hmmm today's nights out is slightly different from what i would normally expect. apparently grandma cooked food for meeee :D okay nowadays, she seems to be cooking the same foods for family occasions, but this time, its just one of those random times when she whips something up. :)

Hmmm last week was the first week i actually wore admin attire for the WHOLEEE week! reason being i got foot rot on my right foot :( actually it started like a month ago, but i was too busy/lazy to see the doc! plus i dont quite have a good impression of SAF doctors. sorry docs! but recently, a new Medical Officer (MO) came into my camp! and he is really nice :D as in he really genuinely cares about my injury as i enquired on whether should i do marching for NDP as well as exercise Wallaby. oh and of course for my foot rot too! coincidentally, he has foot rot too and we chatted and chatted about the days when we used to do sports. :P apparently he was from ACJC, finished med school and is now serving his term :P hahahah oops sorry guys for hogging up the queue. but i am really glad that now we have a meticulous MO who is so willing to help us :) plus he is such a humble person. plus point! okay i shall not blabber on too muc about this MO if not people will start doubting my sexual orientation. Ahhhh so this friday, finally, is gonna be time for me to see the orthopaedic again. *busy munching on royce chocolates* apparently they dont know whether to keep me in pes C or up my pes...so...just in time, i actually have an appointment! yes booking an appointment is a torture. hope the doc lets me have another MRI man. Last time i did was in december. Such outdated information obviously wouldnt help the medical board on what to do with my pes status.

Hmmm this whole week seemed to be really hectic! like loads of work to clear, even though the computer is down. sigh! but hey! at least we had loads of time to do some monster hunting :D HEHEHE. freaking awesome playing monster hunter portable 3rd together :P everyone gathering around and forming parties, woah! so much fun :) really hope that this week can be more slack man...already, i have an upcoming medical appointment and battery cohesion, which are probably gonna clash together all on friday, along with cell group :( oh shuks! Chief of Signals is gonna be coming down tomorrow! T.T phew nearly forgot.

well weekends were also slightly different too, finally had a driving lesson after a two week break hooo! ok you know how usually when people say finally, they usually mean it in a good way? like FINALLY its the holidays?? well i really dont like driving lessons. such a chore. :/ OK enough of driving! this week i also got to celebrate Melissa's 18th birthday! well she is from Indonesia and at first when they said it was a formal party, i was like HUH frigging serious?! but of course i abided! Im not a fan of big parties, because i find it a chore, as the birthday boy to entertain all the guests :P i usually keep mine small and low profile! extremely low profile. oh speaking of which im turning 21 this year! OH i was made to dance during the birthday party. apparently is the customs, for each guy to dance and hand over a rose to the girl. so that's 18 roses in total. and for indonesians, turning 18 is like turning 21 in Singapore! thats pretty cool huh? for them, 18 years old is already considered as being an adult :) hahaha shockingly, i found out that i needed to dance on stage only when i got there :O phew guys, its always important that you dress accordingly for the right occasion.. i wonder how is Jolina going to celebrate her 18th then! Cant imagine that i have already known her for SO long! Bananas in pajamas, rolling down the stairs~ oh yes! there was this spammable photo booth for whatever you call it - maybe i should have scanned them instead.




hahaha the second photo is pretty hilarious! it was the first time we used it, so the timing was kinda crapped up. the bottom right photo, see that flash of light? thats deanna rushing to take a hat! xD and jolina was like AHHH camera camera! camera caught me in my oh shit, oh shit moment :X

Today for fellowship, bernice chanced upon our old videos as a cell group, when e488 was still so new! that was back in the days of 2009, when Sony Ericsson Walkman phones walked the earth alright. HURRAY FOR 2 MEGAPIXEL VIDEOS! to think that i still need to book in later....NUUUUUU!!

