The frequency of update has officially gone from "occasionally" to "rarely" >.<
Maybe its because I try to spend whatever time i have with the girl, otherwise its due to the fact that my life has been super dull recently.

Its combined arms term now and i've officially been out of action for 2 and a half months. Its been great to see the foundation guys come back and we chat nearly every night. Oh the good old times haha!
Still, its been sad to see them all progress ahead while I'm stuck here in limbo, leading my somewhat aimless life.

Checked my PES status and its unchanged hence i'm bound for recourse. All I can do now is hold on to this sliver of hope that i will get re-vocated. Otherwise I better train up for re-pro term =.=

If only things could go the way we all want, I would choose to stay in foundation term forever because its rare to get a group of friends which click with you in many aspects and are able to work together. Oh well, on the brighter side we'll meet each other eventually, albeit in different units.

Time to push army aside:

Long weekends are most blissful when spent with the girl ! However time still seems to fly real fast when i'm with her. She's been sick recently and its rather worrying to see her in discomfort for so longggggg. Hope she recuperates to full health before flying off to aussie.

Oh damn, one week without her around :( Hope she gets 3g in australia so at least i'll be able to skype and whatsapp her!

One joyful event did occur though: I got my iphone 5!!! Its been keeping me busy because the availability of 4g unlocks so much more accessibility to stuff compared to my old faithful ipod touch!

But things don't ever remain happy for long. I'm signed up for guard duty on the 25th of December. FRIGGIN CHRISTMAS spent in the place I dislike the most and doing the shittiest job sighs. At least i'm compensated on the 26th! After which WOOHOO i'm on leave all the way till the start of the new year 2013 which will be A-A-A-AWESOME because it'll be a brand new start and hopefully a happy and lucky year for me :)

Can't wait for the girl to come back from australia too so that we can go see the christmas lights which hopefully they won't remove so hastily and also to get our x'mas presents!

Theres always a silver lining in everything and for me its the relatively slack life i'm leading right now. Still learning to seek motivation and joy despite the environment and i hope i'll mature and grow stronger through all these setbacks. No one's life is perfectly smooth and we just gotta learn how to ride the waves :) swooosh~

Stay strong, stay happy :)

Oh btw, there is this new year resolution booth held in many malls where you pen down your resolutions on balloons which will be released during the countdown. I've done 3 so far LOL! 2 with the bee and 1 with the foundation guys. Hope to see my resolutions during the countdown!

Alright, i'm being summoned for lunch. Cya!

wishing all a happy christmas which hopefully will be a blast for me and the girl :)

OK, this post shall be dedicated to the one and only Sa (because i owe her HAHA).

On a side note: seriously, who else would be so awesome as to lug an entire series of percy jackson books to your house when you only requested for the first book? :) whee~

Anyway, we are nearing the end of the 2 week extension of my MC a.k.a one whole month of rotting at home. To be honest its only in the past week that I actually start to realise how fortunate I am to be able to hobble around doing nothing for so long. Oh well, lets not speak too early because if they put me up for recourse i'll be cursing and banging head :X

I was rather lonely this period as well, everyone else had to go on with life while I was stuck in limbo. The first 2 weeks mainly consisted of trying out every new game on the market and any random shows i could get my hands on (I'm watching this series that SA got me hooked on but i'm ashamed to say its name so i'll only give a clue: its name has 2 syllabus). Weekends were still the highlight cause they meant SA came over to accompany me! Things kinda changed when she brought many many books over cause I became so absorbed in them that WHOA I'M GOING BACK TO CAMP NEXT WEEK ?! DRATZ! How i'm supposed to adapt back to army life, i honestly have no idea >.<

BREAK TIME CAUSE MUM JUST TEMPTED ME WITH COFFEE AND YEA, I'M A TOTAL COFFEE JUNKIE. MILK TEA TOO. oh wait, milk tea has caffeine too eh? oh well, YOLO!!!

