Been A Long Time Since I Blogged Twice In A Day
Yep yep... Quite excited this time around mainly 'cause I got a new laptop the size of a netbook. Yup... Specs of almost a laptop but rather small for one. And for a considerably cheap price of $788. :) My new toy... Haha...
And it's so much lighter than the laptop that I used to carry around in JC. Couldn't even feel its weight when I carried it in my bag. But not expecting to use it full-time or to the max. Just mostly for leisure and carry out normal stuff like checking emails, surfing, playing games, webcam. Intend to get a larger one once that scholarship half price deal is settled and that one will be the one that I'll be using in my hostel whereas this is the one I'll be bringing around whereever I go...
From what I heard from my friends overseas, impossible to live w/o a laptop. Or more like... Impossible to live w/o 2... Hmm....
spoke at : 8:51 PM
This Recent Addiction
I've been having a very recent addiction: to Fifa Online 2. Quite a fun game. Something I've been looking out for for quite a while. A soccer MMORPG. Yeah... Unfortunately, the makers of the game are emphasising too much on the use of cash. Ah well. As of now, I've only spent about 50 bucks on it and I don't intend to spend much more. Has all the elements of soccer and team management involved, as well as quests to achieve. But unlike other MMORPGs, there's no real teaming up to complete quests involved.
Ah well... As it is, I'm going to start on my quest to attain driving license from Monday onwards. Going to the Bukit Batok driving centre to check it out. See what I need to do to get it all done. Hopefully can get a license by the end of the year or beginning of next. And then use it for a while before I finally go overseas. Wow. This army thing is ending fast and the next phase of life is starting soon. So cannot wait!
As it is, there's only 120 more days to ORD!!!! :) ORD mood lo. Heck ATEC lahh.... :)
spoke at : 12:02 PM
This Weekend
Went out a lot this weekend, and lots of coming back late... Friday was 06S14 outing. Saturday was 4/3 Class Outing and then an NJ Hockey Gathering after that. Today was a mini-council outing. So yeah... Many many outings. Met lots and lots of people and caught up lots too.
But it has left me quite shagged since. Perhaps I can rest while in camp. Hah. And my poor Siti is staying at home 'cause she's feeling sick. Haiz... Unfortunate that I couldn't see her of all people... :(
Ok. I'm very tired. And I gotta go back camp tomorrow morning. Bleh... Back to work.
spoke at : 12:17 AM
E2Max
Went to Cineleisure after finish tuitioning. Wanted to participate in the auction, but I think I'm super suay. Reached there at 1pm thinking they already started but they didn't. Didn't start even at 1.30, so I went to eat. Went back up and they were on the verge of finishing already. Dani Alvez at $20 bucks at I somehow didn't want to up that price. Weird. Should have. Some more it's the highest player of the entire auctions. Bleh. Said the rest would be carried out at halftime of the tournament. Which was like at 4plus. Urgh. And I left before 4 cause the whole family was waiting at Popular already. Oh well. Didn't buy anything in the end. Too bad.
But the rest of the day was great. Snow City. Lau Pa Sat. Yuppp... A day with the family and Siti. Nice :)
spoke at : 10:14 PM
In The Heat Of Situation
I think this is confidential. And so I shall put things here as vaguely as possible. I can't help but write it down. Because it has been inked into my memory in great detail. The events that occured were fast and furious.
Drunk. Emotional. In a rage.
Blood. Split lips.
Tears.
Shouts. More shouts. Threat of the same fate.
"I like you because you're an intellect"
The rest turns up.
Even more shouts. Almost a fight.
Despair. More tears.
What a night it had been. And what a load of more work for a load of other people after that. Oh well... What's done is done. Cannot be reversed. If punishments are needed, then they will be dealt, in the interest of fairness and justice. A punch given cannot be returned. Responsibility for one's action must always be there, even for the drunk.
spoke at : 12:23 AM
The Past 3 Days...
The past 3 days were spent at home because I took leave to take STEP I and STEP II at the British Council. Don't want to talk to much about it because I already did somewhere but I can only say that I'm expecting very good results for STEP I and decent results for STEP II. Hopefully that's what it turns out to be... Yupp...
On another note, there was a hockey gathering for about 15-20 of us at CCAB this evening. Played a very relaxed brand of hockey. Not the kind with people running and running and running nonstop or the ones with lots of pressure. In fact, there was a lot of walking, even with the ball. What to do? A result of lack of proper training and a get-together and playing for the fun of it. But for me, I still made a few rather plays, haven't lost much of the close control skills and perhaps because everybody was not as topform as they used to be, it got much easier to get between loopholes and use skill over brute force. Scored 4 goals although I have to say that there was no keeper around and nobody wanted to waste energy chasing a lost cause, so those 4 really was more proper aiming than anything else. But I got to say there was this one brilliant piece of defensive work by me and Louis to prevent Shaun P and Karen from scoring. Very nice, with those last-ditch tackles and even saving an air-ball courtesy of yours truly.
Moments like this provide the kind of sporting exhilaration that I so badly miss. I sorely miss the times where I can make runs up and down the pitch a couple of times, have enough energy to last a game, and just basically be as fit as before. I know many people say that I'm in the army and should be fit and what-not. But seriously, the kind of 'fitness' that we train in the army is very different and not the kind of physical workout that we aim towards this thing called match fitness. Perhaps I can get back into shape after this entire army thing is over, when my time is all my time and not the SAF's. :D Another 138 more days to go.
