Ups and downs, ups and downs

Ah yes, i'm back home after done with my last NCO duty.... what an eventful one too. let's go back to wednesday night, after i left home....

that night i met up with christy at jurong point, basically just hung out around there, fooled around in Toys 'R Us, then back to camp. I heard before that one of my guys, the night before his Ippt, he took 2 cans of red bull and went to sleep... next day he got silver award. So i thought, hey maybe it can work for me too. But then.... it didn't sort of work for me. that night i couldn't sleep till around 1am. i realized that i was pretty stupid about that... but i just brushed it off. next day i woke up to find the sky all red, alright a sign that the test might be cancelled due to rain.... half an hour later as the sun came up and the sky cleared up, fuck. ok nevermind... later when me and another guy who's also taking the test with me went to register our names, the guys there told us that they didn't recieve our names. Suddenly our faces brightened up, if they didn't receive our names, that means no test! we went to our barrack and started changing to our uniforms, feel so glad that i didn't have to take it today... Then, after informing the upstairs ppl, they said that they'll check it out.... a while later we got news that our names were found. Fuck again. once again, we changed back to our sports attire... $!#$%^#&!!....
the test sucked, for me at least. i didn't strategized at all... took the wrong station first... ended up failing chin-up by just 1, and almost flunked my shuttle run... but at the SBJ station, i was given a golden opportunity. i haved always flunked SBJ all the while, but i was given a pass on the score sheet... and that gave me the motivation to go all out to try to pass this shit ippt. you had no idea how i felt man... so i tried to take chin-up again... but still failed... and i managed to get a pass for my shuttle-run. ok... i'm allowed to just fail 1 station and that means i had to go all out for my 2.4km run. And there.... was where i had no idea what went wrong with me. i knew i had to pass the run... i even had a pacer.... but my legs just couldn't get any faster. in the end i did a 14min... that was way too far from the passing time. while walking back to barrack, i just couldn't believe myself... that i missed a once in a lifetime chance to get a pass. my mind was running nowhere but only at my sorry self.
at that point of time, i was like urgh... have to face that boss, hear the other black boss scream cos he was fuckin' particular about the 2.4run.. i remained quiet all the while till i reached up there. strangely, when my boss saw me, he asked...

"fail ah?"

"yeah..."

*walked away"

o_O --?

that was it?! no nothing, no words no... huh? i was expecting some lecture and a punishment planned out for me.... but that was all i got. Cool. And that other boss? hell, i think he didn't even know that i had ippt just now. Man, am i that lucky or what...

that afternoon was pretty lonely... not to mention fuckin' hot too. BUT STILL... me and my standby buddy were told to do some BS labour work, like transport some sandbags and spread sand over some areas... ah man, of all times, my boss had to choose a day when there's... NOT MUCH MANPOWER AROUND. freak don't wanna talk about that anymore... let's just skip to the next day....

Ah yes the next day, guess what? i can't go out of the place cos... the other shift guys were attending an outbase run. OoOoh and as if that wasn't enough, later in the day i had to drive a dog to Jalan Kayu to remove a dead nail from its paw... all these ON MY LAST NCO DUTY. -_- well at least Jalan Kayu was better that staying up there... OOh OOOH ok you may have heard about this but.... i never knew that the BEST curry chicken was at that prata shop in Jalan Kayu. i was only told about this when we were there and he offered to treat me to the curry chicken... and OMFFFGGG, it was definately the FUGGING BEST I'VE EVER HAD! the gravy was just nice, not too hot, not thick and not dilute... and da chicken, so soft all over! let it be the breast part, thigh part whatever... i bet if they have it as a whole chicken, it'd have soft meat all over!!!! kinda pricy though, about 4 bucks just the chicken and gravy alone... but hey, fugging worth it! the other guy who also tried it was like.... speechless when he took it into his mouth. Hell man, if i've got the chance next time, i wanna go back there and have that curry chicken anytime!

