I won't be near a comp anytime from 9th to 23rd of Dec.
Wont be seeing or hearing from anyone
I'm being exploited like a commodity endlessly for the next month.
Welcome to the Army aka the doghouse
Thursday, November 24
In Limbo
Have u ever felt this way?
That you are in a place so familiar... yet you dont feel like you belong there at all. Like you are stuck in twilight zone. I know this place so well but i don't belong here at all. That's what I felt this whole morning when i returned to 42. The place is just a shadow of its former self. The place was literally turned inside out. Lion Coy is no longer Lion Coy... gone are the colourful walls. The whole battalion looks like a hospital now. Walls painted in white, beige and the dullest colours you can ever find. And the place is feeling like a mental hospital.
I'm grateful that i'm a student now. After just a day of being a soldier again, i felt like one whole clusters of brain cells just died. You just become more stupid in army. There is mental deteoriation occuring in camp nowadays.
I went back to camp early in the morning to report and they were surprised that i turned up and didnt even know what to do with me. I am sort of like a Pseudo Soldier now. Enlisted but still with my pink IC, not that i want my 11B back of course. I'm like this passing ghost that exists in camp only this month. Not that im complaining but it really bores the crap out of me. I understand why now i hated it so much back then. My mind just took a backward step. Rotting away in camp. Had lunch at 1100am after that i rotted in bunk. Furthermore most of the things I get to do in army is just a chore, an irritation, not much thinking required. That is why so many army people use their brain cells to think of how to malinger and escape the system. Work in army is just literally called "shit work" in hokkien. You know how army commercials always potray a very fun and exciting picture of army? That's fake. Period. Not the best way to spend my holidays... ARGH
Bottomline: I HATE THE SAF haha
That you are in a place so familiar... yet you dont feel like you belong there at all. Like you are stuck in twilight zone. I know this place so well but i don't belong here at all. That's what I felt this whole morning when i returned to 42. The place is just a shadow of its former self. The place was literally turned inside out. Lion Coy is no longer Lion Coy... gone are the colourful walls. The whole battalion looks like a hospital now. Walls painted in white, beige and the dullest colours you can ever find. And the place is feeling like a mental hospital.
I'm grateful that i'm a student now. After just a day of being a soldier again, i felt like one whole clusters of brain cells just died. You just become more stupid in army. There is mental deteoriation occuring in camp nowadays.
I went back to camp early in the morning to report and they were surprised that i turned up and didnt even know what to do with me. I am sort of like a Pseudo Soldier now. Enlisted but still with my pink IC, not that i want my 11B back of course. I'm like this passing ghost that exists in camp only this month. Not that im complaining but it really bores the crap out of me. I understand why now i hated it so much back then. My mind just took a backward step. Rotting away in camp. Had lunch at 1100am after that i rotted in bunk. Furthermore most of the things I get to do in army is just a chore, an irritation, not much thinking required. That is why so many army people use their brain cells to think of how to malinger and escape the system. Work in army is just literally called "shit work" in hokkien. You know how army commercials always potray a very fun and exciting picture of army? That's fake. Period. Not the best way to spend my holidays... ARGH
Bottomline: I HATE THE SAF haha
Wednesday, November 23
Becoz Of You
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
Despite of talk about sg changing, the TV still sucks here. Seriously lack of gd TV shows. The only exceptions are a few foreign dramas i.e korean/japanese. For English programmes, Aussie beats sg hands down... Numb3rs, House MD, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Rove Live etc etc. The Chinese drama serials are just plain disgusting... I fall in love with you, I backstab you, I try to harm you, I cheat you, I get revenge. You catch my drift? Why do most Chinese dramas have this scheming and plotting nonsense? There's more than one way to create a plot twist. Chinese drama serial (Local ones) become so predictable sometimes.
Onto more rants: why do TV hosts always wanna act cute? Is this what the general audience wants? It's really quite sad to come back after a while and still find Fiona Xie acting cute. Give her a better identity instead of this cutiepie nonsense. It's lost its novelty. Simply no change. You know how people and things improve, evolve into something better? It apparently doesnt occur here. Rather there seems to be a case of degeneracy (pardon the science terms). Personally i would rather see Lisa Ang host than Fiona Xie host. There was this other not so manly host on TV who seriously needed some testosterone stuffed down his throat. Urgh... Now Channel NewsAsia has become my new favourite channel. Simply because its more professional. Or i prefer to turn off my TV and not to be forcefed the nonsense that appears on screen nowadays.
