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man...darn full....just had supper with tong and alinia at the hongkong cafe....think i shouldn't have gobbled so much... now i am too full to go to sleep...and it's already 3am!! haiz... dun think i can wake up as early as i wan already....anyway this wkend should be pretty fun for me....considering that i've already got my plans drawn up for these 2 days....it's family for the day and frenz for the night... gonna go ktv with cherry and the rest later in the night, so gotta prepare my digicam again for the outing!! hee~ MORE PHOTOS COMING!! yeah~
hm...really wondering when davin and renjie are gonna come back from brunei.....kindof short of pple to sing along....esp renjie.... without him around to suffer with me to sing cherry's favourite song, Xiao Chou Yu... haha~
went for a nutrition talk with chinghui(still not used to calling her rachel yet)...the speaker was pretty interesting...didn't bore me at all...hee~ either i'm too into the topic or he is really good in capturing the audience....it was in mandarin somemore.. the topic was about cardiovascular diseases... probably the most common problem or as quoted from the speaker, " It is a civilisation illness" which actually means that such a illness/disease will only surface in a civillisation where the people are having good/luxury lifestyle, eating good food... TOO GOOD in fact....haha~ now thinking of it, actually i've already been taught most of the things he highlighted when i was doing my diploma, just that the time spent in the army has diluted my knowledge... it's a good chance for me to pick these information up again, refresh myself so that i can start preparing myself for my further studies next yr.... so looking forward to it... can't wait to quickly do my family proud with a degree(with honours if possible) and find a job that suits my interest... i know it's too early to think about that now..hee~ so i just wait for one thing at a time...first thing is to ORD!! yeah~
ok, think i should play abit of my ps2 before i dun feel so bloated to go to sleep... ciaoz~
Had a great night with nicole and the rest on friday....met up at Fish & Co(Park Mall) to celebrate my birthday... didn't know that they actually had a private room to eat in, however, it looked more like a storeroom and we were busy playing with the fake fruits...!!hee~ anyway the room was just right in front of the staircase on the top floor but so difficult to spot, especially when the moment i arrive, there's a black-out! duno whether is it my fault or not..? hahah...
They got me Hugo Boss inMotion perfume --- my very first perfume...hm... so happy...but then...never used perfume before, only deodorants...so i made a mess of it by spraying on both side of my neck and my armpits, thus, causing me,my sis and my parents to suffocate in the car today.... *HAHAH*
Nicole was so nice to get me a cake from Mrs Field's....knowing that i like it's cookies so much...but it was just at the wrong time --- sorethroat and cough not recovered yet... anyway i'll keep it in my fridge till i'm well enough then i'll finish the rest!!
We went to cuppage complex's partyworld after that... so disappointed that i couldn't sing alot of songs due to my sorethroat....haiz...same goes to luqiang/ks and weiping... so in the end the gals sung most of the songs...
Met up with jingyi this morning at tiong bahru plaza... to return her vcds which she lent me when i was on my 1 month MC during Feb... watched the movie 16 blocks with her too....pretty nice show, but probably doesn't worth the wkend tix price... fortunately for her movie money...hee~ sat down and had a short chat with her at the nearby coffee bean before she gotta leave for her appointment and i'm meeting my parents and sis for dinner at Golden Mile Complex...
Gonna meet Jianhong and Benny later to Redstar hotel for Dim Sum.... yeah~ more food!!! wahahhaa..... and i'm looking forward to my presents!!! YEAH~!
coughs and sorethroats~ heck...i just want FOOD!
woke up this morning with the same headache i've had for the past 4 days... still coughing badly...as if i'm gonna cough out my internal organs anytime....SCARY!... and the sorethroat seems to be gettting worst!! mum managed to got me out of the hse and to the doc's at my granny's place(heard that the medicine there are good for cough).. anyway i had to take my chances....i'm desperate!
