I am about 5 months away from ORD-ing from NS! Lots of me have changed over the course of my national service, especially the physical portion! hehe i have lost about 20+kg alright maybe next time i should upload some photos taken before and after NS perhaps. but that's not what i want to talk about! so throughout this entire course... i have had to stay in camp for 3 saturdays so far. To be more exact, its two half-saturdays as confinements (because of wrongdoings) and one full saturday which was yesterday! tell ya more about it later. Anywayfor the two half saturdays, the first half was in BMT! well that was because there was one evening that we got so tired from training, and as one of the term in the army, "you wait to rush, rush to wait", we soon found ourselves lying down on the concrete ground, which is like a mini parade square! i seriously forgot the term that they used during BMT  but anyway, punishment was dished out at us. hahaha that was indeed really looking for trouble xD on a sidenote, we booked out like saturday 9am? LOL not really a confinement eh? The second time was during my time in 30SCE. that is considered one of the lowest points in my life due to the unreasonable sergeants that i had, in addition to the serious injury that i sustained during my last moments in BMT, shattering my chances for command school. I was so pissed off with how horrible the system was and how oppressed that i simply created a massive maze (hurray for awesome idea!) within the shared database and slotted in some important folders somewhere into the maze. Somehow, i got found out and was "awarded" one day confinement. My recollection of that place is just filled with lots of negativity, other than the really awesome Captain Adam who was the unit's S2, who is a really good officer who personally protected us! us = me and my fellow mate in 30SCE who followed me to signal institute and became a signaller too! hope he is living a much better life now man....

OKAY, so today, or rather tonight, one of my good friends Charlene, asked me to try out this personality test! okay from my perspective, it seems to be prevalent in girls/women that they love to do these personality tests! and i as a guy, *peeks into pants* YUP have to idea why so, but its quite interesting! its fun to do these once in a while. so now this time round, i got introduced to the Jung Typology Test, you can try doing the test here and see what's the result that you get!

So now who in the world invented this? It was none other than Carl Jung. erm this kinda reminds me of all those random a maths theorems that i come across in my secondary school textbook! okay example example, physics, who came up with Newton's Third Law of Motion! Newton! :D Hence in the future, if i come up with a new theory, its gonna be called Ming Yang's theorem! :D just as what my a math tutor back in school used to poke fun of me after i solve some a math question by my own randomly-made up theories. sigh. a quick google on carl jung and this test came up with this!

"The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. These preferences were extrapolated from the typological theories proposed by Carl Gustav Jung and first published in his 1921 book Psychological Types (English edition, 1923). Jung theorized that there are four principal psychological functions by which we experience the world: sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking. One of these four functions is dominant most of the time."


IF YOU CANT SEE THE SCREENSHOTS, CTRL+LEFT MOUSE CLICK to see the enlarged version!!


 This is how it should look like after you click the link! Simply start the test/quiz by clicking the button that i have an arrow pointed to. Not bad right!! i drew that arrow alright! #cheapthrill if its even considered.

Anyway, the quiz is a simple yes/no questionnare about your perceptions,





Anyway, i found myself looking at a really long questionnaire  guess it looks long because they just flooded the entire page with the questions instead of splitting it up into a few pages. Anyway, that aside, upon completing the quiz, they told me that i missed out one question! xD oh well. i ended up going back and finding that blank part that i missed out. That missing question didnt really change the outcome of the quiz and didnt change my personality outcome. It's not supposed to change my personality i suppose! i mean its just one question, not substantial enough to change such a conclusion aye. 

1. YES   NO

So that's mine! lol that only two percent of the human population are actually ENFJ. like whaaaaaat :D just TWO percent?!  Also, leaders tend to have the same personality! In a nutshell, we are optimistic people. Overly optimistic. We tend to be good in analysing our own feelings...true true! Ah but its kinda sad that we can analyse and more easily empathise with others, while it doesnt work the other way? It's like "oh man! i feel short changed!" but i guess that's life eh? "An ENFJ teacher or a coach can have a strong positive effect on many people’s lives as well." well the opposite is true too eh! xD well it is true that we are optimistic idealists but that's what make leaders, leaders. Because of their over optimism, they tend to downplay the risks that are actually involved in a situation/decision, hence going ahead with a risky option unlike what a conventional person would do. Sometimes, that extra risk taking is necessary to break new grounds ;)