Anyway, I thinked i might have gone slightly crazy... Before my flight back, I was at the newstand trying to figure out what to buy and read. None of the books really interested me so i went to the magazine stands. FHM, Ralph, Gamepro etc etc... I dont know what really possessed me to do it but i actually bought New Scientist and boarded the plane with it. Lo and behold, i am really on my way to becoming a full time geek/nerd. I actually understood most of the articles in the mag and found it intersting (spent 2 hours reading new scientist on the flight)... haha shock and horror. And in my past few days in sg, i went to most MPH, Popular and realised something: There's not a single science mag on sale. That's quite saddening. Maybe i should go down to borders to check it out. OR maybe i've gone slightly insane... haha
Yup in a few hours i will be back at the Doghouse... the army camp called 42. No idea what they are goin 2 throw at me this time. Hopefully i will get it over and done with and i can kiss all my liabilities in sg gdbye. Never wanna have anything to do with the SAF anymore. I should really get an Aus PR or citizen as a gf, marry her and become a PR myself... Get a job in some foreign country hahaha no more reservist then !
Despite of talk about sg changing, the TV still sucks here. Seriously lack of gd TV shows. The only exceptions are a few foreign dramas i.e korean/japanese. For English programmes, Aussie beats sg hands down... Numb3rs, House MD, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Rove Live etc etc. The Chinese drama serials are just plain disgusting... I fall in love with you, I backstab you, I try to harm you, I cheat you, I get revenge. You catch my drift? Why do most Chinese dramas have this scheming and plotting nonsense? There's more than one way to create a plot twist. Chinese drama serial (Local ones) become so predictable sometimes.
Onto more rants: why do TV hosts always wanna act cute? Is this what the general audience wants? It's really quite sad to come back after a while and still find Fiona Xie acting cute. Give her a better identity instead of this cutiepie nonsense. It's lost its novelty. Simply no change. You know how people and things improve, evolve into something better? It apparently doesnt occur here. Rather there seems to be a case of degeneracy (pardon the science terms). Personally i would rather see Lisa Ang host than Fiona Xie host. There was this other not so manly host on TV who seriously needed some testosterone stuffed down his throat. Urgh... Now Channel NewsAsia has become my new favourite channel. Simply because its more professional. Or i prefer to turn off my TV and not to be forcefed the nonsense that appears on screen nowadays.
Anyway, I thinked i might have gone slightly crazy... Before my flight back, I was at the newstand trying to figure out what to buy and read. None of the books really interested me so i went to the magazine stands. FHM, Ralph, Gamepro etc etc... I dont know what really possessed me to do it but i actually bought New Scientist and boarded the plane with it. Lo and behold, i am really on my way to becoming a full time geek/nerd. I actually understood most of the articles in the mag and found it intersting (spent 2 hours reading new scientist on the flight)... haha shock and horror. And in my past few days in sg, i went to most MPH, Popular and realised something: There's not a single science mag on sale. That's quite saddening. Maybe i should go down to borders to check it out. OR maybe i've gone slightly insane... haha
Yup in a few hours i will be back at the Doghouse... the army camp called 42. No idea what they are goin 2 throw at me this time. Hopefully i will get it over and done with and i can kiss all my liabilities in sg gdbye. Never wanna have anything to do with the SAF anymore. I should really get an Aus PR or citizen as a gf, marry her and become a PR myself... Get a job in some foreign country hahaha no more reservist then !
Sunday, November 20
Home Sweet Home?
Yup i'm back on sunny island after a year.
First of all, its hot and HUMID here... i can literally smell the water vapour around me and i'm feel like i'm swimming in gaseous H2O. The sweat doesnt really help too.
My dad went to England and bought me an Arsenal Shirt. Rather 3 Arsenal shirts. Oh man... the irony of it all. I've got Man U, Arsenal but no tottenham shirts/jersey. but i gotta admit: the nike material is really gd and im seriously tempted to wear the stupid t-shirt out. after all, its only a piece of clothing.
And someone really cleaned up Singapore when i was gone. Couldnt find any pirated joints in any nearby neighbourhoods. That seriously sucks.
Went to the new big library in SG. Nice building, stupid place. Nothing really interesting in the library. 4 levels worth of references you CANT borrow home; references that can be easily found in any uni library i think. NO STUDYING in the reference section of the library. Then as expected, the reference section was EMPTY except for a few souls... even though its the exam period here. the only place you can borrow books is at the basement. The place is really a joke.
That's all that's happen so far here. Place has changed quite a bit...
First of all, its hot and HUMID here... i can literally smell the water vapour around me and i'm feel like i'm swimming in gaseous H2O. The sweat doesnt really help too.
