Monday, December 30, 2002
Aloha~!!! Blogging from home... Here am I in Barney's office... Not working late but played soccer and guess what... VOLLEYBALL~!!! WeeeEeeeEee~!!! There's this competition coming up and I'm (not) surprisingly one of the nominated players in the game... Came down to play soccer initially but saw the guys playing volleyball... Lucky for me.. One of the teams was 1 man down so in went the enigma... (Yah rite...)
I pulled a couple of tricky shots... Including one that lobbed MAJ Alvin over his head... Hehe... Cheeky shot... Sublime skills... As with the regular beach volleyball I'm so accustomed to... I'm not very good with my spikes and sets... But my digging's still somewhere there and my positioning and reading of the game... Almost perfect... Like any other sports I love to play... My strengths are not with pure brute force... But with good reading of the game and technique... I believe one can be a master of any game... Or @ least a comfortably good player if he can grasp the technique required... Focus on the technique... And watch yourself improve tremendously...
Soccer was fun too... I managed a few moments of magic... And a couple of arrogant ones... I'm beginning to be guilty of holding the ball a little too long... So much so that my teammates themselves are not expecting any passes from me... Call that selfish play... I see that as vision beyond anybody else...
I've made up my mind to watch "Die Another Day" later @ GV Yishun... I guess I'm on my own yet again... (Hint hint gals... Ask me out god damn it~!!! I'm a shy guy~!!!) Wonder how many movies have I watched alone this year man... Hopefully next year would be a different story... Heh~!
I'm ending here with the last blog of the year... Here's wishing all a fruitful year ahead... Stay positive admist all uncertainties and have a BLOODY GOOD YEAR~!!!
Quote Of The Day:
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.
A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." ~Bill Vaughan
I pulled a couple of tricky shots... Including one that lobbed MAJ Alvin over his head... Hehe... Cheeky shot... Sublime skills... As with the regular beach volleyball I'm so accustomed to... I'm not very good with my spikes and sets... But my digging's still somewhere there and my positioning and reading of the game... Almost perfect... Like any other sports I love to play... My strengths are not with pure brute force... But with good reading of the game and technique... I believe one can be a master of any game... Or @ least a comfortably good player if he can grasp the technique required... Focus on the technique... And watch yourself improve tremendously...
Soccer was fun too... I managed a few moments of magic... And a couple of arrogant ones... I'm beginning to be guilty of holding the ball a little too long... So much so that my teammates themselves are not expecting any passes from me... Call that selfish play... I see that as vision beyond anybody else...
I've made up my mind to watch "Die Another Day" later @ GV Yishun... I guess I'm on my own yet again... (Hint hint gals... Ask me out god damn it~!!! I'm a shy guy~!!!) Wonder how many movies have I watched alone this year man... Hopefully next year would be a different story... Heh~!
I'm ending here with the last blog of the year... Here's wishing all a fruitful year ahead... Stay positive admist all uncertainties and have a BLOODY GOOD YEAR~!!!
Quote Of The Day:
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.
A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." ~Bill Vaughan
Sunday, December 29, 2002
Today is the typical day one would lead after his/her exams... Wake up at 12... Eat a bit... Watch TV... Use the Internet... Sleep some more... Wake up again... Sleep even more...
Sheesh... On the pretext that I'm sick and trying to get well... I allowed myself to practically waste my day away... Really sad... All those self-help books I've read always tell me that everyone... And EVERYONE... Have an equal 24 hour day everyday... Everyone including Bill Gates... Including Jon Bon Jovi... And even those soccer players from around the world... (But maybe not those astronauts from outer-space...) It's how you make use of your time and space... It's how you manage your time and make the most out of anything you do that makes the difference... Of course being talented in certain fields makes your learning curve steeper and your time spent on picking up a new skill shorter... But the attitude towards your way of life and the thing you do also plays an important role too...
Let's take National service for an example... Although I do constantly bitch abt it like anyone else... My reasons for bitching are for releasing the anger and frustration that has built up in me... It's healthier too in a way... Well @ least I dun bottle everything up and jump off a building one fine day... But on the whole... I DO always look on the bright side of things... I DO, deep down inside, look @ NS positively... (Hence myelf being an occifer~!!! Opppss... Officer...) And even before stepping into NS... Knowing that this 2.5 years of service is compulsory.... Instead of wasting it away like most people do and are trying to do... Why not make the most out of it by taking this as an opportunity to learn new things? I've learned a lot on Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel in my days as a doctrine officer... I have gone through some really tough training to toughen myself physically and mentally... I've fired the pistol and the M16... I have thrown a hand grenade... (Something gals will never be able to experience here in Singapore...) Most of all.. I have met some really nice frens from camp~!!! Compared to those confinements... Late-night projects and wat have you... The latter definitely falls pale in comparison to the former...
Like the on-going Nike Ad that's on TVs and big screens... "Always look on the bright side of life~!" (Tu du... Tu du du du tu du... WATEVER~!!!) I know it sounds a lot easier than it is but life really shouldn't be a chore... We should greet each day with a smile and be happy that we have lived to see yet another day... Yet another beautiful day...
Having said so much... To put my words into action... I shall punish myself for waking up so late today by waking up extra early tomolo and going to work earlier than usual... I shall punish myself for being so lazy today by working slightly harder tomolo... I shall punish myself for wasting my day today by staying in tomolo... (Actually I'm watching Die Another Day tomolo @ GV Yishun cos the day after there's a morning run that starts at 7... LoLz...) I shall... Make up for today... By having a GREAT TOMOLO~!!! Til then...
Quote Of The Day:
"The pupose of life... Is a life of purpose..." ~ Robert Bryne
(P.S : Thailand won the Tiger Cup on penalties juz now... Can imagine the whole of soccer-crazy Thailand celebrating through the nite... Imagine the club scenes!!!! ARGH! )
Sheesh... On the pretext that I'm sick and trying to get well... I allowed myself to practically waste my day away... Really sad... All those self-help books I've read always tell me that everyone... And EVERYONE... Have an equal 24 hour day everyday... Everyone including Bill Gates... Including Jon Bon Jovi... And even those soccer players from around the world... (But maybe not those astronauts from outer-space...) It's how you make use of your time and space... It's how you manage your time and make the most out of anything you do that makes the difference... Of course being talented in certain fields makes your learning curve steeper and your time spent on picking up a new skill shorter... But the attitude towards your way of life and the thing you do also plays an important role too...