As you can see now, life is Aaaaaaawesome :) 'cep the fact that I cant go out and utilize my free time like i do on weekends. One good thing about staying home is that i caught up on all the current events (because i had too much time on my hands) and this is seriously one thing the army deprives you of because any time you had would be spent sleeping or doing something with your friends you can only do in sispec ;)

Got the sims 3 game for my sis ( don't ask how ) and SA got hooked on it too but looking at her play makes me fear for my life because she's practically a puppet master (cue evil laughter). Just kidding haha, kinda amusing when she stresses over managing her virtual household haha!

Hobbled to the park with her, which i really treasured because i've been cooped up for so long? but bishan park is kinda boringggg especially since most dog owners don't bring their doggies to the...dog playing ground (?) at night so there was nothing to watch and we just enjoyed our macflurry from the Macs outside the park.


Actually one other reason for blogging is to make sure my brain hasn't gone retarded since army doesn't require much intellect. Just wondering if when we resume studying will our brains still be hibernating LOL.
Don't think so though, since army stresses it constantly. Yupps, you heard right. S-T-R-E-S-S

Not something you'll expect to hear from an nsf? In the army every force preparation and outfield will have you digging your belonging making sure every small items like your first aid dressing or I.d. tag is there because one moment of forgetfulness and your weekends will be a distant dream :\
Similary, make a mistake and poof you're screwed.
Or maybe its biased, since this is coming from a guy who thinks weekends are so sacred they should be left UNTOUCHED. yups, you can imagine how ( freak i can't find an adjective omg my english is deteriorating umm how about "strongly") i protect my weekends.

Damn, am i getting paranoid or what.

Alright i've paid my debt so i shall be off to....OH WAIT IS THAT THE SMELL OF WAFFLES?
Tea time!

Lastly, special thanks to my buddy J and anyone else who has helped me settle my army stuff while i'm at home enjoying guiltlessly haha!

Most importantly, to the girl who never complained about making the long journey to my house every weekend, thank you :)

Yupps, the title describes my current mood.

Hmm, been so long since the last post that I'm not really sure how to resume. Oh right, lets jump straight to now.

I screwed up my leg :(
Fell in the night during UO live firing into a freaking CANAL. Yes, I don't need the chuckles of the hospital staff to know it sounds retarded. In my defence, it was pitch black OKAYYYYYY. It was quite amusing to me too. Initially. Haha.

Anyway, I'm put on cast and crutches and what I thought was only a minor spraine somehow escalated into a bone injury at the ankle area. I'm on cast for 2 weeks but the MC given was only 6 days WHUTT so we'll see how things go from here.

Anyway, I'm thankful for the presence of certain people. Thankful to Boon for accompanying me through the night to NUH and entertaining/impressing me with his eventful NS life. Didnt realise he was such a great guy cause he volunteered to go with me and supported me everywhere till two am without a single complaint. Felt kinda bad when i had to cab back first but i'll be sure to thank him when i'm back to camp :)

Next on the list would be my buddy Jerald who i never thought would be so indispensible, updating me on camp stuff and helping me notify the others etc. Thanks buddy :)

Ok, let's backtrack to army life. I got posted to pro-term. Was sad but i'm all over it now. The urban operations live firing marked a tiring 4 consecutive days of outfield. We were picking up the expended rounds and i tripped into this knee-deep canal just as our WO was warning us about it.

It went something like this:
WO: Go by the other side ah, be careful fall int-
Me: WHOA!, "THUD".             O-U-C-H

so yupps, i fell face-down before he even finished the sentence. And the stoopid A still laughed at my poor situation when i texted him about it  =,=
Exbarrassing max because all my superiors were right in front sighs.

Went to see MO and he tried to give me 11 days light duty i was like WHATTT but i got important exercise coming up! So he reduced to 4-5? but in the end gave me 7 days lol. Then he recommended that I went NUH A&E but i was reluctant to stir up so much trouble but caved-in in the end so was ferried on ambulance to NUH.

OK, this left me stuck at home for the past few days alone, although the bee did come over to pei me the entire day on SAT and ate dinner with us :)

OK just to clarify. Many people must be thinking (and so would I) that i'm lucky as hell to get such a long period of MC but you know WHATS THE POINT OF STAYING OUT IF U CAN'T MOVE ABOUT AND STRUGGLE TO COPE WITH EVEN THE MOST BASIC STUFF? :(
No one around to pei me, no fav. food to eat. Its still confinement, just in the comfort of my own house haha.

