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first and foremost...

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO

dad,

biing yih,

amos,

jun wei,

shanon,

fang kang.

whose birthdays were ytd.

next,

happy birthday to

gilchrist

and of course,

SINGAPORE!

yep ok so now that's done, we'll go on to the highlights of last week.

finally ex. moonlight marshall is over! no more field camp, no more FBO,SBO or whatever outfield shit. haha. the BASIC men were fucked up, making the whole mission damn shag for the specs. as clayton mentioned, he say we can watch x-men during moonlight marshall - u'll see cyclops, xavier, magneto, nightcrawler and juggernaut. (the first 3 all share the similarity of either staring and not doing any work done)while the last one can be used to described those that bother to chiong. oh and we shld all get CSB badge, where CSB aint combat skills badge, but instead carry sandbags badge... stupid MG post. now all we are left is to wait till 240809 then POP lo! [anyone interested to come? haha]

so naturally after a really crappy week eating combat rations and doing loads of SK with fucked up ppl who complain and whine yet do nothing but slack, we gotta FEAST and PARTY! feast coz ytd was my dad's birthday so we went to shangri la hotel for their buffet promotion where one gets a discount of the person's age on his/her brithday, eligible for up to 8ppl. ie. ytd was my dad's 51 bdae so we get 51% off from the bill, meaning we pay arnd 27 bucks for a buffet which usually cost 60 bucks haha. cool rite :D

then party was the night part, where some of the platoon guys went to zouk and party our asses off. met up with them ( sam, sandeep, yihe, shawn, guan hua, charn, clayton, zhi lun, wei xiang ) arnd 1030 liddat... yep so we basically partied the entire night away. half way a couple of shawn's frens also joined in lol. 6 full hours of partying :)

a more or less perfect day to end the not so perfect week haha.

TIME FLIES... not like hawk or like a plane, but more like a rocket

its a funny thing how time works eh...

it was just not too long ago that we were all in j1 1st 3 months and during then i was still wearing the catholic high uniform. during then there was still the gang of clement, marcus, benjamin, weilin, and yihui. then that short and worry-free days were over, when sch really starts after PAE, then of course there is the whole 0622 class, where we had all our nonsensical days and also the mugging period before promos and the dreaded PW...

now fast forward a couple of months and i've retained, quit from kayaking in an abrupt manner, joined dragonboat for god knows what reason, went into a class with 21 girls and only one other guy. now that whole period of the nxt 2 years wld then be caught up in dragonboat training, classroom, library and the food court outside sch... not much of a life huh...maybe it explains why almost all my frens then were DB ppl and not the class. BUT strangely although it was tough work, but it was also gratifying. some points mayb i regret not interacting with the class a bit, ah but well those days are alr long over... *note that its already been 9 months since the A levels* now lets fast-forward a lil more.

so there we are, when i entered BMT on 080109, got my head cleanly shaven and into gryphon plt 3 section 2. made a couple more frens there and chased the common dream of entering OCS then. went through field camp, sitest. POP-ed 9 weeks later. told i was to b posted to SISPEC. couple of us had our dreams flushed down the toilet, others cldn't care less either way. then came SISPEC where by life was totally different from BMT, this 8 weeks again flew by rapidly, where new friendship was forged.however as time goes by, we start to forget or at least stop talking to ur other frens frm BMT or even frm sch... then come MP spec course, another new course with new ppl to meet and befriend. spent so much time in the auditorium listening to lectures after lectures on law, enforcement, war time ops, leadership roles, sect commanders responsibilities etc. so there goes another 10 weeks and before u know it, its AUGUST. calissa left for aussie to further her studies while the girls are all starting sch soon as in this week or the week after. as for the 0622 ppl, about the same just that the guys are left 5 more months to ORD...

yep, now who says time is crawling? oh and the big digit 2 is gonna b on my age real soon too...

all these coz i met clement at north point just now and we talked bout the good old days and how i have been uncontactable due to the change in hp no. and how i ran past him at ecp every sat without noticing him run past in the opp direction. strange how frens can turn to passer-bys with one agent called time.

21km time trial.

finally hit under 2h today. 1h53min for 21km. haha PB for me. but can be better due to the whole mess up at the osim triathlon area before our actual turning point. but then as usual im still considered slow amongst the rest. aaron ran like 1h23min (din exactly do the full run down, missed bedok jetty to come back earlier, but even so its at most another 1-2km plus) while heider and prejeet were around 1h45-48. damn... i'll always feel slow running with these ppl lol. oh wells, still good run. must try to be able to hold my pace even after 18km... (:

random recollections/thoughts or whatever grrr....

not really looking forward to the next 6 days or so. whats up coming is a 21km time trial tmr, trifactor 21km on sunday, tues-thurs back to back ex. thunderbolt and ex. moonlight marshall... basically one word can describe it all - shagged.

ok lets change topic, basically for the past 3 weeks or so in camp the only song ive been hearing over and over again is wondergirls-nobody. if u dun hear it after area cleaning every morning, u will hear it in the corridors where ppl wld b singing it OR dancing/clapping to the beat -.-" cant really escape from it, now on facebook i even found out tommy lee is listening to it 0.o

well if it aint that song then it wld b taylor swift's love story... lol.

i srly dunno what the hell im writing bout, loads of random things happen lately so the post is really incoherent. everyone shld go try read a book by haruki murakami. its a jap author who writes in a very compelling manner that manages to glue ppl to the book even though the plot is not exactly one of a kind. currently reading 'norwegian wood' now. its bout this love story between 2 college students whose relationship were forged in an intriging manner... the girl is the ex girlfriend of the guy's dead best friend. yeap so its basically that. still half way through the book though (: highly recommended esp if u have loads of time to burn on reading novels like me.

gah i need a time and place where i can sit down and recollect all my thoughts together. tmr at ecp seems to b one good suggestion...

sat

went around orchard area tdy with stanley. ate at astons cathay first (oh yah met ben and wei lun from bmt @ ps) then walked down through heeren, taka all the way till we reach the brand new ION ORCHARD. really not bad. super big and extravagant. but all i can say is that the price gradient increases rapidly as u go up to the higher floors. B4 being the cheapest, L6 being the most expensive...

anyway we later went on down to ms in an attempt to catch the fireworks display at the ndp parade. alas, due to misinformation we reached there slightly late and missed half of the show lol... though thats bout 30s or so, but its still half... yep but the part that we did caught was really quite nice. pity i brought my non cam phone so din get the pics :( oh wells there are a one more rehearsal left and the actual parade itself so if u are interested still can go see.

thats bout it tdy cya (:

HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAY

TO

YAN LONG

ytd was his birthday. anw this week was "hard to earn" in staff terry's term. so much work for the same amount of pay lol. drills for 3/5 of the morn... with runs before that on some days or if not drills the whole day. then ytd war time ops prac which include the freaking loads of sandbags for the MG post, and the con wires that minced my otherwise perfect boots. then coz COA was coming on monday for god knows what reasons then we had to clear the whole trng bag of spoilt sandbags and change them to new ones and later hide it away... taking up almost the whole day and delaying book out. well that made yan long's birthday a total disaster in that sense.

PS: speaking of which, there are way too many july and aug babies. i think easily 1/2 of us have bdaes in jul or aug haha. this week itself have i think 4 ppl's bdae in the course itself, excluding my other frens haha

Thoughts

there are somethings u wish u can forget and wash away.

but u know it can never go away...

"pain is inevitable but suffering is chosen"