:02:00.003+08:00

Zack, Kenneth, CheeYeong and I went to the Airport last friday to send the Advance party off! Everyone seems reluctant to board the plane but sadly, they've a compulsory flight to catch. And of course, it'll be my turn soon. in Approximately 3 hours time.. ANYWAY, took a couple of picure with the advance party people.

Edwin, Me and KaiSheng.

Edwin, Konrad and I.

Platoon 6 peeps.

Just finished cutting my hair awhile ago. My items were not packed in advance and I'm gonna pack all the shit now.

Yesterday was Edwin's birthday and today's Alexander's birthday. Happy Birthday peeps. Oh ya.. Talking bout Edwin, I met KaiSheng and friends yesterday for the IT show. Ended up at Newton Circus for dinner.

Jun Kai randomly said : Hey, you going India ah?

Matt: Yeah, tomorrow lor. Damn sian..

Jun Kai: Oh I have this friend that went India also. I think yesterday..

Matt: Huh? Means he's from my company la. I don't think other unit will go together with us. Your friend what vocation?

Jun Kai: Is it? My friend carry the radio thing and run around one.

Matt: Runner?

Jun Kai: Yaya! That 1.

Matt: What's his name? Maybe I know him?

Jun Kai: Edwin.

Matt: .... Edwin Foo?

Jun Kai: YA! YOU KNOW HIM AH? HE DAMN NICE RIGHT?

Matt: Ya. And today's his birthday you know?

Jun Kai: Wah. I can't believe I forgot his birthday. He's my very close friend man. Help me say Happy Birthday to him leh.

Matt: Ok.. Wah the world damn small..... How ur know each other 1?

Jun Kai: Damn long ago already. We know each other through Badminton..

Matt: :O

PS// Bye bye Singapore! Will be back on April fool's day.

Embarking in a week's time.

2010-03-07T18:46:00.003+08:00

Tomorrow's suppose to be a flimsy day but training for thursday was cancelled due to Tom's absence. Damn it. So, training was pushed back to monday, which is tomorrow. Whole day out in the field again. It totally ruined my 2nd last weekend in Singapore.

Went to ZiKang and Edwin's birthday party last night at Downtown east. Was really awesome but I was a little too exhausted. Thanks to my friday regimental duty, I booked out yesterday. (Not mentioning booking in today.. Yeah, not mentioning) hahahah!

O level registration's coming up, and so is Uni application. Should I give pure Chemistry a shot? I doubt I'll have time for that.

Random Video.

Urban Operations / IPPT

2010-02-28T16:14:00.004+08:00

Last week was pretty awesome, Fibua, which was rather exciting. ESPECIALLY being the enemy with Shunli and Jacob. I didn't sparkle my Chinese New Year with firecrackers but instead, *******flash. Cool eh?

Also cleared my IPPT year 2. Free $200 ^^

Flying off to Incredible India in 2 weeks time. Hoho..!

Random Picture of the week.

Yes, indeed random ((:

PS/ Didn't achieve below 8.51mins for 2.4km run, rather disappointed.

PSPS// Looking forward to next week's zk birthday.

And last of all, a WTF video from Danny'r blog.

The Brunei Boy

2010-02-21T16:42:00.006+08:00

Brunei boy was back in Singapore and I caught up with him, together with the Section 1 people at Town to shop for our Lunar New Year clothes. It has been awhile since we last met and no doubt, seeing them made me feel intoxicated. It totally brought me back to my BMC days and it's awesome.

Also, Daniel and WangSen came as well. Glad that they're doing well, leading a life that human live. Unlike JunHao and I, a dog's one. Randomly saw some marching at Orchard Road's Road.

Witnessing the march brought me back some nostalgic memories. Going through NDP'09 with the old specs were so boisterous. Miss it. Looking forward to NDP'10 though. By then I'll be waiting for my beloved ORD date to come by. Heh.

Also, we had lunch at Fish and Co. Nothing special, just prattling away as we had infinite topics to yak about.

And that's Fish and CO, Ion Orchard.

Also Daniel Ong (987FM DJ) will be leaving radio for good. No more Dan and Young in the morning/AM MAYHEM. Felt a little gloomy inside me. Use to listen to them daily and now, it dissipated.

Wake me up when September ends - Green Day. (The exact same song Dan played before his departure)

Signing off,
Mathew.

Peter Chow. CNY VS V.DAY

2010-02-15T11:09:00.001+08:00

CNY gift from mum.

2010-02-15T02:43:00.008+08:00

Mum bought me some Levis shit for this Lunar New Year`10.

I like the Cheeky Undies.

Champion + Fighting Spirit = Off in Lieu

2010-02-07T01:03:00.003+08:00

Cohesion after Cohesion, it's 46 SAR swimming meet again. Bronco company dominated in the water games and was awarded 2 days off (Thanks to LOH CHEE YEONG). Yes, we totally prevailed everything. Scopion was no match for us. When it comes to aqua capability, we're completely at a different league. No company scored anywhere near our points. We totally topped the table.

After the cohesion, messed around with Collin, JianHong, GuoRui, CheeWee and Thomas for a swim. Or rather, I slept on the tanning chair while they swam. And then advanced to KFC for lunch. Hell yeah! I visit KFC once in a year, so I was able to finish the food. The presence of Fish Zinger Burger wasn't even within my knowledge. Didn't expect KFC to sell awesome fish burgers. (Cuz maybe it's spicy) I gobbled down my meal hastily as I was hungry. Ummmm.... Shiok...

PSed Collin and Chor Theng that night, when we were suppose to go Phuture. I didn't get a wink of sleep that day and I was totally knocked out by dawn. :(

Random picture @ the balcony with Jenny's beloved.

