Argh! fingers are aching like crazy today aftersome practice time with my new guitar, just a bit more tries over the weeks and I should be able to get the hang of it and become immune to the pain.

And so its the last sunday of the year, also the last blog entry before I head back to camp for the week, also the last book-out/book-in for the year. Oh well when you come to think about it 2003 just zipped past me, but that don’t seem to bug me one bit either.. maybe because I am in the army? dang yea- ORD is not near, no holiday ending (school re-opening) blues or any school related shit the education system had casted upon our “poor” kids of Singapore.

On a sunday note:

Woke after today at 9am feeling great and better than the last few days, no sore throat bad nose or feverish feeling. Only some minor cough and lots and lots of plam. icks! With that aside, who cares bout the sickness when I’ve got a nice french garlic bagle, clam cowder and tea coupled with the sunday comics, ahhh it was a good morning. *cough**cough*

After some morning guitar practice and some light dose of usual Counter-Strike after lunch (The SG CS friends server had this new matrix mod running on their servers quite cool but rather stupid). Checked out some of my usual “to-be-surfed-to-get-updates” sites and hey Rob Alvey got 2 new coaster videos for download, always like their theme park movies.

Would be going back to good old Tekong on mon and tuesday, had been sometime since I did too and when I did that, it was like “haha sucker! never gonna set foot on ya again! ” oh well… *grunts* on top of that training would be tough the next few days, hope I am up and recovered by then. Don’t want this dang cough to hold me up so much next week.

Any new year resolutions?

or was that’s last year’s?…. Lol!

Currently Listening: Coyote ugly – You’re Unbelievable (3:28)

Dinner was at the Mariner’s restaurant at the singapore maritime center. It was actually an eating place open for mariner’s who stop by here in their sail/shipping trips. But now its opened to the public, if not they won’t be getting much of customers either in this era of transport efficiency. The food is generally good but a little on the steep side though. The place have a very similar ambience as that of jack’s place, only brighter and set to a more ‘ship deck’ theme. Had NZ tenderloin steak set comprising together of an appetizer, soup of the day, dessert, tea and 1/2 dozen escargots for extras for bout $30 myself, that totals about $140 for the family in all. The service is friendly and the place is indeed relatively packed for Christmas eve itself. And as most restaurants like jacks, marina mandarin, etc… practice during festive seasons, you can eat wearing party hats, poppers, horns and swing sticks. Dumb, but hey its fun. If I can still remember I did went around orchard shopping with my family in party hats during last new year’s eve too, not to mention santa snow caps, turn heads and it was great!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Currently Listening: Chirstmas – Alvin and the Chipmunks – Christmas Song (2:22)

Christmas is coming in 4 days yea and it’s shopping time too. I had never gotten my hands so full and spending so much money in such a short time, but hey that only happens once in a year! On the lookout, the weather forecasts more melted snow falling in drips from the sky these days, good news to taxi drivers around the shopping area…

For me, I guess I would be missing two christmas meet-ups/parties because of SAF’s dumb booking out rule, they would rather us singing carols, living thinking of people enjoying roast on the dinner table and havin’ get togethers outside than getting us out for some parties of our own. I would be booking out only on christmas eve’s afternoon and book in the very next day into camp on CHRISTMAS EVENING ITSELF! On my secondary school side I guess I would have to give the christmas eve’s eve BBQ a miss at Purmei hiltop and my JC’s friend’s house party on christmas night. On the bright side at least I can spend this christmas eve with a dinner with my family. Mum’s already made reservations at a resturant, where? it would be a surprise she says… ohh surprises….

Merry Christmas and a Happy new year everyone.

Currently Listening: Jessica Simpson – Rockin’ Around the Chirstmas T (2:05)

*sniff* *sniff* Well, the flu outbreak here almost got me last friday, but I am happy that the fresh air we get from outfield jungle training clears sinus real good either- talking bout a thick layer of nose wax in there. *dig, dig* *roll* *catapult* ….*ducks return fire*

Last night’s dinner was good, held at Orchard Hotel, my family and uncle’s usual international 5 star buffet hangout. Only this time he’s treating (but as usual, everyone will just fight to foot the bill, its just so natural, but something fascinating to watch as to see whose credit card reaches the waiter first). The cuisines available that night are chinese, seafood, japanese and western, PIG OUT! Left the hotel with a deja vu of exploding if someone were to press you in the stomach, man should have cut down on the ice cream…

On a side note, returning now from camp is really now.. a drag… not to mention all the outfield activites, fast marches and PT we have in-camp. Usually our weekends are just spent at home resting and sleeping, hoping to recover from the strains and muscle aches in time for next week’s training schedules. Oh well, thats life in the army, *grunt* Now lemme see… *checks calender* its about slightly more than 1 and 1/2 years till I ORD and get out of army life. Then there comes freedom… I wonder fo people miss army life thereafter… they better not, cos there RESERVIST! argh! arrrggehh *getting into spasm* Mmm, on a bright side I did considerably well on my first in-camp theory test 98/100 to be exact *grins grins* And I wonder how can people get 10/100 in the same test too… ack ack *head exploding from ego-overload*

My usual net surf dosage gave me some money purging side-effects today. Its so as Swee Lee music store virus (or maybe the christmas shopping virus) is presently having this christmas sale going on lately- With a guitar set comprising of a Peavey Predator Guitar, Rage III amp and a HoME bag for $480!!! ($345 online payment, though I don’t really get the reduction in price for online payment) its a steal for such a price. Whats more? theres even free home delivery yipee! Hopefully it won’t be a “real steal” (gimmic) in the end. Would be trying to get enquires on the offer when their shops open tomorrow.

And Mmmm, didn’t know that many in the Singapore Siemens community would be so serious bout getting the SX1 phone, (and I thought I was!) after chatting with some in some Siemens handphone forum. Hope it won’t turn out so common as the Nokias (Most Singporeans are biased toward Nokia branded handphones), then it would be so bleach! – common! (

Currently Listening: Rave – Techno Cocaine (4:08)