Man, after talking about the food, i kinda loss the mood to write.... but anyway the rest of the evening me and the partner were sleeping like pigs, fuckin' no rest in the afternoon ya know. and then the next day, book out... finally. today for the whole afternoon i was cleaning up the inside of my computer, didnt know that there was soooo much dust and dirt inside. Oh yah just remembered... i did kinda mention that i was intending to take pics of Noby and Antis... but hehe, i had to forget to bring the all important camera. plus, it was raining at night, couldn't really bring them out. last chance to do so on my last weekend duty.... 7 more duties to go dudes, home run man.
later tonight Christy's coming over to my place to stay over... maybe we're gonna watch some shows or just chattin' or something... and tomorrow, i gotta wash the car. it's a long weekend and i'm err broke again.... ahahaha i'm such a loser... :~(

What will become... after tomorrow?

weird title huh? well that's because tomorrow i'm taking my ippt... and by all means i have to pass this one if i wanna keep my driving licence. actually i know that rule is all bull, but the consequences of failing the ippt also involves confinement as punishment... where you only get to book out on a full dismount day. horrible. that's why, i'm praying with all my might that i can pull of AT LEAST a partial fail, and that i can do the 2.4km run under 12:20min... plus 6 chin-ups... and a less that 10.5sec shuttle run... sit-ups i'm ok with it.... oh the most worrying in the sbj, i could never jump past 216cm. sigh. whether i can pull off a miracle, we'll see tomorrow... if not, heh very little updates from next week onwards...
yesterday was great, went out with fren to watch 2 movies back to back, first was Guess Who, then Beauty Shop. not that there're super good shows, but nonetheless, it was alright, conisdering the fact that i haven't been to the movies for a long long time... oh wait i did watch The Pacifier a couple weeks ago, oops. after that, went to Marches to have.... OYSTERS! omg haven't had those in MONTHS. it was back to heaven when i had those in my mouth, MmmMM MMMmmmM! Man, if i had $, i'd have oysters at least 3 times a week, wooo! lol...
alright, tomorrow doing NCO duty, yes stay in till sat... it's gonna be my last NCO duty, so i'm definately bringing my camera to take some pics of Noby and Antis heehee, up close and personal. as of today, i just ran out of cash... made it till the end of the month, quite an improvement for me lol... next month gotta do better with my leave and offs coming up. 9 more duties to go.... less than a month of hell to put through, almost one month left till freedom.... OoOoh i'm gonna be freeee.... ;o)

2 Tired 2 Sleepy

was suppose to put in yesterday's bbq event which i helped out and turned out to be quite a success, but i overslept and i'm still zzzZzzz... then last night was supposed to have a good sleep, ended up having a fren stay over and we woke up late and i had to send her home.... even though i had just woken up from a 4 hour sleep, stilll feelin' very ZzzzZzz.... but anyway that was my weekend. gotta go for work now, bleahhhh...

Lalalalala....

MMmMmMMmm... what a sleep i just had! omg sooo good... man really, nothing beats sleeping on mah bed at home anytime! Anyway, OooOoh looks like it's gonna rain big time later... omg it better rain till next morning or i'm so gonna hate the place i'm doing for duty tonight, argh.

a little update on the last few days.... Sigh our long time work horse Johnny, passed away recently. He finally succumbed to the long battle its fits lasting for months. the last few days of his remaining time was rather painful the way i saw, with series of fit bounts attacking him, rendering him paralysed and not responding to any outside calls. the lsat time i saw him alive, he was yelping in pain, lying on his own pile of poop, legs constantly struggling around, fighting to live on. at this stage, no one could help him anymore, it was a matter of time before his time comes....
he was great dog to many, acoording to long ord-already senior guys, Johnny was Tengah's first and only truly dangerous dog at its time. Extremely loyal to his trainer and really aggressive, only a hand could truly handling him. i remember when i was still a newbie, trying to put the muzzle on him would always be a challenge for me, he constantly barking ever so loudly, never know when he'll just snap at you. At least now, he' resting in peace, no more medication, fit bouts, lying on own poop at saliva... well, another dog gone.

