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I had such a blast in BMT and during that one week break when we could slack, i just simply chilled at home and relaxed, knowing that i wouldn't have to wear green for the whole week, not having to worry about army stuff for the whole week :P Had to go for the COMPASS test for pilots, because i indicated my preference to become a pilot, so i burnt a day off at CMPB wrecking that brain of mine which haven't been used for some time already. But it's alright! it was an experience trying out the test, eventually i did pass the compass test and aeromedical, but failed at the interview LOL so... oh and previously in BMT, i actually signed on as a Navy officer? but later retracted the contract, reasons i shall not disclose. Having previously known back in BMT that i am unfit for leadership schools, i would have to forget about my OCS (Officer Cadet School) dreams. Some would ask SCS (Specialist Cadet School), but personally, i wouldn't want to be the sandwiched class, so same mentality, all or nothing. i didnt have SCS dreams. For the sake of overseas readers, specialists are sergeants.  I knew i was going to a unit as a private and i knew that my knee was very badly injured, there was no way i could run, but i still hoped that i could go to ocs. stubborn me! well eventually..... i didnt get i want lolol instead, i was posted to 30SCE. Singapore Combat Engineers.

A few points to note,
Silly mistakes that you make in BMT would lead to a bigger punishment/consequence.
You are training more of skills now so it wouldn't be so heavy on physical training.
You can't always rely on "I don't know", go figure it out, if need be ask for help from relevant personnel.

LOL i never knew i would write so much on 30SCE, so i'll probably post this one up first...

30SCE
I thought okay, not too bad, just build bridges and all and i'll be done. That's when i began searching the internet about what exactly is 30SCE, because i've only heard of 35SCE. Low and behold, everyone had extremely negative comments about that unit, apparently we are field pioneers who have to assemble bridges (cant help but think about marvel avengers, sorry) and set up minefields, clearing of minefields, everything by hand. Then i was wondering hey dont we have machines to do these?! Well field pioneers are people who follow the infantry troops into the battle so... that's a really shitty job!! Well i am here to contribute to the negative comments online. People say getting into infantry sucks and here i am, about to become an infantry engineer. oh shit. Life there sucks really bad, with a lot of redundant systems in place. It is true that we are trainees and usually we get a lot of push ups and all, that's normal. But being treated with little respect by the commanders, doing ridiculously stupid stuff, after telling my friends, they too agreed was stupid, so at least multiple opinions are considered. Booking out timings were extremely late, they can say pack your stuff at 7pm and usually book out for us was around 9-10pm. What everybody hated was the delaying of book out, not that they told you it's gonna be at 10pm or what, but because you are kept waiting since 7pm with no news, so you are just eagerly wanting to leave, wanting to leave and you never know when. I soon went out of course, like obviously i have a badly busted knee and you want me to carry that heavy bridge? No way i can do that man..

so i helped out around in the office. I was thrown pretty much all the workload that belonged to the sergeants, being called over by "eh! or dog! or cheebye!". As a leader, never show disrespect to your fellow men. Of course there are nice sergeants there who treated me kindly and were thankful for my help at times, but just the few bad apples really soured my 30sce experience. Joining me as an office warrior came in Hernando. He too OOCed (Out of course) because of various health related issues and the two of us became good buddies! The term office warrior became a common term between me and hernando, as over an extended period of time, we continued to tank the work in office and all, including audit. I would say i am above average in terms of computer skills? Like excel sheets, word docs and all, but having seen the amount of workload thrown to me, i chose to act blur. of course some people would condemn my attitude, saying that i should help out and all. Ever heard of the phrase act blur live longer? lolol i can now testify that it is true. Moment i stepped into office and was thrown the workload, immediately denied that i know how to use word docs and all, which is pretty hilarious since in JC you need to use such stuff for project work and all, but i still denied. I ended up doing less workload, although at times poor hernando would need to take on a bigger share of the workload (my bad) and i did more of running around and photocopying documents. The whole idea i had was to lessen the time i spent in office and stayed away from commanders who called me by insulting names. Seriously who would want to be called cheebye or jibai? Translation: a crude way to say vagina. Our previous OC became S2, which is the officer in charge of security, and he is an extremely extremely kind commander, making sure that we are always alright. Cpt Adam from 30SCE, by far one of the most caring commanders who takes the effort to ensure that you are really doing fine.The lesser time i spent in office, the lesser exposure of "shit work" so photocopying became my time-stalling card.