Let's take National service for an example... Although I do constantly bitch abt it like anyone else... My reasons for bitching are for releasing the anger and frustration that has built up in me... It's healthier too in a way... Well @ least I dun bottle everything up and jump off a building one fine day... But on the whole... I DO always look on the bright side of things... I DO, deep down inside, look @ NS positively... (Hence myelf being an occifer~!!! Opppss... Officer...) And even before stepping into NS... Knowing that this 2.5 years of service is compulsory.... Instead of wasting it away like most people do and are trying to do... Why not make the most out of it by taking this as an opportunity to learn new things? I've learned a lot on Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel in my days as a doctrine officer... I have gone through some really tough training to toughen myself physically and mentally... I've fired the pistol and the M16... I have thrown a hand grenade... (Something gals will never be able to experience here in Singapore...) Most of all.. I have met some really nice frens from camp~!!! Compared to those confinements... Late-night projects and wat have you... The latter definitely falls pale in comparison to the former...
Like the on-going Nike Ad that's on TVs and big screens... "Always look on the bright side of life~!" (Tu du... Tu du du du tu du... WATEVER~!!!) I know it sounds a lot easier than it is but life really shouldn't be a chore... We should greet each day with a smile and be happy that we have lived to see yet another day... Yet another beautiful day...
Having said so much... To put my words into action... I shall punish myself for waking up so late today by waking up extra early tomolo and going to work earlier than usual... I shall punish myself for being so lazy today by working slightly harder tomolo... I shall punish myself for wasting my day today by staying in tomolo... (Actually I'm watching Die Another Day tomolo @ GV Yishun cos the day after there's a morning run that starts at 7... LoLz...) I shall... Make up for today... By having a GREAT TOMOLO~!!! Til then...
Quote Of The Day:
"The pupose of life... Is a life of purpose..." ~ Robert Bryne
(P.S : Thailand won the Tiger Cup on penalties juz now... Can imagine the whole of soccer-crazy Thailand celebrating through the nite... Imagine the club scenes!!!! ARGH! )
Saturday, December 28, 2002
Sigh... It's back to the good old days of my PC being unstable liao... =(
Woke up this morning to find a "TeeEEeeEEeeEEeeEEeeEEeeEEEee" sound from my com... Upon hearing that I knew it's over liao... It's definitely gonna be down for another week or so liao... Dragged myself to work with my comp constantly on my head... Sigh... Managed to finish the map layout I set out to complete though... Got quite a bit of kick out of it towards the end... Absolutely loved the road thingy I included.... Hehez...
Watched Lord of the Rings 2 : The Two Towers alone... Absolutely loved the show except for the fact that I was holding my bladder for most of the show... The war battle scenes were fantastic... The storyline very much improved from the 1st... I thought that in the 1st episode they rushed to climax the power and importance of the ring... So much so that the plot looked as if it crumbled juz like that at the end... The show also very much reminded me of my favourite game... Warcraft3... Which I missed oh-so-badly... The Orcs were like those hell troops... Nite Elves as the Elves... Humans as the humans (of course...) and the treants as the... Night Elves? Haha... Watever it was... It was certainly worthed very cent... (Including the $5.50 I paid for the Nachos + extra cheese to pamper myself~!!!! ^^, ) My favourite character of the show... Has got to be Legolas... Firstly he's damn handsome I thought... I love his role as an archer... And... He's cool... The ending has got a "Peace to the World" touch and connotation to it... With the good prevailing over evil (as usual and the evil dominating for most of the show...) I also loved the ending where the entire "Orc base" was flooded by the dam... The water washing everything into the depths of hell... And in a way cleansing the land... Quite a lovely sight at the end where the water has flooded the Orc base... There's this part where there was this burning treant that ran to the on-coming water to put out the flames on itself... Wondered if any of you caught that bit too... Last but not least... The water gushing past the treants was very well animated too... Some of the treants were actually "bowled" over slightly when the water hit them... Lovely... Absolutely lovely... However there's this little part I dun quite understand... How Gandalf actually survived... And how he became white... Hahha... Absolutely WHITE~!!! Perhaps some kind soul can enlighten me by dropping me a msg thru ICQ... Thanks!
Missed a night of soccer but then again I dun think I missed much... Hope that my PC recovers and until next time... Enjoy the Thai music~!!!
Quote of the Day:
"Climb every mountain, ford every stream...
Follow every rainbow til' you find your dream..."
~ Rogers and Hammerstein (From song "Climb every mountain"...)
Keep dreaming and never stop chasing that dream... I'm still figuring out how to chase my dream gal... HA~!
Woke up this morning to find a "TeeEEeeEEeeEEeeEEeeEEeeEEEee" sound from my com... Upon hearing that I knew it's over liao... It's definitely gonna be down for another week or so liao... Dragged myself to work with my comp constantly on my head... Sigh... Managed to finish the map layout I set out to complete though... Got quite a bit of kick out of it towards the end... Absolutely loved the road thingy I included.... Hehez...
Watched Lord of the Rings 2 : The Two Towers alone... Absolutely loved the show except for the fact that I was holding my bladder for most of the show... The war battle scenes were fantastic... The storyline very much improved from the 1st... I thought that in the 1st episode they rushed to climax the power and importance of the ring... So much so that the plot looked as if it crumbled juz like that at the end... The show also very much reminded me of my favourite game... Warcraft3... Which I missed oh-so-badly... The Orcs were like those hell troops... Nite Elves as the Elves... Humans as the humans (of course...) and the treants as the... Night Elves? Haha... Watever it was... It was certainly worthed very cent... (Including the $5.50 I paid for the Nachos + extra cheese to pamper myself~!!!! ^^, ) My favourite character of the show... Has got to be Legolas... Firstly he's damn handsome I thought... I love his role as an archer... And... He's cool... The ending has got a "Peace to the World" touch and connotation to it... With the good prevailing over evil (as usual and the evil dominating for most of the show...) I also loved the ending where the entire "Orc base" was flooded by the dam... The water washing everything into the depths of hell... And in a way cleansing the land... Quite a lovely sight at the end where the water has flooded the Orc base... There's this part where there was this burning treant that ran to the on-coming water to put out the flames on itself... Wondered if any of you caught that bit too... Last but not least... The water gushing past the treants was very well animated too... Some of the treants were actually "bowled" over slightly when the water hit them... Lovely... Absolutely lovely... However there's this little part I dun quite understand... How Gandalf actually survived... And how he became white... Hahha... Absolutely WHITE~!!! Perhaps some kind soul can enlighten me by dropping me a msg thru ICQ... Thanks!
