Sunday, January 28, 2007

things to think about

one of the best days in my life! thanks benny for all the encouragement and everything! yea its time to change the way i see things. no more aimlessness and time for more purposefulness! not gonna settle for just being ordinary too. alright! looking back, i wouldnt have had this meaningful talk if blood diamond wasnt sold out, or if rong wasnt working! hahaha and i dont believe its just coincidence. its God trying to get me back on path i believe! off to bed now!

hahaha are those freckles real??

Saturday, January 27, 2007

little things that count

not in a pretty high mood now. kinda wasted the better part of today at home. i dunno how im gonna survive the next week in camp! the thought is killing me. and still have homework to do?!?! they want us to write reflections on our 1st 2 weeks in army and do appraisals for the commanders as well. and gotta get digital photos printed. arghhh wish i could rewind time!

so impossible

the past 2 weeks seeemed like eternity!! im sooo glad to have this weekend to catch up with friends and family man! i seriously never thought i was capable of missing my friends and even for that matter, my family, this much. after the 1st week i was already dying. i think going to army made me treasure friends and family much much more. sheeesh sounds so cliche right. i dunno how im gonna go back there on sunday man.

a rough timetable in the army is wakeup at 0530, then go for breakfast. after that will be area cleaning. and the first lesson usually starts after 730. sometimes there will be some free time after lunch as well, around 12 to 1.30pm. if theres nothing on at night, then theres usually free time as well from about 9 to 1030 la. lights out at 1030. everyday the same thing. so monotonous la.

anyway for physical training we usually have things like AGR, 30:60, or strength training. agr is just like 20-30min of continuous running. 30:60 is like 30sec sprint, then 60min of slow jog, many sets.

but what i hate most is the obstacle course la dammit. actually i hate anything that involves wearing the helmet!

ohhh about my bunk (they call it section in the army)! heard that my section is the only one in the whole company that has non-jc students! 6 out of the 13 in my section in fact! some are like 4 years older than me some more. and got another guy in my section studied in australia before coming back to serve ns so he got angmoh accent. and the instructors call him mr australia. then there are these 2 guys with tattoos also. one guy with a tiger and one with a skeleton. and they are called TIGER and GOTHIC respectively haha! oh ya my platoon instructors all quite nice one la. got 1 turban guy some more. but thats for now la. heard that everythings gonna be alot tougher after the 2nd book in. dammit. anw pretty tired now. just went out with sebas rong fawn for movie, the illusionist. it sucks! but nice meeting everyone! haiya i think i grew fatter la. the food they serve in the army is like double my usual servings la. and met kevin just now also for awhile. hahaha i think his shaved head not bad eh! funky! and i also wanna give tuition to sec 3 bimbos leh hahahah! future paris hiltons.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

LEB IS GONE :(:(:(:(:(

LEBBY IS GONE, HE IS GONE!! NOOOOOOOOO.
I LUBLUBLUB LEBBY xD

Thursday, January 11, 2007

the last goodnight.

omg last chance at blogging before going army! didnt expect packing my stuff to take so long. im screwed if i dont get enough sleep.. but cant resist this last minute blogging effort to note down all exciting stuff over the past 2 days! in brief of course. not BRIEFS. ahha ok lame.

haha met up with kanesh sebas fawn rong peiyu at holland yesterday! after a really long time planning. haha. it was crazy man. first me kanesh and fawn ate at chachacha's. some mexican food. then went to indochine for drinks. then went breko, for more finger food! haha it was like eat drink eat. oh yea that afternoon also i met uncle kc. was kinda like a catch up session and preparing me mentally for ns.