I think the best word to use would be oppressed, when you are in 30SCE.

I was thinking life would be so shitty for the next two years, like even if you try to look from a positive look, everything still seems to glum. Everyone hated the idea of booking in, during our trainee period there was no nights out. 30SCE is in jurong btw, and our camp is pretty run down. My buddy had rashes on his head and couldn't wear a helmet, but ever since the OC changed, he still had to, along with other people whom you know are bound to be OOC, continue attending the outdoor trainings daily. there are cases of injuries and health conditions that you know cannot go outfield, but they still had to. i was considered as one of the lucky ones, being able to OOC a lot earlier and helped out in office instead. That is when when they report sick or what, i would help them out on the procedures and all, sometimes accompanying them for the long walk to the medical centre, it's quite some distance.

Another time-stalling card
I am injured, for the record present tense. And i had to go for physiotherapy and OCS. what made 30SCE even more depressing, is that it is the camp NEAREST to ocs. and from the window of my stuffy bunk, i woke up to the sight of the OCS tower every morning, always dreaming that i could be there. So it sucks pretty much having to keep facing the goal that you've fallen short of. I really wanted to go OCS still, but since knew it was impossible. Well the closest i could get to was going there for physiotherapy. -_-"' close enough. Medical centre located all the way into ocs, and with a busted knee, walking that long distance is hell.... by the time you've reached there it's probably worse than before lmao. But upon reaching there, it's like heaven, having nice interiors and strong-blasting aircons with an extremely well equipped gym. best part, there's close to nobody there. So i used to go earlier to take a nap on that comfy sofa every week just before sweating it out in the gym as i did physio, then my own gym regime. Of course i maximised my time outside, not wanting to return to my camp, so i'll pop by nearby Jurong point to get some drinks for the sergeants, of course i'll call the nice ones and try to leave out the name-calling ones and how could i forget Cpt adam and my fellow office warrior eh?? Although i was not allowed to buy stuff for hernando, still did so in secret. But eventually i had to go back to camp and the shit continues.

The bridge that i built with Cpt Adam was such a valuable bridge to me, and it still is. I soon explained the plight that hernando and i was in and he immediately offered his office as our place of refuge, of which i am VERY VERY thankful for. Whenever we had "free time" lol actually it's like just random times, he would say that he has work for us, and of course the sergeants wouldn't be able to touch us yeah! (y) but just for a while. Cpt adam even offered to fetch me from jurong point once, after i bought a ton of subway for camp. :) so kind!

In the end, my 30SCE journey ended when i was elated to find out that i've been revocated to signals so i was like WOHOOOO!! at least i get to be trained as a signaller and even if i came back to my unit, i would not have the chance to be trained as a field pioneer, hence i'm freed from ever thinking about going through training! because it is possible for you to ooc, and stay on until the next batch comes in, then you will be on course again. Also, if i actually got posted out of 30SCE, that would be EVEN BETTER. though i highly, highly doubt. both hernando and i got posted to signals to be trained, so two of us were the lucky ones! while remember those who i told ya were the sure ooc cases? Well they were told that they will be sent for recourse i believe on the day itself that the course was supposed to pass out. I am not too sure about this because its a distant memory but definitely within the same week.

I guess i'll need another post for my unit life but oh well! hope you enjoyed reading my experience in 30SCE. of course all these are on top of the usual duties, and toilet cleaning and regimental stuff that every army unit has. and yes it is a stay in unit!

I first enlisted into BMT at a weight of 90+kg, i think it was 94kg? and being at a height of 171cm then, (wohoo i've since grown taller! PTL!!) Enlisting with a mindset of either going all the way or being nothing. My aim was never to be a sergeant. Just my personal goal, all or nothing, but i really wanted to gain and learn as much as i could during national service. Afterall, i've heard of people who have really awesome army buddies and all, and it's true! it also does depend on the person, because if you go in with a negative mindset, your course is pretty much set. BMT for me was really enjoyable!
Basic Military Training is a great time for you to get physically fit, although it's two things to be physically fit and combat fit, combat fit meaning after all of the load bearings on you like the iLBV, rifle and field pack, how well can you still perform. Going through the BASICS means getting physically in shape first, after you're all fit, then we get to learn all the skills like shooting, rifle handling, infantry training, etc etc. And then when you proceed on to unit life, that is when you get trained in skills and not so much on fitness anymore :) that is also when the pes BP people tend to begin to put some weight back on, so watch it!