Plus, i'm super worried about my equipment and stuff in camp plus the trainings i'll miss. For damn sure i'll lose my CSB badge, the main badge all infanteers get. sighs. Worst case schenario? OOC   :(
Missed my couin's wedding dinner too. sucks max.

Been ranting to the Sa alot recently and i'm once again thankful for her patience with the grouchy me :\
Now i'm just waiting for the call from NUH and also for my aunt to bring me lunch.
Really fortunate to be taken care of by so many people :')

Alright, shall go wallow in boredom and maybe disturb more people haha!

I'm trying to keep my spirits up and hope for all the best when i go back to sispec.

Keep the faith!

Its been so long since I last blogged that I'm kinda ashamed haha.

Life has been...the same?

I got posted into SCS/SISPEC and thus am on my journey to be a sergeant, which is what i wanted in the first place. However, upon arrival i realised this new journey is somewhat a replica of BMT, albeit with much more freedom and workload.

The inclusion of new members into the bunk and platoon brings both joy and upsetness but oh well, no situation is perfect, especially in the army. All in all nothing beats the awesome bed 1 to 4 during BMT (I'm bed 3 btw!) Kinda miss those times when we flop onto Bryan's top bunk and just talk like we've known each other for years. Its really hard finding people to click with(for me at least) and my section during BMT was one of the most bonded and awesome bunch of people I've met who are serious about what they do yet we still manage to have a hell of a good time simultaneously. Not to mention the buddy of mine who I personally feel is the better version of me...when you take away his cockiness HAHA! Oh well, he's off to be a pilot and all the best to him!

Back to me. In SCS, sometimes i really wish my previous section remained intact, especially with field camp coming right up next week. I got my appointment the previous week and the mere 2 days was stressed like you wouldn't believe it :( To emphasize how suay i am, i'm assigned a matador, THE HEAVIEST WEAPON as my organic weapon =.= poor back i'm relying on you le :\

On a brighter side, i really learnt alot more useful knowledge in scs like navigation which i feel is a basic skill all man should have. At the same time, SCS has made me realize that unlike BMT, we can't just nuah in a corner when feeling super sian because this time, we are relying on ourselves to carry out the activities and no longer blindly awaiting instructions. I really hope to eventually become a leader capable of inspiring others. Or, at the very least, garner respect. I'm not there yet, but i MUST be when the time comes...DECEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!

The only downside of army is missing the bee. It really dampen my spirits when booking in or when inside camp as it sucks to constantly yearn for someone's presence. There just never seem to be enough quality time spent together. With her embarking on uni life and my future weekends getting burned I feel pretty bummed out already :(
Still, its something i gotta change. To be contented. Life will never be fair, but treating ourself unfairly is another story altogether. Gotta buck up, rein in my emotions, and suck in all the positive thoughts to push on. Because I got what I wanted, that shall be my main motivation. To eventually attain what I came into SCS for: to excel in my field.

Wow, thats a whole damn lot of cliche phrases. Haha.

Army aside, I'm wondering if my reserved nature will render me unable to fit in well into UNI life. Oh well, one problem at a time.

Missing Sa alot. But she's sound asleep so shan't disturb. Hope she recovers tmr cause we're going gardens by the bay yay!

Oh, i'm into polo tees recently because army civilian attire requires it. And i realised most of my clothing is in my fav. colour, blue. What a disaster. My mum cant differentiate between my shirts LOL. GEEGEE.
I'm definitely buying other colours next time. Enough of blue.

Oh, latest favourite show, SUITS. ITS definitely the best show i've watched to date, and thats including big bang theory, HIMYM, walking dead, sherlock, newsroom, community, and many many others!

