Yay! My 表哥 is getting married! And me, my bro, and my 2 堂哥堂弟 to be his 兄弟团！ Haahaha. This is soooo gonna be fun fun fun. Haha. To think about it he's only 5 years older then me. Haha. Time really flies. Still can remember just not long ago that he flew over to UK to study law. Haha. And now he's back, career on track and ready to get married! Haha. Heard my 大嫂 is a PhD student somemore. Ok that's besides the point. Haha. Anyway wish them the best. Really looking forward to it. HAHA.

I went on facebook today and i saw THIS!


Temasek Secondary School Mass Display item at the 2002 National Day Parade! OMG. THIS is classic. The old Maestan nagging days. Haha. Oh and I flunk my exams coz I was soo tired after the rehearsals that I just went home and sleep. Haha. Anyway, this brings back good old memories.. Enjoy!

Ok monday night went to NTU with my bunkmates to watch 徐佳莹 live. Haha. She's the winner of the 3rd season of the Taiwanese talent show 超级星光大道 and damn she was good. Haha. Never really understood why she won then, but listening to her performance live.. *gasps!* How can such a powerful voice come out of someone so small and petite? Haha. Anyway it was great. Oh thanks sebastian for the tix. Haha. Oh I forgot to mention, I(or rather We) saw ROY TAN! Hahaha. My dear platoon sergent eons ago. Haha. He's still as weird. Lol. After that booked into camp coz I need to go for my Dental FFI at SAFTI yesterday morning. I'm telling you, SAFTI is damn visitor unfriendly. Haha. The stoopid medical and dental centre is a good 20 minutes walk from the gate! Oh my god. This is so unlike Pasir Laba, whose medical centre is just at the gate. LOL. Anyway the checkup took like.. 10 seconds? Haha. My teeth are perfectly fine and fit for ORD. Perfect. But the walk's terrible. The 7 of us walked a total of 40 minutes just for a 10 second checkup. Super efficient indeed. Anyway I booked out yesterday evening. Going back to camp on friday for my ORD FFI. Haha. This time at PLC medical centre. Thank god I don't have to go back SAFTI again. Oh and I've maintained my record. The only time I've visited the medical centre is during my Blood test and FFI. Haha. I've never ever reported sick. Haha. They should give me a prize for it. Haha. Saving tax payers money. =D

Oh and my tummy has been giving me problems since yesterday. LOL. Now I feel terrible. And my parents ban me from running until I'm fine again. lol. I should be happy. Haha. More time to rest. =X

Now that my off is officially on the way (a.k.a. I'm only going back to camp one day a week! Haha.), time to undergo some civilian conversion programme. Haha. First up, my phone! Haha. I want my camera phone back! Haha. Alright have been scouting for new phones. And I've narrowed dowbn my choices to these few:

1) Nokia X6 (upcoming)

Some of the main features are:
- Touch screen
- 5.0MP camera
- 32 GB internal memory
- 8.5hrs talk time
- Good music playback
- runs on nokia series 60 platform
- Price : TBA

2) Nokia E72


Some of the main features are:
- Qwerty keyboard (no touch screen! I still love my keypad. Haha.)
- 5.0MP camera
- Push mail ( Somehow, I need to use my email ever so often. So yupz, this is extra helpful)
- 250MB internal memory
- 12.5hr talk time
- runs on Nokia series 60 platform
- Price: TBA

3) Samsung Omnia II

Some of the main features:
- Touch screen
- 5.0 MP camera
- Runs on windows mobile
- 8GB internal memory (expandable with up to 32 GB micro SD)
- 10 hr talk time
- Price: $498 w/contract (and i reckon the price w/o contract to be around $800)

Yupz so that's about it. The 3 phones I'm considering. Haha. If I were to stick to my norm, I would probably get the E72 or X6 since I've been using nokia all my life. Haha. But the price is also important. Haha. Most probably I'm buying the phone without contract, so yea the price would be quite terrifying. Haha. Alright. I shall ask around more about these phones before deciding what to buy. Haha. No rush. But I want it so badly. Haha.

Alright next up in the agenda. Jobs. Haha. I've written up my CV and sent it to various organisations in search for a job/internship. Haha. They include:
- PSC internship programme
- NEW programme(a.k.a. National Environmental Agency)
- ExxonMobil HR
- Shell HR
- Jotun Paints HR
Surprisingly, all were super efficient and have replied to me. Unfortunately, Shell and Exxon only accept undergraduate interns. Haha. So too bad. Then PSC, NEW and Jotun all have replied favourably to my request. Haha. I'm trying to see if I can go for all 3.. good for experience. Haha. the 2 internships do not coincide so that's good. Haha. But unfortunately, the pay or allowance is quite bad. (a.k.a. worst then my NS pay) Haha. But then again, I'm there for the experience, so the pay isn't really that important. The Jotun paints one pays much better then the other 2, but its a full time job till june and I can't do any other internships on top of that. Yupz. So thats the down side of things. Alright, there's always one other job I can fall back on if every other job opportunity falls through - relief teaching. Haha. John, yewei and vincent is also interested in teaching. Haha. Mainly because it pays well and the environment is so familiar and good. Haha. I kinda like the TJC culture and life there. Haha. So I have absolutely no qualms about it.