I thoroughly enjoyed myself with my section mates :) I was in pes BP, BP just means you're fat, means you're going for a 19 week BMT life. I kinda expected it? lol so i was like oh well! some others went OH SHIT having considered that their counterparts have a shortened 9 week bmt i believe? but come on you're obese, so enlist earlier and do all the regimental stuff, shed some of those weight! and trust me, it's all worth it. Go in with the attitude to lose weight and get fit!

Here is a photo of my before/after shot that i grabbed off my instagram.
No the girl beside me didnt magically get any younger, it's just that left side is mum when i was having the first meal in pulau tekong and right side is my friend.

My waist shrunk by a few inches around my waist. i believe i was a 38, dropped to 33. I got a whole lot fitter, but what's mroe important is that my LIFESTYLE's changed. :) instead of eating like mad, i'm more careful of my intake and exercising when time permits! I still remember during the first day, a lot of time stalling, just waiting around and making sure you have all the equipment. It's just one of those draggy processes that one has to go through...i was in Dragon company Platoon 1 Section 1. i tell ya being just on level 2, saves you a ton of effort and time when your whole company needs to "rush to bunk and grab something". Means all the more to fat people like us! :D  those times when i used to be really "garang" (enthusiastic) and push on, but ONE DAY, i fell while running and boomz that's it, i injured my knee! because i roller blade and run and ice skate on weekends, on top of the daily runs and exercises that we have for our weight loss regime in camp, on top, i did insanity workout too during our "admin time" which means free time in the night. So taking lots of blows to the knee because of falling down, especially during ice skating...it led to a deadly concoction of a weakened something something zzz according to the docs.

Everyday life
We were really mad on losing weight, and every morning during PT, you are greeted by boobs, just that they're men boobs. But everyone is there to do an enjoyable time of aerobics. Yes fat people doing aerobics.We had runs, which gradually increased to 5km, and we were split into different groups to cater to our needs better. (plus point!) I never knew we could run more than 2.4km continuously everyday, that i felt was personally, physically impossible before enlisting. Aerobics was freaking awesome. At first everyone looks like clumsy penguins, but soon everyone got into the action, keeping up with the fitness instructor. pools of sweat start to form at where we stand on the hard court, it's something really enjoyable and we joke around with one another, so its a really good way to lose weight together! You see your section mates losing weight, while you are joking with one another, exercising under the hot sun together. It really built a lot of buddiness and camaraderie with one another. Because you are enjoying yourself and the breaks are very well timed, you don't feel tired when exercising at least you don't really need to put in conscious effort to purposely exercise and slog it out. Just simple having fun and doing stupid dance moves at times, annoying songs do come on and guys will be like "AWWW CHANGE THE SONG DAMMIT". and we still lose weight :) After that, everyone would have a good bath and head to the cookhouse in our no.4 and fight to eat first! But that's not before chin up regime when we would do our maximum pull ups, and for some to try breaking the zero barrier. In the evenings we tend to have learning sessions and swimming? Aqua jogging they call it. if we do well, we get to swim like mad after that~ at times, after aerobics, we *gulp* jump into the pool so...it turns realy salty...that's when you jog like mad trying to avoid drinking any of those water.

An injury
Oh yes i injured my knee! Coming back to that. I got injured some time during field camp, those high kneels made it a whole lot worse. Being a scout in the past, i experienced similar stuff a time too many, so i simply dissed off the pain and carried on with SITtest also. I thought everything was fine until the pain was pretty frequent and my knee was badly inflammed. This is when i paid the medical officer a visit. The xray i did at pulau tekong, i saw my knee and even though i've never taken biology, it looked freaking bad. The knee had some serious misalignment issues and with the tissues inflamed, hoho ain't looking good! Although the doc said it will gradually heal, which i had my doubts, and that doubts turned to truths. Ever since then, my knee still feels like shit at times. Currently am unable to run without a knee guard, with one, i cant do long distances. sucks. In the end of my BMT life, i missed the 24km route march, i did not participate in the Passing Out Parade, i did not throw my jockey cap on the floating platform at marina bay, although i did throw it with a couple of injured friends in pulau tekong as we left earlier, leaving as the rest do their preparations for the last route march as a recruit. I got injured 2 weeks before POP, after having gone through so much, i failed to POP and enter the much coveted command school OCS. Doctor deemed me unfit for any training school. Dad got really mad and scolded me for a couple of weeks for reporting sick that day, because since then, it wrote there "Unfit for leadership school". BMT was also the first time i saw myself throwing my phone out of anger. Moral of the story, know your limits and dont push too hard. Everybody needs to rest, don't try and be a hero and have ample rest so that the next day, you can go further.