However, after a short session with the doc, i was pretty disappointed with the cough medicine....procodin?? oh man...that's like easily available from the SAF medical centre that i worked in..... the prescribed antibiotics was pretty much expected... then are the piriton(chloropheniramine) pills which apparently i've had dozens of it in my drawer but i wonder why i still asked for running nose medicine....guess probably i just thought that doc might have a better prescription than that! anyway lastly is the sorethroat medicine, that is pretty new to me, thus i might wanna tell myself it really does work... hee~ i'm pretty happy with the lozenges he gave me...it's herbal and really damn HOT but then...it doesn't burn my tongue like Fisherman's Friend does...SPLENDID! haa~
After my 1st dose, things weren't anything different... i still cough badly and my throat still has the kind of abrasion feeling.... anyway i couldn't care less, it's time to go to my granny's place for STEAMBOAT and ICE-CREAM CAKE!! yesh... i'm gonna insist on eating these and no one can stop me, cos they're MEANT FOR ME... to celebrate my lunar birthday! hee~
my grandparents celebrate my lunar birthday every yr in their place, usually steamboat for dinner but sometimes might be his trademark Hainanese Chicken Rice(my whole family's ALL-TIME FAVOURITE)... we'll never get sick of it, cos we're HAINANESE!! and i'm really proud to be one! hee~ However, this time, i've invited my LONG-LOST buddy, Weiming to the dinner...He bought me a Beach Volleyball for present!! haha...SWEET!! we knew each other ever since my sis knew his 2nd elder bro...(dun ask me exactly when i started knowing him) anyway, i take it as 17 yrs... since nursery sch.... as a rough figure..
man...he's still pretty much the same as he is, several yrs ago before we went to different sec sch and only managed to contact each other again a yr ago...
anyway...after the dinner, we had like half an hour to spare before cutting the cake, so we managed to meet up with another of our long-time friend Guoyi, only that we only know him since pri sch...which is also pretty long...close to about 8 yrs.. he's the kind of rugged, ah beng with the hoarse voice who loves to crap around...(i think i learnt my craps from him..haha~) so i invited him to my granny's place to try the cake... had a wonderful time reminscing the old times with the 2 of them...from the volleyball school team days to the days when we were disturbing the mentally unsound residents staying in the neighbourhood....yesh, we were so mischievous that now, i still couldn't believe that i was part of it too! haha... eventually, i told them that i'm currently going thru bike lessons....they were pretty stunned by it and promptly advises me not to carry on... Guoyi showed me the tattoo on his right arm which he had to have, just so he can cover those scars he obtained thru bike accidents.... both of them are bike veterans...telling me all about their experience of riding bikes, their accidents...how they managed to cheat death so many times.. just scars to remind them how close they were...Man, this this no Final Destination, but they said that they are ready to hang up their helmets anytime and have no wish to see me walk down the same path as them...
Well....what they've said has truly influenced me... many pple has suggested the same thing to me, but i always thought that they were just overly concerned... now i start to tell myself," should i really just quit now since i'm just getting started? or should i just get on with it and finish the whole course?"... i decided to give myself sometime to think about it before i make my decision....
so we bid goodbyes to each other, before i head towards the carpark and drive my mum, my sis and me home....
a lousy wk..
this is really a lousiest wk i've had in camp since 2004... fell heavily sick on mon...down with a fever and got sore-throat and cough.... pretty bad man.... didn't go and report sick cos i was too weak to go anywhere...i just stayed in bunk for the whole day, skipping my breakfast,lunch and dinner...by the time evening comes, i'm already burning!! at 39.1 degrees celsius.....(reminds me of one night during my bmt period when i was also burning at this temp...and no one took care of me, the only thing i've got is a water bottle and a strip of panadol)
FORTUNATELY...this time, i had my wonderful bunkmates to take care of me(coincidentally they're medics too), taking my temp, making me drink lotsa water, taking the medication also... make sure i'm not facing this terrible time alone(Desmond even went to the extent of insulting me so that i might laugh at the insults so i can forget that i'm sick).....THANK YOU BASU & DESMOND..
by tues, i was getting better, but basu is due for release to the society...i mean, he finally ORDed... went to collect his pink IC with him before seeing him leave the camp for the LAST TIME.... i started nibbling abit of food again and my fever had subsided to 37.5...but i still didn't go and report sick cos i dun see the need to anymore, it's not like i can get an MC or something...the MO probably just gonna give me light duties or something which i'm currently in due to my medical problems... so it doesn't make any differences....besides, i get to sleep in bunk whole day anyway with/without seeing the MO....my unit is now at an ALL-TIME lull period...all the big shots went overseas for military exercises...just some small fries around....