ok today! wanted to swim in the morn but it just had to start drizzling as i was about to leave the house! but decided to heck the rain and go anyway. and todays plan was kinda messy and hazy. didnt really follow the original plan sorry guys! but blessings in disguise! cos when i reached tp swimming complex, i went in and swam for only 15 min before some idiot brought the vacuum cleaner thingy into the pool and started cleaning the pool. then some lifeguard dragged a sign to the front of the pool "cleaning in progress please use other pool" omg. jacked! but didnt bother to wait la. but just nice lucky the guy started cleaning at that time! or i wouldnt have been able to meet charm for awhile! hahaha she was so shocked with my hair and specs and everything. i look like a little china boy omg! haha badddd hair la. and mc cafe iced coffee is NOT good. after that went down to minds cafe at clarke quay with karthi shawntan stanley austen. benho and benny came later. haha had lots of fun there!! it was wayyyy crazy. my first time there man. but prob wont be able to go there much more. yea. its a nice cafe with lots of board games. kinda like our old student centre but wayyyy much more updated games and a larger variety. we started with a super draggy game of carrom. then moved on to adversity. haha some retarded game bout advertisements and slogans. but was damn funny cos the slogans were like "put a smile on his prostate" or "some like it big, some like it small" and the categories for the slogans were like g-string, peanut butter, vaseline, hotdogs, ding dongs, etc. super random and funny! played jenga with truth or dare too! and charades. omg there was this one super funny incident! i picked a card with category "in the army" and the phrase they had to guess was "clean the gun" and i had to use a cylindrical sponge thingy as a prop. so i did the hand action like moving my hand up and down the cylinder with a tissue paper la! i mean its supposed to be like polishing the gun barrel with a cloth what!! but those sickos straight away guess wanking!?!?! omg hahahha so funny. and there was this retarded game where we had to draw anything we interpreted from a topic. within like 1 min. hahaha can see that we all guys cant draw for nuts. karthi was damn funny for one time!! the topic was "sheep" but he saw it as "sleeeeep". so while we all drew the animal sheep or something, he drew 2 lovers in bed hanky pankying hahahaha!! of course he was voted the wierdest artist.

after minds cafe i went to meet family for dinner in the end at bugis fishnco. hahah wanted to go for 2nd round at crispy prata place but was too full after dinner already. oh welllll what a day!! gotta sign off now.

take care ppl! i know u all will miss me lots :p

but seriously, im gonna miss u all man. i really look forward to the 27th! thats the day i SHOULD be out. yeah! take care! i will keep in contact with u all with my ahem trusty nokia 6100!

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

stand up, stand up for s______. my chicken ass backside la

teachers visiting day + pekkkkking duck + kolam ayer + jalan kayu is too much!! exciting and enjoying life seriously! but damn. it just makes the thought harder to bear. limiting my free days to just half the weekends? shit la im really gonna miss my life. omg this is soo depressing. even more when i realise its only 2 days away. i think this might actually be how jason felt just before leaving singapore. argh i feel the pain man brudddda. and i get "bonus" 2 days stay in "beach resort" (quote mdm lee) also since i enlist on a thursday, and am only gonna be let out on a saturday. so its actually 2 weeks + 2 days confinement, while those who go in on a saturday get only 2 full weeks. ok i shall stop whining about this stupid depressing sstuff alright.

ok we were SUPPOSED to meet this morn at macs at 10. ahha i was supposed to be on time wan leh i woke up before 9! but like always, somehow rong reach the expressway busstop first miraculously. i think i can count with the fingers on 1 hand how many times i reach first hahahah! by the time we reached macs already 45 min late i think. sorry my bad :p

so me peiyu fawn rong kevin walked to school first. (cos sebas was still sleeeeeping) met most of the teachers. mdm lee was really funny! say i cut hair so early kay kiang ah. and all the teachers like got standard questions one leh. "caleb, sebas hows army?" and for the girls, "got a job yet?" and for kevin "when u going in ah?" and seriously, shaving ur head makes a great conversation starter HAHA!

had lunch at crystal jade holland v. cos we were planning to go movie marathoning at rongs house after that! and also we wanted a goooood lunch. must enjoy life mah! peking duck was great! first time i ate the crystal jade one. i thought normally is they just give a thin layer of crispy pork skin only. and straight after that i had to rush off for soccer on a full stomach haha. suicide man. reached there a full hour late! but was great seeing everyone again! ppl like benho, karthigasan whom i havent seen in ages. ian and teenesh too! alright me herngliang and teenesh are going in on consecutive days. after the game me karthi stanley austen shawntan beho went jalan kayu for prataaa! haha think its my first time going out with this bunch of guys. haha and throughout the whole journey there they were telling us jokes about their sec4 classes. omg i havent laughed this much in a long time seriously!! here's one: there's this one short guy in my class (4sa) who joined with karthi's class 4se for science practical during o lvls. then after the time was up for practical, the examiner said "if ur done, pls stand up" and everyone stood up. but the examiner waited for realll long before pointing at short guy and asking "are u ready? can u stand up?" HAHAHAHAH at first nobody got the joke but then everyone started laughing like mad!! haha of course the examiner apologized la. and we were also laughing at all the stupid things teachers used to do. some things like these ah, can laugh over and over again and its still funny!! like when karthi imitated chemyeo's voice.

