Tuesday, May 31, 2005

ok this is bad, some 'organisation' who shall remain nameless have lost my PASSPORT ALONG WITH 5 OTHER PPLE'S!!!

ARGH!!! my australia visa is inside, and MY PASSPORT!!! MY SINGAPORE PASSPORT!!! argh.... oh no, this is bad man, becos this means that alot of pple will be implicated..... not us, cos its not our fault, those that handled out passports.... sigh.....

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Monday, May 30, 2005

damn i only hav 6 days off at my disposal.... gotta use them properly man, cos my friend ask me to go snorkling with him one of these days before my homeleave... about 3 or 4 days, that leaves me with 2 days for my own shopping before my homeleave... shit.... gotta plan my time and money properly man.....

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Saturday, May 28, 2005

this weekend got no money already..... so basically rented some vcds to watch and bread for hte mornings.... watched 'phantom of the opera'... woah, very nice movie... reminded me y i always liked musicals... going to watch jackie chan's 'around the world in 80 days' later.... but 'stepford wives' is very very interesting... so is 'the hours'.... ok now my 'vip' card for the video renting has expired... gotta get a new one when pay day comes....

ok... going back to the movies again, will be going outside camp to the 'white shop' to hav a bit of supper.... yey...

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Thursday, May 26, 2005

i dont wanna grow up.... to be forced into the harsh world of adult life... one full of politics, back-stabbing, insensitivity, and the mentality of 'survival of the fittest'.... y izit that pple act in some insensitive and immature way??

for example, my sergeant saw one of my friend's pic, and he said 'wah so fat ah!!! piece of shit'

i then said 'just because he is fat doesnt mean he's full of shit, and just because pple are thin doesnt mean they're not full of shit'... all these while staring straight at him.... then he said 'yah wadever lah'

i mean, if he doesnt like it, then wad makes him think that other pple will like wad he said?? IT WAS EXACTLY THE SAME THING!!

y is the world so cold and heartless?? seems like the love and tenderness of God, of Humanity, is lost.... y cant pple see themselves in everyone they see?? that every single human has the same emotional sensitivities and needs?? that they feel with such emotional richness as all of us??

strange.... and yet its so sad.... so very sad that humans are all so selfish n self-centred....

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yey today ran 2.4 km in the morning with the sergeant and he passed it!!! wootz~~~ its like his timing used to be 13mins ++.... but today, with a lil bit of encouragement and push.... he got 11:57mins!!! haha.... he thanked me and i felt very happy now oso.... yey....

ok so my homeleave is confirmed to be on the 11th of july... so hopefully before i leave i will beable to put up my extension of stay here... and hopefully, it will be approved cos i really like it here as compared to my singapore unit...

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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

ok theres no water in camp AGAIN!!! ARGH!! just wad is wrong with the taiwanese pple???? man...... its beyond my limit of comprehension man.... geez

somemore tmr i will hav to wake up at 0545 in the morning for a 2.4km run.... dammit.... actually being in taiwan has made me appreciate singapore more... i mean, with water stoppages happening so frequently in taiwan, PUB's president would be sacked by now if this were to happen in singapore... also, i wouldnt hav confidence in my country if almost every parliament session will also include a physical brawl.... ^_^

long way to go guys..... so stop being snobbish about ur chinese being better than singaporeans...

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Monday, May 23, 2005

ARGH i need a book to read!! finished all the books by dan brown already... da vinci code, angels and demons, deception point and finally digital fortress..... unless there are some other books by him which im not aware of... must admit that all of them are interesting reads.... very nice indeed.... will be enough to keep me occupied for a very long time.... haha

hmm, im on a quest to help one of my sergeant to pass his running.... so the training programme goes like this:

everyday we would runt he ippt route after work.... then run an extra 2.4 to train up the stamina.... hopefully i will improve as well.... WAY TO GO!!!

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Sunday, May 22, 2005

wah just woke up not long ago.... went kaohsiung yesterday, bought 3 shirts... then when we were suppose to leave at night we went to my staff sergeant's wife's KTV to show face show face... wa lao, damn tired already still hav to show face, drink beer and spend $$$!!!! wad the hell!!

btw, some taiwanese soldier in my camp is starting get on my nerves... man.... he went chionging on friday night, and a group of us met on sat and he was just being grumpy, childish, n spoilt... i mean, if ure tired and suffering from a hangover, Y STILL COME OUT WITH US and COMPLAIN ABOUT MY FRIENDS THAT TAKE TOO LONG TO SHOP?!?!?! THEY DIDNT TAKE TOO LONG!!!!

a**hole, so arrogant and unreasonable... my goodness.... please.....

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Friday, May 20, 2005

ah.... the wonders to live radio on the internet.... nowadays when im surfing the net after work i always hav my ear phones plugged into my laptop with live music from 98.7 fm, yeah the singapore one.... its so comforting, like im in singapore, listening to live streaming music on the net... cool!!!!

going to kaohsiung tmr to TRY to catch star wars.... dunno how 'star wars' crazy kaohsiung pple are but i really hope we get to watch it man.... seriously.... haha

will be getting some clothes and some shopping and stuff... cant wait!!

alrighty, may write again later if something inspires me....

live streaming rox!!! now listening to 'jive drive'.....