my fever was totally gone by wed... but was feeling light-headed(you know? head very light, like there's nothing inside kinda feeling...) and the niggering coughs and sore-throat.... i had GREEN phlegms....not very good...viral infection....looks like it needs more time than expected.... so the only thing i could do was to keep putting lozenges into my mouth till my mouth was numb all the time.... food never tasted so bland that day....
i just have no discipline to wake up early enough to go for breakfast yesterday and today....ever since loh wei wasn't around, i couldn't give myself much motivation to go for breakfast, wash the toilet and stuffs....i just duno why.... anyway it rained all thru the morning, so i can say i had a very sound sleep in the morning....so much so that i ALMOST missed my lunch too...(well it didn't make much difference cos i didn't eat much of the food...still a lack of appetite) we got to bookout early in the end cos there's pretty much nothing to do... and tmr's Good Friday, so off we go!! poor me still has to go back camp sunday to do my wkend duty...haiz...
anyway 1 word simply summarises my 4 wkdays in camp....SICK~ haha....
in the midst of a transition...
Met ks for the S-league match between Albirez Niigata and Tampines Rovers... the game later ended in my favour...a draw!! hee~ i won my $5 bet for a pay-out of $20... after that went to Zen bar for a drink..alone...listening to some songs too...it's a ktv pub.. so u can sing and drink at the same time... fortunately mom and dad were still on their way home and i get to save my cab money!! hee~
had abit of a rash the next day -- because of the beer ---again... luckily it was the mildest out of the many times i've had after a few drinks...really feeling frustrated about this thingy...i can't say i hate it, but i dun like it too....the good thing is it keeps me from wanting to drink more alcohol, bad thing is...i can't join my frenz in boozes...
Went to this nice place with loh wei and basu... a place where pple sit down and play the kind of board games which u can't buy easily outside....it's called The Settlers -- they have their own board game for this... but anyway it's a really nice and cosy place for a bunch of frenz to hang-out...i wonder if tianlin, tailin, cherry and rest of the guys would be as interested as i do...
anyway we played this game called Louis XIV... pretty hard to understand at first, but once i get the idea, it sure looks fun....but i still end up the loser... haiz..
after that i accompany loh wei to the HAN'S restaurant nearby at the Great Eastern Building while waiting for my parents to come pick me up and go to suntec.. i had to say, the way they design their restaurant is very innovative and soothing....looks high-class too...
my dad bought a really big shoe cabinet(higher than me) at Carrefour becos our footwears are just TOO MANY...haha.. i've had like 6 pairs of footwears(mostly basketball shoes), my mum slighty lesser than me, a couple of my dad's shoes and god-knows-how-many of my sis's?? we had our dinner at the food court there...i managed to satisfy my ramen addiction with a bowl of Beef Ramen and a mango dessert...YUMMY!!
Dad tried assembling the shoe cabinet just now and realise that the package comes with 2 doors of the same side...can see that he was pretty disappointed with carrefour's goods when he shrugged...i've bought a Nike Total 90 soccer ball at Carrefour too...think i should double check it to make sure there's nothing wrong too... hee~
played soccer with my cousin today...but not for long as we had to leave early for a steamboat session at my granny's place to celebrate my cousins' birthday.. i can feel my knees are getting better...though i'm still very caution not to use too much force on my right leg cos it's starting to feel tight after awhile.. the steamboat was great...had 2 big pieces of ice-cream cake my uncle made himself with the help of haagen dazz ice-creams...yum..yum...
i've been doing abit of self-reflecting for awhile...it seems as though i'm starting to figure out the kind of lifestyle i wanna live...i can feel myself changing..not only in thoughts, but also in my actions, attitude and perspectives... my irritating passion for sports still remains... i feel like i'm beginning to feel myself back all over again...that kind of familiar feeling....but there seems to be something additional in me....yet to figure out what is it, but i can feel that it's something i should be glad about..
haiz...going back to camp tmr...gonna be really moody for the next few days....just watched man utd vs arsenal.....arsenal lost.... they really played like amateurs man..... *disappointed*
i'm at a loss of words.....