*edit* 5 years from then, i am currently still reeling in from my injury. My knee still hurts and i am currently still seeing the sports science doctor on getting my knee fixed. It is considerably much weaker than before but still, i try to exercise and do what i can. Knee exercises do help strengthen it and for those who have knee injuries, do consider getting a knee guard. It's like magic.

Field camp
For those who immediately think about field camp once others mention about BMT, um... relative to my friends' accounts, my company's field camp was slack. My buddy got really bad heat rash, so i helped him out a lot especially during digging of shell scrape. Yes i agree it's tough! but the timing can actually be met, i did meet the timing but that's because i was a scout and had ample training in digging using a shovel lmao. Digging my own grave lolol. Being a scout, roughing it out, getting muddy at times ever since primary school kinda got me really used to the elements exposed during field camp. Somehow at times, you would feel REALLY sleepy during the day lessons. I don't know why, but those day lessons just cause you to be really dreamy, and when i looked around, my fellow mates were dozing off too! and yes the knotting advantage that scouts have for SITtest is really REALLY big. almost every station requires you to tie knots and since you even have advanced knotting skills at the back of your mind, knowing which knots work best under what circumstances, its a WHOA advantage. They do teach you a few basic knots before SITtest i believe, however if you are/used to be a scout, you would have learnt way more knots than the average and as such, i found myself most of the time stepping up and leading or providing suggestions as to what knots to use for the given situation, etc. So... if you're a scout who is used to mud, then field camp would be a blast! SITtest was kinda nice as at the end of the days, we got to just sit there and watch pretty sunsets lolol. my outfield locations are extremely scenic (romantic) just that you spend it with guys so... yeap.

Ghostly sighting
I did experience the sighting of a ghost THREE times, im guessing its the same ghost, later on the sergeants asked one another and confirmed that it wasnt anyone playing tricks. (because one of them saw it too) my register was D1107, so its Dragon Coy, Platoon 1 number 7. i still have that tag on my field pack. so i had a corner bed, of which i found it VERY HOT, so one of my section mates offered to swap with me! though our cupboards did not change so during stand by bunk or stand by whatever, it was still the same. back to the first ghost experience, my section mate sleeping beneath me (double decker beds) complained that i should have woken him up and so, during the second occurrence, i woke him up, who was sleeping like a log and we slept in the same bed LOL. The next day, commanders excused us from training as we zombied around the company. The first incident was pretty mind boggling, i woke up at around 3:28am needing to pee SOOOO BADLY. when i woke up, saw a shodowy figure (now i understand what it means to see a shadow) looking into my section mate's cupboard across the room whenever i looked away and turned back, it would change locations. i somehow climbed down from my bed, went to toilet and peed. when i reached my bunk, it was standing near the door, separating me and my beloved bed. again, i walked past it just a metre away, climbed back up to bed with goosebumps all over and hid myself under that indestructible blanket of mine. It was all the more scary when we've been sharing ghost stories a couple of days back -_-"' that blanket never left my face until next day morning, and of course, i was the earliest one to be up lol. But i am glad that my section mate sleeping beneath me offered to help me out when i'm in need, and upon waking him up, he gladly helped me though he was really drowsy.

