hello 2009!!

Definitely a good start to the new year 2009! I'm given 1 day off by my madam on the last day of 2008. Celebrations took place and a summary of events in 2008 was concluded by officers and nsfs representing various units of the formation. A nice meal was served but the food served reminds me of christmas celebration rather than a celebration for the upcoming year. 

Anyway, I was really delighted with the 1 day off for today. Its like 2nd Jan is supposed to be a start of a new working year but its not the case for me! I just felt uber happy that I kick-start the new year with a nice break away from work. With it, I shall make sure I give my best in my work for 2009 so that my testimonial will look nicer and make myself satisfied with my work. Anyway, a long weekend means that it will seem like I'm away from office for about 3 weeks! Woohoo~! Alright alright. Enough of that. 

Events that happened on dec 31 this year certainly isn't as great as last year but what happened on the first few minutes on 1st jan definitely makes the whole day great! Several bad events happened and it really wasn't a well-planned round-up for the year. 

Things that happened were I was late (bad habit that I've cultivated last year, really need to STOP doing it), my specs' plastic outer layer cracked (sian..i wanted a new pair but i wasn't wishing for this current pair to 'retire' in this manner), luckily it still can be used, so it ain't that bad. Then came the search for a restaurant to eat. I planned to eat at Seoul Garden (coz I haven't ate there before!) and I think a steamboat kind of meal fits the occasion. It's been around for a long time but I just didn't went to try out before, its just like my experience with bowling. I never tried bowling until last year, haha! Side-track again...anyway, back to the food encounter. Kit, huat & me were looking around the whole Marina Square for Seoul Garden but somehow we just missed out on it. And by the time we find it, it was 8 plus, stomach were starting to growl but we were told we need to wait for 45 mins for our turn to eat. So we decided not to eat it and settled for some myanmar restaurant. 

The meal went smoothly UNTIL i didn't get to eat my dessert! Its some myanmar chendol. It was sold out! Haiz..why wasn't the last bowl saved for me?? Why?!?! Next, we went to play some arcade games to kill time before the fireworks starts. Kit met his cousin and fren and left with them after that thus it ended up with just me and huat to watch the fireworks together. The fireworks this year really is nice. It's hard to really describe how nice is nice until you've seen it.

Let's have a look at year 2008 for me. It's a rather average year once again. My life's never been real exciting so it's just a normal year that had just gone by. Everyday is just about army(mine's just office work, and I've been doing that kind of job where I dun like but I've just got to do the work for the past 1 plus year) and weekends are for meeting up with frens. This year see myself going through an "emo" period for a while. This time, I managed to move out from it way much better than last time I experienced a similar one. Really glad I managed to do it and whether I do it right, I don't know but it was the solution which I chose back then and I've moved on from it. 

The positives that I can take from this year is that I've made a few good friends from tekong days and I've "opened up", I think. Met 2 friends in BMT days, namely hz and terence. Didn't really have alot of time to meet up with terence because of his army duty but on most fridays, i'll be meeting hz for a meal and a short chat and many times during our meet up, we'll end up walking from bugis/city hall to plaza sing for no reason. And I meant I've opened up, because used to be too quiet, too introvert, lack of self-confidence and unwilling to display my real feelings, been always trying to cover up myself and be a nice guy. This year, I've changed. I've really tried to interact more, try to have more self-confidence and be more 'real'. I know that the change in me might not be obvious but I'm trying to improve to be a better son, friend, colleague and worker. 

What made me most satisfied this year about myself is that I'm no longer someone where I can be 'bullied'. I can be nice, accomodative (not sure if its a right word to use), and easy-going (just like how I can agreed to trying out line-dancing and singing x'mas carols). To put it simply, I'm no longer a pushover. I'll fight for my own rights till the end!!

Next monday's the start of working year 2009. Let's hope for the best!

end of block leave, end of x'mas, end of 2008...soon

Dec 2008 is finally coming to an end. It's been a rather eventful past 2 weeks where I had block leave, went to zinc's bdae party, had a 'peaceful' x'mas. 

My block leave period was during the x'mas week where I used 3 days of leave in exchange of 4.5 days out of office (because of x'mas celebration and x'mas day).  

Talking about x'mas celebration in the office, I had a great time during the celebration on the eve of x'mas! Guess what! The guys at my branch went carolling around the whole unit. It's fun lah! Going around the unit, from branch to branch, then singing christmas carols as a whole. Well, I must say we're not really good at singing, I'm not good either, but we really tried our best to make the carols sound nice. And I think it was quite a success. So, to round the carolling session up, we went over to the mess where other unit's personnels are holding their mini-christmas party AND we sang them carols as well. It was really fun and memorable as it was my first try at singing carols. 

Went over to zinc's birthday party a couple of saturdays back. Met up with several of the poly mates. Felt really happy after a long while of not seeing each other and I realised everybody has grown matured. From there, I learnt that azuan's actually in bert's BMT company as a storeman. What a small world! 