engineer(medic)'s week
this whole week was kinda short....as mon was practically a 'not my concern' day as the involved personnels were busy rehearsing their engineers' anniversary marching parades.... as for me, i was just passing my day thru...waiting for the unit's conhesion night at the Chevrons... the food served was pretty good...higher than my expectation and after that, loh wei, desmond, kevin and me went on to sing karaoke...it was cheap too...and we went back camp with our voices all hoarse...haha
tuesday went by even faster... woke up for breakfast and off to Seletar Camp for an Engineers' Week Exhibition...had a great lunch after we came back, followed by a nice warm bath and then an afternoon nap all the way till dinner!! Wooo.... I FFEEELLLL...GOOD! hee~
Wed was Ching Ming Festival and i was granted my request to go visit my ancestors together with my parents and auntie... another half day was gone again.... managed to catch the Juventus vs Arsenal match at 2.30am....i must say, Arsenal was WONDERFUL that night... with juvuentus throwing everything at them but they still held on a clean sheet!! BRAVO!
Next was the engineer's anniversary at Nee Soon camp... supposed to stay there till we had our lunch then we can book out.... but we were instead told to go off earlier than planned!! so wonderful!!
Went swimming at Safra Tampines after that, got myself slightly tanned....supposed to go there again today but was told to wait for the part-time maid to come...in the end she couldn't come...made me waited the whole morning for nothing... still haven't had my lunch yet....i think i'll probably go down to simei to buy some stuffs to eat before i meet up with KS later at Lavender to watch S-league!! hee~ after that....i think i'll go down to clarke quay for a drink or two.... since everyone are pretty busy this wkend...
Took these photos last sat with my wonderful digicam when i met up with Tailin, Cherry, KS, Davin, Derhorng and Renjie... Luqiang said he wanted to come but in the end he blew us off....haiz... went to ZEN bar with tailin and Cherry and Davin after that but didn't managed to take anymore photos cos my i forgot to bring additional batt.... poor davin became a merlion that night...haha... *vomit* haha.... fortunately tailin's bf was kind enough to drive us all home...
crazy wk...
well...how do i start? i think i'll start with last wed when i went back to camp after my Medical Checkup for my knee....the first thing i did when i got back was to alter my 3 duties so that i can do them all within the next few days....i managed to do that...i swapped my wkday duty with another guy who's doing on sat(i really made his day when i initiated the swop)...and thus, i got myself confined in camp from last wed onwards... although i did go watch S-league and had some fast food on friday before i go back camp to sleep... anyway in the end, my duties were all completed by monday... i thought that i could continue to blog with the doc's computer since it has internet access....but turns out something was wrong with the security features and i couldn't even log in to blogger...exasperating...so i had to drag till today....
Monday was a quiet day for me as the rest of the guys had gone to nee soon camp for our unit's annual fitness day and i was left behind cos i couldn't hand over my duty in time to attend it... i was glad i missed it cos it wasn't an enjoyable day for them as it was raining and they couldn't do any sports...just some lousy running session.... as for me, i stayed in camp and had the whole office internet to myself!! haha....i found this very nice and touching animation Suzuka in
www.youtube.com and i got totally addicted to it!! the story wasn't very original but it reminded me of how i was when i was between 14 - 17 yrs old..... It ended with the main female character finally able to let go of her previous relationship with her deceased lover and accepts the main male character after all those things and ordeals that they've been thru... it was so touching that i almost had tears rolling down my cheeks....
i'm really glad that i've seen this animation and i'm happy to say that i seemed to have found something which i've lost.....for quite a long time, i felt lost and realised that i wasn't very sure of what kind of person i am.... thru this animation, i have found the naiveness in myself again.... i know it sounds weird and stupid to find the naiveness inside me again, but i had to say, this is what keeps me going!!
Today, my friend August played abit of the song which i've penned for me to listen to....it was WONDERFUL....it never ever cross my mind before that i'll have a song which i can call it my own..... he helped me to realise that....thanks dude! i can't wait for him to finish the rest of the song so i can record it down and let my frenz listen to it....it's gonna be shocking! haha...