Missed a night of soccer but then again I dun think I missed much... Hope that my PC recovers and until next time... Enjoy the Thai music~!!!
Quote of the Day:
"Climb every mountain, ford every stream...
Follow every rainbow til' you find your dream..."
~ Rogers and Hammerstein (From song "Climb every mountain"...)
Keep dreaming and never stop chasing that dream... I'm still figuring out how to chase my dream gal... HA~!
Thursday, December 26, 2002
Today @ work has been rather pleasing... And satisfying... For some reason or another... Maybe it was b'cos of the well presented brief to Commander in the afternoon... Or maybe it was a successful meeting chaired... Watever it was... I think I deserve... A NIGHT OF WC3~!!!
Here's the webby I've promised... Check out the exotic ROUTE 66 club I visited over at RCA, Thailand... It was certainly an unforgetable experience...
ROUTE 66 Webby
Do check out the photo album here...
ROUTE 66 Photo Gallery
And their live radio here... Awesome songs GUARANTEED...
ROUTE 66 LIVE RADIO <== A DEFINITE MUST!!!
Barney and I had those pics developed over lunch today... Had a good laugh @ those lovely pics we took back then... It certainly reminded me of all the great times we had back then... And some silly ones too... Including the most hilarious "Ani tao lai?" questioned posed to me in that stupid bag store...
[ "Ani tao lai?" = "How much is this?" in Thai... Dressed in a simple white Tee... Berms and sandals... I was looking ard innocently in a bag store looking for an ideal Jack Wolfskin pouch when this Thai guy came up to me and asked... How much was that particular bag he was pointing at... I was like... DUH?!@ DO I LOOK THAT THAI REALLY?~! Wat bitter irony a Thai guy would actually come up to me mistaking me for another one of his kind and speak to me in his tongue?~! Geez... This one really floored my frens when they realised what was happening... I thought it was really funny too... But in a way rather provoking also... Sheesh~! Perhaps no more Sentosa-suntans for Berd~!!! ]
I was tasked to scan some pics for Barney but with soccer and Warcraft going on... I really cant find time to do juz that... Tonight as Boxing Day... Soccer's aplenty on TV juz like any other year... This means yet another sleepless night for those soccer fanatics out there... Like myself and the rest of the 05 gang... ***Shouts out to all RECCOSians out there....*** An advice to all soccer pundits out there... Careful not to get your hands burnt tonight... Cos tonight being such a "hot" night... From past experiences... The matches are somewhat rigged... Or so we believe... The first 3 matches of the day ended in draws... Chances are... The big teams tonight may juz flop too...
Tonight also marks the birth of a fearsome clan in the Warcraft3 arena... Specifically in the US West Lordaeron server... The birth of "OpS"... With Polo, Bandicoot, Niche, Zixter and myself, Berd, being the initial members of the group... I'm sure more will follow... And in days to come... I believe OpS will be a force to reckon with...
Cheerios~!
*** Special thanks to Jiaying aka Dropshot^ for her much appreciated assistance in getting my links up... Learned something new today yet again~!!! WeEeEe!!! ***
Here's the webby I've promised... Check out the exotic ROUTE 66 club I visited over at RCA, Thailand... It was certainly an unforgetable experience...
ROUTE 66 Webby
Do check out the photo album here...
ROUTE 66 Photo Gallery
And their live radio here... Awesome songs GUARANTEED...
ROUTE 66 LIVE RADIO <== A DEFINITE MUST!!!
Barney and I had those pics developed over lunch today... Had a good laugh @ those lovely pics we took back then... It certainly reminded me of all the great times we had back then... And some silly ones too... Including the most hilarious "Ani tao lai?" questioned posed to me in that stupid bag store...
[ "Ani tao lai?" = "How much is this?" in Thai... Dressed in a simple white Tee... Berms and sandals... I was looking ard innocently in a bag store looking for an ideal Jack Wolfskin pouch when this Thai guy came up to me and asked... How much was that particular bag he was pointing at... I was like... DUH?!@ DO I LOOK THAT THAI REALLY?~! Wat bitter irony a Thai guy would actually come up to me mistaking me for another one of his kind and speak to me in his tongue?~! Geez... This one really floored my frens when they realised what was happening... I thought it was really funny too... But in a way rather provoking also... Sheesh~! Perhaps no more Sentosa-suntans for Berd~!!! ]
I was tasked to scan some pics for Barney but with soccer and Warcraft going on... I really cant find time to do juz that... Tonight as Boxing Day... Soccer's aplenty on TV juz like any other year... This means yet another sleepless night for those soccer fanatics out there... Like myself and the rest of the 05 gang... ***Shouts out to all RECCOSians out there....*** An advice to all soccer pundits out there... Careful not to get your hands burnt tonight... Cos tonight being such a "hot" night... From past experiences... The matches are somewhat rigged... Or so we believe... The first 3 matches of the day ended in draws... Chances are... The big teams tonight may juz flop too...
Tonight also marks the birth of a fearsome clan in the Warcraft3 arena... Specifically in the US West Lordaeron server... The birth of "OpS"... With Polo, Bandicoot, Niche, Zixter and myself, Berd, being the initial members of the group... I'm sure more will follow... And in days to come... I believe OpS will be a force to reckon with...
Cheerios~!
*** Special thanks to Jiaying aka Dropshot^ for her much appreciated assistance in getting my links up... Learned something new today yet again~!!! WeEeEe!!! ***
Wednesday, December 25, 2002
Sa~wa~di~carp~!!! I'm still very much thinking abt Thailand and all the wonderful people I've met there... Those spicy Thai cuisines and oh of course... The insane clubbing scenes along RCA... Last night I came across a couple of articles and websites for Route 66... Will post the links to their live radio and photo gallery when I get back...