Watched a few movies recently also. Basically, those more popular ones like Bolt (both the 2D and 3D versions), Ip Man, Yes Man and The Journey to the Centre of the Earth (3D). And also, Body of Lies and The Duchess. Hmm, actually, I watched the Journey...Earth (lazy to type the whole title lah, damn long!!) twice including the 3D version. I watched it again because firstly, I forgot that I watched the movie.Opps!! And secondly, it was x'mas eve, no plan for that day, so I decided to watch it with kit who was rather pissed with something that happened to him last night as a form of compensation. The 5 other movies were pretty good as well and my favourite 2 movies of the 5 are Ip Man and Yes Man. Ip Man's a nice action film with some light humour. And Yes Man's a movie that's quite a no-brainer, and it should be a film where u get to the theatre, have some snacks and laugh your ass off the lame and not-lame jokes from the movie. Not forgetting that it also promotes a good information which is to say YES in life. As in, to approach life positively. 

Last but not least, I went out with wai, lil and zinc on sunday to have a nice meal and some bowling and played arcade as well at marina square. 2nd time having meal at pasta de waraku, its nice, but somehow i wasn't in a good appetite to eat alot. Could be because I had alot of snacks while watching The Duchess. And the bowling session after that was quite screwed up. No thanks to the machines that the bowling alley is using. Nevertheless, I had my best score EVER in bowling. Felt so good! But I guess its just Lady Luck's riding on me bah. Went to tried this particular game, which  is something like a Street Fighters' tetris. Never played before, but it was nice. And I played one of my favourite game, Virtua Tennis. It's always so mental draining to play it, but I still can't clear the tournament stage again. 

Tomorrow's the last day of year 2008. Time flies. Here goes another year, and army's 60-70% for me le. This coming Jan 2009 sees my seniors ORD and the next batch will be mine!! HAHA!! Finally the time has come, and it's one which I will be greeting with mixed emotions. 

Anyway, tomorrow will be a day to be made memorable BUT I've got no idea what to do yet. Shall let the events just flow bah.  

been abt a fortnight since i last blogged

yeah, its been quite a while since i last blogged. Since the week where I have my unexpected period of MC. Since I'm now called a chao keng kia. Quite hurt abt that new nick though. Wanted to be one but was never one and I'm sure I've did enough to showed I'm not one but gossips are always bad. And this is just one of many bad gossips. Well, I'm going to pay less attention on all these shit and I'll be FREE after 7 more months! Urgh!

Wanted to blog last week but due to my laziness and my indulgence in this new mmorpg called Dekaron and FM09, expected!, I didn't blogged until today!!

I remembered I had a short chat with bokai on msn 2 weeks back. It has been a really long while since I chatted with this poly fren of mine, haven't seen him since the end of poly, haha! We were talking about the future. Life after army. And he was saying about he wants to study and that he don't really see a future for himself at the moment. How true! Exactly what I was thinking about also. At the moment, I really don't know where my future lies. With ORD quite soon to be approaching, I haven't quite have a view of what my future will certainly be. I don't want to be job-hopping after ORD. I don't want to move on aimlessly again. Enough of that for me. Seriously need to look out for options out there and draw out what possibilities I can have. The financial crisis certainly didn't help. 

2 years of army is a LONG time and if after this 2 years, I'm still unsure of what I want to do in the years ahead. It will make the 2 years all the more useless. What I should be glad shall be that I still have 7 months to think through. Actually, I do know what I want to do after army. Its how I want to go doing it that's bothering me. Been planning to do studying. Because I'm very sure if I start working and not study after army, possibility of me going back to studies after a short period of working life is as good as 0. Hmm, shall take it a step at a time. *Haha, I think my sloppy attitude still hasn't change.*

The love-hate situation for me about my unit is just like a roller-coaster ride. Everytime the 'love' feeling comes, the hate feeling is just around the corner. At this present moment, its the hate feeling that I'm having. Which means the love feeling is coming soon! Things are not really nice at the moment, work's piling up, and I get to see different natures of people. One moment, he can seem really nice, the next moment, he can f*** you for no reason. 

I've got so many things that I want to buy! Let's name it. A laptop with better specs so I can play more games. A mini hi-fi set so I can enjoy music in my room. A new pair of specs because my current one has been with me for ages. And lastly, my urge to pierce my ear is back again!! I'm not sure if I really want to pierce my ear but I just want to try out. It will not be a permanent thing but what really prevented me from doing it is I'm uncertain if the hole will close up after some time when I don't put any studs or ring to it. Sometimes, my indecisiveness helps. Like for this case about piercing ear, I'm glad I haven't pierce, just in case I won't regret immediately after I've pierced. 

This friday got a half-day off. Woohoo! Given to most of the guys in the branch after our line-dance performance at the unit's D&D. Been thinking of what to do after we had lunch outside(we won $200 as consolation prize, so its going to be spent on lunch). And I've decided to go to gym! To my usual gym spot at tampines sports complex. Time to have a real good workout! 

