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Army

Book out! book out! boot out day!

BMT started, and all the "xing jiao" (new birds aka fresh recruits) are enlisted into tekong already. We "lau jiao" (old birds) get to book out while the newbies serve their recruitment confinement period.. hehe still remember the old days as a freshmeat.. the monotonous "left, right, left, right" trade mark marching, super messed up marching and...
Army

Off to camp!

Well, its still early in the morning, got all my stuff packed and tekong here I go again. Will be back this saturday. Chaos!
News

Leslie Cheung

Sadly, the Hongkong pop star and actor commited sucide yesterday because of emotional problems. Check out this link here from the Straits times interactive for more info.
Blog

Stuffs ‘n’ Such

As planned the lunch thingy came on, too bad many couldn't make it, PJ and DES couldn't make it at the last moment, Vernance just went dead on us, mysteriously as usual.. So in the end 3 of us, Lest, David and me munched our way to Ponderosa @ Raffles city. The deluxe buffet is not available...
Family

Supa busy day

Today are one of the days where my full handphone battery can go flat only by smsing.. After the annual Qing Ming festival, went to try the "popular" prawn noodle @ Bukit Merah (ABC brickworks area) recommended by my dad. Overall, the prawn noodles are not bad, but also not that impressive too, its "just there", I...
Army

Am free!

Thank you guys for all the birthday greetings, letters and messages I really appreciate it. If you didn't get to catch it, my birthday was on the 25th of this month. And most of the happenings happened in tekong on that day too. And yes It was a good day, everything was brighter that day, cheers and...
Army

Disruption test

Though my birthday is next tuesday, the celebrations with my family are already done, the singapore fragfest is also on, not to mention all the birthday celebration call ups. However, though all these anticipation, I had decided to stay in tekong for one more week. Firstly, because I want to help my section mates who are very...
Family

Birthday dinner

Will be celebrating my birthday dinner tonite, at Jack's place Ang Mo Kio, had been sometime I sank my teeth into those medium done steaks! yum yum! Will be visiting my grandparents living nearby thereafter, hope they don't laugh at my new army haircut...
Interesting Stuffs

Chinese Doctor

Its counter it or suffer. This morning, my dad brought me to see a close friend of his who is a chinese doctor. Opened his store at pearl center specially today just to see me. So paisei. It was good anyway, and even got free consultation and medicine. Hehe saved us alot. One thing I found about...
Army

Tekong Cough

This week is cough and sore throat week, yea...all the PT and shouting, echoing and singing, I've lost my voice for the last 2 days, dammit. It said so too that the water on tekong is not as clean as that on the mainland. The notorious "tekong cough" and common sore throat will set in initially where...
Army

Firearms!

The Colt M16S1 assault rifle which I would using soon. A time which I had been looking forward to. Guess all those time spent on time crises arcade and first person shooter games will get me thingering to get this baby out for a try. Though the aniticpation of doing well in marksmanship, the thing which kinda...
Army

Book Out!

My 2nd book out day was yesterday. Yea, went for a good dinner with my family at YMCA stevens road. They had completely revamped the menu. And the food is of a lower standard now. Anyway, glad they introduced baked rice into their menu too. Felt kinda strange going out with my new "botak" hairstyle, esp during...
University

Results

Haha, my results are not that good. But passed everything, so distrupting NS and retaking the A levels again at school is completely out of the question. Maybe I am hoping for a degree course at Nayang acadamy of fine arts, doing design, multimedia or so. Too bad NUS and NTU do not have such courses yet....
Army

Book Out!

AFTER 2 1/2 weeks in tekong! Haha, this is my first book out (to get the "A"level results), hair short (otherwise much more grown than the first day of cut), clean shaven..otherwise, not far from a shower and stinking like hell... And clearing out 132 unread mail in my inbox... damn haha.. I am enlisted into Foxtrot Coy, Platoon 2...
Army

Off I go then!

Bags packed, stuffs ready. Off to tekong I go, first thing tomorrow morning. Will miss my family, friends, my stuffs. New challenges ahead, I come! We tasted of a world unknown Surely there must be something better ... Something forever ... - Lifehouse cya... for now... Currently Listening: O-Town- These are the Days
Army

Military and stuffs

In the light of our current situation, the reality of war against Iraq is kinda looming above our heads. Reading from the papers, many had protested against that: millions in Europe and thousands in Malaysia, In Singapore? haiz! the protestors are even arrested and sent for questioning even before they can raise their plycards! Well, many of...
Computers

Completed C&C generals

Well, though I am not the fastest, but hey! I've finally completed it (in three days, one days for each race)Here are my general comments and tips on the campaign: ChinaBest ground tanks in the game, the dragon tank being my fav, Firewall is DAMN good for base defense and clearing out cities and mobs. Do not...
Computers

3D mark 2003

Futuremark Corporation (formerly known as MadOnion.com had released the long awaited 3Dmark03! Get it here. Important New Features of 3DMark03 Full support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 DirectX Vertex Shaders, including v2.0 3D Sound Test CPU Test Next Generation Lightning Model Advanced Normal Mapping Procedural and Volumetric Texturing Real Time Physics Frame Based Rendering Option Advanced Image Quality Test...
Gaming

Command and Conquer Generals

Not a bad game I say, starting the campaign missions, hope can finish it by the week.. lol! *Carrys on playing game* Wishing all muslims out there a very happy Hari Raya Haji tomorrow.
Family

Pre-enlistment blues.. umm fun

Yea, there will always come a time in Singapore where there guys kinda "leave" society for national service. My time is almost here, 18th February to be excat for basic miliary training (school 1) at tekong. And hey, many things are really happening and everyone is really kinda all out for me.. (literally) before I go. Its...
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Light to night 2025 SG Art week

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Artbox 2025 Singapore Expo

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Nosh Bistro at Henderson

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