Merry X'mas to one and all~!
Being sick on Christmas really has taken the fun out of it all... Sheesh... Haven't been sick for ages and finally when I do get genuinely sick... It has to fall on Christmas Day... Gawd~! And the worst part is... I'm recovering liao~! Goodness~! I thought I might juz be able to report sick tomolo but at the rate I'm recovering... I'll be back to normal by morning... =(
I juz came back from my Thailand trip... Really REALLY enjoyed myself back then... Really dun feel like coming back at all~! Had a lot of fun with the sea sports @ Pattaya... Bought a lot of things @ Bangkok too... My star buy for the trip? Errmm... Everything I guess... B'cos I went on a need-to-buy basis... Wasn't splurging juz b'cos the things there were cheap (and fake...) Bought for my frens 5 original Warcraft3 CDs from Thailand... Heh~! *Lousee fren* Bought myself a pair of PAN soccer boots... Used by the Thai national team... These 2 being my favourite buys from Thailand...
And I thought after coming back I would be able to start afresh and not allow my work to accumulate but I was wrong... The moment I stepped into camp... I was tasked yet again with loads of work... Sheesh~! I guess I've got to face reality and get back to where I being huh? Slogging and mugging in the office... Sigh... 7 more months to ORD... 7 MORE MONTHS TO ORD!!!
Quote Of The Day:
They say... "If you dim your lights so that someone else can shine...
The whole world juz gets darker..."
Be yourself... And "Keep walking..."
Being sick on Christmas really has taken the fun out of it all... Sheesh... Haven't been sick for ages and finally when I do get genuinely sick... It has to fall on Christmas Day... Gawd~! And the worst part is... I'm recovering liao~! Goodness~! I thought I might juz be able to report sick tomolo but at the rate I'm recovering... I'll be back to normal by morning... =(
I juz came back from my Thailand trip... Really REALLY enjoyed myself back then... Really dun feel like coming back at all~! Had a lot of fun with the sea sports @ Pattaya... Bought a lot of things @ Bangkok too... My star buy for the trip? Errmm... Everything I guess... B'cos I went on a need-to-buy basis... Wasn't splurging juz b'cos the things there were cheap (and fake...) Bought for my frens 5 original Warcraft3 CDs from Thailand... Heh~! *Lousee fren* Bought myself a pair of PAN soccer boots... Used by the Thai national team... These 2 being my favourite buys from Thailand...
And I thought after coming back I would be able to start afresh and not allow my work to accumulate but I was wrong... The moment I stepped into camp... I was tasked yet again with loads of work... Sheesh~! I guess I've got to face reality and get back to where I being huh? Slogging and mugging in the office... Sigh... 7 more months to ORD... 7 MORE MONTHS TO ORD!!!
Quote Of The Day:
They say... "If you dim your lights so that someone else can shine...
The whole world juz gets darker..."
Be yourself... And "Keep walking..."
Monday, December 16, 2002
Harlow everybody~! *Shouts out to all Berd.blog fans out there....* Here I am blogging away in a faraway land from S'pore... In a deserted run-down lan-shop (of 7 comps only...) along Jomtien Road in Central Pattaya... Where I'll be for the next few days til Wednesday... Pattaya's famous for it's cheap sea sports... So here we're~! We've yet to try any of the sea sports here... But from our initial recce, there are the banana boat, wind surfing, jet ski and wake-boarding...
We even had a HELL of a time chionging last night @ MORGAN's in Bangkok... I tell you the clubbing scenes here are way WAY better than those you can ever find in S'pore... The gals were AWESOME....
Damn... Gotta go... Tell you more abt it when I come back... Next stop... The Ah-Gua show~! Till next time...
We even had a HELL of a time chionging last night @ MORGAN's in Bangkok... I tell you the clubbing scenes here are way WAY better than those you can ever find in S'pore... The gals were AWESOME....
Damn... Gotta go... Tell you more abt it when I come back... Next stop... The Ah-Gua show~! Till next time...
Friday, December 13, 2002
Finally... My long awaited End-Of-Year holiday is here... A 7D6N trip to Thailand... First 2 days clubbing in Bangkok... Next 3 days getting wild and wet with sea sports in Pattaya and the remaining days back in Bangkok for shopping... Heh! Too bad I cant be bringing along my bro's digicam to snap up some pics... Will bring a regular cam though...
This mega-trip to Bangkok means quite a lot to me actually... In terms of my rewards for all my hard work since enlistment and in terms of my independence and freedom...
My Long-Awaited Reward...
Since enlistment 1 year and 6 months ago on 5th April 02... I've been working my arse off and training really hard especially as a cadet... 7 confinements in 9 weeks... Exercises and deployments... Even after being commissioned as an officer... Especially during the months of July August September and October... I slogged to rush reports and minutes for my Sirs... Attend 5-hr meetings and write minutes... Write doctrines and manuals into the night... Support the rehearsals for National Day parades... Organise runs and form teams to compete in X-Ctry competitions... Sheesh... The list goes on... And in between I had little rest and OFFs to buy my body time to recuperate... This is the 1st time I'm actually applying for my annual leave to go overseas... And I really feel that I truly deserve it for all my hard work and contributions... I'm confident that I'll thoroughly enjoy it and I'm gonna make the best out of it and come back refreshed... Recharged and raring for more~!!!
My Independence Trip...
Going on this trip with 3 other GUY frens... (Gals... Dun worry no hanky panky... LoLz...) With the costs of the trip fully paid for out of my own pocket and pay... I feel like an eagle released after being kept in captivity for 19 years or so now... The fact that I'm going overseas this time round for the 1st time ever with frens and not teachers or schoolmates as part of an educational trip... Or with my parents or any other family members... Demostrates the amt of trust and confidence my parents have in me... (Or have they all really given up hope?) In my opinion... This is a milestone event in my life cos it is only after this trip can I really say that I've grown up and learned how to take care of myself... 1 of my frens going on this trip with me still has to call his parents everyday to assure them of his safety and well-being... *Covers mouth and laughs...* I'm really thankful that I wun have to report back... Takes the fun out of it all I feel... Cos it's like still being tied back to Singapore while you're physically somewhere else... Let your hair down and let yourself loose babe...