Alright, shall head to bed soon because I need to recover from my own sickness too :\
Shall avoid thinking about sleeping in a hole in the ground for the whole of next week!
oh please, get me out of infantry and into a vocation where i can lead my ns life with ease hehe.
A.KA. GIMME A SLACK VOCATION LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA




"And we lay, we lay, together, just not ,too close too close ( How close is close enough?)"
Make Damn Sure-Taking Back Sunday

Yup, the title describes my life now, the army life.
With live range and field camp over, i'm only left with 1 or 2 more high key events till POP.
Time really passes too fast huh.

Well, I should be super relieved that I'm fortunate enough to be in a rather welfare company but in the most shiong platoon haha. I believe the intensity of my field camp is way lesser than previous batches, mainly due to recent incidents in the army. Anyway, field camp truly made me treasure the most basic things in life like food and hygiene. Never in my life have I been so dirty and living in such uncomfortable conditions yet not giving a f**k due to fatigue and just plain sian-ness haha.

Aside from army, weekends are mainly comprised of the much-too-little amount of time i get to spend with the bee. During this long weekend, we chilled at her house on fri after which I went for section's outing at 313. Today, we went Nex to celebrate our "unofficial" 2 years anniversary hahaha! Ate at Din Tai Fung followed by anderson's ice cream and prata house for dinner. And all of these are right after yesterday's Tarafuka buffet dinner with da army guys. Sinful much! Hope it doesn't impact my IPPT cause I WANT MY EARLY BOOKOUT!!!

ARGH, no time to train lately. Missed my silver by 3 cm due to SBJ da fug. Must get silver next week. MUST. then bookout by 4 yay haha.

People been talking about command sch etc. I admit i was all enthu to get in before enlistment. But after all I've seen from people around me, I'm not so sure anymore. Don't know whats the right choice but wait, i don't get to choose anyway. So not going to give a damn and just do what i have to do without thinking ahead and hope for the best!
Truth is, i've learnt much about warfare and even more about people. Some good, some bad.

Most importantly, I'll make these 2 years fun :)

ps: missing my bee already. And my family too. Letters received during field camp from all the loved ones nearly made me break down. Thats how much I love the people around me.

Tomorrow's my final day of freedom for the next two years.
But firstly, on to happier things :)

Celebrated mah birthday with the one and only bee on last saturday april 28th!
And whoa, it was awesomeeee :)

Firstly, we woke up super early to....the IFLY!!!
We spent like one hours going through a safety+demonstration course after which we got to fly after suiting up! :)

Its amazing cause you have to lean into the capsule and before you know it ur floating upwards :)
the scary thing is if no one holds on to you, you'll go all the way up to the top of the ceiling haha.
We got 2 turns each and it was super fun. Not cold at all, because its just like a mega big fan blowing at you haha. We got to spin, turn, fly up, sink down, but most of the time ur not the one controlling yourself haha cause its not easy o.0

Afterwards, we took pics with our instructor and headed off to malaysian food street for lunch. The lor mee there is super delicious :) The char kuay tiao was soso though. But overall the food there looks great!
The next part is kinda boring cause we chilled for like a full 3 hours at pan pacific cafe! HAHA!

Lastly bee got this surprise for me which i totally didn't expect, the dinner at Fish&Co with many of our classmates! Thanks to all who turned up and to  J+L & K+C for the gifts :)
Ok maybe i was suspecting it but i totally didnt expect so many to turn up and to have to turn on a chair rofl mega embarassed >.<
But anyways, thanks to Sa such a wonderful day :)

Oh and we caught the avengers movie together on friday! Tony stark awesome as ever :)

Now to the sad stuff. NS.
Super sian can. sighs. But I'll tide through well. I think I can. :)

Tuesday 8th May here i come!

AND WE TOTALLY DIDNT SEE THE TAPIR WHICH I WANTED TO GO SEE (Yes Sa ur fault haha)
not bad eh~
Anyway, aparently wind plus human factors are eroding the sculptures so they might not be there anymore. And whats pissing is the china tourists always go beyond the safety boundaries so you will keep hearing the guards shouting and blowing their whistles. Furthermore, they take pictures with the entire family climbing ON TOP of the sculptures and posing with one leg leaning against them. No wonder the sculptures wont last >.<