That's the trio! after what is left of the clique of closely-knitted together peeps. i had this really really awesome clique of good friends who are really fun to be with and we did all sorts of crazy stuff! Moreover, we are from different JCs and polytechnics but yet are able to click so well and all come from different backgrounds! but because of tertiary studies, work, etc etc one by one begin to fleet away and get busy with their lives, trying to forge their own future. Sadly, i guess there will come to a day when people would have to part and this is pretty much the time! luckily, Jireh is only going to be gone for 4 years... by then i would have finished my studies in most likely SIM. Gonna most probably be doing a degree in Psychology in University at Buffalo. Charlene, the only girl in the picture used to be like a mum to me in the past, hence she is "mum"! and jireh is charlene's "mum"! okay age check, i am one year younger than both of them, that makes me 21 and them 22. so technically, jireh is me "grandma" LOL okay lets not go there, but yeah, in four years time! i wonder what we would all be doing, will we all still be in the same clique, will i still be blogging away. so much uncertainties but that's life.

Tuesday was the first day or rather night that i had my piano lesson! its been a really long while since i had a teacher for piano. hahaha when i told my friends in camp and around me that i am going for piano lesson, they all thought i was giving piano lessons! nono i just wanna learn all those really hard piano pieces because they happen to sound nice, and i am having difficulties, learning by myself is really slow so i got a teacher to aid me, and SHE IS GOOOD. the last time i had piano lessons was when i was in my first year in JC. My JC path was three years long because i retained. It was only in my repeat year and J2 was i forced to drop piano because i was spending a considerable time on the piano instead of studies. i really really LOVE to play the piano alright! so i was forced to stop piano lessons, but still continued to practice at home and in school, still continued with the various performances in PJC and those were really fun! got loads of exposure from there man. From solos, to piano duets, duets or triplets with strings or accompaniment music for singing, my GP teacher was the singer btw. and impromptu playing or simply background music, i had loads of fun with the piano during my JC days! sadly, because my parents felt that studies were more important, they practically killed a large portion of my passion for piano. ever since my JC days, i have been playing the piano about thrice a week? down from daily because of my stay-in in army requirements. and learning new songs on my own is pretty hard at times! Thank God i dont have to go through the trouble of hopping through different piano teachers, the first one i got is really really good! so yeap yeap i managed to cover a large portion of the scores, and evened out all my errors in the song, for some reason i cannot find the same scores on youtube anymore. NUUU luckily, i downloaded the mp3 version before it was taken down. Its been very long since i last taped myself playing the piano, but i guess i dont think i am going to be doing that in the near future, not until i learn new pieces! so currently what am i doing for piano? i am learning leisurely! i stopped at grade 7, but have no intention to continue with the grading system until i am able to find more time to practice (sounds impossible in the near future) i shall explain in the next blog post why it seems so impossible even after my NS. but anyway, i am still really glad that i found a new piano teacher! guess it was the right move to do, to go for new blood instead of going back to my previous piano teacher as i found myself plateauing.

Will probably do one more blog post in camp when i have the time to do so! ^^ really hope i do have the time to churn out one more blog post which is gonna explain why i am going to be kept pretty busy for the upcoming weeks! i am most probably going to book in early tonight... really too tired out, need some much needed sleep! :( but before that, i'm gonna hit the piano! wohoo! hope practice goes smooth!

Wow is this the first time i actually do a blog post for my activities on the weekdays?? woah.