While most of the guys have more than enough time to prepare for this trip... Mine's still in drips and draps and my baggage ain't packed yet~!!! I'm kind of upset over this cos it's really unfair and demoralising to know that they had half of the week off or something like that to prepare for the trip and really get into the holiday mood... While Barney was in Sentosa having a heck of a time with his unit's anniversary this morning... And the rest in some other part of Singapore EXCEPT in camp... There I was in the office still rushing documents and such for my Sirs... I HAVE TO QUALIFY MY STATEMENT... THAT I WASN'T RUSHING REPORTS, DOCUMENTS AND MINUTES AT THE LAST MINUTE DUE TO INEFFICIENCY OR POOR TIME MANAGEMENT... These were all last minute battle-injects tasked to me juz days ago... (2 or 3 days ONLY~!!!) With less than 24 hours to my flight this morning... I was still in camp typing away furiously at the keyboard... Sad but true... The only consolation I got from my day at work... UNPRECEDENTED SENSE OF SATISFACTION~!!! Having completed everything I had on hand... And handing them up to the respective people... I felt free again... Like when I was just posted in... As I walked out of the camp gates... It was joy-overflowing for me... And when I come back from my trip... I shall start afresh and not allow my work to pile up... But then again... That would be 7 days later... Heh~!
Before I retire... Here's yet another quote to share with those who have been reading my Blog consistently... Hope you will take away with you this learning value so that your time reading abt my plight and life is not in vain... See you again... 7 DAYS LATER~!!!! =D~
Quote Of The Day:
"Do not judge your day by the harvest you reap,
But by the seeds you sow..." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm glad I've planted seeds aplenty today... Have you planted yours?
This mega-trip to Bangkok means quite a lot to me actually... In terms of my rewards for all my hard work since enlistment and in terms of my independence and freedom...
My Long-Awaited Reward...
Since enlistment 1 year and 6 months ago on 5th April 02... I've been working my arse off and training really hard especially as a cadet... 7 confinements in 9 weeks... Exercises and deployments... Even after being commissioned as an officer... Especially during the months of July August September and October... I slogged to rush reports and minutes for my Sirs... Attend 5-hr meetings and write minutes... Write doctrines and manuals into the night... Support the rehearsals for National Day parades... Organise runs and form teams to compete in X-Ctry competitions... Sheesh... The list goes on... And in between I had little rest and OFFs to buy my body time to recuperate... This is the 1st time I'm actually applying for my annual leave to go overseas... And I really feel that I truly deserve it for all my hard work and contributions... I'm confident that I'll thoroughly enjoy it and I'm gonna make the best out of it and come back refreshed... Recharged and raring for more~!!!
My Independence Trip...
Going on this trip with 3 other GUY frens... (Gals... Dun worry no hanky panky... LoLz...) With the costs of the trip fully paid for out of my own pocket and pay... I feel like an eagle released after being kept in captivity for 19 years or so now... The fact that I'm going overseas this time round for the 1st time ever with frens and not teachers or schoolmates as part of an educational trip... Or with my parents or any other family members... Demostrates the amt of trust and confidence my parents have in me... (Or have they all really given up hope?) In my opinion... This is a milestone event in my life cos it is only after this trip can I really say that I've grown up and learned how to take care of myself... 1 of my frens going on this trip with me still has to call his parents everyday to assure them of his safety and well-being... *Covers mouth and laughs...* I'm really thankful that I wun have to report back... Takes the fun out of it all I feel... Cos it's like still being tied back to Singapore while you're physically somewhere else... Let your hair down and let yourself loose babe...
While most of the guys have more than enough time to prepare for this trip... Mine's still in drips and draps and my baggage ain't packed yet~!!! I'm kind of upset over this cos it's really unfair and demoralising to know that they had half of the week off or something like that to prepare for the trip and really get into the holiday mood... While Barney was in Sentosa having a heck of a time with his unit's anniversary this morning... And the rest in some other part of Singapore EXCEPT in camp... There I was in the office still rushing documents and such for my Sirs... I HAVE TO QUALIFY MY STATEMENT... THAT I WASN'T RUSHING REPORTS, DOCUMENTS AND MINUTES AT THE LAST MINUTE DUE TO INEFFICIENCY OR POOR TIME MANAGEMENT... These were all last minute battle-injects tasked to me juz days ago... (2 or 3 days ONLY~!!!) With less than 24 hours to my flight this morning... I was still in camp typing away furiously at the keyboard... Sad but true... The only consolation I got from my day at work... UNPRECEDENTED SENSE OF SATISFACTION~!!! Having completed everything I had on hand... And handing them up to the respective people... I felt free again... Like when I was just posted in... As I walked out of the camp gates... It was joy-overflowing for me... And when I come back from my trip... I shall start afresh and not allow my work to pile up... But then again... That would be 7 days later... Heh~!
Before I retire... Here's yet another quote to share with those who have been reading my Blog consistently... Hope you will take away with you this learning value so that your time reading abt my plight and life is not in vain... See you again... 7 DAYS LATER~!!!! =D~
Quote Of The Day:
"Do not judge your day by the harvest you reap,
But by the seeds you sow..." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm glad I've planted seeds aplenty today... Have you planted yours?
Wednesday, December 11, 2002
After yet another late night of WC3 with Niche and Zixter... I'm as usual very tired @ work... Had a VERY heavy breakfast hoping to be able to catch a power nap in the afternoon... But my maiden sleep was thwarted by QM's phonecall asking me out for lunch together with Barney and Jackson... Being the siao-on person I am... I decided to join them outside for lunch... *Feeling shortchanged...* My 2 hr sweet slumber eventually became a 25 minute nap... =/
I guess my frenzied ways are catching up with me now... Felt soOoOo tired after work today... I felt asleep on the MRT train on the way home... Cant believe I actually slept from Yishun MRT station to JE and back to Woodlands... WAHAHAHA~!!! Goodness~!!! Felt so much like a kid after school and an afternoon of ECA or soccer... SHEESH~! Reminds me of my BPGHS days when I used to sleep on the 187 bus home and end up missing my stop and @ JP playing arcade... HAHAHA~!!! Geez~!