haha and that was only on the journey to jln kayu. its sooo boys school right! then after we finished our pratas we played truth or truth. by spinning a fork on the table hahahah how retarded is that! but yea and with all guys there u can figure out what kinda stupid things they ask each other la. the questions always go "how many times...?" or "when was the first time u...?" haha i forsee more of this in the army life dammit.

alright thats for today. but on sunday, we also met to go escape theme park! my virgin experience at escape haha. rong kevin fawn ren. haha accomplishment for me ok!! i sat MANY rides which ive never sat or never thought i would ever sit in my life seriously!! usually i'll be wasting money at bumper cars (HAHAHAH) or some lame shit. but first time viking ship! they keep forcing me to sit at the last row with them la so toot. still say no kick some more. and they say must raise ur hands and scream then u will feel shiok. but i cant i will feel i will be left in mid air when the ship is at its peak and begins to drop! so natural reflex to grab the handle in front wad! at least i didnt chicken out of anything ok. and we sat the 15m drop water ride! and got seriously wet. i was shivering after that. haha like soggy fries like that. cos i was wearing yellow/brown zigzag shirt. and haunted house was gay. actually it wasnt as scary as most other haunted houses leh. all just machines shaking abit only. but its cos they make me walk right in front ma!! then the one in front always kena scared first. and sat the pepsi whatever thing. and the RAINBOW which was decievingly exciting. fawns slipper flew off halfway while we were dropping down!! hahaha then some cheenapok girls in front kept going "shui de tuo xie ah?" haha! oh yea rong's cap also flew off a couple of times. lucky got it back la. the go kart was the biggest time waster. queue so long but play so short only. left the theme park at about 8 plus.. went to macs for dinner. fawn was says she hasnt had HEART ATTACK eating mcwings for a long time haha! the way she said heart attack sounded real funny. actually she meant something like heart burn or what la. but heart attack?!?! and macdonalds now have a prosperity meal! seriously what does prosperity mean huh??

ok thats it for exciting life before ns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and shit i havent even gotten used to my new specs and old phone and whatever shit. dont think got time to make anymore cookies also already leh aiya. dont miss fableb's ok :p

Saturday, January 06, 2007

i wish we all could make our mothers proud

ARMY MARKET!! screw army man. its stupid (especially if you die because the guy beside you pulls the pin on a grenade and throws.. the pin.)

we met at lavender mrt. one of the few times we actually meet up at the near-east side of singapore?? and one of the few times im actually the first to arrive?? hahaha seriously. new yr resolution ah. kick the habit of reaching late haha. rong came soon after and sebas came after after. and fawn came after after after and met us at the army market itself. she knows her way man! first thing when we reached there, we saw this shop selling fake converse sneakers. looks pretty real and going for $29! haha ok "FOCUS, SEBAS!" so we went on to get our neccessities. like prickly heat, black tape, nailclipper.. spent bout $20+ there. and this other shop aunty who must have tried really hard to attract us potential customers. like really really tried so hard she had to go to extremes hahaha! "come see our stuff, handsome! very cheap!" and "come again ok pretty". hahaha see what i mean?? :p

went to a watch shop to get cheap watch and alarm clock. yes today was a day of countless ripoffs. the uncle anyhow quote price one lor.

had dinner at ikea! havent been there in ages! and im a hawker centre person! hahah fiona xie - coffee talks and hawker woks? what does (poached) in poached salmon mean?? a poacher is a hunter so poached salmon means hunted salmon? means its not caught by a fishing rod or fishing net? literally hunted? hahaha ok thinking too much.