Thereafter, had dinner at Adam Road Food Center after much persuasion with Karen. Sorry ah Karen.... :D Had sambal stingray and that famous Nasi Lemak. Very very good food, and not to mention oily. And lotsa talk with the people. Normal stuff. Life in army. Life after army. Life in uni. Just basically, life. Which made me think about the times back in NJ. Like after school go eat at Adam Road Food Center and eat the famous Nasi Lemak and drink sugarcane juice. Good food. Miss those good ol' days in the grey uniform, or should I say, grey firefighting suit. Hah.
Back to camp from tomorrow onwards. Oh well.....
spoke at : 11:14 PM
A Whole Load Of Things To Do.
spoke at : 12:29 PM
These Days
Hmm... The past few days have been passing very very swiftly, as if suddenly the accelerator on the time machine has been activated. Or maybe it's just a mental state of mind. That I'm way too busy mugging to notice time flying and before I know it, another day passes. Ah well. Perhaps a good thing anyways. It's so getting closer and closer to ORD, but of course not to mention, I'm only days away from my STEP examination on 22nd and 24th of June!!!
I feel that I'm decently prepared. But I don't know. As in seriously. I haven't had lessons and consultations and full concentrations on just plain mugging in a damn long time. That's why I'm hoping the superbly long-term preparation more than make up for severe lack of intensity over the past month or so. I really hope it's all enough. I know I really want to get into Cambridge very badly and perhaps this is the only thing that can give me a stronger foothold for that second application there. Otherwise, I'm as good as not going there if my results really cannot make it. Haiz...
I've never felt this lack of confidence before an exam before. Usually I'll be it's-oh-so-manageable mood by this time. I'll already have proper studying timetables and perhaps doing crazy 8-10 hours of mugging a day. Haiz. I really really miss those times. Rather than having to go out in the field or just get sweaty for nothing. Bleh. I want to experience it all over again. And perhaps this entire episode has taught me another thing: Once one gets out of the mugging cycle, it needs a really great amount of time to get adjusted back in again. Arghh.... I just pray that I'll do well on Monday. Pray for me people!!!
SMILE HAIKAL. SMILE! :)
spoke at : 10:24 PM
Study
Been studying really really hard and time has been passing superbly quick. Very very quick. Especially since I found a whole new resource to start work on but only have about a week or so left. Bleh... So must try to chiong through as much questions as possible and get my brain accustomed to the level of difficulty I'm expecting to encounter. I'm all up for this very good brain workout on 22nd and 24th but things are being very difficult with my employers not providing the support I require. Oh well... What to do...
Gotta get back to studying. Lots of work to be left doing..... Rahh!!! Feels like A levels all over again. I'm so loving it!!! :)
spoke at : 7:59 PM
For The Moment
For this very brief period in the army, I wish time would go slow. Really really slow. Not because I want to appreciate what little time I have left with the army, but because I have an exam coming up in less than 7 days!!! NOT ATEC. I REPEAT. NOT ATEC. But more importantly, STEP. ARGHHHH... I'm starting to feel that exam stress. And maybe you think I'm crazy, but I'm loving this long-lost feeling... :)
Hahaha... Sounds like a sadist of some sort, loving to cause hurt to myself. Ah whatever. K enough is enough. Gotta go back to MUGGING... Woots. The life of a mugger. Council mugger. NOW? Army mugger? Haha... Whatever lah.. Love that name to bits and pieces. :) Heh.
spoke at : 8:41 PM
Back To School
Didn't have much time to blog about the previous bookout on Thursday. Went back to both CSS and NJC and saw some people that I haven't seen in quite a long long time. Especially CSS. Saw Mdm Aisha, Ms Chua, Mdm Ros, Pan Lau Shi, Mrs Chloe Png, Mrs Terrence and lots lots more teachers. Really wow. And they were so excited to see me. Somehow or another. Perhaps more excited than I was to see them because I was prepared to see them and they merely saw me by coincidence or surprise.
And I talked quite a bit to each teacher. The norm. Wishing me luck in my future. Happy with the things that I've been awarded and I guess it's just the fact that they get to see something substantial for me being the fruits of their labour. It's one thing for me to work hard and see my own results bear fruits. I guess it's completely a different story when a teacher works hard and sees his/her students benefit from all the work and go on to accomplish something great. Imagine the influence a teacher has over so many students in so many years. Wow. The impact and perhaps, also the burden a teacher has.
And then I also joked that maybe next time I can be their colleagues. But they somehow took the statement very seriously and was more than ready to accept me. Started asking me when I ORD. And even promised me that a spot is always open for me to come back to CSS. It'll be nice. Perhaps something that I really want to do. I mean, if there's anywhere I have to choose to teach, it'll probably be my alma maters. NJC or CSS. Either will do. But I guess before I go to study, I'll try CSS first. Be nice to have people who I once addressed as teachers to be my colleagues. Like somehow the cycle of knowledge has come one full circle. Or something like that...
Ah well. That is a long long way from now. Meanwhile... 156 more days to ORD!!!!!!!
spoke at : 11:08 PM
Of Standing And Smiling
So I spent most of the time over the past few days standing and smiling at people. Don't think I'm crazy. Apparently, I'm supposed to earn my pay this way. Ah well. Maybe some people might have seen me as crazy, but then again, many of them returned the smile too!
And its actually quite decent from where I was standing. Getting to see some day-to-day operations of certain areas, learning about the jobs of others just by pure observation. Abit interesting. But seriously, after a while, it gets really really mundane. And it can really kill brain cells. But what to do? For the nation! Hah...
That somehow felt very funny... Sheesh..
spoke at : 11:21 PM