Retardedness, Randomness

2010-01-24T01:24:00.015+08:00

A calamitous incident happened. Joseph was injured acutely. Thanks to who? It's forbidden to post what really happened but this Wilson guy here got us some awesome confinements and kicked our asses real badly. 100% spring cleaning is obviously insurmountable in an arenaceous environment. It's like opening the windows when the house is located in a desert and expect dust particles to linger outside. As soon as the sand invades, you wipe it away. After a minute, it's dusty again... I'm not even exaggerating, that living environment sure is that pathetic.

Cleared my Advanced Close Combat Training and passed the grading with my first attempt as expected x). LOL! And of course, we were still awarded confinements as mentioned earlier.

Life's getting interesting, I don't know what to say anymore. So very used to it.

Random.Recent.Happening (1)

Went Waraku last week with Darrell, Mike, Nick and YK for dinner.

The Drinks.

My Salmon.

And my steaming HOT UDON.

Random.Recent.Happening (2)

Went Edwin's house and his mum's awesome. Couldn't stop loving people's mums. Am I attracted to females that gave birth? Joking... Couldn't resist their benevolent behaviour.Well, Edwin sustained soft tissue injury @ the foot while sparring via ACCT and so did BingXuan. May both of them recover soon.

And next, I went JianHong's house... His whole family went to Muar, which gave me the golden opportunity to hit his house.

The thought of ruturning home was absent, I glanced into my mind. Looking up at the sky, with my pair of diminutive strained eyes. It somehow felt soothing, I don't know why. I cleared my mind, as the gentle wind kissed me on my flaccid cheeks. And alongside, thoughts simply surged into me, and BOOM! I stirred up into the inevitable reality. Hmmm, life goes on...

Wanted to Sakae with Jairus and his girlfriend but somehow it didn't happen. Went to Sakae with JianHong only instead. Rah... Signing off. Sick of this life.

PS// Confinement for the win.

PSPS/// White Honda Civic is really an eyesore.

Decorticating

2010-01-17T02:48:00.008+08:00

The largest organ on my body has been exuviating rapidly over the week. All thanks to the burn I got from the Medic's cohesion last friday @ Sentosa. Now, there's an apparent contrast amongst my skin. The burnt area vs the non-burnt area, totally reminded me of a molting snake

Three Quarter Shot ` Conclusion of adolescent 2010

Touched by an angel - Sezairi Sezali

My world had just gone by
always darkened skies
there was no reason to try
never could fly

Now I'm tired of searching
and wondering why
it's not really all that, much far
reaching out for stars

Time to reach out
time to be who I am

Finally, I believe
my dreams will unfold
it's like being touched by an angel
a brand new beginning
it's amazing
this is, a moment, I will remember

Finally, I can feel
heaven on earth
it's like being touched by an angel

My world is changing
I'm livin out loud
feels like, I've been
touched by and angel, above

I've waited for so long
for this day to arrive
the world seems a different place
knowing I can fly

Time to reach out
time to be who I am (who I am)

Finally, I believe
my dreams will unfold
it's like being touched by an angel
a brand new beginning
it's amazing
this is, a moment, I will remember

Finally, I can feel
heaven on earth
it's like being touched by an angel

My world is changing
I'm livin out loud
feels like, I've been
touched by and angel, above (by an angel)

Livin out loud
feels like I've been
touched by an angel, above

PS/ Stepping out of my TEENAGE years.
PSPS// I'm old.
PSPSPS/// Book in day :D

Medic's cohesion 2010

2010-01-10T03:01:00.008+08:00

Had this cohesion with the 46th SAR medics on friday :) Booked out on thursday night which didn't relish me at all. (though it was a free off) And guess what? It's SENTOSA, again! Yes, AGAIN! Met them at Imbiah Station early in the morning and went Palawan Beach's Koufu for breakfast.

Like wow? I didn't expect Koufu to run so prematurely. Vibes were okay, aircon was rather cold, food was kinda distasteful (Unfortunately).

Went Siloso Beach after breakfast, for frisbee and volleyball. Jerome took millions of pictures but I cannot be bothered to upload them. Afterall, it's 0355hrs now and I have to report for duty later. I've no mood to be creative with words nor do I have mood to upload tonnes of photos.

Games were boisterous and fun especially volleyball. I had my virgin match and my teams practically won everything. Not that I'm good but, I'm good. LOL! WeiXiong and Staff Oh were so awesome! Whatever man, competent volleyballers. Haha!

These were the medics that stayed through out the whole cohesion.

Many were burnt by the immense heat, emanated from the blazing star, hanging right above us. I know it hurts. I know it.

Took the tram to the Beach Station and we left for Vivo. What else? It was already lunch time. No... We were rather late for lunch actually. Jiahuang, Bon, WeiXiong and I took Staff Oh's car to Vivo while the rest took the train.

Ended up at Ajisen. Ummm.... Vocano ramen was good.

PS/ Get well soon JH

PSPS// My condolences Kumaran. Death is part of life. Life still has to go on.

PSPSPS/// Booking in soon for my weekend regimental duty. Please entertain me via sms/facebook/e buddy.

BEYOND CUTENESS!

2010-01-03T03:12:00.003+08:00

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CHANGE

2010-01-02T05:54:00.012+08:00

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful, it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful, it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident, it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

Random Awesome Mashup 2009. Good Bye 2009!

PS/ Best I've ever heard!

PSPS// Get from me the .mp3 version via MSN Messenger.

DAY ONE OF 2010

2010-01-01T01:40:00.003+08:00

Hi I'm matt and I ORD this year!

Last day of year 2009!

2010-01-01T01:08:00.002+08:00

My body automatically booted up my consciousness after afew hours of sleep last night. It's as though my body's telling me: "Yo, it's new year's eve, stop sleeping!"

Next, went to Bishan. Met 3SG JIAN HONG for an afternoon 5-6KM run. People had cohesion run but we had an End-of-Year run. After the run, went for lunch with him and talked cock till around 4-5pm.