headed down to bukit merah after dinner. hahaha while me n sebas were looking for cheap undies to get for army, we saw this damn funny bright red briefs!! hahaha with chinese words at the top that read something like gong1 xi3. i think its the kind ppl wear to go gambling on cards or mahjong for gd luck. hahah! and gd for taking exams also eh :p secret tactic!

sebas got a cheap camera-less phone from a 2nd hand shop too. i think $65 is a pretty gd bargain. dunno. nice model anyway. and i got ripped off for paying $30 for a 2nd hand spare battery dammit.

ok then MOST EXcITING event!! the barber! standard number 1 cut hahahahah. my sis just said i look wierd in the new hair. she says like a small boy. but its gd cos i dont have to wait for hair to dry before sleeping like i used to! cos it dries by the time i towel dry my body! hahahahah! really no kidding! $7 haircut. i think the uncle doesnt have a pretty good sense of style though. cut my hair like cheenapok. urgh.

why cry
I learned my lesson
I won't be forgetting
I won't give my heart out
Without suspecting
Why cry
Why cry
Why cry
For you

woohoo i learnt how to do strikeout!! hahaha check this out baby!! ok lameeee. cheap thrill. and im using my sisters computer account now its so weird. everything on her internet explorer is displayed in chinese.

Thursday, January 04, 2007

the stranger in the mirror

like a virgin! hahah. amateurs in zouk last night. met fawn kevin sebas rong at tiong bahru for dinner first. but i was late as usual. cos was busy with OTAH earlier haha! and we watched night at the museum. 2nd time for me. i think i must watch movies twice to fully understand them!

okayyy about the club. it smelled funky. yes and we all continued smelling funky all the way home cos of the smoke. and sebas got this 2 jugs of ice lemon tea-looking drink under the 1 for 1 thing or something. i could only take less than half! while sebas took most of it and got himself really high haha. i think everyone was high la including kevin hahahah! and peiyu brought along her baller friends with sirps included! hah. left prematurely, at about 2. and saw a whole gang of sa ppl. the sh gang, some councilors, some looking half-dead. i think i was relatively sober last night actually yea.

anw gonna make army specs now! the black plastic standard type. and gonna postpone my haircut till later. maybe next week la. decided not to tan my scalp hahaha! i mean no point actually. why would i wanna impress army boys anyway?!?! and army shopping with sebas tmr. and escape (for the first time in my life, hopefully) on sunday! cant wait!

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

i think i'm moving but i'm going nowhere

happy new yr ppl! dunno what the hype is all about every 31st december though. but well. lots of things havent been going smoothly throughout the past year. i believe it hasnt been gd for most ppl either. i mean everyone has their fair share of problems dont they? but what do you do when you hit the end of the road? pray? stay in denial?

think my spiritual life has kinda gone way down the drain this year. i think watchnight service made me realise alot of things. and its never too late to back! and better get everything sorted out before i enter army! u know mental and spiritual preperation haha. sounds like some guru like that but a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do. yes pls kick me in the head IF i ever pick up smoking ok!!

Leave me out with the waste
This is not what I do
It's the wrong kind of place
To be thinking of you
It's the wrong time
For somebody new
It's a small crime
And I've got no excuse

anyway this week has been a week of many surprises! crabshack with dc+c was a great catch up session! before proceeding to liquid kitchen and getting my face all red after only half a glass. took turns grilling each other. while me and dc would keep saving each our asses. i'll just say i enjoyed the whole thing.

cousin came back from malaysia! staying at my place for a week. yea the one who uses my room. and also met my maid in church on new yr's eve at watchnight service. apparently cos my cousin was in town with her friends earlier that night and met her while shopping, so they went church together. wow she got a new angmoh employer staying in orchard cool eh.

met up with khairul yesterday too. haha i've owed him this date since i think before prelims? hahah he's a great guy man. still going back to help out in the schools too. hahahah and secret agendas in sas!!! watched night at the museum! hahahah ok its funny i admit! but its got a lame happy ending. but still.. owen wilson is damn funny!

8 days to ns. gonna shave botak first i think.