Saturday, January 31, 2004

   Freaking no mood to write liao !! !@#$$%#@@ !! 1st Guards is Damn fucked up!! E-N-D-U-R-E.... arrggghhhh........ :(
Blabbered bean @ 14:16 //

Sunday, January 25, 2004

   I paid a surprise visit to her place & bai nian to her mum.. bringing along two nervous oranges in hand, i greeted them with a Xin Nian Kuai Le which i had to ask jm to translate for me be4 i went up to their home. haha... i'm so accustomed to saying happy new year that i've forgotten the chinese phrase for it. but that gesture of mine was quite welcomed considering their smiles.

   After that we paid a visit at my aunt's place. where we chit-chatted, ate some tit bits, surfed some net & had our lunch. the rain was pouring when we stepped outta the house so we took a cab to Orchard. we were so cold in the cab coz we were a lil' wet from rushing into the cab. Bbbbrrrrr... Destination Lido, Shaw House..

   Peter Pan was nice!! though the plot is sorta expected from my point of view since i've read about their stories through childhood story books or cartoons. I liked the scenery a lot & i'm glad there's humour in various part of the show that sent apple laughing. she said she did enjoy watching the movie. i'm so happy. coz when she's happy the mood's good and the fun we have is tripled !! we watched it at Lido, Shaw House. the queue was super long. but we waited patiently for about 25 minutes n got our tix.

   since the show was an hour away, we decided to go shop for my wallet. then some clothes for her company D&D event coming the week after next. i wanted to get myself a couple of CDs too.. so i chose my wallet at Isetan & got something i thought would be neat. however, she didn't see any clothes she wanted. she'll probably have to shop next saturday with her colleague. hmmm.. which leaves me alone next saturday.. hmmm... who shall i ask out? (.'')

   while rushing back to the cinema, we grabbed ourselves some food from MacDonalds. We only realized that they had included an extra pack of fries in our bag in the cinema. whether did they charge for it i don't know la... well, if u care to count for me.... 9 pc McNuggets, McSpicy Double meal upsized with the drink changed to medium Milo. we paid 11 bucks. so did i have to pay for that pack of fries?

   On the way home, opposite the Orchard MRT Popular store, we got ourselves some CDs. i got one from Fang HaoWen & one from Blue. i had particularly liked the song called "You Make Me Wanna" by Blue.. thus prompting the pruchase. The Fang Hao Wen one was pretty experimental. juz wanna try n see how it is... she got one from Eason Chan too!

   i had wanted to take a photo of us on a card. In part coz we haven took any pix together for quite a while. (dammit, my dad took the digital camera to kelantan with him... arrggghhhh... ). In part to curb the appetite to see me & her of my army bunk mates whom i'm leaving this Wednesday. it's a pity. we've juz bonded n now we have to leave one another. haiz... :`(

   Oh ya, i juz realized i got my ERS! Whoa! that's a whooping SGD$400 bucks coming my way soon... waht a big fat hongbao!! but i think i haven got much of it left if i spent on some items i have in mind.. haha... once a spendthrift, always a spendthrift. i realli should be fulfilling my new year resolution of learning to save money better... *shaking head.. haiz...

   So, overall it turned out to be a pretty good & enjoyable day. it's good to see her smile n laugh again. after her hard work day & night at Bee Cheng Hiang.. realli poor thing. n the pay ain't that high either. in fact, it's measly...

   Night befell & it was soccer time. Newcastle lost to Liverpool despite a wonderful freekick goal by Laurent Robert. My Favourite Player!! i'm so sad.. they're outta the FA Cup.. :-( And to confound things, the soccer session i was looking forward to this morning has been cancelled. must be their late night mj lah.. i'm beginning to hate mj more n more.. arrgghhhh... =P
Blabbered bean @ 10:20 //

Saturday, January 24, 2004

   my night was certainly much better. at least i enjoyed myself.. heh.. initially we, as in me + kp + jm + jonas + chai xiong + darren, intended to catch a movie. however, at the last minute kp changed his mind n doesn't want to watch. coz we couldn't get the movie that we wanted. so they suggested going to a sushi place to eat.

   so off we go to the sushi place. i was realli disappointed as i hadn't thought much of a sushi meal. when we left, we went to pay up. we ate 18 dishes plus drinks. however, due to some error/mistake by the staff, we were charged only 10 dishes.. maybe it's the waitress' handwriting. but we found it rather legible... hmmm.. nonetheless, we "siam" that area quickly juz in case they realised.