Went KaiSheng's house and they planned to buffet it again.

Went Vienna International Buffet for New Year Eve's dinner with Mike, Tofu, Kai, Ben and Kian. Had a delectable meal. It was mere delicacy.

Awesome and unique New Year's Eve.

RANDOM PICTURE

PS/ My buddy's flirting with Angelina Jolie.

PSPS// Thanks MAMA KIAN for washing my jacket. And also, packing it so nicely just to return me. I appreciate it alot more than you think. <3

PSPSPS// I'm tremendously drained. Hence, I kept my entry short and sweet.

Mediacorp days.

2009-12-31T00:28:00.000+08:00

Heated up the number of chinese songs in my playlist ((: Every song I added was once Mediacorp's drama theme song/sub theme song. These tracks totally reminded me of my civilian days when I had nothing better to do but to watch TV. I don't really listen to chinese songs unless it's really transcendental.

Send me some awesome chinese songs please. My mp3 player is still naked, in terms of chinese songs. What am I talking about? I don't know.. LOL!

Random picture

ECP Overnight Cycling with Platoon 7

2009-12-30T12:36:00.013+08:00

Had a gratifyingly awesome night cycling trip with platoon 7. 2 days back. I was the one who made things happen and told them to congregate at 19 00 hrs. And guess what? I was the latest to arrive excluding Joseph Phang. Totally didn't envisage things to stretch out so long... Siang called me at 3 plus. Of course, I agreed to shadow him.. Afterall, I'm rallying with platoon 7 at 7. He prepared for around an hour and finally rendezvous with me at 4 plus. Still, not so bad... We took cab to Tiong and wow, the queue was amazing. And after the banking, he wanted to cut his hair. I couldn't possibly "Hey sorry I g2g, you cut urself, bye bye" cuz afterall I promised to keep him company. SO....... I was terribly late :(

Well, after arriving at ECP, we went to the hawker centre there to devour some food. I had my wonton noodle, accompanied by stingray. Didn't manage to snap a shot of the stingray though. Hah... And then... Camwh0red a little.

Zikang, Bean and their rose milk drink thingy. Nice meh?? I was never a fan of Bandung. Yucks!

And finally, to sum up the meal....

Konrad's a pro. He knows how to take picture of all of us without asking pubs for help. Although my ugly hair got chipped off, it's still a good shot :D. Credits to YS TEO.

mAtty's waiting dispassionately for Joseph Phang. He was extremely late as he sent his mum off to somewhere. Don't really know the details. And yeah, the bicycle I was resting on was the bicycle we rented. $8 per night.

Edwin claims that he paid $8 to torture himself. Haha!

And then.... Hell began...

Yeah.. East coast park to Changi village wasn't even a joke. Just for that plate of Famous-Changi-Village-Nasi-Lemak we suffered through the whole night. Everone loathed at the idea of cycling back to East Coast Park as we'll probably be too lazy to cycle out again by then. SO............. We cycled to Pasir Ris --> Tampines --> Simei --> Tanah Merah --> Bedok --> Kembangan --> Eunos --> Paya Lebar --> Geylang. That was so crazy! We didn't even know the route and we bashed through civilizations after civilizations. Avoiding expressways after expressways... Up the slopes, down the hills... And eventually arrived at GEYLANG for the so called famous Soya Bean shop.

Unfortunately, I didn't capture the moments where we arrived at different locations but this is the only evidence to support my speech. I wound say the egg tart was good. Initially, we wanted to cycle down south to Tiong Bahru but many were too drained to do so. So, we proceeded to the One Fullerton Merlion instead.

Cycled through Geylang --> old Airport road --> Kallang --> Lavender --> Suntec Cuty --> Esplanade --> and finally Merlion!

We took a couple of pictures while cycling through city as we thought that the backdrop was dazzling.

This picture suppose to have a chio bridge at the background but unfortunately, the flashlight only focus on us. How sad.

Camwh0red again at the Esplanade. They were testing out their lighting system for new year's count down at the marina floating platform. Look at the balls at the background ;D And what's with my adam's apple? Protruding so crazily outwards?

And lastly................. Ok I don't want to bother uploading the picture at the Merlion cuz the lighting sucks. Camera focus only on the frontal object. So the picture turned out crappy.

PS// Good training guys.

Merry Christmas'09

2009-12-25T08:03:00.008+08:00

Flourishingly desisted cursing/swearing after trying so hard for the past few days. And congratulations matty, you did it ^^

This Christmas is rather insipid, as expected... Why? Cuz I'm still a soldier? Everywhere I wanna go, I'll think about "Gah... Saturday's duty day", which is a total turn off. But well, I'm still looking forward to the night cycling trip coming up next week, which is the only thing to look forward to this "HOLIDAY".

Last night, I catechized myself,"What am I doing at home? It's Christmas Eve night yo?" Am I sapping away my own Christmas Eve from A to Z? Maybe not? At least I had this Sentosa trip thing with my Battalion. Woke up kinda early, like 0650hrs? And rendezvous with the rest at Vivo city @ 0730hrs. And our Amazing Race journey starts there. It'll be fun if the weather was in our favour but unfortunately, yeah... It poured.... We had a couple of interesting task to fulfill and of course, it's my first time doing it. Task ranging from, finding a Japanese lady and get her to say "I love Singapore in Japanese" and some Visa card dance thing. So awkward....

Task: The absolute base of the world's largest continent. Yes... The Sentosa twin tower thing. We were tasked to count the steps and to take a picture up there at the peak point.. With the team of course. Our photographer was Commanding Officer (CO), 46SAR, MAJ LIM LIT LAM. Hahaa!!

And lastly, my favourite one. (My virgin photo with Konrad, WenTao and Edwin.)

PS// Merry Christmas and a Happy new year!

