1:10 AM - Monday, May 19, 2008
So I turned 20 years old yesterday!
Thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday. To give credit, the following are people who gave me wishes via sms, msn or facebook. They are ruth, wilfred, jasmine, desiree, wenjian, swing, kalai, kimberly, xinyi, cheryl, yiting, roxanne, kevin, yeh hao, boon tat, clarissa, zeya, andy, jiaying, christabel, grace, michelle. Special mention goes to jenn haur with an sms from south africa!
Thanks to my sister with the adidas jacket from japan.
Thanks to my brother with a fila t-shirt.
Thanks to my mum for the cake.
I spent the first few moments of my birthday watching Portsmouth lift the FA cup. This has got to be the most boring FA cup in the past 10 years perhaps, with none of the big 4 teams in the finals. Afterwhich, I had to wrestle with this small moth inside my room and I took almost 15 minutes to get it out through the window. My mum will say that it's probably my ancestor coming to wish me happy birthday.
Next I slept the following 10 hours away and woke up only at 12pm to find half my birthday gone. Had lunch, watched some TV and caught "what happens in vegas" online and I thought it was an interesting and amusing show. Cameron Diaz is still damn hot although she's quite old already. Managed to convince my dad to order pizza for dinner partly because I was lazy to leave the house.
Then, we had the usual cake cutting time. Birthdays in my family are usually celebrated very simply with a small cake and maybe a few photos that's all. But I like it cause' it's still nice and warm.
Went out with the guys for coffee and LAN afterwards. Called cheryl out and she brought her brother along. LOL. Then we met john and ivan and 2 random people and we played battlefield together till 1am. Then I got home and started typing this entry.
That's how my birthday was spent.
12:45 AM - Wednesday, May 14, 2008
This has been an average week so far. There's just one thing that's rather disappointing. Because the commander of my base unit is visitng on friday, we've got to make the whole place spick and span and follow each and every standard procedure, even when they seem really stupid and irrelevant. Quite a few of the guys have thought of requesting to post out but I guess this might just be a passing cloud. Soon, everything will be back to normal and we'll finally be happy to work there again.Today was a great day. Took an off day from work to relax before my 2 consecutive duties. Met cheryl for lunch at subway near her workplace. It was really cool to see her twice in just a week again after a long while. Too bad now she's attached, I'll probably be seeing her less frequently. But thanks girl for always being there for me. =) Then on the bus home after tuition, I met yuen siang. It was seriously a surprise and I thought I got the wrong guy. He's still constantly upgrading himself, even on the bus. This time, it was learning the Korean language. Caught up a bit here and there and I think he's a really brave and strong guy, to have picked himself up so quickly. I don't know if I was able to do that. Anyway, it's 4 days to my birthday. Gonna be 20 soon. But this year is exceptionally dull and I don't feel much. Maybe because in school you'll usually have friends who will try to surprise you or remember your birthday is coming. Whatever it is, I've decided I shan't have a wishlist because it's quite dumb. I won't get much of the items on the wishlist and I'm gonna get those myself from my bangkok trip in a weeks' time. Well then, hope the remaining of this weel will be fine. I'm not even typing in complete sentences now and that goes to show how tired I am. Nite.
8:18 PM - Sunday, May 11, 2008
I really wanted to join the " Hair for Hope" in July where people get their hair shaved to show support for the cancer patients and to experience what they go through during chemotherapy where they'll lose their hair. However, because I work in tekong and might be mistaken for recruits, and because I look like (see picture below), I changed my mind about joining "Hair for Hope"
Thought I might be a better choice for the "Yellow Ribbon Project".
3:35 AM - Saturday, May 10, 2008
I thought the month of May was going to be fantastic, as I told many. There are 2 public holidays, my birthday, and my long awaited bangkok trip, of which I'm going to be away from camp for a week. Clearly, I was wrong.9 days of May have passed and my mood has hit rockbottom. It's the kind of feeling whereby you really hope you're anyone but yourself. Pressure from my camp definitely did not help alleviate this. But much of this has to be my personal problems. I've been a real busybody, trying to stick my nose into every problem and everybody's problems, thinking that that's what a great friend should do, to share a part of yourself without asking for anything in return. But I guess as much as my mind is telling my heart that, my heart is not entirely convinced. But I think it isn't too much to ask for a bit of recongition or acknowledgement. But somehow, time and again, one by one, I've been regarded as a stepping stone, an important but easily forgotten step of a person's road back into the right way. To think about it, after finding a safe spot to rely and lean on, who would even bother to look back at that stepping stone that was the one that led you to where you are. I guess it's something like how a father feels when his daughter is getting married. I guess it all boils down to my own busybodiness. I should just be responsible for my own life, which itself is a mess right now. Got to pick myself up before I even have the right to be a stepping stone for others.