next was an event that every one of us would never want to experience, getting caught sleeping while on duty. My ever problematic batch mate, was caught sleeping at the most odd time ever.... an hour after duty started. He was already caught sleeping before so many times, offical and non-official. Plus a string of gambling incidents, blah blah blah... yeah he may be my batch mate, but already gave up on him loooong time ago. He's most likely to go into Dentention, so may God help him so.... which i don't think so...
just a little over a month before i *ahem*... >O R D<, just when i thought life is now just a smooth sail away.... i have to be made to go thru a challenge. thanks to so new rules for drivers, now i have to pass my IPPT before i can get my licence, or risk getting confinment till i leave the bloody place. OMFG... this is farking terrible news to me i tell ya. i'm taking mine this coming thurs, so now i've been rushing thru some intense workout to 1) lose the freaking tummy 2)restore my previous fitness ability 3)pull of a miracle within 2 weeks. for now still got time, so God, PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!! :S

wow long entry today, i'll just end here. computer collecting huge amount of dust these days, gotta get it clean before something bad happens to it...

Aching legs

Came across this cobra while driving, can't resist jamming the brakes, sending the guys in the back flying forward, to to look at this rare sight. 


I was like moving back and forth for the guy behind to take a pic and the cobra was like in its "defense pose" throughout. just before i left, i took another pic, look! 

A while i drove back to the site, to see that snake got run over by a truck. Ewww! was still alive, just a certain part of its body erm, broken. can see the cobra yelling in pain. eww eww eww.


Yawn... mmm last night went to marina south for steamboat bbq for dinner... whoa boy was i full. it was fantastic, apart from the common meat stuff and veges... they also have.... SHELLL FOOD! oooh all those cockles, clams, snails.... even MUSSELS! Omg hope i dun get some diesease from having so much of those. after that it was some arcade session... had some really good fun times. when it all ended, it was already about 11pm, a little too late to take the normal pub transport to get back to camp. so, just to save myself and another mate of mine from blowing 30 bucks on a cab, we decided to head home and go back to camp tomorrow morning instead. The thing is that, if i we were to take pub transport to camp, we ain't gonna reach there early enough, i decided to take the car and fetch my fren and park my caddy somewhere in a nearby private housing estate, then take the bus to camp. smart eh?

sigh, i just hate doing duty on a sat night, feels like i'm missing a lot, even though in actual fact i'm not. Once nvm, this will allll be over soon. God, my legs are aching from the running yesterday morning, and there's a twist before i end my service to this bloody ns system, i have to pass my ippt in order to get my licence. fuck man. Now i have to go all over to get myself into shape. dammit.

-_-

last night was an example of a BAD duty expericence. Main reason? I COULDN'T SLEEP AT ALL.that's why today i came home and slept for 5 hours till evening. then somewhere during duty, i heard over the radio that my boss has just entered camp, i literally jumped up from the floor, threw whatever was illegal and rushed with the books. while doing so, i was constantly monitoring the comms movement... and found out that the RPs were just fooling around with the sets. later while returning to my stuff, my doggie Antis suddenly pulled at something and let out a small growl. Intruder? fuck... i checked around the place twice and found nothing... then i realized that he was pulling at the tissues on the grass nearby where i had pooped earlier. nice job antis, ya saved me from any attacks from my own poop.
after duty, we cleaned up the place rather quick and moreorless clean, but we couldn't go off early cos it was apparently, 'too early'. Fugg.
tomorrow 8 to 5... NVM approx 50 shit days to ORD woohoo.... and i'm heading to marina south with the guys for some seafood dinner in celebration of my 1IC's birthday. lookin' forward to get tummy problems.

bad weather is always goo for duty!

had a fantastic duty last night.... firstly there was a huge windstorm, but it died off.... that was in the early part of the night. then one hour into my duty, a lightning storm began to appear. i actually hate lightning, or rather, i'm a little scared of lightnings... so i called up my loop ic about the situation... moments later it's standby in weathershed. although the actual standby lasted for only about...2 hours, my weathershed is.... once you go in, you wont wanna come out. hahaha... and so i had a nice zzzzz till the guys came back.
well, hope tonight it rains hard just before the start of duty, so we don't even have to deploy! yay! weather looks quite gloomy right now at 7, hmm might be a little too early. nevertheless, hope tonight would be a real bad thunderstorm! weeee....

