Mmm, so whats new? I mean passing bike tests in arow don’t seem to offer much kick now, not to mention those who tried very hard to pass (opps!). So why the *freak* did I mention this? yea, becus I passed my public road riding test today… another test?… *raises arms momentarily* yay! oh well, *sniffs* One more week to the end of the bike course. Tomorrow- dirty-off-road-dirt-bike ridin’..
Currently Listening: DJ Tiesto – Close to you
So what to do in this humid sunday afternoon… Its JAVA MADNESS again, and there I was downloadin’ tons of freeware java midlets of the net. And there was the 2 dictionaries, (one Webster one.. whee) to name afew: a thesaurus, 20+ new games, scheduler, pda functions, movie and image viewers, email cilents, first aid manuals, references, vocab/graphing tool and mobile internet browsers… whew! and all these took up nearly 12MB on my phone’s storage space. I think when the Siemens SX1 phone is released, I would consider upgrading to a 1GB MMC flash card.
On top of that, my dad kinda went like DIY crazy and just replaced literally everyroom lamp and switch in the house (he had been planning… with his arsenal of tools and parts, todays sadly d-day), with the mains down for that, it kinda interupted my net access for the day, (not to mention the food warming and bacterial built-up in the fridge) And Mmm, the place do seem cleaner and brighter now, but I think it could mainly due to the freakin stained lamp old covers that seem to previously cast more shadows than light around the house…
Lazy sunday, shit! monday’s tomorrow, work-day, bike public road riding test… arghh!
This is one outing I sure would not miss, considering that Johnson, my BMT bunkmate kinda “booked” us 1 month in advance for this outing (as we are always constantly unavailable). 6 of us (Johnson, JJ, Xingjian, Xiangrui, Jimmy & me, though we met Edwin unexpectedly later on & yea.. Dominic could not make it) managed to meet this evening since we passed out 3 months ago (and went our seperate ways in different units ever since). So theres Orchard for us.
As usual, there’s always lots of toking-cock-chit-chat bout national service, (guys at our age would normally talk bout this naturally and it also something which ours girls would normally dread when they tag along with us.) Zipped down the Marche @ Hereen for dinner, had the beef stew with mashed potatoes dish for $12.90 bucks. Then the good stuff comes FREE- outta blue there’s the hotdog eating competition, followed by the root beer drinking compo. So theres lots of SABO-ING and we got 2 guys from our group to compete in it. I won’t be amused if girls won them flat out (which they did) and man who said good guys always finish last? & sooo we didn’t win but we’ve won ourselves free drink and dessert vouchers for everyone in the group as consolation. Whats more tomorrow? Tim Sum lunch buffet at Miramar hotel! woot!
Currently Listening: Jewel- Stand
It had been a day of firsts, namely travelling in the public road the whole day and working overtime (7am-9pm). Riding on the road is not so scary now, as I am more used to it by now. And yea, there was night training today, primarily to give us the experience of riding in the dark (therefore the late blog entry for tonight too, *yawn*) With that in hand, time to prepare for the last work day of the week, tomorrow and it would be a long weekend for passes (i.e the performers). Horray! And hey, today I travelled 110km today… *duh* the most I’ve ever went in a single day… *grinz*
Currently Listening: Perfect 10
Yicks! riding a motorbike on a public road had never been so dangerous (as I thought to be): Having big 10 wheeled dumpers, lorries, buses whizzing past you, vehicles tailgating, cutting in your lane, failling to give way to you, illegal turns and so… Fresh out of riding school (and being very traffic law abiding indeed), this’s so much for an experience of firsts! Man it’s the REAL THING! & I’ve never been so exposed on the road before, always seated comfortably in cars/buses (and I thought driving in GTA vice city was dangerous).
Even the P-plate on my bike don’t seem to do much justice…. No wonder why there are so many accidents involving motorcyclists everytime- with 2 fatailtys in Singapore weekly.. ekk! Now I know how it feel to be a motorcyclist on the road, after knowing their side of the story. When I get my class 3 car license by next year, I would always have this feeling behind my head to give-way to ’em or let them have piority in things… But of course there are too, limits which they can push courtesy to. *grinz*
Currently Listening: Savage Garden- Affirmation
Yippe! I’ve passed my skills balancing test today, together with my E-brake, push start and chalking up only 6 points in the circuit test. Thats 3 test hurdles passed throughout this driving course so far. Though its true that 1 outta 4 people won’t pass the test (10 out of 40 in this case), just hope that those from my course who failed will pass the retest tomorrow, (practice hard dudes). In the meantime, it would be public riding for me tomorrow. This time, without an L-plate, but a P-plate!