Went Ramenten after that for lunch with the 2 NSF PSes, Konrad, and Jack. Totally random man. And I love Salmon Sashimi. Heh!

Jezer and Jack. Where's Jonathan? They can be the J brothers, like my platoon's SAW gunners. Jack, JinJie, Jeremy, Jiabao, Jairus.

PS// I need to get tanner

Advertorial: momoping Designs.

2009-12-23T18:32:00.002+08:00

An infomercial entry: momoping designs.

Finally an advertorial entry featuring momoping designs. Here's Zack, 19 , an adroit designer, also my army buddy. He started up a blogshop that sells t-shirt exclusively designed by himself, and I think it's awesome. Do check it out and support him if you appreciate ART.

PS// Be unique, be you.

Click HERE. Or link Zack** Under my links (:

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ADIDAS BOUNCE

2009-12-21T01:09:00.004+08:00

2 weeks of cessation from Army. And guess what? We'll be thrown into an abyss hell and suffer immense shit after this so called holiday. Don't even want to think about it.

(This picture was stolen from facebook. Not taken during Novena trip)

Anyway, I went out with Konrad and Edwin yesterday to buy some stuff @ Novena Square. They're affable people to hang out with, time wasn't dissipated at all. Bought a pair of ADIDAS BOUNCE and 2 ADIDAS WATER BOTTLE. Different designs of course.

And here's ADIDAS BOUNCE.. Mine's green in colour and of course it looks way cooler than this red boring one in the ad above. xD

News on ATEC 2's date.

2009-12-13T11:41:00.004+08:00

Last week, we were fed with some enlightenment about ATEC stage 2. Most importantly, the so called official date will be 21st June 2010, which is 4 days after my 20th birthday. A magnificent be-lated birthday benefaction isn't it?

Well, we've heard many multifarious buzz about ATEC2's date here and there, and this one's presumably the most definite one. Ostensibly, this information came from senior medic you see, it shouldn't be awry.. Hopefully...

Anyway, I had sore throat on thursday... What else? It deteriorate to flu, and eventually fever. Which totally ruined my exquisitely precious days also known as, WEEKENDS. YA! MY WEEKENDS!

A perfect scene to quote will be like how Fire Fist ACE fought with Blackbeard and my weekends being hamburgered in between. Ace burns my weekends into ashes and Blackbeard covers my weekends in darkness. Ok that's total bullshit. Ignore that.

I'm behaving like a total moron latterly. Falling down with intention, at various directions, breaking fall here and there like a complete retard. And what else? I hurt my back and arm. What a week!

Random picture of the week.

PS/ I was tanned.

PSPS/ I was really tanned!

Japan Trip

2009-12-07T14:52:00.002+08:00

A lengthy period of time flew passed since mum rendezvous with me in Singapore after her Japan trip. I was obviously envious about her jaunt, leaving me alone in Singapore suffering from immense torture at a certain place. You know...

A cheeky picture mum took when she was in the plane. I Couldn't believe she took a picture like this LOL! I didn't post this entry randomly like I always did. Edwin Foo suggested a trip to Hokkaido, Japan next year after ORD. I'm still feeling skeptical about it. Not that they take words lightly but I'm a big spender. I'll probably spend all my recompense and believably, I'll end up in an impoverished state. Well, wish me luck!

PS/ Booking in soon. Which made my day totally SHINGzed

PSPS/ Brilliant little matty planned to cut his hair today so when Christmas arrives, his hair'll look awesome :D LOL! Should I cut till it's Konrad-ly short? Hmm....

Platoon Seven

2009-12-05T22:49:00.003+08:00

Mathew's coalescing with Platoon Seven recently. No particular reason, just felt like it. Yes, it's ment to be desultory as I'm always an erratic person. Despite holding onto the tittle "So-called-one-year-soldier", I know that I don't know the people in my company well enough. I'm doing my best to explicate my social network so that I can scam more people's money when I get into marketing sector in the future. Haha!

The pictorial source for this entry is obviously none other than this...

PS/ I HAVE NO LIFE

IPPT YEAR 1, FINALLY OFFICIALLY CLEARED

2009-11-22T16:31:00.005+08:00

IPPT YEAR 1, finally officially cleared. Free $200 magically popped into my pocket like how the magicians perform in the show. Didn't expect myself to run 8mins+ and of course the results were pleasing. Being able to maintain stamina and strength since BMT and even improved. My goals are met, nothing to look forward to in army other than my ORD day which is approximately 11 months away.

A little update about my diet in camp. I've indented vegetarian food for my meals in camp as my cholesterol's a little high due to my isotretinoin intake. Hope my cholesterol level drops ;)

PS// Gonna buy a bicycle with Edwin during my OIL next week :D

November'09 expenses.

2009-11-01T14:02:00.003+08:00

Oh man, I'm gonna be so broke for November'09 which is this month. Taking NS allowance into account, i'll get around $600. Braces -$150, Insurance -$95, Bike servicing -$150-200, And other needs -$150. GG!

Random picture.

This was taken during Armour POP. The day when hell shit balls training begins. :( Most of our sergeants will be ORDing this week, how sad. 54 more weeks to go! We'll make it through.

PS// I successfully gained 5KG over 2 weeks. Congratulations Matty.

Annual Medical Proficiency Test (Year 1) ; Weight Gaining Mission

2009-10-20T19:57:00.001+08:00

Went back to my Medical Training Institute to take my Annual Medical Proficiency Test. Results were pleasing. Blazing glaringly at 87.29%! Was kinda elated when I stepped into the camp. The institute brings back nostalgic memories. I think I'm quite a sentimental person? I don't know actually...

My weight's declining at the speed of a sprinting cheetah! I know I'm random but I just can't help it. Fifty-three kilograms for a young punk like me isn't even funny. I'm setting out for a mission.... Not army mission of course.. Weight gaining mission! My body's dealing with lots of Tuna and Salmon protein recently. Not neglecting Soy and Toufu protein of course. Wish me luck in this mission.. Really hope my weight will escalate to at least 60? HEH!