Being badly injured in the end that i couldnt pass out with my army buds, missing command school also because of that injury that up till now has yet to fully recover. Currently, i was temporary pes C since i cannot run, according to the doc, excused physical activities -.- But this doesn't mean that my BMT life sucks, in fact i think it went pretty well!! because of the extended time that i had with my section mates, us all exercising and doing stupid things together, we were all a happy bunch of mates together! All those stand by bunks that we had...all those physical trainings and punishments that we had, after hearing all the stories of my friends from other companies, mine has actually been VERY slack xD also, all those chin up regimes that we had to do before our meals, and marching super fast until our timings we all off just to beat other companies to the ferry terminal so we could leave first, waking up slightly earlier so as to "beat the crowd" in the toilet when everyone washes up, there are so many memorable parts of BMT! But i guess what's important is having the right mindset when enlisting, going in with the expectation of learning something new and experience what every singaporean guy or your dad has been been through. It is also through national service did i find it easier to communicate with dad, and he will always go "you know last time ah...blah blah blah" and that's when we start to compare and see how army has changed, not just the organisation, but also our own lives. At times, it may seem hard, but it becomes a whole lot easier when others are with you, like those nights when we sacrificed our admin time and did insanity workout together! i still remember we were sweating so much that one person slipped and fell because of his sweat on the basketball court!! and for the record, i did complete insanity workout in tekong, thanks to the bmt buddies of mine! ;)

I'll be covering unit life next, thank you for reading! :D

Yep is 2am in the morning and i cant sleep for nuts. Reason? too much coffee! hehe my colleague, winnie treated me to a cuppa after i helped her out with her chemical bonding chemistry stuffs. O.o frankly speaking, this is the first time i got "rewarded" after helping! of course i always repeatedly reject my friends' offers but she insisted so oh well. and here i am! eyes wide open, too awake to sleep in that bed of mine that looks so comfy! plus i always have problems sleeping as i tend to think and daydream too much before sleeping.. well recently i've been extra busy with the doing of university stuff. I applied for Degree in Psychology and i was offered a course in Communication. How it got there was that i tried for double majors in comms and psych, but was counter offered comms, although i'm pretty sure i applied for psych as my preferred major but somehow it turned out to be comms. Weird thing is that usually for this kinda applications, one would double check, exactly what i did, but according to SIM i applied comms as my preferred. well luckily, after my first sem of foundations, i can try to switch over to psych so there's still hope and...sheesh i'm listening to piano songs now, so tempted to practice it now but i'll probably wake up the neighbours. Sigh wish i could have a new piano, though i still do love mine! :P Oh yes and i'm really hoping that i can really get that pysch major that i want, or better still, go double majors :)

School is gonna start soon so it's about time i started to do some clearing. Also, piano seems to be getting increasingly stressful as teacher continues to press me on to learn so many new songs. Seriously there's so many new pages to cover each week i'm like "whoa can it seriously be done?" but i do trust my teacher! After all her guidance thus far has really brought me to much greater heights! :) But really there's so much to do that sometimes, i'm like *gives up* i shall not practice today! aaaaand that's how my "practice" been going on for this week....causing me to miss like 3 days of practice thus far..which sucks. On a normal day, i practice twice, once in the morning and once more in the night. Oh my God, lesson tomorrow. Save me. and i dont intend to sleep for tonight so....i'll probably nap tomorrow or something..

Definitely begun to clear out my stuff, such as my table....of which you cant even see the surface of my table...sigh i do still have lots of nerf stuff outstanding and all i am missing out is really strong industrial glue, of which i've been too lazy to walk out and buy (lol procrastination ftw) here is a pic of my table! or whatever that's left of it.. yups pretty much everything is covered, as once said, it's an organised mess. Somehow i just know exactly which part to dig in and how deep to get that exacto knife of mine, or an eraser, etc etc.











Managed to FINALLY clear out my wardrobe of clothes that i no longer wear, which....was quite a big bunch. not to mention, i've only cleared out those that have been folded, and those hanging have yet to be cleared *sigh* and i still have massive pile of clothes dumped on the sofa :x
hopefully i can give away all of those clothes to people who need it more! i ran into the problem that the folded clothes stacked up till when you shove one in, you tend to crumple it because it clashes with the hanging clothes. Moreover as dad does the clothes, he tends to just shove em in, so.... things arent quite desirable.