2:40 PM - Saturday, May 03, 2008
Recently I got to know that my OC received a complaint about me. Puzzled as to what mistake I committed and who complained against me, I made a call to my OC to enquire and also happened to read the e-mail sent by the complainant. It was then when I realised who childish some middle-aged man can be.Last saturday, I on on duty and got to know the day before that OCS was returning a heavy return of ammo at 0830 hours. Hence, I did my best to rush up to the office to take over the duty to avoid delay to OCS booking out. When I reached the office, they have not arrived and were uncontactable all the way till 1015 hours. Thinking that they might have changes to their plans and that it was a saturday, I changed into my slippers and singlet to take a quick nap because I had not slept well the night before. In the end, they arrived at 1100 hours and declared to us that they were rushing for the 1230 ferry out. I told the ammo IC, a MSG, that I'll do my best. Hence, I decided to reduce delay and went up with them to the storehouse in my singlet and slippers along with my duty partner. Before that, I noticed that he had much general stores in his vehicle and a mixture of different types of ammo which were both non-compliances. I made known that I'd have to issue him a booking but he told me to give him a chance. I agreed and told him to separate the ammo as well as unload the stores, but I guess the former fell on deaf ears.Upon reaching the storehouse, I realised that their return was messy and massive and I told him it'd be quite difficult to be on time for the ferry out, and he was quite unhappy. I also opened a box and found the mixed ammo still unseparated. As a result, I issued him a booking form for the non-compliance. He then started telling me all sorts of rubbish about how he was from MINDEF, how much he knows about training safety and all but I turned a deaf ear to him. As long as he's in my turf, he listens to me. The final result, he got a booking and also missed his ferry out. 2 days ago, I received a call from my IC and OC telling me I got complained of "improper attire" and I never thought it would be the OCS guy. The despicable thing was he sent the e-mail without my notice and behind my back. I only got to see it when my OC forwarded it to me. The fact that he sent that also meant that he probably started planning for this "revenge" from the moment I booked him. How childish can a man almost in his 40s be? Taking something totally unrelated to the original context to get back at me, someone young enough to be his son. I'm not afraid of him. On the contrary, I'm really full of pity for such a guy who has lived almost 40 years and yet behaves like a small kid, attempting to play "tit for tat" but probably failing miserably. I do not deny the fact that I was wrong in going up in my singlet and slippers, but it was genuinely to reduce any form of delay to them. Look at what I got in return?Luckily, no action was taken against me, probably much to that MSG's disappointment, as to my OC, I was totally right in booking him and that complaint was a small and totally irrelevant matter. I think that this event only goes to embarass him and did nothing to me.
2:38 AM - Friday, May 02, 2008
The past 2 weeks have been really busy with duties, audit and project presentation. Lots of pressure handling the big shots that come from everywhere. At least I'm having a 4 days' break thanks to labour day.As a result, I decided to make a trip back to VJC yesterday afternoon under jenn haur's invitation to join in the sports day fun. At the same time, I was planning to collect the dance concert tickets from ruth. However, My excitement was dampened by the security guards at the main gatre because they refused to allow ex-students to enter the school on the basis that they cannot tell who are ex-students and who aren't. It's quite obvious that many ex-students will turn up for these major school events to show that we still care about the school and the feeling I get is that VJ do not welcome us. That is certainly not a nice gesture. In the end, I decided to just change pass and identify myself as a visitor so i can enter the school. Sports day this year seem more dull the previous years. As a matter of fact, it seems more and more dull by the year. But one thing really surprised me- Cheerleading. I'm glad that cheerleading has become an important and permanent event in sports day and it's no longer looked upon as a chore like a few years back. At least I feel that the participants are enjoying themselves in the process. I've always liked cheerleading because everyone looks so energetic and lively, even though some of them might be forced out, and they make me feel alive. I was particularly impressed with the VJ knights, the official VJC cheerleading team. they seem rather professional to me with their dashing contumes and sweet moves. One girl caught my eye when she had this amazing abs that looked really sexy when they lifted her up. I believe many people would agree with me that the cheerleading segment was indeed the most interesting part of the day's events.My house, Draco, made rather good improvements too.Cheerleading - 3rd (we've always been bottom 2)Overall Girls' - 4thOverall Boys - 1stOverall House - 2ndIn the end we did the usual 6 mass dances which really brought me back to the VJ days I had about 2-3 years ago. That's when I cannot agree more that schooling days are the most fun. Sigh... 266 days to ORD. LOL