damn the distributor company for my newsweek subscription. nothing has been done till now on my additional subscription to forbes asia. don't force me to complain to case.

well quite a number of things happened last sunday. you got a poly classmate whose birthday is around now and yet she 'purposely' places her party celebration at 13th feb and wishes us to go...as usual the problems between chun boon and qin yi and us can't taking it further...kwan yong and derrick's birthday gift/braun buffel wallets (which quite turns me off on what i can expect from them for my birthday, judging from what was bought.)

then this week is kind of unlucky for my entire platoon. got punishments here and there- nights out turned into stand by bed...defaulters parade yesterday after quite a long while of detachment exercise (but somehow we managed to escape and got it scheduled at next friday instead...better than nothing la huh).

next week wise it's gonna be quite tough. monday till end of tuesday is our summary exercise...kind of nervous after seeing how badly we did on the overall to get our link up. straight after that are radio tests for theory and practical and then the 16km route march at wednesday. so thursday we will finally attend the pass out ceremony to get our vocation badge...

which makes me feel confused...for the last week we shall spend in signal institute (the week after next)- the lesson schedule are all computer lab lessons. if that's so why make the exercises, tests and route march so packed up?

oh well. no matter what we can only suck it up and follow.

gonna go for kwan yong's 21st birthday @kallng leisure park kbox later (of course after going to other places to shop first haha). just got message from that the ice skating will be cancelled and stuff...sighs. on one hand perhaps the number of people going is really low...but maybe he still hasn't got over xiao hui too. i understand.

was talking to ashley at last sunday in camp. suddenly she talked about going to taiwan together with her cliq towards the end of the year...sounds good...but i also realised something...well. it's either by then i can break the barrier or the trip turns bad for me or i will choose not to go. sorry ashley if i were to do the later...

i only told others that it's ironic that you can see clearer the person you admire when he/she is with somebody else. but this time...somehow i felt that i shouldn't have done that. or i guess i was too late.

boring week (but lap top is finally back!). tests...SI evening (which turned out to be very disappointing- be it our cheer performance or the stuff from musical and drama company) and of course lessons and more lessons. and next week will be even tougher- setting up drills and exercise at friday...oh no. just thinking of it makes me feel down.

thanks to my sergeant i managed to escape from the camp at 7pm as he likes to make us pissed off during area inspection. i certainly hope jun cheng didn't wait too long for me at clementi.

reached there and had a kfc meal (where my sense of rubbish was suddenly revived...perhaps it's too long since i last met him...but it doesn't make sense, right? haha.) while we chatted quite a bit. but it was mainly on our 'big plan'...haha. while i don't really have much confidence whether this plan will work or not...but i am quite sure the concept is new...and should i research more and develop it on i am quite confident it can be quite a big hit.

went across the causeway yesterday. reached there at around 11 plus and my mother and i started to shop around in city square. chanced upon a nice pair of 'fred perry' shoes @109rm. tempted but i wanted to look around for more options (which in the end that's the only shop that sells it). we dragged the timing for lunch; since i don't really feel hunger when i shop. and guess what? when we finally wanna settle down at kenny roger's, the waiter said they will be closed at 1pm. my mother went around asking...damn it. the whole damn mall is closing down at 1pm due to the passing away of their dear sultan. so both of us hurriedly down to the new year cookies/pastries stalls @ 1st floor and got some stuff.

so in the end it totally spoil my mood for the whole day. god damn it.

(thanks jun cheng for offering to buy that pair of shoes for me but i have not even tried on it yet...and i feel better if i were to really confirm on buying on the spot.)

going out later to get kwan yong's 21st birthday gift @ marina square. while i have already missed out some movies (i do not have to be sad though...haha.), i certainly don't wanna miss another- daybreakers. hopefully i can watch it next weekend. but first thing first. i first pray that it doesn't drag later. for those who know the pattern of my poly classmates...you all get what i mean.

if you guys feel that the time i posted is weird...yes it is. haha. but if my lap top were not to spoil (70% of my lap top screen is blanked out), i wouldn't have to do this...more or less. but somehow i have free time now...thanks to my favourite sergeant in SI. haha.

almost had fever at friday. i was already unwell the day after i finalised the drinking session at clarke quay. luckily the panadol helped me next day (though i was still a little not well when i stepped out of my house)

saturday was kind of a failure...to me bah. plan was to drink overnight...but i guess the fact that we (or i) kept changing spots to hang out did spoil some of the guys' moods. sorry about that! this was done hastily- was thinking of getting guys out before weijun goes to taiwan for ops (didn't know it is gonna be at this saturday initially) but was "brought forward" as kwan yong will be busy for the next few weekends (including the week for his birthday).