But hey! on a more desirable note, i got a package from TPG :D  ThePianoGuys gave me a really nicely packaged package! TO my surprise, my shirts and piano scores book came earlier than expected! like wohooooo although i see the scores in the book and they are REALLY long! like 9 pages sort?! that's some pretty insane stuff alright! and they do have scores longer than 9 pages, i'll probably die flipping the pages before i can even finish playing the song. But really kudos to TPG for sending over a neatly-packed package from the US, this is the second time i've ordered from them and everything is so well taken care of! :) Indeed it's a good buy! although i must say i am an asian M-L size, and when i bought their M, whoa it looks more like an L O.o scary but it fits!



Recently i've been hooked onto an indie game, a pretty distant game away from Battlefield, all those fps games that i always play :) It's called FTL, Faster Than Light. Somehow i always think it's called Further Than Light though... surprisingly this game is VERY HARD! easy is already pretty hard. and when you die in this game, you restart right from the beginning. Good thing is any star trekkie or spaceship nerd would totally love this game because of how you can control the ship's systems, weapons and subsystems, beaming people onto enemy ships, cloaking, managing resources and making decisions.



It's pretty fast paced and i really utilised that pause button that i thought would be useless. I catch on games pretty fast... and after catching the mechanics of this game, i died twice or thrice? before actually completing the game on EASY mode. like wthhhhhh. and after beating the game, you unlock one ship, beat the game using that ship and you unlock the next, with a total of ten ships. It's fun on how every ship has it's own characteristic, causing you to develop new strategies because of the change in ship layout and abilities. Only downside is that they dont have checkpoint saving. once you die, go back to start, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Painful to start all over, but you learn from your mistakes and  try out new strategies and combinations. :)

Hmmm i remember i was supposed to be blogging about something but i dont remember what! well it's already halfway into April, and i am glad that ive finally have the finances to fufill building fund!! haha although i have yet the chance to send that donation in... It's tuesday and piano lesson is on thursday again, along with work. yes work! im back into working again, this time at bistro cool. I seriously thought that i would nto be doing F&B again, due to the long hours and not-so-worth hourly pay. As in if you equate the amount of work/energy exerted for an hour, it is a lot more as compared to having a desk job and typing out stuff. At least that's what i've collected through these eyes of mine for this period! :) It's been some time since i've last touched my nerf projects and all... still waiting for parts to come in and then mass modify at once! It's been quite a joy working so far, strangely i see myself smiling at the end of work, not because its ended but because it was a joy working with my fellow mates! and also those shortened working hours and spike in employee numbers, so your workload is a lot lighter, though standing up throughout still kinda sucks.

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hehe i found this advertisement kinda cute! first thought that came to mind: MINE CAN DO THAT TOO Remember i've been using an Xperia Z? frankly speaking i'm kinda envious that people have the Z1 cuz it looks way cooler with aluminium body but whatever. Sony claims that the phone should not go deeper than 1m in depth, but last weekend, i placed my phone at 1.4m for a considerable amount of time! Erm yeah i was kinda experimenting with the threshold... i've tried 1m before and am proud to say that it survives at 1.4m too!! :D

It's been over 2 month ever since i've ORDed and man i must say at times i really miss camp! especially when you get to do close to nothing in camp, and yet still earn a pretty nice amount of salary or allowance they would say. You sort of do nothing and yet still pocket money, plus outfields are pretty fun at times~ i dont know i dont really mind having outfields? plus i enjoy them and view them as a nice change from the mundane office work (assuming i do work in camp trollololol) many of my friends asked me like hey then why not simply extend your service since you're pretty alright in the army?! Even though i earn a pretty nice amount despite of the little effort/work that i do in camp, the restriction of being stuck in camp really weighs you down quite a bit, whereas after i ORD and find a part time job, even if i am paid less (i'm not), i get to have flexibility of doing whatever i wish instead of being confined to in camp. Many a time i ask myself like hey even if i am shopping at Northpoint, shopping or something, during the free time that i have in camp instead of aimlessly surfing the web or playing card games in camp, i would probably be more "productive". owww damn my finger hurts! and it's quite a pain to type. So would i prefer lazing around in camp and draw a certain amount of pay or really go out there, put in effort and work for money? i would choose the latter lolol. But i guess that is based on which army unit you are in too, i've had a really awesome NS experience so i would be more biased toward extending service!