OKAY what in the world is wrong with me?! i keep posting about army stuff nowadays. sheesh! i notice this trend about myself man, and that is i tend to go on a rampage on Lego postings, then rampage on plastic modelling posts, and then on to church stuff and now its like the season for army :P frankly speaking, i dont really exactly feel like blogging about army, but somehow i just end up typing this post! oh well i guess i must have felt compelled to do so after knowing that a batch of recruits just passed out from BMT. I think the idea of the floating platform is really good! IMO its really convenient, and its pretty scenic, if it doesnt rain. of course its like some hell routine for those who hate the usual NDP squeeze that one has to go through if they go for the National Day Parade, cuz its something similar but hey! that's cool.

wonder how it is like being a sergeant taking the recruits, since BMT is so so so so different from unit life! i got reminded when i was outfield last week. Cant say much about my outfields, but all i can say is that i find it enjoyable when i get to go outfield once in a while, garang garang abit, you know, getting all so sweaty and dirty :D okay okay im a signaller in the air force so i dont really get THAT dirty. just a little bit since im in 3DA, a GBAD unit. haha at first when i passed out from BMT, okay not really since i sustained a serious knee injury of which up till today, my knee still aint symmetrical (sucksssssss). ah, it actually healed, but i fell at the pool and bam it got knocked out again. like seriously. -.- unit life is really interesting man, as in it really depends on where you get posted to, but if you are lucky, you get to learn quite a lot and experience A LOT. like for myself we have heli trainings? even though im supposed to be on the heli but yet it seems as though there isnt enough space, we get a pretty good amount of exposure. we have loads of different outfields, and each one has its own challenges :) although my job stays pretty much the same - man the comms. its fun its fun! for those who are gonna get their posting, lots of people are like "ooo stay out is good, you get to go home everyday!" but really when i am in camp, its also quite enjoyable when we spam monster hunter or movies during the night :) its not that bad....unless your camp sucks. then YEAP of course i would recommend to spam medical appointments :P i used to go for SAFTI physio, because of my knee injury. so on a typical day with a morning medical appointment, i see myself running out of jurong camp at like 7-ish, hit the physio place uber early, get it over and done with along with a gym session since their gym is so damn freakin awesome. oh btw its the physio gym, not the usual gym thingy. all those quirky machines start poppin up. after that, i get to run over to jurong point and SLACK SLACK SLACK. go shopping, walk walk around, enjoy seeing civilians, buy bubble tea, WOOT. nothing beats that man, if you are talking about a camp that sucks la. my current camp has a really positive environment so i dont mind being in camp! althought of course being outside would be good too! like now :P you see my exercise ended kinda late on friday evening, we barely scraped past the no move timing. and our officer told us to book in on monday afternoon instead!! HOW AWESOME. i actually get to slack at home, not having to rush, packing my bag or whatsoeverrrrr.

somehow the song, Reuben James, by Kenny Roger i think? keeps ringing in my head. you know sometimes the song keeps going on repeat till you feel like smashing your head on the table??? YEAH.

You know what? imma try writing letters. the last time i received a handwritten one was like 2 years ago man, during my JC days. Whoah time sure flies D: now i find myself worrying about getting a placing in a local uni, and am still deciding whether to participate for NDP marching, given i might bust my knee again. and also whether to go for whats that thing called....exercise Wallaby! wow i didnt know air force units also get to go for such an exercise, armour, infantry, combat engineers. but defence artillery? thats new! :) i dont knowwwww. so little time to consider. sigh why is life getting so messed up! enjoy the Lego video clip! ack i havent been touching lego for some time, have been pretty busy with new plastic projects again :P i apologise for the lack of photos! >.< as much as i enjoy reading blog posts with photos in em, i dont have any for this week :(

Sometimes, i look around the camp and wonder just how lucky I am, to be in 3DA. Life here has been really really good, on the overall. Yes we do have times when work needs to be done and we make sure that it has been done properly with no compromise, there are times when we go outfield and get all drenched in sweat, and there are times when we get to slack until we are so bored of slacking! (like now) just on Saturday, when I was on the way to Sentosa, i met James. James is my bunk mate when i was a combat engineer in 30SCE! Man was i surprised to see him there! Of course now that we are in different camps, we do what almost every other soldier does when he meets up with his old friends - talk about life in camp! Thats what also happens to allow soldiers from different aspects bond together. Its like... A good place to start when chatting with a new friend ;)

