part3!

after field camp all i can say is that i am grateful. grateful of all the minor details. grateful of the cool breeze. grateful of the cloud that drift across the sky that blocks away the sun. grateful of the burning hot sun that will give me a tan. grateful that even though i dropped my watch in the night in the middle of nowhere i managed to pick it up the next morning in the middle of nowhere. grateful of the moon that light up the night sky so that i can see which way is the latrine. (LOL.) grateful of all the random fireflies i saw. grateful of all the centipedes that attacked other people's tent instead of mine. LOL kidding. grateful of the stars that accompanied me to sleep.

but the feeling of field camp ending is really... out of this world lol. 6 days without bathing is just plain GROSS. the day we returned i bathed 3 times. 3 freaking times lol. it never felt so good to bath. and it really feels good to be able to scratch your face freely. field camp face itchy also need to consider want to scratch or not. then need to scratch with caution so as not to smudge the camouflage paint on my face. wah 6 days with the paint on your face. imagine that.

imagine the torture when your feet itch and you cant scratch because 23 hours and 50 minutes of the day you are wearing boots. lol.

i wished i can describe in detail wad happened in field camp but lol i scared m i n d e f search my blog then omgomg liao.

anyway after field camp i had this big fat blister at my ankle. i ignored the blister. then guess wad the blister leveled up. zz. the water inside the blister turned to pus. then wah zomg. the blister totally shittyfied man. not only it hurts more. my whole ankle swelled. my mum nagged that its infection then what need see doctor and made a whole big fuss. but i needed to book in so didnt see the doc. back in camp i grabbed a scissors and broke the blister cleaned away the pus and i am healed! muahahahahah.

my section mates realised i am injury prone lol. the other day i just broke a toenail and my little toe was bleeding like free. i was injury prone all along back in ac but most of the injuries were from basketball. i thought now i would be safer not playing basketball often but who knows lol. but hey never ever skipped any training because of injuries can. i am strong! lol.

SHIT. i realised all i am talking is army talk. but wah lao thats all i am going through in my life right now. :/

okie some non army talk. the odds of being killed by a shark is 1 in 280 million. 6 people die in shark attacks annually. BUT. 26 million sharks are being killed annually by humans. so much for jaws. humans are way scarier isnt it.

lol. my section mates have labeled me as the animal lover. i scared them during the 2 week confinement period. there was this bug that flew into our bunk. looks like a moth and cicada hybrid. lol dont know what insect luhh just that its freaking big. like 10 cm big beetle. wah one of my section mates freaking screamed. then there was alot of chaos then one of them grabbed my slipper and smashed the beetle. then i screamed NOOOOooOoo. then they thought i screamed no because they dirtied my slipper. actually i wanted to save the beetle zzz. as i was cleaning away the corpse ( or whatever that is left ) of the beetle i unconsciously said sorry to the beetle. they were like wtf?! did you just said sorry to a dead beetle. okie shit bet most of you all think that i am WEIRD but zzz. my point is the beetle accidentally flew into our bunk but it meant no harm. it doesnt deserve to die.


another time we were sitting on the ground then a big black ant crawled up my friend's leg then he killed it. i was like wth you did that for. he said for fun. wadde. not like it is going to bite you right. we share this earth with the other creatures of nature. we dont own the planet. we share it with them. you know. like neighbours. you dont kill your neighbours for fun do you.


some of you say if you love animals so much why eat them. its part of the food chain you idiot. lions eat zebras. thats how nature works. lions eat the whole zebra. but in the case of shark fins. the fins are cut away from the shark when it is still alive. then the finless shark is thrown into the sea alive. unable to swim it slowly starves to death or gets eaten by other predators. thats just inhumane.

mosquito bite you. you are the prey of course must fight back. survival of the fittest.

okie i know what i am saying maybe contradicting to you but its justified to me. next time before you kill a random insect that fly into your room think twice. why not just use the newspaper to scare it away. when you walk into the wrong house the owner doest shoot you dead righttt.

PART 2

A couple had two little boys, ages eight and ten, who were excessively mischievous.

The two were always getting into trouble and their parents could be confident that if any mischief occurred in their town, their two young sons were involved in some capacity. The parents were at their wit's end as to what to do about their sons' behavior.

The parents had heard that a clergyman in town had been successful in disciplining children in the past, so they contacted him, and he agreed to give it his best shot. He asked to see the boys individually, so the eight-year-old was sent to meet with him first. The clergyman sat the boy down and asked him sternly, "Where is God?"

The boy made no response, so the clergyman repeated the question in an even sterner tone, "Where is God?"