   brilliant suggestion by kp to go to k box! this is my first time going to k box though i've loong heard of it. the place ain't too bad lah. but the room had cigarette smoke in it. not as in can see the smoke lah but the stench i couldn't stand. they should hv reventilate the room before letting in another customer. :(

   And so we sang we shouted n we screeched our voice box. heh...n it was indeed fun! my new year had brightened up.. meanwhile i continued my learning curve in drinking beer. i drank 2 and a half cup. heh.. somehow it's causing me to burp quite often n i have to be careful as not to burp into the microphone. n also the frequent visits to the toilets caused in part by the beer n also the freezing temperature.

   after maxing out our voicebox, we went long john silver to have some food. heh... where we had a chat till they close shop. then kp, jonas, n chai xiong went on their northeast line mrt to jonas' house for mj. you know, sometimes i think i realli hate mj. coz it's occupying a lot of my 2-3 frens' time. i think the time would be better spent with frens chit-chatting n shopping, n yes, singing... dn went home to woodlans/marsiling area n jm was persuaded by me to spend the night at my place.

   dad ain't around. the house is entirely mine. he went back to kelantan with the auntie. they had left 2 big ang pows though... jm n i proceeded to play nintendo.. haha.. we completed a soccer game. then wanted to complete playing super mario brothers 3. we were at world 6 when suddenly the machine hang on us. it's the first time i've seen my nintendo hang on me. haha.. i declared bed time ! jm was hungry so i offered cup noodles. we ate one each n played somemore nintendo. then we went to bed.

   now, i'm awake n ready to meet my dearest. i realli hope i can make her happy today. may i come back tonite with a satisfied, happy n enjoyable experience to remember. meeting her at 1030h so i betta hurry up... ciaoz dudes & babes !! (,")
Blabbered bean @ 09:51 //

Thursday, January 22, 2004

   a short week winked past juz liddat. this has gotta be the week my heart felt heavier than usual when i left Signal Institute on Wednesday 21/01/04. it was unfortunate that hongyu still got punished. he was "awarded" a guard duty on saturday... in case u din follow my previous post, he was injured on the head after a halyard he threw hit swung back n sent blood gushing down his face. meanwhile those detachments at kranji were given one guard duty on a weekday.. we got to know abt that punishment on sunday night when we booked in. what a downer! ;(

   monday was pretty boring or plain-sailing, whichever u prefer to call it. basically juz lotsa studying lor... on the pc, practical work and a voice procedure test to boot... i got 43 outta 50. not a very good result but nonetheless i'm satisfied. the theory test on the computer i scored 40 outta 50. n there's also a written test which basically requires us to encode & decode some messages. we weren't told the score for that yet though..

   tuesday was exercise day. our final radio exercise. after the debacle over the last exercise where we caught "s.b.o-less", eating tit-bits like twisties & sleeping, we were duly punished n we learnt not to risk jeopardising our new year weekend. i was posted to 2 Signal Battalion training shed. it's well within walking distance from our Course Commander's station so we were realli hesitant abt sleeping though we still did sleep. in shifts n in a sitting posture. but this time round no titbits n sbo-less attire.

   the night that followed the exercise was perhaps one of my most enjoyable yet saddening nights. probably partly due to the fact that i noe we are about to part. perhaps it's due to my already heavy heart. i'm feeling sad. or maybe due to the fact that i'm addicted to the sad song on anne's blog. "Dui De Ren" by Dai Ailing. the lyrics realli struck a chord with my heart strings.. realli meaningful song. i noe the days of fooling around in SI with this Jaguar platoon is soon coming to an end. i noe that no matter who much we say we'll keep in touch, we'll not. i noe we won't. we don't hv enuff time to do that. not when u hv ur gf, soccer-pals, family members and time spent surfing, reading papers, sleeping, eating of meals, & travelling time to share the 1-and-a-half days a week that u're outta camp.. ;-( (on a brighter note, perhaps giving them my blog url to keep in touch is a way...)

   ok, ok... back to topic. tuesday night, we ordered in 2 pizzas, 20 chicken wings, some chicken nuggets from macdonalds, 2 bottles of root beer & some chinese take-aways which include hor fun, ee mian, n fried rice... we had sortof a bunk party. each bunk was allowed one person out to get the food. Lianghua was volunteered, while bryan ordered the pizzas.. after that, we played some games. there was this game which i found particularly enjoyable. the pumping clock i call it. n there's some of the white & black magic n also the time clock game. in the end, all that matters was the fun we had together.. i dunno abt them, but i'll realli miss them. i always miss my frens.. it's juz a pity hongyu ain't around as he had booked out to get his stitches removed..