It's a uber long post and most of it are grumbling. Super late le. Tomorrow's start of a new day of war. This war will go on till 27th july 2009 when I ORD.

3rd day of unexpected MC

i'm on MC since Tuesday thanks to this illness called helmes zoster, basically its just a recurrance of chicken pox. Its infectious to people that didnt have chicken pox before. Hence, I was given 4 days of MC. 

But I'm not happy about these 4 days of MC because I need to avoid seafood & heaty food for 2 weeks. Urgh!! Seafood ah, I can try avoid them lah BUT heaty food are heavenly food for me eh! Never mind, its just a 2 weeks. After that I can be able to eat all the food that I want to eat. 

I can't wait for my xbox 360 to arrive in my house!! I'm getting it so-called for free because of the singnet broadband that I signed up. 1 more week, and I can play xbox le. Woohoo!

Feel like getting a new mp3 to replace my current sony mp3. I've been using it since poly year 1 or 2. The battery keeps going flat way too fast for my liking. I need to recharge it every time I used it. Recently, I just saw a sony 8GB mp3 which cost $189 but after checking the model out, its quite an old one. So now, I'm going for the new sony 8GB or 16GB mp3 or the ipod touch, not sure if i should consider classic as well, classic's should be a good choice for me because of its large space so being lazy, I can throw a whole album into the mp3.  

juz feel like writing something

while i'm waiting for this lame video clip called Go Rangers to load on Youtube and transferring my files from desktop to my portable hard disk, i decided to blog. 

Its quite troublesome to transfer files from my desktop to my hard disk, 'cause the usb port for my desktop is spoilt and hence i need to use my laptop as a media to transfer files to my hard disk. Its troublesome!!

Today's quite a good day for me. Firstly, IPPT was cancelled due to Cat 1 status (meaning weather is really bad). I wasn't really keen to take it. I'll surely fail lah and I've got no motivation to push myself for a pass. So, best solution will be 'avoid' taking it. Remedial Training was conducted in place of IPPT. It's quite a casual workout but its a eventful one after a long time of not exercising. 

Then, on my way home, got 2 friends to accompany on the bus ride home. Chi Meng & Mukun. Super long never have a decent chat after our training days, which is about 1 year ago! After all, we're at different units now and all we actually said to each other was the 'Hi' & 'Bye' and casual talk. Hence, the bus ride back to Kallang was a pretty eventful one. 

Time for my Go Rangers video le!

random post!

OPPS! Just as I was preparing to type for this post, I accidentally press tab until the 'Publish Post' icon was selected and I pressed 'Enter' key. And so I submitted an empty post. Haha!

Been pretty lazy to blog recently. After coming back from unit, I will be just using my laptop to play FM08 (Football Manager 08), and now the recently released FM09. And I just do abit of surfing on soccer sites to get myself slightly updated with soccer news. I no longer have the urge to keep myself updated of soccer news. I just don't see the need to be so obsessed with soccer. Felt pretty like I'm a no-lifer if I'm too obsessed with it. So, as long as I'm not outdated with the news, I'm happy enough le. 

For the past 2 weeks plus, life has been pretty the same for me. Work at the unit from 8am-5.30pm. Came back home in the night, and playing some games to chill. And for weekends will be meeting up with kit and huat on saturday and catching up with hanzhong on friday. 

Recently, I've been thinking alot during my free time. Was thinking about what I should be doing from now till my ORD. Thinking about how I should approach everyday. Thinking about what I should be doing after ORD. And if I were to go studying, should I do it in Singapore, Australia and what kind of course I should be doing. Think, think & THINK. And, I've not concluded anything on my thoughts. Oh well, I should take it a step at a time, slowly sort out my thoughts and be decisive. 

a bad headache for the coming week

Argh!! What's with me today!! First, I realised my work in the unit went wrong after an error which happened at the early step of the procedure. So I had to re-do it and at the same time HOPEFULLY meet my target. Phew! That's a really tough task to accomplish but hopefully i'll improve with this mistake. With determination, I believe I CAN DO IT..albeit with the help of my teammates. :)

Well, I'm kinda disappointed at myself because not only did I made an error. But I made one which needed the help of my co-workers to help me solve the mess I created! I don't like to trouble others whenever its possible for myself to handle the situation. But right now, without the helps of my co-workers, I DEFINITELY can't finish before the deadline. Hence, I'm feeling guilty for pulling them into the act. To lessen their load, I shall work harder so that they can do less work. 

To make things worse, I actually thought of a nice title for this post on my way back home! BUT I forgot the name just when I start this post. Haha. 

Currently watching this Channel 8 show which shows the less fortunate people living in Singapore. Every single episode is so touching and it should make people feel fortunate enough compared to the people aired in the show. Those people on the show are either less educated, having low-IQ or having some form of physical or psychological disability. But really, it felt good to be normal and its good to stay contented and be grateful for what we have and our surroundings.