Sunny weekend and going back to where it all started

what a great weekend to head out of the beach, get tanned, go sweat like mad pigs... yeah. me? prefer to stay under the ... shade. :) yesterday was out the entire afternoon.... saw many things i thought i could buy... and i could, but just had to hold myself back cos i'm not a rich boy. new earphones, dvd player, sushi for dinner... urgh imagine if i did get all those stuff, today i'd be happy, tomorrow and thereafter i'll sulk and call myself stupid everyday. did bought something for the car, a novelty light item, shoots out this led light thru 2 clear plastic tubes, giving it a kinda glow feeling, oooh! then last night went out to fetch laura (???) home from bugis, while almost reaching her place, she suddenly wanted to check out a road, of course i wouldn't mind... then head to this little road near pandan vally condo and whoa... houses houses and more HUGE houses... and almost never ending road. before we knew it, we were along bukit timah road. Meh...? we were so.... hyped about this discovery that, laura asked me to drive into another little road leading to more landed property again. ended up at MGS and from there went back. couldn't see much at night, mmm imagine driving thru there during the day.... whoa never knew sooooo much landed property singaporeans own.

right now i'm downloading some music album, it's the Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 2 soundtrack that i've been waiting to err buy... but since i managed to find a torrent d/l for it, saves me the 70 bucks if i were to really order from the internet. wee!!! wondering what to do next.... my long weekend's gonna end pretty soon.... tomorrow it's 8-5pm.... BUT never mind.....



62 motherfucking days to O R D !! !! !!

bwhahahahahaha....

a moment... where i have nothing else better to do

i was reading ppl's blogs.... so naturally, i wanna blog too.

just now i went downstairs to get back the Caddy from my mum's friend, she loaned it to this friend of her cos he was planning to buy a van and wanted to have a feel of how it's like to drive one. While taking it out for a spin is alright, spreading it out over a period of a few days is a little... too much. that's why i asked my mum to have the car back... and it came with a 3/4 full tank! woo!
but unfortunately, because the car hasn't been serviced for quite a long while, some parts were beginning to erm... fail. the door on the driver side was stiff, feedback given by the guy who borrowed the car. i was like "Is it??" and come to think of it, yeah it is a little stiff. then comes the unlocking of the door... oh wait, i "unlocked" and nothing happens. turn the key again and again... still nothing. WTF? good thing car nowdays u can unlock centrally via any door.... and found out that the unlocking mechanism is faulty. dang shit, and to think i wanted to keep the car.... then there's the persistant stiff clutch... thought i had it all figured out on how to get rid of the roughness... i was wrong. fuck... this means that... the Caddy is in need of a FULL servicing... and that's gonna cost big $$$$.... urgh....

other than that, the car still works fine.

pay came late today, came just before midnight which was erm... a little too late. NVM, tomorrow! time to head out.... and leave my atm at home. yes, i'm only gonna bring out 50 bucks with me, pretty unorthedox but still... it has to be done. for now, me hungry tummy wants some food.... mmm...

I'm having..... a long weekend!

Ah yes! took friday and sat leave cos i wanna have a good rest.... and some time to myself. man if only i could extend my MC today, then i'd have a SUPER LONG WEEKEND! but that'll probably kill me cos there will be too much free time haha. ooh ooh and pay day... TODAY! i think.... mmmm this time must and i mean MUST, set some $$ aside. dunno how but will figure it out somehow... i hope. anyway i'm tired and ZZzZzzZzleepy, haven't really fully recovered from the fever.... god look at all the gunk i can dig out from my sore nose, urgh....