Currently Listening: Savage Garden- Tears of pearls
Received my IQ test score today, it not very much the feeling of recieving a $1M in the mail or my dinky SAT scores, but just very ‘cool’. So why did I take that, well it was mainly outta few contributing factors, namely out of 90% curiosity, 1% ignorance, 1% evilness, 8% dumbness & and most of all its “for fun”. So what did I get? not the very much a freak score, but rather 139. Considering that Einstein scored 160 in his test, I guess I am rather much ‘ok’. With that in hand, it shouldn’t really add much shitload either. *sigh* Mind me, maybe I should go continue researching more on my time travel theory…
Currently Listening: Ministry of sound- Trance Nation 2
Ok then so the net is up on my side, missed a few potential WC3 matches with my NS friends onsite updates, forum visits, news and got tons & tons of much more junk mail to clear. Ya know bout the thing about these junk mail, they still keep coming after you try (unendlessly) to unsub from. And to think about it, they really think people online are all crazy about viagra, enlarging your privates of even tuning to digital TV for some personal business. This is really irritating, not to mention the deleting frenzys and possiblity of junking important personal mail lost in the pool of JUNK MAIL. *JUNK MAIL SUXS, twistys!* *wink* *wink*
Ok, so stuffs of the week worth mentioning. I’ve passed the Highway situational test on thursday, very easy it you get the hang of it. It makes me wonder why such 1-1 (student-to-tester) oral tests on traffic situations are scrapped in commerial driving schools. MMmm, partly because disagreements would normally mean tables and chairs flying here and there from party to party?
There would be balancing skill test next week, namely balancing on planks, rib bridges with timing, the notorious figure of 8 and salom the course, all followed by E-brake and (yea this one is freaking outdated) the push start tests. Must pass the test man, if not REMINDIAL. argh!
On the headlines, there had been alot of talk lately, mainly bout the freak accidents in Hendon camp. Dumbos, drowning people in survivor courses….
Currently Listening: T.a.t.u- All the things she said.
The reason of my last 3 days ++ of inactiivty is largely, or should I say only caused by a dumb ethernet modem who probably got its ethernet ports fried on 12/7 usage for almost 365 days. So I may say, whats the use of a modem having its sys diagnotics and DSL connected lights on readily when it can’t even connect to my NIC? So after all the troubleshooting , etc etc, phheww! The speedstream 5260 when flying off my room and in came a new challenger, the aztech DSL305E which I just purchased at Cyberactive after work. And hey this ones comes with a reset button and just like my router, is configureable thru the browser, theres even a USB port option, niffy! Now lets see what it have to offer…
Currently Listening: Dido- White Flag
There was rather much of a foodchase yesterday. Dropped by kineally road for some food, but couldn’t find any good chowspots. Furthermore its quite late by then (8.30pm). So its nearby Orchard hotel for their amercian buffet, but dang its full house with a waiting time of bout 30mins. We left and kinda searched around for awhile, ending up at Orchard Tower’s Bonzadas mex grill. (previously known as Dennys) The place is pretty out of the way therefore not having a ball in business either- its rather quiet there now ever since they changed their name because of some problems the management had. The experience would be terrible if it woulbn’t for the “cheerful but rather overconcerned” waitress always (desperately sadly) trying to draw crowds in.
For them, I can come out with some suggestions for them to improve, firstly by varietising more on their menu, esp on main courses and side dishes. And man! please lower the prices tenderlion steaks, 30 bucks for an al lacart? one can get a similar meal at Jacks place steakhouse for half the price, not to mention a full buffet at breeks, ponderosa or sizzlers. They should really work on that… I wish them luck.
Dinner was rather fast and a leisure stroll along orchard-scotts road followed thereafter. Purchased a 2 fast 2 furious VCD and a DK Guitar playing guidebook from Borders. *Snicker* didn’t get to meet my old campmate, who is the son of the owner of Borders, if not I can get my books for free like before. (he can just literally walk in and grab any book out for free, (even the security guards have to greet him) *Duh* Anyway that would be quite far fetched too… 😉
Currently Listening: DJ Tiesto – Sparkles
Ok,, so much for the test which I had just took back at the driving center and hey, I’ve passed and so did 40/50 others in my class. It a class 2B test, and I would be taking a class 3 highway code test soon too- since I am still fresh in the topic (And I dun wana study for it again when the time comes… 😀 ). For the bike side, hopefully I would be able to chalk up 7000km travelled by the time I ORD so as I can convert my military class 2B license to a commercial one, together with my commercial class 3 one (car) which hopefully I would be able to get my next year, then… It would be cool, and hey lookie 2 license type cards!
Currently Listening: Ministry Of Sound- Delerium feat.
Schwarzenegger: Tomorrow the Hard Work Will Tuesday’s historic election in California may be the first time voters in the state have recalled a sitting governor, but it is not the first time a Republican actor has been elected to solve the state’s problems…
Check out the news for more. We will be seeing him more on the news and less on the big screen now. Infact we won’t be seeing him much in the movies anymore, no more T4?
Currently Listening: Tatu- All the things she said (Club Mix)