Another reason why i wouldn't extend is also because of studies. I have uni in May and... it would clearly be an overlap, which wouldnt be possible. Speaking of uni, my admission has some screw up so...that kinda sucks, i dont know if i will be getting my desired course, but i really do hope i do so! Can't imagine starting school in May....let alone what kinda pencil box i would be having! would probably reuse my trashy huge pencil box that i used in JC... want a size comparison? well a graphic calculator (GC) can fit into it and only half the space would be taken up! well not to mention i see the GCs have shrunk in size, as i take a peek at my brother's GC.

I've always been a pretty avid gamer, being stuck to Battlefield 3, FOUR SUCKS SO I'M STICKING TO THREE. sheeesh what a waste of my money seriously. but oh well, hey but they shouldn't have built up so much hype for that game!!! i can log into bf4, play a few matches and i'll say "hey guys, i'm going off, heading to bf3" and a few of the peeps would actually reply "hey gonna do that real soon too" and you see the bf3 servers getting populated again! I've also gotten into Team Fortress 2, it's a pretty popular FPS game amongst the online community so it's pretty self explanatory. Bro just introduced me to League of Legends? Well i'm not really a fan of such games due to the lack of adrenaline that they provide but...i'll just give it a go for this week and see how it goes! For the record, No i am not a DOTA player. Probably never will be

Here's a quick laugh for you!


And even though Let It Go is a really overused song (oversung too) but this rendition of it is pretty good so kudos to it~!

it's kinda sad that these people with such great musical talent aren't popular on youtube, instead its all those mainstream pop peeps doing covers that are clocking all the views.

Sheeesh did you know that coming up with blog post titles can actually be pretty mind boggling at times?!! well at least that's how i felt for last week's post. Well yes i am no longer working at awfully chocolate, hmm i have yet to find another job yet... though i am really enjoying slacking now :P well but life here is pretty fast paced eh... so when i do not have work, i have other errands to run, LOTS of things to clear, of which my table is still in an organised mess. Looks pretty world war 2 to me but whatever, i'll find the time to do the clearing. without work, now i have more time to focus on piano as well as my hobbies! When i was working, i would usually come home all tired out, and i worked on everyday except for sundays and mondays. Sundays because of church activities, and after my crazy weekend, comes an extremely blue monday. So monday is to recuperate and just when i am done, tues i'm back working! so this clockwork schedule soon took a toll on my piano. because of my tiredness, i didnt feel like concentrating on practicing, even if i did practice, it was a pretty half-past-six practice, but somehow i managed to deliver for this month LOL but even so, that's not the kind of attitude one should have when learning a music instrument. Computer is pretty clogged up with lots of nonsense so i'm gonna have to find a one terrabyte hard disk to transfer everything before i reformat.... sigh and my music playlist! model kits are left undone, nerf blasters accessories and all left unpainted, so you see there's so many things that i got to get done, HAHA although they're my hobby stuffs xD

Thank God at least i dont have to care about uni admissions till the 17th when i get a reply from the unis... so wohoo! worry later. But i am glad that this week has been a good week for my soul, Things seem pretty messed up, with everything going haywire, like not a single thing is going on it's right path for the past month, but finally things are beginning to take shape, playing with lego definitely did help me take my mind off matters, and without work, that is when i found myself with more time to do other stuff (obviously) and coincidentally, mum fell sick, plus on the sideline, office politics and all, sucks. So mum fell sick, she took the day off, and during lunchtime, i drove both of us out for a meal. Thursday, i believe. Out of randomness, she went "why not let's pop by the plant nursery" mum and i have always been fond of nature and gardening, always wanting to beautify the garden. Although our busy schedules soon left the garden pretty messy and all. Met a really helpful salesperson, bought a weeding tool each for both of us and we headed home! weeds have infested our garden, so both of us spent some quality time together while ridding the garden of weeds :)


AHHHHH yeah that's a can of insecticide, i got soooo annoyed by the houseflies around. RID ZE WORLD OF ALL HOUSEFLIES. wonder why God created em.. dont see them having much "use" in the world anyway. annoying creatures. Okay the photo below is the weeding tool that we got, what happens is that you shove it into the soil, as a fulcrum, yank out the soil just a lil bit and voila~! the weed actually comes out a lot easier because of the loose soil around :) a definite must get for all gardeners doing weeding. it may look like a pretty simple tool but it sure simplifies matters! :D