I am having.... a fever :o(

yeah.... all thanks to yesterday. i was told to drive all the way to changi to collect some stone tables and it was downpouring like crazy... i got totally drenched after transfering the tables up to my truck and had to drive for an hour and a half back to camp, in my wet uniform. oh, not before heading to changi village to get some of that famous nasi lemak for lunch heehee... but still i couldn't really enjoy it cos i've got ulcer on my tongue :(. And as if it wasnt enough, i had evening duty that day and i couldn't change duty. so imagine, only reaching barrack at almost 3, sleeping for only 2 hours before having dinner and putting on my still semi-wet uniform for duty. oh and that night it was fucking cold man.

it doesn't take much to guess that i got fever today.

Nevermind, at least i get to stay at home... and rest. *sniff*

Another sunday log

Well, it seems that nowadays i've been blogging lesser and lesser, not that my life's gotten more interesting or something... maybe well, hmm... yeah maybe just one word: lazy. nah, actually, my memory as you know, is darn poor as hell, whatever happened around me tend to just fade away and i'll have a hard time recalling... hey sometimes that good for me, especially when it comes to going thru bad times. oh ya that reminds me, recently i think one of my entries have sort of agitated, irritated, irked or pissed a certain individual, so much that even a very personal comment came to my phone, while i was duty. (hur) For the record, i blog for a simple reason, to vent out whatever's inside me. let it be happy ones, anger or very very sad and pessimisic, i'd just let it out. It's my way of making myself feel better, and it works. After each blog session, i feel better and i never look back at my own blogs. what you ppl are reading is simply the other side of me, the one that you never really see in person. Ok, maybe you don't know this but i'll tell this to you, all. Whether you like what you're reading or not, whatever comments about me, that has something to do with this blog or my personal life or whatever blah, it would be much appreciated that you keep them to yourself. Unless i consider you as my very close friend, i don't really like to discuss whatever's on this blog... EXCEPT FUNNY ONES!!! Funny or happy ones OF COURSE can... anyway you ppl should be able to differenciate. I apologize for making you pissed or irritrated or shit, but i ain't gonna say sorry for what i wrote out here.

Ok let's change topic, what did i do yesterday? gee i forgot already, nvm let's see.... oh ok i remembered about last night. Went out for dinner with some camp mates, celebrating someone's birthday.... at Yishun. After that, he suggested going for KTV session at Shenton, nono for me. No $, got painful ulcer on the tongue.... plus i've borrowed enough $$ from my frens :o(.

Today, i woke up at around 6, had slept at around 12 last night cos i was sooooo tired. last week i had trouble with the car, so i decided to check on it to see if that problem still persist. and BTW, I know i'm driving illegally, that doesn't stop me from ... ah fuck you ppl will never understand, it's got something to do with family and PASSION... anyway, i found the car to be working like normal. In fact, it was responding better! Guess that dumb mistake i made last week was that much of a mistake at all LOL.... later in the morning after washing the car, tried to find out what's with the heavy clutch feel that has been buggin for months.... after some fiddling, by some magical means the clutch became more... smoooooth. like OMG this is making me want to keep this car MORE! it's running great now, like how a normal car should. then came another news, my mum had invited one of her fren to test drive the car next sat, saying that they might be interested in getting a panel car van whatever like the Caddy.

:o(

Well if they do wanna get the car, i've got nothing to say. Maybe i can try to convince my mum to let me get a 2nd hand car after i get my licence in 2 MONTHS...

Ok, think i've ran out of things to write, kinda sleepy, i'm gonnaaaaa ZZZzzZzzzzz *drool*

One fine day...

I was at Toys 'R Us walking around, when something a pile of rubber toys caught my eye.... 

... somehow a shark found my fingers tasty... 


Then the unexplainable happened, things started to jump onto me 


 


Then next to the pile of crazy toys, i saw this rubbery spikey blue squishy thingy... 

i was playing it for a bit and discovered it could move on it's own, hmm.... 


Then it grew bigger and bigger.... 


... to a point where things got a little out of erm... hand 


If that wasn't enought, that thing even tried to "eat" me up. 


Well, it didn't just stopped there. While trying to get out of the dreaded place, i got bitten here and there.... oh well...