PS/ 55 more weeks to ORD!

New hairstyle

2009-10-12T15:00:00.003+08:00

New (Or you can call it old?) Hairstyle. Retrospecting my old schooling days at primary level I guess?

Time flies..Childhood can be painful, adolescence confusing, but for most people, behind it all, there is the expectation that after one grows up, things will get better. During the years of early adulthood the future still looks promising, the hope remains that one's goals will be realized. But inevitably, the bathroom mirror shows the first white hairs, and comfirms the fact that those extra pounds are not about to leave. Inevitably, eyesight begins to fail and mysterious pains begin to shoot through the body. Somehow I feel that I'm steadily heading towards the phase my beloved granny was couching. She is dearly missed...

Why am I drifting away from this entry's core? Which is hairstyle? I don't know.

Guitar

2009-10-11T10:21:00.000+08:00

Oh man.. Some random inspiration from Justin and Darren during the Sungei Gedong Medical Centre Chalet last weekend. They were strumming their guitars, jamming away at this veiled voided leeway in the terrace house where the medically trained crew gathered.

In laymen's term, KPO (which means busy body) people like me will definitely crowd about the guitarists and observe their awesome talents. Oh man, I can appreciate their pieces of music way more than pornography! Hah! Was so inspired, motivated to pick up an instrument to mess around with. I've got no other talents other than running and composing whole chunk of preposterous text. Well, I need some time alright, to deeply think of what I really want. =\

Spontaneously, I found this picture (probably my recruit days) when I was randomly browsing through my notebook. Haha!

The fedora days when my head was bald. Nostalgic reminiscence... Inevitable fact that I was a dog and of course I'm still a dog, under the command of people (: *Wroof*

PS// Heavily edited my playlist (: Enjoy!

Disgusting way of eating

2009-10-09T01:19:00.005+08:00

Chong Pang's disgusting pose of me eating Chicken Wing. Haha~

Been lacking decent entries recently as I was too busy.. Finally, an important mission of mine is over. Really looking forward to my 2nd phase of my army journey and finally end it. Can't wait for my ORD date to come.. Really..

It has been a year +, knowing Darrell and Nicholas.. Thinking back, last Halloween when our friendship kinda started at Clarke Quay Clinic, I couldn't help but to smile. It's no doubt nostalgic memories and somehow I look forward to see them again this Halloween which is impending. Also, they went out with me to Night Safari before I enlisted.. Awesome people I've met in my life..

And also Sherena as well. People around me that are reading my journal thinks I'm going after Sherena.. Some things to clarify... I like Sherena, I love Sherena of course as a friend.. I have my morals and of course I wouldn't strike on people when they are heartbroken and stuff. That's retarded.. I can't afford to lose Sherena like how I couldn't afford to lose my army brothers who went through thick and thin with me. No other meanings.

My secondary school peeps's organizing a dinner rendezvous next week. So looking forward to see them!

Other Stuff

Bleach- Fade to Black movie... It's the most retarded movie I've ever watched. Plot is clearly akin to the previous movie Diamond Dust Rebellion. Awefully stupid I have to say.

Jiraiya's gonna die soon in Naruto Shippuuden. Sad..

Have to congratulate CQ for his new born baby girl :)

Random picture of the week

MingHao and JunKai acting cute~ NDP'09

Chong Pang with the Sungei Gedong Prisoners

2009-10-04T14:22:00.006+08:00

Went to Chong Pang a couple of days back with my precious Sungei Gedong prisoners... Yeah... Prisoners that will soon be released in 1 year 1 month time ( 57 more weeks :D )..

And yes.... Chong Pang...

Ultimate shag face...

I look so Man Utd...

My balls was almost exposed... LOL!

Me and my bitch :D

The Prisoners....

Okay, is this even a blog entry? LOL... Simply using a few words for a single picture =X Probably too shag... Insufficient sleep... Man Utd played like my mother last night... Damn it...

PS// Time to die

imodels

2009-09-27T05:35:00.005+08:00

Another call from imodels yesterday. I told her I couldn't make it. She insisted me to go for their interview. I told her, "I'm on braces, how to smile?" She said that it's ok.. lol? I was so irritated. There're like so many pretty/handsome bitches outside and they fucking pick me. Want me film comedy? Like Patricia Mok?

Anyway, schedule's pretty bad this month. But nevertheless, I'm strong... I can stay in the field for days like a dog and not whine. Weekend duty? What is that? I'm used to it... Just fuck it ok?

Went SIM open house yesterday with Nat. Had a great tour at the campus. Totally made me miss schooling days. Compare schooling to what I'm doing now, schooling is sex. Shiok! after this month, I'm officially half way through my Military Journey ((: Sounds good? No?

In the evening, I went to Ion Orchard, Zara (again) with Christine to spend some shit out of me. Bought a leather jacket and nothing else. Had some Japanese pasta at Cineleisure for dinner.. Eye swollen again, went home instead of going Powerhouse. Fuck my weekend. Gonna hit the gym later....

*Sorry for the vulgars and the broken english ((: Bad day!*

Levis Model? lol?

2009-09-22T17:56:00.003+08:00

Had an interesting encounter today.. Went Far East with Benjamin as he wants to alter his jeans. When I was waiting for his arrival at Orchard MRT station, there was this guy who tapped my back... Initially I thought it was Ben, but apparently, a stranger... In my mind, I was like "Oh shit, have to donate money again :("

Astoundingly, he asked me... "Are you a shy person?" I replied... "No.. Why?" He added... "Oh we are from so & so modelling agency private limited and are you interested to be our model for Levis Jeans?"