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Thursday, May 19, 2005

well well, been feeling kinda inferior to everybody else lately.... dunno y... maybe its becos of work.... i dunno... but its been the way im feeling here.... argh, the feeling of inferiority can be so irritating and damaging... not that i hav a big ego to start with (i hope)

but the pple here can be so irrational and ruthless.... i mean, take the mess girl for example, the first mess girl we had was young and pleasant looking, and everybody wants to go to the mess to sing and sorta like 'impress' the girl, which btw sickens me.... and wad makes it worse is that htis girl doesnt even do her work well in the mess....

then here comes another mess girl, a more mature one, older, in her thirties, then everyone sort of like shuns her, i mean, she works!!! she is responsible, helpful, sensible, and mature, and shes humble.... i mean!! come on guys!!! seriously, as a perm staff in heng chun camp i want her to continue to work here as the mess girl, and its almost certain now that she has to go becos pple hav been saying shes too old and not suited to work there.... some pple really disgust me!!! turds...

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Monday, May 16, 2005

wa lao my friend got got drunk again yesterday!! then asked me to lend him my discman so he can go gym at like freaking 2 am in the morning!! ARGH!!! i havent got enough sleep for today so i slept right after falling out at 5.... tilll bout 9 then i went for dinner....

wa lao... how to help him sia??? i cant let him be like that cos firstly its not good for health, and secondly i dont hav the life to let him torture me like that man.... grrr....

alrighty, still kinda miss choir, miss all the pple that are in the choir too.... sigh... seriously speaking, the pple here (as in the singaporean perm staff) arent that nice over here.... but hte management is ok... kinda like the opposite of 36, where the pple are good but hte management is stuffed up....

argh, tired again.... gotta go sleep... that guy is messin up my biological clock big time!!

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Sunday, May 15, 2005

feeling rather annoyed right now... just finished talking to my parents... then it turns out that my mum cant come anymore in july becos her leg hasnt join yet.... then i asked my dad did she hav enough calcium.... he said yeah the doc gave calcium tablets, said to eat 3 times a day but he said 2 times a day is enough cos if not there will be deposits... THERE WILL BE CALCIUM DEPOSITS IF THE BODY DOESNT NEED THAT MUCH OF IT BUT NOW THERE IS A NEED FOR THEM!! and ure wondering y the bones havent joined yet??? ITS VECOS THERE IS NOT ENOUGH CALCIUM!!! r u the doc or wad??? pls leh

when the doc asked her to take 3 a day shows that there is a need for 3!!! not 2!!! WA LAO!!! and especially this is the beginning phase when the body needs a lot of calcium to join the bones so how can u just ler her take 2 tablets instead??? ARGH!!! and now we're all wondering y her bones havent joined yet and y she cant come in july.... geez....

just hope she'll be alright

now i hav to put plans of where to bring her aside first.... since she wont be coming in the forseeable future

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alright the internet is back up again!!! yey!!

well well, wad can i say, this past week has been one hell of a roller coaster ride man... work work work, then relations relations relations...

all i cay say is that i hav seen through a lot of pple here and i can say that we all lack a sense of cohesiveness, a sense of understanding that different pple hav different needs... in other words, i hav seen the selfish side of several pple....

oh well, i will just mind my own business and dont care about all these politics, but seriously the pple in 36 is better, less the idiotic commanders that is....

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Thursday, May 12, 2005

ARGH the internet is STILL not up yet!! im stealing a line from the paid com outside my bunk, connected it to my com and wala.... but this is not going to work because it cant be shared with all of us, so my time is also limited.... geez, my point again, y cant the taiwanese pple just do things properly???

oh well, work is really piling up and i can really feel the pressure now.... sat and sun are day offs and i think im just gonna slack in bunk... going to heng chun tmr to get my breakfast for sat and stuff like that...

note to self: go and find ah guan to fix the bloody internet!!

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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

hmmm things havent really been going to well... maybe its the ehctic work schedule or something, but im becoming really sensitive and irritable....

but some pple really just piss me off with their insensitivity and ignorance... i mean, u like to be so direct and tactless, and at the end of the day u wonder y pple dont like u around... to tell u the truth eric, i dont really like it either, u are insensitive becos jsut becos the internet is not important to u doesnt mean its not important to other pple... and pls get on with life, making the same lame 'jokes' and comments for 3 consecutive days and counting is getting kinda boring and if u think its funny, well sorry its not becos ure the only one to carry this for 3 days and other pple just dont seem to care... bastard...

u better take ur comments to be previously back man, becos ure showing urself to be self centred and stubborn and not well informed and understanding.. so wad if ure 1sg eric tan??? aint i human with feelings and emotions too??? ^_^

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005

argh!! the internet's still down!!! didnt know how internet-dependant i am till now... but u cant blame me can u??? my friend's are in singapore and australia and stuff.... since im using a shared com for now, wouldnt be posting any thoughts here just yet... will be typing them down on my microsoft words and re-posting them with the dates later on.... seeya dudes and pls pray that the internet will be up soon!!! thanx!