He was telling me how bad life is like inside there, in terms of the privileges that they have. Heard from him that it is still bad, but less bad than during our trainee days. Sometimes when i book out of my air force camp, and see the civilians walking around just outside my camp, i wonder just how lucky am i to be posted over to 3DA. And the operators here were posted straight from BMT, so they have absolutely no idea how it is like to be treated in my previous camp. Okay some background info, from bmt, i was posted to 30sce (combat engineers) and then over to Signal Institute to be trained as an IC2 signaller, before being posted to 3DA. So lucky me managed to transfer from army to airforce! Life is extremely extremely different. Frankly speaking, it feels more like office when i am in camp, rather than NS! Which is good. Everything here isn't all green in colour alright. Thank God I was posted over to here, after hearing from James that they can't bring radios into their bunk, and given that the bunk is really stuffy, its totally not conducive for any studying. People either read or sleep. Almost all of the time, the latter is chosen. They just came back from outfield, so just slacking around waiting for the next one! Comparing with my bunk, i am really really LUCKY. mine has single deck beds which are really awesome, curtains, radio, TV, PS2,etc etc. We basically have a lot more freedom here and really, this place doesn't look like an army camp. You know, if we don't actually know how good others' life are like in other camps, we would just assume that our camp is like any other army camp. Not saying that my camp isn't good enough, but rather in 30sce, if they don't know how the other camps are like... Then yeah.

Frankly speaking, I was so so keen to recourse during my days as a signaller trainee because i really hated 30sce and based on the norms, we were supposed to RTU (return to unit). Luckily, i got posted to 3DA instead! Luckily things here work a whole lot more efficiently and its less rank conscious here too. I just wonder how everyone's NS life can actually differ by so much! At least in here, it's conducive for studying and we are actually encouraged to go upgrade ourselves so that next time when we go out back into the civilian world, life would be more fruitful. There are so many different vocations and stuff but hey that's what bonds us all who are serving NS together. I know it's not really right to be comparing things this way, but having seen and been through probably the worst and now leading this current life here, the operators here have no idea how lucky they actually are to be able to be posted straight from BMT. Of course they also do have their trainee life and their fair share of shit but at least now, they too enjoy the same privileges as me, privileges that my fellow comrades fail to enjoy in their camp in Jurong. I once questioned myself, why treat soldiers like this? Why not let them have some form of entertainment and brighten up their lives rather than leaving their brains to rot. Of course i did pose that question to James and his thoughts resonated with mine. He ended by shrugging his shoulders. In life, its only when we have been through a great deal of hardship do we actually learn to treasure the things that we have around us even more. We tend to take things for granted when our lives are all so dandy.

Of course the time comes when we have to bid each other farewell since we have to meet our friends. Gone were the days when I used to have such a negative outlook of my life, because I always dreaded having to book back into 30sce when my weekends are over. Even though the weekends are there for me to enjoy, the thought of having to go through another hellish week Just sickens the weekends. I'm glad and I'm grateful that life is a whole lot better now. Even my parents are so much happier now that i dont go home having such a rubbish and negative attitude!

He offered me his homemade sandwich before leaving.

OMG I so don't feel like myself whilst writing that previous post. Oh i am so gonna write a proper one tomorrow! Hmmm i wonder what to do in camp these days. :O

Nahhhh! my hands are NOT genetically of different sizes alright. currently, right side seems more swollen than left side :P so that's what volleyball does to you! ugh! i cant believe it i actually forgot to bring my camera to sentosa. so ridiculous! D: but then again, i did have a fun time! sigh it has been so long since i last played volleyball and not to mention i suck at it -.-

Sadly, it was raining intermittently so....that means no sun! :( i was so hoping for a super duper strong and glaring sun. and it aint good when the sand is all wet alright. i thought that the worst part would be that the sand would be really stuck to my feet but nope i was so wrong! you know, when the ball touches the ground, it has sand stuck all over. once you hit the ball, BAM! your face is filled with sand! :D stuck with sand summore -.- bleah. hahaha and given that we are mostly noobs in playing VB, hoho half the time, the ball was on the ground xD damn how i wish i could play beach volleyball every week at sentosa! :( its so fun!  aaaaand i definitely need more practice. sheesh i still have no idea how they set the ball. standing still, i can still sorta hit the ball across? but when it comes to jumping and hitting the ball, FORGETIT.