A big congratulations to dearest vivian for graduating!! :D like finally, after all the gruelling months of School of Theology, you have triumphed! School of theology is a place where you get yourself greater equipped with the Word of God! hmmm the next intake, 2014 is going to be starting from March, all the way till september! Really keen on going for the course, but at the same time, i'm going to be schooling in SIM! i wonder how am i going to juggle daily schoolwork, as well as biblical school work, especially with the MASSIVE amount of work that i heard, would be given to you. Ho ho and i still thought that i would be able to further my piano perhaps? not to mention to keep up with my existing hobbies like modifying nerf blasters or just simply gaming! Did you know that gaming would actually have adverse effects on your hands when playing the piano? so far all these years, whenever i game extensively, i end up with stiffer hands, less dexterity when playing the piano! and actually....when i am typing on the computer, like now, i mostly only use my index fingers to type. Is this normal....? wonder who else actually uses more than these fingers to type! excluding those shift+tab functions when your fourth finger would be used. and excluding those who are handicapped.
I really really want to go for SOT, but then again im wondering like is it possible for me to manage all of the workload? plus i pretty much can't do without piano! :( What am i going to be doing in SOT? im going to learn more about the bible, learn how to preach, which sounds challenging! drafting sermon notes...which sounds cool! hmmm do i learn how to lead worship? no idea. oh i remember there are mock cell group meetings too! really, i tried giving myself bible study, which sounds kinda stupid, but when rehearsing, it's actually quite hard alright! Its WAYYYYY harder than teaching all those typical subjects in school alright. -.- guess i am probably not used to it yet! plus that's probably also the reason why there are some preachers who are REALLY good! ^^ Somehow, in life, even though we have learnt a lot of things, in school, there are still a whole lot more to learn out there! luckily, i have this time of national service, as a buffer period for me to slowly decide on what's the path that i am going to take. Instead of the girls whereby they usually go straight away and enrol into the next intake for uni, us guys have more time to decide! so technically NS is a legal excuse for us guys to.... grab a subway sandwich and slowly decide on what to do with the upcoming years of our life!
yay~ on to the next post! that's then gonna be the proper one.

OMG OMG okok so sorry for the no-post for last weekend, been too busy last weekend! hmm... I always blog on sunday, which...is sadly the last day of the weekend  :( i kinda think that blogging on the saturday will be a lot better? but then again most of my "interesting life" comes when i am outside camp :P really! so its like 2 days out of the 7 are interesting :P lately.... i have been really busy with nerf projects... sigh the prototype that i am working on broke again. so darn sickening! everything that i do doesnt seem to be working, its like just so tempted to replace the internals completely instead of trying to salvage it. salvaging it has cost me TONS of braincells. sigh. anyway, on to the more interesting stuffs, i went for World War T last saturday! it was a really fun and tiring event! that was one of the first times that i have ran in a long while, ever since my injury. currently, im trying to run and see how things work out for my knee! also... last week was more of a test week for my knee and it handled all those stress during exercises pretty well! :D tried cycling and running, cycling was good, running wasn't really that good. Gotta work more on my cardio. hmmm i wanted to swim actually, but the naval diving unit was using it! first time ever seeing them there but oh well. poor mono-intake peeps. plus trust me, when you're in NS, stuck in camp, what else beats laying in the pool and suntanning, (while the poor lifeguard seats in a shaded area and reads his book). really priviledged to have an olympic sized swimming pool. coupled with a hot sun and hooooo~! just that you're still in camp.

World War T is actually a nerf war organised by my church subzone! its a first of a kind, and my oh my was it a success! it was really fun filled, and we got to build greater ties amongst each other! church isnt all about being all-so-spiritual, but also about having fun! we had three types of activities to play, round robin style, so we gotta play each type twice. i have footage for two of the events! wasnt the photographer, so dont expect any photos from me! when you're really having fun and playing, you dont usually do recordings of the gameplay, so... i came up with an idea! :D mount the camera on the blaster! which...er lotsa vibrations when recording since you're running with the camera! plus its kinda heavy too, but its still so cool! especially the footage :) hehe here is the footage of one of the games that i played! hmmm you can try fast forwading here and there, frankly speaking i dont have the time to edit the video now, so this is the raw version! do take note though that towards the end of the video, there is a portion that the camera hits the grass and YEAP thats all! so dont just keep watching it. hehe. it was recorded with a Sony (wohoo! go sony!!) cybershot i think?so the footage is clear enough for HD and full screen :P