My dad went to England and bought me an Arsenal Shirt. Rather 3 Arsenal shirts. Oh man... the irony of it all. I've got Man U, Arsenal but no tottenham shirts/jersey. but i gotta admit: the nike material is really gd and im seriously tempted to wear the stupid t-shirt out. after all, its only a piece of clothing.
And someone really cleaned up Singapore when i was gone. Couldnt find any pirated joints in any nearby neighbourhoods. That seriously sucks.
Went to the new big library in SG. Nice building, stupid place. Nothing really interesting in the library. 4 levels worth of references you CANT borrow home; references that can be easily found in any uni library i think. NO STUDYING in the reference section of the library. Then as expected, the reference section was EMPTY except for a few souls... even though its the exam period here. the only place you can borrow books is at the basement. The place is really a joke.
That's all that's happen so far here. Place has changed quite a bit...
Thursday, November 17
Golden and Green
The gold and green jersey is flying high today.
Australia is in the world cup finals~! Man was it crazy when they won the qualifier against Uruaguay. The streets just erupted... Cars were just honking away the whole night. Interesting... gives me a new team to support in the following world cup. Better than forever waiting for sg. The joker Kewell proved my wrong today. He's still got something in him after all that injury problems.
So what else is happening?
Well i'm heading back to sg this weekend. Mixed feelings on going back. If it aint for the cheap cheap cheap food that exists in sg, and the family and friends that i wanna catch up with, i wouldnt even step a foot on that island.
In the mean time, here's just some photos of my frens in Melbourne
The brothers.........don't ask about the buns man.
Me... and i swear that is Nick's favourite pose. I always see him do that.
Melongaster, Alan and Seth
Charlie's Angels
ok that's enough for now. will try to pass u guys the pics soon.
Australia is in the world cup finals~! Man was it crazy when they won the qualifier against Uruaguay. The streets just erupted... Cars were just honking away the whole night. Interesting... gives me a new team to support in the following world cup. Better than forever waiting for sg. The joker Kewell proved my wrong today. He's still got something in him after all that injury problems.
So what else is happening?
Well i'm heading back to sg this weekend. Mixed feelings on going back. If it aint for the cheap cheap cheap food that exists in sg, and the family and friends that i wanna catch up with, i wouldnt even step a foot on that island.
In the mean time, here's just some photos of my frens in Melbourne
The brothers.........don't ask about the buns man.
Me... and i swear that is Nick's favourite pose. I always see him do that.
Melongaster, Alan and Seth
Charlie's Angels
ok that's enough for now. will try to pass u guys the pics soon.
Wednesday, November 9
The game has changed
Couldnt resist the urge just to blabber a few comments, even when im like right smack in between preparations for papers.
First of all, bio was bad. The difficulty of the paper was definitely upped a few notces, which bodes ill for me. I don't usually complain about papers but when i do... it's serious. The last time i complained and whined, i ended up failing. I'm not some typical singaporean student that whines and moans after every single paper i take. The people who whine most normally do the best in my opinion.
This bio paper is the welcome to the real biomed i guess.
Now onto my last physics exam of my life i hope.
One last time, and i kiss goodbye to physics.
It's not over till i say it's over.
First of all, bio was bad. The difficulty of the paper was definitely upped a few notces, which bodes ill for me. I don't usually complain about papers but when i do... it's serious. The last time i complained and whined, i ended up failing. I'm not some typical singaporean student that whines and moans after every single paper i take. The people who whine most normally do the best in my opinion.
This bio paper is the welcome to the real biomed i guess.
Now onto my last physics exam of my life i hope.
One last time, and i kiss goodbye to physics.
It's not over till i say it's over.
Sunday, November 6
Final Wishes
Yeah on final post before the exams come around this Tuesday.
Feeling uncertain as usual.
Random thoughts of the day:
Sometimes i just wish i can take away people's worries, fears and sadness.
but then again, im no Santa Claus.
'It's your life, choose what you want to do with it.'
I choose to surpass you.
Oh well... here's to a excellent week ahead. Cheers guys!
Feeling uncertain as usual.
Random thoughts of the day:
Sometimes i just wish i can take away people's worries, fears and sadness.
but then again, im no Santa Claus.
'It's your life, choose what you want to do with it.'
I choose to surpass you.
Oh well... here's to a excellent week ahead. Cheers guys!
Wednesday, November 2
Tuesday, November 1
Midnight Express
It's 4am... yar i'm done for the day/night whatever.
I hope its gonna be a beautiful day later.
at least keep the weather nice as i try my best to figure a way out of this exam mess
I hope its gonna be a beautiful day later.
at least keep the weather nice as i try my best to figure a way out of this exam mess