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The week in plain text, & pictures!

🙂 Haiz, the last 5 days are very much spent learning a new weapon, the Carl 84mm Recoilless rifle Medium Anti Tank weapon. Its like 16kg, not one of the heaviest, but one which weigh really pushes people around quite easily. It was like ow & eve when we saw a 42 coy doing a route march...
Army

Whirr & Polish!

😈 Managed to get out of camp this morning for a dental check-up & cleaning/polishing at Kranji camp. The place is really isolated. Made my way there from Yew Tee MRT station after orientating myself to the ground & heading towards the nearest patch of vegetation I see, from the station! Typical of an army camp. Now...
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Ordered Dell Axim x50v

😀 Came back today anticipating a good deal from dell & yes finally a dell axim x50v deal less than $800, infact $681. They are having 25% off PDAs, far much better than last month's deals (which I had been following up), offering a free 5-in-1 deal: 1100mah spare battery, screen protector sheets (non-lasting types) , free...
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Sweat for thought…

😎 Whats a better way to start the new year with sweatin' & healthy exercises. Its workout madness again, this time with circuit aerobic exercises Tuesday morning, followed by a 9km run in the evening. Ended the day today with 30x50m breaststrokes in the pool before having dinner with my family at hans restaurant. Now I feel "purified"...
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Resolutions

Hey its still new year's day so I guess its still not too late to post up my new year resolutions. 2005 started off as a pleasant wet year so far, would see about stuffs & so then. 💡 Resolutions Be happier. Don't get worked up so easily. Eat more healthily. Exercise more regularly (at least 3 times...
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Happy New Year!

People are cheering, party poppers popping, party horns blowing, all cars passing by are honking some to the rhythm of al lang syn, high intensity spotlights can be seen shining & sweeping into the sky, music goes booming. Celebration! Hey its 2005!
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Wet new year’s eve

It had been raining continuously for days now. I remembered the last time I saw sun shining brightly on mon, then its wet wet wet. Guess I have to cancel or push some my exercise regiment for the week.. especially a run yesterday. so disappointing... Hope it would be a sunny January! & so its the eve of...
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Digital Cable

💡 The cable guy came by to install the new digital set-top box this evening as my sis wanted some new additional animax cable channel, only supported by digital cable. So starhub offered to swap our old cable box for a digital one. Spotting a contemporary silver/black look in place of our old cable set top box,...
Current Issues

Make your Tidal wave help donations

😥 Looks like this particular part of the world is mourning for the victims & families devastated by the tidal wave disaster few days ago, with endless drizzle & now pouring of rain here since morning. So what the least we can do to help the victims, well maybe in a monetary aid or so, that whats...
Family

Graffiti to go, & hey its boxing not earthquake day…

😐 It boxing day & it would be a perfect day if it won't for the the earthquake disaster around asia the fifth-largest earthquake since 1900, Originating from the indian ocean area. With many lives & property lost. For those in trouble, be positive & stay strong. May god bless. 🙂 On a lighter note, had dinner at...
Thoughts

Its Christmas

I guess a new resolution for me next year is to post much shorter, concise posts like this one. 😀 And so, christmas is the time of giving, or say the joy of giving, having say spent at least $250 on presents for my family & friends, guess it just the spirit of giving (& spending), the spirit...
Food Places

Mariner Restaurant Christmas eve dinner

🙂 Well its about 1/2hr to Christmas day & man is orchard road packed with people tonight, its so crowded to get even within 2 km within the vicinity, traffic is just to conjested with shoppers and those ever growing Christmas toys kiosks. Anyway its dad's turn to drive as I think I already had enough of...
Army

Driving freedom

😎 Drove into camp last sunday as mum & dad were overseas for a vaction, so that very much leaves the car for me to use. Having a car very much added to speed & convience for me, considering its the first time dad actually allowed me to drive on my own around. Driving alone have its...
Food Places

Singa inn

With respect to all my previous posts, I guess I did better start posting.. erm shorter blogs? or maybe use the "more feature" so as not to make things appear so lengthy. 😛 Dinner was at singa inn at along east coast road yesterday, mum saw this offer for $15++ per head for a full steamboat seafood buffet....
University

Double Degree?

😳 Woke up at 11.30am today where mum had breakfast waiting for me. Obviously she had been waiting for me to wake up as we could check out the Australia university options there. Caught a cab from home to the center & before we know it we are already at the RELC building 1pm. Wendy was this...
Army

CPR certified!

➡ Yesterday.. was a typical day where I could wake up get dressed in SBO & make my way to the SOC to cover safety in the morning for the platoon without consciously knowing it, just like sleepwalking or just say on "auto mode" where no brain power is needed to execute anything at all... even before...
Asian

Phoenix hotel cafe garden high tea

Its time again where Mum couldn't just start planning for the next family big feast, this time she've managed to redeem free Phoenix hotel high tea buffet entry coupons from the singtel reward points dad's accumulated. So... what more than a free buffet feast at 3.30pm in the day? All in hand we all woke up late...
Army

Midnight coffee.. or so was it?

😎 Ah, its the time of the ahemm year again? when I get to do camp guard duty as part of wing regiment duties. & so how was duty as guard 3 I/C yesterday? well Shoik! thats the first time I can ever say this short 2 hour gate shifts from 6-8pm. Then rest then 11.30pm to...
Blog

Polar Express

🙄 The day started with mad dash to finish up the Adoc scout platoon doctrine research for CG, finishing 12noon with an information overload. The problem with the internet is not being able to find information & you do not skills to do so, what you need are skills to know whats relavant. Intended to drop by...
Army

Intravenously

😯 poke poke poke, thats the theme of today, as it was the last day of our five day medic course held in-camp for this whole week of end nov-start dec. During the week we were taught hot to arrest a hamorrhage, treat fractures & wounds, tie bandages & tourniquets. The highlight of the course was of...
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