Again the boy made no attempt to answer, so the clergyman raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the boy's face, "WHERE IS GOD?"

At that, the boy bolted from the room, ran directly home, and slammed himself in his closet. His older brother followed him into the closet and said, "What happened?"

The younger brother replied, "We are in BIG trouble this time. God is missing and they think we did it!


PART3 will come soon after i... slack around and stone for awhile. :P

OMG. i am so busyyy. i am going to book in soon and i havent really blog much. crap.

okie this shall be just random rattles because i really need to leave house soon or i will be LATE.
argh.

i think i shall write my entry in camp then i just scan then put here lahh. when i book out everyday like go out eh. sorry people popular can. :P

oh i pissed my sister off because i replaced all her songs in her mp3 with mine. wah lao not like the songs disappear forever right they are still in this computer zz. then she so pissed she dont talk to me yesterday then say want to buy walkman phone dont use the mp3 already. in the end also ask me accompany her go buy the phone. LOL. sheesh.


i going to see the doctor next month or so to see if i can postpone my operation date. then i can my operation after my commander course or something. sounds good right but wait and see the x ray results. :/ so the eaglet is still trying to fly even with a broken wing. heh.

3 more weeks i would be out of tekong! then after that hopefully go command school. wow time really flies.


argh even though i am going out everytime i book out to meet friends there are still alot friends i have not met for a very long time. zz. that sucks.

okie i need to pack my bag and run off now already. will book out this friday night :D so PEOPLE make sure you guys are online then so that you all can talk to me! XP

oh one more thing. BOSTON CELTICS IS GOING TO THE NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS. rock on celtics! woots!

ahhh. got to go already. no time to update this week. gosh. anyway next week i only booking out saturday evening! grr. but got vesak day break woots!

kk got to run. take care guys! oh oh hope all my students did well for their midyears. ahahha if you guys didnt then GOSH. hahah kidding luhh. its okie. take it as a wake up call. just dont give up. its never too late to start mugging!

reply to tags!

ahp0k: ahahah thank you thank you i know i very pro. :P
random reader: wah i blushing already luh XP
d: the monki box you lah
si yi: you didnt saw my hair lah because i got no hair! >_< hahah but i only out of camp during weekends eh and weekends no school!
REC J L ONG: lol when we going out ah.
winni: because i am already the best. LOL.
owenhonigo: really meh didnt realise. anyway when we going out sia organise class outing leh. jiayi: you got see such a handsome criminal before meh :P ahah i try luhhh.
shihui: lol? :D
yanlin: TAKE CARE KAES :)
d: lol? celebrate nigel birthday for you or for him >_<
xinyue: ahahah its everyone's responsibility to protect our home!
yin: yea man cheers! lets all jiayou bah!
jiayi: hahahh i came out with the eaglet story. PRO RIGHTT.
ahp0k: tuition also tiring ah. slackerrrr.
xinyue: wah lao loh i only can only during weekends cannnnn. da bian now you not online. ZZ.
gary: GARY ORGANISE CLASS OUTING. RAWR.
shihui: here la here la. what lol. anyway how you doing hmm stop emo-ing in your blog eh. tseyin: LOL. ssup! ahahah of course remember you luhh. eh i know i very funny :P haiyo hope i didnt do a bad job teaching you guys :/ hope you did well for your midyears!
d: LOL. go watch go watch. eh wah lao how i answer your call when i sleeping >_<

wah lao was supposed to blog about the '6 days in the jungle' field camp but i need to leave my house 1 hour later and i have not packed my bag! OH NO. kk i go pack my bag first. then maybe postpone the field camp post. in the meantime. HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO MOTHERS ALL OVER THE WORLD! this is actually just another ordinary day because we are actually supposed to appreciate our mums everyday right!
lol i couldnt find a mothers day garfield comic but this is HILARIOUS LOL.

FINALLY BACK FROM THE JUNGLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! hahahahahaha. once i got out of tekong i went to eat KFC. GOSH. kfc is having the buddy meal thingy again! woots so i can start eating buddy meals myself. shiok! muahahahaha. monstrous appetite have i not. feels good to eat civilian food once in a while heh! finger licking good :P

slacked around at home after that. checked out NBA news. basket its NBA playoffs right now. i am a NBA fanatic but i cant keep up with the news since i am in camp. ): its different from soccer because soccer is a more popular sport. majority are soccer fans. so sometimes my sergeants will tell us the soccer results. like i care :/ lol. somemore newspaper got dont know how many pages of soccer coverage so still can catch up when in camp. basketball leh. da bian if got one small box show score already very lucky liao lohhh. not fair!!! rawr. dammit i am going to miss the finals! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. gosh some kind soul to msg me the results once in a while? heh heh.