*managed to fill the second half of the video with annotations because its messier during that part!*
think you're gonna need to pause the video here and thereeeee



at the start, i was panning around showing my team members! there were Chen Peng, hope i get that name right, then there is Vivian as well as jolly! who have been my awesome cell group mates all these while! oh and there is one guy from another cell group, because the event is for two cell groups, E488 and E519~! both are eastern cell groups! with the capital E :) hahaha this match is capture the flag, we have to get to the other end of the playing field, grab the opponent's flag and bring it back to base! hard part is bringing it back. we were up against really small small kids, primary school? woah! i tell ya they can be even harder than fighting against the older ones alright! because they are full of energy -_-"' surprisingly, a lot of people actually find nerf really fun! although it is created for kids aged 9+, you have college students in the US playing with it, you have us teenagers having so much fun with it!

This match was pretty epic, because it was sudden death, so what happens is which ever team that can get the other flag whilst having their own flag in base immediately wins! you can pretty much see the gameplay in the second half of the video. phew and i managed to squeeze in some time to do the captions and stuffs :)

Had a really really enjoyable time!! hahah and then there was part two on the next day sunday, which i only played for a while, as i had to help out with barbecue for another event! :D haha its my first time helping out to barbecue food for another cell group, as in so far i only done BBQs that are for cell group or subzone. like my cell group actually is there, whereas this time round it was for a totally different event! which was really interesting, learnt and had fun with my fellow subzone members! also because there werent any of my cell group members there, i was forced, in a good way to work with others who arent in my cell group! ya know, during such events, we usually stick closer to our cell group members, but this time round, no chance to, but i also get to fellowship with others, those who live in the north!


Ah thats benjamin! i got to know him during the mid year church camp, but other than that, we chat rarely on a weekly basis, unless we happen to bump into each other in church! but because of this bbq, its how i get to know these awesome "Northeners" better!!

lmao like seriously which weekend am i not busy?! somehow, my weekends will be automatically filled up with errands to run, and events. haha everytime i tell myself that i'm gonna go gaming, play some BF3, i end up being busy with something else on the day itself xD sigh sigh its like as though when you grow older, you have more responsibilities, more stuff to do. Damn i so miss the days when i used to be a student, just schooling at Pioneer Junior College and not worrying about anything, other than those piles of homework that teachers give, and i not do. Especially so for math homework. wow speaking of which, i really really hate math! somehow, we are forever at loggerheads. Guess i do much better in Arts subjects but oh well my JC days are over and now its about looking ahead. Its like when you're schooling, life is really simple and you dont really have much stuff to decide, everything's been done for ya, unlike now whereby you have to make decisions, with this finite time that i have, what am i going to do? Focus on self development or just simply enjoy life right now. (National Service life) Even though many argue that NS is a waste of time, plus it burns off 2 years of our prime 20s, its a really good time for us to slow down and think about what we want to do in the future, giving us some time to consider the options and somewhat take a break from the hectic lifestyle out there. Frankly speaking, i have NO idea how i am going to survive working out there in future after Uni life but i'm just gonna leave that up to God! omggg when is the next signaller coming in so that i can really start slackinggggg. Things can get pretty tiring in camp at times!

Lol actually, life would be slightly easier if my camp computer, OA computer has half the RAM and processing power of my home computer and i can just keep on blasting worship music in camp :P I kinda find working while blasting music a whole lot more enjoyable, like now, i'm blasting Christian radio while blogging! while my aged-incek seems to prefer it quiet i think! though he's kind enough to allow me to play some out loud at times :) #reasonableencikrocks.

Life has been pretty trying for me, surprisingly, even though there is this whole city harvest case, and everyone seems a tad worn out from the problems they are facing in life, somehow just somehow, these problems that are weighing us down are more of our own personal problems that we are facing. Problems that are accrued to us according to our capacity. Not really bothered by the City Harvest trials, although after reading the papers, things seem pretty favourable on our side! Even though i really don't like The Straits Times for it's grossly biased news coverage, that is the most convenient to grab news in camp, other than from the i-net. What i learnt during my JC days is to grab cold hard information from the papers and block out the opinions or perspective that the news is reported from.
RANDOM PIC. Ahhhh my bedroom used to look so nice and tidy! until i took an arrow to the knee while in army. Lmao all the pillowcases have changed already man....hehehe and the number of pillows increased! xD