   wednesday started off with breakfast n some arranging of tables for an event at the multi-purpose hall. after that we had sorta a "Yu sheng"-hauling ceremony. one platoon of 30 privates sharing one plate of "yu sheng". pathetic i find. the guys threw the food they grabbed with their chopstix at one another practically. so much wasted food. haha.. but i din eat it anyway... i dun like it. i'm very choosy with my food. a buffet of spring-rolls, fishballs, ngo hiang, cream puffs & bee hoon followed. needless to say there's fruit punch n coffee or tea to choose from. there's even a fruit cocktail available with bowls n spoons provided !! then the pretty un-appreciated song n dance put up by other platoons n superiors. there's even a lucky draw.. our platoon got 3-4 winners so we ain't such an unlucky platoon afterall.. (condidering the amt of complaint we've been collecting..)

   so after we booked out, i went off shopping alone at Lot 1. bought an elva CD. almost splurged on another disc too.. but told myself not to overspend. coz i dun wanna break my resolution of wanting to save up a sum of money for my future. but then, at the same time, i'm contemplating getting a mp3 discman. ain't i contradicting myself? i hate my spendthrift self. upon reaching home, i plunged into a 4-hour slumber. waking up around 1620h. watched a home united friendly with kp n jm then went home. disappointing. i had thought better of a new year's eve celebration. ;(

   thursday was worse off... after the usual session of getting ang pows n congratutory greetings at ah ma's place, my grand-parents went out to visit other relatives. my uncles n aunties followed suit. coz they plan to go m'sia later on, i din follow them as my passport had expired. i hadn't renewed it for this year. then i was all alone. without my frens who were either sleeping, busy visiting or gambling mahjong, i resorted to the Internet. i went to check out my friendster a/c, check my singnet mail, check my yahoo mail, check my hotmail, read all the news from my fav soccer websites, and also checked out my blog-pal's blogs... Jen had asked me over to her place but i din wanna go coz i was shy abt meeting my 3rd grant aunt's family. ok, that's all for now.. maybe my night would be better... i'm juz so darn bored... it hasn't been a realli good cny for me 'cept the fat ang pows i'm so complacent to getting... ;( sometimes money doesn't bring happiness....
Blabbered bean @ 17:47 //

Saturday, January 17, 2004

   oh i'm guilty again... but i guess i can push it all the fault of my pc!! the HDD is giving me problems again!! Fish!! the feeling of waiting all week to use the pc n it had to break down right in front of me at my precious weekend... arrggghhhh.... adding salt to injury was the fact that my dad din understand that it was all his n michelle's fault n not mine!!! i haven been using the pc for a week. how could it be me? i retorted that if a person who was murdered by another died in front me then does it mean that i'm the killer? the disappointment of not being able to use the pc was already in itself bad enuff but for him to say that the pc died in front of me which implied that i was responsible was too much to take!! <<<< above is the update for the last saturday.

   last sunday was not as good too.. went to kallang netball centre to watch a tournament. it rained. ecks.. went there n got drenched n wasn't able to catch my "fren" play netball at all.. then got cheated n ended up at her place. when her brother is around!! arrggghhhh... i din wanna meet my loong lost relatives... but LL had to enter since i was already at her doorstep. tried to fix the sound system bug on the tv card of the pc but couldn't... anyone care to help? played ps2 with her but found it realli uncomfortable coz though it was the first time i'm playing the street fighter dunno what version n fifa v(dunno what too...), i still beat her flat.. urks.. i was a lil' embarassed lor... but nonetheless, i'm glad i met up with my childhood fren cum aunt!!

   the weekdays in camp that followed as platoon IC was intriguing... i did a good job of getting them to wake up n fall in on time almost everytime... but we were "unluckily" complained by superiors.. monday morning. we fell in at 0600h n were reprimanded. coz that sgt said that we were supposed to fall in at 0545h. however, the previous week was fell in at 0600h everyday n it was okay. they changed without informing n turned around to scold us..

   tuesday we were on time at 0545h. we had our radio exercise. we did it well was praised by CC n got a nights off! it was initially to be from 1900h to 2300h. but we were complained by a senior warrant officer who spotted us booking out in an not-so-orderly form. thus while my group of frens were on our way to orchard in a cab, we got news that we were punished by having our nights out shortened to 2100h. by the time we got on the table, it was already 2000h. unluckily, we also got caught in a jam en route. the journey back was worse... we waited half an hour for the cab on orchard road.. it got late by abt 30 minutes too... nwe severely scolded n punished with night marching drills, push-ups & crunches!!!