The garden has indeen changed a lot over the past couple of years, i have a massively big hibiscus plant producing giantnormous lush red flowers, coupled with a bright sunny day, your perspective of the day takes a positive turn LOL my durian tree.....has clearly overgrown my height, from a seed to now over two storeys high. some other weird tree is flourishing too, right side of the photo. That is actually a tree trunk, so its pretty huge, also around 2 storeys high and it's giving us so much shade! :) having these big trees around really cools down the surroundings, allowing the smaller plants to flourish. The wooden swing is hiding behind.. and there's another hibiscus plant at the foot of the tree, which explains all the greenery around the trunk. The grass are extremely brown becuase they just got a haircut... i shall take more photos of my garden in the future! in the mean time, there's a lot of work that needs to be done as mum continues to propagate the flowers into various pots, hoping to soon dig up holes in the garden itself and transfer some plants out of their pots and into the garden. :) spending quality time with mum and doing something different helped me to have a more positive outlook of life! HAHA i've been pretty down lately but i'm alright yeah


Chanced upon this really really touching video ;') its a wonder where you'll end up when you go on a "related videos" clicking spree. much distraction!


and a photo to end if off, while pruning,
WHICH WIRE TO CUTTTTTTTT WHICH WHICH WHICH
wow my finger looks exceptionally fat here.

So.... I KNOW late post, as usual, life has been really busy i would say! having to settle so many things and uni worries sigh and to top things off, every part of my life seems to be screwing up, like there's surely a problem somewhere somehow! which sucks. So just taking things in my stride yeah! Really crazy week for last week, definitely did have lotsa fun clubbing, but definitely went overboard! so it's time to set things straight, get things back in order. i seem to have drifted away from God and all, so it's time to come running back. :) good thing is that i ain't working for this week, so that slack really gave time for me to say hi to piano, say hi to God, and say hi to east coast park this morning as i head for a nice run! though my right knee felt like giving way. Oh speaking of knee, my appointment's been pushing back non stop, from march, all the way to august. God knows if it's gonna go any further. but that's public healthcare zzzz

I've really been wanting to get a small gunpla kit to fix, like a sky grasper or a RG Zeta gundam but i still have 3 more kits at home that are still in their boxes.... that's because those kits are bigger projects but i dont see my self having the time to get started on them just yet! and let alone, these hobbies of mine are really pricey i feel... haha i serously cant imagine myself looking back and reading this blog next time, like after a couple of years like wowow not to mention, dont know if it would still be alive! I. so. need. an. airbrush. kit. but no money. woots! okay so let me have my march payday first before i decide on anything man...

Chanced upon this pretty cool video, of a composer listening to his waltz for the first time in 50 years, and its so nice!! So here's the link if you're interested :)

And recently i've been cooped up at home, catching up on sleep and you know some people say you have this sleep bank thing. Which is if you dont sleep or sleep very minimally for a few days, you got to make up for that amount of "lost" sleep. Dont know how true is that but i find myself sleeping really really long and waking up noon time every day! so maybe it's true -.- being physically, mentally and emotionally tired really sucks, but distracting myself seems to be the best way forward, since i tend to think too much into things. So in a big of distracting myself, i've finished watching lots of anime episodes, namely half of gundam Z, and a fraction of prince of tennis, that now i'm finishing up both animes. Not to forget, beelzebub too is a really nice anime that is full of crap! so.... if you're full of nonsense, you'll seriously love that anime! It really gives me the lulz :) in the mean time, i also found some nice april fool pranks! nice as in pleasant pranks, like this one, to this really well-deserving lady! soooo touching.


what wasn't so touching? the anime The Wind Rises. It was kinda disappointing for a studio ghibli film, because the previous ones have already been set on very high standards and they really wowed me, i've watched every studio ghibli anime, and i must say this one is one of the not-so-touching animes. Like the previous ones really instilled a lof of feelings into them, but this one is more like a history lesson.

aaaaand for those who have yet to try the google pokemon catching game, which also is their april fools joke, BEST JOKE EVERRRRRR, go try it out! :) props to google for the amazing prank! :D in the mean time, imma become a pokemon master! though i'm tired out at 70+ already x.x Here are some screenshots from my phone :) and when you press the search button, after having logged into google and have the updated maps app, you should see the start option or for mine, the return to poke lab function! :) please google, dont take the pokemon away from us! >.<