Third on the agenda is a mp3 player. Haha. Or rather, it's more of whether I want to get an Ipod Touch or not. Haha. The 32GB Ipod Touch sooo nice and the price is really attractive. The 32 GB would be put to good use since my iTunes is getting really full. Haha.

It's priced at $468 for a 32 GB model and $648 for a 64 GB model. Haha. Very much more affordable than previously. Haha. So it's really attractive~

Alright, there's more. I have to discipline myself to run regularly. Haha. I've got 2 upcoming runs. First up would be the New Balance Real run. It's a 15km cross terrain run that's on the 8 november 2009. Haha. That run should be pretty ok since I've covered distances much longer than that. But the scary thing is the 700m beach run. Running on sand is indeed a nightmare. But cross terrain running should be fine, since I've ran at Pasir Laba outfield road sooo many times le. Haha. Alright then after that is the Standard Chartered Marathon. That's a challenge man. 42km. I havent run any distance near that yet. At the moment, the longest distance I've completed is 21km, and I've did it twice. Both under 2 hrs. Haha. So it should be good. Haha. Now to go for longer distances. Haha. Anyone interested in running with me near the East area please contact me. Haha. I'm running every alternate day, so yea.

Ok I've been watching lots of drama serials these days. Probably due to the extreme boredom in camp and at home. Haha. I've completed watching 痞子英雄, featuring 仔仔 and 赵又廷，which is damn nice. Haha. Quite a good detective show. It's about 2 police agents that are totally different in terms of personality and they are put together in a team. Haha. Quite cool and I think it's quite worth watching. Haha. And now I'm currently watching 幸福又安康, featuring 陈桥恩 and 蓝正龙. Seems like a really interesting show about a chinese herbal medicine tycoon, and how his daughter, son-in-law and grandsons want him dead, just to inherit is assets. And there's the tycoon's first love's granddaughter who's coming into the picture to inherit the assets. Haha. The plots seems good and in Taiwan, it's the top-rated chinese drama. Haha. so yupz, really addicted to it le. Oh and there's 超级星光大道5 grand finale coming up next week le. Haha. Really looking forward to it, although the winner seems quite obvious to me now. 孙自佑 seems like a sure win, due to his excellent vocals and drama background. Haha. And and there's also 李杰宇 who seems to have a pretty good chance too. Haha. Ok that brings me to my point. The level of competition in Singapore idol is soooo much higher than that in the taiwanese version 超级星光大道, but where's the standard? Many of the Taiwanese do not speak English too often and as a result, their pronunciation of the languange is poorer too. However, when I hear them sing even English songs, they sound better than many of the Singapore idol finalist (no malice intended). I've put up a video of 孙自佑 singing Jason Mraz's I'm Yours. Oh the video is actually part of the latest episode. Haha. The team is like theatrics and plays. Pretty interesting and entertaining, so please enjoy!



Ok another thing. I've started to read up on a few Chemical engineering modules already. Thanks Yanshan for the notes! Haha. The principles of chemical engineering (CN1111) seems alright. Not too difficult. But it's all PHYSICS! Haha. Lots and lots of formula and stuff. Haha. But still much easier than I had earlier expected. Haha. Many people have been saying how life-less chemical engineering students are due to the extra hard syllabus and heavy workload. Haha. From what I see so far, things are going better than expected, so pray for the best. I heard from Wentao that I can actually do advance placement exams at NUS even before entering uni to clear a couple of simpler modules like basic chemistry and biology. Haha. It would be a really good idea to do so as my course would be really taxing (double degree) and that I want to do an SEP, so I've gotta cram more modules per semester so as not to extend my course of study to more than 5 years. Haha. So I'm gonna check it out and if it's ok then why not? Haha.

Ok so thats about it for now. Pretty long and time consuming post. Haha. So till whenever I feel like blogging again, cya!

Have been a well spent day today. Haha. Afternoon went for driving.. then went for a good 21km run at the park connector. Ran from East Coast all the way to End of Bedok Reservoir, before returning back again. Damn nice run coz the scenery isn't repetitive like in the gym. Haha. Felt damn refreshed after the run man. Haha. No I'm not joking. It's real. Should try. Haha. After that went for a meal with my secondary school friends. Haha. Ate at this new Italian restaurant at Bedok Central coz Blk 85 hawker centre never open. Haha. It's going through some sort of renovation and stuff I guess. Haha. The food was pretty ok. Haha. And the place's nice. Haha. Yea. Then went for more desert at the central hawker centre. Haha. The watermelon bowl's DAMN COOL. Haha. I never knew there was such a thing sia. Haha. Anway really good. Haha. Always feel very comfortable going out with them. Haha. Loads of laughter and fun. Haha. It just feels great. FULLY satisfied. Yes I'm really full thanks to john and his black hole stomach. Haha.