Had a very nasty arrow from my Sir in the afternoon... Felt that he was really asking for the impossible when he tasked me with his unfinished job with the evening as the deadline... Wat was most disturbing was the fact that when I told him that I couldn't produce what was required... He told me to juz cut the job short and give him something to present at the end of the day... "Juz follow the template and adjust the formatting accordingly... If Comd accepts it who will dare to say NO?"
I assured myself that I'll never allow myself to hand in a 2nd grade assignment... Cos THAT'S SO NOT ME~!!!! In everything I've done... I can truly touch my heart and say that I've done my best... Even so at the SAFSA X-Ctry run @ MacRitchie yesterday... *Sidetrack a little...* So happy that I met Shaowei there at the run... Haha... Meeting a RECCOSian (Wat a cock name... Sheesh~!) anywhere whilst in the service really really warms my heart... We had a good chat abt ourselves and our soccer punting adventures... Haha... We were there like so early in the afternoon when the race would only start @ 4... Sheesh~! Juz before the race... We had our "last burst of fire" in the toilet... We were almost late for the race itself~! Haha... Too bad I lost Mok at the start... And was trapped behind the masses and hence I was unable to catch up with him... Wanted to run along with him cos only then I would have the motivation to run... But throughout the jungle track... There wasn't much space to manuveur and overtake cos of the muddy tracks and tight passageways... So we were basically juz running together... Only overtaking on the main road... =( Damn it... I'm certain if I were to get a good start... I would have gotten a good placing... Came in 224th anyway... A respectable position I would say... SW came in an amazing 147th... But then again like I've said... I would be able to emulate that if I had squeezed to the front then... *Sore... LoLz...*
Heard from the guys that a particular team played "dirty" by registering more teams to run in 3-abreast formations to block others and let the front runners pull away from the crowd... Some were even man handled whilst trying to overtake... To the extent that 1 of the Grp II RSAF runner was elbowed in the face for flanking... An ugly sight... A sad day for sportsmanship... =/
Back to my Sir thingy... Really troubled by his comments but then again I was left with no choice cos I had another pressing assignment on hand... The Safety Memoir thingy... Which I have to complete before Friday... (For my OFF... Heh!) In fact... I do strongly believe my Sirs have a very good impression of my work rate and my abilites to produce quality work and assignments... "This will definitely help and you're certainly doing one hell of a job~! The RSAF needs more officers like you in the service... Keep up the good work~!!!" by one of more respected Sirs ard certainly had me in cloud 9... Well if not for the fact that I want to be on OFF this Friday and that I'm flying off to BANGKOK this Saturday... And that I've got another assignment on hand... I would have persuaded him to table it the next time round so that I can do a better job with that project... But since he's rushing to table it... And he's gonna be the one responsible for the quality of it... I couldn't care less... If it was my call... I would have given myself more time to do a better and more complete and respectable job...
It's sad and somewhat unthinkable that an officer has, in Christian context, backslid (back-slided or backslid? LoLz...) to such an extent... Where was the "Do-It-Once and Do-It-Good" metality that was drilled into us during our gruelling training back as cadets? The pledge I took in front of the national flag and 2 other flag poles months ago as a 3-bar cadet to lead, excel and to overcome still stands true in my heart and at the back of my head... I wonder how many others still do...
Quote Of The Day:
"When you lose, do not lose the lesson."
~ Dalai Lama
I may have lost a teeny weeny bit of my pride today for allowing myself to hand up a sub-standard assignment... But it sure has pricked my conscience... Reflect on it... And learn from it... *Scored yet another point for Berd's character moulding...*
I guess my frenzied ways are catching up with me now... Felt soOoOo tired after work today... I felt asleep on the MRT train on the way home... Cant believe I actually slept from Yishun MRT station to JE and back to Woodlands... WAHAHAHA~!!! Goodness~!!! Felt so much like a kid after school and an afternoon of ECA or soccer... SHEESH~! Reminds me of my BPGHS days when I used to sleep on the 187 bus home and end up missing my stop and @ JP playing arcade... HAHAHA~!!! Geez~!
Had a very nasty arrow from my Sir in the afternoon... Felt that he was really asking for the impossible when he tasked me with his unfinished job with the evening as the deadline... Wat was most disturbing was the fact that when I told him that I couldn't produce what was required... He told me to juz cut the job short and give him something to present at the end of the day... "Juz follow the template and adjust the formatting accordingly... If Comd accepts it who will dare to say NO?"
I assured myself that I'll never allow myself to hand in a 2nd grade assignment... Cos THAT'S SO NOT ME~!!!! In everything I've done... I can truly touch my heart and say that I've done my best... Even so at the SAFSA X-Ctry run @ MacRitchie yesterday... *Sidetrack a little...* So happy that I met Shaowei there at the run... Haha... Meeting a RECCOSian (Wat a cock name... Sheesh~!) anywhere whilst in the service really really warms my heart... We had a good chat abt ourselves and our soccer punting adventures... Haha... We were there like so early in the afternoon when the race would only start @ 4... Sheesh~! Juz before the race... We had our "last burst of fire" in the toilet... We were almost late for the race itself~! Haha... Too bad I lost Mok at the start... And was trapped behind the masses and hence I was unable to catch up with him... Wanted to run along with him cos only then I would have the motivation to run... But throughout the jungle track... There wasn't much space to manuveur and overtake cos of the muddy tracks and tight passageways... So we were basically juz running together... Only overtaking on the main road... =( Damn it... I'm certain if I were to get a good start... I would have gotten a good placing... Came in 224th anyway... A respectable position I would say... SW came in an amazing 147th... But then again like I've said... I would be able to emulate that if I had squeezed to the front then... *Sore... LoLz...*
Heard from the guys that a particular team played "dirty" by registering more teams to run in 3-abreast formations to block others and let the front runners pull away from the crowd... Some were even man handled whilst trying to overtake... To the extent that 1 of the Grp II RSAF runner was elbowed in the face for flanking... An ugly sight... A sad day for sportsmanship... =/
Back to my Sir thingy... Really troubled by his comments but then again I was left with no choice cos I had another pressing assignment on hand... The Safety Memoir thingy... Which I have to complete before Friday... (For my OFF... Heh!) In fact... I do strongly believe my Sirs have a very good impression of my work rate and my abilites to produce quality work and assignments... "This will definitely help and you're certainly doing one hell of a job~! The RSAF needs more officers like you in the service... Keep up the good work~!!!" by one of more respected Sirs ard certainly had me in cloud 9... Well if not for the fact that I want to be on OFF this Friday and that I'm flying off to BANGKOK this Saturday... And that I've got another assignment on hand... I would have persuaded him to table it the next time round so that I can do a better job with that project... But since he's rushing to table it... And he's gonna be the one responsible for the quality of it... I couldn't care less... If it was my call... I would have given myself more time to do a better and more complete and respectable job...