basket luhh denver nuggets out of playoffs. will be rooting for the boston celtics. i predict the finals will be a revived rivalry between the celtics and the los angelas lakers. well i dont mind the lakers winning it all though. they have a respectable and worthy team. and of course they have the MVP kobe bryant. yepp he finally recieved that trophy after a long 12 years.

okie shall stop the NBA gibberish. singapore very little people are into NBA de luhh. i am just talking to myself lolol.

wa lao i want to watch iron man!!!!!!! argh. da bian. no time sia. this wk mothers day. hmm. maybe watch next week. but dont know if it will still be showing not. oh no oh no. prays. and hope some kind soul out there havent watch also! so can watch with me. yepp yepp.

wah abit sleepy ah. okie lah since this is part1 lets make it short just reply to tags can liao. :P lazyyyy.


WAH KANASAI. i cant access my blog now. so cant see the tags. wah laozzxzxzxzxzx. cant see the tags then how to reply lol. sian diao lah. oh gosh. i think its my computer. how come my friends can go my blog? >_< i cant go any blogspot blogs! goodness gracious this is a disaster. HOW. HOW. argh blogger hates me lol. heck. i just click post and post this little crappy entry for now to waste time. yawnz.

i think i just sleep luhhh. eyelids getting heavyyy.

the eaglet will still try to fly again after his broken wing has healed.

PART 3. the previous post wasnt emo k. its just serious. lol.

alright shall reply to tags. :D

xinyue: da bian lah cant find you online. sheesh
d: the diary of recruit chow LOL
phyllis: da bian where got.
vanessa: going back rv tomorrow!
ahpok: i always very cool de :P
shihui: where my pre-ns card >_<
si yi: i prefer my old hair leh can keep my warm during cold weathers :P
jieying: WAH how things going girl! eh BUFFET SOUNDS GOOD TO ME :D you go organise!
jiayi: i go back school destroy the visualizer and all my unglam photos ah zz.
nobelle: see you in school tomorrow!
winni: yah and i will be away again soon. LOL.
passerby: yaya i know :P eh who are you!

eh it feels weird being botak. i always subconsciously look into mirror or reflective objects to make sure that all the strands of my hair are neatly in place. but these few days when i look into the mirror. wah botak. lol. all the hair neatly and shortly in place >_<




never really take any photos after i become botak. this is the only one i guess. we took the reflection of ourselves on the metal side of the escalator. notice how all of us look so distorted lolol. notice my ROUND head. zzz. i am the one on the extreme right lah dumb. hmm should take a better photo. but my hairstyle pretty much look like the hairstyle of sakuragi in slam dunk after he shaved his hair. *points to the cartoon on my blogskin*

wah eyes dam tired. thats all for now i guess. tomorrow going back rv with mr ong! after that booking in. see if i can blog again before booking in. in the meantime. peeps take care! (:

PART 2

when i was about to enter national service i asked myself: command school or man?

command school means aim to be sergeant or officer. man means just be an ordinary soldier. of course command school is a much much tougher route. and being a man is tempting as its the obvious slacker route.

i was pretty much fighting a battle inside me. part of me wants to be the best that i can be and excel and try my best as always. but command school means only back home during weekends for the next two years. the first thing that worries me is that i will lose contact with alot of friends.

during our first road march i volunteered to be the first scout. ( as always i am dam enthusiastic :P ) so during the road march i was walking ahead of the whole company to alert other people that we are marching pass. of course i didnt walk alone. i was accompanied by my sergeant. so during the whole march i pretty much talked cock with my sergeant. know him better. know more about army life. i asked him if he likes army life. obviously he said yes. then i ask if you will lose contact with old friends while in army. he say yes too. okie lahh not totally lose contact but will become more distant. that so totally sucks. i dont want that to happen. i admit that as we all grow up and have our own jobs friends will be more distant. but at least we can go out and eat dinner any other weekday. in army can only meet friends during weekends. :/

if i stay as a man maybe i can get a vocation that is only from 8am to 5pm. so shiok!

hahah when there are 2 choices. people tend to take the easier choice right. its only human nature? maybe know but its the obvious choice. when you put a ball on a slope the ball will naturally roll downhill and not upslope right. rolling upslope requires a force. it requires effort.

picture this: an eagle's nest on a cliff. a baby eaglet yet knowing how to fly. the view from the nest down the cliff is terrifying. there is always a possibility that after jumping off the cliff the eaglet fails to learn how to fly and drops flat dead at the bottom. is the risk of death worth it in an attempt to learn how to fly? the eaglet can take the gamble and maybe end up soaring majestically across the sky or die miserably at the bottom. instead he can save his ass and never take the risk and comfortably stay on the ground forever.