Oh and 糖醋-排骨-饭！Haha. Damn retarded-ly funny. Haha.

Oh and Brownies will never be the same again. Anything --> 亮晶晶 --> Brownies. Oh no she's gonna kill me if she ever sees this. LOL.

Yes AOH is finally over. Haha. Ok the actual event was actually quite nice other than some incidents. Anyway AOH was a great success. Ferried over 4000 civilians for the combat ride. Haha. To think about it it's quite a achievement. Haha. Ok the vehicles are more or less sent back to 40SAR, so yea, it's almost the end of my NSF life. To think about it, time passed really fast. Anyways, I'm going to go for my 1-day-work-week from October 1st onwards. Haha. Isn't it great? Haha. Just can't wait.

My 2 years of commitment to the nation is more or less done. So the next phase of my life - or rather back to my original life. I'm going to spam my driving lessons to get my driving license ASAP. My motivation has arrived so yea, gonna work hard for it. After which I should start to think of my 7 free months after I ORD, and before my studies begin. Relief teaching? Perhaps coz of the good pay. Internships? I'm definitely thinking about it. Good for my CV. Tuition? Why not? Flexible working hours and good pay. The important think is to spend my 7 months meaningfully. Haha. Oh and not forgetting enjoying myself. Haha. Yes I need to have fun, free from the loads of crap from the army. Oh yes. Oh life's gonna be great.

Oh and getting into shape for my maiden marathon - the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon. Got to run more. Have been pretty lazy these days. So far I've clocked up to 21km le. So yea, my training is well on the way. Haha.

Have been preparing my CV too. It's well about time I do some tidying of my achievements and stuff over my 12 years of formal education so far. Haha. And my notes n stuff, there's so much to tidy up. It's like as if after my A's, I left earth to go to a foreign land called the Army, and I'm gonna return back to earth soon, with everything still left in tact from 2 yrs ago. Haha. Really interesting. Haha. Alright whatever.

I'm just gonna enjoy my free and easy life before going back to the structured and busy studying days. Haha. So that's all for now. Will blog when I feel like it again! =D

Just came back from dinner with my family. Yupz was my birthday yesterday and I was stuck in camp all day. So yea, celebrated my belated birthday today. Ate at this Chinese restaurant in Bedok. It was kinda casual, but the food was great. Haha. Really enjoyed it. Haha. Anyway a big thanks to all you guys for your well-wishes! Really appreciate them.

Oh yes that brings me back to my birthday itself. I almost spent my entire birthday WAITING! That just shows how efficient the organising committee is. I wouldn't have mind it at all if my day was spent working. But WTH. It was spent waiting. And getting nagged at. Terrible. Yesterday was just terrible. Anyway, booked out late and went to makan with my bunk mates before going home.

Today was supposed to have my driving lesson, but because of some unforseen circumstances, the driving centre canceled my lesson last minute. So yea, was free for the entire afternoon. Haha. Niceee.. Oh my computer is finally back from the dead! Fantastic. Spent my entire afternoon restoring the stuff back into my PC. Haha. It's tough man. But yea, almost everything's up except for my songs. Haiz. Think it's time to get a portable hard disk to store and backup my stuff. All this restoring is hard work! Haha.

Have been watching 超级星光大道.. 真得越来越精彩了!现在正在播一对一PK 赛。 新加坡也有代表.. 陈迪雅，黄智阳与蔡艾嘉。还有PK选手倪安东... 还有新光5班的孙自佑，杨俊文... 超好听。真的建议大家去欣赏！

Ok back to my life. Army Open House rehearsals have been alright, if not for some people who know nuts about M_ _ _(numbers) but keep trying to correct(Or not.. I doubt..) us. And they can't provide us with the basic stuff and everything.. Only knowing how to complain and not appreciate our help. Oh and there's the M_ _ (rank) T_O_M_S (name) how's the most irritating of the lot. Ok whatever lah. Not gonna divulge too much information on my blog lest I get scrutinised for revealing too much classified information and by-passing the chain of command.(It doesn't matter though. Our feedback is never ever heard anyway.) All I can say is that I joined AOH hoping that it will be a good experience, but what I got is shit. I don't really mind burning weekends and working while others are resting.. doing all the maintenance and stuff.. but sometimes, all we need is a little appreciation bah. Ok whatever.

Eventful week. Or rather weeks. I can forsee more nonsense coming. We will see bah..