OKAY whenever i look back and ponder on the weekend, my first thought is always "what a hectic week!" well this time, for saturday, i had to go recce recce the sites for our upcoming camp cohesion. Thankfully, we managed to find some really nice spots peppered around that can be used! :) Can't and shan't reveal much about it because its supposed to be a secret for everyone! :D but no worries, i think its gonna be fun (y)

Saturday was also kinda unique because i met a person who is exceedingly helpful! :) what happened was that in the evening, I popped by Home Fix, a hardware store to grab some bolts and nuts, etc etc! i had a big bunch of requirements for my bolts, but yet the salesman whom i approached was so willing to help! His head was FILLED with white hair! okay apparently if you haven't forgotten, the previous saleman who helped me had some white hair over his head too....THERE MUST BE A REASON. guyssss go get a girlfriend who has lotsa white hair on their head kay! jkjk.

I approached him from behind and asked him for his assistance. I frequent the Marina Square Home Fix outlet quite often because it is really good and convenient. But i never seen him before...

What happened was that i told him i wanted a bolt that had
1. Flat bottom, which is near impossible, almost all are sharp.
2. Conducts electricity, barely 15-20% of the products there can conduct electicity.
3. Has a length of 40mm +-5mm Apparently most were in lengths differing by half inch. Hence there was no way i could get the right size.

However, he still continued to help me, even by taking out a measuring tape and a AAA battery because i was trying to use the bolt as a replacement for a AAA battery. nerf project as usual :) he even offered me other items that could be used instead, like magnets! This is one salesman who was so willing to bend down, despite his age, to eagerly search for the best item for me to use. with my brother as a "can this conduct electicity" helper, i found what i needed within half an hour! hey you'll be surprised how LONG it takes just to find the best resource, its probably akin to girls shopping for a dress. lol but from what i know, they just buy everything lolol. I spent a total of an hour in this shop alright! now what happened to the other half hour? He actually suggested to me to cut down the longer bolt to the required size that i wanted and use a metal file to make it smoother. However, i didnt have any of such tools at home! i dont really deal with metals at home, usually wood and plastic. So...he told me to use whatever tools i wanted in the store! WOW FOR A HANDICRAFT GUY, THATS HEAVEN. all the tools!! ALL. so i even used the table clamp, to get a firm grip, used the bolt cutter, the big orange cutter you see at the top photo and use the metal files too! hehehe i just opened up whatever tools i wanted to use in the shop and used them! clearly, the other salespersons were shocked. :P

That's him! ah i didnt get to catch his name, but he is an extremely helpful salesman who goes all the way out to ensure that you are able to get whatever you are trying to get from the store, walking out from the store satisfied. I chatted with him for a moment and realised he just transfered over in April! no wonder i've never seen him before, and he actually enjoys his job!! how rare is that?! that a person in singapore actually ENJOYS their job! with the volume of societal stereotype here, even though one may enjoy a certain job, but since it pays low or is regarded as a lowly job, few are willing to remain or go for the job.

 Well today, after attending my first mass bible study, which was really good and COLD!! i had to rush home to rush on my nerf projects :/ this time round, look at the amount that i have to paint! omggg pretty killing man, i'm trying to finish up all the workload to ease my shoulders. It really sucks knowing that you have all of these outstanding nerf modifications. I ziplock bag each of my prjects and put them on my bookshelf! lol yeah one shelf is for my books, another is for these projects, spare parts, and tools and paint! especially for my plastic models. -_-"'

 Usually i just layout two slots for me to do spray painting, but this time round, i have FIVE. there's one more on the swing. zzz a lot to finish up huh? even though they can be stressful at times, i receive great joy after one project is fully completed! :D with the paint scheme all finished up, All the glue or whatsoever is cured and the finishing coat applied on the project, with it in fully working condition! I tell ya the last part is the scariest man. There was this once, when i managed to make it work before painting and after all the handling, by the time i did the finishing coat, for some reason, after i am totally done with the blaster, it refused to work!! RAGE RAGE RAGE.

Ah but i cant remember which blaster it is. #signsofaging
#whitehairgonnapopoutsoon.

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