I blanked out... My thoughts were like... "Wtf I'm so Vertically challenged (SHORT) and you ask me to advertise for Levis jeans?" And come to think of it, I don't even own any Levis product. My jeans and trouses are all from Zara, Top Man, Esprit and stuff... He took my contact and left... What... The......

Anyway tomorrow is the day that my upper braces will be on. Will look like crap for the next 2 years... GG!

Random Picture

Sergeant Eugene and Cai Quan ((:

Braces on!

2009-09-21T02:53:00.005+08:00

Last wednesday.. Pieces of metal enlisted into my cavity... What do I mean? Yeah... Metal Braces sitting on my tooth now.. Yes... Ugly, stupid, irritating and expensive pieces of brackets. Hah! Oh well, they will ORD from my cavity 2 years later... Really looking forward to the arrival of that day itself.. Of course not forgetting my real army ORD date which is like 59 weeks later? Damn it...

Testing if I can still smile properly with braces on. Vain right? LOL! It has been awhile since I last posted an entry. Have been really busy as my unit is turning O** R****. Army stuff... Sensitive...

Well, that's all folks... Here's the Random-Picture-of-the-Week

Presenting.... HQ PLT BRONCO COY :D

Pimple makes you indian!

2009-09-06T02:04:00.004+08:00

Pimple makes you indian... So do piercings?

BBDC CLASS 2A LETTER

2009-09-05T15:25:00.002+08:00

BBDC CLASS 2A REMINDER LETTER!

Dear Sir/ Mdm

INVITATION TO ENROLL CLASS 2A COURSE

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We are pleased to inform you that from 29-09-2009*, you will be eligible to enrol for the Class 2A (motorcycles of 201-400cc) course.

Please come down personally with your NRIC/ valid Passport and driving license. For foreigners, valid Passport and valid work permit/ student pass/ employment pass/ dependant's pass.

In order to serve you better, you can immediately book for your Traffic Police Practical Test upon enrolment (terms and conditions apply).

Feel free to call our Customer Service Officers at 1800 666 8888 should you have any queries regarding the course enrolment. We look forward to be of service to you once again!

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* If your license is issued on a later date, please register on/after the issue date.

This is a computer-generated letter, no signature is required.

Mum's Japan Trip

2009-09-04T19:07:00.004+08:00

Lacking updates again, have been really busy with training and hence, neglected my journal. Hah.. Some pictures mum took in Japan.

Some shopping centre over there. Seeing Starbucks reminds me of my Java Chip, Caramel Moccha. Whoa.. Love it..

Aiya, sick of uploading already. LOL! BYE BYE!

Japan Kamijo Fujinomiya-shi

2009-08-20T10:47:00.004+08:00

My grandmother's daughter will be flying off to Japan (Kamijo Fujinomiya-shi) tonight for her prayers. I'm on leave now but I inevitably have to book in tonight latest by 2359hrs as I will be doing URBAN operations tomorrow. BOOM BOOM! I smell a late book out though... )):

Next, I'm kinda happy, being promoted to LCP... Though LCP is nothing but this rank is not an entitlement in my battalion. Have to work hard for it, like IPPT gold/ SOC pass/ being 2IC. Something like that... About 10-15% of the troops were promoted and now we all have P.R.I.D.E (People Relax I Do Extra) Hahah... That's how the OCS people define their P.R.I.D.E =X

Well well, Congratulations to JingFeng darling and Ruzaini darling being promoted too. LOL! This rank never fails to remind me of Syafiq. HAHA!! Thinking back, I salute him whenever he's wearing the rank in the course. LOL! Now I understand how irritating it is. Sorry Syafiq LOL!

Not forgetting my Random Picture of the week..

Featuring LCP Clement, 3SG GuanHui and PTE Jia Bao (Section Three)

PS// Jia Bao is angry......

NDP`09

2009-08-11T16:39:00.009+08:00

National Day Parade 2009 ended. We've been working our asses off for the past month and now, we're moving into Armour Infantry phase. GG!

Moving barricades, road signs, marshalling around city in smart 4 is no joke! Hours after hours, they worked hard. I was walking around snapping pictures with Zack LOL! I'm a Medic afterall you see =X *of course I got help la* Alex *Background* was posted out already, he's helping us for the very last time... Farewell...

It's lunch time.... Food from Singapore Food Industries again =\ SAF sure feed us... erm... way more than enough? When I was doing my medical duties at the floating platform, I had like 6 meals a day. 6 meals of KFC/Pizzahut. Is 6 meals alot? or not? You judge..

Zack acting spectacle... I guess we're too bored? (what's with that face? LOL)

Zack and PS Jon, look confuse... Camera giving them problems? I'm a complete camera idiot, I don't understand a single term they use about the lens, mode and *&%#(*&%^&*%$&#*$&

Ok I have no time to upload every single photo as I'm booking in soon. There're too many pictures to be engraved in my online journal. Will be blogging it as Random-Pictures of the week in my future entries.

PS// Love Boa Hancock

SAF dental subsidy for root canal?

2009-08-07T11:58:00.003+08:00

Anyone out there knows if SAF subsidize Root canal treatment? (Dental)

Thoughts after dental consultation

2009-08-06T23:12:00.003+08:00

I consulted my dentist today to seek for some oral aesthetic recommendation for surgery. I was told that I will have to complete my root canal first, follow by braces, crowning/bridging and lastly followed by gum surgery.

All thanks to the unfortunate event that happened 4 years ago when I fell off from my bicycle down the stairs, mouth being the first contact point to the ground. My tooth flew off, chipped off and some even hung around dangling in my cavity.

Root Canal cost approximately 1k (2 units)

Braces Cost around 4k

Crowning cost around 1k as well

Gum surgery, no idea. Doesn't sound cheap to me either.

I think I can just wave BYE BYE to my 1 year 10 months of my army allowance.