It's sad and somewhat unthinkable that an officer has, in Christian context, backslid (back-slided or backslid? LoLz...) to such an extent... Where was the "Do-It-Once and Do-It-Good" metality that was drilled into us during our gruelling training back as cadets? The pledge I took in front of the national flag and 2 other flag poles months ago as a 3-bar cadet to lead, excel and to overcome still stands true in my heart and at the back of my head... I wonder how many others still do...
Quote Of The Day:
"When you lose, do not lose the lesson."
~ Dalai Lama
I may have lost a teeny weeny bit of my pride today for allowing myself to hand up a sub-standard assignment... But it sure has pricked my conscience... Reflect on it... And learn from it... *Scored yet another point for Berd's character moulding...*
Monday, December 09, 2002
Running for Grp II RSAF team tomolo @ MacRitchie... The run I've been training for for the past few weeks... Sadly I've slackened towards the end... But then again it wasn't really my fault with so much commitments towards Project Blue Bird that is required of us... Drinking (and some puffing...) @ the BBQ and chalet over the past 2 weeks... I really wonder if I can still clock below 30 min as targetted... Oh well let me juz try my best...
Here's a quote for all out there to take away and digest... Enjoy!
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"A man with one watch knows what time it is;
a man with two watches is never quite sure." ~Lee Segall
Here's a quote for all out there to take away and digest... Enjoy!
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"A man with one watch knows what time it is;
a man with two watches is never quite sure." ~Lee Segall
Sunday, December 08, 2002
Juz came back from a really flop chalet @ EC Costa Sands... We had the 3D2N chalet for a whopping $408 and my oh my... We sure are "the carrots of the month" for this month of December man... Sheesh~! We didn't have any BBQ cos we juz had one last Saturday @ ECP... We didn't gamble much cos... I dunno... Maybe we didn't feel too comfortable winning each other's canteen break money... We made a lot of senseless trips to Mac from the chalet... A real big waste of time... Even the LAN shops there aren't helping us either... Slow PCs and lousy mouse/keyboard were the main reasons behind the frustration built up in us after 10 rounds of Counterstrike... Sheesh~!
But it was thru this chalet that I realised wat a lovely and relaxing place the ECP can be on any other day... The fair weather and the cool sea breeze... Countless of sweet lovely babes (Some scantily clad...) roller-blading down the walkway... A really peaceful sight... And I thought one will never ever get to witness such a beautiful moment in a busy fast-paced society of Singapore~! Each time I see a couple blading past me... I wished I could take my partner's hand and do the same... It would be a matter of time for that to happen that's for sure... We claypotted together with Arsenal on Sat nite... Watching the EPL derby @ the Fullmoon Beach Pub @ EC... It was quite a nice place to sit drink and relax too... Besides the drinks are reasonable in my opinion... Man Utd played a fantastic game of football... Veron (My idol...) wasn't particularly impressive but then again he scored the opening goal which proved to be vital... Yet another super match... This time the outcome didn't go in my favour...
*FURIOUS *
I am particularly mad abt the fact that those guys who helped checked out the chalet actually decided collectively to deliberately leave our belongings (My towel...) back @ the chalet... Which "A" Level student in the right frame of mind would actually think of doing so?~! Simply "SMUT"... My towel had the word "BERNARD" spelt clearly on it... And yet they chose to leave it there... Saying "We dunno whose it was and so we decided not to take it..." and "We saw it but we decided to leave it there..." How lame can that get... That towel was especially sentimental to me... For it was given to me not by a gal... But by a guy.... But that's besides the point... It was the "handing-over-taking-over" gift I received from my lower-study during my Council days back in JJC... I thought it aws such a lovely present... A nice pale green towel with my big name tagged on it... And for some reason those f%*kers decided to leave it behind for the cleaners to throw it away... Even after a great game of WC3... I cant seem to bring myself to actually get over it and forget abt it... In fact I have grown an affection for it~! "It's juz a towel afterall rite?" Yah rite suckers... Wat do you guys know... Of course I'm partly to blame for leaving my towel there... But then again... They saw it and chose not to recognise the name imprint and chose to leave it there... REALLY REALLY PISSED ME OFF~!!! A sentimental towel which has gone thru loads with me... Camps chalets and tours... Gone with a f&*king $408 flop chalet... _|_ ( O_o ) _|_
If it's one thing that makes this group of BlueRibbons friends stand out from the rest... It's their creativity and the intelligence... And brillance... Their ablility to pick up things real fast... And really excel in watever they strive to achieve... Especially so in the gaming world of ours... But this night has been a sad night for them and myself... The 5 idiots ruining the great impression and feelings I have for these spectacular friends...
I sense a beautiful friendship turning sour... Is it worth it? Who knows... Only time and space will tell... Then again perhaps it's time... To move on...
"I will sleep on it and forget abt it...
Hope it will all go away...
But looking at it chances are...
The birth of yet another ugly 'scar'..." ~ Berd
But it was thru this chalet that I realised wat a lovely and relaxing place the ECP can be on any other day... The fair weather and the cool sea breeze... Countless of sweet lovely babes (Some scantily clad...) roller-blading down the walkway... A really peaceful sight... And I thought one will never ever get to witness such a beautiful moment in a busy fast-paced society of Singapore~! Each time I see a couple blading past me... I wished I could take my partner's hand and do the same... It would be a matter of time for that to happen that's for sure... We claypotted together with Arsenal on Sat nite... Watching the EPL derby @ the Fullmoon Beach Pub @ EC... It was quite a nice place to sit drink and relax too... Besides the drinks are reasonable in my opinion... Man Utd played a fantastic game of football... Veron (My idol...) wasn't particularly impressive but then again he scored the opening goal which proved to be vital... Yet another super match... This time the outcome didn't go in my favour...