   wednesday started off bad too... our area cleaning was scolded for.. thursday was okay for most of the day until at night when me n a few others who played soccer at the lobby n was caught by a sgt. he complained to sgt vincent n he smsed our course IC this sms... "tell those f***ers to stop playing n go back n sleep now!!" upon getting caught by the sgt, we promptly bathed n went back to bunk.. me n bryan was still awake after lights out timing still coz we were a lil' hot n unable to sleep. so we sat under the fan n read newspaper as we chit-chat. sgt vincent came up n scolded us. he had juz came back from his own nights out as we could see from his CV attire.

   friday was radio exercise 2. it started well as we had put up a hilarious number which i had rewritten the lyrics to the tune of the popular chinese song entitled "Xiao Wei". CC was quite satisfied, sgt was smiling coz ithe lyrics were meaningful n praised him.. the OC was quite happy with it as well... then we set off... upon reaching our detachment site, we relaxed coz we ain't no longer in the watchful eyes of our sgts n CC or other commanders. we took off our sbo, helmet... my detachment had a good time realli.. after setting the 3 antennas, we had lotsa time to spare.. we even had the luxury of eating canteen food from a factory canteen nearby instead of having to eat the combat rations. there was a toilet nearby, good food n drinks, sea breeze, good shade, good reception for our transmitting n receiving on our radio sets & no one to supervise us.. naturally we relaxed more n more... however it soon changed. i should hv thought of it as too good to be true..

   apparently, hongyu, my buddy, was hit on the head by a halyard he threw on the forehead n was sent to hospital. he was given mc for 3 dayz... this "accident" prompted an inspection. the oc went down together with another officer to take a look at hongyu at tan tock seng hospital. he probably told some officers n spot check the rest of us. as our platoon was split into different detachment n allocated different locations, we din noe abt hongyu's incident until it was too late. a two bar came to my area n caught us all "un-S.B.O-ed"... 2 were sleeping, 1 had just opened a pack of twisties n was abt to eat them, i was manning comms clean-fatigued n the detachment ic was holding a roll of toilet paper. he had juz come back from the toilet apparently. we got F***ed obviously. when we got back we were F***ed again... by CC then our usual nights out after exercise were not granted too.. thus forcing us to eat cup noodles, biscuits or combat rations as dinner in bunk. i ate only some titbits n biscuits with milo. saturday bunk 1 was caught lazing in bed during area cleaning hours by csm n that prompted a stand-by-bed. we were terrified...though we managed to pass the requirement for area cleaning, we fell in late again for booking out. n was punished accordingly..

   so it was realli an eventful week eh? haiz... another saturday wasted at home. i should hv gone out for a walk.. but i took a nap at home then had to go to ah ma house for reunion dinner. my pc still gives the problems. it juz cannot start up. i'm using this lousy com in my living room now n the monitor keeps blurring out on me upon using it for too long... i hate it!! at least my week as platoon ic is over! heh... i enjoyed certain parts of it though.. the command n control... heh... ok now to go for the steamboat reunion dinner!! byeee.... *editted on 22/01/04 to correct the mistakes caused by the blur monitor...
Blabbered bean @ 17:48 //

Saturday, January 03, 2004

   hi all... ok, i admit i was a lil' lazy.. reaching home around 1400h on a warm saturday, u juz wanna take a good nap. but i didn't. i went friend finding.. the thing that can give me extreme joy nowadays is finding back some primary, secondary n even long lost-touch relatives like my younger-than-me aunt.. Jenny Tay.. haha.. got her number n icq number. so maybe we could chat online.. i like her funky pic on friendster. the one with the tongue out.. heh.. it's cute..

   lotsa memories were dug outta my head. including the days of sji.. my regret. haiz. n the days i play jenny's bf.. haha.. n my favourite game then was "i spy with my little eye, i spy something starting with the letter 'L'... " hahaha... these memories gimme joy n i regretted deeply not studying hard enuff in sji, got dropped out n lost touch with andrew n co. andrew lee.. it was hard finding u back. there are so many andrews with the surname lee on friendster. where there's a will, there's a way.. i found him.

   but then if i hadn't failed my exams in sec 3 i wouldn't hv found jm, kp, jonas, darren n most probably not david, apple n kelvin too !! hmmm... i've always felt i couldn't make up my mind. i rate that as my biggest flaw.. but at the same time, i know i can't change it.. how helpless i feel.. n y am i paranoia of hurting/losing frens? i know i shouldn't make a new year resolution to curb these feelings/flaws coz i know dead well i can't change. that's me! accept it.. (this is the lazy way outta a problem. heh =D)
Blabbered bean @ 23:02 //