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Sunday, May 08, 2005

ok now this weekend is shitty to say the least...

firstly, the internet connection in the bunk is down for 2 days and counting, and its most likely the fault of the service provider... so that means i cant use my laptop for internet purposes and hav to use the coms outside by putting in 10NT at a time for 30 mins.... grrr....

to top that off, the weather is bad, and im listening to my friend beside me talking to his gf.... wa lao!!!! hope everything will improve from tmr... including the internet connection... pls God!!! ARGH!! this is such a bad weekend....

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Wednesday, May 04, 2005

wah these few days hav been so so so busy after the training troops hav left!! its like this whole month will be like that, with the weekends free though.... this friday i will be doin duty... oh well, will be booking out after work tmr and get orange juice and stuff fr 7-11 for my breakfast on sat.... since work has been quite hectic i dont feel like going anywhere on the weekends.... just wanna nuah on my bed.... renting some vcds to watch and stuff like that.... so tired to go to the beach or kaohsiung lah.... see how lah, maybe at the end of the month i will make a trip down...

luckily got my pay yesterday man... if not i will be a broke man...

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Tuesday, May 03, 2005

alright, sent my application in for a homeleave from the 11th of july to the 24th... so hopefuly if that goes through i will be back in singapore for 2 weeks.... slightly more than 2 months away....

gotta taste all the mee goreng, mee rubus, roti prata, fishball mee, wantan mee, rojak, nasi lemak, chicken rice, fruit cocktail, roti john, fried bee hoon... and the list goes on and on and on and on....

hmm, hope my friends from 36 will be able to meet up with me... pple like bai, kenneth and benjamin they all... so we can go chionging and stuff.... hopefully they are free!!! haha...

then gonna meet up with choir pple as well.... theodore, joanna and fabian n gang... all in all, i hope to make this a meaningful trip, to be able to catch up with friends not in army anymore... to be able to meet up with everyone... oh yeah, pple that ive known through the training troops as well.... like jack.... hmm, hopefully he can meet up for some catching up and stuff....

wanna go wala friday nights and double o on sat nights... who is free to come?!?!?!

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Monday, May 02, 2005

argh my feet still hurts from the injury i got from wave boarding the other day, and tmr moening at 0700hrs there'll be a 5 k run!! havent run for like 5 days and im dying to run but im scared my legs cant take it... oh well, taped the wound real tight so hopefully tmr will be fine... I WANNA RUN!! haha, and hope i dont get arrowed being the marshaller.... geez, it sux man....

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Sunday, May 01, 2005

life is always moving on, and sometimes to lose the things in life in order to move on is very painful... changes that occur becos of moving on can make a person nostalgic and longing for the old times back again...

i miss the time when choir was smaller, where the guys happen to be just theodore and i, when everyone knew one another very well, where there were no politics and stuff like that, just pure singing and adoration for our God, the sound produced is so HUMBLE, pure and soothing.... unlike now...

i miss the time when novo came, when we were host to them and we all had a great time sharing, singing and communicating... when the words they sang really do seem to be wad they are thinking and meaning... i miss the irish blessing when they sang for us and we for them when we were parting.... to move on is just so painful...

to lose some good friends becos everyone is just moving on in our own directions, to part becos of various commitments.... to leave becos the situation calls it.... i sometimes wonder y must good and nostalgic things end, often causing hurt in pple?? i really do miss the times of old... and stumbling upon the song 'to everything there is a season' just reminded me of how much i miss the choir of old... yet it can only be memory to me, untouchable physically...

i dont see hope in the attitude the newer members of the choir give... sometimes its off putting, but the old members that are still in the choir make me hang on... joanna, theodore, tiff, audrey, timo, laura, elizabeth... cant believe that these are the few pple that i can recognise the old choir with... lastly i hope that denis doesnt lose sight of the fundamental vision of the choir and would gladly accept me back into the choir when i return... amen.

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y cant the taiwanese pple do things properly??? for goodness sake, i havent seen clogged drains and toilet bowls os many times in my life in such a short span of time... geez, n they want to model themselves after the japanese??? please leh... even the super-efficient japanese can hav troulbe once in a while, and our dear taiwanese wants to be like them but with half the standard put in??? FORGET IT TAIWAN, UNLESS U BUCK UP AND MAKE BASIC THINGS WORK BETTER!! pfft....

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u know, my mum sustained quite a serious to her ankles when she fell more than a month ago... and even though she went under surgery and stuff to put metal screws into her ankles to stabilise them, pple of her age take a very long time to recover, if at all, from sucha degree of injury....

i really wan things to be back to wad they were b4, where the 3 of us could just walk care-freely just about anywhere in the world... but now, she may be having troubles walking when they come to kaohsiung to visit me end of june....

i really want to show her around, to all the places ive been, to all the night markets with all the unique but delicious local bites, and to the breath-taking sceneries of the ocean etc etc, i dunno how limited the sight-seeing will be when they come but i hope that it wont be that much... i pray that we would still be able to enjoy ourselves, and that i would be able to show them all the stuffs that i want to bring them to... i hope that she recovers as much as possible... amen.

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