oh strange enough, sentosa yesterday was sooo crowded! apparently Nanyang Poly was having their orientation camp there, so they were randomly playing games like crazy. can you imagine a whole batch of poly students there?! utter madness. it was raining! i kinda wasnt expecting that many people to turn up, let alone on a rainy day. oh thankfully, even though my brother's school, Yishun Junior College was ALSO PRESENT on the beach. yeap all of em were on the same beach as us. Oh yes! the thankfully part. well they were dismissed before we came so.... hehehe more space to ourselves!!

OKAY OKAY sheeesh i seem to be complaining too much man. now onto the good stuffs!! we played volleyball for like NEARLY THE WHOLE DAY. it was an almost non stop thing! maybe thats why my hand ended up being like that....but who cares! im still gonna play! i have no idea when and why i became some sports maniac. last time in secondary school, i used to camp in front of the computer! must be because of JC life. (y) yeap! i still think JC life is the best life ever so far! :D not that army sucks or what, but it just isnt as fun. coming back to volleyball, later on in the day, i got really really tired! BLEAH! and when i am tired, it becomes kinda hard for me to play sports properly...lemme give you an example
okay so this is what happens when im tired:
1. *ball incoming*
2. alrighty time to volley it back!
3. uses both arms
4. anyhow let the ball bounce off
5. I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE IT IS FLYING TO.

sheesh the volleyball sure is
really hard! :( but its still so fun! frankly speaking, i dont know why its so fun too. hmmm im not the soccer kinda guy....more of the basketball sort, i absolutely love the thrill from playing rugby, swimming is awesome because of the tan, gyming makes me feel good....gee just what does volleyball have that makes me like the sport?!

Oh shuks i forgot to say that i went there with my cell group! turned out that only the older ones were able to make it :P i guess we should have one more again soon! :D :D and next time, there better have sunshine! so far, other than my JC class outing at sentosa, there has been no other time whereby i have went to sentosa and it hasnt rained! amazing huh? no i don't know the rain dance alright -_-

Oh God, next week is gonna be quite a troublesome week i think... got to grab the signal equipment out tomorrow before we go outfield on wednesday. will only be back by friday! and friday night, i have Men's meeting to attend for church. then its back to the weekends again!! :D :D okay okay but before that comes, i have loads of stuff to settle in camp -.- dammit. hmmm....i can only nights out on monday and tuesday night...

i seem to be uploading less and less photos these days! oh damn my camera must be feeling really lonely man.

you know what? i think i will probably do another blog post tomorrow~! if time permits :)

AHHHH these Uni essays are really killing me! okay okay i know some people will just say: why dont just copy and paste?! but the thing is that even though the courses i am applying for are pretty similar across the board, the essay  requirements do vary quite some bit! so....NAHHH. plus when i am in camp, even though i have access to the internet, its kinda inconvenient to be typing such stuffs in camp. i tried it out! with little success :P okay okay background info! in my office in camp, there is ONE computer that has access to internet. the rest are just intranet. So.....many of us always use the computer to surf facebook, watch youtube videos and occasionally, facejack someone who forgot to log out of his FB account! :D Man i so remember some of those really really funny incidents :P Its mainly used for fun! so....if you see someone typing a long essay whilst cracking his brains? first impression: NERD. hahahah but of course it isnt so bad! oh speaking of camp, its a sunday but... I DONT NEED TO BOOK IN TODAY!!! NOT TOMORROW EITHER!!! OKAY i have to go in by tuesday afternoon. that isnt too bad right? wow i tell ya, these uni applications get really really bogging down on me, because i cant quite have a peace of mind knowing that they are incomplete. moreover, church has been sucking up quite a lot of my time. OH SHIT. i just closed the wrong browser window! it gets kinda irritating when you drag your cursor all the way to the tab really quickly to swap between tabs. (yes im multitasking) sometimes, i end up unluckily hitting the 'x' button. ARGH. is it just me or am i spamming caps lock? oopsie.