darren and i went to orchard first in search for my new leather bag....to no avail. weijun finally gave me some positive response to join us later as he just got back from his operation grandstand 2.

went to liang court to have dinner at serizaya (recommended by darren). man to anybody who sees this post...serizaya is a must try! the food is cheap and seriously good...these are what i ordered:

mushroom soup
escargot (yes it's escargot) with garlic butter sauce
meat sauce baked rice (or something like doria meat sauce)
drink bar (in other words free flow of drinks)

all of the food are served sizzling hot and fresh...it was especially obvious as we ordered mostly dishes that comes with cheese (eg. baked rice). the prices are god damn low too...my main dish (baked rice) costed me only 4 plus dollars!

even though both of us paid for around 19 dollars each (the guys were smart with the setup of menu as each item are too cheap that you wouldn't know that you are paying around the same as any typical restaurant) but i must really say that the food is really worth it. must try!

went to timbre to recce. the queue was short but i personally felt a problem where we can only just eat, drink and chat till a certain point of time where we will have nothing to do. darren then suggested safra gamehaven. sounds good to me at that point of time. then we went over to have a look around (never been inside before). basically there's lan gaming, private rooms (which is kind of popular yet with crap counter service and very limited console games) in which there's 1 console, 1 pc and tv with sofa. besides that there's a bar, a restaurant and a pub.

in the end we gathered with the rest of the guys (weijun, kwan yong, chun leng, bowen, quan yi) at gamehaven and have a try at the private rooms. damn...in the end due to quite a number of circumstances (with the fact we came without reservations) we could only book the room with wii console at 1am.

next we went up to the pub at the 6th floor. the ambiance is still ok...just a pity that the crowd seems little (or maybe we were too early when we arrived- around 9 plus near 10?). had a bottle of heineken and a round of pool before some of them suggested to go have a bite or something.

in the end we went over to hooters (and it seems along the way the plan to get the reserved room was called off) and had more drinking (which i didn't; i had the feeling to puke just after a small bottle of heine- very weak.) and side dishes. fried chicken wings were nice and the atmosphere (not thinking that the waitresses are all foreign talents) was great.

people started leaving after some of them felt tired...so some took cab...some buses. hopefully like what quan yi said, "let's have it next time" and "next time plan properly".

another week in stagmont. didn't sleep well for the past week. no idea why but i kept turning in late and waking up once or twice at the middle of the night.

now to think properly as a trunk comms guy there's quite a high risk involved whenever we were to get the detachment deployed. moments like setting up the antenna (12-15m high), strong currents running in the antennas during transmissions...well. things might change in one fine moment.

plus the radiation from the antennas...well my sergeant told me about this fable that signallers generally get daughters...but i was more of curious on cancer. some cold joke for me.

basically my course mates...made me think whether the fact that i couldn't make it into sispec a regret for me or not...i was right you see. the human factor can affect a person a lot. no that i look down on anyone over there but...they somehow are not very near to those kind of people i wanna look forward to meet. pardon me for being a realist but...ns is really a good time to build up your network. so i certainly hope i have not lost this chance.

this was this indian sergeant who spent the free time in his lesson we had talking about lots of stuff...from his investments to the major events in the future that can affect us...and he reminded me about the possibility of doing some small business through blogspots...hm.

and now...i am on the verge of falling sick...especially when i have organised an overnight drinking session with my poly people...damn. plus for next week i am gonna to have tests and exercise. oh man.

oh ya.

going back to camp soon...went out with weijun yesterday to rot...but realised i need to buy something today. things like meal bags...a new bag (preferably brown leather bag)...and perhaps a new pair of hook-on ear phones.

buying stuff for myself seems to be a growing habit. so are my bad spending habits. oh man. i am starting to feel that me going in this direction- it's gonna be bad. maybe.

looks good...but i doubt i will ever go.

imaginations fly away from me...ideas...ideas they are just ideas.

second week in stagmont. had kind of an unique experience doing guard duty for the last day of 2009. volunteered to do it with my bunk mate; feeling that we can be more or less excluded from the future guard duties. i personally thought that there's nothing much for me to do during the countdown period too...so why not?

but in the end my bunk mate had to be swooped to another guy at the last minute. luckily he happens to be from quebec company in tekong and we hit it off quickly. everything was faster than i thought (the guard duty slot we did was a shift shorter- which means six hours shorter than usual)...except the part on the turnout/stand to which i quite dreaded (a slack one at 4.45am though; guess it's might be because it's the last day of the year...).

but just like what kwan yong said...for my poly side of people most of them are busy with their own stuff (more in a sense their other half lah huh) and there we are doing crap. year after year...same old year.