*FURIOUS *
I am particularly mad abt the fact that those guys who helped checked out the chalet actually decided collectively to deliberately leave our belongings (My towel...) back @ the chalet... Which "A" Level student in the right frame of mind would actually think of doing so?~! Simply "SMUT"... My towel had the word "BERNARD" spelt clearly on it... And yet they chose to leave it there... Saying "We dunno whose it was and so we decided not to take it..." and "We saw it but we decided to leave it there..." How lame can that get... That towel was especially sentimental to me... For it was given to me not by a gal... But by a guy.... But that's besides the point... It was the "handing-over-taking-over" gift I received from my lower-study during my Council days back in JJC... I thought it aws such a lovely present... A nice pale green towel with my big name tagged on it... And for some reason those f%*kers decided to leave it behind for the cleaners to throw it away... Even after a great game of WC3... I cant seem to bring myself to actually get over it and forget abt it... In fact I have grown an affection for it~! "It's juz a towel afterall rite?" Yah rite suckers... Wat do you guys know... Of course I'm partly to blame for leaving my towel there... But then again... They saw it and chose not to recognise the name imprint and chose to leave it there... REALLY REALLY PISSED ME OFF~!!! A sentimental towel which has gone thru loads with me... Camps chalets and tours... Gone with a f&*king $408 flop chalet... _|_ ( O_o ) _|_
If it's one thing that makes this group of BlueRibbons friends stand out from the rest... It's their creativity and the intelligence... And brillance... Their ablility to pick up things real fast... And really excel in watever they strive to achieve... Especially so in the gaming world of ours... But this night has been a sad night for them and myself... The 5 idiots ruining the great impression and feelings I have for these spectacular friends...
I sense a beautiful friendship turning sour... Is it worth it? Who knows... Only time and space will tell... Then again perhaps it's time... To move on...
"I will sleep on it and forget abt it...
Hope it will all go away...
But looking at it chances are...
The birth of yet another ugly 'scar'..." ~ Berd
Sunday, December 01, 2002
Yet another hectic weekend... Nope not overnight MJ agan this time round... Instead... BlueRibbons had a (rather unsuccessful) BBQ session on Sat... Culminating in a 4v4 Warcraft3 game between Niche, Polo, Coot, Berd and NeRv, Strudel, XiangXiang and XiongXiong... My JackDaniels got Kaiwen totally wasted... Along with Ronald too... We showed our poor organising skills yet again... Butter w/o a can opener... I was tasked to beg steal borrow from our neighbouring BBQ mates... Too bad they too couldn't provide... Well @ least I managed to "whirlwind" a little... Sadly for Berd... Those gals there were WAY TOO YOUNG... No Berd No...
Sunday was a day of soccer... I played the right back and left back for respective halves for them.. Felt bitterly disappointed for losing the game... We had them... We owned them... But somehow they managed to score 3 in the 2nd half... And that certainly killed us all... But what really annoyed me was how everyone remained calm and undisturbed by the loss after the match... There was no passion for the game... No hard-felt feelings... I wonder if the tackles made on the field were of the same commitment level... I had a moment of brillance whereby I had their entire attack fooled with a little twist made... Heh... Certainly enjoyed that one... A couple of times I intercepted the ball and went screaming down the flank... But those persistent howlings to release the ball and pass it ard pressured me into mistakes and such... Damn... Gotta correct this one...
Sunday Evening:
Man Utd VS Liverpool on TV now!!!!!!!!! Haven't felt such intensity for soccer matches for ages now... Of course the $200 stake on ManUtd did spice the game up a little... But the game except for the 1st 20 minutes being filled with reckless tackles and basically poor football... The match was fantastic... The 2nd minute super-strike by Milan Baros had the crowd on its feet... Me included... All went well til a slip by Dudek gave Diego For-Lan(Jiao) an easy goal... His 2nd after so long? Haha... He added another juz 3 minutes later... After some brillant work by Ryan Giggs... Fabulous player he is Ryan Giggs... Hypia got lucky with a goal... And towards the end of the game... It was Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool all the way... Hypia came VERY close again with a stupendous volley from way outside the box... And tracing the flight of the ball towards the goal mouth... That was definitely goal-bound... Well not until Bathez can do something abt it... His late intervention kept Man Utd 1 goal ahead... A superb strike... An even better save... That's definitely gonna be one of the best saves of the season man~! Well credits where credits due... $160 thanks to Diego For-Lan(Jiao) and Fabien Bathez... WeEeEeEe!!!
Sunday was a day of soccer... I played the right back and left back for respective halves for them.. Felt bitterly disappointed for losing the game... We had them... We owned them... But somehow they managed to score 3 in the 2nd half... And that certainly killed us all... But what really annoyed me was how everyone remained calm and undisturbed by the loss after the match... There was no passion for the game... No hard-felt feelings... I wonder if the tackles made on the field were of the same commitment level... I had a moment of brillance whereby I had their entire attack fooled with a little twist made... Heh... Certainly enjoyed that one... A couple of times I intercepted the ball and went screaming down the flank... But those persistent howlings to release the ball and pass it ard pressured me into mistakes and such... Damn... Gotta correct this one...
Sunday Evening:
Man Utd VS Liverpool on TV now!!!!!!!!! Haven't felt such intensity for soccer matches for ages now... Of course the $200 stake on ManUtd did spice the game up a little... But the game except for the 1st 20 minutes being filled with reckless tackles and basically poor football... The match was fantastic... The 2nd minute super-strike by Milan Baros had the crowd on its feet... Me included... All went well til a slip by Dudek gave Diego For-Lan(Jiao) an easy goal... His 2nd after so long? Haha... He added another juz 3 minutes later... After some brillant work by Ryan Giggs... Fabulous player he is Ryan Giggs... Hypia got lucky with a goal... And towards the end of the game... It was Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool all the way... Hypia came VERY close again with a stupendous volley from way outside the box... And tracing the flight of the ball towards the goal mouth... That was definitely goal-bound... Well not until Bathez can do something abt it... His late intervention kept Man Utd 1 goal ahead... A superb strike... An even better save... That's definitely gonna be one of the best saves of the season man~! Well credits where credits due... $160 thanks to Diego For-Lan(Jiao) and Fabien Bathez... WeEeEeEe!!!