are you satisfied staying on the ground forever? most importantly its in every eaglet to know how to fly. its whether they unleash that hidden nature. its in every human being to know how to shine. its whether you are willing to overcome the obstacles before you.

command school is obviously a tough route. 3 weeks field camp. 9 months of training for officers. and there is always a high risk of injury. which i totally dreaded. having severely injured myself before already. i am always unsure if i really have what it takes. but its only natural that one wishes to excel.

after much pondering i decided that i shall aim to go officer cadet school.

because i broke my arm before. my officer wants me to go do a body check up. i need to take out the metal piece in my arm soon. so needed to ask the medical officer if i should take out asap or after my bmt. if i take the metal piece out now would mean that i will be out of bmt and, of course, have no hopes of command school. so i pretty much left everything to fate. let fate decide if i should aim to go command school ornot. lets wait for the medical officer's verdict.


i got an officer who is my senior in rvnp. quite cool right. he was teaching me something the other day in ns. then ended off with " like how npcc taught you ". and this phrase rang in my mind for quite some time. rvnp taught me alot of things but it certainly didnt teach me to falter before obstacles. after that i made up my mind that i will aim for officer cadet school.

nevertheless i still need to go and do my body check up. the medical officer decided that i should take out the metal piece after bmt. woots! however. he claims that my arm has around 6 metal screws in it and would take approximately 3 months to heal. which means. i got zero chances of going to command school. after bmt i will be non-combat fit. all my hopes are dashed. right from the beginning i didnt have a choice. disappointed of course.

so technically say i am wasting my time in bmt right now. because after bmt i would most likely be assigned as a mere puny clerk or something. not even an ordinary soldier. thats what non-combat fit means. not fit to fight. sucks right.

but i am still chionging in bmt lah. volunteering for this and that. people ask me since i cant go command school why am i still trying so hard. well since i am here might as well try my best right. i may be wasting my time but memories in bmt will remain.


like how npcc taught me.


sigh. sometimes people dont dare to open their wings fearing that they might fall and hurt themselves. but if they dont open their wings they will never know how high they can fly. they should appreciate the opportunity to spread their wings. as these opportunities are not to be taken for granted. so next time if you need to make a choice. dont make the easier choice. make the right choice. which is most of the time the tougher choice. even if you failed you can hold your chin high and announce that you tried your best and have no regrets. memories and experience you gain will make you a better person. would you have truly lived your life if you stay comfortably on the ground your whole life and never to have even taken a glimpse of the breathtaking view of ground from the high sky above?


treasure your opportunities. its painful when you dont even have a choice.


the eaglet with a broken wing is never meant to fly.

GOSH. finally manage to log into blogger. da bian. BACK FOR LABOUR DAY BREAK. :D

PART 1

wouldnt be back for this weekend though. will be having the notorious field camp lolol. but dicky's sergeant told him this: 'field camp is for me to make it as hell-like as i can, but its for you to make it as fun as you can.' so darn true righttt.

hahahah ns is honestly not that bad lah. i have awesome section mates! ( in case they stumbled upon my blog :P ) and deep down inside i dont find it a waste of time like many other fellow ns men do. okie maybe 5 years ago i would find it pointless and meaningless. but now the problem of terrorism is real. the terrorist-who-shall-not-be-named ( LOL ) is on the loose. the commanding office of my school is right. we must not take what we have for granted. friends. family. even that hawker centre downstairs are things that we must protect. all these things that we treasure can be snatched away from us overnight. the officer also added. its not will singapore be targeted or not. but when singapore will be targeted. and when the time comes we must be ready to defend what is important to us. gosh am i running for presidency or something. LOL.

we had a rifle presenting ceremony at a small parade square at tekong facing singapore. my sergeant asked after the event if we know why we had the event at that location. he explained its because that piece of land overlooks singapore. it is to remind us why are we here for. to train to learn how to protect our glorious land.

if thou dont protect thee land whom shalt?

LOL okie pardon me if i spelled the previous line wrongly i am trying to imitate Shakespeare but i aint no literature student. :P

i am always happy to book out of camp. for obvious reasons! :P but it also reminds me the reason why i am in ns. the things outside tekong are the things i want to protect.

crap such a politically correct entry. so un-me :P i am not trying to convince anyone. nor am i trying to act noble or what. just, like always, plainly wanting to share my views. its better finding meaning in things you do than drowning yourself in self-pity right.