Random Image (Photoshopped layered)

PS// Very miserable now. Misplaced my camp pass and 11b, x6 extra.

PSPS// Sept impending, have to pay bike insurance soon.

PSPSPS// Damn seduced to buy a speed bike but money is an issue now.

PSPSPSPS// GG!

JianKai's 21st Birthday...

2009-07-26T16:32:00.006+08:00

Tomorrow is JianKai and Jasper's birthday... Went out with the Medics again for lunch, to celebrate JK's 21st Birthday at some North Indian Restaurant. The food there is like sex. So good! A little expensive though.

JingFeng and Holms... Random picture...

Holy crap, forgot to take the picture of the food... But at least a group photo... I'm like the birthday boy huh? Sitting at the midpoint :D

After lunch, we walked to Tantula's apartment @ Newton. His house's cosy and atas... Camwh0red there again...

It's Sunday and it's family day for Albert. We left him and went Ion to shop around. Bought my first item (Vest) there at Zara. Was eyeing on the Jackets there as well... Considering I have a bicycle to buy soon, I'm trying to save up abit.

PS// Booking in soon, rushing to complete this entry. Damn retarded entry, I know.

PSPS// Happy Advance Birthday to Jasper and JianKai ((:

PSPSPS// I'll be mother balls busy this week, wish me luck!

Down with Influenza, Attend C

2009-07-21T11:49:00.004+08:00

First time falling sick after enlisting for 6 months. Which means, it's my first time having Attend C status. Down with sore throat, irritating shit flu and slight fever.

Some memorable shit that happened recently.

1) Finally had my first bite of Fermented Toufu ( Chou Dou Fu a.k.a Smelly Toufu). Smells like shit tho. You know poo poo? Yeah..

2) Went to JingFeng's house and ran all the way till East Coast Park @ the Wakeboarding area.

3) Mike learning how to smoke. LOL

4) Targetted a speedbike which cost $400. Damn swee.

5) Drew my own blood successfully at my first attempt :D

TAG REPLIES

>YK: Come on, it tasted like prawn :D
>JASPER: YEAH MAN, SEE YOU SOON!
>JF: RUN MORE EVERY WEEKENDS :D
>DARRELL: Yeah, with his gay long hair =X

Here's a funny vid the instructor showed us in Bukit Batok Driving Centre last year during Basic Theory Lesson. WATCH IT!

Fish & Co outing with HSS-ians finally.

2009-07-12T08:51:00.009+08:00

Went out with my secondary friends, FINALLY after months. We went to the translucent Fish & Co building located at Dhoby beside parkmall. Was kinda packed though.

Camwh0red a little at the waiting area....

And more cammings...

Old Buddies...

And here's my main course. Some Salmon thingy. Ate exactly what I had with JingFeng and Ruzaini during my last visit :D

Some YongKangish spaghetti. Go Fish & Co eat spaghetti ?!?! Anyway, it was a good dinner.

PS// Congrats to Sherena and Malcolm ((:
PSPS// 69 More bookouts to ORD!

Hush Puppies leather shoe/ Ruzaini's sis's wedding

2009-06-28T11:47:00.003+08:00

Wow, I didn't know Hush Puppies vends awsome leather shoes! I was doing Ops Menolong last week and the medics went Vivo city for lunch. I happened to walk pass this Harbour Front Hush Puppies shop and the leather shoes inside attracted me like how Nata did. Yesterday, I did not dither another second. After I woke up, I dragged my mum along down Vivo for breakfast. And of course, breakfast was just an excuse to get my ass down at Vivo.

Bought some awesome stuff.

1) Some random black cap
2) Black leather shoes
3) A bucket of Nata De Coco from Giant
4) A bucket of Aloe Vera

Ruzaini's sis got married, went down to Sembawang last night to visit him and had dinner there. Sze Heng drove me down to Sembawang from Hougang. His car's pretty cozy and cool. He's like instigating me off to get a car. But again, I need the car money for my future school fees. How sad.

Will be meeting Zack later for dinner before booking in. Here my weekend goes, AGAIN!

Precious Memories (Medics at Chevron)

2009-06-28T11:07:00.000+08:00

Here's my Random-Picture-of-The-Week

Chevron trip after Medic's POP! (P039)

Medics @ Harbour Front (Dinner)

2009-06-21T16:43:00.004+08:00

Had a tough time finding Halal food at Vivo city last evening. Went Harbour Front instead with my dear medics ((: Heard that Sze Heng'll be flying off this July for his overseas national service. Kinda fast eh?

I just realise that Singapore lacks Halal restaurants and buffet. I mean it's really rare... Eating with my muslim friends doesn't seem as easy. After walking for so long, finally settled down at Breeks. The dinner was awesome and memorable. Miss the Medics ((:

Everyone should know where's this eh?

Random Picture of the week.

*Medic's party at Sam's place after graduation* Awesome dinner!

Sam's House1

2009-06-13T22:03:00.003+08:00

We save lives ((:

Fill up for Medic's Sentosa trip

2009-06-02T19:52:00.009+08:00

I forgot to upload some Pictures from my previous entry for the 1st Medic's Sentosa trip weeks ago. Ok basically Melvine drew our Medic's logo on the sand and it was kinda eye-catching.

Well, FYI, this is not the official Medic's logo. It's a logo my platoon came out with. Awesome isn't it? It will be engraved onto our platoon polo t-shirt which is printing in progress. I'm sure it'll look extravagant. HAHA! I'm feeling so poignant, being brought together and alienated after strong bonds are formed. I'm sure my fellow medic'll know how I feel. It's really a gloomy week for me... Now, I'm back home during this tuesday night to bring back my belongings and so as to book out effortlessly after my passing out parade this friday.

Anyway, back to track.. As everyone knows, after Sentosa-ing, there's no way you can skip a good shopping opportunity at vivo city. Bought some jeans at Zara which cost me $1XX.xx. (For book in book out purpose) I realise that I'm so weak when it comes to resisting nice clothings and good food. Like girl uh? Here's a sneak peek of it.

The material's amazing, suits me real good especially when I'm on my scrambler. JOKING!

Recent event which Mathew wants to remember in his journal...

-Clubbed with Ruzaini, Alif, JingFeng, JunHao, Mich and Holms.
-Steamboat-ed with WeiKian, John, KaiSheng, RuiMing, Mike.

PS// Event happened on the same weekend.
PSPS// Happy Be-lated Birthday to my mum ((:

Sentosa trip with my fellow MEDICs

2009-05-24T00:34:00.011+08:00

Went to sentosa today with my fellow MEDICs ((: It has been awhile since I last stepped into Sentosa. Brings back nostalgia..... Anyway, JingFeng will be posting out overseas to Brunei for like maybe a year or so. Thus, I brought along my camera for some photo taking and he can bring those photos there and reminiscence his happy memories with us LOL!

JianKai, Melvine, Ruzaini and JingFeng. These are the ppl who mean their words and didn't back out suddenly ((: Ruzaini took like millions of pictures and 1 image is approximately 4-6mb? There's no way I can upload all?

Had fun playing Ultimate Frisbee in a diminutive locale. Didn't know that Frisbee-ing is so energy-draining.

"DIE! YOU THIS TINY CREATURE!"

And more Frisbee action...

"Ain't I cool??"

"Nah, I'm way cool-er!"

"Let's settle it!"

And finally before we leave...

BMC buddy ((:

2009-05-17T17:34:00.004+08:00

Hi Alif, I am blogging about you as you requested. LOL!

Ok here is my bed buddy in BMC (SMTI). Last week he told me "Buddy, why u nv blog about me?" So now, I'm blogging about him. Ok done. Blogged. So don't whine at me anymore. LOL! He's a Rihanna fan btw, always gawking at her picture wanking away. Tsk! (I'm jesting of course. haha!)

Went out with Mike, Darrell, Nic and YK last week during Mother's day to some famous Tim Sum restaurant.

Wow my mind's blank right now, couldn't think of anything to blog. =\

PS // 3 more weeks to POP and I'm not happy at all. I want to stay with my BMC platoon mates!

Medic Cap

2009-05-03T16:58:00.003+08:00

Got my Medic's cap last week which indicates "Every Medic a Leader (SMTI)" ((:

Changed my playlist last night. Love it!

PS // Live IV5 completed, 5 more pokings to go!

With and Without glasses

2009-04-25T10:18:00.006+08:00

The me with spectacles and the me without, is it really so disparate? I had an interesting encounter yesterday before booking out. While I was doing my Patient's Assessment Model (PAM) last afternoon, one of my platoon mate asked me, "Hey, who're you ah? Why never see you before one?" Then the guy beside added, "Ya lor ya lor, never see you before leh, where you from?" I was so flabbergasted and I really showed them this face --> =.=" It's already the 5th week and they couldn't distinguish a person with/without glasses... I'll post some old photos that I took before enlistment and compare.

4 Eyed (7 mega pix, edited layer)

2 Eyed (10 mega pix, non edited)

+2 Eyed (10 mega pix, paint edited)

Very different meh? Looks the same to me leh. It's only like addixing on an accessory, nothing much. Anyway, I've found a photo of myself when I was in secondary school. LOL SO FAT! CAN'T STOP LAUGHING. AHAHAHAHAHAA!! I really looked like I did plastic surgery and went for liposuction LOL!

2 mega pix, edited layer.

Well, enough of my nonsense. I went to the Medical Centre last week as I sprained my ankle during the morning run. It swelled up real bad and thank god I recovered. I told him my old ligament problem and he examined my ligament at once. In less than 10 sec, he said that my ligament is fucking tight and he'll me sending me for Physiotherapy. Wow? Hope my ligament will recover soon ((: I've been limping around lately especially during my BMT days.

DJ becareful @ Rebel

2009-04-19T09:24:00.003+08:00

REBEL @ Clarke Quay

Hi ceed, I'm blogging ((: LOL!

I know I'm behind schedule again. Blogging about occasions 1 week before? Haha.. Went to Rebel last week with YK, Mike, RM and XY. It felt kinda fresh and maybe weird? As YK, Mike and XY came..... I mean, it's like bringing people from Asia, Aussie and USA together?

Anyway, Sam lee (HK DJ, ACTOR) was the Cast and many girls were there just for him? There were quite a handful of chicks there that very night I would say. However, he played those 'Future' kind of music which I loathe. I was disenchanted.

After 2am, he was told to fuck off and the Rebel DJs took over. The genre changed instantly to R&B which most of us adore. Danced through the night, RM even dozed off while standing LOL! In conclusion, we were in high spirits and most importantly, MAN UTD WON :D

Nata De COCO

2009-04-04T13:12:00.003+08:00

I have been eating lots of Nata De Coco recently. It's luscious, cheap and healthy. Zero calorie, high dietary fibre and most importantly, CHEWY :D

YUMM!! You people can get it in most supermarkets around singapore but it's commonly sold in Shop n Save. Trust me, it's mouth-watering xD

PS// Starting to get along with my new bunkmates.

POSTING (MEDIC)

2009-03-29T16:40:00.011+08:00

Hi, I'm a medic from SAF and I save lives ((: Will be on course, studying military medicine till 5th June 2009.

I'm definitely Armour-sick and I can't wait to RTU.

Another tragedy

2009-03-25T00:55:00.003+08:00

My beloved uncle passed away in twinge 2 days ago. Cherish your loved ones, life's really fragile.

)):

2009-03-22T00:05:00.002+08:00

1x Death

1x Cancer

2x Depression

1x Handicap

What can I do? Nothing...